The Fear That’s Stopping You From Building the Life You Actually Want

The GaryVee Audio Experience

Gary Vaynerchuk

Business, Marketing, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 18.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In this clip from Tea with GaryVee episode 84, I give Paul some advice on when to quit his full-time job to go all-in on a side business. This episode is a reality check for anyone who has a winner's mentality but is holding themselves back. We dive into the psychology of fear, the importance of believing in yourself, and why you might be more capable than you think.

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0:00.0	Dude, come on!
0:02.0	You need to quit your fucking job.
0:04.0	Are you out of your fucking mind?
0:06.0	What?
0:07.0	This is the Gary Vee Audio Experience.
0:10.0	I am from West Texas, so Deaths of Texas.
0:14.0	I'm 34 years old.
0:16.0	I actually just recently started a garage clean-out business.
0:20.0	We go and clean people's garages out, and then we buy
0:22.2	the stuff they don't want, and we're trying to resell. I love this fucking, bro, Paul, I swear on my
0:29.1	children's health, I wish I was running this business. That is like my, you just literally
0:33.5	described my dream life. Go and eat shit and clean shit, and I'm not scared of anything. I'll walk in, dead rodent. I'll pick that shit up with my hands and not wash my hands for a week. I'm not scared of shit, Court. I don't give a fuck. I don't give a fuck if it's unsanitary. And? And what? Court? I will let him talk. Let me just finish my excitement.
1:02.0	And then to find, like, if I fucking clean out some dirty, dirty fucking garage, and then on top of it, I find some he man figures in the corner.
1:03.2	Oh, shit.
1:04.2	All right, go ahead, Paul.
1:08.6	No, so we're working through some bottlenecks of trying to get stuff sold out.
1:09.4	We're trying whatnot.
1:10.7	We're doing Facebook Marketplace. It's going. It's slow. I'm in an interesting place right now is I also have a full-time job. I'm a marketing director. So I work, you know, eight in the morning. I'm six in the morning, really, if you count taking my kids to work or to school. And then it's five to whenever to try and get stuff sold and then we're mostly cleaning
1:29.1	stuff on on the weekends right now makes sense so i think it's a process of going through and
1:33.8	trying to build that out i think the biggest thing the question i have is at what point or what
1:38.4	kind of indicators do you look for for like yes this works this is going to be something that i can do full do full time. You're asking, you're asking the right question. Watch this. Paul, have you heard about the concept of common sense? Yes. Good, let's play common sense game. I'm ready. Can I get some music for the common sense game? This can be an ongoing thing. I'm like, it's like, like, we got to make a little thing, like maybe make an AI song with me where I'm
2:04.1	like rapping like comments, like, I think it's like time for the common sense. It's like
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