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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Why Humility Builds Real Success

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I sit down with Dylan Smith, a keynote speaker, educator, and entrepreneur whose journey through adoption, misdiagnosis, and dyslexia shaped his mission to serve others. Dylan shares how overcoming the odds taught him that humility is not a weakness but a strength, especially when building real connections. We talk about the difference between what people do and who they truly are, and how Dylan’s setbacks became the foundation for his leadership and impact. From teaching kids across the country to writing his first book, Dylan shows that persistence, perspective, and service can transform challenges into purpose.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to office hours. I'm David Meltzer. We're blessed to be here in the lobby of the wind at the

0:04.4

serious XM Studios for office hours. And our next guest is the normal dynamic keynote speaker,

0:13.4

podcaster, entrepreneur. That may be vanilla of office hours because we only accept people

0:19.1

like you three that have a desire that you must be

0:21.8

what you can be. But not all of our guests are like Dylan Smith. And the reason is, Dylan is

0:30.0

obviously you're a little younger than the rest of us up here. But there's something that I missed when I was your age as a success like you are as an entrepreneur,

0:42.1

and it's humility.

0:43.8

I was afraid to admit that I didn't know what I didn't know, and I had very little humility.

0:50.0

From the time I met you, I said, wow, here's a very successful young entrepreneur, speaker, author, the normal podcast.

1:00.7

But he's so humble for someone so young.

1:05.4

Where have you derived the confidence to be so humble to know that you don't know what you don't know at such a

1:13.3

young age when usually when we're afraid of not knowing what we don't know we project that as

1:20.0

arrogance not humility that's a great question um thank you your kind words by the way but the question

1:25.7

to answer your question if you walk into every room, no matter what room

1:29.9

you're in, if we're on McDonald's or we're in Vegas or we're in Detroit, and I walk into any

1:35.0

room and I go, I know nothing, teach me what you know.

1:37.5

How do I walk out without learning?

1:39.2

It's almost impossible.

1:41.0

And where'd you learn that?

1:41.8

Because most young people are 19-year-old life coaches. They're selling

1:45.4

themselves like they know. Talk about the lack of humility. I learned that from a mentor. As you know,

1:53.2

my mentor is Craig Siegel. Craig Siegel's been very implement. He's changed my life forever. You have to.

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