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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Shortening The Distance Of Resistance

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I talk with Hamed Mazrouei, founder and CEO of Milagro, about navigating the emotional highs and lows of entrepreneurship. I share how non-negotiable habits like sleep, health, family, and time management create stability, even when everything else feels chaotic. We discuss shortening the “distance of resistance,” learning to manage reactions to setbacks, and why aligning mindset, heartset, and handset is key to long-term success. I also reflect on losing over $100 million, rebuilding with greater faith and wisdom, and shifting from chasing outcomes to focusing on consistent behavior that creates a happy, healthy, and wealthy life.

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0:00.0

Dave, welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit of who you are, maybe a one minute back on,

0:06.5

and then let's get right into this. You got it. Well, I graduated law school, made my first

0:11.4

million dollars nine months out of law school, exited to Thompson Reuters in 1995 for $3.4 billion,

0:18.6

went up to the Silicon Valley, learned how to raise money, how to deal with

0:23.2

technology, raised hundreds of millions of dollars with the Amerindo, Texas Pacific, Sequoia,

0:29.0

then became CEO of Samsung's data phone division, and then got hired by Lee Steinberg,

0:35.0

the most notable sports agency in the world because of my

0:38.4

technology and venture background in the early 2000s, Lee Steinberg, who they made the movie

0:44.2

Jerry McGuire about, hired me as CEO of that firm. I then started a global sports marketing

0:52.6

company with Warren Moon, one of my clients at Lee Steinberg,

0:56.3

Hall of Fame quarterback, and then 11 years ago met Gary Vee and started to build my own media

1:02.9

company, TV, movies, podcasts, etc. And have learned from the best in all of those areas. I do coaching, mentoring, teaching, advising.

1:14.8

I'm an investor, specifically in the restaurant space. So I built Cali barbecue, Cali hospitality,

1:22.5

in the restaurant space. I work with Shotsie in their restaurant groups and have worked with

1:27.2

some of the biggest franchises

1:28.5

and restaurants in the world.

1:30.8

Awesome.

1:31.3

So you've done quite a bad.

1:33.5

You've made it to the top.

1:35.5

And I read somewhere that you've lost everything.

1:38.3

We started from zero all over again.

1:41.5

That's a pretty difficult path.

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