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Everyone's like, "It's so hard now. It

was so much better for our parents." It

wasn't better for our parents. Our

parents were willing to sacrifice time

with kids to get the finances done. We

want more. It's just the truth that we

just want more. Our parents and our

grandparents generation really were

willing to take an L in certain

categories. And companies are like,

"Sorry, businesses don't have the luxury

of being just your [ __ ] like school

like where it doesn't [ __ ] m like

there's ramifications. Companies go out

of business. Companies are going to use

AI. Companies are going to pick who

their best employees are and they're

going to decide best is time put in or

impact. I don't need any of my employees

to work 100 hours a week for me to be

like they're the best. There are

employees that work 42 hours a week, but

they're incredibly impactful in those 42

hours and I'm good. And there's other

employees that work 67 hours, but if

they're not impactful, they're not as

good. It's just real life. Not all of us

get the same output or impact on the

time amount we spend. The problem is

we're asking for too much. We just are.

All right, Aaron, you're up.

Okay, this question is from Andreas.

Gary, what's on one underrated platform

or tactic that small businesses aren't

using enough to grow in 2025?

Live social shopping, IRL streaming,

Twitch, kick, that whole game. AI

learning to be able to make much more

content easier without having a

million-dollar team. Um, small

businesses. Uh if you have a physical

store, starting to actually live sell

from your store even during store hours

so people can see you're doing it. Even

shoppers coming in

local influencer marketing. Every local

business on earth, every local business

on earth that sells something should go

to Instagram, search their town at the

top of the screen, right? Like let me

Here we go. Can you get my screen? Here

we go. Every single

business on Earth should go to the top

of their screen and like if you're on

Instagram and put Newton Mass, right?

You're putting Newton, Massachusetts,

right? That's what I just did. It's a

little hard to see. I get that. But I

just typed in a town and then results

pop up, right? And you can put like, you

know, literally results from that area.

And so this photos from there and you

look at all of them and you figure out

who influencers are locally who live

locally and do micro influencer deal

with local celebrities. You know, if

you're a pizza shop, you just DM 13

people that post. You can you can look

up the accounts that show up in your

general area. You see somebody that

lives in Newton, Mass, has 13,000

followers, you DM that person, be like,

I want to give you free food. Come in

and post and tag because they're local

and there's a little bit of a local

element to that. There's just so many

things you can do, so many tactics. All

right, Delgato, what's good, George?

Gary V, what's up, bro?

What's up, my man?

Oh, man. Thank you so much for for your

time, man. And I appreciate everything

that you've done and uh dude, I've been

following you for like 10 years.

Thank you, brother.

Oh my gosh. And I just started recently

uh following you again uh back to back

for last two months. And thank you.

You missed me, right? I'm good when

people I've been around for so long that

people lapsed. Do you know I [ __ ] up

years ago when I was like, "Stop

listening to me. Like, never listen to

me again and go do your shit." Every day

people are like, "I don't listen to you

anymore." I'm like, "Did you do the

shit?" They're like, "No." I'm like,

"Wait, so you didn't do the [ __ ] and you

stop listening to the one positive

[ __ ] voice in your head. What the

fuck?" Anyway, I love when people come

back after they lapsed for a while

because they're like, "Oh, okay. I got

it, Gary." Or, "This is annoying." Or

whatever the, you know, NFTts or V

friends or garage sales or whatever the

[ __ ] They're out. But when they come

back, they remember what the [ __ ]

truth is. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. But I

appreciate you, man. So, real quick, uh,

so I I do multiple things. I I love the

thrill of selling, providing quality for

customers and and customer service

products, all that. Uh, so currently I

do I do uh uh Christmas lighting during

the offseason, Christmas lighting

installation.

I'm kind of curious on how to build a

Christmas lighting business on the off

season

by making content around it. Now, I

would literally make videos of you

talking about t tips and tricks, how you

think about it, things you've seen while

you're literally in the summer putting

up Christmas lights on your own home.

That is the video you're literally

[ __ ] because that in itself is going

to capture people in their feed. If I

see right now a thumbnail or the screen

preview of you hanging Christmas lights

and it says Christmas lights in July,

question mark. Like that's going to get

Do you know how brother people [ __ ] with

Christmas heavy?

Oh yeah. People [ __ ] love themselves

some there's people that live for just

Christmas. Like their their Super Bowl

is Christmas.

Yes. And Dalton says, "Hi. I wonder

why." Well, Dalton, I'm not saying for

the right reasons like you where it's

like, you know, the [ __ ] Christ [ __ ]

the good stuff. I'm talking they just

love the holidays and presents and

[ __ ] Rudolph the [ __ ] reindeer and

they [ __ ] love Frosty the [ __ ]

snowman and they can't wait to go to New

York and see the [ __ ] tree and like

you know the they're [ __ ] about

Christmas. They [ __ ] like the food

and like they like kind of not working

for two weeks at the end of the year and

they like Christmas, the commercial

[ __ ] the bad stuff and good stuff. So,

bro, Christmas works 24/7.

Gotcha. So, continuously put on content

just like you always said.

Correct. Because when someone sees it on

August 9th and they love your beard and

they love your spirit and you've got a

warm spirit, they're going to DM you and

be like, "Yo, can you can I can I like

people don't just of course there's

people that buy when it's timely. And

then there's people that buy ahead of

times. People love to plan. I don't. But

some people get off like do you know

that people are playing planning right

now their vacation next summer?" There

are people right now in the world doing

research and [ __ ] on hotels.com and

being like, I'm going to [ __ ] go to

Aiza next summer.

People love a good right there, bro.

People love to [ __ ] plan, bro.

That's awesome.

And like planning for who's going to

install their Christmas lights now.

You're doing a [ __ ] You're giving a

[ __ ] gift to people.

Oh.

Uh, Stefan, no. It is not possible to

tip me. I do not accept tips here. The

way you can tip me is by becoming a

collector of V friends. I am building

the next Pokemon Marvel. Go into the

shop and buy Vfriend thing and learn

this world. Go to eBay, type in V

friends, go to completed items. You will

be blown away what we're building here.

George, that's what you need to do. You

need to start making Christmas content,

Christmas lighting content 365 days a

year.

Got it.

I mean, I would post on New Year's Day

2026 and be like, "Book your Christmas

lights in." You [ __ ] haven't

even taken down your Christmas lights

and I want you to book me for next year

and there's somebody who will book you.

Right on.

Do you take Christmas lights down?

Yes.

Oh, I that brother all day.

You should pound I mean that's the

[ __ ] that's the good [ __ ] right

there. That's the business.

That's the [ __ ] business people cuz

some people love the spirit of like you

know like I talked about yesterday. I

don't know if you're watching like the

guy who loves to drink some Bud Light

and [ __ ] lawn do the lawn mower.

There's the same people really like the

Christmas lights thing. They're not

chubby chase. They like it or they are

chubby chase. Depends how you analyze

that scene. But like, you know, like but

taking it down, nobody [ __ ] wants to

do that [ __ ]

Yeah. It's It's And I've had calls

people saying, "Hey, my company never

called back." And things like that. And

I'm like, "I'd be happy to be out

there." And I' I've even helped some

people for free like right next door

like, "Hey,

course you're a good dude. Might

as well take it down."

Bro, I know people who keep Christmas

lights up 12 months a year cuz they

don't want to take them down.

I'm I'm being dead serious. I know two

people. Literally, it's our second

homes. So, there's a little bit of that.

But,

hey, uh, so, so I still have one

Christmas light piece in my house that I

that I still have lit up. So, no joke on

that.

Hey, Chad, who's a sicko and loves to

take down Christmas lights? Put sicko in

the chat. Say sicko. You're a sicko. You

like love it. Like you can't wait to

take down the Christmas lights. There we

go. There's a couple. Uh George 24/7,

bro.

You got it.

Let's get into the show. Aaron, what do

you got on the question? Okay. Question

from Andrew, 22 years old. What would be

your advice to a three-year Walmart

associate who's having trouble promoting

and moving up? I have the capability and

experience, but not the opportunity.

Should I cut my losses and find

somewhere else?

Yes.

You know, cutting losses is like like I

think this is a humongous issue for the

world. Notice how he asked the question,

should I cut my losses? People think

putting a couple years into a job is

cutting the loss. It's not cutting loss.

You had an experience. You also don't

know if you're right or they're right. A

lot of employees love to [ __ ] on their

bosses and their boss's bosses and

saying not getting the opportunity.

Meanwhile, they might just suck. And him

going to Target. Good news. When you're

at Walmart, Target is interested.

Target's interested, bro. What's his

name?

Andrew, go to [ __ ] Target. Now, if

Target after a year or two also says you

suck, you should go to Five Below.

And if Five Below says you suck or blow,

well then guess what? Now you're 0 for

three. Three strikes, you're out at the

old ball game. You need to rethink your

whole [ __ ] sitch. But if he's not

getting the atbat in a Walmart store, A,

there's like thousands of Walmart

stores. B, there's other retailers and

he needs to figure out if he's good or

he's right that he's not being seen.

Some people are not being seen and some

people stink at their job. And you don't

know until you have multiple data

points, you know? But like look, you've

gota you've got to respect if you go 0

for four and every store says you suck,

like you're going to have to eat it a

little bit and maybe maybe retail is not

your career. Maybe you need to be in

camp counseling or you know a chef. Alan

K, what's good, bro?

Hey, I'm just calling up. Um glad to be

on here and finally get to talk to you.

Um

it's a pleasure, man. First, the the

beard mustache combo is epic, bro.

Thanks.

The Raleigh fingers is coming in, my

man.

Right. I'm I'm bringing it back. I'm

bringing it back.

I love it.

Um I'm a high school teacher. Um and um

I have a new social media marketing

class that I'm putting together and you

know I'm getting the best information.

Get the kids updated.

Thank you.

Um and I'm, you know, so I'm using your

info. I love AI. I'm all about it. Once

it came out, I'm doing everything with

AI. I even wrote a book for teachers on

how to use AI. love

um and they um the problem is a lot of

teachers don't want to use AI, right?

They don't want their kids to use the

students and

and I'm the opposite. I'm against the

American education system even though

I'm in it. Y

I try I try making like chat bots for my

my students and you know to help them

study and do everything. Um, and I love

doing um, you know, AI um, engineering,

right? The prompt engineering. The

problem I have now is I'm a teacher. I'm

passionate about it. I love helping, you

know, teenage kids

find their passion and do what they need

to do. I just don't know how to turn

that into another income

where, you know, it's hard to keep kids

attention while they're in my forced to

be in my classroom, let alone get them

interested in what I have to say, you

know, on their own.

I would like to, you know,

I'd like to turn it into my own like way

of extra income.

I got it, brother. I'm a teacher, too. I

just don't do it in a classroom in an

archaic system. I do it in the

entrepreneurial arena of live social and

social media content. You should do that

at scale and that will lead to income

opportunities of speaking, bookw writing

to get paid on that courses and many

other things. The classroom in the

academic corporate structure of

government is not the place to monetize

for teachers. It's a place to scratch an

itch. I admire the [ __ ] out of teachers.

It's a destiny and a home for a lot of

people. My sister taught first grade for

a long time. Uh, I believe teachers are

massive. But teachers come in all shapes

and sizes. Some are in classrooms and

some live in other places. If you're

asking me a question of monetization,

you must live elsewhere.

Okay. So, see, I was looking at the

whatnot, right? And I was like, okay,

what if I did something like you're

doing right now, but what the hell am I

going to sell? Like to also

a book.

Well, I'm saying if I'm my my attention

would be more to like the student and

kids ain't reading no books today.

I understand. So,

I hate reading books, too. I mean, to be

honest with you, but

but why should a kid buy anything from

you, whether it's a book or an online

course when there's 8 trillion things of

information for free?

Exactly. That's what I'm saying. So,

like I don't

So, rule number one, sell something

people [ __ ] want.

Okay.

Well, how do you get people to want your

book? because I sold millions of books

even though I put out the information

for free. It's by putting out so much

content for free and bringing so much

value. Brother, do you know why so many

people collect V friends? Like they

collect V friends now because they want

to really support me on this journey and

then they fall in love with genuine

giraffe and patient pig. And so Allan,

that's the punch line. You got to figure

out what you can actually sell. But I

think that before you worry about like

what I think you putting out a ton of

information for free about what you know

about AI on social media and live stream

sessions will start to build a community

which then will have monetizable value.

I put the videos I'm making for my

social media uh class. I actually put

them on YouTube. So hopefully

Yeah, but that's not read day trading

attention. You know in that purple book

you just hung literally just held up.

You know that I would [ __ ] on you if you

just put it up the video on YouTube. I

need you clips.

What I'm saying is I put it on there cuz

I want teachers to actually

I get it.

To make their life easier just to use my

my videos

that I love that you're wonderful for.

But if you want to actually turn your

world into monetization, you got to clip

the [ __ ] out of that. Put it on Tik Tok,

Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, LinkedIn,

Facebook, Twitter. Like read the book

and [ __ ] live the book.

I know. All right, man.

All right, man. Love you, man. Stay

well.

Okay, this is a question from the chat,

actually. Um, I was successful with my

company but didn't sell when things were

good. Now I'm 36 and starting over. Any

advice on regrets and starting again?

Looking backwards is not good for your

neck or your soul.

That is my advice. Aaron, I've made a

million mistakes. Not 10, not 40. I have

made so many mistakes. It's like

laughable because I have so much

opportunity in the last 10 years. Last

night I was in dinner with some people

and the kid is the founder of Madappy,

the brand, you know, that ripping hot

iconically epic fashion brand that makes

a fuckload of money. He reminded me

nicely that I passed on investing, you

know, like like like I only make

mistakes. In fact, I would argue that my

life up to this point is predominantly

massive amounts of mistakes with a

couple occasional good decisions.

And I love it.

I don't know what else I do not

understand on the collecting capacity of

especially youth right now. Youth has

gotten so good at being critical on

themselves 5 seconds into the game.

Using a sports analogy, the amount of

children under the age of 37 on this

earth that have started to dwell in a

game of life similar to a game of

basketball where the score is 14-9

in a four quarter NBA game and they're

crying cuz they're down 14 to9 is

staggering. So, if you follow basketball

and you understand my analogy right now,

you need to wake the [ __ ] up and

understand how real what I just said is.

I don't give a [ __ ] that he missed it. I

missed everything. What are you going to

do? What What's he going to do? Cry?

What's he going to do? Go on a random

live stream and ask some guy he admires

what he should do.

It's over, Sid.

It's

there's no [ __ ] time machines.

What? Get over it. Because And here's

why. Not because I'm a dick or like

trying to give tough love. Because we

have no Because, bro, we have no choice.

You have no choice.

Why? How? Coming from a place of regret,

cynicism, disappointment

is such a bad way to start a sentence.

Coming from a place of offense where you

want to learn and build on top of why

and how are remarkable.

Using why and how from a place of regret

is the poison in society.

Yesterday's over. Learn from it and

forget about it. You cannot give weight

to yesterday.

[ __ ] yesterday.

[ __ ] you yesterday.

Yo, yesterday go [ __ ] yourself.

Darien.

Yep.

How are you, brother? Pleasure.

I'm well, thanks. How are you?

Good, man. Where are you from?

Pennsylvania.

Nice. Great to see you.

Yeah, you as well, man. Thank you for

taking the call.

Of course.

Uh wanted to connect on more of a human

level,

please.

Um so there's a lot of messaging out

there that if your circle isn't

energizing you, motivating you,

supporting you, making you a victim, or

playing the victim themselves, you

should shorten that circle and make your

network the people that are really

energizing you and giving you the

support you need.

Yes. Then there's a lot of messaging out

there that take your grind into your own

hands and and make your own pathway and

blaze your own pathway in the world.

Both of those scenarios bring a lot of

loneliness and you yourself find

yourself alone many nights.

Let's let's talk let's talk it out. the

first part, the first part that you

brought out, brother,

there's often when it's well said,

there's a second part to that sentence

that has a comma in it that says, "And

then go find people who bring you good

vibes and good energy."

Right? Let me explain to you V friends,

my little universe. One of the reasons

it's going so well doesn't have to do

with how good of an entrepreneur I am

and how well I'm operating. It's that a

lot of people in the V friends community

have literally found their best friends

in the world by being joint collectors

of this. If you go look at Comic-Con, if

you go look at a sporting event, if you

go look at like, you know, all these

things, people find things around

similar interests that have a more and

what I'm trying to do with V friends is

bring a more positive vibe. I take what

you're saying and it is valid. You're

right. I I do think the first thing

which is limit your interactions,

not cut completely out cuz a lot of

times as you know these are your best

friends or your parents or your

siblings. I I I'm not a big advocate of

like never talk to your mom or brother

again but I am a big advocate of

protecting your sanity when you have

deep negativity around you and maybe you

don't talk three times a day, maybe you

talk once every 3 days, right?

And I do believe it is on all of us that

we have the ability to get out of our

loneliness. But we must find our

communities whether in interest in

discord in Fortnite groups what you know

chess clubs what book clubs

you know

I will say through whatnot itself a

little for whatnot I have met several

individuals that I met through the app

and then went and visited them and we

hung out we grabbed drinks and had

dinner and it it is a very connective

community and you can find long-term

friends in communities like the hobby

and virtual communities like whatnot. So

100% agree.

Do you feel like you there's an

opportunity for you, brother, to double

down and quadruple down? Like hearing

your question, sensing your energy,

really excited about this conversation.

I appreciate the vulnerability and the

thoughtfulness cuz it's an important

conversation. Do you believe that

there's an opportunity for you to

quadruple down on some of the things

you're finding in whatot

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are flirting with the ability to create

a network of a dozen or so really

positive, you know, friends? Do you

think there's an opportunity there?

There absolutely is. And there

absolutely is an opportunity to connect

more with individuals.

Robbie Rob, congrats on your streams as

well. 100%. Everyone has that

opportunity. The second part of of the

coin I think is you know when you have a

9 to5 and then a 5 to 12 you know you

don't have the opportunity to make space

in the physical world with your friends

that are here and so that that in and of

itself also creates a space of

loneliness where yes the the digital

community can fill part of that but

doesn't fill the whole

Yeah. I mean, I think if you're

personally feeling that, my brother, I

would say that you are not allowed then

Monday through Friday to do 5 to 12 and

you're going to have to force yourself

to give up one of those 5 to 12elves on

every Tuesday or every other Thursday,

right? Like I think that's going to be

again really doubling down, really

attacking like when you have this level

of thoughtfulness and self-awareness and

clarity that you're communicating with

me on, I think it becomes the game of

jumping into the pool, right? Meaning,

when I hear that, that's also valid.

That sounds very clear to me. And if you

were my best friend in the world and we

were having, which is kind of how I'm

treating this conversation right now, I

would say to you, brother, you've got to

pick every Wednesday and [ __ ] 5 to 12.

And you're going to have to join the

bowling club, the pool club. You need to

keep pounding and finding more people in

the general Pennsylvania area within an

hour drive, whatever you're missing that

it's clear that you're searching for.

Yeah. Yeah. Makes sense.

keep going because I'm enjoy I actually

think you're bringing a lot of value.

What what of what we've talked about

right now feels right or feels like Yes,

Gary, I get that logically, but in my

tummy right now, I don't feel like

that's right.

No, I I think your perspective of taking

a day off and using that day to be

social and to go out and find something

in the local community that is physical

and something that you can create, you

know, inerson networks with. Um, I think

that's completely valid. Uh, one of the

things I've tried to do more is try to

get more connected with my church. And

so that's I mean that's one that's by

the way, brother, you're going down a

very good path. I think for a lot of

people in the last 40 years, the loss of

community as people started to go to

their their place of choice of worship

on every Sunday was such a grounding,

such a great community that a lot of

people have lost. In fact, you know,

it's funny. I go to church on Sundays in

the fall and winter as well. It's called

Metife Stadium, right? I I genuinely,

and I mean this, my community of Jet

Friends,

right, of New York Jet Friends is a real

community for me. In fact, it's very

church-like. We go there and we talk

about our sins of ever picking this team

as our favorite team. We we talk about

the adversities of life, you know, like

rooting for the Jets. Um, here's a great

Jets fan walking by me right now. Alan

Harker, part of that community. Like,

like this is why I'm such a big fan of

sports, by the way. Especially when

you're a fanatic, it starts to you be

and you are religious about it, you

build an incredible sense of community.

And so, a actual religious like uh

institutions, I'm pumped that you're

leaning into that. And I think a lot of

people synagogue, church, uh mausoleim

like you know uh you know whatever their

place of uh uh preference and and

religion is is a great thing to do and

in general I think also finding you know

that's obviously one form of community.

I really do think interests you know

like actually let's go a little bit

deeper. What are some are you into

movies? Are you into sports? Are you

into cooking, golf? What are some of

your interests or things you're into or

watch on TV or like give me give me a

little more color commentary here.

Yeah, I don't watch a lot of actual

series on TV. I am big into anime. I do

play a little bit of video games. I

round golf. I do um

It's great.

Also, I I sell sports cards here on

whatnot and also in local uh card shows.

So, also

let me ask you let me ask you a deep

question. Let me ask you a deep

question.

Yeah.

Do you trust people?

Not always. Yeah, that's why I'm

enjoying this right now. I'm really

excited about this, brother. I'm really

happy you and I are together. Notice how

that like that was a maybe for some

people watching right now in my team,

that was like a left field question, but

notice how I went there and how good

this feels for me right now. And I would

have bet all of it um on uh on you

answering that way. Uh I'm very

fortunate. I have two very opposite

parents. One of them trusts everyone

until they give them a reason not to.

And usually it takes her a lot of

reasons for her to lose that trust. I

was fortunate enough to get that DNA and

also be fundamentally parented by that

person. The other parent trusts no one.

And even when someone gives them years

of good reason to fully trust, he is not

capable of trusting them and is always

waiting for the other shoe to fall and

is actually searching almost often

manifesting and creating some weird

non-truthful justification to lose the

trust.

Yeah,

I would tell you that this is the path I

want you to look through because you are

doing a lot of great things in the first

part of how we address the issue that

we're talking about. It's the second

part that's actually the punchline of

the conversation you and I are having.

Your DNA and your circumstances of

growing up and your the things that

happened in life have put you in a place

where it's a little harder to trust. And

that is leaning and leading to why we're

in this predicament. And I will tell you

if this is any solace and you're going

to have to go on your journey. And I'd

love for you to hang out more with us.

And good news, you're catching me at a

great time in my career. Starting in

October, I'm going to be doing tea with

Gary Vee and a night version of this.

Okay.

I'm actually contemplating cutting out

alcohol permanently. So the winding down

with Gary Vee thing is a little tough.

Though I might do a non-alcoholic wine

deal brand deal. That could be a whole

thing in itself. I might start a brand

again. Anyway, nonetheless, I really

like you to hang out a little bit with

us, brother. Cuz let me say one thing

about this crew. There's a lot of people

in here that I've gotten to know over

the last four or five years that are

incredibly worthy of your trust. And I

already feel like I have a good sense

that they quote unquote won't let you

down. And like anything in life, it

becomes practice. Once you get three to

four relationships where you get

sustained two years where you and maybe

it was uncomfortable to trust but

they've done nothing to break that trust

and you're starting to get more and

you're starting to get more comfortable.

You'll then become stronger

in being able to open up and trust and

then you'll become so strong that even

when someone does [ __ ] you up, right,

and breaks your trust, it won't be a

devastating knockout blow. It will just

be a tough punch and you'll like wipe

the blood off and move forward. That's

what we need to build up.

Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. And that

makes total sense. I I think you're spot

on in terms of your analysis where I I

do have trust issues from, you know,

trauma in the past and everyone does. Um

it's

and and by the way, it's incred news,

brother. It's incredibly valid. It's

appropriate because there's it me not

having trust issues and you having trust

issues does not make me better or more

capable or more awesome. It's literally

circumstantial.

The fact that you have the strength to

go on here publicly, talk about this,

put yourself out means you're brother,

you're 90% of the way there. People that

are able to do what you're doing right

now, which is incredibly rare when

they're feeling it. Most people that are

in the exact predicament you're in are

deflecting, blaming, and definitely not

putting it out there.

Yeah.

Right. And so, I'm incredibly proud of

you. I'm I'm very I admire it quite a

bit, to be honest. I'm glad I went with

my intuition and kept this call because

I think not only are you starting to

help yourself. I genuinely believe in

the thousands of people that are

watching right now, like literally

there's somebody who's literally you

right now on whatnot who's literally

benefited from these 7 to 10 minutes and

are on their way. And man, I think it's

uh I think you I think you can do this,

man. watched people I've watched some

people not be able to get there ones

that I love deeply and I wish they could

get further but I've seen some of those

people including my father get much

further along and I've watched people

who

actually it's time brother yes

and getting into the the groove of

meeting people and then finding that

they are supportive and then finding

that you can trust

and let me and like and let me take it

let me take you to step three

once you realize that no one's better

than you and that no human should be put

on a pedestal, even the ones you most

admire.

Yeah.

Then it really gets going.

The reason no one disappoints me is that

I don't put anyone above me.

We are only disappointed by ones that we

put above ourselves.

Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, and that's that's, you

know, a life of service. You know, you

put people in front of yourself. Um,

by the way, by the way, I'm obsessed

with life of service. I would argue that

I give more than I take to everybody I

ever meet. That has nothing to do with

my ability to not put their subjective

opinions about mere

at a higher pedestal than the subjective

opinions I have about my own self.

Correct. Correct. Absolutely.

Absolutely.

No, I appreciate this conversation,

Gary. I I thank you for all your advice

and support as always. And I really do

hope there are others on the line that

Oh, I got a couple good ones for you.

There's a there's a guy in the chat

named the Dalton Ty that you absolutely

immediately have to get connected with

who's very much leaned into his faith

and is a great kid and also has ripped

off a bunch of people at the National

Sports Card Collection a couple years

ago to own a tremendous rare robot first

sticker rookie card collection. And I

appreciate even though he loves God very

much, his entrepreneurial spirit shine

through so heavy and he dominated and

[ __ ] ripped off the faces of children

and the unknowing at Chicago a couple

years ago to build a dominant financial

force of opportunity for himself.

Oh my gosh. Love it.

Uh and uh and I will say there's a lot

of people Michelle and uh everybody uh

brother what is your Instagram and what

is your your can people see his what?

No, they can't see his whatnot here cuz

he's not on his whatnot. What's your

whatnot on Instagram? I want to but if

you are a great person in the V friends

community and a lot of you are not. So,

please do not DM this nice man cuz that

is not what we're doing. A lot of you

are not at your ultimate great place.

Some people are work in progress. Unless

you are at your ultimate great place

where you are 100% well intended in your

outreach to this wonderful gentleman. Um

uh please do not DM him if you are fully

there. Hi, Anthony would be at the top

of my list. Uh, please DM this person,

this great friend Damian. Damian, where

can people find you on Instagram and

whatnot, so they can DM you?

Hobby_cast,

H O B Y C A S T on whatnot, hobbycast

sports, all one word on Instagram.

All right. So, for everybody in West

West Jersey or that general Allentown

Bethlehem, PA area, there's a lot of

people in the general area. A lot of

people hitting you up. You are about to

get a really good community of friends,

my friend. But you, this is not them

stepping up for you. This is you

stepping up and having the courage to be

disappointed and really working on do

not put them on a pedestal. No one. No

one.

Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. Thank you

so much, Gary. Very much. Appreciate the

time.

Of course, my friend. Have the best day.

Yeah, you too.

That's going to be a nice message for

this crew and a good clip for a lot of

people. I hope millions of people watch

that over the next 10 years cuz I think

there was a lot there. Everybody, how do

we feel about that? That felt like

that's we're going to get some of those.

That's what the fall and winter of 25

are. We're going to get that's what

that's that right there was real [ __ ]

[ __ ] That right like I genuinely

believe Damian's life's forever changed.

And by the way, not because I did a nice

job there because I think I did do a

nice job, but because of this incredible

uh everybody, if you're new to V

friends, this is not just a Pokemon

Marvel thing. This is not just a big

business that I'm trying to build. Both

are true. This is a community that is

built on this foundational truth which

is strangers become acquaintances,

acquaintances become friends, and

friends become family. Be friends. And

if you're in the whatnot chat right now

and you've become part of that family,

if you're in that journey, or if you can

communicate to everyone, let's get into

the next question, Aaron, from you.

This question is from Ally. I'm

currently a stay-at-home mom who's

feeling financial pressure to work. I'm

overwhelmed trying to find a job that

helps me be a presentish parent to my

toddler, have a flexible schedule, and

support my family financially. What do I

do? I search and search and feel like

I'm hitting dead ends. More searching. I

mean, like, that's a lot to ask. You

know, again, we're in this new era. We

need to understand this new era.

Everyone's like, "It's so hard now. It

was so much better for our parents." It

wasn't better for our parents. Our

parents were willing to sacrifice time

with kids to get the finances done. We

want more.

It's just the truth. Like, are we are

gang? Can I get all 10,000 of you across

all platforms to agree that we just want

more? Like, our [ __ ] parents and our

grandparents generation really were

willing to take an L in certain

categories. We want more. And companies

are like, sorry. Like, like again, I

keep saying this about businesses. They

don't have the luxury of being just your

family. They don't have the luxury of

being [ __ ] like school like where it

doesn't [ __ ] m like there's

ramifications. Companies go out of

business.

Companies are going to use AI. Companies

are going to pick who their best

employees are and they're going to

decide best is time put in or impact

while time but let me be very

transparent as a boss. I don't need any

of my employees to work 100 hours a week

for me to be like they're the best. If

they work se let's just be even more

direct. There are employees in the all

my companies that work 42 hours a week,

but they're incredibly impactful in

those 42 hours and I'm good. And there's

other employees that work 67 hours. And

people know me like hard work and all of

that. But if they're not impactful,

they're not as good.

It's just real life. It's their impact

or like some version of less impact but

more hours put in. Like like not all of

us get the same output or impact on the

time amount we spend. I can do a

15-minute meeting and really have

financial impact. Most of the people

that work for me cannot. That's just

real life. And that's just the game. So,

you know, here's a problem. The problem

is we're asking for too much. We just

are. This is where I think

entrepreneurship and live selling can

come in. My actual answer to her is to

buy [ __ ] at thrift stores and garage

sales and flea markets and look around

the house for random stuff and post on

Facebook and look at Facebook

marketplace and sell [ __ ] on eBay and

whatnot. How about that? How about that

curveball

when we're asking the reason she's

looking and looking and looking is

companies don't want her.

They're like they're not. And by the

way, there are hundreds of thousands of

C compan companies that would want

someone, but it sounds like the schedule

has to be a flexible way that doesn't

work for a lot of companies.

It's just real life. Hopefully, she can

find something. And I hope like, you

know, but like a lot of like my dad's

liquor store can't be flexible with

ours. It's retail. It's open. It like

needs like, you know, like I don't know.

Like, so I like the idea of taking

things in your own hand and and buying

and flipping. And I think she can make

a,000 bucks a month easy flipping. I

think everyone can make $1,000 a month

easy. Easy after 3 to four months of

really learning, right? Really being on

eBay, understanding what's worth money,

really going to the thrift store every

day, you know, really, really, really,

really going there, garage selling, like

re, you know, like really learning

flipping, you know? So, that's my answer

to that. Gatsby Global, what's good?

Hey, Gary, how are you?

I'm well, brother. Are you a Bears fan

or is that just a hat?

It is a Cincinnati Reds hat.

Oh [ __ ] you're right. I'm getting

rusty. Are you a Reds fan or uh

big time?

How old are you?

32.

Love it. All right, brother. Go ahead.

Um in a day where of course social

shopping is on the rise and of course

you're crushing it on whatnot.

Um IG live you can utilize of course Tik

Tok shop. Should we still try to utilize

actual brickandmortar stores too for new

products and new IP or should we try to

lean in on

lean lean in for lean in on online

first? Get your leverage online first.

When you say lean into brick and mortar,

are you saying you made a product and

you're hoping Walmart or Albertson's or

Marshalls will carry it? I would say the

re the way those stores are making their

decisions now is they are looking for

momentum and sales and heat from social

and live shopping and then they bring

the stuff in. They're trying to guess

less themselves. It's much better for

Walmart and Claire's and Five Below and

7-Eleven to know already there's demand

than to guess. So you'll have more

leverage by building heat online.

Cool.

All right. You got you, brother. Good

luck. See you.

See you. I like that shelf. All right,

Aaron, you're up. Hey.

Uh, this question is from Ryan. How do I

navigate a narcissistic boss when I love

the job?

That's [ __ ] hard. Um, you don't love

the job cuz the job includes the

narcissistic boss. You love the the

tangible parts of the job. There's no

job on earth that there isn't other jobs

like that with at least a more neutral

or remarkable boss.

People have to quit more.

Like I don't know like people need to

spend time on LinkedIn posting content

and creating opportunities. Again, I

mentioned it yesterday cuz I'm really

just giving her love. Courtney's posting

all this good content on how to help

beginners start live streaming OBS all

that potentially leads to opportunities.

I want Corey to like her job because I

want her here. But I I get excited when

people do content because I know it

opens up opportunities. And by the way,

she might be dreaming of living in

Barcelona. She's a young woman once in

her life. And she could get an actual

message from somebody in Barcelona

saying, "Hey, I've seen your videos on

this. I want to start doing live

streaming. I want to do this." Right? We

all remember Dustin used to work here.

Dustin Lee used to work here. Remember

Dustin Braden? Remember that dude? like

he's he's not here anymore, right?

Because him being associated and

building brand through me led to a very

high netw worth boss in Arizona who

wants to have similar outcomes to my

career. Like whether you get it through

the shine of association with a person

or you create it for yourself like

Courtney's doing or a combination of the

two, people need to start putting out

more content about their skills and

knowledge and passion to lead to

opportunity. or if they don't want to do

that cuz they're weird and nervous about

it. They're weird about it, they're not

weird. Um, they need to start DMing and

applying to more jobs if they're

unhappy. You do not love a job if you

don't love the boss. And if you're using

the word narcissistic, you've now done

enough homework to understand what that

is. A a narcissist is a very tough human

to interact with. It's a very

substantial human flaw. It's a really

tough thing to navigate. It's a

non-winning game. It's like all four

walls are blocked in and that person

needs a lot of therapy and like a lot of

work. So if she or he was she what was

it? Um

Ryan if he's figured out that truth

that's rough man like that to me is

really worth looking for some other

opportunities. So Paul

Gary how are you?

I'm quite well. It's lovely to see you.

It's PK here.

It's great to see you PK.

I have a uh a personal question. It's

it's tough to ask. Um my my mother's

recently been diagnosed with uh kind of

between stage three and four lung cancer

unfortunately. Um I'm so sorry PK.

No, that that's okay. Thank you. My

question is I feel like my work ethic at

work is struggling

as it should. Like grieving grieving. I

can tell you right now, brother, you

know where I sit on work ethic cuz you

know I know you've been around these

parts for a bit, brother. I'm on the

record that when those unfortunate days

happen in my life, I will be a shell of

myself from a productivity standpoint.

Right?

We must become much more gracious to

ourselves of times of grief.

It's a little ironic cuz I have the

gracious grizzly bear, right?

You've got to be gracious to yourself

here, brother. Like, you're you're

allowed that now. Now, I own my own

businesses, and when I when I'm less

productive during those devastating

chapters in my life, my business is just

going to feel the effects, but no one

can quote unquote fire me,

right? You've got to balance a little

bit of like making sure you're

overcommunicating with your place of

work to make sure you're not putting it

because I've had unbelievable amounts of

people DM me unfortunately who've been

let go

in this situation because it's been pro

too prolonged for their boss's

subjective opinion of what they're

willing to be gracious about. And so you

don't want to double compound your

worries. So, make sure you're a good

communicator and honest with your job.

That's the thing. I've kind of been

keeping it close to my chest. I haven't

really dulged much to my work yet just

because there's a lot of unknown right

now. Just kind of going through

treatment. Do you think I should be more

How do you How do you Let's talk it

through. I want to make this valuable

for everyone. How good do you feel about

the humanity and kindness and

graciousness of your organization or

bosses or managers or boss's boss?

Yeah, I mean they are very

understanding. I I know that they

How long have you worked there?

Take uh 10 years this.

Okay. I think you're in a great spot,

brother. I think you go have a real

combo. And and and again, you only know

if you like, look, there's a lot of

people who grief who actually need to be

at work.

It's escape. Of course. Of course.

There's been people who I've given time

to that have come back three days later

and said, "Gary, you're the best." and

but I'm back because like these last

three days were actually the worst and I

actually need even though I might be

running at 65% I need to be here. Um so

you know you just got to figure it out

you know what works for you but it's 10

years the way you just responded to me

you've built equity you seem to feel

like it's not a coldhearted

organization. I think you I think you

need to go uh I think you need to go and

uh have a proper combo brother.

Okay. I appreciate you Gary as always.

I'm sending you a lot of love and

prayers, PK. Love having you part of

this community. Love you, bro.

Appreciate it, Gary. Love you.

Take care, my man. All right, everybody.

I am out of here. I love you. I hope you

enjoyed. Love you all. Have the best

day.

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
business /ˈbɪznəs/ B1	noun - an organization or economic system where goods and services are exchanged
employee /ɪmˈplɔɪiː/ B1	noun - a person who works for an organization or employer
impact /ˈɪmpækt/ B2	noun - a strong effect or influence verb - to have a strong effect on something
finance /ˈfaɪnæns/ B2	noun - management of money, especially by governments or companies
sacrifice /ˈsækrɪfaɪs/ B2	verb - to give up something valued for the sake of something else noun - an act of giving up something valuable
employee /ɪmˈplɔɪiː/ B1	noun - a person who is hired to work for someone else
impactful /ˈɪmpæktfəl/ C1	adjective - having a strong effect or influence
luxury /ˈlʌkʃəri/ B2	noun - a state of great comfort or elegance, often involving great expense adjective - extremely comfortable, elegant, or enjoyable
generation /ˌdʒɛnəˈreɪʃən/ B1	noun - all people born and living at about the same time
platform /ˈplætfɔːrm/ B2	noun - a digital service or site used for various purposes
content /ˈkɒntɛnt/ B1	noun - information or material contained within something (e.g., a website or video)
influencer /ˈɪnfluənsər/ B2	noun - a person who affects or changes the way others behave by their popularity or authority
strategy /ˈstrætəʤi/ B2	noun - a plan of action designed to achieve a long-term aim
opportunity /ˌɑːpərˈtuːnɪti/ B1	noun - a set of circumstances that makes it possible to do something
marketing /ˈmɑːrkɪtɪŋ/ B1	noun - the activities involved in promoting and selling products or services
entrepreneurship /ˌɑːntrəprəˈnɜːrʃɪp/ C1	noun - the activity of setting up a business or businesses
monetize /ˈmɑnɪˌtaɪz/ C1	verb - to earn money from an asset, service, or content
community /kəˈmjuːnəti/ B1	noun - a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common