Tea with Gary Vee: Unfiltered Q&A on Life, Career, and Hustle

Uh, Think Logical, great to see you. Let me just get everybody. Uh, Gooners, great to see you. Everybody come to garyve.com whatnot. Um, what's going on with the screen on Instagram? Got a rain right here. Look at the screen. Yep. What's up, everybody? Good to see you. Yeah, I see it. What's up everybody? I'm just trying some stuff. The team is like very hectic from a production standpoint, gang. I'm really not going to be about this

life going forward. This is too much. Like, I'm already out of my mojo. Like, I don't give a [ __ ] enough. I get it. I get it. I don't give a [ __ ] Um, all right. All right. What's happening? So, I guess we're just going to go back on here. Gee, I'm so sorry. I know. Don't worry, brother. It's honestly I actually don't give a [ __ ] I actually care more more than you guys for making making it so

weird. I can like I can like deal I can I'm a champion of bubble gum bubble gum and tape. We want to try a few things before we do. Yeah, I respect that. I respect what I'm doing here. What am I doing here? I'll hold this for you. I can read back. Okay. Let's let's read this back please to him. Let's start this and then I'll we'll read back. Already started this Gary. Yes. Go live. Yeah.

Go live. We're going to start the show. GV definition of resilience. Send the [ __ ] show. The [ __ ] show. Yep. Show's here now. Where? Going back to V friends again, my friends. Enjoy the show. Enjoy the show. Enjoy the show. That's the stream now. Wait, I got this connected, Sid. Why would we have done that? Just do this. Okay, thanks. Yep. Go like this. Good work. No, King. It's all just joking, King. I'm not actually. Uh, everybody,

great to see you. Good morning. Good morning. I am definitely not mad. I'm I'm I'm just razing the team for fun. Um, everybody, good morning. The mugs are in the store. Thank you for the raid. Everybody on social, please get to garyve.com/whatnot. Team, you guys worked on all this [ __ ] but you didn't do the yellow bar over my face. You know how simple that would have been? Out of all the You guys have worked on 900.

for the most important thing. Yes, I understand. I'm a bigger fan of solving for something that's solvable. Here's where we're at. You didn't solve it and I don't have a banner over my [ __ ] face. I will take that L. Yeah, that's a huge [ __ ] L, Sid. Like, that's where we're at. This is totally Yeah, you it is on you, Sid. Uh, Aladdin, what's happening to NFTs? $3.2 million worth of NFTs have sold in the last 24

hours, which is more than sports cards. What's happening with NFTs? 99% of the world thinks they're scams and [ __ ] And yet the market's incredibly strong and in a decade everybody will understand what digital collectibles are. That's what's happening with NFTs. Uh big shout out to Greece. Great to see you on Instagram. Uh King, great to see Daddy Taps yourself. What's good? Daddy's in the building on Tik Tok. Danny loves Gas. Great to see you. Can you

guys hear me? Um Charlie Funk on YouTube, Dustin K on LinkedIn, Deborah M on Facebook. James, I am not watching the NHL playoffs. The Knicks are out. Uh, and whatnot is a new social platform, a social shopping platform. What up? What up? What up? Everybody get over to garybe.comwenot.com. Yeah. Can we do me a favor? We are going to spend zero minutes analyzing what just happened postmortem because your energy [ __ ] me up. Heard. Love you. All

right. Uh, Aaron, you on the other hand make me happy. So, can you ask me a question, please? Yes. What is it? Garyb.com/whatnot. Yeah. Mhm. Go ahead. and we changed it. Go ahead. Um, this is a question from Daniel who's 28 years old. He says, "Literally 2 days ago, my girlfriend broke up with me because she claims I'm financially irresponsible. In my eyes, I'm investing in a career that I want. I work a steady job as

a freelance videographer and make anywhere from 2K to 5K a month depending on the clients and workload. My success is definitely coming in a lot slower than I'd like, or better yet, she would like, but I'm determined and I communicated that I don't plan to stop. Also, for more context, this is my second time dumping money on a passion project this year. We're not even talking about last year lol. Yeah. I mean, look, the answer is

both of you can be right in this scenario. Like, there doesn't have to be someone who's wrong or right. Like, she's allowed to make a subjective opinion if she thinks your strategies on how you handle your money don't work for her for the kind of financial partner she's looking for in her life. She's allowed, you know, and longterm she may regret this decision or it might be the best decision that ever happened. You're also allowed to

not conform and get a regular job or do something. You are not in a place where you have to make a certain amount of money or do a certain thing to appease a partner either. There are unbelievable amounts of women in the world that will love you for what you do, for how you do it financial. What is financial success? It's different to everyone. Is a $100,000 a year enough to make to, you know, for many

women and men, it is. For many women and men, it's not. I don't judge what people are looking for. They're going to have to live with that. If a woman is only looking to, you know, marry a man who makes a million dollars a year and she breaks up with a couple guys along the way that treated her better at 62, she may regret that. Maybe she doesn't. She's allowed. Same for men. Same for men that

mar I mean do you know how many do you know we always love to say women are gold diggers. You know how many men are gold diggers? There's a lot of men who are trying to marry rich girls or girls that have rich dads or like there's a lot of [ __ ] going on in the world. The answer to this question is all of it works. Neither are necessarily right or wrong on surface level. Both could be

wrong in like in real life. I just I don't have all that context. But it will all play itself out. But I would say but I what I would say is you know like don't cry like don't cry for don't cry when someone leaves you. That's where I'm that's that's the [ __ ] I'm about. Do not cry when someone leaves you. Be self-reflective. Think about if there's something you want to do different and be better. Be accountable.

Like be accountable but don't cry. There's I don't know if you guys know there's eight billion people on Earth. There's literally eight billion people on Earth. If you are broken up with, there is a high percentage chance that the next partner you're going to have is better for you. If you are fired, there is a good chance that your next job is going to be more fun and pay you more. Stop being scared of adversity. Being

ghosted, being dumped, being fired are often the best thing that ever happened to you. Everyone has just decided universally that it's the worst. The end. You like that one, Mike? That one hit you a little bit. I know you that one hit that that one hit for you. You're happy, right? That was good, right? I actually felt that on you right now. Good. Good [ __ ] And Mike's huge garage sale coming up this Saturday or he is

fired. We all know that. Oh man, I'm in a really good mood. I love doing this show. I'm going to do this show a lot. Brandon O'Neal, my girl cheated on me. Good, Brandon. That's good. I'm being ser I'm being serious. I know everybody a bunch of youngsters work here. I'm looking at all of you. Who cares? My point of view on that is you got lucky that you got to the truth. Now you get to

make a decision. How about this? I wouldn't even judge you if you've decided to forgive her and get everyone's allowed to do everything. Everything's allowed. Who the [ __ ] are you living by? What's the Do you know how many people right now have lived happily and successfully and prosperly and happy for the last 50 years after one of the spouses decided to forgive the other spouse for an infidelity? That's profound. Who the [ __ ] makes the rules? Good

for Brandon that she cheated on him. It's given him clarity of option. By the way, some of you need to get cheated on to [ __ ] kick you into [ __ ] gear. A lot of [ __ ] on this show this morning need to get cheated on to wake them the [ __ ] up cuz they're taking their [ __ ] partner for granted cuz they [ __ ] got lazy. They need to wake the [ __ ] up. Boy, this show puts me in a very different

mood, right? This show puts me in a very different mood than my normal self. All right, let's go to the next question. If you have a real quick, I apologize, Aaron. If you have a question, Tik Tok, Instagram, YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, you cannot ask it on the platform you're in right now. You need to go to garyve.com/whatnot. You have to come over here. You have to come over here, download the app. Actually, here's why you got

to download the app because because I give away free [ __ ] I'm giving away free [ __ ] Let's give away a $40 pack. How much are these now, Rips? 40. Let's give away a series 2 V friends pack right now for free. We got a giveaway coming. Just hit right up here. The button's about to show up. Giving away a free pack of series 2. Everybody, get over here. Gamble, get over here. Get over here on whatnot. Get

over here. Kevin Jones on LinkedIn, get over here. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Get over here. Let's get over here. You got it. The giveaway is up. Yes, it is. All right. 223 of you have entered the giveaway. I need a lot more of you to enter because there's 479 on whatnot. There's a thousand of you in social that need to get over here. Get over here. You're going to learn about live social shopping, commerce,

tamement. These things matter. Aaron, fire away. Okay. Um, we have a question from Michael. How do you go into a new position with little influence within your organization and communicate with a little grace and dignity that they are doing it wrong? by communicating with grace and dignity. He He's got it. He, you know, like by not being scared of the ramifications. What he's really asking is, I'm a little bit scared to do that because they might

fire me or they might think I'm a complainer or they might think I'm a problem. And he's not wrong. But here's my thing. Do you know why Vayner Media became the largest independent global agency in the world? It's because that's the only thing I do. You know why? We don't get clients all the time because of it. We for a lot of you on team Gary here or V friends, you don't know this. We do not

get clients a lot because I tell them directly the truth and they don't like the truth. But here's the punch line. We get a lot of clients because of that. And so if Mike does this and gets fired, he wouldn't have won there anyway. So you and I love him because he asked with you know the problem with a lot of people is they come in and they and they're like 23 and they think they [ __ ]

know everything and they're like you don't do social right and they like you know and they do it audacious they do it classless they do it with like entitlement but notice how great that question was you know so I think he's on it and I could not encourage people more to respectfully and humbly communicate observations because that will give you an indication of where you work, right? You know, Aaron, you already know this. Actually, Aaron, you

really know this. We don't really know each other like that yet. We're about to get to know each other because of where I'm going with my personal brand come in the fall. But you've come in and you've pushed back and I would argue I'm just guessing here now and I'm not trying to put you on the spot but I've been almost like too open to the feedback which gave you an indication of who you worked for

right so for you it worked but if I was like shut the [ __ ] up who the [ __ ] do you think you are do you understand I'm Gary Vee I got 55 million followers how many you [ __ ] got if I did that [ __ ] you'd be like I need to get the [ __ ] out of here. All right, ask your questions everybody. Get your questions in everybody here on Whatnot. Use the question mark so the questions yellow so that

Aaron can find the question and ask it to me here live on T with Gary Vee and everybody on all the socials. King, is anyone from India? King is asking on Instagram. King, don't ask if anyone's from India. King on Instagram. [ __ ] type in garybe.com19 and get your [ __ ] ass over here to whatnot. Aaron. Okay, this question is from David. Um, I'm 32, single, a CPA, MBA, and I feel like I've wasted the last decade. 32

or 42? 32. Oh, here we go. Go ahead. I've wasted the last decade, addicted to weed, and just surviving. I'm finally ready to change and build something meaningful. I've said it before, but I have no choice. What's your number one advice to someone trying to reinvent their their life from scratch for real this time? By realizing that 32 is 22. I'm pumped for this guy. What's his name? David. David, I'm so proud of you, bro. Here's

what I would say. Like, when you're 90, you'll be like, "Yo, 22 to 32 was [ __ ] epic. I smoked weed every second." Like, you're going to be fine. like yes, you haven't, you know, like you you over, you know, you misplayed certain parts of your life. I'm sure there's certain parts of your life that you've done well with. And good news, you're 32. You're a [ __ ] kid. Like, you know, you're you're a child. Uh, Recipe Club

on on Whatnot said, "Audio is rough." How are you feeling with the audio? Everybody on uh whatnot, let me know. Might just be him. We're good. You feeling good? Okay, good. Fine. Everyone's fine. Oh, how many how many seconds left on the giveaway? 20. 20 seconds left on the giveaway and literally 200 of you have not clicked this button. A lot of [ __ ] on this show and one right now are like, "I'm broke. I don't have

money." You know why you're [ __ ] broke? Cuz you're too [ __ ] lazy to click this little button right here to get $43, you [ __ ] That's why you're broke. You're an idiot. That's why. All right. 12 slabs. All right. And the winner is 12 slabs. Let's clap it up for 12 slabs. Not an idiot. not an idiot. Good job. 12 slabs. There you go. Give that to 12 slabs. Uh let's do another giveaway. I'm going to give away

one of these figures. I love these little figures. These are the miniatures. These are Vfriend Friends figures that you can put on your desk to remind you to be patient, to remind you to have common sense, to remind you to be empathetic and grateful and willful like the wizard. These are $18 normally. I'm going to put it up in the store as a giveaway right now. Next giveaway on this show. Tea with Gary Vee, you're here.

Everybody on social media, you cannot win this cuz you're an [ __ ] because you have not typed in garyb.com/w whatnot and have come over here to hang out with me. I do not know what all of you are doing. And by the way, when I was answering that question about 32, somebody in the chat on whatnot said, "What about 47?" Same thing. Here's my thing. If you're 47, 57, 67, and you're like, "What about me? I've blown

my whole life." Here's my point. There's never a bad time to start doing good [ __ ] Like if you're 67 and you're like, "Well, it's too late. I [ __ ] up everything." And you're destined to live to 92. You're telling me you're like, you know that you can make the next 25 years a hell of a lot better and enjoy it. Do you know how many teams are losing in the fourth quarter? Do you guys know sports? Do

you know how many teams are down 287 going into the fourth quarter and win? We're all a sport. We're all a team. Life is life is sports and you as a human are a team. And there are many [ __ ] teams. Do you know what those pieces of [ __ ] in Indiana Pacers did? The Knicks were [ __ ] winning by 12 with one second left and lost. I'm literally going to Oklahoma City tonight to sit courtside to boo the

Pacers. You'll all see me tonight if you watch the game. I will be courtside tonight booing the Pacers. Those [ __ ] were dead and pulled it out the last second. You could be 90 and a piece of [ __ ] and a [ __ ] loser your whole life and pull it out in the last three years and reconcile all your relationships. Have some fun and what is this? What about 47? What is this? What about 32 and you [ __ ] under

30? You I'm going to kill all of you. What are you worried about? Nothing is bad. You've got unlimited time to make everything awesome. What are you crying about? And you know what you were all crying about? Uh, but I'm a 29year-old girl and my friend Heather is already married and just had her first. What the [ __ ] does Heather's life have to do with you? Next question. Um, okay. This question came through your text. It's from

Samantha who's 25 years old. Um, she says, "I'm an actor and my life is not going in the direction I want it to. Um, the reason for me reaching out is to ask if you offer life coaching sessions. Listening to your videos has been giving me so much inspiration and motivation, and sometimes I even feel like you're speaking directly to me. I started disconnecting from friends I grew up with lately because I no longer feel connected

to them. I've realized I want to hang around people with big ideas and who see me and my ideas as a possibility. I don't know. I thought I'd reach out and see if I could get even like 5 minutes with you. I guess I feel like I am directionless. It has been feeling like no one gets me in my dreams, not even my family. I've never sold coaching, but I'll offer it to you. $500,000 for five

minutes. Venmo me. First of all, I'm really pumped with this girl. What's her name? Samantha. Samantha, I am so pumped. Uh, I'm so proud of you. You s as a 25year-old as a 25year-old you have realized one of the great lessons of the human life. Everybody who is unhappy actually I'm going to go here. I'm I never actually listen to the comments from my other social. I'm actually going to break my own rule and pay attention

to all the social channels. Instagram Tik Tok LinkedIn YouTube Facebook Twitch. I'm actually looking at all of you right now as well, which I hate to do cuz I want you at garyve.com/w whatnot. Please get over here. I want you to comment. Everybody, whatnot, every channel. I want you to comment right now and tell me if you're unhappy. If you are unhappy, not neutral, not happy. If you're unhappy, please comment unhappy in the chat right now.

Put it in there. Just say unhappy. Everybody answer. If you're one of those people. Yeah. A lot of answers. I mean, look at what not. You see it? You see it everyone? You know, makes me so sad, too. Um, Brandon O'Neal says, "I'm unhappy." Brandon, you're not, bro. Your girl cheating on you is the best thing that ever happened to you. Come over to whatnot. Let me teach you live social shopping. All right. Here we go.

I'll be happy in a week, too, Dustin. I can't wait to see you, everybody. Here we go. I'm about to change thousands of people's lives in this moment and millions over the next three decades that watch this clip. If you are unhappy, you must do the following. You must audit and limit and replace the people and the content you are consuming. Who you spend time with and what you listen to is the fundamental reality of your

emotions. If you are Oh, we got a winner. Jared Jwan won one. Jared, let's Jared. Let's go. OG Jared. Nice win. Uh, okay. Mini you guys know uh my friends if you are unhappy you must break up quit or if you love your mom but she's a negative Nelly and you guys talk twice a day you need to move to twice a week you must cut out or limit I I'm not saying you got to like

never talk to your dad again but if your dad every time you call him is like dad how are you doing? Uh, my back, my boss, I think I have cancer. Like, how's your idiot boyfriend? If that's the combo, you need to get the [ __ ] out of there. You need to go surface level. You need to start thinking about therapy. You need to start consuming positive content. You need to start hanging with me every day. Download

the podcast, you [ __ ] Like, this is not complicated. And look at Morgan and look at everyone. People are now commenting. This is everybody who was unhappy. Now we're going to do something else. Everybody who was who was unhappy and has lived what I just said. You cut out people and you stopped listening to Fox News and CNN and you stopped listening to political pundits on social and you started going for positivity and practicality. Not overcoddling, positivity

and practicality. Say I went through that transformation. Say that in the chat so that the people can see. It's not my advice. you people with them in the [ __ ] community right now lived it. My friends, you are only unhappy because of who you spend time with. Let me give you an example. When my homies tell me they're unhappy with their job, yo, bro, like this is real life. When a friend of mine's like, "Yo, I [ __ ]

hate my job." I go positive. I don't I'm not that friend. Like all all of you are the same kind of friends. Most of you are not me. Most of you are enablers. Your buddy's like, "Yo, I hate my job." They're like, "Yeah, that boss a dick." No, no, no. I go to like, "Let's take a step back. What can you do about it?" And then I remind them, "You got a beautiful [ __ ] daughter who's an

Olympian. You've got a [ __ ] like great wife. You're going on vacation for two weeks next week. You love your softball." I just go positive. And then I go accountable. I'm like, "You can quit." But we're just in this culture of [ __ ] enabling. Everybody here, I have actually what I'm feeling right now is something I don't say often. I'm asking if everybody's ready to be a better friend. Please put in the chat better friend. If you're ready

to stop enabling your dwelling, unhappy loser friends and are willing to do what I'm doing on this show for you every morning to your friends. I get they're your homies, but you can't just be like, "Yeah, you're right." When your girl's like, "Ah, Rick's such a dick. He like he like went bowling too late last night. You need to be like, "Karen, shut the [ __ ] up. Rick's a good dude. Rick's better looking than you. Rick's providing.

Let the [ __ ] bowl." Not like, "Yeah, Rick's a dick." Do you understand? Enough enabling. Next question. Okay, this question is from Talin. Um, I'm struggling with quitting my job. I absolutely hate. I've been flipping items on eBay for almost 2 years. I turned $20 into 44K uh 4,400 revenue monthly. One more time. Um I've been flipping it. No, I heard that part. The math. Oh, I turned $20 into 4,400 revenue monthly. I've also started um another

uh business on the side. I work 14 hours a day. I haven't been able to make my full income yet. I've been stuck with not having more time for meetings and sourcing due to my job. My theory is if I quit and risk it, double down, I can at minimum double my revenue to live on. That's right. But I'm stuck because my debt is high and I pay for my house. What the [ __ ] does that have

to do with anything? Think about how he broke that down. My in anybody that can make that kind of money part-time while having a job when they quit their job and go allin, he's going to triple his revenue. Also, he's 27 years old. Yeah, he has to quit this. I'm honestly I'm deciding not to go on a rant cuz I All the rants are the same at this point. everyone's a [ __ ] face and just needs to

[ __ ] stop being scared of [ __ ] Um, and stop judging everyone else. Start judging yourself and being accountable. As a matter of fact, I'm never doing this show anymore. Here we go. I'm going to break it down. All of you are scared cuz you overvalue people's opinions. All of you are judging everybody but yourself. You're not [ __ ] accountable. You point fingers, not thumbs, and you don't realize how lucky you are. Thank you. I'm never doing this show

again. No, but I missed the show. I missed the show. I missed the show. I mean, Jesus. Oh, God. Um, he needs to jump. He will win. I I've seen this movie a hundred times, Aaron. Can I just say something to everybody? Friends, friends, jobs will always be there for you. Jobs exist for the people that can't take the risks or don't have the talent or which is amazing. Like jobs are amazing. I don't look down

on jobs. And by the way, real talk and all the entrepreneurs in here including the successful ones like me are about to say yes. Do you know how many times a year I wish I was the employee? The amount of stress at the top is really gangster. And if you don't and if you don't realize it, let me tell you how. Every parent in here, remember when you had that child, how [ __ ] changed that fear you

have every day, that stress you have every day to make that person live and be happy. So anyway, I um I just think that there's such an opportunity for more happiness. This this guy, if he quits, is likely could quadruple his revenue, not double. The debt's the debt whether he has the job or not have the job. If he quadruples his revenue, it sounds like he's gonna be able to pay off the debt quicker. And what

he doesn't realize is at 27, if he fails at 29, he'll go get the same kind of job paying the same amount of money. There's almost no risk in quitting a job because there's always another job. That's it. Should we do another giveaway? I think so. Let's do a pack of Chrome. This is the hot stuff. This is the hot stuff. No, this is the hot stuff. Give it away. Put up the chrome pack. Everybody, I

know you want this. This is the good stuff. Let me show you an example of these cards. Uh, please social, everybody on the other socials, come over to garybe.com/whatnot if you want to ask your question. Here we go. Huddle hyena, the proactive piranha. A lot of you need to be a much more proactive piranha. The yellow fractor on the skilled skeleton. One of my favorite characters. How badass is that? and the zestful zebra. Everybody, if you

haven't started collecting befriends, you're making a huge mistake. Start your collection now. Uh, next question, Aaron. Okay, the next question is from Ava. Um, what advice would you give someone that struggles to do the mindless daily tasks that need to be you need to do to be successful because the lack of immediate gratification is like eating glass? I I do not understand the lack of resilience in society. Life is about eating glass. What's her name? Ava.

Ava, why are you why are you the chosen one that should have life so easy? Ava, why are you the chosen one that should have life so easy and so great? We all have to eat glass. There's not a single person that you know, everyone that isn't eating glass. Oh, I know what you all do. You look at Courtney Kardashian and have decided she doesn't eat glass. You look at NovakJokovic. You look at Cindy Sweeney and

you decide they don't. You look at Mr. Beast. You don't think those [ __ ] eat glass? Those [ __ ] eat a lot of glass. You know what it's like to live in the public eye and have judgment at scale daily? Do you know what it's like to have almost every human being you interact with want something from you and not interested in giving you anything? Who doesn't eat [ __ ] glass? Who the [ __ ] doesn't eat glass? Claudio Mazado says,

"Shut the [ __ ] up, bro." Hey, Claudio, you're you're allowed to leave, bro. I'm not trying too hard. You don't know me, bro. How about that, Claudio? Trying too hard. I'm living life, my guy. What the [ __ ] are you doing, Claudio? I'm trying to help out here. The [ __ ] are you doing, Claudio? People are funny out here. I can't wait to meet Claudio and give him a hug in real life, you know? I like Claudio genuinely. Genuinely.

Like, I don't mind. I know what he's doing. Rage baiting. I get it. I love it. It's fun and like that's why I love it. Like it's all good, but [ __ ] man. Every single human being on Earth eats glass. Who the [ __ ] doesn't eat glass? Bug bite says eating ass. Yes. Some people eat ass, too. It's like that's real life. That's Victoria. You like that one? That Victoria's usually locked in. Yes, it happens. I mean, we're

all grown-ups here. like, "Yes, that happens, too." All right, let's keep it going. Erin, um, I have a question from Roxy. Do you have moments when you lose motivation and feel depressed? What keeps you going? I would not say I have moments of depression because I would say that I have too much of a perspective. I have many moments of micro lack of motivation because I go so hard and I'm a human being and they're just

going to be moments. I'll tell you one thing that's [ __ ] with me. Let me be a little transparent and vulnerable. I'm a little, you know, I love making fun of all my friends that move to Florida cuz I'm like, you're a loser, you know, like, you know, cuz they think they're like A players. I'm like, you're not an A player once you move from New York to to like LA or [ __ ] Miami because you're like in

yoga in the middle of the day and you're like [ __ ] like you're just not like you can't be an A player in Miami. Like, let's just call it a [ __ ] I'm talking like a gangster [ __ ] like, you know, like you're a gangster, which and by the way, most people should be B minus players. Like I But I will say this, I'm a little bit scared about this. As I get older, I definitely am realizing like a

rainy day is not for me. I [ __ ] hate rain. By the way, the suicide data around Seattle and L like I understand it. I don't like rain. I [ __ ] love snow. Like love that must be that like Soviet Russian like it's probably in me, right? I I [ __ ] hate rain. I honestly [ __ ] rain. No, I'm telling you like gloomy rain is like like the only times I kind of feel unmotivated. Eron, there's a direct correlation to

the rain. I'm telling you there is. I can't [ __ ] with rain. [ __ ] hate rain, you know? And then like people are like look other tons of people in the comments like I love rain. That's awesome. That's what I love about life. Like you know what? I used to not like cilantro cuz I had that palette that like is like soap and I and I I always had this ideology that I wanted to like every food and

I forced myself over time by eating it often. Fuego 23, congrats on the pack. Uh I have systematically I have systematically gotten myself to be decent with cilantro. I just decided that I'm going to systematically over the next four years get myself to like rain right here. Wow. Yep. The side on the spot. That's it. That's big. All right, let's move on. All right. Uh, question from Sean. Um, Gary, I'm 21 years old. Hate going to

school. Pumped doing my side hustle being a video editor. What advice would you give for me as a third-year college student trying to balance school and work? Quit school. Quit. Do companies even look at college anymore? Do you know that I'm looking at all of you and you could couldn't I if you if you told me Victoria is the most important person in my professional life. If you asked me what school did Victoria, Emily, Anna, Hannah,

if you g said to me, I will give you $1 billion in cash right now to tell me what colleges they went into they went to. I'd have no clue. I barely know that Ross went to LSU and he wears LSU stuff every [ __ ] day. I have no clue if ready for this one. I don't have a clue if LSU is a good or bad school. I don't know what LSU's good for. I know that Shaq

went to LSU. I know that Joe Burrow went to LSU. I know that a tiger is a mascot. I know it's in New Orleans. If you told me what is LSU good at? Like what's it known for? accounting, nursing, technology. I don't [ __ ] care. That's not real life. Quit school. Especially if that dude's taking on debt. If you are taking on debt in college, mommy and daddy aren't paying for it. The state is not paying for

it. And you hate it. And you don't need it for your profession. You need to be a lawyer. You need to be a doctor. Yes, your mommy and daddy are paying for it. or you got a full ride because you're good at fencing. Yes, you're fine with it and it's kind of like a vacation and you're like doing keg stands and hooking up, definitely. But if you [ __ ] hate it and you're collecting debt, quit now. Yesterday.

Period. Thank you. Next. All right, a question from Jacob, 31 years old. Your video about building fast versus building slow really resonated with me and gave me the push to pursue my passion. I was I was laid off from my fire alarm job 2 weeks ago and decided to go allin on sports and collectible cards. I post daily on X, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Tik Tok using # peakpole daily. Uh but sales have been slow lately

and rents coming up. I do better at card shows, but they only happen monthly. I'm all in and working hard every day. Would love any advice from you. sell them whatnot 24 hours a day. Next. All right, we have a question from a former NFL player. Um, Derek Fine says, "As a former three-year NFL player with ample sales and connector experience at age 41, how do I work for Vayner Sports? I've made the mistakes that will

allow me to help the athletes, which uh returns revenue to the agency. I want my shot because I can be great." So I can't AJ Vaynerchuk my brother is the active CEO CEO of Vayner Sports. He makes that level of decision. However, I love a good co-sign. I love a good give someone an opportunity. Derek, email me at garyvaynerports.com and I will put you in touch with AJ. Next. Okay. Uh Shiva asks, "How do you market

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for five bucks. Not bad. You could be tea with Gary Vee. Next question. Okay. Um, from Tootsie Jr., looking to find my next gig post 70 uh post 67 years old. In 18 months, my corporate risk management job will be over. Not sure where to start. Not about the money, more about what do I want to do. You know what's so funny? Like this question's interesting to me. Like the answer is what are your hobbies? Like

do you love golf? Do you love cooking? Do you like watching whatnot? Do you like like everybody does know the answer to this? And everybody's scared of the answer because they don't think it's a job, you know? Like like again like do you like garage selling? Because like it is a job. You can make like 200,000 a year buying a garage sales and flipping on whatnot and eBay. Like do you like poker? Like you could make

content about poker. Like everyone does know if he's he said he's not the he did well, right? He did well enough that it doesn't have to be about the money. Like it could be anything. You like the horse track, like go to the horse track every day and make content about horse betting and that can lead to sponsorships that can pay for your betting. You like ice cream? Go work at an ice cream shop. Make $19

an hour working at a [ __ ] ice cream shop in Palm Springs and serve the kids. Like I don't know. Like everyone actually knows the answer to these questions. Everybody fears leaning into their happiness. There's this almost inherent subconscious misunderstanding that you can't like do like it can't. This is why I'm am how I am. Like I just fully do what I want. It comes with eating glass every minute of my life. But it's what I want

to do. This goes back to like nothing's perfect. Nothing's easy. Even doing your dream job or your dream thing has its ramifications. There is no perfection. There's just life. And actually, once you realize, you know, somebody said shit's hard. Once you realize shit's actually not hard, once you realize all that hard stuff is actually not hard, did we just get a raid from RTS? We got a raid. We need to give away a huge big away.

RTS with a huge raid. RTS, what does everybody buy at RTS? What do you guys buy over there at RTS? I need to know what RTS is all about so I can Cory X Oh, it's Cor it is. Let's go. Everything. Yeah. All right. What's a good everything? Squish. Squish. Let's give this away. Actually, I'm going to sign it. So, it's a $100 collectible on eBay. Uh oh. Do we have a giveaway? Run that giveaway court

real quick. Get rid of the pack real fast. We've run the giveaway on the pack and the winner. Oh, you did. Oh, what happened? Where'd it go? We drew it. Who won? I don't even see it. It like disappeared. Like data failed for giveaway. It like weird. Yeah, something happened. Whoa. Something went wrong. Something. Whoa. What the hell? Something. All right. All right. Something's wrong. But oh, let's just run another giveaway. It's okay. Here we go.

Cuz Yeah, cuz nobody actually won this iguana squishallow for free in the giveaway for the RTS crew. RTS. Click, click click click click click click. You know what to do. All right, let's go back to Tea with Gary B. The next question. Aaron, fire away. Okay, this is from a comment on one of your YouTube videos. Um, does passion really build billion-dollar brands or do you need to be a little obsessed like V friends to pull

it off? What's your take? Heart or hustle? Both. Passion is often the reason people go out of business cuz they just think, "I'm passionate about this golf business. It'll do great." And it fails. Passion is fuel, but your business is the car and you have to know how to drive it. Ooh [ __ ] Yeah. Whoa. Clip that. Whoa. Yeah. That was That was it. That was it y'all. I got that one. Passion is the fuel, right? The

business is the car. You have to be a great driver. So passion is just one of the elements. And but I do believe that passion allows you to get crazy. Like I think a lot of people build very nice businesses because they just want the money. Oh, I know I can sound I'm good at math. I can start an accounting firm. I'm I I'm not passionate about it, but I'm gonna build a $10 million business and

I'm gonna make 800,000 a year and I'm gonna have this good life. And that's fine, but I think that blows for me. For me, I think it's wonderful for others. But not having passion, not waking up and being pumped, that's what leads to unhappiness. I'd rather make so in fact, I do make so much less money than I could because I choose happiness and I do that now. And people are going to be like, "Well, you

can now." That's what my number one passion and happiness from 22 to 30 was building a company for my parents. You guys know how I feel about my parents. It it makes more sense to you the more you get to know me. Like I love my parents different. I got lucky and I think everybody else who has remarkable parents loves them like that too. But I we were also immigrants and we went through it together. You

know what I mean? I was born in the old country and all those dynamics. So that was my passion that was financially horrible for me. I started this company at 34 in another company's conference room because I had no money. I was 34. I had no money. I'm going say it again. I was 34. I had no money cuz I was living my passion. I was happy as [ __ ] doing it. And then I wasn't. Then I

wanted to build some more monetary gain for me and I changed my mind and I started my own company instead of building my dad's for him. So you know to answer no passion is not the only thing. Like I'm passionate about I'm passionate about being a professional athlete. I Gary am passionate to be the quarterback of the New York Jets. I am more passionate to be the quarterback of the New York Jets and win a Super

Bowl than I am in anything I do in my life. I cannot pull that off. I do not have the talent or capability to do that. Nor did I ever have that talent or capability. I have the talent and capability to potentially buy them one day. That I believe. All right, everybody enter the giveaway. So many of you have not entered. There's 500 entries right up here. Click this button right here. There's 500 entries literally for

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to do it. Number one, you're going to click this link right up here. You're going to click it and you're going to DM us and ask your questions. If you're into comics, pins, comic books, trading cards, uh, you ask that. If you have kids four to 10 and you want to learn about the comic books and the kid books, you ask about that. So, you could do that. Next, the other way you can do this, and

Adrian, please click this. You can text me the word Vfriend Friends. 1212-931-5731. Text the word Vfriend Friends, one word to that number. That's my text number and I will keep you updated and you can ask me questions about it in there. Text me the word V friends. Oh, Scuba Steve, I know you're about it. I love the lazy lines thing. All right, let's keep it going. Okay, we have a a question from Sally. Can you make

content for teens? I actually got a great job just by doing everything you said. I want my son to listen to you, but we don't allow cursing. What do you have for teens? I think this would make a huge impact in my son's life. I'll just wait for your son to get old enough. I mean, you could beep out my content. Good news. In two seconds, there's gonna be AI where you could let me give you

the real answer of 2026. Upload my videos to Gemini to to rock, you know, to runway to all these apps that are coming chatbt and be like, "Here's Gary's video. Can you give me a version where you beep out all his cur curse words?" That's it. That's it. 15 seconds left. 15 seconds left in the giveaway. AI is gonna be amazing. We used to have a clean version channel. Cursary. Yeah. Cursefree Gary B. Just Google that,

but it's old. I don't think we up. We don't really do that. But Sid, I think now with AI, I think we're going to go there, you know, like we have it. But I think like in 2026, we're just going to run everything I put out and just have the AI do it and just upload at scale. Who won? Teddy Bates. Let's cop it up for Teddy Bates. Teddy Bates. Teddy Bates. Teddy Corso. Teddy Bates. Teddy

Bates. All right, next question. Question from Melissa. Melissa. Found my dream job at 61, but One more time. One more time from Melissa. Found my dream job at 61, but always wanted to retire at 65. Any thoughts? Yes, I have huge thoughts. It's called you're allowed to be adaptable and change your mind based on the circumstances of the reality of your life versus the subjective ideology you created for yourself at some point in your younger life.

I stayed disciplined there. I didn't go crazy. That's the actual answer to the question. You arbitrarily in your 20s or teens or 30s decided that you were going to retire at 65. You're now 61 and you found something that makes you happier. You're now allowed to go to 73. You're also allowed to do it for the next four years. And in four years, by the way, [ __ ] changes. It might not be as fun as it is

or dream as it is now. And then you can achieve your life goal of retiring then. Oh, by the way, when you decided 65 was retirement probably 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago, people didn't live to 100 the way they do now. You might want to rethink 65. Do you know what I'm think I'm going to be doing at 65? The same [ __ ] I'm doing right this second. Do you know how funny it's going to be

when I'm like 78 and clearly 78 years old and still like going to garage sales and still like pounding and still doing tea with Gary? Like the same [ __ ] I'm going to be such I'm a ridiculous 49year-old. Imagine how ridiculous this is at 78 and it's be the same [ __ ] I'm in the dirt. I'm a worm from the dirt. I am in New York. Vintage rock, but I grew up in New Jersey. So, the answer is

both. Next question. Question from Sunny. I own a fitness business and I'm closing my brick and mortar to go fully online. How do I stand out in a sea of online fitness businesses and influencers who charge nearly nothing for their content? By understanding that the market is the market is the market. Like supply and demand. like [ __ ] changes uh by giving better content and by having people care more about them. Everybody who's got a personal brand

wants to speak. I get paid more. People feel more connected to me. Give back more. Give back more. Look what I'm doing with Te with Gary Vee right now. Have something to offer, which is yourself. People will pay for things that are free out there if they like the person more. But that's the game. All right. I want to give away one of these pin box. New year, new you. For all the people that just raided,

this is a great little product. You get a pin, you get a keychain, and you get it of one of these characters. Put it up court. Thank you everybody. It is up here. Click, click, click. Free, free, free. Next question. Aaron. Okay. Um, question from Diana. I am going to Fan Addict Fest. Moose. Go ahead. Question from Deanna. Uh, how do you reinvent yourself? Hold on. Brand new says, "Gary, can I have a million dollar loan?"

No. Go ahead. Question from Deanna. How do you reinvent yourself at an older age? For instance, if you have always done sales, how do you pivot to marketing or something you know you would be better at? Nobody gave a [ __ ] that you did sales. You're allowed to do marketing. People are in their feelings too much. It doesn't matter that you did sales. Now you do marketing by start making content and just changing your LinkedIn profile. You're

like, I do marketing now. Nobody cares about these things. That's old thinking. You just need one person to say yes. Do you know that's what life's all about? Everyone like everyone's like, "Oh, I can't get a girlfriend." You sure can. Ask out every girl you see in the world. One will say yes. Erada, do you like that one? It's true. Uh Gary, nobody will take me serious because all my LinkedIn is sales and I want to

do marketing. Email 4,000 people on LinkedIn and say you do marketing and you learn these things from sales and one person will say yes. I'm trying out here, folks. I'm trying. Like, life is so simple and yet everyone decided to make it so complicated. I would say humans great skill is complicating simplicity. Life's simple. You just made it hard. Next, uh, from from Kaden. I'm a 25-year-old. Hi, Emma. Hi. Hi. Um, Kaden asks, "I'm a 25-year-old

guy. I have a YouTube channel with around 500 subscribers, but I haven't posted in years, and my personality and interests have changed drastically. Is this a lost cause? Do I start a whole new channel? I need someone to slap me in the face with reality." Start a new channel. 500 anyway, who gives a [ __ ] Nonquest. Next. Okay. Um, question from Jason. Uh, how do you deal with a franchiser who micromanages their brand? I'm the consultant and

all creativity and innovation gets blocked by a controlling founder as a franchise. Well, what's his name? Jason. Repeat the question. How do you deal with a franchiser who micromanages their brand? I'm the consultant and all creativity and innovation gets blocked by controlling founder by not being a consultant. I love when consultants complain. You're an opinionator, not the executor. You want to control [ __ ] own your own [ __ ] And guess what you do? You own your consulting business.

Which means in this scenario, he can fire the client. They're allowed. Leave. Oh, but you want to keep taking the money. Well, if you're taking the money and somebody else has the control, you have to deal with their [ __ ] There's an old Russian saying that my dad used to love to say. Whoever pays for the music gets to pick the song. You don't want mommy and daddy to tell you how to live your life cuz you're

24. Stop taking their money. You don't want to have mommy and daddy have power on you and tell you who you should date, how you should live, where you should work, because you're 25. I've got a big secret for you. Stop taking their money and you got all the control back. Yeah, Ronald, it's not harsh. It's actually liberating. Ronald said, "Damn harsh." Actually, not really. Actually, profound. What's harsh is all the kids right now that are

26 that hate that their parents are in their business and don't realize by not taking the money, their parents are totally out of their business. Yeah. I like tea with Gary Vee. I think we're gonna do this every single day that I'm in New York. What do you guys all think? What do you think? Bringing Tea with Gary Vee back full-time post Labor Day. Like really actually all the way like I've been saying. Should I lock

in? Feels like very productive. It feels like it's helping. Like I'm getting a lot of good DMs. Like people like it feels good. Feels right. Last question. Okay. Uh this question is from Darren. Um Gary, I'm a realtor. You mentioned about going live on Instagram, Tik Tok. Uh, when you have no one watching, what should I be talking about? Any ideas? Well, if you have no one watching, like there's no such thing. Like, you get one

person to watch. What's that? Kevin one. Kevin, nice win. Kev, it's big. Everybody, we need for tea with Gary Vee the ability to show eBay comps. We're going to We can pull up for you. No, no. I'm talking like on the screen like they do on the TV behind you. No, I want to do it the other way. We'll get there eventually. Could be could be a month. It's fine. All right. Um, what was happening? Who

was I talking to? What did he talk about as a realtor on live like on Instagram? Like first make content so you build up a couple hundred followers. Text Andy Craniac all the way to Zack Nadler in your phone and everybody in between. Ask them to watch your content. build an audience of seven. When I started Wine Library TV, I had 30 watchers, then 41, then 57. Like, I don't like I, you know, like just make

content. Make content. Put in the words. Put in the actions to the words I'm saying. Sneak one more in. Okay, a quick one. Um, any tips for speaking on camera for someone who's never done it before to do it. I think it's actually my post today on social that was the thing that that thing I posted it how's it doing just okay yeah be by the way I didn't think it was going to go crazy I

thought it had the 0.1% chance of like becoming a thing but like the reason something like this doesn't crush is every time I put out content that nobody [ __ ] wants to accept they don't let it crush we love entitlement it. We love like universal health care and healthcare and we're going to take care of you and like and CEOs are bad and corporations are bad and government's bad and your parents are bad and jobs are bad

and everyone's bad but you. Oh, that content does well. It's everybody's fault on earth but yours. That crushes when I do this when I do this. I'm an entrepreneur. Here's my answer to the question cuz I did it. I did it yesterday. I'm Gary and I'm an entrepreneur. I'm Gary and I'm an entrepreneur. That's what you should post. And here's the reason why post on social media can be this. Oh. Oh [ __ ] I forgot about this

part. I got to go. All right. So get in. Get on in there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yo yo yo. About to learn about V friends more and more and win some giveaways. Hey guys. Corso. Oh wow. Corso V. I don't want to get fired. No, you're not. He's not. He's not