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The Playbook With David Meltzer

The Long Game That Builds Unshakable Success

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I sit down with Liz Claman, the number one business news anchorwoman in America, for a conversation on staying grounded in an overwhelming world. Liz shares how she manages the relentless pace of information, her long-game approach to investing, and why disadvantage can be a surprising advantage. We discuss the importance of teaching kids the value of hard work, developing irreplaceable skills in the age of AI, and embracing the uncertainty that comes with building a career. From her early days ripping wire copy at 4 a.m. to thriving on a national stage, Liz’s journey is proof that grit never goes out of style.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Office Hours. I'm David Meltzer, and I am blessed. And if you don't think I'm blessed,

0:04.7

look at the people that have joined me, Tamika Taylor, Pace Morby, and Rick Jordan,

0:08.7

but especially blessed when you have Liz Clayman as our guest. Welcome back, my dear friend,

0:15.3

the unbelievable genius, gorgeous genius is how I define her today. Thank you for joining us.

0:22.6

Keep it coming. My cranium is expanding. Well, we love you and we hope to see you in person soon.

0:29.5

She's the number one business news anchor woman in the entire country and well-deserved, by the way,

0:36.8

has her pulse on people. And that's where I want

0:39.9

to start my question. I've been studying circumstance. And I think a lot of people, because of

0:46.5

media, have an overload of circumstance. There's so many different circumstances. But we lived in a

0:53.0

more vacuumous environment.

0:55.0

There was just less circumstance, and it really is paralyzing people.

0:59.4

It's creating anxiety and separation and a feeling of overwhelmed, combined with these social silos

1:06.1

that then control the circumstances to skew our opinions in our ability to think.

1:12.4

You're at the forefront of this type of silo, and you get over flooded with the circumstances as well.

1:20.2

I was wondering how you see things from your perspective, how they're going,

1:26.4

and where you would guide people as they're overwhelmed

1:29.7

and overloaded with circumstance. Well, I hope it makes people feel better if they hear that,

1:36.2

you're right, David, I am overwhelmed. Sometimes I say, you know, my emotional bandwidth is

1:41.3

completely stuffed. There is no more room. And I wish I could like pull

1:45.9

something out and let what happened yesterday come out. But I just, everything's coming at us.

1:51.4

And I know that that is incredibly difficult for a lot of people who are worried about their finances,

1:56.8

worried if they're going to keep their job, worried about the stock market, worried about their

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