AI Won’t Replace You—Unless You Let It | Tea with GaryVee Ep. 73

The GaryVee Audio Experience

Gary Vaynerchuk

Business, Marketing, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 18.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

This Tea episode was wild—in the best way possible. I went deep with a bunch of callers on everything from building personal brands to battling imposter syndrome, choosing between buying a house or opening a dream pizza shop, and even bouncing back after Etsy shut down a six-figure store.

If you’ve ever felt stuck, scared to start, or unsure which way to go—this is the episode for you. There’s a ton of real advice in here, but more than that, it’s energy. It’s fire. It’s the push you need to stop overthinking and start moving.

We talk about:

Why "perfect" content is killing your momentum
The truth about followers, DMs, and your first 13 fans
Whether college still makes sense (especially if you're creative)
AI, brand building, and the future of search
What to do when life punches you in the face—and how to fight back
The pizza shop vs. house debate (and why offense always wins)
How to grow leads with local ads and repurposed content
Why soft skills matter and how to find companies that actually care

Transcript

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0:00.0	Good morning, good morning.
0:01.6	This is T with Gary B.
0:03.5	I'm your host Gary Vaynerchuk.
0:05.5	Thank you for being on.
0:06.8	Everybody on whatnot, I see you, I feel you, I appreciate you,
0:11.3	and that is where the official show goes.
0:13.5	McKenzie, I see you are ready to rock roll.
0:15.4	You put on the glasses, you're ready.
0:17.1	You're ready to go.
0:18.1	You got questions, I'm sure.
0:20.0	Mackenzie, I'm going to go to you first, and I'm going to go live on screen.
0:23.4	McKenzie's answering questions that are in the chat. Some of you are getting brought up right here live with me now.
0:28.7	All right, T with Gary Vee's official, McKenzie. What is the first question?
0:34.7	Valentin says, my business partner and I want to hire more people, but what we do is extremely complex and we fear nobody would be able to do it on our level.
0:43.7	We've been putting off hiring as we're afraid we'd end up spending way too much time micromanaging. Any advice?
0:49.8	My advice is get off your ego train. What's her name?
0:54.9	Valentin. And what's the's her name? Valentin.
0:55.7	And what's the partner's name?
0:57.9	No partner.
0:59.3	Valentin and partner.
1:00.4	Get off your ego train and get into your growing mindset and get out of the defense.
1:08.7	You're on a football team and you're playing middle linebacker right now and cornerback.
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