Your Exact Game Plan for Career & Business Success l Tea with GaryVee

0:00Podcast nation, before I get you into today's podcast big announcement. as you probably heard at this point because I had John from Stan on the show. I'm an investor advisor to an incredible startup called Stan, Stan.Store. I'm sending you right now to garyvee.com, garyvee.com slash Stan. Go check this out. We've done a Gary V. Stan Store Challenge which actually has a weekly call with me. This is built for everyone who's been affected, honestly, by my overall content. The tech stack, all these features and the minimal costs per month that Stand Store has built is really the tool that was needed for this world that I envisioned when I wrote Crush It, when I wrote Crushing It, and this overall thing I'm thinking a lot about lately, which is the individual empire, right?

0:48This creator entrepreneur slash entrepreneur creator economy that I think is gonna eat up the oxygen, very honestly, the thing that so many of you want in your life and the reason so many of you are not there yet is you've got the strategy for me. you've got the ambition within yourself but you don't have the tools for you to fully maximize it and I believe you can find that at Stan store Stan dot store but specifically I want you to sign up for it through my challenge because I want to get access with you and plus there's a bunch of cool things so if you want to go see those cool things go to GaryVee.com slash Stan S-T-A-N now to the podcast this is the Gary Vee audio experience good morning good morning good morning everybody welcome to another episode of tea with gary v i am gary v let's go to the video question first julio garcia julio how are you hey gary good morning man how are you i'm good brother how are you perfect man um just before we get started let me let you know that i'm part of the 50 of the poll from yesterday what's that you're you're part of the what my friend part of the 50 % of the from yesterday so you peed your pants in school I love it it's a whole club now we gotta start a whole revolution alright my man what's the question hey man so just to let you know and if you see I'm actually outside my RV just about a month ago my family and I packed up all our stuff we sold everything and we decided to go on the road to travel across all 48 states to simply follow our dream and our dream is just to support family-owned restaurants make them free content share their stories and we are faith-based so we also pray for their business and just part of what we do um the way that we are currently making end meets it's through my social media um my social my digital marketing agency where i offer services for small restaurants and i've been following literally your advice on you know with with the book that the jab jab right hook basically that one has been how i bottle my my services and part of this is giving value to to these restaurants giving them a free content without asking anything in return that gives me the option you know the opportunity to get in the door uh get them to to talk to them get to know them and then we offer them our services that's how i've been been been doing it and that's how basically we are making living now makes sense with this new with this new venture uh i want to make this into a national brand you know where people can um see the the company is actually called footies forward and that is you know the the main thing but i'm just using julio the furio as the face of the company right okay so um my question is would it be better to start focusing now more on 40s forward or continue to do it with my personal brand which is julio the studio both because on on on putting forward i'm not even really doing any content there yet i try to do a few podcasts and things like that but on julio the studio is where i'm uh doing all these stories and you know sharing in the businesses.

4:12And another thing that I'm doing a little bit different, which I don't know if it's messing up with my algorithm or not. Stop. I see like - Stop with that. Stop with messing up my algorithm. I'm telling you, everyone's caught up in this game. Listen, the algorithm matters. But again, when you've, everybody has this weird dream that the algorithm is fucking them up when it's them fucking themselves up. The algorithm is people's attention. Just so you know, the algorithm is not some weird Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Wizard of Oz, something dynamic. Do you know what the algorithm is, Julio the Foodio?

4:50Do you know what the algorithm is? The algorithm is a system that puts content in front of people. And when the people in the beginning of seeing that content on the other side don't fuck with it, the video doesn't get seen as much. okay everyone's got this weird fucking thought of what the algorithm is the algorithm is just is the content good okay makes sense so you you using this account or that account people like my algorithm was fucked up too three months ago for a whole couple months you know what it was called me and my team fucking sucked. Get a better idea. We were using old fucking content with not a lot of fucking thought, going through the fucking motions.

5:44I was busy. The team was not hitting on cylinders. We just weren't fucking good enough. And miraculously, the last couple months or last couple weeks, month, last four, five, six weeks, my shit's hitting hard because we have a refocus. We're thinking more thoughtfully. we have better strategies, the thumbnail's better, the hook's better, the first three seconds better, the 10 seconds in is better, my copy's better, our energy is better. You know, I see some of my teammates, you know, Pablo specifically shaking his head. He's been here. He was here. Not Danny, who's just shaking his head because he likes positive affirmation.

6:22He wasn't here. But Pablo's shaking his head because he was here and he knows that the energy, the effort, the thoughtfulness the debate they were mailing it in i was mailing it in and we had a bad fucking several months of my content and you even prove it right when i remember when you did the your other account um that it was getting a lot more views than than than your main account just by answering random people's question i think that was kind of like a proof what you did Ah, you're talking about this, where I showed that on my TikTok, one of my TikToks, I created something called, you know, Gary Vee's Answers, and I replied to somebody's TikTok, and that video got more views with 284 followers than my 15 million person account.

7:23That's right, bro, it's the content. Yeah. It's the content. Remember, man, get into that mindset. Try to make good content. Thank you, Gary. You got it, my man. Stay well. Of course, my man. All right. Pablo, what do you got? Terry asks, what do you suggest I do? What do you suggest I do to become a theater actor at age 46? I have a family and a full-time job and kids in college. What do I do? Spam. I think he used to spam every local theater within a two-hour mile radius driving of him. and say that I want to try out, I want to act. I mean, you're 46, you want a theater act. There's only gonna be so many theaters around you.

8:09You know, maybe you live in New York City, but that's obviously the toughest game in town. I think you need to go out for rehearsals, and I think you need to ask for rehearsals, and that's it. I mean, as far as like, you've got kids, you've got a family. You know, Dustin Lee says, not you social. Dustin, I don't know if Arizona is so hot that your brain is not as sharp. When I say spam, what do you think I mean? Of course social, DM people on social, email. I'm not sure what's going on in Arizona, Dust, but you might have too much free time on your hand out there riding your bike and shit. I understand you're just trying to help elaborate.

8:57I love you, I miss you a lot. So look, I think, and by the way, what's Dustin doing up right now? Is it 610 in the morning there? You need to go ask and take it. I think the second part of the question is how do I afford that, I guess, providing for a family? Like, look, life has responsibilities. Like if you decide to have children, you need to take care of them. I don't know what to say. Like, I don't, you know, like the amount of people that are coming to me being like, Gary, but I got kids. I'm like, hey, dick, you know, pull your dick out and don't have kids. Like, I don't know. Like, what do you want from me?

9:37No shit. You have kids. You've made that decision. Fucking take care of it. Now, like, like people are 48, six and trying to like, like, I'm sorry that you have kids. In fact, I'm so happy that you have kids. But yes, I understand you need to now provide for them. Sorry that you can't go play theater. Why the fuck do you think I'm yelling at all these fucking kids 18 to 30 right now and telling them to go fucking chase their dream before they have those responsibilities?

10:08What do you think we're doing out here? I'm not fucking sitting here making jokes. I'm not out here trying to make you laugh. I'm not out here modeling. I'm not trying to have you look at me and want to be like me and like fascinate over me. I'm not out here shooting buckets and throwing 99 miles an hour. I'm not trying to have you put a poster of me in your room because you think I'm a great athlete. I'm trying to talk about real fucking shit here. Why do you think I'm fucking trying from the bottom of my heart on fucking mornings in the late summer to get people to understand what the fuck life is about?

10:45In your early years, you need to go all in on your dreams. this gentleman wanted to always be a theater actor, feels like he didn't get it out of his system. Sounds like he didn't in his 20s go to the big city and have 8 ,000 auditions and then by 30 be like, okay, I got that nut off, I'm not that guy.

11:13Why do you think I'm telling all of you kids not to take the job your parents and society are telling you to? dead fucking curious what this dude did from 20 to 30. Did he take that job that he thought he was supposed to take? Did he take a job that paid a little bit more so he had a little bit of a better apartment and could go and live his life? And now at 46, like, oh shit, life's really about joy and enjoying it. And by the way, people have confusion on joy. I don't want to go sailing and on vacation, clearly. Look where I am this morning. This is my joy. I am more happy to sit here and spit this old man wisdom on all of you than be sailing this morning or teeing off at a country club.

12:04I understand a lot of people like to do that. I love that for all of you. Oh, by the way, Sportus, I'm not saying I'm old when I say old man shit. I'm saying since I was fucking 13, I've been spitting wisdom. I've been on this 88 year old talk track since I was 18 Go talk to my high school and college friends ask them what shit I was spitting I get that you have responsibilities you guys chose that how do you handle it? You get into good physical and mental health so that you can actually slip sleep six hours a day That gives you 18 hours a day in an 18 hour day. You can get a lot of stuff done all of you are fucking brain rot scrolling, playing video games, watching Netflix, doing other shit.

12:50Most of you are golfing and sailing and playing video games and watching Netflix to escape not enjoying what you do. Does everybody understand this game is reverse? People do all this other stuff and spend all this money on stuff to fix the fact that they don't like their nine to five. Yeah, I mean, like, I think you gotta give up your weekends and your nights. You have a full-time job, come home, kiss the wife, and go out and fucking audition. And then when, you know, like, I don't know what to tell you. Like, I don't understand how nights and weekends have become off limits. I think we got fucked up.

13:29You know how, like, we overcorrect? Like, we went, we go two left, and now we go two right, and then we're gonna go two, like, people don't know how to find the middle. in this world where from 2007 to 2012, it was awesome to be like hustle. I was fucking one of the faces of it. Hustle, go hard. Don't forget the 2008 financial crisis fucked everyone up. Smart ass kids with good degrees for the first time ever couldn't come out and get jobs. They're like, what the fuck is this? While Facebook and Twitter were exploding, YouTube shit was changing. We overcorrected. People are like, Gary, do you know how many public, I mean you may know this because you're my shit.

14:10How many people are like, Gary I get going hard but like I gotta live my life. I'm like motherfucker live your life you're in debt. The fuck are you talking to me about Ibiza when you're in debt? This instant gratification where the fuck is like I see Chris Lee behind right now he'll be on next. He's got some gray hairs. When him and I grew up people didn't think that it was supposed to be awesome every day and fucking party. The entitlement is ravaging us. I think his situation's easy. He's got kids in college. Clearly he's talking about like, I want to do this full time, how do I afford to pay it?

14:47You don't. You're not a good enough theater actor.

14:53That's like me coming on this show and be like, yo, listen, real quick. I don't trust Justin Fields. How do I become the quarterback of the Jets and win a Super Bowl? The answer is you're fucking delusional, Gary. shut the fuck up. You're almost 50 and you're not athletic. And by NFL standards, you're a piece of poop. The fuck are you talking about?

15:21We are just not self-aware, not accountable. And this is all love for this dude. This dude's got it good. Audition at night, act on the weekend. If he was on screen, what did he come out? Yeah, but my wife, okay, then pick your wife. I don't know, what do people want from me, Pablo? The fuck do people want from me? You've made decisions, you need to live in those decisions. And then you have to realize you have tons and tons and tons of opportunity. Like you can easily act. What do kids in college have to do with anything? What do you want me to tell you to quit your job? And go be Liberace.

16:12Chris Leap. Yes, sir. How are you, my friend? Outstanding. So for Mr. Pablo, I do act and I do a lot of improv and everything like that. And you do have to sacrifice. Well, don't blame Pablo. Pablo just asked the question. Don't kill the fucking. No, no, no, no. I'm blaming him. But yeah, if you want to be an actor, it does take a lot, a lot of time. That doesn't even count doing the lines. You got to run the lines all day long. Of course. Yeah. Yeah, but my thing is, is I do a lot of lives where I'm answering questions about medical stuff and everything like that. And my history is I've lost two children and gone through all of that.

16:46And one of the things I want to do is really get more into public speaking and the social. But with my copy, do I just keep putting that on the end of the copy of everything I do? Just hit me up and let's do something. And again, I think it goes to what I said there. Like, if I'm you, I'm chat GPTing and Googling public events where there are speakers in my area. And I'm literally emailing them and saying, hey, I'll speak for free. I think I'm really good. I think I'm next. I think I got it. You don't have to charge me. The first, besides my first speaking engagement, which I got paid, which even made me aware that this was a business.

17:23after my first event speaking where I got paid because it was a cold outreach, I would say the next 25 speeches I gave were for free. Okay. You know, when nobody wants you, your cost is zero. Outstanding, and I don't even care if I'm making it. Yeah, I could tell. Yeah, that wasn't for you. That was for everyone, right? Like I hear from a lot. I could tell that from your temperament. Like I think the answer is just reaching out. to as many events, including if you have the capacity to travel, if you have a genre or an area. For example, improv. If I'm you, I'm going to ChatGPT right now. And can you give, literally, I'll do it right now just for fucking effect.

18:05Here we go. Oh, by the way, I called ChatGPT Chatty. Hey Chatty, can you give me a list of 10 public events, conferences, speaking events that are around the improv industry that are happening in next 90 days? can you also give me a link to them? In fact, if you can find the email on the website, that would be even better and save me time. What I'm looking to do is I'm looking to speak on stages, but I don't have a big name yet. Look, I'm no fucking Gary Vee, for example. You know, and so I'm looking to get on stages and I need to email them and offer my services for free. So for the rest of the calendar year or into Q1 of next year, I'm looking to get knowledge on some events that are going on specifically around improv where I have some knowledge where I could reach out to them.

18:53So can you give me a link to six events in the next 180 days with link to the website of the event and their emails if you can find it? Okay, a couple things. One thing that is exciting, everybody on Tea with Gary Vee, I hope you saw, like this is how I prompt engineer. I think for a lot of you, you're probably like me. You don't communicate as well in written form as you do in voice. I only voice my prompts. Okay, yeah. Let's see what happens here. All right, here we go. Countdown Improv Festival 2025, Tampa, Florida, August. That already passed, so I did something wrong there. Applied Improv Network event in Safety Harbor, California.

19:35IO Fest 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. Hold on one second. Hey, Chatty. Hey, Chatty. Hey, Chatty. You do understand that there is no time machines and I can't go backwards. You just gave me a bunch of events that already happened. I don't know if you're on some future AI shit where you think I can go backwards. In fact, if you are on some future AI shit, can you tell me why you believe time machines exist? And in fact, can you tell me which company is gonna be the leading company in time machine technology because I'd love to be an early angel investor? Notwithstanding that insanity, can you please tell me events that are coming up because what you just gave me is not actionable.

20:13Thank you. Okay. So mine is not only the social media, but the direct contact, like hitting these places up. That. Directly. Got it. It's always brand and sales. The brand, right? The brand work you're doing is the social media content. The reading, the reaching out directly, right? That's the way to go. Okay, yeah. I mean, and as far as my payment, if one person doesn't self-checkout, that's my payment. So I love it. That's outstanding. All right, my brother. I wish you well. Stay well. Thank you, sir. All right. Pablo, next question. Adi asked how can I be confident among successful people even when I'm not yet successful by not giving a fuck what they think about you the fuck are you talking about confidence around successful people why the fuck is their success creating insecurity in you I had not become successful in my 20s I hung around with nothing but rich people drinking wine in their 50s I didn't fucking give a fuck that they were winners and I hadn't been yet.

21:16Confidence has nothing to do with other people's success or your lack of. You like that Liz? Right? Like I don't know why putting someone else's success on a pedestal makes any sense. Like my success has nothing to do with any of your confidence or insecurities. Do not put people on a pedestal. You know who's the last person we should be putting on a pedestal? Someone that has made money. I really hope none of you fuckers watching right now look up to me because of me being able to be good at making money. I really hope not. If that is why you look up to me, stop. So anyway, I don't know. That was a very easy question.

21:57Keep going. All right, Anash asks, I've been struggling a bit with my mental health as I did something under the influence, which was objectively bad. Which was, let me just help you. It was definitely bad. Keep going. The people around me looked at me differently and taunted me, spreading rumors about me. How can I deal with this? You say you shouldn't care about them, but when you die, isn't what people think of you all that's left? No, it's what you think about yourself. You know you did something wrong. That's what's happening here. You are upset with yourself. And I'm proud of you for that.

22:31This is a beautiful question. What's this gentleman's name? Anosh. Anosh, I'm really proud of you. Anosh. Scorpion official says if they make rumors, cut them off. They're reacting to his shit. Nobody would be talking about anything if he wouldn't fuck up under the influence. Like, I don't understand, like, again, are we really gonna blame people for talking shit because you were under the influence and did something wrong? Like, please make a video right now on your social and fucking completely own it and say you're sorry and it won't happen again and you've learned from it and then you can move on.

23:11Blow yourself up. Go naked, own it. Make a video, go right on your video right now and be like, yo, what's good? It's Anosh. Listen, here's what's happened. I snorted some lines and I fucked up or I popped some molly and I did this or I fucking thought I was getting a little gummy action and there was a little more in there than I thought and I lost my fucking shit and I acted a fool and I'm incredibly embarrassed. I embarrassed my parents, my friends, my loved ones and most of all I embarrassed myself. And I apologize for that. And for all of you, my homies, my acquaintances, the people I know that have been talking mad shit, I get it.

23:53If I didn't do this dumb shit, you wouldn't have anything to talk about. So I apologize to y 'all as well and I hope that you're never in the position that I'm in where you fuck up. I apologize. I'm gonna try to move forward. I know this will linger. This stay may last forever. I just want you all to know that I own it. It's on me. It's 100 % my fault. And if this lingers in the air for the next 10 years, I have no one to blame but myself. But I'm gonna act better going forward. And over time, I think this will be a blip and an anomaly and a side joke amongst us all because it was that one time that I got caught up instead of it being a consistent narrative of who I am.

24:32that's what I believe today. Obviously, if I do it three, four, five more times, it's who I am, even though my intent wasn't good. I love you all, sorry, I'll see you next time. There was a great gentleman on my team early on, Steve Unwin, one of my first Team Gary V teammates, and he said something profound to me. I'm obsessed with intent, as I think you know. I'm obsessed with intent. But he challenged me one day in a meeting, and he said, yeah, Gary, but if you don't act on your intent, what's up? And I said, you're right. I said, you're right. Now, my belief is that most people's intent, like it's broken me, like you're gonna show up wrong because your intent was wrong.

25:13But I value intent and I think humans make mistakes. I think in hindsight, that moment, what I realized was I couldn't articulate the concept of having grace for yourself, having accountability and grace for yourself, I think matters. If you notice what I did there, that's full accountability. You know, so being able to forgive yourself is a powerful thing, and I'll tell you why, my friends. If you're able to learn to forgive yourself, you'll forgive others.

25:52Your obsession with judging, here's what's happening in the world right now. we are in everyone else's business because we're looking for people to trip up so we can shit on them to feel better about what we're struggling with. You like that, Mike? You felt that one, right? I saw your head go. That's what's happening. Like, you give fucks about Taylor Swift and Kelsey and they have your two cents on it for one reason. You're not feeling good enough about yourself. I could give a fuck about those two other than I want nothing but for that love to be awesome. Oh, I actually do care. I want their love to be awesome and they're great people and blah, blah.

26:27I do hate Kelsey though, he's a chief, and they fucked us on that Monday night game. That bullshit flag late in the game, pass interference call, is straight shit. Everybody watched the fucking refs rob the Jets of that win. I never blame refs, because football's tough. I actually don't fuck with it, but fuck every football team but the Jets. I hate all of you. The Dolphins, I fucking hate you. The Bills, Patriots, oh you guys, you three, I fucking hate the most. Next, all AFC teams. The fucking Bengals, Browns, fucking Steelers. and Ravens, fuck you motherfuckers. Next, the South, the Texans and the fucking Jags and the Colts and that whole bullshit division.

27:05Fuck all four of you team. The Titans, fuck you guys. And then the West, the Raiders, Broncos, Chargers, Chiefs. Fuck you guys. So fuck all the AFC teams. Now to the NFC. I don't fucking, I don't bother with you guys over there too much. But like first, fuck the Giants. All your fans are entitled. Fuck you guys. You've won four Super Bowls. I don't want to hear you crying and Jack's darker than the stink even though I love that kid as a kid but now he's a giant I hate him I like the Eagles Cowboys and Commanders because they hate the Giants so they're probably the three teams I like the most after I don't even really think about the rest of the NFC I like the 49ers a little bit right now because Yutkin and Marcus two people I love love them but now the Coach Sala who I loved as the Jets coach is back defensive coordinator I'll root for them and I like the Vikings owners and Mike Vicanti my trainer's a Vikings fan So I got a little love for the Vikings, but fuck every AFC team.

27:59Next question, please. Umar asks, I'm a 70 year old woman and I want to make some money for my retirement. So I'm not struggling for my expenses, but I don't know where to start and what I can do to start something on social media. I'm eager to, eager to learn AI as well, which I'm doing. What advice do you have for me? I think that most people that are confused need to just go on social and start telling stories you're a 70 year old woman you're loaded with stories we touched on this yesterday this is becoming a thing I might build some content around the concept of just telling stories like she's got I'm telling you right now I'm positive about what I'm gonna say and I think it's gonna work out for me I believe and I've talked on this everyone I believe that we've been on a pendulum swing in the last 15 years where we put youth culture on a pedestal.

28:52Right? Youth culture. So everyone wants to act younger. Everybody's, you know, the kids know everything. They're young. They're smart. And that's been the wave. Again, back to society. I think we went through a wave where instead of being purple and in the middle, we went two left. Everybody canceled everybody for fucking everything. And now I think we're going right. I don't know if anyone's paying attention, but hate is out of control. Like we need middle. same with youth culture. We want super youth. Everything's good youth. New technology, young kids. Everybody fucking get fucking plastic surgery and look 20 instead of 40.

29:28Like blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I actually think in the next 20 years, we're gonna be in a place where wisdom's gonna be hot. I predict that within the next 15 to 20 years, five of the 10 biggest influencers in the world, influencers, will be over the age of 70. I'm 49. I predict in 21 years, five of the 10 biggest influencers in the world will be over the age of 70. And so honestly, I actually think my greatest era of popularity, fame, influence will be when I'm over 70. Because on that note, I'm not going to be in this in-between anymore. I'm going to be in this like nice, like you're fucking Yoda.