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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Rewarding Mistakes | Creating a Culture of Growth & Accountability

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode is from a conversation I had with Thais Eliasen, on her 'I Can't Believe It's You' podcast. I talk about my transformative journey: from a $100 million bankruptcy and losing my mom’s house to my journey to empower over a billion people to be happy. I talk about how my mom’s forgiveness inspired me to implement a “dummy tax” award at my company that rewards those who share their mistakes of the week and the valuable lessons that they learned from it. Thais and I also share a resonance on finding joy in simplicity, with an emphasis on gratitude and forgiveness.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the playbook.

0:04.0

David, I'm so excited to be here with you today.

0:10.0

Thank you for having me, and we can't think of a better venue as they tear down the Metallica

0:16.0

stadium behind us to have the chargers come and play, which were both chargers fans, so good to be in sofa.

0:22.0

Yes, for sure, always.

0:24.0

You are an entrepreneur, a businessman, a family man, and a philanthropist.

0:29.0

What are, or what is, or what are some of your most exciting projects that you're working on right now at the moment that you can talk about?

0:37.0

Yes, sure. I can talk about everything that I'm trying to do.

0:41.0

The contents of my number one most exciting thing, because I have a deal with Apple TV to develop entrepreneurial content.

0:49.0

And I think the reason it's so exciting to me is my mission is to empower over a billion people to be happy,

0:54.0

and to have a bigger platform to teach entrepreneurship, business, buy the greatest minds.

1:01.0

So I have a pitch-only show.

1:03.0

I've always had elevator pitch with entrepreneur executive produce that eight seasons.

1:07.0

But now these are my own shows.

1:10.0

And between the playbook, two-minute drill and office hours, I've built quite a conglomerate of unbelievable minds

1:19.0

that are empowering and giving their secrets the success, showing the common denominator of their desire to be what they must be.

1:28.0

And so I think the content that's derived from the TV shows, to the podcast, to the different VIP dinners and meet-ups, all the different things we're doing, is perpetual.

1:39.0

So eventually we're going to get to over a billion people to teach them how to make a lot of money, help a lot of people, and have a lot of fun.

1:46.0

That's awesome.

1:48.0

Can you share a pivotal moment in your career where you transform the potential setback into a remarkable opportunity in how it shaped your business approach?

1:59.0

So for me, it was definitely my bankruptcy.

2:02.0

But I have more than a bankruptcy because not only did I lose a tremendous amount of money over a hundred million dollars,

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