The Power of Choosing Yourself

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I sit down with Sage Steele, a world-renowned broadcaster and host who built her career on courage, conviction, and authenticity. Sage opens up about walking away from the comfort of ESPN to create a platform of her own, and how that decision taught her the power of freedom, faith, and resilience. We talk about learning to love what you don’t like, finding purpose in adversity, and standing firm when it feels easier to stay quiet. Her story is a reminder that peace comes from self-trust, not approval, and that the real win is living and speaking without fear.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Entrepreneurs the Playbook. This is David Meltzer, and I have one of my favorite people
0:05.8	who is one of the first 20 interviews here now after 2,400 interviews of the playbook.
0:11.5	She is a world-renowned broadcaster and a journalist and the host of the Sage Steel Show.
0:17.2	But more importantly, she's one of the kindest and most charismatic people that I've ever
0:23.0	met, two ingredients that I can guarantee you success with. She is an IU alumnus, if I remember
0:30.2	correctly, which is one of the schools that took my money for one of my daughters. So I have two
0:35.5	homes in Bloomington. Let's all welcome to the podcast. Sage Steel. Welcome, my friend. Good to see you again, David. And the fact that I was one of your first 20. And now you've done 2400. You know, I, first of all, it's awesome. So much fun with you. Secondly, I think I'm up to like 82 with my young show. So you are goals for me.
0:56.0	You're blessed. I started once a week and then I went to twice. And now we have
0:59.0	with the sports entertainment edition and the entrepreneur edition, we do 10 shows a week. So
1:04.4	don't get to where I'm at. You have too much of a life to do that. That's a lot of work.
1:09.8	It's almost like working for ESPN, but it's much more
1:12.1	for me freedom because I'm able to do it when I want with who I want for as long as I want.
1:17.6	That's the case. Well, you know, our backgrounds are similar in respect that we worked in sports
1:23.7	for so long. It didn't start in sports, but we worked in sports for so long, and we learned
1:28.6	so many life lessons. And now you're able to utilize all of the emotional intelligence life
1:35.8	lessons that you learn just in sports, and you've amplified it to everyone, to entertainers and
1:41.8	business people and politicians and taking a deep dive
1:45.9	at your own free will to learn about people and hopefully to share those lessons with your
1:53.2	audience.
1:54.1	What was one of the things that you did not expect in doing your own show that isn't
1:59.4	necessarily a sports show? Oh, so many things have been
2:03.9	unexpected and overwhelming and scary and some things I don't like. Like, I don't know how to run a
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