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The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I break down the power of strategic networking, time management, and the mindset that drives success. I share my approach to hosting meetups in 200 cities, the importance of asking the right questions, and how understanding time and relativity can maximize productivity. I explain why non-negotiables like sleep, family, and financial awareness set the foundation for sustainable growth. I also discuss how prioritization and adaptability create harmony in life, allowing for success without burnout. Through personal experiences, I reveal how mismanaging emotions and reacting poorly to circumstances can derail even the best opportunities and how shifting perspective changes everything.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, just starting to meet up here at South by Southwest, as always, it doesn't matter how many people show.
0:06.0	Just nothing draws a crowd like a crowd, but I want to encourage you to put out to your community.
0:10.7	I'm here to help give advice, but also make introductions to help facilitate your community of people that want to help each other, know people that help each other.
0:20.5	I do this in 200 cities. Every city I'm in, this is like this city in the days. I did Naples,
0:28.5	Boca, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, now Austin. And the purpose at first was just to help people.
0:34.9	And I also like to use my time in a valuable way of either being that person to help people
0:40.8	or asking other people to help me, pulling up a seat next to me, asking people to pull up a seat
0:45.7	next to them.
0:46.9	But one thing that I've learned and never know what extra value you're going to get by doing this and it's really relative to being the
0:56.9	chairman of Napoleon Hill he went around the world and found out with the greatest leaders in the
1:01.7	world what was their playbook to success it's that actual basis of that book connected goodness my
1:06.8	podcast the playbook is based off of learning the playbook of success. This was the reverse
1:12.8	thinking grow rich. I'm in 200 cities asking what are you listening for? What do you need help
1:19.0	with? And I'm the only one out there because I'm the only one that does it, go live every day,
1:24.8	do meet up 200 cities that I know no matter where you are, what age you are,
1:30.2	we're the common denominators of what people really are the city for. Then I use my skill
1:35.2	set of doing research and finding out some of the best frameworks, steps, procedures in order
1:41.8	to help facilitate what I didn't get growing up as an entrepreneur, some step-by-step way of evaluating things
1:50.2	to make the best choices for my behavior in the enjoyment of the consistent everyday, persisted
1:55.3	without pursuit of my own potential.
1:58.0	Too many young people, especially, because you use a young crowd, they're more worried about
2:01.8	what people think they are than what they are. And they're not comfortable and confident in who
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