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The Playbook With David Meltzer

The Power of Who You Stand With

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I explain why your inner circle is one of the greatest indicators of where you’re headed. I talk about how leading with gratitude, empathy, accountability, and effective communication attracts the people who support your vision. I share simple ways to set boundaries, protect your energy, and stay aligned with the relationships that move you forward. I also highlight how the right mentors help you accelerate your progress and avoid unnecessary detours. This episode is a reminder that when you surround yourself with people who elevate your standards, you expand your capacity — and your results. To join my next free Friday Training sessions, email me at [email protected]

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0:00.0

The first chapter and the first lesson in Don't Do Business with Dix is the one in which I learned

0:05.4

two years before I lost everything.

0:08.4

And it was brought to my attention that over the years of my evolution and lessons in that

0:16.4

journey, I had started to surround myself with the wrong energy, with the wrong people. I was in very toxic

0:25.9

relationships and my friendships and my business relationships. And I was surrounding myself with people

0:35.3

that were doing and saying and thinking and believing and feeling

0:38.5

the wrong things interfering in other words when you look at right or wrong there is no right or

0:42.9

wrong for me there's just the divine direction and are those people aligned with my divine

0:48.4

direction or are they interfering with it and so it is of the utmost important to surround ourselves with the right people.

0:56.7

If there's one truth that I've learned the hard way, it's over $100 million in dummy tax, it's

1:02.7

this, you don't outwork misalignment. You outgrow it by choosing your circle, your standards,

1:08.6

and your habits, your frequency, and your neighborhood.

1:16.5

The right people don't just share you on. They lift your standards. They protect your energy and they accelerate your progress by telling you the truth. As much as it hurts, you want to

1:23.6

surround yourself with annoying people, people that are repetitive and honest with you.

1:29.4

And these are hard things to do because we certainly love to surround ourselves with yes people.

1:35.5

And yes, yes, yes.

1:37.4

And that's not going to help us grow.

1:40.0

That's why these five lessons of surrounding ourselves with the right people matter so much.

1:47.0

They turn our values into filters and filters into boundaries and boundaries into momentum.

1:54.5

They start with who you are because you can't find outside of you,

2:00.4

what you can't seek inside of you. And they enforce

2:03.6

what we allow and watch how quickly our opportunities begin to mirror our integrity. And this mirror,

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