#TUClassic: Happiness Comes From the Pursuit with David Meltzer
JAYSON WALLER UNLEASHED
Jayson Waller
4.4 • 649 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Today on the show we have David Meltzer, the CEO of Sports 1, a sports marketing firm which he co-founded with hall of fame quarterback, Warren Moon. David talks about how when he was a kid, the only problems he had were money problems, and that was something that he wanted to fix.
David talks about how he went to law school and became a successful lawyer, but it wasn’t exactly what he wanted to be doing, so he quit and started selling “the internet” in 1992. He was on top of the world, creating business in Silicon Valley. Then in 2008 everything came crashing down. David surrounded himself with the wrong people and started losing sight of the values that got him to where he was.
David now has a better understanding of what helped him become successful and stay successful, a mix between money and faith. David now has 4 books out, helping other people get to where he is at now, Connected to Goodness, Compassion in Capitalism, Creating the Life You Love, and Gametime Decision Making.
Highlights:
- Creating your millionaire aspirations
- Having the ability to adapt and change will make you money
- Valuing money in an unhealthy way
- How David shifted his paradigm and revalued his life
- How Rocky Balboa changed David’s life at his lowest point
- Combining faith and money to live a fulfilling life
- Using money to shop for the right things in life (helping others)
- Teaching our kids how to achieve their dreams and experience life
- Why pursuing your dreams creates happiness in your life
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Website: https://dmeltzer.com/
Books:https://www.amazon.com/David-Meltzer/e/B00KH9W2SC%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmeltzer2
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidmeltzer
Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidmeltzer
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/davidmeltzer11
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Jason Waller here, True Underdog podcast and YouTube channel. |
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| 0:09.4 | You can go to our YouTube channel, True Underdog, or you can visit trueunderdog.com and subscribe to all of it. |
| 0:15.0 | Damn, bam, damn, true underdog. |
| 0:18.2 | Damn, unleash the power with him. Damn, damn. Build them you with me. Baby. Damn. Unleash the power with him. |
| 0:21.4 | Damn. |
| 0:22.0 | Damn. |
| 0:22.6 | Hey, Underdogs. |
| 0:27.5 | Chase and Waller here, host of the True Underdog podcast. |
| 0:30.1 | And I'm back with another True Underdog classic. |
| 0:33.5 | This series features some of my favorite conversations from True Underdog's earliest days. |
| 0:38.7 | Today, we're going back to my interview with David Meltzer, the David Meltzer. |
| 0:43.2 | My Jerry McGuire fans will like this one. |
| 0:45.8 | David is the co-founder of Sports One Marketing and former CEO of Lee Steinberg Sports and Entertainment Agency. |
| 0:52.3 | He's the original Jerry Maguire. |
| 0:55.3 | David and I had a great conversation about his childhood, his journey to the top, and what sent him back to square |
| 1:00.1 | one. He gave us a lot of wisdom about resilience and what it means to be happy. It's also one of |
| 1:06.0 | my coach and mentors. I love David so much in what he brings to the table. Welcome to the |
| 1:10.5 | Chewinder-Dall classic, David Meltzer. |
| 1:12.9 | Happiness comes from the pursuit. I was reading some of your, some of your bio, and I'm sitting here looking, and we talked a little bit before we came on. |
| 1:22.2 | And when I grew up, I always wanted to be like Jerry McGuire, right? So before we get started into that, because the movie's about your firm, about you and about kind of what that is, which is super cool. But it wasn't always like that. And on our show, we like for all the listeners and viewers out there, whether you're an entrepreneur, whether you're in sales, whether you're a doctor, whether you're a cop, whether your teacher, whatever. We all need some kind of motivation or advice to get over the hump and to know that it's okay |
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