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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Why You Must Learn to Receive

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I sit down with Nik Atanackovic of The Victory Degree Podcast to break down what it really takes to make a lot of money, help a lot of people, and have a lot of fun. We talk about the biggest misconceptions around money, why giving and receiving don’t follow the rules most people assume, and how failing to receive actually limits your ability to serve others. I share the quantitative disciplines I use to measure interference, the non-negotiable behaviors that anchor my day, and why happiness comes from devotion to your potential, not attachment to outcomes. We also discuss fear, self-image, and removing toxicity from your life.

Transcript

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0:00.0

David, welcome to the podcast. Thank you so much for having me, Nick. Look forward to sharing with your community on my mission of empowering over a billion people to be happy. So thanks for having me. I love that you're here. And I can't thank you enough for giving me the time and giving me a chance to interview you. I think this would be a great one. I want to come back. So I want to bookmark what you said, empowering a billion people to be happy. I have a question about that. But first, I must ask, because it is the first question I ask all my guests, if someone has just clicked on this and they have no idea who David Meltzer is, they've never heard of you, they're not familiar with your work, they're not familiar with their mission statements, any of the above. Why do you think they should continue listening to this podcast

0:38.9

and listen to what you have to say?

0:41.1

Because throughout the last 35 years, I've developed the capability of teaching people

0:45.9

three things to make a lot of money, help a lot of people with that money, and have a lot

0:51.4

of fun with that money.

0:53.0

So if you're interested in making a lot of money for the sake of helping other people and for the sake of having fun, which by the way, in my 35 years, I've never met anyone who makes a lot of money for the sake of helping others and having fun that isn't happy. So if you wanna be happy, tune in for the next 20 minutes and I'll give you some tips and

1:11.9

hopefully even more advice.

1:13.6

And anyone in the neighborhood, man, I will give my book, I'll sign it, send it, ship

1:18.8

it, pay for shipping in the book.

1:20.4

Anyone that buys my new book as well, send that to them.

1:23.4

So please just stay tuned.

1:27.3

We're going to move your world, move your needle.

1:30.1

I want to break down each one of those things,

1:32.1

each one of those three topics that you had just brought up.

1:35.2

Making a lot of money.

1:36.3

What do you think most people get wrong about money?

1:39.4

They think that the rule of you,

1:43.0

the more you give, the more you receive, applies the money.

1:47.1

See, money's a man-made construct.

1:48.6

The more love you give, the more you'll get back.

1:50.8

The more kindness you give, the more you'll get back.

1:53.7

But I promise you, you give all your money away.

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