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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Why Balance Matters More Than Perfection

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I join Nevaeh Grace of Pain and Revival to talk about redefining happiness, learning from loss, and letting faith guide success. I share how losing everything in 2008, including my mom’s house, reshaped my purpose and inspired a mission to empower over a billion people to be happy. We discuss why giving 100% in everything leads to exhaustion, the importance of learning lessons through failure, and how happiness comes from loving what you don’t like about what you love. For teens especially, I explain why patience, balance, and doing your best within your daily circumstances matter more than perfection.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What started your mission to make a billion people happy?

0:04.2

Well, first of all, it's over a billion.

0:05.7

Don't limit me.

0:06.7

So many times we limit ourselves with the meaning of the past,

0:09.9

casting a shadow over our future.

0:12.5

But it was a really interesting story.

0:14.1

You know, I lost everything in 2008, over $100 million,

0:17.6

including my mom's house,

0:19.5

when the only reason I wanted to be rich was to buy her house

0:22.1

and I set forth to change my paradigm when I lost everything I told my wife I no longer was going to

0:30.2

be happy when I was going to be happy for the sake of what my family my health my faith my finance for the sake of what my family, my health, my faith, my finance, for the sake of. And in that mission,

0:42.2

I recovered very quickly. And at the time when I made back all my money in the paradigm shift

0:48.7

of I am happy, I am healthy, I am wealthy, I am worthy. What am I doing to interfere with it?

0:55.4

As I found out how to shorten that distance of resistance of what's interfering with me and my potential, my daughter, who was 12, her friend committed suicide.

1:07.3

And I could imagine, like, I've been around recovery.

1:10.5

I've been around, you know, CTE. I've been around

1:13.6

veterans, PTSD, drug addiction, alcohol addiction. I know why people would kill themselves. And it sometimes

1:21.5

make sense to me. But a 12-year-old, that didn't make any sense. And so I was walking the beach, shoes off, not very religious at the time, and just working on my faith.

1:34.3

And God literally talked to me.

1:36.3

And I know if I was listening to myself 10 years ago, I'd say,

1:40.3

Dave Milch is a Jesus freak. God talked to him.

1:43.3

Yeah, he did. And he said, you have a power, a gift

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