Redefining Success through Faith
The Playbook With David Meltzer
David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:12.0 | There's faith. |
| 0:14.0 | And it doesn't matter what religion you are, |
| 0:15.8 | spirituality, theories or philosophies you have about faith. |
| 0:20.1 | Faith to me is extremely important in the pursuit of the wisdom between what I am, the behaviors that I am, |
| 0:29.3 | and what I want people to think I am, but also what outcomes I want in my life. Why are behavior |
| 0:34.8 | and wisdom and faith so intertwined and why is faith the most important thing? |
| 0:39.8 | Because humans don't have a capability that's necessary in order to effectuate what they want. |
| 0:47.0 | And that faith is that our good behavior creates |
| 0:55.0 | outcomes that we don't understand or know, |
| 0:58.0 | because human beings don't understand or know, |
| 0:59.0 | because human beings don't understand or know |
| 1:02.0 | the outcomes that they see that are related to the behaviors that we have today. |
| 1:08.0 | So for example, 2008 when I was running Lee Steinberg Sports Entertainment, I was worth over $100 million, had access |
| 1:17.9 | to what billionaires didn't have access to, sidelines, the Masters, Cabins, all types of backstage relationships, and I lost |
| 1:28.0 | everything. I went bankrupt in 2008. |
| 1:32.6 | Not only did I have to tell my mom who, |
| 1:35.6 | the only reason I wanted to be rich |
| 1:37.8 | was because she raised six kids, five boys, one girl |
| 1:41.8 | in Akron, Ohio, working two jobs, a second grade teacher, coming |
| 1:46.2 | home to six kids, packing my dinner into a country's station wagon, filling up |
| 1:50.8 | turnstiles at convenience stores with green greeting cards just so I could eat. |
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