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Nine to five is not bad. Crying about your nine to five and doing nothing about it is bad. Nine to five is not bad. Crying about it and doing nothing about it and hanging out with other complainers, that's bad. Period. This is the Garyvee audio experience. Good morning everybody. Welcome to tea with Garyvee episode 99. All right, triple digits. Santi, thank you for joining. Fat boy Joya, thank you for joining. Brooke, Courtney, thank you for joining. I really appreciate it. I'm 13, stressed about money, random legend edits. That is crazy. You can't be scared about money at 13 when you've literally just started life. I get it. You can't be worried. You could be strategic, you could be thoughtful. I think we've really fucked up words in society recently. Everything is like imposter syndrome and stress and all these kind of heavy words. It's almost like the whole world has gone over therapied and I think it's really hurting us. I don't think you're worried about money. People didn't talk like that in 86. You weren't worried about money. You were thinking about it or challenged by it or trying to figure it out. I feel like the words have gotten too heavy and I think it's got people fucked up. Trauma. Everything's trauma, you know, like Raghav Nurea, if somebody scrapes their elbow, they're like, I have arm trauma. I'm like, no, you scraped your fucking elbow, dick. You know?
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So anyway, how would you like relate that one to the question we had before, which was like being over aware of things?
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Yeah. I mean it goes back to foundational things. To your point, right? Like it's to your point. Like I feel like when I hear trauma or I hear the world is shit or I hear like everything's fucked up or I hate this. I just kind of am like, I don't believe you. Like when teachers told me I was gonna be a failure in life cause I got D's and F's, my response as a 14, 15, 16 year old was, you're wrong. That was based on confidence and self esteem. I think we have such a pandemic of lack of self esteem that all these things are hurting us. This is why we fear to post on social media, because we fear negative feedback. This is when someone says trauma, we're like, ugh. This is when a kid in here goes to, you know, through their TikTok and it says boomers have ruined it for Gen Z. Right. Like this whole thing, like houses are more Expensive than ever. No one can afford a home. While there are thousands and tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of teenage millionaires because of social media, YouTube and live shopping. That's the thing that I'm struggling with, that people are choosing the down. Like, it's muggy outside right now. It's like ugly in New York right now. It's gray, right? Let me just show you all. There it is. You see the gray? It's gray, right? You know, I'm aware that a lot of people are like, oh, today's a crappy day. And my brain goes into like. Or it could be full sunshine outside in 87, and you might get a phone call that your grandfather passed away. Like, I don't know. I don't. I choose not to accept the negative. I'm not delusional. You know, I'm not unaware. I believe separation of wealth is an issue for America and first world countries. I get that people are affected by weather. I myself remember the other day I decided, I'm not gonna be mad at rain anymore. That was like another version that's like me with food. Like, I didn't like uni or cilantro, and I decided I was gonna like it. I think it's a mindset. And everybody, the opening theme for Tea with Gary Vee today on episode 99 is like, it's a mindset. And that's the theme overall. Like, real talk. If you've stumbled on this right now, thank you. Hey, everybody, Hope you're enjoying the podcast right now. Make sure you follow the podcast. That's why I'm interrupting. Let's keep going on this show, but follow the podcast. It'll make my mom super happy. Daddy. Try making $15.50 an hour and provide for your spouse in three wealth. Yeah, I agree, but, you know, I'm the one who said wealth is an issue. But again, you don't have to make 1550. I get that it's hard out there. My hope is that the gentleman who said, try make 1550 and provide for the family realizes that after hours weekends, like, for example, this platform. Let's just be very direct. Everybody here. Who here is aware of what TikTok affiliate is. If you're here, this is live flower power. If you're watching right now, do you know what TikTok affiliate is? If you're watching right now, do you know what TikTok affiliate is? Right. Everybody who says they don't know what TikTok affiliate is, please go ChatGPT. How do I become a TikTok affiliate. If you do not know what TikTok affiliate is right now, please go to ChatGPT and type in, how do I become a TikTok affiliate? All of you can sell product that's on TikTok by making content on TikTok. And if, God willing, one of your pieces of content hits, you can make some side cash. Everyone can do that. You can literally do that if you get to your job 10 minutes before every day and you can make a video in your car. A lot of car videos go viral. Yes. I've been doing this for a little over a year, not really making anything. Aurora, that's amazing. That means that you haven't figured it out yet, but many have, right? And by the way, there's a lot of things that I have not figured out yet, but many have. I've not fully attacked substack the way I want to. Many have. I have figured out TikTok shop, live shopping. Many haven't. That's the thing, right? I just think that there's so much opportunity and instead of saying like, oh, it sucks that I'm stuck and it sucks out there, I think a lot of you can fix it. I think politicians have done a really good job telling you you're not capable. They're gonna fix it for you. I'm out here trying to give you direct information. I just gave direct information, right? You can do TikTok affiliate. A lot of you said, no, I don't know what that is. I told you to go to ChatGPT. Ask the prompt and it will give you full details. Now it's on you. I'm out here selling positivity and practical business advice, and yet I'm telling you, I can't help you. You can help you. Politicians out here saying you suck, you're a loser, but I can take care of you. Mmm. Get your fucking mind right. Everyone and everybody, you can go live like I am right now and pin something that you're selling in the store. For all of you Pokemon and card collectors, I can pin this right now to. Do you have a blaster box? Now, if you're who's curious about what's hovering over my head, these are these cards. Is everybody curious about what's hovering over my head? It's right there. I'm building the next Pokemon and Marvel. Look at this. The Gary B. Comic book. Like, you can do this too. And Vixi Films says, how do I do that? All of it is ChatGPT. How do I go on TikTok live and sell stuff in a TikTok shop. Enter it will give you full details. All of you need to have ChatGPT or Gemini or some sort of app default in your phone to ask questions. Thank you so much. Big Sauce Nacho. Let's get into the questions. Ask your questions. I got my team reading. Naraya Raghav. I'm ready. Let's go.
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Nadalia asks, I'm 40, single, with no kids. All my life I've worked 12 to 14 hours a day. Where can I find motivation when I don't have any sort of.
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You found motivation like Noreah? This is an amazing question. This young lady, and I say, young. She's 40, you said, right?
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Yeah.
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She is motivated. If she's saying, hey, I'm hitting a roadblock, I'm starting to burn out. I'm starting to, like, lose that motivation. The motivation always comes from the fact of having no choice. She has these children that she loves more than breathing, and she's gonna provide. The question isn't motivation per se, though that's important. And the way you find motivation is hanging out in places like this, right? What is this? What are we doing right now? This is a place where people are choosing to look for optimism or love or positivity because it's real. She could literally have just heard me, Naraya. And literally learned how to do TikTok affiliate and literally could make a video about a skincare product that she got eligible for and literally change the course of her life. This is just real. Like, people could say anything they want and be like, oh, that's not real, or this and that, or, like, you know, like, I know how people, like, think, but it is real, right? It is happening. How many people here have made money from affiliate or TikTok shop or whatnot or things like that? Nature. How many people here have had that happen? Michigan favorite, Pinot Noir is actually coming on WineText. WineText. Hmm. Look it up. Norell, you seeing this? Jennifer's me. Like, I have. It's real Slugger society. These are just everyday people, right? These are just everyday people. So I think the motivation comes from realizing you have no goddamn choice. You have no goddamn choice. Motivation comes from no choice. And it sounds dark. People hear that. They're like, ah, I'm triggered. I'm motivated by no choice. What, are you gonna give up and lay on a couch and turn off the lights and be depressed? I mean, I get that people have mental health issues. I get that. But this is about grit and perseverance and Then how do you balance that garbage, that eating the dirt? You balance it by in every moment that you have free. Instead of watching Netflix. To escape the crap, instead of drinking alcohol, to escape the crap, instead of gambling. Like we talked about yesterday, to escape the crap, you have to go and spend those hours on the offense. If you work Monday through Friday on the grind, but you can't wait to wake up Saturday morning to go to the thrift store or to a flea market, to garage sale to hunt and find stuff to then sell on ebay at nights or on this and make a couple thousand bucks on the side, well, that's the game. I don't know what else to tell you like it is or like post a guy. Like, it's just, it's, you know, it's real. It's real. Look at those little birds. Oh, is that a flute? All right. Winkle says offense isn't a gambler. Correct. Offense is the only non gamble. When you're on defense, when you get the safe job, we're about to all learn what I've been yelling about for 30 years. The safe job is about to be unsafe. The only thing that's not a gamble is offense. Who really knows football? Who really knows American football in here? Who really knows American football? Let me know if you know American football. If you really, really, really know American football, then you know prevent defense prevents you from winning. For everybody who doesn't know American football, this is what prevent defense was in the 80s and 90s. They don't do this really much anymore. You played a whole game and you're up 17, 13. And now the other team has the last drive of the game and you play this version of defense that was different than you played the whole game. You were just trying to keep them in front of you so they don't get behind you for the big touchdown. But what you're doing is letting them get all these chunk plays along the field and then they score a touchdown and you lose. The only non gamble in life is going on offense. And you've been taught that going on offense is the gamble. Because the school system was literally created to create factory workers. Let us put you in a system for 12 years of your youth to pay attention to us controlling you and Judging you every 90 days, quarter check ins, and if you play nice, boys and girls, you'll get an A. And then when you become 18 or 22, nothing you just did had anything to do with real life. Uh oh, uh oh. And all your parents came from parents that lived in the Great Depression who had three cents to their name. So they're scared of everything. So they're telling you to be safe and get a good job. Everybody's about to learn that the safe job was not safe because AI is coming and there will be a reset. And good news everyone. You're not gonna lose your job to AI. You're gonna lose your job to someone that uses AI. So here we are all together right now, all 1140 of us. And if you have a job, I'm telling you right now to use AI every day at home. Use ChatGPT. If you're an architect, you ask ChatGPT what apps, what AI apps should I be using to learn more of how to use AI for architecture AI? Enter it will tell you. You use AI to learn AI.
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David asks do you believe that views achieved carry different weight for different pieces of content?
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I think views achieved is the goal of organic social. All of you should be pumping unlimited organic social. Unlimited organic social to try to get to a place of awareness for whether that's to get a job or to sell your product or whatever it is. Obviously the way this gentleman's asking the question Raghavously, there's different outcomes. If I get a million views around this comic book, I will get a lot of sales. If I get a million views about me talking about dropping, regret and stop looking backwards, that's more brand impact. I gave people some love, right? That isn't a transactional value. But that doesn't matter to me because I'm not looking for transactional value 90% of the time. So yes, of course views aren't all equal to what they create. They create either brand and affinity. They create sales. How about getting 7 million views for going viral for doing some dumb shit. What if I did something stupid and not ethical and it got 70 million views? Well, those views have a different outcome too. That's brand damage. So that's just life. It's. Yes, they all act differently, but it is the goal, right? At the highest level. Let's keep it going.
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How I can trust hiring the right digital marketing company or people to promote my fans and their business?
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Hiring agencies and employees is guessing. You do your best, you ask your best questions and you go with your intuition. Hiring isn't what you should be caught up on. It's firing when you know. So for example, when you hire an agency, make sure that you have a 30 day clause. Don't let an agency try to slip in. Like you have to give us 180 days notice if you're firing us contractually, look at the fine print, make sure you got a 30 day out. So now you go with 60 days. It's not working 100 days. You're like, wait a minute, I made a mistake. I have buyer's remorse. You notify them and 30 days out, you're out. With employees, it's easier. You try to be gracious and you give them a couple weeks. If they've only worked with you for a couple months, couple weeks severance. If they've been with you for a longer time, you give them more. But everyone's so caught up and crippled by the hiring. The hiring isn't the issue. It's knowing when to fire. Let's keep it going. Everybody who's new to me right here. Who's new to me right here. Who's never seen me before. You've literally just fyped. Who just FYPed. Say FYP in the chat. You've literally never seen me before. Maybe you saw one video once. Who's brand new to me? And if you're one of those people who just fyped and brand new to me, Chris304 I'm gonna explain right now. I'm Gary Vaynerchuk. I'm an entrepreneur, I'm an author, I'm a public speaker, I'm a creator, I'm a businessman. I was an early investor in Facebook and Twitter. These are the stocks, Facebook and Twitter and Tumblr. Uber, Venmo, Liquid Death. I co founded and created Resi. So I was. I was one of. Me and Ben Leventhal created Resi. You might know that. The restaurant app. I have a sports agency, a TV production company. My sports agency. Reps, Sauce Gardner, Aiden Hutchinson, Kirk Cousins, Bo Bichette, Ian Garry, Sean Brady, a bunch of UFC guys, Brandon Miller. I tried to go see him play last night, but he was a late scratch with his shoulder. In Brooklyn, I'm just a hustling kid from Jersey. Anybody? Let's keep it going. Next.
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Next question Dougie asks, if I no longer agree with my family and their values to the point where I'm invisible, but I still live with them because they need me. Am I still living for other people? How can I be the captain of my own shit?
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Leave the house. The need me is like, nah, you gotta go. You're either full of crap and you need them and that shelter and you're just saying it publicly here, or you're in a abusive mental relationship and you need to get the hell out the End. The end. That's that. It's not super complicated. Next question.
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I have my hands in so many cookie jars and I'm overwhelmed. How do you manage multiple streams of.
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Income by getting your hands out of a couple cookie jars if you're actually overwhelmed for a sustained period of time? If you've been overwhelmed for a week, well, then you're just a puss. But if you've been overwhelmed for four, five or six months and it's starting to really weigh on you, get your hands out of the cookie jar, bro. I don't want to hear like, ugh, I got so many different levels of income that I'm overwhelmed. Cut it out. Take your hands out. I got burned out from not burned out. I decided that I didn't want to speak as much because I wanted to be grounded in New York. My kids were a certain age. I was working on vee friends. I stopped speaking as much. Then after three or four years of that, late last year or mid this year, I started missing it. So I'm speaking more again. No la la, no wawa, y'. All. No wawa, no wawa. I don't waw wah. I got my hands in too much stuff. I take my hand out if that cookie jar. If six months go by, a year goes by, I'm like, wait a minute, I like those pecan cookies. I've not been eating those pecan cookies. AKA speaking. I'll put my hand back in. No, ever, by the way. I might not even make any more content the rest of my life. I might just sit here and say, no wah wah. There really is nothing else. There is nothing else. You're all a bunch of wa wa. What do you want? Who do you want? You want your boss to take care of you? Your mommy, your daddy, your spouse? Like, who do you want to take care of? You want? How the fuck will you take care of you? Fuck. I don't care what the algorithm does to me. Cursing everybody. I'm gonna start cursing. Keep hitting the bottom right arrow and share this stream because they're gonna destroy my reach in the FYP. Cause I'm about to get off on this. 9:34 in the morning on a gloomy fucking Tuesday. I'm bringing it. Fuck it, let's go. Next question Tyler asks.
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I feel stuck behind everyone and I suck at everything. I'm 23 years old with nothing to be proud of yet. Even my dating life sucks now. My friends are achieving easily while I'm giving my all. How do I manage to fix this? Shitty life, bro.
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Change it up. It sounds like he's a fuckboy. He says even my dating life sucks now. Sounds like you banged a lot of chicks in your late teens and early twenties. Sounds like you had a good life, and now you're crying about some shit. Cause you've just been fuckboy life. And. And everybody else has been grinding. That's what that question sounds like. Sounds like Playboy is starting to realize life is real. How realizing? Your good looks and charisma need to be deployed against hard work, not just hooking up. Mix it up. Say it again. Read it back.
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I feel stuck behind everyone, and I suck at everything. I'm 23 years old with nothing to be proud of, Jeff. Even my dating life sucks now. My friends are achieving easily while I am giving my all.
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Your friends are not achieving easily, dick face. Nobody's achieving easily, you assholes. What's this achieving easily? Y' all are lazy. The lazy have weaponized luck and easily. All of you laying on your couch, jerking off and being envious of your friends while you brain rot. Scroll. Love to fucking use the words easy and luck. Bog hermit. I'm not crashing out. I'm getting excited. I'm trying to get people into. I'm trying to get people into a good place. Zola, this whole message overwhelmed me. No, no, Zola, we're poking at the zits right now. I'm pressuring you into the corner to be a. O. Accountable and optimistic. This is all optimism. This is all optimism. This is all optimism. I hope you understand what's happening here. Y' all have been over coddled. That boy was over coddled, Naraya. And it sounds like he was a cute boy that got over coddled. The worst kind. Oh. A cute boy who's charismatic and mommy and daddy took care of everything. Ooh. And he was killing it from 16 to 22. Ooh. That boy's in trouble when real life kicks in. That's what it sounds like. Dave. I can't wait to shake your hand as well, my man. It's so good to see all of you, Mark D. Good to see all of you. Perspective is a superpower. Josh, everybody who's here, I just want you to know all of you are capable. There's no such thing as losers. He's walleyeing. He's not losing. He's 23. How do you lose when you haven't even gotten on the field yet when you're 23? You were warming up. That motherfucker was. Fix this camera so I could show you what this dude was doing. Grab this camera so I could show you this. Dude, when you're 23, you're not on the field playing. You know what you're doing? You're warming up. This motherfucker's just warming up. This guy's just fucking warming up. He's just warming up. Do you understand? This guy is not on the field. He's just, like, stretching his shit. He's stretching his shit. You're not fucking on the field. You haven't lost. You're fucking warming up. You're in warmups. When you're 23, you're warming up. You haven't lived life. You haven't been on the field yet. You're in warmups. You're calisthenics, motherfucker. You are calisthenics. Dakota says, I wish I was that carpet. I'm very, very flattered by that, guys. I'm telling you. Barely born, barely in it. Coach, calm down, King Ashley. I can't. I need to coach all of you men mentally to the Good place I'm on here on TikTok. I know 80% of the stuff on here is not providing you much value, but this channel forever is going to provide you two things. I'm gonna show you hacks to make money, and I'm gonna show you, more importantly, hacks to get you happy. That's where I'm at. That's why I'm gonna be on this all the time in 2026. I'm gonna be on all the time. If you're liking this, if you just stumbled on me, if you're like, what the hell is going on? Like, who is this person? Say what the heck, Because I don't want to say. If you put. Hell, who knows if they ban you on this thing, what the heck? If you're completely going on, like, what's going on? And you're just like, what's happening here? If you're one of those people. Falcon Crest. I see you. Top left corner, click my face. Top left corner, click my. Oh, is there giveaway? Did somebody win this? Oh, yes. Lazy Girl Travel. Lazy Girl Travel. This is coming your way. Let's all clap it up for Lazy Girl Travel. Let's say Lazy Girl in the chat. Lazy Girl Travel. Appreciate it. All right, next question. Let's keep going.
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Nicholas asks. I'm 42. I run a local electrical construction business, and I'm wearing every hat. Sales, operations, hiring, all of it. I know content matters, but time is the killer. With AI tools like Sora about to make content creation stupid, cheap, and fast. How do small business owners like me actually use this to win without just blending into the noise?
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Well, blending into the noise is how do I break out with the competition? You break out by having high quality content. How do you do high quality content? You make a lot of content every day. The three of us have been in this forever, and every day we're challenged to find something that breaks out right? Yep. What this gentleman needs to do is hire if he's wearing so many hats. Friends, how many of you have a business and you're wearing too many hats and you're starting to finally realize instead of taking as much profit as possible out of your business, that you should put some of that profit back to hire someone so that you have more time to do more impactful things and that hiring will actually make you more money. How many of you finally had the epiphany? Say epiphany. Raghav. I took vaynermedia, this company, literally from 3 million to 100 million in revenue and did not change my cash take home. What? You know this because you've heard the lore of us going from 12 to like 3,000 people. You know what I mean? I put the money back in. People are so obsessed. Lizard king. Yes, it's me. People are so obsessed with. With instant gratification. Do you know that? It's whisper time. Psst. I have a secret. Everybody have a secret. You ready? First, you gotta share the show and you gotta double tap. I need way more hearts. Double tap the screen or I'm not even talking to you anymore. All right. Oh, actually, real quick, the car slinger. Thank you for buying the box, Tesho. Thank you for buying the box, Glenn Curtis, I love you with all my heart. All right, here we go. Secret, secret time. Instant gratification is ruining your life. Instant gratification. Look at my eye. Instant gratification. Instant gratification is ruining your life. And now I'm going to tell you a bigger secret. Why do you want instant gratification? Because you're trying to impress people that you don't even like. What? What? Wait a minute, Gary. You're telling me my life is all bent out of shape because I am trying to impress people I don't even like Carter Wesson. I'm so sad you think that, my friend. We are gonna build this to a monster. Instant gratification is destroying so many of you, Idaho in the building. Danny boy, good to see you. Timothy Bowman. I don't know anybody really well. I'M talking macro. I know a lot of you are not living for instant gratification, and I love you for that. I'm glad you're here. But I know a lot of people who are struggling with this. A lot, A lot of people that are struggling with this. I get thousands of DMs a day. I read them and I know exactly what's happening. Everybody. Thank you. Let's keep the questions going. Go.
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I own a wedding venue that used to book over 100 weddings a year. Now I'm struggling to hit 40. The market feels completely oversaturated and I'm feeling lost trying to stand out again. Any advice?
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Yes. Facebook ads. If you're a local business, a dry cleaner, a barber, a restaurant, My favorite thing in the world right now is Facebook ads in a 10 mile radius. Again. Watch this. I'm gonna show you something. Hey there. How's it going? It's going good. I need to know step by step how to run three Facebook ads where I do the creative and the media within 10 mile radius of my wedding venue in Idaho. Gary Vee on a TikTok show said, I need to do Facebook ads. Can you give me a step by step how I as a local wedding provider can run ads in a 10 mile radius of my Idaho wedding venue? So I just did audio chatgpt. But all of you can do this, right? This is where we're at. So I'm telling you right now, if you have a local business, 10 mile radius, if you're in a rural area, you can go 25 miles. If you're in a little bit more of a city, 10 mile. But I promise, all of you, 10 mile radius Facebook ads, you make a video and say, hey, I'm Sarah. This is our wedding venue. You show them what you have. This will work. Everyone. This will work for all of you. Please. This will work for all of you. BPMoving. Yes. Gardeners, landscapers, barbers, restaurants. If you're a local business that you want people to come to or you want to go to them, like a gardener or a pool cleaner, Facebook ads. Local is massive. Electricians. Yes. All right, let's keep it going.
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I lose followers whenever I post about anything but my niche, which is homesteading, I don't gain any followers or views. If I post about books, surfing, sports, hiking, snowboarding, or any of my other random interests, hopefully that changes. Do you have any advice on that?
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I think that content might not be that good. Maybe homesteading is the only good content you provide. Uh oh, I like this book. Okay, great. This coffee's good. Okay, great. Like, are you good at it? Rogoff. Do you know when I broke out in 2006 doing a YouTube show called Wine Library TV, that every wine store in the country that was meaningful in the top 100 all did their own wine show and all of them failed. Did you know that?
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I did not know that.
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I'm aware that you did not know that. That's why I dropped that bomb on you. Just doing it doesn't mean it's good. I was entertaining, I was educational. And most of all. And this is what's bringing so much value in this video right now. I gave a crap of bringing value to the audience. I'm obsessed this morning. That one person, that one person gets a value out of one question. For all the love I'm getting in the chat, for the occasional hate I'm getting in the chat. All I care about right now in this hour is that one person gets one piece of advice. Whether it's no more wah wah, right? Whether it's, oh, wait, I'm 23. How can I suck at life when I haven't even started? Whether it's, oh, I need to run 10$10 mile radius Facebook ads for my restaurant. Raghav, you are in my DMs. You know how many emails and DMs I get every single day? Gary, thank you. You got me out of depression, Gary, thank you. I make $8,000 extra a month now every day. Raghav. Yeah. Is there a lot? We're doing it. This is the positive corner of the Internet. This is the good spot. Congratulate. If you just fyped. If you've never seen me before, literally, you have no idea who the hell I am. But you've been enjoying the last 20 minutes, say 20 in the chat. AJ, good to see you. What happened to Bro is good stuff. If that's you see here, it's happening right now. Giving the flex. James Miller, Nappy Boy, Tommy Showtime. Lisa, tap out of ego. All these people had no idea who I am. I have 50 million followers and I've been posting for 20 years. While these people are discovering me, some other kids are trolling, being like, dude fell off. Unc got old. You know, I got love for those people too, because I'm worried about them. Because, like, why are you spitting that hate? Oh, I know why. Because you're hurt. You're soft. They don't like when I say soft, but they're soft. It's really easy to be Tough. In the chat. I took a photo yesterday with a kid who was losing his mind. Like I was Michael Jackson. I looked at the tag, I went to the dm. He like was yelling at me that he's mad at me. Six months ago. It's Stan out here. Friends, I'm your biggest fan. People confused, not me. Chris d. I am 50. How old? Chris, I love you. All right, let's keep it going. Hey. Oh, so anyway, I don't even remember what I was saying, but what I'm saying is this is the good side of the Internet. I'm so happy you're all here. I love all of you. Yeah, the bez. I agree with that. Trust issues in the world is a tough thing. You know, that's really true. I love all of you. Honestly, I'm just really desperate on some real talk. I'm real desperate for all of you to get happier. I want this for you bad. I want this for you, but bad. I want this for you bad. Rich, thank you so much for picking up the book pinned in the store. Check out the store, bottom left corner. Let's keep it going.
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Lila asked, I've been selling live on Instagram for for six years and have made tens of thousands of dollars each month. Why are you the only one talking about it? Virtually no one knows how life changing it is. Is it being gay kept or still early?
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It's. It's still early. It's not being gay kept. I'm so happy. What was that person's name? Name?
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Lila.
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Lila, it's real. When I was talking about social media in 2000. Listen, Lila, I wrote this book right here. Crush it in 2008. It came out in 2009. It talked about you can make a living being an influencer or creator on social media. Everyone laughed at me. Whitney just said, I'm glad to hear it's not too late. Not only is it not too late, it's too early. Live social shopping on social media is going to be a massive monster in four or five years. I'm trying to get all of you to do TikTok Shop Live or affiliate TikTok sales right here, right now. While I've got a thousand of you, I need you to learn it. Everybody, please do me a favor. While you're watching this bottom left corner, there's a little shopping bag. Click that and just look at the products. Click that. Bottom left corner, just click that little shopping bag. All that stuff is in the store. First of all, here's first my psa. I want no one to buy anything from me, especially if you can't afford it. You don't need my marketing book. You definitely don't need my comics and collectibles. But I'm very grateful for everyone who is and is interested in it and wants to start collecting or flipping. You see what's going on above my head. The people that have been on the veefriends train are flipping. But I just want you to learn it so you do it for yourself. I want you to learn it, Emil says. Any advice for Canadians who don't get this? Yeah, there's other apps. What apps? What live shopping apps do work in Canada? Here we go. Amazon Live, Chanels IO Live me up hut not. It's in the chat. It's in the chat. I don't want to say that word because you get banned on the algo. Here. It's all here, my friends. Everything you want in life is here. If you're willing to work. Everybody, my latest Instagram post, Right, Same username as I have here. Go check it. Go. Follow me. Go look at my latest post this morning. It's the secret. Of course it does, Dee Dee. 9 to 5 is not a bad idea, Dreamer. It's what you do from 5 to 9, 5 to midnight when you're doing 9 to 5 to hedge against the vulnerability of a 9 to 5 or to offset if you're not being fulfilled by your 9 to 5 is life. 9 to 5 is not bad. Crying about your 9 to 5 and doing nothing about it is bad. 9 to 5 is not bad. Crying about it and doing nothing about it and hanging out with other complainers, that's bad.
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I love all of you very much. I hope you have the best day. All right, everyone. See ya, everybody. If you enjoyed this podcast, please go back and look at the prior episodes. They're loaded. I appreciate your attention and thanks for being part of this journey. See you later.
Date: January 8, 2026
Host: Gary Vaynerchuk
Gary Vaynerchuk addresses widespread anxiety about money, job security, and the state of the economy, speaking directly to listeners who feel stuck, scared, or overwhelmed in today’s changing world. Through candid Q&A and his trademark no-nonsense motivation, Gary reframes fears about financial uncertainty, urges self-reliance, and pushes listeners to embrace offense over defense—both in mindset and practical action. The episode blends practical business advice, mindset shifts, and tough love, covering everything from making side money with TikTok affiliate programs to how AI is transforming job security and business.
Gary delivers his signature tough love, mixing straightforward, sometimes brash language with energy, empathy, and actionable advice. He is relentless in calling out excuses and encouraging listeners to reclaim agency. The focus is always on offense, practical action, and self-accountability—whether it's learning AI, launching a side hustle, or seeing your “failures” as just warmups.
If you’re feeling scared about money, stuck in your job, or overwhelmed by life’s challenges, Gary’s message is clear:
Get practical, get proactive, use every tool available (especially AI and social platforms), and above all—stop whining and start moving. Your life is still in warmups.
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Gary’s closing reminder:
“9 to 5 is not bad. Crying about your 9 to 5 and doing nothing about it is bad.” (37:48)
For more, check out previous episodes of The GaryVee Audio Experience.