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The Playbook With David Meltzer

The Power Of Impossible Targets

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I sit down with Grant Cardone, entrepreneur, real estate investor, bestselling author, and founder of the 10X movement, to talk about turning setbacks into fuel for something bigger. Grant shares how dissatisfaction can become a divine signal to grow, why success often starts before belief catches up, and how he learned to build businesses by doing the math backward from impossible targets. We also talk about time, money, real estate, leverage, social media, and the difference between chasing stages and building a platform that creates lasting relationships, impact, freedom, and a clearer path to becoming everything you are capable of becoming.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to office hours. I'm David Meltzer. We're here at the serious XM studios live in the lobby at the win in Las Vegas.

0:08.9

Man, do I have a Hall of Fame staff here with me today? The incredible Nick Lowry,

0:12.9

Hall of Fame NFL, disappointed Kansas State of Chief, but also an author and philanthropist.

0:19.5

It's really why I love you, Nick. I got plenty of football players in my life, but nobody has a heart as big as you, and thank you for everything you do and showing up here. What you see in me? It's because it's in you. I love that. Thank you so much. And then we have the PGA coach of the PGA. He is currently coaching the number one player, amateur player in the world.

0:39.3

He'll be cadding at the Masters for a 35th year at the Masters, the incredible Virgil

0:44.4

Herring.

0:45.2

Welcome back to hosting office hours.

0:47.8

It's an honor to be here, buddy.

0:48.8

I'm super excited.

0:49.5

And I got my big anchor man, somebody fully qualified to do so.

0:54.0

Renee Rodriguez is one of the best coaches mentors

0:56.3

and teachers authors in the world and he has stepped on the stages with the biggest names and

1:01.1

it's always a pleasure to share a stage or a screen with you rene thanks for joining always good to

1:06.2

be here brother speaking of the biggest of the big this guy i've known before he even knew that I knew him.

1:12.8

We grew up together in San Diego and I admire him so much.

1:18.3

And it's fun because when people are truly successful, they root you to the top, some of them,

1:24.9

but they all want to see you drop.

1:27.6

And I've had that drop and experienced all the people that said, I knew you could do it

1:32.3

when they never really did say that they knew I could do it.

1:35.5

And then when I failed, they said, oh, I knew you would do that too.

1:39.4

And Grant Cardone worth over a billion dollars.

1:43.3

He's leading the way in entrepreneurship, in my opinion.

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