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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Finding Purpose through Loss with HipHopGamer

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I sit down with HipHopGamer, Gerard Williams, to discuss how we can find our true purpose through life’s toughest moments. I share the story of losing over $100 million and how that loss led me to reconnect with what truly matters: faith, gratitude, and purpose. Gerard and I explore how faith has shaped both of our journeys, from his early days nearly landing a major record deal to building a career at the intersection of gaming, music, and culture. Together, we talk about the lessons we’ve learned from pain and how connecting to something bigger than ourselves leads to real success.

Transcript

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There was

0:02.0

financially stressed and things like that and you was you know actively trying to get money

0:05.4

trying to get money the need to be right all these other things and then through

0:09.9

lost you was actually able to find like your passion and really understand what

0:15.6

really matters at the end of the day. So now we hear at this book

0:19.2

Connected to goodness. What are you connected to and what is that goodness that continues to give you joy?

0:25.6

That is a great question. You know my life changed when I lost everything. I lost

0:31.5

over a hundred million dollars went bankrupt and it was because

0:35.5

Before that and because for good intention I wanted to help my mom I want to help the community

0:40.7

Because I grew up so poor and a lot of guys that grow up poor I've worked with so many athletes, celebrities, and entertainers, we feel responsible for all the people that we grew up with.

0:51.0

And so I always wanted more. I wanted more money, more happiness, more health, more wealth.

0:57.0

And by losing everything, I realized that I already had it.

1:01.0

I had to figure out what I was doing to interfere with it

1:05.0

because there's one simple thing about this book and I'm very pragmatic in the way that I

1:09.8

teach it. I have a lot of business experience. I work with the Napoleon Hill Institute and how

1:15.7

think and grow rich works. And for me it was I am happy, I am healthy, I am wealthy, I am worthy, what am I doing to interfere with it?

1:27.0

So I teach people how to figure out what you're doing to interfere with one thing.

1:32.0

Something bigger than you that loves you. to interfere with one thing. Wow.

1:32.6

Something bigger than you that loves you, protects you, and promotes you more than your mom.

1:37.0

Wow!

1:38.0

And it applies to every religion, philosophy, theory, and spirituality.

1:42.0

People come to me and say, Dave, you believe in Jesus Christ?

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