meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Playbook With David Meltzer

Steve Sims: Author of Bluefishing: The Art of Making Things Happen | #ThePlaybook 180

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Steve Sims, Founder of the world's leading elite concierge firm and author of Bluefishing - The Art of Making Things Happen, shares the story of how quitting his bricklaying job and a failed attempt to become a stockbroker led to him starting one of the world’s top concierge services. Sims and host of #ThePlaybook, David Meltzer, discuss the misconception that entrepreneurs need to sacrifice personal relationships in order to succeed, how to surround yourself with the type of people you want to become, and why it is so important to look at mistakes as something that refines you, instead of something that defines you. The pair also chat about why people tend to laugh at entrepreneurs before they applaud them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

On this episode of the playbook I have Steve Sims the founder of the world's leading elite

0:05.8

concierge firm and the author of Blue Fishing, the art of making things happen and this guy can

0:11.7

really make things happen in fact I am going to

0:14.8

teach you how to break the chain how this man had went from bricklayer to

0:20.4

stockbroker to the elite.

0:23.5

Join me for all this and more on the playbook.

0:26.5

This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook,

0:28.5

where each week I bring you some of the greatest athletes, celebrities, and entrepreneurs to talk about their personal and

0:35.8

professional playbook to success and what made them champions on the field and in the boardroom. I'm your host and CEO of Sports One Marketing, David Melzer.

0:47.0

This day Melter with entrepreneurs the playbook and I'm excited because I have an old and a new friend here Steve Sims he is the founder CEO of

0:55.6

Blue Fish he's also an author he's a consultant he speaks around the world you

1:02.1

know a real entrepreneur.

1:04.0

And when I say that, that's because your background

1:07.6

isn't from Harvard as a literature major.

1:10.3

And in fact, you weren't even born in America you don't work in America you honestly were a bricklayer

1:16.4

Yeah, yeah left school at the age of 15 like most entrepreneurs kind of didn't know what I was going to do so I bounced off the walls

1:24.4

and being big and ugly I got in trouble in East London because that's all that existed

1:28.9

in East London was trouble and yeah I started being a bricklayer and literally I remember being 15 16 years old thinking

1:37.4

Is this it is this my life and it was kind of like we were hunting right you're a bad David even when

1:46.2

she had just not as good looking it even went worse than that because I remember going

1:49.8

and this was a real epiphany moment and I can even smell the air as I tell you the story.

1:54.4

I went on to my building site one day. My dad was there, my uncle, my cousins and

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.