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.

Hi, I'm Dave Meltzer, speaker, author, entrepreneur on a mission to empower over a billion people to be happy,

to make a lot of money, help a lot of people, and have a lot of fun, and it's great to be here.

Dave, thank you so much. We've connected before, and it's really great to connect with you again.

It's an honor for me to get this time-face-to-face, so to speak with you this morning or this afternoon.

I'll just read a little bit about Dave and then get right into it.

In his early 20s, David Meltzer quickly rose to the top of his game in the business world, becoming a millionaire.

David lectured around the globe and saw rapid success in every business project he touched,

but something was missing, and in his 30s, as a multi-millionaire, he went on a rapid downward spiral that ended in bankruptcy.

It was only then that David realized in order to revive and thrive, and love those two words,

and I'd like to go there in a minute if we could.

He needed to codify what had made him successful in the first place.

He has since emerged to realize even more rewarding heights of success in business and in life.

David created a platform that uses four overarching principles, and we'll get into these today as well,

and these are some of my favorites, and the first one is one I talk about all the time,

is gratitude, the second is empathy, the third is accountability, and the fourth,

and these are in no particular order, by the way, effective communication.

These principles have allowed him to communicate and mentor everyone from college students,

which he's done for me in the past with some of my former students, to see sweet executives,

to others that I know that are in that as well.

These four principles in every day practice a lot, David, delivered by his mission,

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