#50: Happiness Comes From the Pursuit with David Meltzer
JAYSON WALLER UNLEASHED
Jayson Waller
4.4 • 649 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Today on the show we have David Meltzer, the CEO of Sports 1, a sports marketing firm which he co-founded with hall of fame quarterback, Warren Moon. David talks about how when he was a kid, the only problems he had were money problems, and that was something that he wanted to fix.
David talks about how he went to law school and became a successful lawyer, but it wasn’t exactly what he wanted to be doing, so he quit and started selling “the internet” in 1992. He was on top of the world, creating business in Silicon Valley. Then in 2008 everything came crashing down. David surrounded himself with the wrong people and started losing sight of the values that got him to where he was.
David now has a better understanding of what helped him become successful and stay successful, a mix between money and faith. David now has 4 books out, helping other people get to where he is at now, Connected to Goodness, Compassion in Capitalism, Creating the Life You Love, and Gametime Decision Making.
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Timestamps:
1:53 - Millionaire Aspirations
3:52 - Adapt and Change
7:05 - Losing Values
10:49 - Getting Back on the Horse
12:26 - Rocky Balboa
17:52 - Understanding Money
18:54 - David Meltzer’s Books
23:28 - Setting Expectations
27:57 - Happiness is Most Important
30:47 - TV Shows
32:16 - Free Trainings
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| 0:33.8 | I've got a leader here today that has done many things. |
| 0:36.9 | I'm super excited about this. Anybody ever seen the movie, Jerry McGuire? You're going to love what I've gotten in leader here today that has done many things. I'm super excited about this. |
| 0:38.3 | Anybody ever seen the movie, Jerry McGuire? You're going to love what I've gotten in store for you. We've got David Meltzer. He's an entrepreneur, keynote speaker, author, consultant, and business coach, and a philanthropist. How are you doing, David? Hi, I'm so excited to be here. Any show that's called The Underdog is my kind of show. man everybody everybody loves an underdog. All my favorite movies are about underdog. My life is about being an underdog. And I know you're an underdog. So I love the idea of this and I love being here. Hey, no, thank you. I'm super excited. I was reading some of your bio and I'm sitting here looking and we talked a little bit before we came on. |
| 1:08.3 | And when I grew up, I always wanted to be like Jerry McGuire, right? So before we get started into that, because the movie's about your firm, about you and about kind of what that is, which is super cool. But it wasn't always like that. And on our show, we like for all the listeners and viewers out there, whether you're an entrepreneur, whether you're in sales, whether you're a doctor, |
| 1:10.1 | whether you're a cop, whether your teacher, whatever. |
| 1:45.1 | We all need some kind of motivation or advice to get over the hump and to know that it's okay and really bringing you on to the show. They can hear your story and relate to you of what's going on. So I'm super excited. I want to start when you were a kid and you grew up in Akron, Ohio, you had six siblings and a single mom who worked two jobs, right? Your dad left when you were five, and you wanted to become a millionaire |
| 1:49.2 | to change things for your family. What was that like? |
| 1:54.4 | You know, for me, it was interesting because I was super happy even though I was poor, |
| 1:58.6 | so I don't like to put myself out like a total victim, although there was a lot of why me in my life, |
| 2:04.0 | like why do other people have nice cars and dads and houses and can they go to summer camp and they don't worry about college. |
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