Dave Meltzer: Entrepreneur, Author, Humanitarian

Suiting Up with Paul Rabil

Paul Rabil

Sports, Business

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Dave Meltzer is an entrepreneur, author, humanitarian, and current CEO of Sports 1 Marketing, a global marketing agency. On this episode, we sat down and discussed his approach to business, how he bounced back from bankruptcy, and the strategies he developed to reinvent his success. Meltzer's current projects: 1. The Super Bowl 2. The Master’s 3. Pro Football Hall of Fame 4. The Unstoppable Foundation Meltzer was 2016's Variety Magazine’s “Sports Humanitarian of the Year”, he's a two-time #1 best-selling author (Connected To Goodness and Compassionate Capitalism), and has been recognized as a Top Keynote Speaker by Forbes and Entrepreneur. Most recently, Meltzer took on a producing role, is a judge, and host of Entrepreneur's original show, and #1 Digital Business show, Elevator Pitch. Since launching, they've scored over 20.8 million views. Finally Meltzer is the host of the Top 5 business podcast on iTunes, The Playbook. Hosted by professional athlete and entrepreneur, Suiting Up Podcast is a show that explores the psychology, playbook of tools, and strategies of the most influential people in sports, entrepreneurship, and entertainment.

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0:00.0	The real moment occurred about two years before the actual bankruptcy.
0:07.0	Because bankruptcy takes time.
0:09.0	So two years before I was out of control.
0:12.0	I wasn't happy, I was empty, I surrounded myself with people that weren't working, that had too much money, and that were self-medicating in a variety of different ways to make themselves happy.
0:23.0	Nothing I had done in order to get me there,
0:25.8	but now I was searching in the wrong places.
0:27.7	Instead of searching for expansion into my beautiful family
0:32.0	that I had in this wonderful stuff I was searching in the
0:34.8	wrong places and I was filling voids with the wrong things. I came home at five in the
0:39.2	morning after lying to my wife I was at the Grammy Awards with Little John.
0:43.3	I already had been working for Lee Steinberg, and I had come home intoxicated,
0:49.6	and I had lied to her and said I had a business meeting in Orange County
0:52.4	because that's where I was commuting
0:53.7	from Ranch with Santa Fe and she obviously knew I was lying and she probably knew other lies that
0:58.6	I had been telling her and I walked into this beautiful courtyard, four car garage,
1:03.2	the glass doors, and there she is, five feet tall.
1:06.1	And she looked at me and she said,
1:08.7	go upstairs.
1:10.2	And when you wake up, we're gonna talk
1:11.7	because I'm not happy.
1:12.8	I get joked up still about this one.
1:14.4	Dave Melzer is an entrepreneur, author, humanitarian, and current CEO of Sports One Marketing,
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