The Reason You Feel Stuck — And How to Get Out of It

0:00I don't care how many hours you work. I care that you don't bull crap it when you're working. If today's a work day and you take a two and a half hour lunch and you're doom scrolling instead of working, that's the problem. Not how many hours you worked. Work when you work. Play when you play. Rest when you rest. There's so many people that go 13 hours a day. I'm like, 13 whack hours? Wacky whack. You're whack with your 13 hours. You didn't do crap. You mailed it in. You did a bunch of bullshit meetings. You're whack. This is the Gary Vee Audio Experience. Started a Christmas light business, post content every day.

0:35How can I increase reach and ultimately sales? You've got to get better at content itself. Make sure that you have your URL in your profile. Everyone here should have the URL of their business where they're selling something. If they are selling something, if you have a business on your TikTok profile right now, you post on TikTok multiple times a day. You try different tactics. Pay attention to thumbnail. Pay attention to the first three seconds. There's a lot to pay attention to, to really win, to get virality and reach. You gotta try different things, you gotta try different tactics, you gotta mix it up, you gotta go live like I am now.

1:11How many people here have over a thousand followers on TikTok? Put a thousand in the chat. So all of you that have a thousand right now that you just said, all of you, all of you have to go live more often. It's unbelievable what this platform can do. Gee, how do I get better at public speaking? Practice. All at Iverson. It's practice. The way I got better at public speaking was doing public speaking events for free. I literally used to reach out to events. You don't need to... Whoa, is that right? Anyone can. Anyone can go live. No more 1 ,000. Everyone can go live. Suckers! No more excuses! No more 1 ,000 needed!

1:51Come on! Somebody says you need 50. We'll see. Everybody can go live now. It's a smaller number, it's not a thousand. That's incredible. What are your thoughts on credit cards? Some people say they're good because you build credit. Other people, it's bad because they go into debt and they don't want to eat. Braden, what do you think about alcohol? What do you think about swords? What do you think about needles? Gotta use them, right? You know, what do you think about, like, you know, that's it, man. What do I think about credit cards? I mean, credit cards are very simple. They're remarkable for people that are disciplined and they're terrible for people that are not disciplined.

2:31I don't think credit cards are the issue. I think people that buy things they don't need to impress people they don't like, to close the gap of the insecurities in their heart are the problem. The end. The end. I mean, what people think, do you know back in the day people thought freedom was a problem? We can't give people too much freedom. But Pablo, right? Like, it's like freedom. Freedom was the problem. Look at those hands. Freedom, right? Can't give people freedom. It's how you use it. Some people use freedom to go directly to jail. Monopoly. Other people use freedom to build empires. Friends, we need more AO.

3:19We need more accountability and optimism. Who knows what AO means in here? Who's been part of this journey? Any advice for balancing work and relationships for entrepreneurs? To not beat yourself up, to over communicate with your partner in the relationship and know that some, you know, this weekend, for example, I think I'm going to be really locked into my relationship and Mona and I are excited about like really just hanging. And next weekend, and I might have to fly to Dubai for a meeting. I don't know. Like, there is no perfect. There is no balance. Who's balance? Who's balance? Who's this god of balance?

3:56Charlie, I'm no more around the bush. I am no more going to be around the bush. I'm going direct to it. My friends, who gets to decide balance? Who? Whose balance are you looking for? Friends, who here has not seen me for more than two years? You're literally, this just showed up on your FYP and you've not seen me for two years, put not seen for two. Say that right now, not seen for two. I need to know. Look at this, this is why I'm doing this. Look how many people have not seen me for two years. Look at this, look at this, look at this, look at this. I've missed you, I miss you. Ayo. All right, Charlie.

4:40Ayo. We are AO. All right, let's keep answering questions. I missed you too, Alex. I missed a lot of you. You fell off for two plus years. Thank you, Nano. I'm falling back on. Get on it. Life is right. Yeah. Karano, great to see you. Good to see you, Odie. Great to see all of you. I love you back. It's great to see all of you. I wish you nothing but the best. I hope I can answer your question. I hope I can say something here in the next hour. You need to stay for this full hour, everybody, because it's going to get crazy. You need to stay for this full hour because it's gonna be crazy. And Mindset and Boogie and Sean and Vivian, Kai and Steven and Steven and Kada and Taj and Spoh and Seer and Tina and Jose and Loop and Maddie L and Omar and Josh and Marlboro and Entrepreneur and Gigi all just joined.

5:24If you just got a call out from the join, let me know. Mindset tips I see. It's very simple. You either see light or you see dark. You are literally in control of seeing light. No matter what the outside noise is, you're in control. Court, go ahead. DD Gamgam asks, I'm 50 years old, not overly tech savvy, really need to make at least an extra 85 bucks a day. How? Selling on TikTok shop. Sell stuff on this platform. Become a TikTok affiliate. How many people here know, actually this is a big one. How many people here know what TikTok affiliate is? How many of you here know that you can make videos about products that you don't even own by being an affiliate, making a piece of content about it, and if people buy it, you get a percentage of the sale.

6:12How many people here know about TikTok affiliate? How many people here know about TikTok affiliate? How many people know? I'm, oh, somebody said, everybody, if you've made money on TikTok affiliate, please put the dollar amount right now. Just the straight dollar amount in the chat. I want to motivate people. Scroll it down, I want to see it. If you're an affiliate and you've made money, tell us how much money you've made so far as an affiliate. Look at this, look at this. $13,$77,$600,$84 ,000,$50 ,000 and three. It's true, I'm telling you. People are not, friends, look up TikTok affiliate. Your AI bot, Google, look up TikTok affiliate.

6:54Get educated. How do I become a TikTok affiliate, Gary? Use an AI search or Google. It's not hard.

7:05TikTok affiliate. Make content. Make money. Make content. Make money. Make content. Make money. Learn how to be an affiliate. 85 bucks a day? Affiliate on TikTok Live. Bang. They could probably even just search it on TikTok. Of course they can. Go to TikTok right now and just search affiliate. There's people who make videos that will teach you how to be an affiliate. Can you do this in Romania? Of course you can. I love Romania. I love it. I've been there five times.

7:39How do I feel about Sauce Gardner growing to the Colts? I'm devastated, but you know who's not? Pablo. Pablo's not, but I am. Look at this, right there. Look at that Sauce Gardner sign, right there. You see it? Right next to my He-Man sign. There's Sauce. I don't know if you guys know this, my brother is actually Sauce Gardner's football agent. Let's get somebody on the screen here. Yes, I'm here. Can you hear me? I can. Can you get your camera on? We doesn't see we can invite you. Is it? Is your camera blocked? Oh, I think so. I'm so sorry. Oh, my gosh. Don't worry. Don't worry. Don't worry. Don't worry.

8:13Don't worry. We'll just talk here. What's your name? Where are you from? My name is Lydia. I'm originally from Costa Rica, Central America, but I live in Canada right now. Amazing. How are you? I'm amazing right now. My heart is pounding. I've been following you for like a month now. long story short last year hold on hold on just a month where did you discover me i'm curious so last year this is a long story last year my husband was making fun of me with my sister's boyfriend you know who gary he is he's the greatest they were really teasing me a lot and uh about a month ago i was like you know what i really need to check this out because i'm down in the dumps about my projects um and you've just really been kicking my butt and I'm just moving forward with it.

9:01I mean, I still have to cry about it, but you know what? It is what it is. Keep going. I'm so sorry. I'm shaking. I'm so nervous. No, you're great. Don't worry. So my question for you is, I have a passion project that doesn't necessarily feed the green monster in society. It's more about spiritual growth and it's for children. Great. Well, good news. The green monster of society money is fake you don't need to feed it and and i think that's where i'm struggling right really keeping the belief in my project so long story short again i write story books for kids and it's all for personal experience and uh it teaches a story right uh yep i'm i'm latin american and i don't know if anybody you know can relate to this but like there's always like hidden stories things that like our elders tell us and we're sure it's true for all cultures.

10:00It is. I'm at my stick storybook and I recently launched on Kickstarter and I'm doing so poorly. I'm trying to hustle. You need to make social media content. You need to, how many TikToks a day are you posting? If at all. That's where I'm struggling and that's why I've been following you so much more. I'm trying to get the business registered. I'm just hustling hard. It's, listen to me, listen to me, listen to me. It's about TikTok content. Like you have to post every day, read it, read an excerpt from it. If you're scared to be on camera, show your hands on the camera reading the book, you know, like this, like there's so many things you can do.

10:48But if you do not, if you do not social media market, you will not be discovered. I'm trying to do that now. I just ordered a bunch of stuff, like a little tripod, a microphone. You'll appreciate this. It's not about the stuff. I agree, I agree. I just want to be able to have at least decent audio for children to be able to do the thing. The audio on your iPhone is remarkable. Is it? It is. What you're doing is you're subconsciously doing all the things, anything to avoid actually doing it. You're right, you're absolutely right. I know I'm right. I know I'm right. There's nothing to be, what are you scared of?

11:28Someone's gonna say you're ugly, someone's gonna say it's stupid? Like what are we actually scared of? What do you think? I think I'm scared of actually making something out of this project and not being able to sustain it because it's a one woman show at the moment. I see, so you're literally actually scared of somewhat getting micro success because then you'll be drowning. Yes. But you're not scared of it not doing anything. No, I'm like, I've done book signings. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Social media content at scale. What's stopping us? I think it's just my time. My time and just.

12:09What are you doing here watching me then? You should, you could, what are you doing here right now? If you have time to watch me. at the moment. Sister, I love you with all my heart. You are avoiding this out of insecurity. I agree, I agree, 100%. Nothing's gonna happen. I fail every day. Everybody in this chat has failed. Hey, chat, everybody, let me know if you failed. Put it in the chat. Sister, whose judgment are you worried about? I need to hear this from you. Whose judgment are you worried about when you fail? Myself. Well, great. you need to start loving yourself more. Absolutely, absolutely.

12:49And that's what my project is all about, right? Well, then I'm sorry to interrupt you. Then stop being a hypocrite. If you're trying to teach people to love themselves more, why don't we start with yourself? You're right, you're absolutely right. Please use this serendipity. I mean, there's thousands and thousands of people that try to get on this show. We randomly picked you. Please use this as a sign from God that it is time to stop bullcrapping. You are bullcrapping the crap out of me. You're absolutely right. And I think I just needed to hear it live review in front of a bunch of people. That's right.

13:26100%. That's right. Everybody DM Little Orange Hat and tell her to stop bullcrapping the bullcrap. Love you. Good luck to you. You have to do this. Don't be scared. Everybody else sucks too.

13:43Stop putting everybody on a pedestal. Don't put me on a pedestal. Don't put the biggest children's author, not Jim Henson. Don't put anybody on a pedestal. You can do this. If you want to help people, then you need to help people, not talk about helping people. You're right. You're absolutely right. Good. I love you. Thank you so much. Bye-bye. Hey, everybody. 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. What do you do when you've lost love slash motivation for your current business?

14:19Take a break, a little vacation sometimes, hire somebody to help you offload some of the responsibilities. A lot of people love their business. They've lost motivation because their business now makes them do three to four things every day that they don't like about their business. You've got to hire people to take the things you don't like. If I had to be the CFO of this company, I quit. it. So for a lot of you, listen to me. Thank you, dance. I like being funny. I like having fun. I think a lot of us have to be more childish. I'll get back to this question, but let me just rant on this. I need all of you to be a little bit more silly.

14:56This is going to be a platform I talk about in 2026. We need more silly. You need more games. You need more ha ha ha. Like we need this. Like I'm telling you, I'm telling you this may, this might surprise a lot of you, but I love when people, like, in the chat, I'm being silly here, right? One of the good things about TikTok Live that I like so much, I love TikTok Live, is that I'm a little more silly in this environment than, let's say, Tea with Gary V, right? I actually think this is an important thing that I want to teach all of you. Like, a lot of people are like, this guy fell off, you're being so silly, you're supposed to be a big-time businessman.

15:28You could be a big-time businessman and be ridiculous. You're allowed. You know, like, you could do that. Look at me! and like I don't get it like I don't get that people don't see this we need more silliness we need more silliness you need to be more silly you need to play more games you need to ride a bike this weekend in fact who's ready to take the challenge that tomorrow you're gonna do something a little more childish ride a bike, jump on a trampoline go play pickup basketball in a while something man just a little more ha ha a little more ha ha You know what this world needs? A lot less wah, wah, and wah, wah, and a lot more ha, ha.

16:15A little more ha, ha. A little more joy, a little more childish, a little more silly, and a lot less crying. Yes, no more pills is exactly right. Less pills, more throwing snowballs at each other's faces. Real talk. Real talk. So anyway, too many people love their business, but they get into three or four things that they don't like to do and so they need to take the monies and put it back into the business. Too many people here, Sid, want a business to take the money to buy a scarf or a new car or a rollie. When you make money in a business, you need to put it back in a business for employees so that you can have options.

17:00Options, my friend, is the real flex.

17:06options. Nobody in this room sitting with me right now had the option to be like, I'm not doing anything today. Because they work here. I could have. I don't. It's this weird twisted thing where I might have the least options. So I got to be careful here and educate everybody. But anyway, it's good to see you. Yes, I don't know if I'll be in the next Tron, but it was, yes, everybody, I am in the new Tron movie. If you saw that, let me know if you saw me in the first scene of Tron. How do I create options and business options? By hiring employees with the money. And if you don't have the money, well, then you gotta get the money.

17:43First, you gotta eat the crow. Everyone's like, Gary, it's so easy for you to make content. You have a team. You have a team. It's so easy for you. You have a team. Suckers, I didn't have a team. I made content from 2006 to 2014 with zero team. Your excuses don't work with me. I didn't have a team for eight years. What do you want from me? I didn't have a team for eight years. I made content every day. Not actually in that 2011 to 14, I was kind of quiet building Vayner, but I made content. I made content. I made content with zero team. Don't use excuses on me. Your excuses are not interesting.

18:19Your excuses are only, I'm a winner. Your excuses are the least interesting. The only people that like your excuses are your mommy and losers. Because they want, and by the way, do you know why they like your excuses, Charlie? because they can't wait for you to be done complaining because it's their turn. Oh, Braden, yeah, your boss sucks. It's the worst. All right, let me tell you, my aunt, she's a bitch. You just lose on lose on lose on lose on lose with each other. A complaining circle jerk. Yes, Tring? Nothing, nothing. You see it? I do see it. Yeah, because all of us have friends and family that are in it.

18:55I mean, I got very fortunate. I had a mom and dad that were so opposite. I'm like, well, here's the world. It's this or that. I got very fortunate. I got to see very different things. I'm like, I see now. I was just going to call up on that. Go ahead. The options thing is like, you still write post copy for every post that goes up. Yeah. And I think a lot of people, even today when you tell them that. Let me show you guys. Here's my phone. Check this out. Here is literally my WhatsApp group with the team. The post I just posted. See if I can get it to focus. The post I just posted on a different platform.

19:27Like there's the copy. Like, you know, like here it is. That's me. You know what WhatsApp looks like? That's me, that's me, I do it. I write it, I'm in it. G, what are your thoughts on faceless accounts? I'm a fan, I like a good faceless account. Like, by the way, I could be doing all of what I'm doing right now, right here. Be like, all right guys, if you could really do it, watch this, I'll do the whole show like this. You look better now, thank you so much. Linda, I still have the dark eyes, I'm European, but thank you for saying I look good, thank you. I like a good faceless account. I've been jamming on bass, my friend.

19:58I've been jamming on it, I'm there, it's Gary Vee there too. You're awesome. What are your thoughts on pedicures? Clearly, my thoughts are not very real. I'm a nail-biter. Not a fan of pedicures, but fan for other people. Clearly, I need to do it. I don't do it. So what do I think of faceless accounts? I think anything is possible. I think everything is possible. Anything can work for you. It can work for you. It can work for you. It can work for you. Things can work for you. Go ahead, Train. Crohn's disease slows me down from going hard all the time. Frustrates me. What are your thoughts? My thoughts are my brother AJ has Crohn's disease.

20:31My brother AJ is on the Crohn's and colitis foundation. My brother goes hard, and when he has a Crohn's flare-up where he's not feeling great, he goes and rests. My friends, no one goes hard 24-7. You shouldn't go hard 24-7. I'm a fan of sleep. I'm a fan of vacation. I'm a fan of checking out. Don't put going hard on a pedestal. Go hard when you're playing. Rest when you're resting. I don't care how many hours you work. I care that you don't bull crap it when you're working. If today's a work day and you take a two and a half hour lunch and you're doom scrolling instead of working, that's the problem.

21:06Not how many hours you worked. Work when you work. Play when you play. Rest when you rest. There's so many people that go 13 hours a day. I'm like, 13 whack hours? Wacky whack. You're whack with your 13 hours. You didn't do crap. You mailed it in. You did a bunch of bullshit meetings. You're whack. And by the way, If you're going hard, 12-hour days, you're lucky. It means you love it. I go hard. I go real hard. I literally flew to Utah yesterday at 2 p.m., flew, did meetings on the entire flight. Right, Train? Yes. Train was editing. We were all working. I did pass out, though, at night. What happened, Train?

21:44I did pass out at night. I was trying to keep up. I had a 7-4. You can't keep up yet? Yeah, you needed. I rested. Yeah, I rested. It's good. and you should rest. Brother, it was two in the morning. We went hard. Go ahead, Braden. What are your thoughts on gambling? Some people have careers or careers on this. What are your thoughts on gambling? I think almost everyone loses and a small group that are real professionals that know what they're doing. What do I think of gambling? I think it's entertainment. I think you're paying to be entertained but you're losing. But that's good. Like some people spend$190.

22:16The amount of people in this beautiful city that are going to go spend $400 tonight for a nice dinner and conversation, that's for entertainment. Somebody else wants to bet$400 on the money line on some college football game tonight and they'll be entertained. As long as you know it's entertainment. Like, gamblers, the house always wins. I'm just gonna tell you a secret. The house always wins. Gamblers, I just got something for you. The house always wins. You will always lose. You will always lose. You will always lose. I'm not against it. nice little 16 parlay to entertain you on a night that's boring, 13 bucks to win 4 ,000.

22:58Knock yourself out. But you just spent 13 bucks to be entertained on six games you didn't care about. And I think it's fun. But you lose when you gamble. Everybody. Cool. Let's keep it going. Yes, Charlie. I'm feeling a big chair spin coming. But someone asked earlier. You don't want me to? I'm about to be around the bush. I don't want to be around the bush. How do I stop procrastinating? No, I'm not gonna spin on this. Like, look, you have to understand that procrastination is completely grounded in insecurity or indifference. Or sometimes, like for example, there's things I have to do like, hey, gotta hang this picture on the wall, right?

23:40And like, I procrastinate that. That's not because I'm insecure of how good I hang a picture. It's because no one gets a crap about the picture. I don't care about hanging this picture. So it's either insecurity. I'm not posting because I'm procrastinating. No, you're not. You're scared of getting three views. Or you're indifferent and it doesn't matter. You know what I mean? G, any advice you have for a comic artist to stand out in 2026? Comic artists? Yes. Going live, literally on TikTok. And while you're drawing, go live. Like go live while you're drawing. like while you're cooking. Everybody going live is real.

24:21Going live is real. Florina, thank you for being back. Flex, thank you for being back. It's so good to see so many of you. You know, the algorithms these last two, three, four years keep sending you kind of like what you're in. So going live here lets me restart with a lot of people. How many of you are back now with me and you're sad you left? I just stopped showing up in your feed and you know, it's just life and you started maybe following someone else that was fulfilling. Like how many are you sad that you left, but you're back? Say sad. Say sad in the chat if you're sad that you left, but you're pumped that you're back.