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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Finding The Right Time to Go "All In" | Interview With David Isaacs, UFC Co-Founder and Advisory Board Chair for American 7s Football League

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

David Isaacs, UFC Co-Founder and Advisory Board Chair for American 7s Football League, sits down to discuss the launch of the A7FL’s 8th season, new innovations coming to the league, as well as how he’s applying lessons from his time with the UFC to his new role. Isaacs and host of #ThePlaybook, David Meltzer, share their insights on a wide range of topics including why it takes both tools and hunger in order to achieve greatness, how viewership and viewer preferences have shifted in recent years, and why not making decisions tends to cost more than making the “wrong” decision. Tweet me your takeaway from today’s episode @davidmeltzer Email Me! [email protected] Sign up for my Free Weekly Training https://free.dmeltzer.com/friday-training-1 Text Me! (949) 298-2905 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

it's not chance, but it's the timing was right. And I think for a lot of these things,

0:04.9

I look for, you know, find something chaotic and try to put some order to it.

0:11.0

This is the playbook. I am so excited because I actually have an extraordinary entrepreneur,

0:17.0

the co-founder of something named the UFC, but he is also a partner of mine. He's the advisory

0:23.7

board chair for the American Sevenths Football League. Welcome, David Isaacs to the playbook.

0:29.8

Thank you for having me, David Meltzer. Great to be here.

0:33.2

Yeah, it's going to be even more confusing when we're in board meetings and different

0:37.6

different meetings. They say David and we both perk up and I usually know they're talking to you

0:42.6

first and then I got to take the second chair. I don't know about that, but I

0:47.7

DM for you, a DI for me, and everybody will be good.

0:51.0

You know, I look in your background and we both have had, you know, similar careers at the

0:56.6

highest level in sports, but you know, it seems like to me you had the same kind of parents

1:02.2

or mom that I had, a teacher and education, formal education, which may or may not be as valuable

1:11.3

today as it was when we were younger, but you are extremely educated and, you know, I have a

1:18.5

difficult time. Yeah, and I have a difficult time explaining to young entrepreneurs how important

1:26.0

education is because they immediately try to pinhole me into, you know, did you go to Harvard,

1:31.7

did you, you know, you have a law degree, you have a law degree, you know, all these things,

1:35.5

I'm like, whoa, whoa, no, education's really important just because you can do it on YouTube today.

1:41.2

And I have to pay 250 grand. I'm all for that, but don't ignore the point of being educated and

1:49.4

more interested than interesting. How important number one is your education and your success?

1:55.0

And then two, how do you explain to the new generation and the new education system that's

2:01.2

available? How best to be educated? Well, I'm wary of starting with my education because as my old

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