The Faith That Follows Failure
The Playbook With David Meltzer
David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What an honor it is to be part of the Aspire family touring around the country. |
| 0:04.8 | And I'm blessed to see different faces and what they're listening for. |
| 0:10.5 | And what people really are listening for is to be happy. |
| 0:15.7 | And I got a calling after I'd lost over $100 million and went bankrupt while I was running the most notable sports agency in the world, |
| 0:26.4 | I got a calling, and I wasn't really a faith-based person at the time. |
| 0:33.7 | And I didn't know what to do with this invitation from God when I found out one of my daughters, |
| 0:40.6 | 12-year-old daughter's friends committed suicide. |
| 0:43.9 | And I didn't know what to do with it. |
| 0:47.6 | And so I went to one of my mentors, anybody familiar with a guy named Tim Story? |
| 0:52.6 | Right on. |
| 0:53.4 | So I went to Tim Story, and I'm like, dude, you're a religious reverend. |
| 0:58.1 | You get this stuff. |
| 0:59.4 | My brother's a rabbi. |
| 1:00.9 | I don't really equate to his religious beliefs or my families. |
| 1:07.0 | I wasn't very religious or faithful at the time. |
| 1:09.0 | I said, am I going crazy? Are people |
| 1:11.8 | going to think I'm crazy when I tell them that God called me on a mission to empower over a billion |
| 1:18.5 | people to be happy? Right after my 12-year-old daughters committed suicide, is this crazy? And Tim's |
| 1:24.5 | story said something that changed my life. said David god will not give you an |
| 1:29.3 | invitation without knowing your limitations i'm going to repeat it god will not give you an |
| 1:34.8 | invitation without already knowing your limitations so if he believes that you can do this |
| 1:42.0 | then you can do it. |
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