Tenacious T & Me
I’ve been following @garyvee for at least 5-6 years. I remember he was being interviewed on Z100 radio, by @elvisduran . He was jawwing on about wine.
Immediately I thought - wow this guy has some serious crackhead energy AND I WAS IN LOVE WITH IT!
At that moment I immediately began following him on Snapchat of all places. I would watch every single story - him up usually at 7ish in the morning and giving little nuggets of wisdom laced with Fbombs galore…I knew I made the right choice following this fuckin guy!
Fast forward to prepping for VeeFriends launch day. He said to have everything set up by May 5th and being the awesome procrastinator I am… I waited until the last week of May to get my shit together. Had NO CLUE wtf I was doing but I joined the discord, read the helpful info channel and started my journey.
NF…wha??
Setting up Coinbase and MetaMask was a breeze and I was so proud of myself for taking this leap on my own blindly into something I knew jack shit about, but that’s how much I believe in Gary Vee.
Didn’t have a lot of money at the time to get ETH so I proudly added $10 thinking it was enough to get .05 ETH … yeah, about that…
I guess you could say I am a complete Crypto Noob.
Days went on and I began making awesome friends in Clubhouse (and honestly was going to delete that app until VeeFriends came along). Then, Gary announced GIVEAWAYS!
Holy shit, I thought, my bumbling $10 misstep might be forgiven! I might actually be able to win a VeeFriend!
Yeah, no. Didn’t win. It’s ok though - I still had my VeeFam in discord and Clubhouse!
OG VeeFriends Are The Best Friends
More and more days went on. It was a whirlwind of community members donating to eachother, listening to eachothers stories, paying it forward to eachother. It was beautiful, yet I still felt sad. Felt like I was missing out. I was pretty down in the dumps about a week and a half in and @bryceallard11 and I were talking about our life situations and while they weren’t exactly the same…we had a lot in common.
Little did I know that Bryce would be plotting with @realcolliebuddz, @b.lopez1989, @_f_e_r_r_i_n_ to donate some eth so I could start saving up. @_nickcorso also worked with LucChao to get eth donated to me.
What I also didn’t know is that Bryce was to be the recipient and instead of taking the eth to get HIS first Veefriend, he asked that it go to me & @workitmamab instead.
@irunpro heard the story and gifted Bryce his mammoth but Bryce also wanted his wife to come with him to VeeCon, and so I gave him what was donated to me.
Bryce reluctantly took it back but then he really turned up the heat. That man not only orchestrated eth donations for me but he even worked out a deal with @beardofshteel that allowed me to purchase his Tenacious Turkey for the price he bough it at!!! See, Beard was trying to flip for a Sentimental Salmander and in a glorious turn of events, another amazing community member paid it forward to Beard and he was able to get the Salamander!
Tenacious T was meant for me!
Although my journey was probably a little unconventional, Tenacious T was meant to find me. It’s a symbol of my resolve and perseverance through adversity. I read that Benjamin Franklin referred to turkeys as “birds of courage”. I dig that. It’s me.
I didn’t choose the Tenacious Turkey life, it chose me. It’s my symbol to keep pushing forward and no matter what gets in my way.
Tenacious Turkey is in the house!!! Gobble, gobble, Bitches!!!! 🦃