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The Playbook With David Meltzer

The Power of Intention in a Chaotic World

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I sit down with Amber Vilhauer, a visionary entrepreneur who transformed a painful past into a purpose-driven life of service and impact. We talk about resilience, faith, and the mindset that separates those who quit from those who keep going when evidence seems stacked against them. I share how prioritizing intention over attention creates clarity amid chaos, why imagination is essential to seeing what’s real, and how non-negotiables like sleep, health, and family anchor true success. Together, Amber and I explore what it means to love the hard parts of life and turn adversity into divine direction.

Transcript

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0:00.0

David, thank you for taking the time, especially in the midst of all of your travels and dinners and live streams and everything that you're doing in the world to help so many.

0:09.0

Oh, you are so aligned, Amber, with my mission.

0:12.5

Even the Elevate series of elevating others to elevate yourself and empowering others to empower others.

0:18.2

So as I prioritize all the activities I have,

0:21.6

this is one which is a priority, which is why I too

0:25.6

want to wish everybody an amazing Mother Day weekend

0:28.6

and always share my best mother's advice,

0:32.6

which is make sure you call text, email your mom every day

0:35.6

and let them know the four things they want to know, which is I am happy, I am healthy, I love you, and appreciate you. And I still text my mom, I have her phone right to my left right now. She's passed away, but I kept her phone and her number on my plan just so I could text her that every day. Now at least I know she reads it

0:55.0

every day before I wasn't so sure. Oh, I love that, David. Thank you for sharing that.

1:01.0

So I'm curious, David. I mean, I have so many questions that I want to ask you because you

1:07.1

have a vantage point that nobody else in my network has. You, not only through your

1:13.5

remarkable career, but the many, many, many entrepreneurs that you speak into on a weekly

1:21.2

basis all around the world. So you have just a really good pulse on what's happening. And I want to have a real deep conversation of like as if we're just not live right now. What are you seeing out there right now? What's the vibe when you're on the aspire tour versus when you're in a live stream? What observations have you noticed about people's mood or where the world is headed?

1:46.2

Any sort of trends or data you can give us?

1:49.6

Yeah, I call it the quitter pandemic.

1:54.5

I have a philosophy of about anything that you want to have in your life.

1:58.1

It takes a thousand steps.

1:59.8

And we just don't know how long it's

2:02.1

going to take to get to the thousand step. And when things get hard or challenging, I like to categorize

2:11.4

it as, in other words, when there's no evidence or the evidence is contrary to where you want to be

2:16.2

or better, the quitters come out.

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