[00:02] Welcome to Tea with Gary Vee. Uh pretty excited to be here with all of Uh It's the holiday season. We are locked I'm not live on Instagram or TikTok yet. You're about to do that. Uh let me see
[00:15] before we get going here. Great to see everybody. Good morning, good morning, morning. Whose first show is this? Whose first Tea with Gary Vee? I see it right I see Jennifer or something like that nature. There we go. Very nice.
[00:28] Very, very good. What's that? Where do we send questions? What's that?
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[00:54] garyvee.com/t64. This is episode 64 of Tea with Gary Vee. Um by the way, we are going to be selling mugs at some point during this show. If this is your first show, Vee a 15 for $15 off. You can go right into
[01:07] your shopping cart. Great to see all of you this morning. You guys have the We are ready? I want to go right into the first question. If you've got you're watching on social, you have to go to garyvee.com/t64
[01:22] to watch the actual show. We are live on Whatnot. How are you? I'm good. Such a pleasure, Sasha. I've No, it's a pleasure for me, Gary. I've been following you for like 10 years, 9 years. And um
[01:37] Hold on. Before we go into your question. shirt? Is that what I'm seeing? Let's go. the loyal hat and I love it so much. I left it in Arizona when I was there. So
[01:51] it's coming back to New York again. But I was like, "No, my favorite hat." And I maybe I don't want to wear it yet, but now that I get to talk to you, I had to on, Sasha. All right, go ahead. What's your question?
[02:06] Okay. Okay. Um a little bit of like backstory just because I feel like Yeah, give me the context. Yeah, give me the context. I um I was following you, and you said get on TikTok in 2019, and I did, and it was
[02:18] blowing up. I do artwork, and um and I just was kind of overwhelming. I watched Social Dilemma. I got freaked the big app, and I literally deactivated, deleted the whole thing. I
[02:33] Let's Let's Let's even, you know, cuz I want to bring a lot of value to everybody who's watching. The This is why I hate when the world sells fear. Yeah. Right? You watch a documentary on
[02:46] Netflix. The documentary's full objective is to scare people about the downside of social networks or technology. There's always downside. There's downside of automobiles. When automo-
[02:59] When cars were invented, people could drink alcohol, drive a car, and kill horses. Mhm. But it doesn't mean that that's the problem. And like like just um sorry
[03:11] to jump in, but it's a big opportunity to help a lot of people. Don't Don't let the world scare you. You were building. Mhm. You were following somebody who was practicality. Yeah. leading to good. Then you consumed
[03:25] something that was selling fear for no [ __ ] reason, and it threw you off. Keep going. Yeah. Yeah, I was in a fight or flight going to be scared. And family was freaked out about stuff, too. So, I was
[03:38] like, whatever. I got pushed that way. So, I I dropped that. I took over a flower business 4 years ago. I absolutely love it. I am doing what I love. It was my sister's business. I um
[03:51] making a lot of money on Tik Tok who had started a year ago and I was like, still going to hop on there." So, I So, real quick on that. It's never too For everybody who's watching, it's never too late to start doing good activity.
[04:07] Mhm. Right? Like Like just cuz you missed Bitcoin or crypto or Tik Tok or influencer marketing or live social like it's there's never a bad time to start doing good [ __ ] It's even like
[04:21] working out. Like I've had a good 5 weeks even though I've had a bad 40 And it like feels good. Like it feels good. Well, and I think pursuing your passion, no matter what, is the right choice and
[04:35] you talk about that all the time. So, doing flowers, I do feel like I am pursuing my passion. I get to create. The The business is lucrative. I'm making better money than I've made in past stuff that I've done and I'm happy.
[04:49] Good. Gary, I'm still an artist. I'm a watercolor artist and I still have something bigger that I want to share with the world and it's like I see Tik Tok as an opportunity to do that. You're right. I've started going live on
[05:02] Tik Tok for about a month and I'm making money in my lives. Painting. I'm doing names. I do little dog portraits and it just kind of hooked doing names. People want their names drawn. You don't say.
[05:16] I'm so shocked to hear that Tik Tok live and shopping is working for you. Go I'm so I'm like I I hired this coach. It's a
[05:28] girl who's been on Tik Tok since July just because I'm freaking inspired by just because I'm freaking inspired by her. And last week she made 20K just in No [ __ ] There's a huge potential to make money.
[05:42] are you telling? I KNOW. SO, what's the question? Okay, the question is So, now I've got this business. I mean I read your recent book. I listened to it on audio. I'm like, okay, I'm promoting my my flowers.
[05:55] I need to be on all these different networks, but I'm also promoting my art. Now I'm taking an extra 10 to 12 hours a week going live, which isn't even enough. I need to be going live more. Yep. Um but I don't know how to balance
[06:08] You're balancing it. You're balancing it. You The reason you don't know how to balance it is cuz you're judging yourself. Good news, you're [ __ ] balancing it. Thank you. The end. Thank you. Who what
[06:21] Why are you beating yourself up? What is balance? Who's the [ __ ] Where is this king or queen of balance? Where is this lord of balance that everybody's been king of balance?
[06:35] balance. You are the queen You're It's No, it's actually easy. You are the queen of balance. Let me show you how to do it. balance. Let me show you how to do it. You, queen Sasha, the queen of balance,
[06:47] have decided right here this morning at 9:07 Eastern that you are good at You've decided. No, not not thank you. Me telling you, you realize what I'm actually saying. I'm
[07:01] not trying to be nice to you. I'm not trying to be kind to you. I'm trying to get you to wake up that there is no such thing, and either you decide you are balance it or you decided you're not balancing it. 99% of the people that are
[07:17] watching Tea with Gary Vee right now have decided they're not balancing it. Cuz most of the people in the world live in a place of fear The reason you were in a place of fear The reason you were susceptible to that documentary was cuz
[07:30] most people are prepared to be scared. Yeah. I live in a place of love. I live in a place of love now. Love Love is different. Love is amazing. I'm talking about
[07:43] Oh, I know. I know cuz I've been there. Correct. So, very simply you are balancing it. Who gets to decide? You're trying your best. You're doing the flower thing. You're doing the the watercoloring thing. You're you're a
[07:56] single mom and doing that thing. You're [ __ ] living. I I guess I like Okay, the fear is that I'm taking away from my flower business and that is my bread and butter. Well, it Is it your bread and butter? Because I hear that you're
[08:10] starting to make money on your art on live and I I think the earning potential online is going to be a lot higher than what it is in my flower shop. So, it sounds like you're investing. So, keep going.
[08:25] Yes, I'm investing. I'm investing. it. And by the way, let's make up scenarios. And then January 19th comes
[08:38] and for some reason the US bans TikTok, well, then you'll adjust and then Instagram will have live like everything is manageable. Yes, yes. And I I watched you talk about that, too, cuz I was like, what if it
[08:52] does disappear? And you really brought just it's okay. It's okay if it does. Everything's okay. It's called [ __ ] life. Shit's going to [ __ ] happen. Somebody is going to wake up today as a 7-year-old and have
[09:05] change the course of their life. That will happen today. will happen today. Uh-huh. confused out here. We we are all collectively capable
[09:20] of dealing with [ __ ] Our great-grandparents laugh. Our great-great-grandparents are watching us in heaven and saying, "These [ __ ] [ __ ] These [ __ ] [ __ ] The [ __ ] are they
[09:33] crying about? WE HAD [ __ ] FAMINE. We had [ __ ] world wars, we didn't have [ __ ] The [ __ ] are these kids crying about? Totally. Do you understand what's happening in heaven right now? There's just a bunch of [ __ ] people looking
[09:48] down at us and just like, "Fucking bitch." That's what your great-great-grandmother just walked by, looked down on whatever the [ __ ] crossed your mind, and she just said, "Fucking bitch."
[10:04] 6-month younger cousin who passed away from cancer about 5 years ago, and it's like that's a big wake-up call. No [ __ ] If If you have a cousin If you have a cousin had this tragic event happen,
[10:17] that should absolutely not allow you to be concerned about what you're worried about. Totally. Right? Like Like what What What's going to happen? Let's play much time on your art, and the flower
[10:29] shop is going to be down 18%. Who gives a [ __ ] for 6 months, and you're like, "Oh, [ __ ] the flower shop is down 16%."
[10:41] back to spending more time ON THE [ __ ] FLOWER SHOP. OKAY, that brings a lot of peace to my heart. Well, good. Good. Have the best day. Good. Gary Gary, I have to screenshot us before I hang up, but I was trying to do that,
[10:56] and I accidentally closed my screen. I don't even know if I can do this, KAY. I GOT IT. ALL RIGHT, THANKS, ASH. OKAY. See you. Right, Dustin? Our [ __ ] great-great-grandparents are chilling in
[11:08] "What the [ __ ] a matter with these people?" over dumb [ __ ] And somebody's Somebody made fun of me.
[11:27] to Europe front lines to shoot Germans in the face or get shot in the face, and we're [ __ ] sad cuz somebody left a comment that said you suck. Like some girl doesn't like you? Who gives a [ __ ] There's 4 billion OTHER
[11:41] THE [ __ ] ALL RIGHT, NEXT PERSON. ANDRE. Real quick, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Real quick, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, please come to T
[11:55] garyvee.com/t64, Twitter, all of you please come. Andre? Andre, what's good, brother? so much for doing this.
[12:09] guy. Man, I am shaking because I've been following you for like the last 5 to 6 years and I have taken Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook, which I just gave away yesterday after reading it
[12:22] three times. I gave it away in my networking group, which is my question to you today, sir. Go ahead. Um I want to fill you in a little bit with what I do. Um I live in a small town in middle Tennessee.
[12:34] Um the population here is about 25,000 people. Uh the US census says that 25% of the community here is Hispanic, which I am a member of. So, 25% of the 25,000 people are Hispanic in this town in Tennessee. Go. Yes. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
[12:51] And so, I started a a page called Shelbyville in Spanish, so which is the And so, I update the community about able to establish um relationships with a lot of like the
[13:04] schools, the um the nonprofit organizations, and all this whatever is going on here. So, we then to I then took over a a local networking group that I that had been here for the last 15 to 10 years.
[13:17] And so, I started incorporating value. I really wanted to bring value to the people, to the attendees. Okay. Um and so, so we the way that we do it is 30 minutes of open networking, the first 30 minutes, then we do a 10-minute sit-down
[13:30] video podcast with a different guest, a and we only do it once a month. And then we do an activity afterwards. The last 20 minutes is an activity. Either we do elevator speech
[13:43] it. So, go to the question. Yep. The the the problem is that the Hispanic businesses for the first time. Okay. to do it in Spanish, and I've just been getting kind of some negative feedback
[13:58] on that. I don't know if it's That you didn't that it wasn't in English? it, but we had an interpreter there. I don't know if these people were I don't What? Just people crying like, "Yo, speak English. It's [ __ ] America."
[14:12] Some dumb [ __ ] like that? No, I mean we it it was like I don't they they they said they didn't like it at first, but then they ended up saying feel about that. You know, like How about not giving a [ __ ]
[14:27] Yeah. How about that feeling? Okay. How about How about taking it in and giving it thought, and if it happens seven or eight more times, maybe adjusting, or maybe using AI to translate from into every language, but
[14:43] the first piece of advice is how about not giving a [ __ ] next time you can do it in Korean. I don't [ __ ] know.
[14:56] They're going to beat you up, or they're not going to give you money, or like Like what I think it's it's more of um they're into. You know, and I'm like, "But it's the first time we've ever
[15:08] "But it's the first time we've ever Bro, 99% of people aren't into anything. Meaning like the biggest companies in the world don't have all eight bi- billion people giving a [ __ ] about. Did you feel good about it?
[15:20] Yeah, I loved it. So, do it again. Okay. So, I guess I guess the next question would be how can I cuz right now the local Chamber of Commerce has kind of moved their date to the same date that we're
[15:33] members had gone there So, change your date. Okay. The [ __ ] are you What are you What are you romantic about the date for? You mean the second Tuesday of every month? Great. So,
[15:47] if you're if you're the second Tuesday of every month and somebody bigger or somebody that also has attention that [ __ ] you up does it, you're allowed to month. Okay.
[15:59] How how do I go about reaching a younger demographic like Okay. Those Yeah, those 25 You READ THE [ __ ] BRO, YOU READ THE [ __ ] BOOK THREE TIMES. THE [ __ ] ARE YOU ASKING ME THAT FOR?
[16:13] kidding. I'm [ __ ] with you. Bro, I love you. Listen to me. Put your [ __ ] two index fingers directly in your ear and go [ __ ] execute. Okay. Got it? Yes, sir. Good man. Have the best day,
[16:27] right. Let me get in the chat for a minute cuz I see a lot of yellow letters in WhatsApp. All of you who are new if this is your first show on whatnot, say first show. Rips. This Are the mugs going to be in the
[16:41] store? People are asking. They're seeing the mugs. I could be a morning person. Around chillaxing chill as a [ __ ] I don't like this I don't like this mug. This is like a It's a
[16:53] little too chill for me. But, I feel like a lot of people want this. I am I actually am a chill guy, which kind of sucks.
[17:05] woe is me [ __ ] The bashful blobfish is pissing me off I'm functional. What is this non-motivating The [ __ ] kind of mugs did we make here? What is this [ __ ]
[17:20] to have these crazy mugs that were going to pump people up. THIS IS ALL LIKE DWELLING in the morning [ __ ] When do you start a new brand called UnV Friends? NonV Friends?
[17:33] What is it Wait a minute. I didn't even realize what I'm drinking out of. not prickly, I just have boundaries. I could see some mamas wanting this. Get these mugs in the [ __ ] store. Like I don't know. You have those three.
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[18:17] Let me go out of character for a minute. This is for everybody who's watching. I'm seeing you. Let me give some shout-outs. Meh. Meh. On uh Juggernaut. Uh Juggernaut 420.
[18:32] everything. Listen. I don't want anyone to buy a mug if they don't need a mug. to buy a mug if they don't need a mug. I'm I'm I I love retail, but please don't buy [ __ ] you don't need. Anyway, real quick. Everybody who's on you need
[18:45] to learn about live social shopping. Um where is this mouse? Find this. Oh, actually why is the mouse not working? I want to my chat.
[19:01] All right, there's a lot of new people in here. There's a lot of yellow Uh everybody T with Gary B here. Actually, let's give one away. Can we Let me give this away. Let's get people to learn. Oh, actually, there we go. I'm
[19:14] Uh everybody, I'm going to give away Let's actually Where's the chin that one. Uh All right, chill chinchilla. Auto mug, free. Let's put it up right
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[19:45] 64. The URL is in the video. All of you should come over, download the Whatnot app. All of you should be learning live social shopping for your businesses, for your personal brands, for your projects. You should understand what that is. Uh
[19:58] we have a giveaway now. Uh the mugs are in the store? Yes, sir. All right, you can hit The store is active. You can get mugs now. Remember to use VF15. Whatnot, you'll get the mug for three bucks. But more importantly, can we
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[20:26] Uh all right, B Miller. B Miller picking up a chin chinchilla mug. I like that. Who's next? Eric. Eric. Eric.
[20:42] from? Hi. Hi. Hi, Gary. How are you? Good. I'm in Orlando, Florida. Amazing. Yeah. So, I'm a devout follower. I
[20:56] listen to all your content. Thank you. And I've been posting content online. So, I'm an accountant. Okay. I used to work in corporate America as the chief financial officer of a $50 million company. Amazing. left corporate
[21:09] America, have my own accounting practice. Congrats. And thank you. I have a 6-month-old, buying a house, and I want to start crushing more online. Okay. So, I've been taking your advice, posting content.
[21:22] A couple of my videos took off, but they're comedy sketches. Okay. Like, I got like a million impressions on LinkedIn this week, or But, I'm not getting to my target audience. Well, that's because that's
[21:36] Are you making content that would hit your target audience? So, it's corporate America humor, talking about uh Are you adding your email and phone number as very aggressive additions to
[21:49] the Hold on, a random gift Valbox just bought a random gift for someone, and I need to acknowledge that holiday niceness. Valbox, thank you. That's whatnot, you could go buy a mug right now, and buy it randomly for someone.
[22:04] So, that's amazing. Brother, are you making content that has your information on it as well? Like, there's a part for you to put P in the copy of your comedy skit, you could put PS, "This is a comedy skit, but I'm actually a former
[22:17] comedy skit, but I'm actually a former Fortune 500 CFO with my own practice. If you have any interest in working with me, here's my email." me, here's my email." Should I push the sales part on all the
[22:29] You're allowed to do both, both, right? I called out the guy on TikTok that mugs? You're always selling something." In fact, as you know, cuz you're a devout follower, 99% of my content, 99.5% of my content has no selling in
[22:43] platform, like I am right now, I'm going to put that up. And I think people mug. That's just what I believe, cuz VFriends is the next Pokémon. At least, that's what my mom says. So, you have to understand, like there's you're allowed.
[22:57] You're allowed to sell. It's [ __ ] America. On the other side, people are allowed to not buy. I never expect anybody to buy, that make sense?
[23:11] Yeah. So, of course it's okay to sell. And some content, like I just told you, selling. Other content, you could just have the selling. You could literally million views, but it might get 100 views, where you're like, "Hey, this is
[23:24] you." But the good news, you get 100 views of that and you get three getting a million views of comedy with no customers. Both are allowed. The answer to your question is and and and and and and.
[23:42] You're allowed to do comedy and you're allowed to have a very boring accounting video. You're allowed to make more content. This is [ __ ] the best part of social. It's free. Okay, so my roadblock I've had was
[23:58] how do I make accounting not boring? And you're saying You can't make accounting not boring. It's [ __ ] boring. Yeah. But that's okay. Like like sometimes I'm very serious, sometimes I'm silly, sometimes I'm ridiculous,
[24:13] sometimes I'm I'm stoic. Like, you're just allowed to like make accounting interesting. They may make you laugh. Like, but then you can come back on the next one and go very detailed and go into a very big nuance of what the new
[24:26] administration did with this tax steal. Don't try to make accounting cool. Just make all of it and let the chips fall. That's what I was doing. I was trying to make topics easy to understand. I felt
[24:39] like I was doing But that's okay, too. Do both. I'm telling you, that's okay, too. Cuz you might have a viral video get 17 million and you put the PS in there and you did get six clients. What you're missing out on, which everyone
[24:53] gets [ __ ] up on, is the game is about and, not or. Hold on, we have a winner for the chin chinchilla and it goes to That's awesome. A nice OG. Let's do Let's do another
[25:08] Let's do another one because I want a newbie to win this. All right, the Happy Holidays mug auto Jay Lyndon. Nice What's that? It's our only one? Oh, [ __ ] All right,
[25:21] Flip it on eBay for 150 bucks. All right. Uh do you understand, bro? Yes. That's it? That's it? Okay. So, just keep making more content. And boring content, entertaining
[25:37] content, left field content, new tax Yes, yes, yes and and and. Every platform, TikTok, LinkedIn, Instagram. This is a [ __ ] gold rush of opportunity. These platforms are free. Yeah, LinkedIn video's been going crazy.
[25:52] It's really a great opportunity and I appreciate you sharing. More. All right, All right, couple things going on. These [ __ ] mugs are selling. I see them popping up left and right. Number two, Joshua, Matt, Angelina,
[26:07] everybody who's on TikTok, user 4646899643388, you need to come over to ask.garyvee.com/t4.
[26:22] The reason you can't enter these giveaways or get involved is you're not on Whatnot, which is where I'm live right now. Got it, Joey? Got it, everyday lovey? Also, on Instagram, I see you all.
[26:35] Also, on Instagram, I see you all. Adeles, Lil Marion, Booster Drex, Alex Mack. This is the way it is. Get over here, mug life. Lead a therapy, just come and chill, the AskGaryVee show. Now, what's
[26:48] a Like Whatnot, I see all of you. I see lot of letter yellow letters. Vicky, great to see you. Get her ice cream, everybody. Scott on LinkedIn. Deja Carla on YouTube. All of you. All of you.
[27:03] Flee on Twitter just said, "Hey Gary, how do I stop sucking at life?" Let me give you the answer, Flee. By stop believing that dumb [ __ ] The [ __ ] are you talking about? You're dominating in life. Don't let anybody [ __ ] tell you
[27:16] going on? You're not making money? You don't got the girl? You don't got stuff? Who gives a [ __ ] That's not life. Life is [ __ ] realizing that you do win at it. That you don't suck. The second you decide is the second it's
[27:29] everybody. The team is looking for the questions in whatnot and picking you up. Also, the mugs are in the store. And if it's your first time buying anything on it's your first time buying anything on whatnot, put this code in there. VF15. I
[27:43] am doing this show to show all of you how you can do content, but have store I am doing this show for all of you to watch how you can do your regular content, but also have live shopping commerce integrated into it. Plus, I
[27:57] to give away to people in your family and mug life is always fun. All right, Austin. you from? I'm from Utah. Love it, man. Pleasure.
[28:10] course. Yeah, well, I'll keep it super quick with you. Um so, I'm 23. I ran a pretty high-level business, but it went bankrupt. And now I'm kind of just
[28:24] you ran a high-level high-level business, but it went bankrupt. Did you learn from the missteps? Yes, I bad business partners. I was young and inexperienced and I failed a lot. But, I'm carrying that as motivation into my
[28:36] next It's great. I mean, given that you're this young and you've already learned those lessons, it's a real [ __ ] Back to the dude who's like, "How do I stop How do I stop sucking in life? Some people with a bankruptcy
[28:49] decide that they suck. You have decided it's a learning experience. I was young. Let me take that L. I learned. I'm still young as [ __ ] Let me build from here. brother. Thank you. I appreciate it. And
[29:02] I've kind of been in this gray area for the past year and a half. Um traveled the whole nation trying to find my answers on what's next. And I think I finally have the the really good idea I want. But I'm not
[29:16] financially heavy and I'm kind of lost on like where do I go for the capital these business partners that I can actually trust? individuals is always a great place to go. And so it's like literally like
[29:30] Googling or ChatGPTing like thousand richest people in Utah and then sending respectful messages to them on LinkedIn. And all you need to do is go one of 180 The people always say like what do I do?
[29:43] Then they're like, well, I have. And I'm like, well, how many? And they're like seven. I'm like, no, no, 7,000. Like you want to live a 1% life. Like want to have your own business and be successful.
[29:56] Yeah. If you're only willing to take seven no's via email, then you don't have the stomach for a 1% life. If you're willing to sit down and eat [ __ ] for the entire month of January cuz for 14 hours a day you're emailing every
[30:09] [ __ ] person that you could possibly find that has money anywhere in the you're sending the emails and you're connecting on LinkedIn and you're you're right way and not too spammy and then following back up a month later so
[30:21] you're not desperate like looking for one person to say yes to this process, well, then now you're living a 1% life. Okay. Does that make sense? Yeah, it The good news is you're not looking for partners, you're looking for investors.
[30:35] Does that make sense? Yeah, no, it doesn't. And with my first company, um I brought in business partners because I I I says, "Why does it have to be on LinkedIn?" It doesn't, but LinkedIn is
[30:48] such a professional place that a lot of high net worth individuals are going to respond better to a LinkedIn message than they are on email where they get a Instagram. Like, you know, you got to keep those things in mind. There's a
[31:01] giveaway winner. It's Hawkins. Big win, it's Hawkins. CONGRAT- CLAP IT UP FOR IT'S HAWKINS. GIVE ME THE LITTLE GIVE ME A LITTLE YEAH, THERE WE GO. BIG SHOUTOUT TO IT'S HAWKINS. There we go. All right, you understand? Yeah, I do. Definitely.
[31:14] I know a lot of people want to come up. No worries. Um, my my biggest challenge I have been facing though is not getting burned out. Um, after cuz, you know, failure is inevitable in the part of entrepreneurship, but
[31:28] I kind of had those backwards. What's that? The winner was somebody Oh, Justin Inspire won the gift. I I apologize. It's Hawkins bought something or got it. Sorry about that, it's Hawkins. Uh bro, you're not burnt out. I
[31:41] could just tell by your energy. Don't let the [ __ ] world sell you on this burnt out [ __ ] Burnt out is different than took a gut punch getting back up slowly. Like every- This is the problem with
[31:54] everyone in today's society pushing on the kids, "You're burnt out. You're depressed." Like, we used to call this 20 years ago like sluggish. Or like a [ __ ] up day. You know that video that's viral that
[32:08] like shows the guy walking into the [ __ ] like the side of the door and '70s, you're like and the '80s, you're like and the '90s, you're like and then like there's a there's I hate that because I believe in [ __ ] Gen Z and
[32:21] Gen Alpha the most, but what they have, and I feel bad for them, they've bought into this [ __ ] Bro, you're not burnt out. You're [ __ ] on fi- You [ __ ] It's [ __ ] 7:33 in the morning in Utah.
[32:33] And you're on the [ __ ] Tea with TV show, [ __ ] talking about building your future. You're [ __ ] go-getter and ambitious and a winner, but this [ __ ] society has [ __ ] sold you on, how do I deal with burnt out? It's not
[32:47] burnt out. You [ __ ] took a a micro L you got punched in the face, you chipped a tooth, you got a little blood, you're fix your tooth, and you're going to go back out there.
[33:02] you're not Of course YOU'RE FIRED UP BECAUSE A [ __ ] GROWN ass man is telling YOU TO YOUR FACE, STOP listening to the [ __ ] [ __ ] of society trying to tell you you're BURNT OUT. YOU'RE NOT [ __ ] BURNT OUT.
[33:17] burnt out? I think I don't think I am, but like I That. THAT. YOU'RE NOT DELUSIONAL. STOP LISTENING TO [ __ ] losers trying to make you lose. I've never told anybody you're burnt
[33:32] out. You know who tells people they're burnt out? Philosophical [ __ ] who can't do [ __ ] You know what misery loves company is? You know what misery loves company is? Yeah. That's what the [ __ ] is going on.
[33:45] out everybody. Block out people like you. Block me the [ __ ] out. Who's gassing you up? Block out every [ __ ] person on Earth.
[33:57] I do. Listen to everybody, but hear no one. got to check yourself, you don't want to become delusional. But don't let everybody or anybody, excuse me, [ __ ] dictate your soul.
[34:17] morning in Utah. This man has showered with a [ __ ] cool hat on, [ __ ] asking business questions on a [ __ ] live stream on an app that he probably had to download for the first time. Bro, you're a winner.
[34:35] know. Good, but let me tell you how to win even more. Fall in love with trying to win versus winning. Okay, that's a good perspective. You Yeah. Fall in love with the fact that you're trying
[34:49] and you're competing in the [ __ ] arena, not sitting around saying, "You're burnt out, everyone." You're in the [ __ ] arena, bro.
[35:03] Me, too, bro. Yeah, dude, it's a because of because you weren't even in the hole. This is the [ __ ] problem with society right bad. It's all [ __ ] good. Yeah.
[35:17] Bro, life is only perspective. There is nothing besides your perspective. There is nothing else. There's nothing else. It's all fake. I'LL TELL YOU WHY. Is $150,000 a year a lot of money or a little money?
[35:33] Yeah. Is having a boyfriend or girlfriend right now a good thing or a girlfriend right now a good thing or a bad thing? Perspective. earlier when Sasha was on? That young lady, she was [ __ ] building, then she
[35:46] watched The Social Dilemma documentary, scared the [ __ ] out of her. Like, what What did that accomplish? Stop letting fear have any power over Stop letting fear have any power over you.
[36:04] that I've needed. I'm going to let somebody else get up here. Go. Love you, bro. Good luck. Happy holidays. Love you. Gals, like [ __ ] All it is is Look at all these
[36:16] yellow letters on what Everybody in social, please I do not understand why I'm looking at all these live streams on Tik Tok, Instagram. Why are the numbers going up? I need them to go way down cuz you all went to Garyvee.com/t64.
[36:31] Rowan, good to see you. Joe Gatto. Joe Gatto, THE [ __ ] COMEDY JOE. JOEY BUT YOU BETTER [ __ ] DOWNLOAD WHATNOT AND GET OVER HERE because you and your [ __ ] Jokers could sell 8 million t-shirts in 1 hour. GET THE [ __ ] OVER
[36:44] t-shirts in 1 hour. GET THE [ __ ] OVER HERE. GET OFF OF [ __ ] Instagram. This is fun. Brad Kayson building on TikTok. Brad, get the [ __ ] over here to Whatnot. Garyvee.com/t64.
[37:00] I see Instagram doing a good job pounding t64. I don't see TikTok pounding it as much. Am I missing that? Yeah, I feel like you guys pounding it. Be a [ __ ] winner. I don't need YOUR [ __ ] EXCUSES. CONTROL
[37:14] C, CONTROL V till your [ __ ] fingers bleed. Control C, CONTROL V TILL YOUR [ __ ] FINGERS BLEED. ALL RIGHT, GET me somebody up here. Kristoff, let's [ __ ] go. Much love, just bought a mug. BUY A [ __ ] MUG.
[37:27] IT'S IN THE STORE. Use V 15 as your code if you've never bought anything. Get a $3 mug. That's [ __ ] good. All right, Kristoff.
[37:39] laying in bed? Yeah, basically. That's good, bro. Are What the [ __ ] are you doing here for us, brother? Bro, I need to put it inside out. I get it, bro. Turn it around and tuck it in.
[37:52] Let's go. Let's go, bro. Okay, hey. How are you? Hey, brother. I'm well, you? I'm good. stressed, okay, but doesn't matter. Okay, basically I have a question to you
[38:06] I'm from Poland. Very nice. But I created this motorbike rental app, you know, and we started in Indonesia. Basically, it works like Uber, Airbnb.
[38:18] We connect the motorbike owners with the clients, like tourists, you know. Very nice. I understand. Everything is Everything is done in the app. So, you can book rent a motorbike like in like you know on the spot. I
[38:33] Right now, in this moment, you know. Yeah, so basically I have a question like how to market like to tourists basically In Indonesia?
[38:45] Indonesia? Yeah, basically social media content are you making on TikTok and Instagram for the business? Uh a lot, but only in Indonesian language.
[39:00] Because I understand. Yep, I understand. You've got to make Yeah, because Go ahead. I know where you're going. Yeah. No, because because I thought that getting the partners to the app, you
[39:12] No, no, that's good. I'm glad that you did the Indonesia thing, but just like I not an or. You've got to do it in Indonesia, but you've also got to do it in English and in Spanish, and you've got to do it all over. The number one
[39:27] opportunity for startups to get customers by a country mile right now, Krzysztof, is organic social media. It's not even close. So, the content you're making You just have to make more. And with AI and with
[39:42] being in Indonesia and Poland, there's very good costs on labor and talent. to that cuz that's how you build brand and customers. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, but you know, like I thought I can reach them with ads.
[39:57] like different languages within a country, I basically also reach languages that are native to this country, like you know I understand. But But instead of running ads with creative that you're not sure
[40:11] is going to convert, if you made organic creative and see if it actually indexes well through the algorithm and then turn those videos into ads, you'll convert much better. Mhm. The biggest issue with ads is
[40:24] reality is the variable of your success will not just be who you target, it will be what the message and the creative is. And now that organic social is a place where you get basically creative testing for free,
[40:40] get basically creative testing for free, you need to go all in on that. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, true. I'm telling you, like now everybody understands that social media ads are good. Now everybody understands that Google ads are good,
[40:52] but 20 years ago when I was yelling about Google ads or 25 years ago, people And 15 years ago when I said social media ads were good, people made fun of as a sophisticated startup like you have, you need to get serious about
[41:06] organic social creative, people are laughing cuz they don't think it's converting as well. They don't understand that it's building brand while testing creative that you can then use for performance.
[41:21] like, you know, to create a content in English. You have to do that. Who the [ __ ] do you think is going to Indonesia? Rich [ __ ] 20-year-old kids. are you doing? I just wanted to No, yeah, no, I just
[41:33] customers on No, I understand. And good news, good news. I'm Because because I have a guy I have a guy from Indonesia who's creating content in Indonesian, but I'm doing like, you know, using the chat GPT. I
[41:46] I'm creating like, you know, all the scripts for him and recording him. So, it's also, you know, You need more. And and I'm But yeah, but I'm like a like everything, that's I get it. I mean, but
[42:01] business. I was a one-man show for most of my life, too. You got it. Just be a patient. A little patience and a little execution. thing, you know, patience like I know, that's everybody of course I get it. But
[42:15] this with my friend and she's less patient. That's right. By the way, whoever is the most patient wins the race. The tortoise beat the hare, brother. The tortoise the [ __ ] turtle beat the rabbit.
[42:27] and is such a legendary story? The [ __ ] rabbit won. The radical rabbit rips beat the tolerant tortoise. Excuse me, the reverse. Thank you. The self-aware hare lost the the
[42:44] Anyway, brother, that's it. Kristoff, happy holidays. Love you. listen. There's an obnoxious amount of questions coming in on whatnot. They're all in letter yellow letters. Real quick, everybody, little update.
[42:59] VeeFriends, my Pokémon. By the way, there's only 43 holiday MUGS LEFT. EVERYBODY RIGHT NOW, if you love your family, that's that's the thing, Rips. If you love YOUR FAMILY, YOU MUST BUY ONE OF
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[43:25] That's kind of how I'm positioning it. That's that's the rule. If you love your family, you must buy the holiday mug that's in the store right now. It's as Mia. Mia, hi. Hi, Mia.
[43:37] Yes. Where are you from? Okay. I am from Atlanta. Amazing. So, basically, I'm doing it videos forever ago, and so I decided I was just going to start a brand, talk on
[43:50] social media. It took off. I like have coined the term vegan silk on YouTube. It's not YouTube, Jesus, on Google. So, I'm number one for that. That's my term. That's my brand. Um I have silk real silk hoodies, and it's just all about
[44:03] real silk like quality silk whether it be vegan or real, right? up with Satin. That's all well and good. I've been That's all well and good. I've been doing it by myself now for 2 years and
[44:15] Congratulations. with everything Hold on. Hold on. Hold The [ __ ] are we talking about business when you have this incredible moment in your life? Congratulations. want to drop my other baby while Baby.
[44:29] Baby. Baby. You're not dropping your other baby. Your Your baby business is greatest thing that ever happened to your life. I promise you your business will be there. This is Everybody's scared, darling.
[44:42] Listen to me, Mia. Everyone You like that, Dust? Okay, thank you, Dustin. that every Dustin like Maybe it's cuz he's eating the bagel. Dustin's very excited about this bagel. Um Mia, listen to me. Your business is
[44:55] everybody's scared of. They're like, "Damn, the baby's going to come and I'm business and when I come back to it, it's dead." If you were good enough to get it to this point, you're going to be good enough to do it again. You're
[45:07] stressing. You're being scared. Instead of focusing on the real [ __ ] which is you have a [ __ ] miracle, a human is growing inside of you right now. Mia, a [ __ ] human being is growing
[45:21] inside of you. It's cool. No, it's better than cool. IT IS THE [ __ ] actual best. There is nothing on Earth. There's no entrepreneur better than mother.
[45:34] two. You're about to be that silk [ __ ] robes? Get the [ __ ] out of here.
[45:46] But like, I still have another person to take care of. So, this is like this is our whole thing. This is what we do. My other little person helps me with the business now. I have making a new one. I'm proud of you. I feel like it's time
[45:58] to to grow the business so it's not just me. And I believe in organic because at this point I tried. I tried to get somebody to help with the shipping. I get somebody to help with the marketing. My organic performs 10,000 times better
[46:12] than any marketing. I just talked to somebody who said SEO is best because I'll since I'm on page two of a lot of things, it's better to be on page one and that's where I need to focus. But I genuinely just don't know who to hire.
[46:25] Listen to me. Make content. SEO is good. Page one is better than page two. But right now what you have is you. Sometimes you have money, sometimes you Right now you have you. Right. Make [ __ ] content.
[46:40] Okay. More. Then okay, so if that's the case, then if I do expand, it should be content so I can just stay focused. On what? what? On on the business. Cuz like I said,
[46:53] Listen to me. What if you thought about this being successful in a 30-year window instead of a 30-week window?
[47:07] Think about this in 30 years of like slowly day by day, brick by brick, it Versus you're going to [ __ ] crush it and you're going to [ __ ] crush it and sell the business and buy an island.
[47:23] what [ __ ] up everybody. Okay. You don't understand how off. You're already further along than most. You got something. But if you just Listen, you're in a
[47:35] chapter in your life. Give yourself some grace, girl. There's dif- priorities. There's different seasons in life. How old are
[47:49] you? 35. You're a baby. Okay. You are. What I was 34 until I left my dad's liquor store. All this Gary Vee [ __ ] didn't even start until I was 35. Start.
[48:09] What you need to focus on is stay healthy so this baby comes out right. about. Enjoy the [ __ ] holidays. Listen, you know I love a good hustle and build your [ __ ] It's just like just don't let anything get too crazy. Like
[48:23] like [ __ ] get it all set up. Like it's not going anywhere. think that I was thinking about the most. Like because I'm doing so much I already have like thousands of customers. So my thing is I don't want
[48:36] like they get kind of left when I have bad weeks or tired weeks. They get left. customers' biggest thing on in their life is not your [ __ ] silk [ __ ] [ __ ] Humility.
[48:50] why I said I was beautiful and I'm I [ __ ] with that. I love that you've got that element, but I promise you if you have a bad week your customers are going to be okay. It's
[49:03] unlikely they even thought about you. Well, they email. Listen, I get it, but not all [ __ ] 15,000 of them or 4,000 or 2,000. Like I'm telling you you're just putting too
[49:15] much pressure on your chest. I can smell it from the screen. And just if it's slow, that's okay. Yeah, because what about when you know, not feeling well or some days you're tired.
[49:27] sit down Yeah, baby, good. Slow. Okay. If you went to sleep between now and January 1st, 2026 and then hit the ground running and
[49:40] now close your eyes and went and slept and you woke up and it's January 1st, 2026 and you're like, "Yo, what the fuck?"
[49:52] And the business was slow and it what the [ __ ] You need to resuscitate it. have that [ __ ] proper by March. So, what the [ __ ] are we talking about? Yeah, I work it. So, what are we talking about?
[50:05] everybody's struggling with, which is for some reason we all just decided to beat ourselves up instead of loving ourselves for what we are doing. Baby, you're [ __ ] going harder as a pregnant woman at 35 than 90% of
[50:20] 23-year-old dudes complaining about dumb [ __ ] Well, if you want to BE A GOOD MOM, THEN you should ask that question, not how to
[50:32] [ __ ] do SEO. I know, but my kid like she loves this Of course she does. You're showing her. By By the way, by the way, by the way, No, you're not dropping You've already shown her.
[50:46] up to you and she sees you doing it. You are winning. Baby, you're just beating yourself up for no [ __ ] reason. Okay. You need to give yourself grace. People need to [ __ ] I'm doing this
[51:01] for you and every all 5,000 people that are watching right now. We need to love are watching right now. We need to love ourselves more.
[51:14] I know you but I I know you got it cuz you're already doing it. You just decided to look at the half glass full versus the half glass emp- You know, you look at it empty instead of full. Not really. I just didn't want to let
[51:28] like I feel like since I started the problem because of my child and I'm helping other people who have asthmatic children that can stop coughing at want to let down my baby. I don't want to let down the new person and I don't
[51:41] who Let me tell you the best Let me tell you the best way you Let me Let me give everybody down. not letting anybody down that you burn out and you do nothing.
[51:56] out and you do nothing. That's where I'm at right now. No [ __ ] As someone who doesn't want to let anybody down either,
[52:08] I focus on me being good and grounded first. How the [ __ ] am I going to help everybody if I'm not good? How do I do that? By saying I'm just a human and I'm just trying. I'm flawed.
[52:22] I'm I got problems. I got mistakes. I'm just a human, but I'm trying out here. welcome. All right, everybody.
[52:34] minute cuz I see a lot of people in there talking all sorts of stuff. the being kind, good to see you. Jennifer just joined. Perba just joined. Shannon just joined. Um Alexander, good to see you. My
[52:46] Super Bowl finally. Joey, thank you for coming on Whatnot. good to see you. Is everybody It seems like they're Are they hearing it? Are they seeing it? What's happening? On social. They're hearing you, I guess.
[53:00] it. Okay, yeah, cuz I can tell by the chat. chat. Stacy, great to see you on on LinkedIn. I love everybody on all my socials, but please come to GaryVee.com/T64.
[53:14] By the way, this is the first hour of a 25-hour live marathon for a 25-hour live marathon. Wait a minute, I'm on the VFriends account. Rips, I thought you
[53:29] Oh, we're going to read to me and then back? Um everybody, I will be on at some point during the day today. 1:15 p.m. Then I'm going to come tonight at like midnight to like 3:00 a.m. cuz
[53:43] I'm [ __ ] crazy. We are live for 25 straight hours. If you're just joining us, VaynerFriends is my Pokémon. It's my Marvel. It's my Disney. I'd love for you to learn about it. As a matter of fact, everybody,
[53:56] vaynerfriends.com/cartoons. We have a new cartoon coming out tomorrow YouTube Kids. If you have a 9-year-old in your life, if you have someone nine and under as a kid of yours, a grandkid, niece, nephew, please
[54:09] right now. Please put the number nine, Furba. Appreciate it. Oh, that's amazing, Furba. I'm glad you did social and got to quit your job. I love that. Amy, live social shopping. I
[54:22] see a lot of nines in the chat. First of all, everyone on Whatnot that has yellow an avatar. Go to vaynerfriends.com, find your favorite character, and get an avatar and update here. For everybody that put
[54:35] it, please go to vaynerfriends.com/cartoons. Car Talk Bobby just uh uh Can you please Bobby, can you please put up vaynerfriends.com/cartoons in Whatnot, the URL? Can everybody type in in the
[54:48] chat vaynerfriends.com/cartoons? Go sign up for it. We have a new cartoon proper [ __ ] I think you're going to love it. Um All right, we got 5 minutes. to be doing a lot of Tea with Gary Vee next year. Who's enjoying this show? Put
[55:05] enjoy. Let me know. Keep me motivated to do it next year. Lucas, what is good? believe this [ __ ] Gary Vee. Where are before before I say anything, I'm so glad you
[55:18] been following you for years. I I loved the show before. Thank you, brother. Where you at? You at school? You just walk out of school or something? hours of sleep, but I saw you doing the show, and I saw I was going to be on, so
[55:32] Let's go, brother. Where you Where Where at? Where you Where you living? I'm actually based in Boston, but I'm in Dallas. I'm knocking doors right now. You know how the door-to-door sales with an alarm company. Hustling. Proud of
[55:47] I found a passion in marketing and content creation. viral. And I really just want to transition out marketing agency space. unlimited content and learn the
[56:01] algorithms. Did you read Day Trading Attention yet? Three times. Everybody, can you pin garyvee.com/attention for everybody who can't afford the book? TikTok, I see all of you. Type in
[56:15] garyvee.com/attention. I put out a free like How many pages is that deck? 47. A 47-page deck recap of the book for people that can't afford the book. It's free. If you want to get better at
[56:28] marketing, it is the blueprint right now. Brother, just do that. In the same grind that you have in door-to-door knocking, in between doors, while you're walking down the street, make content, keep learning the algorithms, get better
[56:40] at TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, learn the algorithms, learn culture, learn best practice, thumbnails, first 3 seconds of a video, learn the [ __ ] game, pound it. People will reach out to you. We're literally at VaynerMedia, and
[56:52] I think we're the top marketing agency in the world right now. We are literally content, trying to hire them. It's real life.
[57:04] for years. Obviously, you know, it's a big company. big as that? Lucas, do me a favor. Email me. Email Lucas, do me a favor. Email Sid. Sid, what's your email?
[57:16] what's your email? s a s t m Jesus. Email gary@v @ Email gary@vfrends.com, Lucas. Put it's Lucas from the show. marketing. Let me see if we have a residence program. Let me see if I can
[57:29] get you into it. Gary, thank you so much. I really brother. Happy holidays. All right, Lucas. All right, everybody. 22 mugs left. Holidays. Let's keep the sign. I love it. Uh
[57:44] huge show. If you're into Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokémon, Marvel, trading cards, Christmas ornaments, swag, and most importantly, if you want to learn about the biggest topic in 2025, live social live shopping,
[58:02] please stick around all day. Learn the ins and outs. Morning, Dustin. Watch how we do it. You want to learn. Uh let's do a giveaway so all these people can uh can follow us. Here we go. I'm doing the
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[59:24] chilling right now, trying to learn, trying to figure out what the [ __ ] are literally in the shopping cart right now doing random gifts to people. community. We're about to send you Look at the random gifts. Jay got one. Seth
[59:39] Seth nice Seth's always good for random. What are you doing with the book? Rips will give it away as we transfer. We're about to give away We're about to about to send all of you to my my personal account. We're going to raid
[59:53] back to the V Friends. You're going to see the crazy setup we have for the 25-hour live stream. Big shout-out to everybody on social. I see you all. I'm signing off on my social. If you want to come
[01:00:07] and hang out, garyvee.com/t. I'm signing off on all my socials. Stacy Hunt, I see you on LinkedIn. Barbara Me, I see you on YouTube. I'm Mmnit, Osmel, Canyon. I see you all. Journey Toy Joy, great to see you. Jimmy Graham, great to
[01:00:21] see you. I love you all. Join me for T with Gary Vee all of next year. I'm be talking about a lot with live shopping, all that. You guys ready? Run them. I'll see you in a little bit.
[01:00:33] 1:15. Oh, we're running the mug. Oh, the mug winner is mug winner is Nyla!
[01:00:48] All right. Yep. Love you. Head over everybody in social. Playtime.