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🗓️ 12 September 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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In this episode of Tea with GaryVee, Gary answers questions about career growth, building a fan base, and finding financial stability in creative industries. He shares advice on balancing ambition with patience, staying accountable, and pushing forward without dwelling on self-doubt. Whether you’re chasing music, business, or any passion, this conversation is a reminder that success takes time and perspective.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Gary Vee Audio Experience. Everybody, good morning, good morning. Welcome to another episode of Tea with Gary Vee. It's great to see all of you. Aaron, get into the first question. Okay, this question is from Young Wolf. I'm in a- Young Wolf. This person's name is Young Wolf. Yes. All right, this question better be fucking badass and not some fucking bullshit pansy shit. Because if your name is Young Wolf and you ask like, my feeling is hurt, then you're not fucking Young Wolf. Young Wolf asks, I'm an emerging Chicago artist in my early 30s and I recently signed with Jim Jones's Vamp Life Records. It's a big milestone and I'm grateful for the progress and what's ahead, |
| 0:39.3 | but I struggle with feeling like I'm not where I should be yet, |
| 0:41.3 | and building my fan base and finding financial stability. |
| 0:44.3 | Any advice? |
| 0:45.3 | It's okay to be ambitious. |
| 0:47.3 | It's okay to be accountable, right? |
| 0:50.3 | You're not where you are because you haven't done it. |
| 0:53.3 | You haven't done the work. |
| 0:55.0 | You might not be talented enough to do it. |
| 0:58.0 | Like you might be liking certain parts of the music game, but not other parts. |
| 1:04.0 | It's okay to do, it's okay to have momentary, micro moments of self-doubt. |
| 1:10.0 | It is not allowed to have consistent dwelling and consistent |
| 1:15.3 | beating yourself up for dumb shit wolf so what i need from you is to understand who gives a |
| 1:23.2 | fuck like i mean at 34 years old i had a tiny bit of money and savings. |
| 1:31.1 | I had built a huge business for my dad, but I was not financially strong. |
| 1:36.0 | I had very little to show for my 12-year insane commitment and talents, other than the self-fulfillment of why I even did it, |
| 1:46.7 | which was I wanted to support my dad and my mom |
| 1:50.3 | and all those good things. |
| 1:52.1 | And I could have fucking cried. |
| 1:56.7 | I could have, by the way, if anyone deserved to cry at 34, |
| 2:01.0 | like a lot of people here are crying that they don't have the money, |
| 2:04.3 | the fame, the happiness that they wanted 34, |
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