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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Detaching and Adapting in Business with Zach Ciappara

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, I sit down with Zach Ciappara, the visionary founder of FreeHour, a platform designed to help students in Malta manage their time and resources. We explore Zach's journey from the early days of his startup to its current success and discuss the challenges of detaching emotionally from the business. I share my own experiences with money, the importance of self-image, and how I navigated personal and professional setbacks. We also talk about the power of being more interested than interesting and the importance of humility in entrepreneurship. Join us for an inspiring conversation about growth, resilience, and the pursuit of potential.

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0:00.0

This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook where each week I bring you some of the greatest athletes, celebrities and entrepreneurs to talk about their personal and professional playbook to success.

0:12.0

Cool, so good morning David. professional playbook to success. Cool.

0:13.0

So good morning, David.

0:14.0

For context, I'm here with David Melzer,

0:17.0

motivational speaker, author, entrepreneur.

0:20.0

How's your stay in Walt have been so far?

0:22.0

Incredible. I've had so many people,

0:25.0

especially with Junior Achievement from Malta.

0:27.0

It's such an entrepreneurial place.

0:29.0

But the history here intrigues me immensely.

0:32.0

I study history all the time. But the history here intrigues me immensely.

0:33.0

I study history all the time,

0:35.5

because human nature never changes.

0:38.5

And Malta has a history that is so deep and rich and long that you see trends of human

0:48.0

nature from the wars to Einstein to so many different things that will allow me to help other people

0:55.7

understand to find what people like and don't like.

0:59.7

Cool, cool.

1:00.7

So I'm going to take it back and give you context to why we're here. So a few years ago you might not remember but I messaged you it was just the start of my startup journey around four years ago and we had spoke and he had shared some some really good advice. Since then a lot has changed.

1:15.3

So in the four years now we are one of the more established brands on the island.

1:20.4

And what I'm going to right now is essentially detaching more and more from the startup and giving myself space for relationships, for different things and exploring new things.

1:32.9

At the beginning you know how it is.

1:34.8

Your business takes a hit, you take a hit and it's just very up and down.

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