On this episode of the playbook we have the incredible Evan Britain. This is the long version. He's the host of the Evan flow podcast and we're going to talk about the Evan flows of life and how pain is an indicator not a stop sign. Join me for all this and more on the playbook.

This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook. For each week I bring you some of the greatest athletes, celebrities and entrepreneurs to talk about their personal and professional playbook to success and what made them champions on the field and in the boardroom.

I'm your host David Meltzer.

I have another superpreneur NFL player, cannabis advocate and of course the host of one of my favorite podcasts the Evan flow podcast Evan Britain. He'll give me that like well how are you one of my favorite podcasts I'll take because I followed you from Tyson over to the Evan flow and you and I actually have what I call the same frequency.

Different body types. You have the one I wanted but I probably would have destroyed it. I seen when I was young to destroy the things that helped me most my superpowers.

That was me too.

I have a curious question. The name Evan right perfect for Evan flow your book coming out is going to be the Evan flow as well.

What does Evan mean or where did it come from and why did your parents name you Evan.

It's an old family name. My first American ancestor woman named Mary Bliss Parsons came to America in about 1640.

Her and her husband Cornette Joseph Parsons settled the town in Massachusetts called Springfield Massachusetts.

She had 11 kids.

Not the Bart Simpson spring.

No, no, no, different one. Maybe the inspiration for the symptoms but she had 11 children. One of them was named Evan.

He was killed in a battle with Native Americans at the age of 21.

She spent her life battling this stigma of being a witch.

And so everyone in the town believed that it was her karma for her son to be killed for dealing with the dark forces.

So it's been a long family name. My mother's grandfather was named Evan Parsons.

So it's been handed down to me.

And when you look at the etymology of it in Hebrew, Evan means stone of truth.

So I feel like that is infused in my being and who I am these days.

I'm a big numbers guy, a big name guy. My name actually David Meltzer. Meltzer means waiter in German.

And then David's beloved. So I'm a beloved servant.

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