Why Perception Isn't Your Problem

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, I talk about the early days of hosting free meetups and the simple promise that built a global community: show up and I’ll help. I share how dedicating one hour in every city turned into something much bigger, from spiritual-business integration to leading the Napoleon Hill Institute. I answer questions on handling failed partnerships, reputation hits, and how misperceptions can protect your path. We also get into mentorship vs. coaching, curating the right community, and what entrepreneurs really need in today’s tech-heavy world. Whether it’s a meetup or a private network, it’s always about people helping people.

Transcript

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0:00.0	All right, so this doesn't work unless you ask questions.
0:03.2	If you understand AI, you'll understand this comment, but it also applies the questions.
0:08.5	Zero to one is much harder, much longer, much more difficult than one to 100.
0:14.8	That's why AI was invented.
0:16.8	Same with questions.
0:18.5	One of the things I find really humorous is I ask people for questions.
0:21.6	It always starts like this.
0:23.6	Hopefully one of you will have a question.
0:25.6	But by the end, some of you may or may not ask a question.
0:28.7	And then the minute I say, I got to leave.
0:30.9	Hold on.
0:31.6	I got a question.
0:33.1	Can I talk to you for one minute?
0:34.4	No, talk to me here more than a minute. If anyone needs a phone
0:38.4	call afterwards, I always give a minimum of five minutes to help people by phone, especially
0:42.9	if they came to a meetup. So first question, anyone have a question about anything? Here we go.
0:49.6	So sometimes in business, obviously situations happen. There are things that go wrong.
0:55.0	And what happens is, let's say you have a bad partnership.
0:58.0	Now that, because of the context of the situation of that partnership,
1:01.0	whatever situation you're in, you didn't see eye to eye,
1:03.0	and that person goes there, Mary way, you go your own way.
1:06.0	And what happens is you might be cordial with that person in your heart,
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