#1277 - Gabrielle Reece

Joe Rogan (0:00)

Oh no, here we go.

Two, one, and we're live. Hello, Gabby.

Gabrielle Reece (0:11)

Hello, how are you, Joe?

Joe Rogan (0:12)

Good, thanks for being here, I appreciate it.

Gabrielle Reece (0:14)

Thank you for having me, you're looking well.

Joe Rogan (0:15)

Thank you, you are as well. I really enjoy following you on Instagram. You have a very positive Instagram page. It's full of information, it's beneficial, it's great stuff.

Gabrielle Reece (0:24)

Thanks, I feel like I'm trying to figure that out. Like for a younger person, it's like, oh yeah, well this is how you do it. And for me, I'm like, well what do you really wanna say? And I don't know, I think sometimes I would like to take more chances, but I do play it probably safe.

Joe Rogan (0:40)

How so? Like in what way?

Gabrielle Reece (0:43)

I try to be pretty honest, but sometimes you're always very aware that you just, I'm not interested in getting roasted or spending a lot of time and energy in a hassle with somebody. So I think when I'm doing it, I'm as honest as I can be, but it's also, I'm aware of that.

Joe Rogan (1:01)

What do you hold back on? Like what kind of stuff?

Gabrielle Reece (1:05)

I think for me, it would just, maybe you'd just be more, even maybe more direct, but you're, you know, I think, when you're trying, when you sort of say, okay, I'm going to occupy this space professionally, that feels good to me, and like, I want it to be overall pretty positive.

You know, like if you're selling something, like maybe I'd like to try to sell something positive, but hopefully towards the honest a little bit. And sometimes, when you're doing that, you're also aware that like, you're not as harsh as sometimes your inner voice is. And so you go, well, am I not being completely honest and transparent because I don't really want to deal with it? And so I'm just saying.

Joe Rogan (1:47)

Because you don't want to deal with feedback, comments.

Gabrielle Reece (1:49)

Yeah, and it's also just people who are frustrated or also they're not getting maybe the nuance or the subtlety of what I'm trying to say. Let's just say that social media is not the place for.

Joe Rogan (2:00)

Subtlety in the comments? Not in the comments for sure, right?

Gabrielle Reece (2:03)

Right. So I just, I want to do stuff that seems like, that seems often, you know, pretty real, but hopefully skewed towards like either fun or something positive.

Joe Rogan (2:14)

One of the things that I've recognized from doing a podcast is that some of the frustration when people do lash out, and you're like, this is like out of proportion. Some of it is due to the fact that it's very frustrating to just not be a part of the conversation.

If you disagree with, like when you're listening to just the fundamental, the act of listening to someone have a conversation, and something comes up, you're like, but what about that?

Gabrielle Reece (2:40)

That's a great point.

Joe Rogan (2:41)

Why don't you say that? And it's like this, you get stuck.

Gabrielle Reece (2:44)

Yeah, that's a great point.

Joe Rogan (2:44)

So then you leave a shitty comment. I'm like, that guy's a dick. But it's his frustration of not being able to communicate.

Gabrielle Reece (2:51)

Interject. It's like your kid who would be like, hey, hey, hey, and they never get to butt in.

Yeah, that's a great point. I think you've probably been tempered by doing this and have probably looked at it from a lot of different points of view because you have to.

Joe Rogan (3:04)

Yeah, you have to. I've tried.

Gabrielle Reece (3:07)

No, it's been interesting to watch you over the years. I think what's interesting is watching you have an interesting place where you keep your own, you sort of keep a level of neutrality, even though you have an opinion.

So you let other people express themselves, whether it's about a religion or vaccination or whatever. I think that it's been interesting to see like you develop that skill even more.

Joe Rogan (3:34)

Well, it's hard for people to express themselves as it is, like live on a podcast is difficult. It's harder still if you don't allow them to, if you interject and you know as well as we all know that when someone, when you have something you're trying to say and someone talks over you, it's fucking frustrating. And when you're trying to formulate these words and then someone butts in and then you lose it, it's hard. So that's one of the key skills of learning how to communicate with people that I think a lot of people lose is the ability to listen, you know, and also you have to have a good enough memory so you can hold on to what you were going to say and then allow this person to elaborate on their thoughts. And then when you give them the respect and allow them to elaborate on their thoughts, hopefully they'll return that favor and they'll allow you to elaborate on your thoughts. And then you get a much more balanced conversation. But there's so many people talking where they're just talking over each other and shutting each other down or taking the conversation into a weird place.