The Power of Going Live on TikTok | Tea with GaryVee Ep. 110

In this episode of Tea with GaryVee, I go live on TikTok to answer your questions on: - Live Shopping - How much opportunity in TikTok Live - Why Judging Yourself is never the answer Let me know what you thought of this episode by commenting below!

• 0:00Speaker 00

  This is the Gary Vee Audio Experience. Morning, morning, morning, everyone on TikTok. Good morning. Uh, I don't know whose fucking idea this was. Um, but now I remember it was mine. Uh, somebody said something like, oh, like, there's a lot more viewers on, uh, in the morning on TikTok, so here I am. Um, and I've been getting like all this great sleep and rest and like been eating well and like no alcohol and all this stuff. And then the first time I break in like 45 days was last night. So I, I don't know. I've completely misplayed this on all levels, but you gotta persevere through the adversity

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  of wine coming out of your pores at 6:00 in the morning. Um, and it's great to see everybody. Sahil, good to see you. Uh, we've got questions, I assume, right? I mean, Sammy, you're up early, huh?

• 0:59Speaker 01

  Yeah, I couldn't miss this.

• 1:01Speaker 00

  I mean, is it 4:00 AM for you?

• 1:04Speaker 01

  Yeah.

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  Oof, I'm impressed. Um, uh, what time is it for you right now and where are you from, everybody on TikTok? Uh, please make sure you follow, top left corner. Join the fan club, bottom right corner. Um, good to see all of you. Ask your questions. Um, Reality Bites, thank you so much. It's so kind. Ask your questions. Um, and, uh, if you just joined from your FYP, welcome to the kindest, warmest, nicest, but most accountable place on the internet. And then all of you friends on Instagram Live, please go to garyvee.com/t. Join us on Tea with Gary Vee. Get on the show. You get your questions asked if you get on over there. It's my TikTok, so you can just go to Gary V E on TikTok. Um, all right, everybody.

• 1:50Speaker 00

  Uh, 2:00 PM in Uganda. Big shout out to Uganda. Um, all right, who's got the questions?

• 1:57Speaker 02

  Gee, let's start with, uh, what's something you've gotten better at saying no to?

• 2:02Speaker 00

  Um, did everybody hear him? Yep, did that come across nicely? Did everybody hear that question nicely? Very nice. Good, Christine. Thank you. Um, not much.

• 2:14Speaker 00

  No question, the thing that I'm now contemplating quite a bit in my mind is, um, how do I get better at saying no? So much of my career was built on yes. Um, you know, and the serendipity and realizing, yeah, yeah, I said yes to a bunch of stuff that was all quote unquote, um, not as valuable to me, didn't lead to anything extracted value, but one random yes here and there turned into something so lucrative, so joyful, that it offset all the others.

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  I, as a lot of you know, believe that we have way more time than people realize, right? I think people are absolutely ridiculous when they talk about, I, I've run out of time, or I missed it, or I fucked up, and then they're 27, or 32, or 36. My relationship with time and my humility with my time as it got more valuable, I believe, was a strength. I do believe I'm entering an era where I've got to be smarter with my time allocation. Um, more allocation to family, more allocation to leisure,

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  more allocation to the things that bring me joy, more allocation to more strategic use of my time to build V Friends, to build VaynerX, Vayner Sports, my personal brand. Um, so a little bit less charitable energy around my time. You know, just a whole lot of saying yeses to a whole lot of things that, you know, um, make my soul happy that I'm that person, but I feel like I've got to find a little bit more of a balance. So I've probably started saying no to churchery business meetings. You know, tier three business meetings that, but I feel like I've always been pretty good at that, but I, I've leveled up that.

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  But the random like intern walking by me in the office and being like, can I get 15 minutes of your time? I just am struggling to say no to that.

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  I really do struggle with that. And

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  there's a part of me, just as I sit here, that like fully knows I should be saying no to all of that. And there's a part of me that equally believes that I should never stop saying yes to that.

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  You know, that's just who I am. So, and, and then, and then that's fine, because at least that's like an employee, but then it's like the random DM, and like, can I get 10 minutes? And I like screenshot and hit my admins and be like, give Sally Pants 49 10 minutes in the next couple of weeks. And they're like, motherfucker, we can't get like your biggest client meetings into the calendar next 60 days. Like, where the fuck do you think we're gonna find 10 minutes for Sally Pants 49 from Uganda? But I say yes to those things too. So, anyway. Thank you for joining us. Welcome to the morning show that everybody loves on earth.

• 5:32Speaker 00

  All 8.3 billion people love this show. No Ray, I don't know if you know that. 8.3 billion people on earth love this show. They just haven't all discovered it yet. But they will love it. Uh, bottom right corner, everybody, join the fan club. I want to see the hearts popping up all time. Court, what else should these, what has TikTok updated since we did? The repost, where is that?

• 5:53Speaker 03

  If you press the share button in the bottom right corner of the stream, there's a yellow repost button.

• 5:58Speaker 00

  Everybody, if I don't get a repost from all of you, I'm gonna be very upset. Bottom right corner, little arrow, click that. Boop, it pops up and hit that little repost yellow button right now. Hit that little repost button right now. Um, let's do it.

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  Okay, next one. Yeah, hey Sammy.

• 6:18Speaker 01

  Um, you know, like the early risers right now, they might be working out as they're watching this, but you've been kind of talking about like your health and fitness lately?

• 6:27Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 6:27Speaker 01

  And kind of wanted you to see, like, that's part of your balance of like how you're seeing life lately.

• 6:33Speaker 00

  Yeah, I mean, I've, uh, of course, I mean, you know, there's that, one of my favorite clips of my social media content of my life was when that kid at Super Bowl, as I'm walking, asks me like, what does health and fitness like have to do with business or something like that, remember? And I'm like, well, if you're dead, you're out of business. You know, and so, of course, yeah, I've had a very good summer. Not with saying last night was first day off the wagon after 40 days of crushing, um, and just ate way too many carbs. Pasta, motherfucking pasta slipped in last night. And I saw an old friend I haven't seen in like 15 years, who's like such a wine head and made me drink wine, so. Um,

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  yeah, I mean, I'm, it's a very big part of my life, you know, I've taken my health so seriously for so long. Um, now, and just a part of my life, I still hate it, like, like going to the gym is still, uh, a real, you know, challenge. Um, eating well, it doesn't come natural, but I've, I've had a very good run this year and I'm gonna keep it up. And I have very strong clarity into how I need to use fruit to subsidize like the candy and the cakes and the things that I want and what my protein and, um, you know, carb ratio needs to be and like what calories,

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  you know, I'm counting roughly in my head that I want to hit for the day. And, um, and then on top of all that, Mona, my wife, is like so insane about clean eating. So it's not just calories, it's like chemicals, right? It's chemicals over calories. It's, you know, just making sure I'm doing that well. And so, yeah, I'm enjoying it. And, um, and, uh, and I think everyone here, um, should always be inspired to, uh, you know, be a little bit better, no matter what, because it benefits. Your body is your body. It's like, you know, doing the right things is always the right thing. And like, for your soul, being a good human being and, you know, business, putting in the work and being creative and patient and, and in health and wellness, like the data is pretty clear about like sleep and exercise and

• 8:38Speaker 00

  um, what you put in your body. And, you know, I'm trying to do well. A lot of people ask me about my 9/11 story. Obviously, today's the 25th anniversary of 9/11, uh, which is crazy because I'm 50, so it's like literally the halfway point of my life. Um, and so it was a crazy day for me, obviously. I was in New Jersey. In fact, I was supposed to be at the World Trade Center three days later. I think it was the 14th. Uh, pretty early in the morning for a big wine tasting. So that's always shook me about that day. It's like, man, three days later, like, who knows? My timing would have been very close. I would have definitely been like either parking downtown in the building. It was really scary stuff. Um, it was really rough because that's when I was first building

• 9:20Speaker 00

  Wine Library and, uh, we had a lot of clients at Cantor Fitzgerald, um, which was a big financial firm. A lot of the Wall Street guys were the first people buying online and having email and doing email buying. And the biggest thing I remember from nine eleven, besides the fact that my cousin Bobby and my best friend Brandon were in the air from France to America. And back then, they were supposed to be home from a wine buying trip on September ninth, but my cousin Bobby got kidney stones at the airport and had to be rushed to the hospital and they got stuck in Europe. And then they were trying to get home, trying to get home. And Brandon called me at nine thirty in the morning of

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  nine eleven, the first tower had collapsed and called me from the flight. I don't know if, oh geez, remind the kids now, there used to be phones in airplanes. And Brandon grabbed it and swiped the credit card and called me and said, good news, we're coming home. And I said, I don't think so. Uh, and he's like, what do you mean? And his story is crazier than mine because we hang up and he hits the thing and the stewardess comes and he's like, are we landing in New York? And she's like, yeah. Like, why? And then like, she leaves and then like, one minute later, like, three stewards ran down the aisle to him and were like, yo, why'd you know that? Like, interior, it was crazy. Anyway, it was a very horrific day, especially for us here that are like in the tri-state area

• 10:49Speaker 00

  or close to New York. Like, it was rough. It was really, really rough. It was really, really rough. I drove, when the second tower collapsed, I, uh, I sent a bunch of people from Wine Library home. I, I drove to my parents because my dad hadn't even come to the store yet. We hung there for a couple hours. A really rough day. AJ came out of school. It was really rough. It really was really rough. And, and I'm very, you know, I think, I underst- I'm fascinated and care a lot about human behavior. I'm very aware, like, if you didn't live here, you know, if you lived in America, it affected you more than if you lived in Argentina or Spain. Um, and then if you lived in like New York City, it affected you differently than if you lived in Kansas or Tampa Bay or Wisconsin.

• 11:33Speaker 00

  It was, um, my, my uncle worked, Bobby Schiff, Bobby Schiffen's dad, Misha, who was a big part of my life, really a very big father figure for me in the first fifteen years of my life when my dad was working so much. He worked in the World Trade Center, uh, his whole career. Um, so it just really hit close to home. It's really, um, it's really tough. All right, let's move it on.

• 12:01Speaker 04

  This one in the chat, Charles D. asks, hey Gary, do you look at the stars and think about how small and little humanity actually is?

• 12:07Speaker 00

  Absolutely not. I don't look at the stars. I don't give a fuck about space. Um, I do not. I, I don't need to look at the stars or space and understand the fucking Milky Way galaxy to understand our smallness. I, uh, I, um, I am incredibly well-parented and have understood, uh, the power of humility my whole life. I, I did not need Orion, you know, the constellation in the sky to make me feel small. I feel very in tune to what

• 12:48Speaker 00

  it is, which is, we are here for a period of time and that is a miracle. You know, I'm, I'm so grateful that I get to hang out with all of you guys. Norey and Sammy and Ragoff and Train, Michael, like, like, like, of course you quote, I'm kidding. Uh, and you know, just, it's just so finite. It's so small, you know? It's so small. And so, no, I don't need space to tell me how small or little or insignificant, quote unquote, we are. And on the flip side, I think we're like, I think like, I'm the most significant human that's ever lived. You know, like, I have that, like, incredible, you know, conviction,

• 13:33Speaker 00

  obviously. That's tongue in cheek. I, I keep forgetting, on TikTok, you get a lot of random people from the FYP and maybe they don't know my sense of humor. I do not, I do not think I'm the most significant human that ever lived, but I will say, I strive to be. I strive to be. I strive to create incredible things. Um, I, I strive to bring a lot of value to strangers at a scale that most people don't live in, you know? And I, um, and I, I try to be, uh, an all-time great entrepreneur and nice person and that feels pretty good. Um, but yes, I, I know our significance in the scheme of things. Oh, all right, everybody. Welcome to Tea with Gary Vee. Love hanging out with all nine

• 14:18Speaker 00

  hundred of you. I need reposts. Bottom right corner, click the arrow, bloop, a little pop-up comes, hit the little share, the yellow to the, on the second row, hit the repost, is it? Repost button. Uh, also, join the fan club. Join, oh, and this is a big one. If you just join me and you're having fun, top right, top left corner, hit my face and make sure you, uh, hit the two bottom left buttons, right? That's follow and notify, right? Follow and notify. Let me know if you just joined the bell club. That's the bell, right? That's the notified. Everybody, top left corner, click my face, bloop, it pops up on the bottom left there. You'll see follow, but more importantly, notify, notify. You

• 15:02Speaker 00

  can hit that little bell. Let me know if you bailed me the fuck up. Let me know if you bailed me the fuck up at seven twenty-one in the morning. Welcome to Tea with Gary Vee. Ask your questions in here. Excuse me, the tea might ask it. Good.

• 15:18Speaker 01

  Uh, Gary, I'm kind of going back to what you were saying. Someone, um, wrote on your comments on Instagram in your post this week that they're struggling with feeling insignificant.

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  Yes.

• 15:28Speaker 01

  So like, you're talking about yourself. What would you tell someone who might feel kind of overwhelmed by the thought that like, we're insignificant, but also like, how do you feel significant? I think his name was Jake.

• 15:40Speaker 00

  Very nice. Jake, you know, self-esteem issues are real for so many, you know? Like, it's just a real thing. I don't think Jake's having some existential crisis of like, where does the human race sit in just, in the world of like, you know, the Milky Way galaxy and all the other galaxies in the world. I think he's probably in my comments just talking about insecurity. Insecurity is the great pandemic of our lifetime. Right? Like, this is, like, I'm far more worried about insecurity than I am about COVID or the COVID vaccine. Like, they're not even close. Insecurity is killing billions. There is no disease

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  on earth that is even close to a problem the way that insecurity is. Insecurity leads to war. Insecurity leads to murder. Insecurity leads to all the horrific things in our society. I do not think people understand the importance of self-love, the importance of therapy, the importance of randomly showing up at seven twenty-three in the morning, Eastern Time, on a FYP on TikTok and showing up here and finding fellow people that are kind and nice and we're going to talk about good shit and building your life and happiness and joy and opportunity and optimism and practicality and accountability and no more

• 17:02Speaker 00

  fucking excuses and the power to fucking forgive people who have fucked you up. And where's the business opportunity of flipping shit that's in your basement to make a hundred bucks a week while also forgiving your mother who fucked you up? Like, we're talking about real shit here. Insecurity is the great issue of our world. I'm so grateful for my mother who created a framework and gave me her DNA, which allowed me to live a life of confidence, real confidence, pure confidence, that's grounded in humility, not peacocking. It's grounded in love, not hate. It's grounded in building and curiosity, not tearing down and envy. And so, I, I'm just, you know, Sammy, I don't, like, there's so many ways.

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  How do you fix it? Therapy? Guys, therapy's real. Like, and by the way, I know that people can't afford it. So like, it's not, not everyone's gonna be able to go there. They have to consume content that's free on the internet that's therapeutic. But you motherfuckers that buy another shiny toy, like an expensive watch or a Birka bag or another home to disguise your insecurity, you need to stop buying dumb shit and you need to deploy that cash against therapy. Not fucking a cold plunge. Therapy.

• 18:22Speaker 00

  Nothing against cold plunging, I'm sure it's wonderful. Yeah, I actually wanna cold plunge right now, bad. Even though I actually don't, like, it's cold. Alright.

• 18:33Speaker 02

  Gee, we had a question from the chat. Love this one. Why does your, why is your content centered so much around being kind? Why is that such a big theme of yours?

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  Um, real quick, I just wanna address Motor City car guy, Nepo Kitty, Nepo Kid says what? Motor City brother, please do the homework. If you're, if you're saying I'm nepo on mentality, on like mindset, then respect, I, I accept it. Um, but if you're using it as the way it's used, like, do your motherfucking homework bitch.

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  What was that, brother?

• 19:12Speaker 02

  Uh, why does, someone asked in the chat, why does so much of your content center on kindness? Why is that such a big theme?

• 19:19Speaker 00

  I just, uh, I don't read books, pain enthusiast. I see your question. Um, I, I read a lot, but it's micro reading. I don't tend to read books. Um, I don't know, I just, my, my bigger question is like, why, why wouldn't it be? I think we've completely lost the plot. Like, we've lost putting civility and class and how we interact with each other and kindness. Um, we've lost that. And we don't put that on a pedestal anymore. No one's like, oh, I wanna be like Ricky Thompson, he's the nicest.

• 19:57Speaker 00

  Everyone's a fucking materialistic, fucking psycho now.

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  Rogoff, you understand? Oh, I didn't give you daps, right? Cause you're, you're also early, right? Rogoff, like you're-

• 20:08Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah, five, five thirty, fucking six.

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  Respect. Um, you know, I, I think we've completely and utterly lost the plot on, you know, and I'm listening, I'm a big time capitalist and believe in like, you know, I'm, I'm like, I'm like the poster boy of entrepreneurship.

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  But I love entrepreneurship for the game and the creativity and the challenge not to buy a Porsche. I think we've become incredibly materialistic and, um,

• 20:43Speaker 00

  I wanna make kindness cool. Because then I think people aspire to it, which means they'll act on it. And so that's why kindness is such a big part of my content.

• 20:56Speaker 00

  Alright, let's keep it going.

• 20:59Speaker 01

  Um, I have one kind of about parenting. So I heard this quote once that was, when there is uncertainty, there is more room for possibility.

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  What, one more time? You've heard what? One more time?

• 21:11Speaker 01

  When there is uncertainty, there is more room for possibility.

• 21:15Speaker 00

  I agree with that.

• 21:15Speaker 01

  So how can parents raise kids to fail confidently, confidently, even if parents themselves are afraid of like this uncertainty?

• 21:26Speaker 00

  Well, I think everything starts with you. If you're a parent that is scared, your child will be scared. Humans are animals, y'all. Like, if you're scared, but you're trying to trick your kid and like be an actor and make pretend you're not scared, they're gonna see right through you. You might trick them when they're fucking four.

• 21:47Speaker 00

  But when they're fourteen, they're like, wait a minute. And when they're twenty-four, they're like, motherfucker. You're like, so like, what are you accomplishing?

• 21:56Speaker 00

  You know? So, I, you know, I think it starts with you, which is like, what are you scared of? Like, real talk, everybody. All one thousand of you on TikTok and all seven hundred of you on Instagram, what are you scared of? Y'all, what are you scared of? Like, what are we fucking scared of? Like, what are you scared of? And the answer, if people are not virtue signaling in the chat, is they're scared of judgment.

• 22:24Speaker 00

  Right? Like, real talk, they're scared of judgment. Like, they can put what they're putting in, the future, failing, uh, the unknown, um, you know? The, we're scared of embarrassment, you know, like, losing money, like, but like, again, all of it is like, if you're scared of losing money, because you're scared of like having to sell your home and renting an apartment, renting an apartment's awesome, it's fine. Like, love is in the house, not in the size of it.

• 22:56Speaker 00

  Right? And so, so what you're really scared of is you don't want your neighbors to make fun of you for like, you being like, oh, you're moving out of the neighborhood? Because your husband lost his job, or you lost your job, or you guys invested in something that went awry? Like, oh, I feel bad for you. Why? Why do you feel bad for me? Like, do you understand? Like, it's those things, like, we are scared of judgment.

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  We are, we are scared of judgment, y'all.

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  And what's crazy is you never really find out what the actual judgment was, cause the, the truth comes out when you're dead.

• 23:38Speaker 00

  That's when shit get, like, that's when people really talk about you, like, the, like, honestly.

• 23:43Speaker 00

  And like, I don't know, man. I just like, living your life based on other people's opinions is the fastest path to depression.

• 23:57Speaker 00

  And I just, I wish on all of you so many things, health first and foremost, but after that, the capacity to tune out the world.

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  Everybody, real quick, hard pivot, since I've got a thousand of you in the room. You must find out what TikTok affiliate is, and you must start doing live shopping and stuff. The biggest opportunity in business right now, side hustle. For every, who here in the chat would like to make an extra fifty dollars a week? Like, that would be meaningful. Have the humility to say it. If, I don't want, no embarrassment around that, cause everyone can use it. Okay. So I see all of you, all of you saying yes. Please, please, please use Claude and ChatGPT, or, or Google if you still are like from the Stone Ages and you search. Um, please, please look into TikTok affiliate. That's where you make content on TikTok

• 24:54Speaker 00

  for products, and then if people buy it from your social media post, you get a commission. And look into what I'm doing here right now, live TikTok shop selling. It's fucking amazing. Um, please look into it. It's a huge opportunity, huge opportunity. A lot of you are destined to not be an influencer or a creator, but you are destined to be a live shopping host. So please look into it.

• 25:22Speaker 02

  Gee, did you, uh, you might have seen this, whatnot was valued at twenty billion this summer?

• 25:27Speaker 00

  No, Matthew, I missed it.

• 25:29Speaker 02

  He's up.

• 25:32Speaker 02

  Where, where in this space, do you feel like there's a certain category specifically that, that you'd wanna highlight for folks? Or is, like, is it just general live shopping? Is there anything that, that's caught your attention in twenty twenty-six that, anything that you'd wanna bring, bring to the fore?

• 25:46Speaker 00

  I think it's general live shopping right now. I think collectibles are crushing. I think apparel is crushing. I think beauty is crushing. I think food is gaining momentum. I think everything will eventually be sold at scale live shopping in ten years. Let me just make a nice, hold on, team, real quick, give me a little bit of, better lighting, let me look into the light, so it looks good. Cause I'm gonna clip this in thirteen years, thank you, Trey. I'm gonna clip this in, uh, Trey's pointing to where the camera is, thanks. No, no, I got, I got, I got. Um, thank you, Trey. Um,

• 26:26Speaker 00

  I'm gonna clip this in thirteen years, because a lot of people don't believe what I'm gonna say right now is true. Friends, in thirteen years, the amount of people that are gonna be selling homes and six-figure automobiles on live shopping will blow your mind. Friends, thirteen years from now.

• 26:47Speaker 00

  Right? Twenty thirty-nine.

• 26:50Speaker 00

  The amount of people selling homes and six-figure automobiles will blow your mind. They'll literally be on live shopping. They'll be standing by a car and, actually, do we have anything to sell here right now? Can you pin something to the bottom? Like, what do you think? What do you got, like a nice twenty-dollar item?

• 27:08Speaker 03

  The, uh, yes.

• 27:09Speaker 00

  What do you got?

• 27:09Speaker 03

  Do the mini sticker packs?

• 27:10Speaker 00

  Sure, ten bucks, beautiful. Put a little mini sticker back. Like, even right now, I'm using tea with, I'm using TikTok right now for Tea with Gary Vee, but I do have the shop enablement on my profile right now, and I'm gonna literally pin right now, it's pinned. Like, TikTok friends, look, right down there, you could buy a pack of stickers from my V friends, that's my Pokemon Marvel world, that's what all these things are in the office. Like, it's real. It's very real. Who's gonna buy one? I want somebody to buy one so I can shout them out. It'll show up on my screen on the right there. Hey, everybody, uh, I 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.

• 27:54Speaker 00

  Oh, there we go. Nice, very nice. Great. Alright, we'll see, uh, great, when you get one. Somebody, pick one up so I can give you some love. Um, does everybody see it in the cart? And there we go. And there we go. Crazy Daisy, Reese, Justin, thank you so much, everybody, thank you. I hope you get a huge sticker in there. Bee Juice, thank you for picking up a pack, means the world to me. Uh, I think I missed one. Bee Juice, O'Donah, Rachel, thank you so much. Dora, thank you so much. Reese, go, go to the top, it was Pull Play. Love of the Light, Lover of the Light, Crazy Daisy, Justin seven eight one, thank you. Reese, thank you. Bee Juice, thank you. Dora, thank you.

• 28:33Speaker 00

  Marib, Maribel, I love you. Uh, and all-time great, VaynerX. Everybody, check out Maribel Lara, amazing marketer, worked here for a long time, doing great content. Rachel Peters, thank you. Pull and Play, thank you. Christine, thank you. Brian Con, thank you. I mean, like, there it is, like, like, people, like, it's happening.

• 28:53Speaker 00

  You know, like, so anyway, I hope people just learned from that. I hope people just learn from that. Like, you too. Like, does anybody here sell anything? Like, what if you sold bird clocks?

• 29:06Speaker 00

  Like you could put that in your TikTok shop, you could sit here, go live, and just talk about birds and bird clocks, and it's pinned to the bottom and people are buying it.

• 29:15Speaker 00

  Watch this, I'm sorry, but don't forget that. How many of you just showed up here and have never followed? Here's a crazy question. How many people that are watching right now randomly showed up on the FYP, have never watched me live before, and don't even know who I am, have never seen my content? This is the first time you're ever seeing me, ever. Put first. This is the first time you've ever seen me, you have no idea who the hell I am. You like literally don't know who I am. Say first in the chat, not me. Look at this. I have fucking 50 million followers. I've put out 43 trillion pieces of content. I have a trillion, bajillion, mazillion views. Look how many people, and that, I'm so glad people are saying, no way.

• 29:59Speaker 00

  For other people who've been seeing me for 20 years or can't get away from me,

• 30:05Speaker 00

  they can't comprehend what they just saw. And that's the power of TikTok FYP. The one platform where you can get unbelievable amounts of new attention. And new, look, people are like, look, people are like, can't believe it, like, people are stunned. Like, I'm gonna go to the airport tomorrow to Nashville, Tennessee, for my New York Jets to beat the shit out of Titans this weekend, and 39 people will ask for selfies in the airport, you know a train? And yet, look what you just saw. You know how profound that is? A, that's the point I'm always trying to make, which is, we're all small. And B, it shows the power of why I want everybody here to do the same thing I'm doing right now, which is to go on TikTok

• 30:51Speaker 00

  and start building your future.

• 30:55Speaker 00

  Back to people who are hanging with me for the first time. Who's having a blast? Who's enjoying the shit out of this? Who's feeling better? Who's feeling more hopeful? Who's feeling more optimistic? Who's feeling like they have some ideas of how they can like grow? This is what I'm about. Offense. Good shit. Fuck all the hate. More ideas? You got it, Amanda Blondie. I'm gonna give you more ideas. Alright, let's go.

• 31:22Speaker 01

  Um, you might have already answered your question, but maybe a little bit more specific towards Katie. She asked, um, I'm a stay-at-home mom who's extremely bored. What platform should I make a little extra money on? Now convince me why your answer is TikTok Shop, and that I should invest the time to learn the ins and outs.

• 31:38Speaker 00

  What's her name?

• 31:40Speaker 01

  Katie.

• 31:41Speaker 00

  Katie, I don't, Katie, I'm not convincing you of shit.

• 31:48Speaker 00

  I'm not here to convince fucking people, Katie.

• 31:54Speaker 00

  I have no interest in convincing anyone about anything about anything. Katie, you think I give a fuck if you do TikTok Shop?

• 32:07Speaker 00

  I do, actually, which is weird. I hate it, I hate that I do. I hate that I do, god damn it. I do, Katie, I don't even, I'm already mad at you because you're bored. Like, but fuck, I'm so mad, I do care, I dare, I care, I care, fuck. I want it to be tough.

• 32:24Speaker 00

  Katie, I don't know, like, why would, I don't, I'm not gonna convince you, because I get far greater joy of people not doing the things I tell them to do, and then having them have to admit to my face that I was right and they fucked up.

• 32:40Speaker 00

  And Katie, if that didn't convince you, I don't know what the fuck will.

• 32:46Speaker 05

  Gary, something that was interesting is like, there was another question in the comments about another stay-at-home mom, who was like thinking, how could she do it? And she didn't look bored. It's more, it's more like, I'm here.

• 32:59Speaker 00

  She was the, yeah, she was the reverse, right? She's like, fuck, yeah.

• 33:04Speaker 00

  Yeah, because kids come in all shapes and sizes. When they're six months, when you have a six-month-old and a two-year-old, your time is, you're not, that's hard. Especially if you have no help. You have a nine-year-old and a seven-year-old that go to school, and you have a full-time nanny. You got fucking time. So, you know, stay-at-home comes in all shapes and sizes. We all are going through our human journeys.

• 33:27Speaker 00

  Look, it's kind of like what's happening here this morning. I am very focused in 2027, uh, and the back half of 26 to build my personal brand. You guys know this, our team is getting better and better. We've had a great year, thank you, team. I feel like we have a much better year. Yet, Ragav and Noreya, who are on Zoom, that's who I'm looking at right here. There's a little computer here, everyone. Teams here, there they are.

• 33:51Speaker 00

  As you guys know, like, I even put like the thumb down on like who we need to be this week on the producer stuff, right? We're getting better. Like, I'm busy. I've got a lot going on. Did I really need to wake up at 6:15 this morning and do this 7:00 AM Tea with Gary Vee Show? I didn't really have to. I think we could all agree, like, this was not a necessity in the bingo card of my life. But, I'm very, but I want to learn about what I've been hearing about TikTok FYP and TikTok Live being very lucrative earlier in the morning. Right? And I think we're seeing it, like 12:80, we're building nicely right now.

• 34:35Speaker 00

  People are going crazy for the Mel Robbins podcast. I really did bring my A-game. And Mel's got a huge show, and she's great, and... How many people caught the Mel Robbins podcast? Let me know.

• 34:47Speaker 00

  You know, and so, my advice, Noreya, is what I'm doing right now. Either you're doing it, or you're not doing it. Stay-at-home mom or stay-at-home parent that is very busy, there's still nine minutes somewhere. And that's nine minutes you can make a piece of affiliate content. Stay-at-home mom bored, six hours all day? Like, either you're just bullshitting and doom-scrolling and watching Netflix and half-ass working out for two hours, or you're on-stream and making content and building your future because you're destined to be the Alex Cooper or Mel Robbins or or Logan Paul or, or Mr. Beast of being a live shopping host,

• 35:30Speaker 00

  not of content creation, not of podcasting. So, I wanted to do this, and I did it. And you guys know this, you'd know this, quite a bit, probably, Court. I wanted to live shopping, stream a lot in August for V Friends, and I didn't do it. I chose family over it. So, we're all making choices all the time, like, you know, there's all sorts of things. And just because I chose family in August more than live streaming here in the studio for V Friends, as I thought I would, I'm not disappointed in myself, I had these grand hopes of like 900 hours in August. I got zero. I don't shit on myself, I'm like, I chose something else. Which was, obviously, when you're choosing family, it's always easy to do that.

• 36:10Speaker 00

  Uh, Saps Robots, how important is sleep for you? The most important. For me personally, sleep is the most important. Because I'm a fucking maniac when I'm awake. So, I need sleep heavy. I'm a big seven, eight, nine-hour sleep guy. But, you know, like, this week, I have a ton of fucking travel, I'm traveling all week. Nashville, middle-of-nowhere Michigan, Aspen, San Francisco. I've got a lot of like, you know, five, six-hour sleep destined this week. And that's okay. I'm not gonna beat up myself and be like, oh, I'm such a workaholic, I only slept five and a half hours multiple times this week. I don't understand how to beat myself up in the micro.

• 36:52Speaker 00

  I would argue so many of you are not living your happiest life because you beat yourself up in the micro.

• 37:00Speaker 00

  Yes, Court?

• 37:01Speaker 03

  Do you think it's because you have a good balance of keeping yourself in the macro?

• 37:04Speaker 00

  Yeah, it's because I think I live in the macro. But I'm very present, as you know as well. Yeah, I'm like, I don't know, I'm like, pretty great.

• 37:15Speaker 00

  Oh, man. My upbringing was really great, is what the truth is. And I've been able to, and I've been able to recognize it as a young man and build on it. Even make a better version of it, so.

• 37:29Speaker 00

  Um, Cheesecake Pancake says, this seems suspicious. Tell us, Cheesecake. What do you, what are you sniffing out here, Cheesecake?

• 37:38Speaker 00

  Let's go. Let's get some questions out of the chat. Keep going, everyone.

• 37:43Speaker 01

  Um, I kinda wanted to talk about a, a topic you've been interested in lately and uh, we're in exciting times. Football season's back and then there's also a new era of alternative sports that are on the rise. So, alternative sports are pickleball, wiffleball, those kind of sports.

• 37:59Speaker 00

  Thank you.

• 38:00Speaker 01

  Also, like, looking back, it's hard to believe that Super Bowl I wasn't even sold out, right? So, like, football is like this huge thing now for alternative sports. Like, what's a key factor in like how to build the fanbase from the bottom up?

• 38:15Speaker 00

  The key for alternative sports, you know, uh, hey, everybody, good morning. Uh, I'm gonna talk to the chat a little bit in a second. Chloe, good to see you. Da- Donna, thanks for being here. Whisper Snapper. Uh, I wish you didn't curse a lot. I pro- I apologize, Whisper. I'm just a Jersey street rat. And like, that's just how I grew up. It's like, it's just in my mind and like, I can't stop it. I can't, like, I hear fuck and for some reason, as fuck is going through my head, like, I can't stop it before it comes out. I feel like a lot of people can, but I just cannot. So, I apologize. Um, the key for alternative sports was the key for the sports that are now mainstream, which is you must create superheroes. Michael Jordan's a superhero, not an athlete. Babe Ruth was a superhero, not an athlete.

• 39:00Speaker 00

  Muhammad Ali was a superhero, uh, not an athlete. Mike Tyson was a superhero. A superhero. I'm talking Spider-Man, Superman, Doctor Doom, bitch. You know, like, superhero. Uh, Katelyn Clark, superhero. Wayne Gretzky, superhero. Superhero. So, what we've done with Anna Lee Waters and the Fives, like, she's a superhero. This is a young teenage girl that's the best player in the world and she's whipping 28-year-old alpha males ass at this sport. That doesn't happen in any other sport. We don't have any- Serena Williams famously said something to the degree of like, she would get destroyed by like the 50th best male tennis player in the world and I got people upset.

• 39:45Speaker 00

  And you also see all these jerk-off guys, like, always talk about like, in junior high, I'd be in the WNBA and dominate, like, which is probably true. Like, if they're, if they were destined to be an NBA All-Star, like, like, but then you have, in pickleball, Anna Lee Waters is literally the best player in the world.

• 40:03Speaker 00

  So, that's a superhero. I couldn't even comprehend being a very passionate, athletic teenage girl that's 15 right now and you find out this woman exists and like, do you know how good that must feel to be like, oh shit? And so, it's like superhero. So, wiffleball and, and three-on-three unrivaled basketball and the sailing league and the volleyball league and the, and the squash league and the cricket league and the softball league and the darts league. We need superheroes.

• 40:35Speaker 00

  You need to make someone- what do you think Dana White did? He made Ronda Rousey and Conor McGregor superheroes, not just athletes. And then the ultimate person to ever do it was Vince McMahon. He did it at the highest levels. He took a non-sport, right, a theater, what is called sports entertainment now, and he turned Hulk Hogan into the actual ultimate superhero. Hulk Hogan in 1985 was right there with Superman. Hulk Hogan was more famous than Spider-Man in 85. Real talk. Oh geez, let them know. Was Hulk Hogan more famous than Spider-Man in 1985?

• 41:17Speaker 00

  And right now, no athlete is more famous than Spider-Man.

• 41:23Speaker 00

  Not LeBron, not Steph Curry. So, I think, um, you know, I think it's superhero building and it's understanding distribution and media. Super Bowl I did not sell out because professional football did not get uber-popular until it got on TV a lot, a lot, a lot. It was not a good sport to listen to on the radio when the radio was the primary device that people consumed content on. But baseball and boxing and horse racing was very good on radio, which is why they were the biggest sports. College football was big too on radio, so that kind of like puts a little conflict to my point on the National Football League, but it is really fascinating to how basketball and football exploded during the television era.

• 42:09Speaker 00

  Then you had cable, so it allowed for more sports to get bigger. It allowed sports to get bigger because ESPN was 24/7. Oh, Courtney playing a little bit with the shop. I see you pinning something, huh, Court? What have we got in the bottom of the store?

• 42:21Speaker 03

  Oh, I just pinned, I think I accidentally put the TCG kit down at the bottom right now.

• 42:25Speaker 00

  All right. Something else? All right, you keep playing. Anyway, everybody, that's the punchline, everybody. It's all about attention and how attention works and alternative sports have to win in social. How many people here have seen pickleball videos on TikTok or Instagram in the chat? Let me know.

• 42:43Speaker 00

  How many people have seen pickleball content, like, in your feeds? You know, and so, that's been one of the reasons it's done super well. Um, you know, and obviously, there's like a fun mix of no, too many, yes, a little. But, you know, feeds are so specific now, so you can see by the answers on TikTok that pickleball is still a very small sport. But meanwhile, our finals on CBS, like, outrated tons of tennis and golf ratings. I mean, it's crazy. So, you know, it's building. That's it. All right, I'm gonna be in the chat. Everyone, I'm gonna go rapid-fire answering questions from the chat.

• 43:28Speaker 00

  Fire away in the chat. Use a bunch of question marks when you ask, please. Um, Paul, good to see you. Um, TheRealLifePerspective, good to see you. Gary, do you have ADHD? I don't know. I was never diagnosed. Saps, as you know, I'm 50, so those, oh geez, we didn't have those diagnoses. But I'm sure I got something. Like, I got something, something. Um, can we go to the Jets game together? No, boozy. One of, that's actually a place I've always been able to say no to. It's my sacred place. I've not taken my biggest client, my biggest clients at VaynerMedia have asked to go to a Jets game with me and I've told them no. I will protect my Jets situation at all costs.

• 44:10Speaker 00

  In fact, I haven't gone to a road game in a little while. Covid and the Jets have just been bad and just like, and I've, I've gone to London, but I haven't had a chance to go to a road game. I'm going to Tennessee this weekend, to Nashville for the Jets game. I will not say a word the entire game because I don't want to even be bothered by like the other fans. I don't want to get kicked out of stadium. I don't want a fan to recognize me and ask for a selfie. I, my Jets fandom is sacred. So, all right, well, uh, what else do we have? I'm a P E- oh, this is going fast. Um, can you guys help me see, can you guys help me like read the chat and see if there's anything good? Everybody on Instagram, you have to go to garyvee.com/t. That's why it's pinned. Come over to my TikTok if you want to ask questions.

• 44:56Speaker 00

  Uh, what are you scared of, Gary? Paul, I'm scared of the death of my family. The only thing I'm really scared of, um, is my, uh, is the death of my family. Um, that's really it. Uh, Austin, I don't like watches. Um, it's not, not my jam, but I'm pumped for people. I know they're so passionate about it. Best business development advice. Uh, Justin, be honest with who you're pitching to, right? You know, be, you know, whether you make content or whether you're one-on-one in a coffee or on a sales call, just be honest with what the strength is of it. Um, Steve, I'm pumped about Geno Smith being our QB. Don't sleep, Steve. Don't sleep.

• 45:42Speaker 00

  Um, physical AI is going very far. The robots are coming, y'all. And I don't think they, I don't think they're playing around. These robots are like fucking robots, you know?

• 45:58Speaker 02

  Remember that, the robot that you had a sparring match with?

• 46:00Speaker 00

  Yep.

• 46:03Speaker 00

  Yeah. Oh, they're gonna be everywhere. Robots are gonna be everywhere. Um, what else?

• 46:12Speaker 00

  Go ahead. Matthew or team, anyone?

• 46:16Speaker 01

  Um, yeah, I kinda wanted to talk about like the, how you said that they need a superhero, like these sports, they need a superhero. And I kinda wanted to know-

• 46:24Speaker 00

  I apologize real quick. FashionPass said, I only have a thousand followers, should I still go live? Yes.

• 46:31Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 46:33Speaker 00

  Um, you should. Go ahead.

• 46:36Speaker 01

  Um, yeah, so like they need a superhero and I feel like pickleball is a like equal opportunity sport. So, how likely is it that your grandma could be the next face of Nike playing pickleball?

• 46:47Speaker 00

  Um, I think your grandma has a better, if your grandma's like dominant, like, to your point, a lot of people know that grandmas are like whipping ass out there on the pickleball court. Your grandma's more likely to be the face of a startup brand competing with Nike than Nike because Nike has too many traditional marketers. And big shout-out to Nike for making Anna Lee Waters their first pickleball athlete. So, they're gonna go for the best. That Nike's position, as we all know, is like the best. So, if grandma becomes the best player in the world, then yes. But if grandma's just viral and has a million followers on TikTok or Instagram for whipping ass on the pickleball court,

• 47:29Speaker 00

  all ages, all comers, I think she'll be more likely to get brand deals from, you know, lots of different areas if she's a grandma. You know, um, and so, probably more, more, uh, emerging, emerging, um, brands is my intuition.

• 47:50Speaker 00

  Uh, Maria, I've been to Greece a whole bunch of times, nothing planned.

• 47:58Speaker 00

  Iconic says, "What's something you would have done different in your life?" That's a really interesting question, because the answer is everything and nothing.

• 48:06Speaker 00

  You know, I don't dwell on, like, the amount of times I do this is like, zero. And the amount of times a lot of you motherfuckers do what I just did is all the time. I hate looking back. It is a complete waste of time. Other than to learn from, I have no interest in dwelling on mistakes of yesterday. And I am fascinated by people's infatuation, infatuation of looking backwards, or their infatuation with "or." The answer is "and."

• 48:41Speaker 00

  Do you love this or this? I love them both.

• 48:45Speaker 00

  Right? Should I do this or that? You should do them both to build your business. Stop looking fucking backwards. Stop looking fucking backwards. It's fucking up with your neck. It's fucking up with your emotions. Stop looking fucking backwards.

• 49:02Speaker 00

  Period.

• 49:05Speaker 00

  You know? Okay?

• 49:10Speaker 04

  One thing a lot of people say when it comes to like, like pickleball or alternative sports is like, like, you give any weight to how the sport is played when you, when you think about what's gonna be popular? Or is it, do you think of it more like a distribution thing? Like, because people talk about baseball is like, low attention span, like, all that kind of stuff? Like, do you think about that at all?

• 49:30Speaker 00

  Of course. Uh, real quick. Nabil says, "Gary, is that because you're happy with your current life?" Nabil, I'm always happy with my current life. At all times, because I'm grateful for it.

• 49:42Speaker 00

  Like, even when it sucks, I'm grateful for it.

• 49:47Speaker 00

  Does everybody understand how impossible it is to be a human being? Do you know what kind of fucking miracle it is to be a human being?

• 49:57Speaker 00

  Like, I, I am blown away by how many of you just take it for granted.

• 50:05Speaker 00

  Do you know how many pieces of sperm wish they became a person? Eighty-seven quadrillion.

• 50:17Speaker 00

  Like, the sheer, the sheer audacity that many of you are waking up with this morning and complaining about dumb shit, like, "My boss is a dick." Who gives a shit, bitch? Quit!

• 51:08Speaker 00

  My husband's an idiot. Punch him! In the face!

• 51:15Speaker 00

  Maybe we'll wake him up.

• 51:20Speaker 00

  Like, I mean, I don't know, like, like, I don't know, like, yes, it's because I'm, I'm grateful for my life at all times, even when it's been at its highest challenges. Because I'm grateful for the opportunity. You know?

• 51:39Speaker 00

  After slay, I'm, obviously, it's a little tongue in cheek. Um, I'm not talking, I'm not advocating for punching husbands, and if, actually, I'm okay with it. All right, what else? Anyway, yes, Rogoff, I think every, you know, I do, when, with pickleball and wiffleball, I think they're visually stimulating and fast.

• 51:58Speaker 00

  Like, if you look at wiffleball content, like, on, uh, everybody, type in wiffleball right now on TikTok or Instagram and hit search. Look at some of these highlights. Watching a wiffleball, like, go twisty and turny and upside, it's crazy. And so, yes, I think a lot about, you know, how padel, or bowling, or darts, or how do they show up on video, for sure? What's the pace? But I'm not sold on, we don't have attention spans. You fall in love with a show on Netflix that you like, and there's eight episodes of it? Six hours later, you just watched it all. I think we have attention span issues for bad content.

• 52:41Speaker 00

  We have, we don't have attention span issues, we have optionality.

• 52:47Speaker 00

  You know who weaponizes attention spans? People that are selling bad content.

• 52:53Speaker 00

  "Oh, my videos are not doing well because we have attention span issues." "Mr. Beast's videos are doing well." What happened there?

• 53:04Speaker 00

  Thoughts?

• 53:07Speaker 03

  You know, his, his videos are very

• 53:09Speaker 00

  Yes!

• 53:10Speaker 03

  meant to like hook you back in.

• 53:11Speaker 00

  Correct! Yes! Let me give you a different one.

• 53:15Speaker 00

  Fucking Spider-Man, the movie. A quadrillion people went to go see it. They did not make that movie with every ninety seconds to make sure you stayed. What the fuck were we doing in those, you know what I mean? Like, you like music. A good album. Right? Like, if somebody puts out a bomb fucking album, I assume you'll be the kind of person that might listen through the whole thing. Of course, right? Whereas, if somebody puts out a whack album, and the first song, and you're like, "This is some bullshit." You're out. And so, we do not have an attention span issue. We have the era of unlimited optionality. In 1959, when you sat on the couch and your TV was fucking ten feet in front of you, and there was no remote control,

• 54:01Speaker 00

  and a show came on, and you're like, "Eh, this isn't great." But you were like, "Man, I don't want to fucking get up and fucking change the channel." And if you didn't have a little, you know, back in the 50s, the youngest kid was the remote control. "Sal, change the channel."

• 54:17Speaker 00

  You know, and so, like, as we've gotten, and then the remote control came, and people are like, "We have attention span issues." "No, we don't, we have the remote control." "I don't like this show, go to the next channel." And now we have this motherfucking thing. And this motherfucking thing, at all times, in the world, you know, you didn't take your TV to work back in the day. You didn't like, lug your fucking TV and be like, "Let's go, TV, we're going to work. We're going on the bus. We're going in the airplane." Like, but now you have it. And it has a trillion channels, and every content creator in the world. So...

• 54:52Speaker 00

  This is optionality. This is survival of the fittest. Baseball, or schmaseball, or anybody, and I don't think baseball cries about this. And baseball, to baseball's credit, they've adjusted the sport.

• 55:06Speaker 00

  And so...

• 55:09Speaker 00

  Either you're crying about how it is, or you're spending your time to win and adjusting into how it is. One of the two.

• 55:22Speaker 00

  Can we give something away? Who wants, who wants me to give something away? Because I'm in the shop. I, like, my, this channel allows me to give stuff away.

• 55:31Speaker 00

  Oh, quite a big iconic. I believe in, I believe in the blockchain quite a bit.

• 55:37Speaker 03

  Do you want to pay?

• 55:39Speaker 00

  Sure. What do you got?

• 55:44Speaker 00

  Yeah, there.

• 55:46Speaker 00

  Get that box. Let's go whole box, yep?

• 55:54Speaker 00

  All right, we're giving away a hundred dollar box.

• 55:57Speaker 05

  Instagram chat is excited about the, about the giveaway, but they need to go to TikTok.

• 56:03Speaker 00

  Oh, yeah, Instagram, you can't get it, you have to go to TikTok. Go to garyvee.com/t, or go to my TikTok, @garyvee. Uh, no, that's not it. It's the, uh, oh, it says, "Everybody, we're giving this away right now."

• 56:17Speaker 00

  We are giving this away, the Steph Curry Gary Vee, um, box. We're giving one of these away right now, and we will let you know. Saps robots, I think I slept six today, it was a little bit less than I wanted, because I had to do this early. Uh, humble hedgehog, let's go pastor. Everybody, go to vfriends.com/quiz. It's up, well, how do they get in?

• 56:37Speaker 03

  Uh, the shopping bag in the top.

• 56:39Speaker 00

  Top left corner. Everybody, top left corner, shopping bag, top left corner, shopping bag, top left corner, shopping bag, top left corner, shopping bag, top left corner, shopping bag. Click that, enter. See everybody in the chat saying entered? Everybody's figuring it out, top left corner. Everybody, leave Instagram right now and go to garyvee.com/t, or go to my TikTok. I'm garyvee there too. Uh, only for Americans or everyone? Do we know?

• 57:04Speaker 03

  Available in US.

• 57:04Speaker 00

  Only US? I apologize, everybody, only US, that's TikTok, not me, sorry. That's TikTok, not me, sorry. That's TikTok, not me, sorry. That's TikTok, not me, sorry. All right, let's answer questions. We got a bunch of people who've entered.

• 57:16Speaker 02

  JJ asks, "What's one quote, song, or anything you've heard or read that changed the way you see the world?"

• 57:25Speaker 00

  Never get high on your own supply.

• 57:30Speaker 00

  The 10 crack commandments by the notorious B.I.G. When he said, "Never get high on your own supply", something about that really fucking hit me. He was talking about like, "You're a drug dealer. Don't fucking start doing your own drugs." I took it a little bit differently, which was like, "You can have confidence in yourself. You can believe you're the best, but never get delusional that you're better than anyone." He said humility to me in that. Humility is the superpower. I do not think I'm special. But I'm incredibly confident and I love myself. But I don't think it's... I'm special. I don't think I'm special because I'm a good businessman. I don't think I'm special because I have a lot of followers on social media.

• 58:15Speaker 03

  The winner is quite frankly neat.

• 58:18Speaker 00

  Quite frankly neat? Let's clap it up for quite frankly neat. Big win. Somebody in the chat said, "I'm still standing Gary. I post 30 times a day and..." I turned... I post 30 times a day and it worked. Thank you. You are beyond welcome.

• 58:32Speaker 03

  AJ and Big Justice has bought a pack of Talk Chrome.

• 58:34Speaker 00

  No way. Let's go AJ and Big Justice. Love you guys. Keep going. Keep building. Nabil, I can't. I don't have a functionality here to do that. I apologize. All right, what else? Who else has got questions?

• 58:48Speaker 01

  From Helen. When you left the liquor store to start something of your own, what was your vision at the time? Were you self-aware enough at the time to put your strength at the forefront and have them guide you forward?

• 58:59Speaker 00

  Yeah, I was 34 years old. I just spent 12 years of my life building a huge company for my dad. I had very little money. I was incredibly motivated. Can you imagine Sammy, working that hard, building something that big and not having much to show for it? I had all the emotions. I fulfilled my dream of helping my parents, but I didn't have the financial money. And so, I was fucking motivated like a fucking motherfucker. Imagine all that pent-up energy? And you guys know me. So who the... Like, think about what the fuck I was like at 34. I was guns a-blazing. I was like, "I'm fucking gonna kill everyone." Like, you know? And I did. I came in and I was like, "I'm gonna fucking destroy it

• 59:44Speaker 00

  in this, uh... in this marketing world." And I was very self-aware of that I was a salesman, that I was a strategist, that I cared. I knew I could do it all, so... "Gary, we started whatnot because of you and have done 2.5 million to date. Be rad." "Tyr, I'm sad you think that, bro, but I wish you nothing but good stuff. 33, about to be 34, finally getting my shit together." "Kate, that's awesome, Hawk Mom." Yeah, it's like, you're young. You're early in it. Like, so much of my life changed at 34. Um, and like, that's why I always tell all these kids, like, "Who's under 34 in the chat? Who's under 34 in the chat? Put your age." "Who's under 34 in the chat? Put your age."

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  Like, I wish these people... Like, everyone who's about to put a number in here, I wish they understood, like, "Just getting started. Just getting started. Just getting started. Just getting started." And honestly, under 50, like, what a... Like, I'm 50 and like, I feel like I just walked into halftime and we're making some adjustments. We're like, "All right, we're gonna go back on the field and..." Like, we're ready to do... I really believe that, by the way. I really believe that in my soul. So much time... Happy birthday, G-Rod. 46 today. Let's clap it up for G-Rod. "I'm 51 and broke." And guess what? You could be 52 and rich, seen whispers, and you're broke financially.

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  Uh, but are you broke emotionally? That's what I want to know. "I'm 51 and broke." 51 and financially broke? No problem. Non-event. Means nothing. 51 and emotionally broke? Now let's talk. Now let's chop it up. You know? That. That. "What's the industry you'd get into today? Eye contact?" I'm answering so many of... Something that fit me, things that I'm into. Fake optimism is delusion, IGH. That's delusion. Fake optimism is delusion. Don't twist the words. Optimism is optimism.

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  Delusion is delusion. So, like, people could be delusional. Um, I surely have no delusional feelings. I think people are... I think people are incredibly cynical. You know? I think people are incredibly cynical, um, wildly not accountable for their ability to change whatever the fuck they're upset about. What are you... Um, what are you all upset about? Yes, Jabar, Unc is still doing this. I'm doing this to my death. Um, what are you all upset about? Break it down here, comments. What bothers you? What pisses you off?

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  Because I just want to know. Like, the Jets. I get it, Jacob. You know, like, look, it's so funny. Look at all these answers. All shit that you can't control. Inflation. What the fuck are you gonna do about inflation? Read all the... Look at this. Look at all this. Look at all this. All fucking shit that people can't control. Drake May as my quarterback on my fantasy team. You can't control Drake May sucking and being exposed this year. Fuck the Patriots.

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  "Ragoff, do you think you can control Drake May sucking this year? No, you cannot control it."

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  Can I do that?

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  You know? Somebody said bullying worldwide. Beautiful answer by Abby. "Abby, do you believe that you can change? That you can go find everyone who's bullying people? Or can you be empathetic that bullies are actually hurting so much inside that it's showing up in their bullying? And can you just live your life daily, every day, by giving strangers love?" I'm about to walk outside and smile directly in the face of 20 strangers as I walk to where I'm going. That's about to happen. Bro, ladies, look at what everyone's writing in these chats. Everyone's upset about shit they can't control. They're upset about other people doing stuff.

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  You have to focus on you, y'all. I wish bullying didn't exist, but I focus my energy on being the reverse of a bully. That I can control. Like, people are just like spending all... This is why people get tricked into politics. People fucking worried about shit that they can't control. "Nabel, I'm upset with that I can't get along with my family." That's really challenging because you can't control your family members, but you can control how you interact with them. I just had a close family member send me a text and say, "I Gary Veed that person."

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  They were talking about another family member. Instead of fighting that person for the last 20 years, they decided to just love them for their shortcomings. "Jules the Shepherd, good to see you." "Artemis, good to see you." "NYC, great to see you." "Sebier, good to see you." "Jersey in the building, real talk Ron, great to see you." Everybody, thank you so much for being here. Top left corner, click my face. Iconic, that's a great question. What am I unhappy with? You know, my unhappiness doesn't really linger. You know, I... I wish the world... I have great passion to get the world to see

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  the truth of all the love that's out there versus over-focusing on all the negative that's out there. But I wouldn't say I'm unhappy with that. I understand it. You know? My unhappiness is only reserved for things that don't matter. Jets football. Like, sports. I get like mad and like... Like, you know this. I get mad when I play sports and my team loses. Or like, when my... Like, I only leave unhappy... I only leave unhappiness for things that don't matter and that I can't control. In real life, I'm very, very focused on what I can do about it. "The real moms don't clock out." Thank you. Needed someone... You are beyond welcome, real moms.

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  Hoppy, not really. Like, I slow down in some ways, but in other ways, like, I'm speeding up. You know? I just like it.

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  Hold on, Seth. Thank you so much. I appreciate that. I appreciate that. Ryan, good to see you.

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  Mario, great to see you.

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  Victoria, great to see you.

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  Alright, I'm outta here. Love you all. Hope you enjoyed it. Everybody, all 1,100 of you, top-left corner, if you want to catch all the Tea with Gary Vee's, which I'm gonna be doing a bunch of, um, El Cato said, "Gary, should I go to college?" Are you collecting debt, El Cato? Are you collecting debt? Top-left corner, everybody, hit my face. Make sure you hit the bell. Let me know if you bailed me up right now. Notifications, everybody. All 1,100 of you, top-left corner right now. Oh, when I sign off, there's a way to hit notifications, right? As soon as I sign off, there'll be a black screen, right in the middle screen. Hit notification. Everybody, make sure you put the notifications on.

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  Because I'm gonna be really, really, really, really, really doing this. I think, because I keep saying that, and then I don't.

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  Um, I love you back, Vine Healed.

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  K-Bet, you got it. Apollo, thank you.

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  Lindsay, thank you so much. Who discovered me? Before I leave, this is interesting to me. Who discovered me, literally, on this live? AKA, I showed up on your FYP randomly, and you've never seen me before. Forget about you follow me. Forget about you've randomly seen some of my videos, you're somebody now, that viral one, or something like that. Literally, you literally discovered me right here, right now. Like, right here, right now. Right here. Like, you've never seen me before, and you've discovered me and you like it. Say "discovered." Say "discovered," not "me," just say "discovered." I'm curious. It's really interesting. And how many of you that discovered... Zack, thank you.

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  Little Turtle, thank you. Everybody, I'm Gary Vee, I'm a businessman, I put out a ton of content. Check it out. No, no, like, this is what's so cool about TikTok. It is a discovery platform. And the reason I'm doing this is to get all of you that are watching motivated to do the same thing. Go live. Kestrel, that's right, bro. Even though 50 million followers, 74 quadrillion views, this many people just discovered me right now. That's how powerful this platform is.

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  Thank you, Angle Family.

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  Love being with all of you. Have the best weekend, everybody. Uh, if you're an American football fan, good luck this weekend. Except, if you're a Tennessee Titans fan, then you're a bitch, and I'm coming to Nashville to get ya. Love you all. Have the best day. Uh, remember, I'm gonna sign off right now, and in the middle of the screen, hit "notifications on." Notifications on, because we'll be doing this a whole bunch. Love you, see you soon. Instagram, thank you for hanging. You guys hung in tough. Hope you have the best day. Everybody, if you enjoyed this podcast, please go back and look at the prior episodes. They're loaded. I appreciate your attention, and, uh, thanks for being part of this.

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