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The Playbook With David Meltzer
David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com
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🗓️ 28 September 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook, where each week I bring you some of the greatest |
| 0:04.8 | athletes, celebrities, and entrepreneurs to talk about their personal and |
| 0:09.6 | professional playbook to success. There's Dave Meltzer with Entrepreneurs the |
| 0:13.6 | Playbook and I have an amazing entrepreneur right up my specialty in Alley, so |
| 0:18.9 | we're gonna have a great conversation. Brett O'Brien, he is the CMO, the chief |
| 0:22.5 | marketing officer of Frito Lay North America. Welcome to the Playbook. Thank you |
| 0:28.1 | very much. It's awesome to have you because we have so many people in our |
| 0:32.8 | community that want your job and I know that doesn't make you nervous, never |
| 0:36.7 | has me be nervous. In fact, when I was running Lee Steinberg, the sports agency, |
| 0:41.1 | I always told my wife, I said, if they only knew the glamourized stock of being |
| 0:45.9 | the CEO of Lee Steinberg, go ahead, take my job please and as long as I can keep |
| 0:51.7 | the money. But more importantly, it's not easy if we connected the dots |
| 0:56.9 | backwards to your journey. Nobody would probably believe this is where you |
| 1:02.8 | would have ended up with the greatest brands in the world and being the CMO of |
| 1:07.7 | these fantastic brands. I was hoping you could share that journey and along |
| 1:12.8 | with it, if you want mine giving us a little bit of the mindset, so those |
| 1:16.8 | younger entrepreneurs will realize they're not alone, that everyone's felt |
| 1:21.4 | this way. I wanted to be an NFL superstar but this is what happened. So if you |
| 1:26.9 | could share that with us, it'd be terrific. Yeah, sure, happy to and yeah, I |
| 1:31.8 | don't want anybody to take my job because I love my job. So I'm good. Yeah, you |
| 1:36.8 | know, so I grew up outside of Boston and I went to school in DC for college and |
| 1:44.0 | stayed in DC after and worked in sports marketing. So so similar to you, a work |
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