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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Why I Felt Empty After Getting Everything I Wanted

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I share the story of how chasing money and success left me feeling empty, even after I had everything I thought I wanted. From growing up poor with a single mom to becoming a millionaire just a few years out of law school, I believed that financial security would buy love and happiness. It wasn’t until losing everything and confronting the limits of success that I began to understand humility, gratitude, and purpose. I talk about learning to love what I don’t like, why intuition is timeless, and how fulfillment only comes when your pursuit aligns with who you truly are.

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0:00.0

I'm blessed to speak about three times a week around the world, and I've learned a lot about speeches.

0:06.0

And the thing about speeches that I really want to teach to start, probably the best takeaway I can give you,

0:12.0

is that I was one of those kids. I went to law school, business school, undergrad, obviously high school.

0:18.0

And I have a reminder every single month living in California it's about

0:22.9

$1,200 a month I get this bill and it's for my storage unit and inside my

0:29.2

storage unit is a ton of bankers boxes and they are filled with every note that I

0:34.4

ever took in undergrad law school graduate school Tony Rob Tony Robbins, Wayne Dyer, Bob Proctor,

0:40.9

the millions of dollars in personal development and recovery

0:43.3

that I have spent thinking that if I take notes about everything

0:46.4

that they say, this will be golden.

0:49.4

But it's not.

0:50.7

One thing I've learned in life is it starts when your heart starts

0:53.8

and it stops when your heart stops.

0:56.2

And we get 24 hours a day to learn lessons.

0:59.8

The lessons will keep on coming, I promise you, and they'll keep coming until you learn them.

1:04.8

But I want you to think about this.

1:06.3

You will forget every lesson you've ever learned or has been learned, but you have the power,

1:12.6

which AI is making a little bit more elevated in your awareness, you have the power to remember,

1:18.0

remind, and recollect yourself of every lesson ever learned. Some people may be familiar with

1:23.2

the Akashic Records. I call it MyCloud. There's a huge database of stuff. So when we're sitting in

1:31.9

these types of outings, I will call them, I want you to remember this. Just write down or

1:40.8

capture with your phones, find Patricia, don't't worry you won't offend me every once in

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