$240,000/year In-Office Job or the $120,000/year Fully Remote Job?

0:00Congratulations everybody you have gotten to the positive practical place of the internet you You found it, you stumbled on it, you're here. Everybody, thank you for joining. I'm here to answer your questions. This team with GaryVee 102, we're gonna get this cooking. Good morning, good morning, good morning. Thank you, Gary, since 2019, you saved my life. Autism dad awareness, I love you, that's very kind. This is the GaryVee Audio Experience. Ticket to coupons, Gary, you're my hero bro. Andrea Espinosa, thank you for that, it's very kind. Good morning, Kevin, I see you in the chat. If you have a question for me, go into the chat right now and type out your question and put five question marks at the end of the question so the team can see it and they can ask me.

0:44You guys got the mic? You guys are ready for that? That's going to be your mic. Very nice. OG Collector shared the live. Thank you so much. If you shared the live, let me know. I'm going to do a quick little minute of just thanking people. GMB, thank you. Oliver James, thank you. Arlene Wilkinson, thank you. Leo Lamacco, thank you. Thank you so much. for joining. First question is, what's the live shopping advice for a local florist? That you go live on these live shopping platforms with a product you can ship nationally, but then you make, so she can pick anything. She can make, she can sell non-live flowers.

1:30She could. See, friends, Everything in life when people say no is actually maybe. So let me break this down. You're a florist and you're local. Makes sense that TikTok shop. Everybody, all 600 of you right now, tell me where you're located. Everybody in the chat right now, city, state, country, go. So it would make sense team that a local florist might not be able to do what I'm doing right now and achieve what they want. Look at everybody. Everyone's all over the place. Southern Illinois, Sarasota, California, Sanford, Texas. That doesn't make sense. Or does it? What if she bought or had a vase for flowers that she could ship nationally?

2:12Now she can go live, right? Everybody pay close attention, everybody. If you have a local business that you sell stuff, services, haircuts, lawnmowers, services are not ready for live shopping. By the way, all these platforms are eventually gonna create local gating for services. like if you're a barber you can go live and it's only showing to people within a five mile like you can toggle that that'd be awesome and that's gonna happen I think I would if I was TikTok do that but nonetheless she can create a vase that she can ship anywhere but while she's selling like everybody check out my vase and she's bringing value like I'm doing now hey let me tell you how to actually trim flowers let me tell you how to hey everybody this morning I'm telling you all how to keep Did your hubby surprise you last night?

3:01Let me tell you how to keep your flowers. Did you buy flowers for yourself, boys and girls? Let me tell you how to get three weeks out of it instead of the normal three days people. And she breaks down and she's doing her floor stuff. She's like, by the way, in the store right now, everybody pin to the bottom. Pin something corny, a comic book or something just so people can see what it looks like. Pin to the bottom is my vase. We can ship this out. I highly recommend it. It's made this way. This is why it's good. But while she's doing that, Sid, every 20 minutes, she's like, And to remind you all, I'm in Short Hills, New Jersey.

3:31So if you're in a 20 mile radius, link in bio, I'm happy to work with you. So what's happening there, Sid, is she's created a national product that has given her justification to be live that allows her to sell a local product on the occasional local opportunity. Look what I'm about to do next year with Wine Library. Wine Library, my dad's liquor store that ships to 30 states and services New Jersey local, alcohol is not ready for live. I can be like wah wah or I can do what I'm gonna do as you guys know which is stand up the food and the glassware. But while Brandon and the team are selling glassware they're also gonna be able to say hey check out winetext.com and so that's gonna be a show where they're just selling glassware but what we're really doing is onboarding people got it?

4:26Lincoln bio, Lincoln bio, Lincoln bio, Lincoln bio. Everybody, how many people, how many people got that? Captain Cleetus, thank you. How many people got what I did there? How many people got, like, do you see what's happening? What I also like is I decided this morning I was going to slow down by 20%. I get too excited on TikTok Live. I'm too overstimulated. I'm overstimmed. There's too many people in the chat and I love them all. All I wanna really do is talk to Samantha Cook and Joseph J, and Klo's, who just joined, Klo Lachance and Nora and all these people. All I really wanna do is jam with them, right?

5:02Good job. All I wanna do is Amber Johnson and Matt Grail, but I'm gonna slow it down so I can give you deeper answers like I just did. I gotta slow it down. In that scenario, black shopping, I wish they would you recommend they go beyond flowers and they start doing merch, because flowers, for example, probably such a great market to do apps, like shares, all those things. Yeah, I mean, I think everybody here, for example, again, if you're a barber or a landscaper, getting into merch allows you to now be on live, and three to 5 % of the audience, 1 % of the audience might actually be local enough.

5:40How about this? How many people here have a relative somewhere else? How about that? Here's a good one. How many people have a relative somewhere else? I think you know where I'm about to go. Which is like, now the barber's got, you know, plus a barber has clippers. A barber has shaving, by the way, talk about needing a shave. You know, a barber has other things. A landscaper could, if she or he wanted to, they could be a TikTok affiliate to sell weed killer, grass growing, clipper, you could. But more importantly, while they're talking, they might reach someone that likes them on live right now that lives in Chicago.

6:28They might be doing landscaping in Orlando, Florida, but that Chicago person might have a fucking first cousin in Orlando and says, you gotta check this guy out. does everybody understand what the fuck word of mouth is does everybody understand what free exposure is let's share share share this morning everyone like people understand like do y 'all understand this morning the world is small it's such a great comment Samantha the world can be very small how many people watching right now have no idea who the hell I am no clue no clue Bruno thank you for joining Leah Cohen thank you Mr. Paul Wise Alana Miller, like, you know, when you go live, you're just randomly meeting new friends.

7:12Who's a new friend of mine right now? Who's a new friend of mine right now? Who's a new friend? Ariel DeJesus, thank you. Bruno, thank you. Big Rich, good to see you, my guy. J.S. Masks, Danny Savage is new. I'm an old friend, let's go Leslie, right? These are just new friends. Look at all these new friends. Romero, we're just new friends. New friends. DK Art says I'm getting dressed, I'm a nude friend, not a new friend, I like that. People are clever up in this bitch. All right, let's keep it going. Let's answer some questions. In a world, my name is. In a world where everyone wants autonomy but you want responsibility, how do you build a culture where your people hold each other accountable, not just wait for you to step in?

8:05One more time. In a world where everyone wants autonomy, but few want - Got it. In a world where everyone wants autonomy. And few want responsibility. And few want responsibility. How do you build a culture where your team holds each other accountable, not just waiting for you to step in? By being a dictator. By being a leader. By having candorous conversations with, here's my whole team, and I'm like, if I wanted you all to be accountable, I'd be like, yo, I want you all to be accountable. I know you're laughing, Sid, because it's simple. Here's what she's really asking, or he, she, right? She, my question to her is, is she willing to deliver the verdict on the consequences when people aren't delivering?

8:58You three know I've been making decisions.

9:04I could dwell in like, oh, I don't like what Braden and Sin and Train are doing. I can communicate it and be like, hey. And by the way, I play it different all the time. You guys know this. Sometimes I'm willing to let it slide. People have misposted things. People have forgotten to do things. People have done it the wrong way. I don't think this was Train. I think in this year, I felt like we did a whole vlog somewhere where none of it was filmed. It was like a big thing. What was that? I don't remember. It was from my return. Yeah, that's right. Filmed the whole thing, gone. Yeah, just happened, things happen.

9:44Right, I can decide if I want to create consequences or not. Leaders, it's on you. Everybody wants it to be easier consciously or subconsciously. Somebody said get some sleep, brother. No, dude, I'm 50, bro. This is just happening now. I'm not gonna do the thing. And I don't have the light. I'm like, bro, I'm getting sleep. I'm on that 7, 8, 9. There's just 50-year-old life here. You know, leaders, you're in charge. Leaders, you're in charge. Leaders, you're in charge. And we're assuming that everyone wants autonomy. Some people really want to reach out. No, but I think she's not wrong. Like employees, and I have unlimited employees.

10:31Employees talk shit. Employees talk that shit. I mean, I know all of it, like this room has talked shit about bosses they've had. Currently you all think Sid's a bozo. You know, like I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I'm joking, but what I'm saying is there's no way on earth you think everything Sid does is right. There's no way on earth you think everything that I do is right, which is appropriate because it's true. However, I do think that humans.

11:08Whoa. Whoa. Wishburn, that was so cool. Whoa, that was insane. Yo, TikTok's crazy, y 'all. That was insane. Was that serious sperm whale from Bee Friends? VeeBriends? Was that, guys VeeBriends has a character named, if you wanna know why VeeBriends is the best in the world, it's because VeeBriends literally has a character named Sirius Sperm Whale.

11:45Wow. So anyway, to her, she's in charge. And I would always say, cut the cancer out. if that's a team of seven or eight, inevitably, often, if the whole thing's not working, there's a root cause. It's either Sally or Ricky. Somebody's fucking the shit up. Thank you, Sam. Thank you so much. Lisa's pulse check. Thank you. Great to see all of you. Great to see all of you in here. Renegade Ranger. Great to see all of you. Happy holidays, everybody. So happy to be here with you in the morning. I'm going to be live a lot next year. Everybody, top left corner. Hit my face. if you don't follow me and you don't get notifications.

12:29How many people here got notified? Thank you for that little bow. How many people here got notified to come on? Somebody said, can you turn up the mic volume? Can barely hear you. I think people are hearing me now. You guys hearing me? I think you're good, right? Notified. Everybody. Yeah, it's loud. Top left corner is my face. Click my face and hit follow. Thank you for dragging that. I've always wanted that. And hit the bell. hit the bell hit the bell top right corner right top right corner my face top right top left excuse me I'm sorry top left corner hit my face hit the bell hit my face hit the bell if you just hit the bell let me know that you just hit the bell by the way how many of you showed up to this live for my post on TikTok have we put that up yet how many people did we do that yet or not yet alright let's keep it going Everybody, let's keep it going.

13:27Next question. While adapting, I'm now 52 and battling a man and I'm terrified of not having enough time with my wife and son. I feel like I did everything right in life and still ended up here. When the future feels brutally uncertain, how do you stay mentally present and keep living with meaning instead of influencing the fear? This is tough. I'm so sorry, brother, you're dealing with this. I mean, I think the answer is very simple here, which is you have to lean into complete focus on maximizing every day. If we're in advanced cancer mode, of course, fear is going to seep in. Doing everything right, unfortunately, has no impact on predisposed genetic diseases and just the way, you know, life is, I think, incredibly fair in every aspect of life, except one, the randomization of disease or tragedy.

14:23Right? And so I just have a lot of love. What was the gentleman's name? Lyle, first of all, I love you, bro. I send you nothing but prayers. I wish you nothing but a remarkable turnaround. But brother, if you're asking me, and this is a very humble one man's opinion, this is incredibly tough territory for me to speak on, but I would say, you just gotta fucking enjoy every day, period, and the story. And that's just good overall advice, but you know, for life, and I do think people struggle with that. I think so much of my platform is trying to get people to simplify and realize life is good. But in this circumstance, you've really got to lean in.

15:03You've really got to lean into that. So heavy prayers for you, my brother. The video is up, cool. All right, let's keep it going. Tension 3-3, good to see you. Alina, thank you. Don Boros, thank you for joining. Prime, thank you for joining. No Boat, thank you for joining. Trillionaire Test, thank you for joining. Do we have a comic book pinned? What comic? Great. Comic Five, everybody, is pinned at the bottom. If you're a collector, how many people are into Pokemon, Marvel, or Comic-Con, anime, or manga? Put what I just listed, if you're into those things, put that word in here. If you're, yes, you can get, Robnice48, you can get a shout out.

15:50if you're one of those people that are into that. Wayne King, you need to learn VFriends then. If you're into that and you don't know VFriends, please learn it and I highly recommend Comic 5, which is going to be a legend. I'm going to shop that thing to Hollywood. Imagine that becomes a movie. Awesome, all right, let's keep it going. All right, this question has been from Maya. I'm over 30 and have a question. How do we best dose being silly and playful while being a serious adult? I'm under the impression that we lose more and more of the childlike behaviors, behavior privileges as years go by because more people don't see that as socially acceptable.

16:27So from the top? I'm over 30 and have a question. How do we best dose being silly and playful while being a serious adult? By tuning out the noise. Like I'm silly and playful now. I'm 50.

16:46By just living. by tuning out the noise. Like either you're, what up, Jay Carlin, Clark, Jersey, in the house. Like, it's not super complicated. Like, I don't know why everyone here continues to overvalue the opinions of others. We talk about this on a daily, right? You know, I don't know what to say. Like, either you're gonna live your life based on other people's opinions or you're not. And in fact, you know this, one of the things I'm very focused on in 2026 is to talk about people leaning more into childish behavior. I think more silliness, I think more play, I think more fun, I think is something people really need to hear.

17:33I think a lot of people, like for example, like board games these next two weeks with the family, good. Like games, silly, jokes, like, I mean, man, I don't know. Like stand-up comedy, comedians really fascinate me because I think they're a reflection of society. They either get to the top from darkness. We all know that a lot of comedians, ironically, unfortunately, are very dark. They use stand-up, they use comedy to like deal with their demons. And that's why we have so much suicide and alcoholism and drug use. And we all know that, right? We know. We can name a lot of historically amazing comedians who really used comedy as their disguise and their escapism from their darkness.

18:15and eventually the truth comes out. And then you have the other side. We had a comedian and a childish human just have their 100th birthday. You know, the Betty Whites, the George Carlins, and now Dick Van Dyke just got to 100. Laughter and joy in play is massive. And when it comes from a place of good, not as a place of disguise and as an offset or a way to deal with the dark, it will get you to a very happy long life. I am positive I'm no doctor I've done no research on this let me say it nice and slow I am positive how much you laugh and how much you smile has a direct correlation on your lifespan I am positive

19:09somebody said how does a guy stay happy wearing a jet shirt things like that very easy you're looking at a man who likes the losing you're looking at a man who likes the losing I grew up a Yankees fan and they won once and I stopped caring Joey V I'm gonna try I don't know 20 years you know the genius coin great to see you Elena good to see you David Joseph Jacko Tudor A3 everybody thank you for joining who's joining right now Wise Kenya Jim Dandy thank you for joining John thank you for joining Brian thank you for joining I'm really appreciative of everybody. Share, share, share on the bottom right corner.

19:45Hit the share button, please share. Double tap the screen. I need a heart's explosion. Everybody double tap the screen multiple times. Let's keep it going. Mike Rossi asks, you respond to rude comments or just block the poster? I respond, you know, if it's something super disgusting and it's upsetting people in the chat, on comments as you guys know, So we leave it and I respond occasionally. In live, sometimes people are just really distracting everybody from it. So they are once in a while think the mods will block. By the way, TikTok itself is blocking people now. Right, so, but I don't mind judgment.

20:26I don't mind misunderstanding of me. I don't mind hate towards me. I approach it with empathy and compassion and sympathy. If somebody has a need at 941 in the morning Eastern or even earlier in the rest of the US, or if it's midday in Europe, if they have a need to come here and spew darkness, they're just in a bad place. Like on December 19th, in the holiday spirits, if you're waking up this morning at 941 in the morning and you're coming into this chat or someone else's post or another chat and you're spewing hate, how can I be mad at you? You're my brother. You're my sister. You're my fellow human, I feel bad for you.

21:11I definitely don't feel bad for me. This is the thing that I wish haters knew. That real winners love when you spew it. I want to be booed. If haters understood what their hateful comments were actually doing to a real winner. Now there's a lot of insecure people that are fugazi and they're fake happy and winning and a hateful comment really hurts them. But if haters and trolls and the hurt understood what their hateful comments did to actual winners when they do it, it would really depress them. They'd be really fucking sad. You know, it's just embarrassing. Like, I don't know. I go from compassion, empathy, love.

22:02I'm like, damn. I wish, I hope they keep, you know, my mind, I hope they stay. That's why when everyone's like, should we block them? I'm like, keep them here. Let them stay and see what love and hope and accountability and ownership and can do can mean. But then the next feeling after a little while, you know, I'm just a human too. If it sustains, it just gets into like embarrassing. And not that my judgment should carry any weight on them, but like, that's what I feel. I definitely don't feel like, oh, they were right. I'm sad. I'm sad. That ain't it. Everybody understand? Everybody get that?

22:42RJ, you get that? You understand? Eva, Rips is always working. I have no idea where he is. Floss Boys, you understand? Kansas Cat, you understand? Colon. The Rocket Fuel MND, you understand? Mikey L, you get it? Megan, you understand? Antiques with Mike Grossi, you understand? Locker Room Dads, got it? Roger, you understand? Casey, you got, I want all 722 of you to say, I understand. Cam and Kate said, PS, go Pats, be careful. Lady Coast, I literally spoke to DRock two days ago in a 30-minute meeting about VFriends. Marla, the spicy chef, you understand? Friends, do not let negative comments, people that are hurting, affect you.

23:32It's not about you, it's about them. instead of being so egotistical and selfish and narcissistic and being like about you, why don't you show some heart and love and feel bad for them? I feel bad for you if you leave negative comments. I have love for you. I'm sad. And you, friends, good news. Who's new here? Who's literally here for the first time ever? You've never hung with me before. Say first time ever. I've got good news for you. You found the positive practical part of the internet. You found it. This is the PP corner. You found the PP corner of the internet. Positive and practical. Rona, welcome.

24:09You found the fucking PP corner of the internet. This is the positive and practical. It's positive, but it's practical. I'm not gonna help you. You're gonna help you. I'm not a bullshit politician that's gonna trick you that like, oh, you can't do it, but I got you. I'm gonna take care of it. I'm gonna take care of it for you. Vote for me. I'm gonna take care of it for you. I'm not gonna take care of shit for you. I'm gonna give you an insight or a perspective or an idea, but you motherfuckers gotta do something. I can tell you to do pushups. It's good. Are you gonna do it? Man, I love you all.

24:50I'm really happy. Let's get to the next question. Yeehaw! With the cowboy fucking hat. Let's go. Let's go. Would you rather make$120 ,000 a year to work fully remote or$240 ,000 if you go into office five days a week? A lot of the discourse has been around the fact that Gen Z is more like working from home for less pay, older generations are choosing to go into office. Is there something you would add to that combo of people considering that? Me, Gary, first of all, both answers are fine and right. Both answers and debate on the$120 ,000,$240 ,000 are fine and correct. I would do 120 and go into the office.

25:33How about that twist? Let me explain what I mean by that. Meaning of those two things, the thing that matters to me the most is not the 240 or the 120 or from work from home. I need people. You know how many Gen Zers have figured out they need people? Braden's about to go back to North Dakota and he wants to be back with his family and his people, but it's gonna be interesting to see whether he likes being here or not. My intuition is I know him well enough. He liked it. It's gonna be awesome that he's home. It's gonna be awesome that his dollar goes further in North Dakota than here. There's gonna be a lot of awesome.

26:08But I think, and I can see your body language, you're agreeing with me, the one thing we're worried about is is it gonna be lonely? I feed off people. By the way, there's a ton of boomers that want to make 120 and be at home because they're introverted, they like it quiet, they like their home. they want to take care of their kid, all correct. There's a lot of Gen Zers that want to be in the office too. Like this is not a fucking, I'm so tired of this fucking boomer and Gen Z thing. I'm so fucking tired of this shit. Why do we think this is appropriate? Why do we think it's appropriate to bucket all Gen Zers and all boomers in one thing?

26:47That'd be like, you know, all black people are and all women are and all Jews are and all this, what are we fucking doing here? enough of this shit as if these fucking politicians haven't gotten you to hate each other for religion and race and gender and financial status. They had to throw another one in there for you. We should hate each other based on when we were fucking born. I'm fucking pissed about this actually. So let me say it nice and slow if you don't fucking get it. There's unlimited fucking Gen Zers that want to be in the office five days a week because they fucking feed off other people and they learn through osmosis.

27:26And there's unlimited fucking boomers that want to work from home because they want to take care of their kids or they like their little office or they like their kitchen. Enough.