– [Voiceover] Trey wants
to know what situations do you find yourself most comfortable in? – Trey, this is a great
question, you know, I loved it when Steve brought it up, like how he wanted to do this
question, of course, this is like a humble brag question. (bell) You know, I mean, where am I most awesome? You know, listen, the
thing I take most pride in is I’m probably probably
best when it’s chaotic. And I think a lot of
people fold in that sense, but to me I take enormous pride, what I don’t know is I’m really great in chaotic non-threatening,
I’m being very honest here ’cause I don’t I wanna (bell)
disguise this humble brag with a little humility, ’cause
that’s how I like to roll, you know, I I’m great in
business when we’re in real trouble, like I’m
great, that’s my world. I’m really good when people
are upset, you know, like, a kid in my class died in
a car accident senior year and like I like I was
proud in the way I helped a lot of people I’m
really strong emotionally. What I’m not sure about is
if like somebody came up and punched my wife in the
face, like, what would I do? Like I’m such a lover not
a fighter, that I always question myself in that
moment, I actually think I come out guns blazing, but
it’s never really happened. But I’m most comfortable in chaos. As a matter of fact, and
people can tell you this in the office, these guys
can mention it, I mean you’ve seen this stop, I’m
like rolling my, ringin’ these, I hate quiet and standard. I like walking into
VaynerMedia everybody’s got their headphones
on, like, can somebody play some music? Like, all this is like
way not enough for me. My wife actually like
keeps making fun of me because the other day I
somehow said something like New York’s too slow for
me, she’s like “shut the” you know like like I I’m best when there’s a crapload going on. My friends, I really appreciate
you watching this show.

– Hi Gary, this is Jelle from Amsterdam. This is why I need to be in Episode 14, because our biggest Dutch soccer player called Johan Cruyff he wore the number 14, so it’s really important
for us, for our Dutch man. And here’s my question, Gary. I’ve read a book in 2011 called Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. And that book changed my
life in a very positive way. I’m very curious about
you, Gary, did you read any books that changed your
life in a very positive way? Thanks. Big shout out to all the Dutch Vayniacs. The answer to this question
is pretty interesting, this is gonna be one
of the shorter answers. The answer is no. That pre-mentioned book that
I am planning on writing, if it’s my fourth or fifth
or sixth book, when I hit eight books, writing, I will
accomplish a very rare feat, which is that will be
the moment where I’ve written more books than I’ve read. I believe that one of
my core weaknesses is my lack of reading books. I just don’t read books. It is, I’ve read three
business books in my life. If you call the Steve
Jobs book a business book, John Battelle wrote a book called Search, about Google, and then
I’m trying to think, my favorite book I’ve
ever read was called Nine, it was about the Supreme Court. I’ve read like seven books.

“can piss you off?” – Ruke, you know, it’s
interesting, I’m not the kind of character that gets
pissed off so quickly. I’m pretty much a love and zen kind of guy for all my intensity, I
think that throws people off a little bit in reality. Obviously if you punch
me directly in the face, or hurt somebody I care about
right here, that would be bad. But overall the actual
answer to your question is hypocrisy and cynicism. Those are the two things
that I can’t consume. The amount of cynics out there, though it’s really one of
the funnier kind of cards that people play on
social media specifically, I see played less in real
life, really bothers me. And boy, if you’re
complaining about something you actually do, and I have
some friends and family members who play that, that just
drives me up the wall. – [Voiceover] Vineyard
Paul asks, “How do I use

– [Voiceover] John asks,
when you’re in a funk, what do you do to get out of it? – John, you’ve asked a
question that I’ve been really excited to share with the world, because it works, it is very dark. Like, this is dark, so,
I know that most people when they share my content say, beware, potty mouth McGee. This one’s beware, you
may be like, frightened, with a little bit of like a teardrop on your left eye. Left. (thumping) I’m gonna tell you the truth, because that was the commitment
when I decided to do this, which, you know, obviously I’m able, well Steve’s curating the questions but I could always kibosh them, so, when I start doing these live,
or when we do live events, or we take this show on the road and it’s audience participation
then it’ll really be the full monty but for now, I’m answering them and I’m
answering them truthfully. This is a dark one, I’m
stalling ’cause it’s dark. It’s dark. When I’m in a funk, I
literally close my eyes, put myself into a place where, something remarkable happens to me. You know, CNN names me the greatest man of all time. You know, just literally
like silly things like, I get on a list of being
the best entrepreneurs, or, Birchbox sells for
four billion dollars and I make a lot of money, or, the full extreme, when
I’m in my most funk, I literally try, usually I
do things that are realistic, and happen within a one-year window. But in my deepest funks, I’ll project, this is harder, this is
a little more role play, ’cause when I think about stuff that’s gonna happen,
intimately, it feels real. But I’ll dream about buying the Jets. And I’ll think about those great things, and then I literally, I literally make pretend
that Birchbox sells, that I make millions
and millions of dollars, and that that’s the phone call, and the next phone call is
from my hysterical sister telling me that my mother
died in a car accident. And I really do that. And I really go there. And it very, like, I’m very, as you guys know me,
I’m an emotional character. I go there, and it really does
something interesting for me. I really don’t care that I
made seven million dollars, if my mom died. I just really don’t. And I can, even as I’m
telling you this right now, I can feel it, I can truly feel how little I care about that, in comparison to what I
would feel with that pain, and very honestly, it
just sets me straight. It just reminds me what my priorities are, and it allows me to
understand that the health of my children or my wife, I mean, the fear and the shivers
I get when I think about their passing, in, you know, in real live, like them dying. And it just sets me so straight. It just makes me realize, how non-important losing that client was, or that best employee, or that
deal, or that opportunity. Passing on Uber, in the first round, which would have given
me 100 million dollars. In paper, so they gotta go public. But it’s pretty damn in there. Is something I can deal with, because, the truth is, it’s just
not what makes me happy. And more importantly, I’m so happy that everybody I love has
been healthy for so long, losing grandparents early
has put me in that position, so a negative is a positive,
and that’s what I do. I go in a very strange cocoon, and make pretend that
people I love the most die. – Gary Vee,

you learned as a result
of taking an interest in someone else’s passion, hobby, or job? – Erick, this is a really
interesting question. I’m tryin’ to figure this out. You know, one that’s
emerging, a little bit, believe it or not, but I’m
not gonna accept it, is golf. A.J. has fallen in love with golf, my bro. And, you know, I don’t know
if I’m picking up a skill, but I guess I am a little
bit, I’m out there. I’ve been thinking, should I get into it? I just can’t commit to the five hours that it takes to play, and so, I’m scared. People get addicted with golf, so, that would’ve been the
answer, but I’ve been luckily able to hold off that
insanity of the golf drug. I would probably say, and
this is a weird answer, I’d probably say respecting data. You know, I think that
I believe in targeting, and big data, and all
this new digital stuff because Eric Caster and John Casmanus when they started
VaynerMedia as developers, showed me the other side of marketing, which was retargeting, and CRMs, and all these things, and so, that was probably the last skill that I remember really picking up. Yeah, I would say respecting data. – [Voiceover] John asks,
when you’re in a funk,

– [Voiceover] Chef asks, what
food or foods have you added to your new lifestyle that
you’re enjoying the most? – Chef, once again, I went
with a different tactic. There is no foods that are new. No, we went a different route. Mike, who’s on the last episode,
we went to the supermarket. I told him the things I
liked that were conceivably healthy. Mangoes, you know, shellfish. Luckily for me, I like
everything and so there has been no additions. This has been about subtractions. – [Voiceover] Arsh asks,
how can I converge my vision

that I’ve had to deal with, hands down, it has to be the fact of
siphoning off of Wine Library TV, Daily Grape, that routine of six years, and really leaving the day in, day out operations of the family business, that is the most emotional business. Working with my dad, kind
of this transition of being day in and day out with my dad, to being day in, day out with my brother, enormous emotion comes with that. I probably never even realized
that that would ever happen. It was a very big brain twist for me, that I would be transitioning
out of the family business into another chapter of my life, and I struggled with that quite a bit. A lot of heavy emotion, the relationships with the people at Wine
Library, my dad and I dynamics, just all these very interesting things that was happening right
when Misha was born. It was a very interesting time in my life. I was growing up, and
transitioning and changing. I dealt with it with what
I deal with everything, and really, probably the
cornerstone of my happiness. I dealt with it by over-communicating. The level of communication I had with the people involved was very high and allowed for it to happen. And so, that’s what I did. – [Voiceover] Damien asks,
“When you have a billion dollar

– [Voiceover] Kyle asks,
“What’s an area of life that you haven’t given
your fullest efforts?” – Kyle, great question, and I probably was willing to answer it because of how good I feel about this question. There were two places, 36 months ago, that I was struggling in. One was kind of the non-profit NGO. I was giving my dollars,
but I wasn’t giving my time. Now I am a very proud member of the board of Pencils of Promise, and I’ve gotten more involved with my time
which is the real asset. I feel like I’m checking
that box of giving back outside of my own family
and things of that nature, and so I feel good about that. And the other one is my health. I would say health was the
clear answer only 35 days ago. I guess now, maybe a
little bit more Gary time? Between kids and the
businesses, and now working out. AJ’s been pushing me, he’s
got into golf a little bit, I don’t feel like I’ve
been able to figure out, or crack, or hack, Gary time. I guess the Jets do that, but
then that’s really September to December I get that
Sunday for five, seven, eight, nine hours depending
if it’s a home or road game. I think January through September, finding something that’s just for me that I really enjoy is something I should probably figure out. But the truth is, it doesn’t
feel right to me right now. The kids are two and five, I
wanna kinda allocate to that, the health, I’m just
prioritizing other stuff. Hopefully, next two or
three years, Gary time. – [Voiceover] Shai asks, “How does

Daniel. Edge. – [Voiceover] Bill asks, “What’s the
best way for a right hook

what’s the one thing that
keeps you up at night?” Eric, this is interesting. I promised myself when I started this show that I would go really direct, right? I mean, I already have the benefit of Steve picking the questions, so, meaning that, you know, there’s no reason not to go
direct and honest on these. This is gonna be a little
bit of a douchey answer, so DRock, I know you know how to edit, can you create a little
douche alert thing here? Can we get some sirens going.
(sirens blaring) It’s gonna be a little
bit of a douchey answer but it’s the truth. As a business leader, the one
thing that I most worry about every day is my health. Because the truth is, if I am healthy, I am completely unscared of
any of the landscape or shifts, definitely the competition,
internal issues, like, I feel like I’m in complete control. There is no place in the world that I feel more completely
and utterly in control than running a business. – [Voiceover] Daniel asks,
“center or edge?”