Showing Up No Matter What
The Playbook With David Meltzer
David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com
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🗓️ 25 January 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I am blessed to have the insights and situational knowledge of a young super entrepreneur, |
| 0:07.2 | a celebrity entrepreneur, James Maslow, joining me here with this edition, right from his |
| 0:12.5 | hotel room, about to go take a nap, as he is fighting the travel colds. |
| 0:18.8 | Welcome back, my friend. |
| 0:20.4 | It's always great to see you good to see you brother |
| 0:23.3 | i love we can keep these going even quite literally on opposite sides of the world yeah man you're |
| 0:29.7 | incredible and what i love about you and our guests by the way is that certain people show up |
| 0:35.8 | no matter what i'm going to repeat that certain people show up no matter what. I'm going to repeat that. Certain people |
| 0:38.9 | show up no matter what. Other people live in blame, shame, and justification of why they can't |
| 0:44.4 | do what they promise to do. And you're not feeling 100%. You're on tour, 100 cities this year. I |
| 0:52.4 | know what it's like to be on tour. I don't have the talent that you and |
| 0:55.8 | our guests have, but I do tour 200 cities a year. And I always make sure no matter what, |
| 1:02.2 | it's non-negotiable, I show up. How important is it in your entire maturation that you've always shown up regardless of the circumstances? |
| 1:14.1 | I mean, I think it's the biggest differentiator between myself and just about anyone else that I know |
| 1:19.7 | I work with outside of you. And that's why we become friends. That's why I consider you one of my |
| 1:23.7 | mentors. Showing up, whether it's your fitness journey and just getting to the gym |
| 1:28.5 | is at least half the battle. If you're an actor, just getting your lines down to the audition |
| 1:33.3 | and making a choice, I'd say, is more than half the battle. As an entrepreneur, as a musician, |
| 1:38.6 | I mean, any part of it, you just have to be there. It's the discipline of saying I'm going to show up no matter what. And yesterday, so, you know, I'm fighting a little cold. It's annoying. Some of bandmates got it, almost the entire crew has it. And I've gone back and forth with this mindset of, man, I need to sing. I'm a singer. And this is affecting how I sound. That's stressful. Yeah, okay, sure, that's true. |
| 2:02.9 | But then yesterday I just told myself, you know what? |
| 2:03.9 | It was that we're playing Paris. |
| 2:15.1 | I was excited to be there. And I just kept going, going to be the best show ever. You know, and I talked to my MDs. Like, you need any help today? I say, you know what? No, because it's going to be the best show ever. and I just kept warming up and I was there |
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