David, welcome to the show.

Wow, what an introduction and what a pleasure it is to be here. Thank you for the opportunity to live my mission, which is to empower others. So I appreciate the opportunity. Why a billion? Like, how did that start? I have to make a small correction. I always tell people it's over a billion. Over a billion. Don't limit me. No, I'm not limiting you.

It's a really interesting story because, as you know, I lost everything.

And at the very time that I made it all back, and I went to talk to my wife and I said,

you know, I adore you, I love you, and I'm going to get choked up, but I could have done

this without you.

And anything, anything that you want, let me know.

And she said, oh, I only want one thing.

And I said, what's that?

She goes, you need to take care of yourself.

She goes, because your mission is to take care of other people.

Your name, my mom named me David Meltzer, which means beloved servant.

And she would always say when I was in trouble, live up to your name.

So when I wasn't acting in the appropriate behaviors, live up to your name.

You were the beloved servant.

That's not a beloved servant.

And so my wife said, you're born to serve other people,

but you're not going to be able to unless you take care of yourself. And so I'm walking the

beach the next morning. And right after that, my daughter, who was 12 at the time, her friend

committed suicide.

And it was like, all these things were happening.

The next morning I wake up, we have this beach house.

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