The Hard Truth About Mental Toughness

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I sit down with Chris Cruz, founder and chief visionary officer of Creative Resource Consulting and creator of The Power of 3RE. Chris shares how his reset, rethink, and restart framework reshaped his approach to mental toughness, habit-building, and daily renewal. We talk about resilience through repetition, the neuroscience behind positive habits, and how faith anchors his recovery journey and leadership philosophy. From overcoming addiction to rebuilding purpose through discipline and belief, Chris explains why the path to fulfillment begins with conscious resets and unwavering faith. His story is about transformation that starts fresh every single day.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Entrepreneurs the Playbook. I'm David Meltzer, and it's tied to Cruz. That's right,
0:04.4	with Chris Cruz, founder and chief visionary officer of Creative Resource Consulting Corp.
0:09.5	And we're going to talk about power, the power of 3RE. This man is impacting and improving
0:15.5	others on my mission of empowering others to empower others to be happy. Welcome to the playbook, Chris Cruz. It's a lot of empowering others to empower others to be happy welcome to the playbook chris cruz
0:23.3	there's a lot of empowering over there thank you i appreciate it thank you for having me here on
0:29.6	the playbook i really do appreciate that as well and um it was nice being out in in california with
0:35.2	you guys and having an opportunity to be on the show.
0:37.7	And I learned a lot.
0:38.7	So I've had a lot of time to think between here and there.
0:42.1	So I'm here.
0:43.5	I'm kind of all yours.
0:44.6	I want to let you lead the ship.
0:46.1	So you tell me you tell me what to do.
0:48.6	You're the big boy.
0:49.4	Let's start with that side of production, right?
0:51.9	You're well versed as we executive executive produce the great show GoFund
0:58.3	Yourself, which is the number one show on Cheddar. You've been producing world-class events
1:02.7	on and off the air for over three decades with huge networks like NBC, MTV, I Heart, etc,
1:09.9	with some of the biggest stages in the world,
1:11.8	with the biggest people in the world.
1:14.3	For you, as a creator today, not just as a broadcaster and producer,
1:19.6	how important are bigger stages and bigger people?
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