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Every issue, GRAZIA USA highlights Game Changers, who inspire, educate, and celebrate individuality, beauty, and style. Meet Dany Garcia, the CEO of The Garcia Companies, co-founder of Seven Bucks Production, co-owner and chairwoman of the XFL and founder of the lifestyle brand GSTQ who finds balance while doing it all.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

My love of business started at a very young age, when I was in high school. I worked for an entrepreneur selling suits in his store, and I was so in love with this idea of building businesses and employing individuals and creating wealth, and the impact of that.<\/p>\n

After college my plan wasn\u2019t to go into finance, but a really a wonderful opportunity came up with Merrill Lynch. My mindset was, \u201cI can learn so much here, and everything I\u2019m going to learn, I\u2019ll be able to apply to the future.\u201d Then when I moved into film with a small independent production house, I approached it not just from a creative point of view, but as a business: \u201cHow does this film fit into a return-on-investment model? How are we adding to that and how are we creating it?\u201d Then [my ex-husband] Dwayne [\u201cThe Rock\u201d] Johnson asked me to become more forward-facing in his film and entertainment career, so I brought that business action into Seven Bucks Production, which we co-founded.<\/p>\n

All the companies that are in my Garcia Companies portfolio \u2014 including Teremana tequila and the fashion lifestyle brand GSTQ \u2014 are very consumer-facing. My passion is in what I like to call \u201cadvancing the human experience,\u201d serving the audience and adding value. The idea for GSTQ came about because as a professional body builder, I would go from meeting to meeting and my clothes always felt so restricted. I wanted to create designs that move with you. I believe women are the professional athletes in life, and their outfits should be killer.<\/p>\n

GSTQ is not athleisure, but we wanted our clothing to go 15 hours. There\u2019s a lot of inspiration from sportswear: How can clothes I design be made with the same principles of workout clothing, where it\u2019s meant to help you perform and make you feel great? You\u2019re not running home and tearing it off your body. I wanted my clothing to feel like, \u201cWe got you. Go crush.\u201d<\/p>\n

Between The Garcia Companies, Seven Bucks Production, the XFL and GSTQ, some companies need a little bit more [attention] than others. But I have invested deeply to make sure that my teams are empowered and that I\u2019m communicating with them clearly, so they understand where we\u2019re going. That\u2019s a discipline that you have to get down before you can really have all these companies run. The kind of culture I instill at work is also key. I don\u2019t perpetuate the culture of grind within my company.<\/p>\n

I had a really strong turning point in my own sense of work-life balance in 2016. My husband took me on vacation to Hawaii where I slept for a week straight. I had been grinding and I was wiped. So when I came out of that I said, \u201cNever again. There should be no grind. There will only be elegance in execution.\u201d To do that, I had to change the way I was showing up, and the way I was executing. I spent a lot of time developing a process and empowering people so that my career wasn\u2019t something I needed to escape from, and that was quite an investment in time and self-examination. I\u2019ve been able to do that very, very well over these last few years, and because of that, we\u2019ve had incredible expansion and growth.<\/p>\n

Any secrets to success I\u2019ve found have to do with falling in love with the idea of getting better every day. You also have to be comfortable in having an idea that no one else has had before, and that you may be the only one believing in it. Between finding ways to improve myself and my work and really doubling down on the things that I love and I believe in, those two factors have had a huge impact in my quality of life and my success. \u2014 As told to Colleen Kratofil.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33012,"featured_media":59976,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[23,16],"yoast_head":"\nCEO Dany Garcia Talks About Eliminating 'the Grind'<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"CEO Dany Garcia has perfected work-life balance while running The Garcia Companies, Seven Bucks Production, the XFL and GSTQ, has\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/dany-garcia-game-changers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Multi-Talented CEO 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