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The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Careers, Business, Entrepreneurship

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🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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In today’s episode, I sit down with Alan Pavlosky, a longtime leader in sports, branding, and community building whose work spans athletes, executives, and families. We talk about gratitude as a daily discipline, why frequency matters more than raw talent, and how faith and humility shape sustainable success. I share the hard lessons that followed losing everything, the mindset that rebuilt my life, and why failure is the common thread behind lasting greatness. Alan and I also explore alignment, non negotiable behaviors, and how building real community creates wealth that lasts across generations.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Legacy All-Stars, my friend.
0:02.2	It is a pleasure and a privilege to be here and building a legacy within the
0:07.4	backdrop of sports, a mission to empower others to live in abundance and be happy.
0:13.1	Sports makes it so much easier, and I appreciate everything you've done to build your legacy
0:18.0	and community in the backdrop of sports.
0:22.2	Yeah, thank you, David.
0:23.0	It's good to see you.
0:24.1	We go way back, as we've talked about from my audience, who's newer to your work.
0:28.9	How did your journey in sports business and personal development take shape?
0:33.7	You know, it's really interesting because I ended up in my real first sports job running the most
0:39.6	notable sports agency of all time, working with Lee Steinberg, who they made.
0:43.6	Which is where I met you, actually. Yeah. Yeah, which was a blessing. And also being able to
0:48.3	partner and be best friends with Warren Moon, which led to our 20-year company, Sports One
0:53.3	marketing, a global sports
0:54.8	marketing company around the world, representing the biggest entities in sports for charity,
1:00.3	which was a godsend for me as well. But the reason I got hired to run Lee Steinberg wasn't
1:07.2	because I was a great lawyer or a great sports agent. When I took over for Jeff Morad, it was because I had a extensive background, not only a law degree,
1:18.2	but in technology and venture capital.
1:21.3	And Lee in the early 2000s saw the future of sports as a visionary with technology and venture capital. He could not have been
1:29.9	more on point. And we took those lessons in technology and venture and built an extraordinary
1:37.4	sports agency as well as a sports marketing. And now, of course, a media all still revolving around venture in technology.
1:47.7	And as far as personal development went, it was when I was running Lee Steinberg that I hit rock bottom.
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