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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Why Growing Up Poor Was My Biggest Advantage

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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One of my favorite ways to start off speeches now is to ask the audience, "who here grew up poor", usually about half the room will raise their hand and I'll say, "I feel sorry for the rest of you." Tweet me your takeaway from today’s episode @davidmeltzer Email Me! [email protected] Sign up for my Free Weekly Training https://free.dmeltzer.com/friday-training-1 Text Me! (949) 298-2905 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I always, when I'm speaking, I talk about, hey, who here grew up poor?

0:03.1

And you'll always have the audience raises their hand and I'm like, well, I feel sorry for the rest of you.

0:09.0

This is the flavor.

0:11.1

I grew up poor.

0:12.3

Six kids in a single mom.

0:13.6

I grew up born in Akron, Ohio.

0:15.5

She moved me to San Diego when I was nine.

0:17.4

I always said no matter what she did, she was going to be my hero moving me from Akron, Ohio to San Diego, because it was heaven.

0:23.8

But I just wanted to be rich to buy my mom a house in a car, two bedroom apartment, six kids.

0:28.6

You know, I saw my mom, I grew up really happy by the way.

0:31.7

Happiness is a key component of my life.

0:34.4

So I grew up really happy, but when I catch my mom crying over financial stress, the car would break down.

0:40.4

A dishwasher could afford us to go to summer camp worried.

0:43.7

You know, my mom believed that a fetus wasn't fully developed after graduate school.

0:47.3

So her, the fear of not paying for school was just the end all to her.

0:51.2

And so I was dedicated, unlike my siblings, were like you hyper academic, Harvard Penn Columbia.

0:57.5

I just wanted to be rich.

0:58.6

I always, when I'm speaking, I talk about, hey, who here grew up poor?

1:02.5

And you always have the audience raises their hand and I'm like, well, I feel sorry for the rest of you.

1:08.3

Because you can't teach the things that you have experienced.

1:11.9

There's something special about a hall of fame, about a billionaire.

1:15.4

There's something special.

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