The Silent Struggle Behind High Performance

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I sit down with Ace Curtis, a motivational speaker and certified life coach who helps people build momentum through intentional growth. We explore what it means to be confident while also being open to support, especially for men who often feel pressure to figure things out on their own. Ace introduces his G.R.O.W.T.H. framework, a roadmap designed to help people reconnect with their purpose and take action. He also shares how his late mother’s impact as an educator continues to inspire his work, including the creation of the Ace Collectives, where like-minded individuals come together to grow, support each other, and build stronger communities.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to office hours. I'm David Meltzer. And sometimes you get a full house. Sometimes
0:05.8	it's a straight, but today it's all Aces. And we're blessed to have Ace Curtis here. He's a
0:11.9	motivational speaker. He's a life coach, a business consultant, and a friend of the show. Welcome to
0:17.8	Office Hours, Ace Curtis. Thank you so much. Thank you for having me.
0:21.5	I'm asking you a question that most people ask me when they meet me, which is who the
0:26.6	hell is Ace Curtis?
0:29.2	So that's a great question.
0:31.0	So obviously, my name is Ace Curtis.
0:33.4	I'm from San Diego, California, motivational speaker, certified life coach. I focus on personal
0:40.7	growth and self-improvement. I want to help people reach their next level of good.
0:45.2	About me personally, I am one of four children. I have two brothers, had a late sister.
0:50.8	My mother was one of six children. She was a teacher, and she also passed away. My mother was one of six children. She was a teacher. Um, and she also passed away.
0:57.2	Um, my grandmother was one of 19 children. Whoa. So my extended family is this big,
1:03.3	beautiful, incredible, loving, wonderful group of people. And so we have cousins all over the
1:09.0	country. I'm very, very proud of the legacy we have. We have family
1:13.0	reunions every three to four years. We put them together. And 250 to 300 blood relatives show up
1:20.8	every single time. So it's just a beautiful, beautiful, incredible family that I'm part of.
1:25.0	Yeah, more family than they have people in Ramona. That's amazing.
1:29.7	So I love that you said, that you get people from good to great.
1:33.3	So what do you do to inspire belief in others?
1:37.1	So another great question.
1:39.2	I think that it's important to connect with people on a personal level. So when I think about what people
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