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The GaryVee Audio Experience

Gary Vaynerchuk

Business, Marketing

4.8 • 18.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Today’s episode is one of the top episodes of 2025, which is why I wanted to bring it back during the holiday season. Hope you enjoy it!

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0:00.0	This is the Gary Vee audio experience. Good morning, good morning. This is T with Gary Vee live from New York City. Oh, first question here, my man. Basically, I've kind of reached a point with you last maybe six months. I've kind of realized that I'm plat-going at work. Okay. What do you do? I write code. Okay.
0:24.6	Inspired by a VCon 1, by the way. If it wasn't for Beacon 1, I wouldn't.
0:26.5	It's like what got me in the software.
0:27.9	I love it.
0:30.5	And I was like really about it, man, like hustling.
0:36.8	Like I did nothing for two years, but like very little friends, very little like social life.
0:54.5	Just put my head down, grinded and like got to where I'm at now with work, which is, like, a good spot. I'm making, like, a good amount of money. I moved down to Puerto Rico, and I live with some of the guys from my team. You're allowed to fucking change your mind. I'm sure six months ago a year ago, you were like, yeah gonna fucking me and my boys are gonna go to Puerto Rico we're not gonna fucking pay taxes we're gonna
0:59.5	fucking run into Jake Paul and be in the fucking ring like rips and we're gonna fucking like do
1:04.3	all this stuff and it's gonna be fucking awesome and the girls down there are crazy and it's all
1:08.6	fucking like exciting and now it's nine months later and you're like, yo
1:12.3	we're just sitting in this fucking house
1:14.1	I'm bored of shit coding and this
1:16.4	fucking blows that you're allowed
1:18.4	you're allowed to feel that way
1:21.6	and change your mind and move back to the fucking
1:23.9	mainland you're allowed
1:25.3	here's the thing I don't want to leave. So don't leave. Since I got here, I picked up MMA, and so I've been training nonstop for the last six months. I have two fights. So become a fighter. But that's the thing. I don't know if I want, I like MMA, but I don't think I want to be a fighter. You met me, dude. I'm like a nice guy. Look at me. I've met a lot of fucking scrawny ass motherfuckers who can fight MMA. Have you ever seen O'Malley? Yeah. Yeah.
1:57.0	By the way, don't be a fucking fighter and don't be a fucking coder.
2:01.9	I don't know if you know this.
2:05.3	There's 97 trillion other fucking things you can do.
2:06.8	Right.
2:10.3	Let's keep talking.
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