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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Why Showing Up Changes Everything

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I sit down with Brian Swift—coach, author, and podcast host—whose nickname, “The Quad Father,” only scratches the surface of his resilience. After a spinal cord injury left him paralyzed at 17, Brian rebuilt his life around service, strength, and showing up for others. We talk about asking for help, handling fear in high-stress situations, and how faith and accountability fuel his mindset. Brian shares how football continues to shape his values and why self-induced discomfort helps him stay grounded. His presence reminds me that consistency beats perfection and that purpose is best shared through action.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Entrepreneurs the Playbook. We're here live at the National Restaurant Association in the Fish Bowl with incredible guests. And I'm blessed to have a Swifty here. That's Brian Swift. He's the quad father. He's an author, an incredible podcast host. But why I love Brian is he has the biggest heart I know in the game of philanthropy. He's a humanitarian.

0:22.5

His mission is aligned with mine to empower over a billion people to be happy. Welcome to the

0:29.3

playbook, Brian Swift. David, thank you. I am honored to be in the fishbowl. I'm honored to be a part of

0:36.4

your community. And we're honored to have you as part of

0:39.6

the community. To be a member of our community, you have to want two things. To help other people

0:45.9

and to know people that will help other people. But it doesn't work in that community unless you

0:53.3

ask for help. People just either offer help or you don't

0:58.3

receive it or they don't ask for help. And then they wonder why when you have all these

1:02.9

extraordinary people, extraordinary frequency, extraordinary energy, why things aren't getting

1:07.6

done. One of the subtleties of the neighborhood, which you're learning

1:12.3

through the process of teaching others as well, is you have to be able to receive in a group like

1:17.9

that, but you also have to be able to ask, when have you matured in this understanding?

1:24.4

Because you are a philanthropist, I'm sure you've in your history really just tried to give and you forgot to one,

1:30.5

receive and two, ask for more.

1:32.5

Well, I think that understanding started for me earlier in life with being confined to a wheelchair.

1:40.8

And when you go from being able to do all the things you want to do for yourself to now

1:47.2

relying on people, it is hard, even at a young age, to ask for people's help, even for the simple

1:57.4

things, even if you can't physically do them. So you take that a step further.

2:02.3

Now you're dealing in a business world where you want to make it on your own. You don't want to

2:10.0

be beholding to others. And I think a lot of us go through life that way. Like I want to make it on my own. I don't want to be,

2:20.0

I don't want to owe anybody. I want to make it my own. So that's, I don't know where that's

2:25.0

kind of not drilled into us. But when I started working with you and you talked about every

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