If You’re Scared About Money and Your Job, This Is for You

0:00Nine to five is not bad. crying about your nine to five and doing nothing about it is bad. Nine to five is not bad. Crying about it and doing nothing about it and hanging out with other complainers, that's bad. Period. This is the Gary Vee Audio Experience. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to Tea with Gary Vee, episode 99. All right, triple digits. Santee, thank you for joining. Fat Boy Joya, thank you for joining. Brooke, Courtney, thank you for joining. I really appreciate it. I'm 13 stressed about money. Random legend edits that is crazy. You can't be scared about money at 13 when you've literally just started life.

0:42I get it. You can't be worried. You could be strategic. You could be thoughtful. I think we've really fucked up words in society recently. Everything is like imposter syndrome and like stress and like all these like kind of like heavy words. It's almost like the whole world has gone over-therapied and I think it's really hurting us. I don't think you're worried about money. People didn't talk like that in 86. You weren't worried about money, you were thinking about it or challenged by it or trying to figure it out. I feel like the words have gotten too heavy and I think it's got people fucked up.

1:20Trauma, everything's trauma. You know, like, like, Raghav, like, if somebody like scrapes their elbow, They're like, I have like arm trauma. I'm like, no, you scraped your fucking elbow, dick. You know, so anyway. How would you like relate that one to the question we had before which was like being over aware of things? Yeah, I mean it goes back to foundational things to your point, right? Like it's to your point. Like I feel like when I hear trauma or I hear the world is shit or I hear like everything's fucked up or I hate this, I just kind of am like I don't believe you. Like when teachers told me I was going to be a failure in life because I got D's and F's my response as a 14, 15, 16 year old was you're wrong.

2:08That was based on confidence and self esteem. I think we have such a pandemic of lack of self esteem that all these things are hurting us. This is why we fear to post on social media because we fear negative feedback. This is when someone says trauma we're like ugh. This is when a kid in here goes through their TikTok and it says, boomers have ruined it for Gen Z. This whole thing, houses are more expensive than ever. No one can afford a home. While there are thousands and tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of teenage millionaires because of social media, YouTube, and live shopping. That's the thing that I'm struggling with, that people are choosing the down, like it's muggy outside right now.

2:57It's like ugly in New York right now. It's gray, right? Let me just show you all. There it is. You see the gray? It's gray, right? You know, I'm aware that a lot of people are like, oh, today's a crappy day. And my brain goes into like, or it could be full sunshine outside in 87 and you might get a phone call that your grandfather passed away. Like I don't know, I choose not to accept the negative. I'm not delusional. You know, I'm not unaware. I believe separation of wealth is an issue for America and first world countries. I get that people are affected by weather. I myself, remember the other day I decided I'm not gonna be mad at rain anymore?

3:38That was like another version. That's like me with food. Like I didn't like uni or cilantro and I decided I was gonna like it. Like I think it's a mindset and everybody, the opening theme for Tea with Gary Vee today on episode 99 is like, it's a mindset. And that's the theme overall. Like, real talk, if you've stumbled on this right now, thank you. Hey everybody, I hope you're enjoying the podcast right now. Make sure you follow the podcast. That's why I'm interrupting. Let's keep going on this show, but follow the podcast. It'll make my mom super happy. Daddy, try making$15.50 an hour and provide for your spouse in three quick wealth.

4:12Yeah, I agree. But, you know, I'm the one who said wealth is an issue. But again, you don't have to make$15.50. I get that it's hard out there. My hope is that the gentleman who said, try to make$15.50 and provide for the family realizes that after hours, weekends, like for example, this platform. Let's just be very direct. Everybody here, who here is aware of what TikTok affiliate is? This is live, flower power. If you're watching right now, do you know what TikTok affiliate is? If you're watching right now, do you know what TikTok affiliate is? Right? Everybody who says they don't know what TikTok affiliate is, please go chat GPT, how do I become a TikTok affiliate?

5:00If you do not know what TikTok affiliate is right now, please go to chat GPT and type in how do I become a TikTok affiliate? All of you can sell product that's on TikTok by making content on TikTok. And if God willing, one of your pieces of content hits, you can make some side cash. Everyone can do that. You can literally do that if you get to your job 10 minutes before every day and you can make a video in your car. A lot of car videos go viral. You know, yes, I've been doing this for a little over a year, not really making anything. Aurora, that's amazing. That means that you haven't figured it out yet, but many have, right?

5:45And by the way, there's a lot of things that I have not figured out yet, but many have. I've not fully attacked Substack the way I want to. Many have. I have figured out TikTok shop, live shopping. Many haven't. Like, that's the thing, right? Like, I just think that there's so much opportunity and instead of saying like, oh, it sucks and I'm stuck and it sucks out there, I think a lot of you can fix it. I think politicians have done a really good job telling you you're not capable. They're gonna fix it for you. I'm out here trying to give you direct information. I just gave direct information, right?

6:21You can do TikTok affiliate. A lot of you said, no, I don't know what that is. I told you to go to chat GPT, ask the prompt, and it will give you full details. Now it's on you. I'm out here selling positivity and practical business advice. And yet I'm telling you I can't help you. You can help you. Politicians out here saying you suck, you're a loser, but I can take care of you? Get your fucking mind right, everyone. And everybody, you can go live like I am right now and pin something that you're selling in the store. For all of you Pokemon and card collectors, I can pin this right now. Do you have a blaster box?

6:58Now, who's curious about what's hovering over my head? These are these cards. Is everybody curious about what's hovering over my head? It's right there. I'm building the next Pokemon and Marvel. Look at this, the Gary B comic book. Like you can do this too. And Vixie Films says, how do I do that? All of it is ChatGPT. How do I go on TikTok Live and sell stuff in a TikTok shop? Enter. It will give you full details. All of you need to have ChatGPT or Gemini or some sort of app defaulting your phone to ask questions. Thank you so much, Big Sauce Nacho. Let's get into the questions. Ask your questions.

7:37I got my team reading. Nereya, Raghav, I'm ready. Let's go. I'm 40, single with no kids, all my life I've worked 12 to 14 hours a day. Where can I find motivation when I don't have any support from the outside? You found motivation. Like, Norea, this is an amazing question. This young lady, and I say young, she's 40 you said, right? Yeah. She is motivated. If she's saying, hey, I'm hitting a roadblock, I'm starting to burn out, I'm starting to like lose that motivation. the motivation always comes from the fact of having no choice she has these children that she loves more than breathing and she's going to provide the question isn't motivation per se though that's important and the way you find motivation is hanging out in places like this right what is this what are we doing right now this is a place where people are choosing to look for optimism or love or positivity because it's real.

8:37She could literally have just heard me, Nerea, and literally learned how to do TikTok affiliate and literally could make a video about a skincare product that she got eligible for and literally changed the course of her life. This is just real. People can say anything they want and be like, oh, that's not real or this and that. I know how people think, but it is real, right? It is happening. How many people here have made money from affiliate or TikTok shop or whatnot or things of that nature? How many people here have had that happen? Michigan, favorite Pinot Noir is actually coming on Wine Text.

9:15Wine Text dot, hmm. Look it up. Nareil, you seeing this? Jennifer's, me, like I have, it's real, Slugger Society. These are just everyday people, right? Right? These are just everyday people. So I think the motivation comes from realizing you have no goddamn choice. You have no goddamn choice. Motivation comes from no choice. And it sounds dark. People hear that, they're like, ah, I'm triggered. I'm motivated by no choice. What are you gonna give up and lay on a couch and turn off the lights and be depressed? I mean, I get that. People have mental health issues. I get that. But this is about grit and perseverance.

10:01And then how do you balance that garbage, that eating the dirt? You balance it by in every moment that you have free, instead of watching Netflix to escape the crap, instead of drinking alcohol to escape the crap, instead of gambling like we talked about yesterday to escape the crap, you have to go and spend those hours on the offense. If you work Monday through Friday on the grind, but you can't wait to wake up Saturday morning to go to the thrift store or to a flea market to garage sale to hunt and find stuff to then sell on eBay at nights or on this and make a couple thousand bucks on the side?

10:40Well, that's the game. I don't know what else to tell you. Like, it is. Or like post-it. Like, it's just, you know, it's real. It's real. Look at those little birds. Oh, is that a flute? All right. Winkle says, offense isn't a gamble. Correct. Offense is the only non-gamble. When you're on defense, when you get the safe job, we're about to all learn what I've been yelling about for 30 years. The safe job is about to be unsafe.

11:16The only thing that's not a gamble is offense. Who really knows football? Who really knows American football in here? Who really knows American football? Let me know if you know American football. If you really, really, really know American football, then you know prevent defense prevents you from winning. For everybody who doesn't know American football, this is what prevent defense was in the 80s and 90s. They don't do this really much anymore. You'd play the whole game and you're up 17, 13, and now the other team has the last drive of the game. And you play this version of defense that was different than you played the whole game.

11:56You were just trying to keep them in front of you so they don't get behind you for the big touchdown. But what you're doing is letting them get all these chunk plays along the field and then they score touchdown and you lose.

12:09The only non-gamble in life is going on offense. And you've been taught that going on offense is the gamble because the school system was literally created to create factory workers. Let us put you in a system for 12 years of your youth to pay attention to us controlling you and judging you every 90 days, quarter check-ins. And if you play nice, boys and girls, you'll get an A. And then when you become 18 or 22, nothing you just did had anything to do with real life. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. and all your parents came from parents that lived in the Great Depression who had three cents to their name so they're scared of everything.

12:58So they're telling you to be safe and get a good job. Everybody's about to learn that the safe job was not safe because AI is coming and there will be a reset and good news everyone, you're not gonna lose your job to AI, you're gonna lose your job to someone that uses AI. so here we are all together right now all 1140 of us and if you have a job I'm telling you right now to use AI every day at home use ChatGPT if you're an architect you ask ChatGPT what apps what AI apps should I be using to learn more of how to use AI for architecture AI enter it will tell you you use AI to learn AI

13:43Dave asks do you believe that views achieved carry different weight for different pieces of content? I think views achieved is the goal of organic social. All of you should be pumping unlimited organic social, unlimited organic social to try to get to a place of awareness for whether that's to get a job or to sell your product or whatever it is. Obviously, the way this gentleman's asking the question, Rogoff, views, obviously there's different outcomes. If I get a million views around this comic book, I will get a lot of sales. If I get a million views about me talking about dropping regret and stop looking backwards, that's more brand impact.

14:25I gave people some love, right? That isn't a transactional value, but that doesn't matter to me because I'm not looking for transactional value 90 % of the time. So yes, of course, views aren't all equal to what they create. They create either brand and affinity. They create sales. How about getting 7 million views for going viral for doing some dumb shit? What if I did something stupid and not ethical and it got 70 million views? Well, those views have a different outcome too. That's brand damage. So, that's just life. Yes, they all act differently. But it is the goal, right? At the highest level.

15:06Let's keep it going. Alan asks, how I get trust hiring the right digital marketing company or people to promote my fans and their business? Hiring agencies and employees is guessing. You do your best. You ask your best questions and you go with your intuition. Hiring isn't what you should be caught up on. It's firing when you know. So, for example, when you hire an agency, make sure that you have a 30-day clause. like if you're you know don't let an agency try to slip in like you have to give us 180 days notice if you're firing us contractually look at the fine print make sure you got a 30 day out so now you go with 60 days it's not working 100 days you're like wait a minute I made a mistake I have buyer's remorse you notify them and 30 days out you're out with employees it's easier you give you try to be gracious and you give them you know a couple weeks if they've only worked with you for a couple months a couple weeks severance.

16:02If they've been with you for a longer time, you give them more. But everyone's so caught up and crippled by the hiring. The hiring isn't the issue. It's knowing when to fire. Let's keep it going. Everybody, who's new to me right here? Who's new to me right here? Who's never seen me before? You've literally just FYP'd. Who just FYP'd? Say FYP in the chat. You've literally never seen me before. or maybe you saw one video once. Who's brand new to me? And if you're one of those people who just FYP'd and brand new to me, Chris304, I'm gonna explain right now. I'm Gary Vaynerchuk, I'm an entrepreneur, I'm an author, I'm a public speaker, I'm a creator, I'm a businessman.

16:47I was an early investor in Facebook and Twitter, these are the stocks, Facebook and Twitter, and Tumblr, Uber, Venmo, Liquid Death. I co-founded and created Resi. So I was one of, me and Ben Leventhal created Resi. You might know that, the restaurant app. I have a sports agency, a TV production company. My sports agency reps, Sauce Gardner, Aiden Hutchinson, Kirk Cousins, Bo Bichette, Ian Gary, Sean Brady, a bunch of UFC guys, Brandon Miller. I tried to go see him play last night but he was a late scratch with his shoulder in Brooklyn. I'm just a hustling kid from Jersey. Anybody, let's keep it going.

17:31Next, next question. Dougie asks, if I no longer agree with my family and their values to the point where I'm invisible, but I still live with them because they need me, am I still living for other people? How can I be the captain of my own ship? Leave the house. The need me is like, nah, you gotta go. You're either full of crap and you need them and that shelter and you're just saying it publicly here or you're in a abusive mental relationship and you need to get the hell out. The end.

18:08The end. That's that. It's not super complicated. Next question. This is good as I have my hands in so many cookie jars and I'm overwhelmed. How do you manage multiple streams of income? by getting your hands out of a couple cookie jars if you're actually overwhelmed for a sustained period of time. If you've been overwhelmed for a week, well then you're just a puss. But if you've been overwhelmed for four, five, or six months and it's starting to really weigh on you, get your hands out of the cookie jar, bro. I don't wanna hear like, I got so many different levels of income that I'm overwhelmed.

18:44Cut it out. Take your hands out. I got burned out from, not burned out, I decided that I didn't want to speak as much because I wanted to be grounded in New York. My kids were a certain age. I was working on VFriends. I stopped speaking as much. Then after three or four years of that, late last year or mid this year, I started missing it. So I'm speaking more again. No wah-wah. No wah-wah. Y 'all, no wah-wah. No wah-wah. I don't wah-wah. I got my hands in too much stuff, I take my hand out. If that cookie jar, if six months go by, a year goes by, I'm like, wait a minute, I like those pecan cookies.

19:30I've not been eating those pecan cookies, aka speaking, I'll put my hand back in. No wah-wah. By the way, I might not even make any more content the rest of my life. I might just sit here and say no wah-wah. There really is nothing else. There is nothing else. You're all a bunch of well-well. What do you want? Who do you want? You want your boss to take care of you? Your mommy? Your daddy? Your spouse? Like who do you want to take care of you? Motherfucker, you take care of you.

20:09Fuck. I don't care what the algorithm does to me cursing. Everybody, I'm going to start cursing. Keep hitting the bottom right arrow and share this stream because they're going to destroy my reach in the FYP because I'm about to get off on this. 9.34 in the morning on a gloomy fucking Tuesday. I'm bringing it. Fuck it. Let's go. Next question. Tyler asks, I feel stuck behind everyone and I suck at everything. I'm 23 years old with nothing to be proud of yet. Even my dating life sucks now. My friends are achieving easily while I'm giving my all. How do I manage to fix this shitty life? Bro, change it up.

20:43It sounds like he's a fuck boy. He says, even my dating life sucks now. Sounds like you banged a lot of chicks in your late teens and early 20s. Sounds like you had a good life and now you're crying about some shit because you've just been fuck boy life and everybody else has been grinding. That's what that question sounds like. Sounds like Playboy is starting to realize life is real. How? Realizing your good looks and charisma need to be deployed against hard work, not just hooking up. Mix it up. Say it again. Read it back. I feel stuck behind everyone and I suck at everything. I'm 23 years old with nothing to be proud of yet.

21:24Even my dating life sucks now. My friends are achieving easily while I'm achieving my own. Your friends are not achieving easily, dickface. Nobody's achieving easily, you assholes.

21:41What's this achieving easily? Y 'all are lazy. The lazy have weaponized luck and easily. All of you laying on your couch jerking off and being envious of your friends while you brain rot scroll love to fucking use the words easy and luck.

22:06Bog hermit, I'm not crashing out. I'm getting excited. I'm trying to get people into a good place. Zola, this whole message overwhelm me. No, Zola, we're poking at the zits right now. I'm pressuring you into the corner to be A-O, accountable and optimistic. This is all optimism. This is all optimism. This is all optimism. I hope you understand what's happening here. Y 'all have been over-coddled. That boy was over-coddled, Norea. and it sounds like he was a cute boy that got over coddled. The worst kind. Oh, a cute boy who's charismatic and mommy and daddy took care of everything? Ooh, and he was killing it from 16 to 22?

22:52Ooh, that boy's in trouble when real life kicks in. That's what it sounds like. Dave, I can't wait to shake your hand as well, my man. It's so good to see all of you. Mark D, good to see all of you. Perspective is a superpower, Josh. Everybody who's here, I just want you to know, all of you are capable. There's no such thing as losers. He's wallowing. He's not losing, he's 23. How do you lose when you haven't even gone on the field yet? When you're 23, you are warming up. That motherfucker was, fix this camera so I can show you what this dude was doing. Grab this camera so I can show you. When you're 23, you're not on the field playing.

23:33You know what you're doing? You're warming up. This motherfucker's just warming up. This guy's just fucking warming up. He's just warming up. Do you understand? This guy is not on the field. He's just like stretching his shit. He's stretching his shit. You're not fucking on the field. You've been lost. You're fucking warming up. You're in warm-ups. When you're 23, you're warming up. You haven't lived life. You haven't been on the field yet. You're in warm-ups. You're calisthenics, motherfucker. You're calisthenics.

24:09Dakota says I wish I was that carpet I'm very very flattered by that guys I'm telling you barely born barely in it coach calm down King Ashley I can't I need to coach all of you mentally to the good place I'm on here on TikTok I know 80 % of the stuff on here is not providing you much value But this channel forever is going to provide you two things. I'm gonna show you hacks to make money and I'm gonna show you more importantly hacks to get you happy. That's where I'm at. That's why I'm gonna be on this all the time in 2026. I'm gonna be on all the time. If you're liking this, if you just stumbled on me, if you're like, what the hell is going on?

24:56Like who is this person? Say what the heck. Cause I don't wanna say, if you put hell, who knows if they ban you on this thing. What the heck? If you're completely going on, like what's going on? And you're just like, what's happening here? If you're one of those people, Falcon Crest, I see you. Top left corner, click my face. Top left corner, click my, oh, is there a giveaway? Did somebody win this? Oh, yes. Lazy Girl Travel. Lazy Girl Travel. This is coming your way. Let's all clap it up for Lazy Girl Travel. Let's say Lazy Girl in the chat. Lazy Girl Travel, appreciate it. All right, next question.

25:29Let's keep going. Nicholas asks, I'm 42. I run a local electrical construction business and I'm wearing every hat. Sales, operations, hiring, all of it. I know content matters but time is the killer. With AI tools like Sora about to make content creation stupid, cheap, and fast, how do small business owners like me actually use this to win without just blending into the noise? Well, blending into the noise is how do I break out with the competition? You break out by having high quality content. How do you do high quality content? You make a lot of content every day. The three of us have been in this forever and every day we're challenged to find something that breaks out, right?

26:07Yep. What this gentleman needs to do is hire. If he's wearing so many, friends, how many of you have a business and you're wearing too many hats and you're starting to finally realize instead of taking as much profit as possible out of your business that you should put some of that profit back to hire someone so that you have more time to do more impactful things and that hiring will actually make you more money. How many of you have finally had the epiphany? Say epiphany. Raghav, I took VaynerMedia, this company, literally from three million to a hundred million in revenue and did not change my cash take home.