Breaking Free from the Money Trap

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I sit down with Sharon Lechter, financial literacy expert, bestselling author, and co-author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, to talk about fear, legacy, and taking control of your money. We discuss the power of Napoleon Hill’s Outwitting the Devil, how fear influences our decisions, and what it takes to shift from scarcity to abundance. Sharon opens up about leaving a global brand, redefining success for women, and teaching others to build income-producing assets. We also look at why high earners often remain financially insecure and how small changes in mindset and language can lead to real financial freedom.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to office hours. I'm David Meltzer, and I'm going to try to get through this
0:03.9	introduction without crying because this person has changed my life. And it's not just when someone
0:11.7	changes your life, but it's when people come up to you and they say to you, Mr. Meltzer,
0:17.4	I read your book or I heard you speak or I watched a video and you've changed my life.
0:23.4	And I wasn't so sure that was ever going to be a part of my life, but it is. And every time that
0:29.7	someone says that to me, I think about the people who have elevated me that gave me directions
0:35.6	to where I wanted to be or better. And Sharon Lecter is absolutely one of those people.
0:40.9	She's one of the people that has a talent or a skill that I share,
0:46.0	and I have developed from learning from her,
0:48.2	and it's putting things into context.
0:50.3	She's an expert in financial literacy.
0:52.3	She's a philanthropist.
0:53.3	She's a five-time New York Times bestselling author.
0:56.9	Of, by the way, some of my favorite books of all time, including one which I'm listening
1:02.8	to every day, which is somehow a future book written in 1938, which is called Outwitting
1:09.4	the Devil.
1:10.3	Most people know Napoleon Hill,
1:11.8	both of us are blessed to work with the foundation and now I'm blessed to be the chairman of the
1:16.3	Institute and look forward to working with Sharon on that. But Sharon Lector, I want to say first,
1:21.9	thank you, but most importantly, thank you for being here today. You're going to make me cry,
1:26.5	David. Thank you very much.
1:27.9	It's an honor.
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