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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Walking Through Fire With Faith

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I sit down with my close friend Bucky O’Neill, an entrepreneur who mentors experts to design transformational events, retreats, and coaching programs that create real impact. We talk about the firewalk experience and how it strips away interference between who we are and who we can become. Bucky shares how these visceral challenges reveal our potential in ways that books or seminars alone cannot. We also explore the balance between teaching and practicing, the role of faith in daily life, and the ways spirituality connects us all. It’s a conversation about growth, alignment, and authentic expression.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Sirius XM Studios. I'm David Meltzer here at the win in Las Vegas with one of my best

0:04.2

friends in the world, Bucky O'Neill, and he's gracious enough to give me a little bit of time. I thought, I'm going to call this segment the fly on the wall because a lot of times when you and I are talking, whether being a cab, a plane, an automobile or on the beach or on a a firewalk, I'm always thinking, man, I wish I was recording this.

0:22.1

And so one of the most unique, on the beach or on a firewalk. I'm always thinking, man, I wish I was recording this.

0:22.1

And so one of the most unique experiences that I've had in my life and I'm blessed

0:28.1

of always seek experiences, um, was coming to the firewalk and not just coming myself,

0:36.8

but bringing my family with me on two different occasions.

0:39.8

Yeah.

0:41.1

Because a lot of what you do, I, you know, have already exposure to.

0:46.9

And not that I didn't grow immensely and learn things,

0:50.0

but it was really awesome to see my friends and my family work through what I teach,

0:58.2

which is the interference between them and their potential.

1:00.9

And we talk about this all the time.

1:03.2

Yeah.

1:03.8

Give me a little bit more insight because we've never had this conversation.

1:07.4

Yeah.

1:07.8

About kind of the setup of, because there's a setup and a conclusion to it

1:13.9

beyond the activities yeah and I was hoping you could share like those people out there

1:19.2

think about like some people have said to me that's not real you you didn't break a board

1:23.3

with your mind or you didn't walk on fire or you didn't bend a rebar with the soft spot in your

1:28.8

throat yeah yeah or your daughter who weighs 90 pounds didn't do it yeah yeah i'll show you the bruise to

1:33.3

prove it totally right it's so cool but what's the setup part of it oh man uh it's 100% real uh

1:41.1

there are no gimmicks and there are no tricks. I think the thing about firewalking

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