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The Playbook With David Meltzer

The Blue Collar Mindset That Wins

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Careers, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I sit down with Brock Holyoak, a real estate investor, developer, and coach known for building discipline, accountability, and performance-driven habits. We talk about what it really means to be blue collar built and why that mindset still matters for the next generation. Brock shares how hard work, consistency, and immediate action separate those who move ahead from those who stay stuck in motivation loops. We get into the danger of overthinking, the power of doing things now instead of later, and how simple habits create long-term results. We also discuss balancing grind with purpose, family, and finding personal fulfillment beyond business success.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Entrepreneurs the Playbook. I'm David Meltzer. We're here at the legendary corporate offices

0:05.2

with the legend of the blue collar workers. He's blue collar built an entrepreneur, a high

0:10.5

performer. He makes a lot of money for the sake of helping others. And of course, we're going to

0:15.3

have a lot of fun. He's also a very sharp dresser. Welcome to the playbook, Brock Holyoke. Thank you. Thanks for having me.

0:23.0

Right on, man. It's good to have a blue collar worker that looks like a white collar criminal.

0:28.5

So thank you so much for joining me. It's too overlap. It's perfect, man. They go together.

0:34.0

Look, I come from a blue collar town, Akron, Ohio, and I never really listened to my mom,

0:40.9

but I watched her perform as a blue-collar mindset.

0:46.0

She's blue-collar built, and I think academically all my siblings and I, we brought blue-collar ethics

0:53.1

and values into academics. We're a lot of people that were studying

0:58.6

in that way didn't take that type of approach. They took a more entitled approach. I believe we

1:05.3

need blue collar built kids more than ever today. And I was wondering from your experience of someone who has

1:13.3

outperformed others utilizing a blue-collar mindset and being blue-collar built in a blue-collar

1:18.8

industry, how important you think this blue-collar-built mentality is needed today, especially

1:25.3

for the next generation? I think it's very important because it's like, so everything that I have today is because I

1:32.8

learned how to become a hardworking motherfucker.

1:35.0

Nice.

1:35.7

And in that, it's like my grandpa and my dad were in the construction industry for their entire lives.

1:42.0

So I grew up in a construction setting and I was raised in

1:47.2

profanity. I was taught not to have feelings. And in that upbringing, it's like you get hardened

1:54.8

and then you learn the value of hard work. And in that, it's like you can, as I got older, it's like you can, oh, light come on.

2:04.8

It's like, I can, I can take this, I don't give a fuck what you think about me, attitude,

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