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The Playbook With David Meltzer

How to Prioritize When Everything Matters

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I sit down with Tim Kennedy, bestselling author of Scars and Stripes, along with being a Green Beret, UFC fighter, and entrepreneur, to talk about prioritization, purpose, and turning pain into fuel. We break down how he structures his time, why he refuses to ever say “I know,” and how constant learning shapes everything he does. Tim shares how trauma, failure, and physical hardship became a foundation for growth, not limitation. We also get into the importance of family, faith, and community, along with his mission to rethink education and empower the next generation through real-world skills, innovation, and personal responsibility.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Office Hours live here at the Sirius XM Studios at the win in Las Vegas.

0:05.6

This is definitely the hero edition of Office Hours.

0:09.0

We've had extraordinary heroes, but none that reached the level of one of my heroes, Tim Kennedy.

0:14.5

I'm going to read it off because I don't want to miss out on anything.

0:18.1

And I want to point out that only in the age of today could you even

0:22.4

have the background of these experiences. Number one, I want to thank you for your service

0:28.0

because he is a green beret and a sniper. He is also a black belt and a UFC fighter. He is also an entrepreneur.

0:38.9

He is also a TV host and, of course, an extraordinary speaker.

0:44.5

He also had the number one book in the entire world.

0:48.5

That's no joke.

0:49.9

Scars and Stripes.

0:51.1

And if you haven't read it, it's a must read and a great perspective on how to

0:56.7

live to your potential and to deal with relativity and perspective it's an honor as always to

1:02.8

have tim kennedy on office hours thanks for joining us that's my pleasure man i love you guys

1:07.9

thanks for everything that you guys do it's an amazing amazing world. Now, with all of that background, what's your priority? You know,

1:16.1

you have all these different things going on. And I think prioritization is one of the challenges

1:20.9

that so many hyper-dynamic, self-actualizing people have, is there's so many options, so many

1:26.9

opportunities.

1:32.7

You know and I know that you have the discipline character to be successful at all of them,

1:36.1

but which ones or how do you determine what to prioritize?

1:39.5

Yeah, time first and foremost.

1:44.6

And then, you know, like that obviously it's a weird intro for you to open like that. And then, then I'm a super underwhelming in person. You're like, yeah, this, this guy is actually not

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