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The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Careers, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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In today’s episode, I join Ken Eslick on The Leaders Lab Podcast for an interview about learning things the hard way. We discuss the early days of my career in which I fought relentlessly for my fair share with a scarcity mindset in what I thought was a zero-sum game. In this intimate conversation about past failures and lessons learned, I talk about the pivotal moments that reshaped my perspective, leading to my passion for empowering others by shifting to an abundance mindset.

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0:00.0	This is the labor.
0:07.4	David Meltzer, welcome to the leaders lab.
0:10.4	Thank you so much for having me.
0:12.2	And I'm blessed to be honored as a leader in the lab.
0:16.0	Well, quite the leader you are.
0:18.2	I know it's been decades of journeys and ups and downs and mostly ups,
0:23.1	but I know all the work you're doing now did not.
0:26.7	It was not a straight line and I was wondering if you could take us back, David.
0:29.7	And talk to us, you know,
0:32.4	pre the big sports agency and all of that.
0:35.0	What did life look like for you early in your career?
0:38.4	Yeah, there was, you know, the first world I lived in was the world of not enough.
0:42.8	And, you know, you talked about the downs.
0:45.1	I always say I got about average eight downs a day just like everybody else.
0:48.8	I get kicked in the face about eight times a day and it's understanding my relationship
0:55.0	with getting kicked in the face eight times a day.
0:58.6	Via the mindset, the heart set and the handset.
1:01.1	So the first world I lived in, pre where I am today,
1:05.6	which has really evolved over the last 17 years,
1:08.0	was a world of not enough.
1:09.5	I grew up with a single mom, six kids.
1:13.4	She worked two jobs.
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