David Meltzer - Being A Student of Your Calendar & Empowering The World to Be Happy

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Welcome back to the Casey Adams Show. Today I am joined by none other than David Meltzer. Thanks so much for coming on the show, Dave.

I am so grateful to be here. You and I share this unbelievable blue wire studio in the lobby of the Wynn. And to have you here on so many different levels interviewing me is incredible. Our lives have intertwined themselves, and you just had someone who's working with Dan Fleissman and, and my. You know, one advantage of getting old, brother, is to see the super success of the young people that hopefully you've impacted in one way or another. And I hope I've been a positive impact on your successful career so far.

Hey, I was just gonna go there. I mean, I've. I've known you Since I was 17 years old now, and I was living in Virginia, and you were one of the first people that I started following on social. Right. It was. It was Gary, it was you, it was Andy Vercella. And to be now so close to you, whether that's through Jacqueline or just all the events that we do as an investor, it's been incredible. And, you know, I look, I look at you as such a mentor role, but, you know, we're in Vegas. We are here celebrating your daughter's 21st birthday. And, you know, we had to, of course, do the podcast while we're in town, but I'd love to jump into. You travel so much. Every time I talk to you, it's. You're at this event, this event, this event. And you always talk about this concept of being a student of your calendar. And I think for me, I'm still learning this concept, and I believe it does take time to master, and you've mastered it. I. I'D love to ask you, how have you mastered your calendar over the years? And really, how has that impacted your life?

It's probably the most impactful thing in my life because it reconciles time. And what I mean by that is most people don't understand time. They don't study time. And time is literally of the essence in the sense of this. The only time that's real is today. Think about this from yesterday, beyond it's relative time. So take my bankruptcy, for example. My bankruptcy occurred in 2009, over $100 million that I lost. Now that seems like yesterday. I don't know how many minutes was. I don't know how many hours it was days, months or years. I can figure out if I did the math. But more importantly, it's relative. In fact, the meaning of the activity of going bankrupt has changed as well. It's not stagnant or stable. It went from being the worst thing that ever happened to me to the best thing that ever happened to me. And people say, how's that? I said, well, because if now, in hindsight, in relativity, that which occurred almost 13, 14 years ago, I would have been dead or at least divorced if that didn't happen to me. The same thing with the future. The future is relative. My future could be long or short, determined upon the meaning that I give my future. It's relative. So the first construct of the student of the calendar is how important today is. If you know how important today is, meaning it's the only place that time man made constructive. Time is meaningful because you have to utilize the 24 hours today, not the 24 hours yesterday or in the future. There's 24 hours today with efficiency, effectiveness and statistical success, with productivity, accessibility and gratitude. And in order to do that, you need to not only pay attention, focus in on those things within the context of the activity. You get paid for activity. You don't activity, planned activity, not planned. And your sleep. But most importantly, you literally have to use the five levels of intention. Because what you pay attention to and what you give intention to creates the coincidences or better that you want. And if we take today and use it correctly, we can dream far into the future unrealistically. Everything I do today, Casey, you could do, you would look at my calendar day and you would say, or I study it. But you would look at it and say, oh, yeah, I could do that. I could do that. Nothing unrealistic for the great David Meltzer, this perfect legend that you love. But when I tell people, when they meet me I have a few new friends here, and they say, so what's your mission, Dave? I said, you're not going to believe this, bro, but I'm going to change the world. What? I'm going to empower over a billion people to be happy. I'm going to create a collective consciousness of happiness that's going to change the world. Most people, they'll walk away and snicker at me, laugh at me, and make fun of me. Same way I would have Jeff Bezos sitting in his garage selling books out of his garage. When he told me, hey, I'm going to make a trillion dollars someday and be the richest man on Earth, I would have turned around and left. But what I learned about Jeff Bezos is, is he's a master of his time. And what he does is, like me, he's very realistic with what he's doing with his time today. With a trajectory that nobody believes in the future. You have to be realistic with your time today and completely outrageous and unrealistic, especially when you're 21 years old. Like you. So I study with five levels of intention. I'm going to do everything according to my future dream. I'm going to say everything today. I'm going to think everything aligned with it. I'm going to believe everything aligned with it today, and I'm going to feel it. I'm going to live, inspired, inspirationally towards that goal with the lenses of productivity, accessibility, and gratitude. That's the key to the calendar. And guess what? You said I'm an expert or a master at it. I'm really not. I'm still practicing it every day. But I tell you, you, anybody that shadows me, they're blown away. You know, I'm going to have to say this story real quick because you know, this guy, Ed Mylett, and my let and I are brothers, right? Very close friends. So I'm going to make fun of Ed. He has an incredible book that's out right now. Right. He's also the star in the first episode of my TV show that launches today, Office Hours. But when he posted a video about. Oh, my God, I got three interviews today. Three interviews in one day. And yesterday I had to prepare for these. And this is the busiest day. Oh, my. He's, like, so proud of himself. And I'm like, my brother, come shadow me. Right? This is my vacation day.

Oh, my God.

Right? And I've done already six interviews. Right. I did my training, which I've done for today. Yeah.

And I was taking off on the flight. You Were live interviewing people I was joining. I was, hey, Dave, I had my.

Birthday brunch for my daughter, which you attended as well. I had meetings with some friends who live in Las Vegas that we have another investment project that I want to work on. And here I am in it by one o'. Clock. Right. In another interview. So to make fun of my boy, you could do. You could do much better if you're a student of your calendar.

Oh, my God, I love that. I'd love to ask you, you know, since we initially met in 2017, so much has changed in the lens of social media. My hair, I just updated the picture.

There you go.

It was the short when I first started recording. But I want to talk about gratitude, you know, throughout the journey, because you've always been someone that even people that I know. Right. Your name always comes up in my life. It's so funny. It's like people that, I mean, I'm working out with. Oh, do you know, Dave Meltzer? I saw this piece of content and, like, I just. It gave me a moment of gratitude and this word and this energy of being grateful. I'd love for you to expand on that and what it means to you. Not only why you talk about it so much, but why you believe everyone should live in gratitude.

Yeah, well, first thing about gratitude will be surprising to most people. It's the easiest way to learn coherence. Coherence is what's missing in the human personality. Coherence is the ability to remember what you want and to do it. Why do I say that? Because everyone. I laugh because I am known for gratitude and people will email me, dude, you changed my life. I say gratitude before I say thank you. Before I go to bed, I want to wake up, thank you so much. You changed my life. I said, no. What I really taught you was coherence, because gratitude gives you perspective. It allows you to see the glass overflowing, not even half full. But coherence is the greater lesson of gratitude. Because coherence says this. I know, and everyone around me knows in physics, quantum physics and metaphysics has taught me that gratitude is the most powerful thing on earth. It takes 0.1 seconds to say thank you. It's free. But yet, by tonight, most people listen to this incredible podcast won't say thank you. By tomorrow morning, most of the rest of the people won't say thank you. And within three days, almost everyone won't say thank you because they haven't learned coherence. So by me, repetitively, in multiple different vernaculars and vocabulary words in different styles teach gratitude. From gratitude challenges to the reconciliation of time, of gratitude, of talking about finding the light, the love and the lessons and everything, but reconciling time to prioritize that which feeds you over that which bleeds you. There's so many multitudes of gratitude to teach. What I'm really teaching is something much more powerful called coherence. The ability to remember to say thank you, no matter how punishing life seems to be, no matter how big the setbacks, the failures, the mistakes, the pain, all of those things. The voids and shortages and obstacles. When you fully understand the coherence of gratitude, you're being protected and promoted at all time. It actually creates faith that there's something bigger than you, that loves you more than your mom. So that when there's pain, setbacks, failures and mistakes, you simply are super excited because you're being protected and promoted, just like I was with my bankruptcy. And we just have to remember we're not ignorant and arrogant. We know we don't know what we don't know. Don't pretend like ignorant and arrogant people that you actually know something, because I'll tell you mathematically why nobody knows shit. Excuse my language. I'll tell you why there's trillions of variables. Trillions of variables. That's why there's no certainty tomorrow. So if you're going to tell me something and be 100% sure of it, you're full of shit. Because I can give you one example, what could happen tomorrow morning and what you say will be completely turned down. You, you could tell me, literally, David, gravity is real. And I could tell you you're full of shit. You don't know that. What if the gravitational pull shifts because of some meteor tomorrow and all of a sudden everybody's floating like we're on the moon. Now, in mathematics, in physics, that's exactly mathematically possible. Is it probable? No. But you're full of shit and I'm full of shit. So if we can live in humility and gratitude, we can have a lot more productivity, accessibility and gratitude. We can give meaning that's positive to everything instead of being punished. Like a three year old who reaches out to touch a stove and their mom hits them. They're like, why are you punishing me? Your mom's like, I'm protecting you. Every time I get slapped in life, I'm just thinking, oh, it's like a stove. I don't know what the heck I'm doing. And the omniscient, all Powerful, all knowing, omnipresent is slapping me going, dude, you do not want to invest in this deal. I know you feel like the fear of missing out. You do not want to get into that law school. That's not for you. You're just getting slapped. And I want to tell you, especially at 21, because you're going to get the shit beat out of you. And I want you to feel like, oh, thank you, thank you. Whatever you call it, I call it God. Thank you, God, for protecting me. Even your injury, Right. When you were telling me the story about your injury brace for six months, almost paralyzed, you wouldn't be who you are. Yeah. You were protected and promoted and specifically protected. As small and as weak as you.

Are playing football, five foot five running back.

Right. You probably had really bad things happen. If that's it. Oh, you weren't in a brace.

Oh my goodness. Absolutely. No. I talk about that every day. It's like that injury is the true blessing in disguise. And it taught me over time, you know, it's. That was the one big shift for me in life. But I want to talk about, you know, you talk about now how you've been able to get through tough situations in life, but early on when you were first experiencing these tough times, how did you manage to get through some of the roughest periods of your life before, you know, you were so in tune with gratitude and this spirituality that you talk about on social media and live your life as.

Yeah. So one of the things that I am is consistent and persistent. So although I got through it, I got through it in the more difficult manner by working through it like a lot of people, by living in blame, shame and justification, by at sometimes feeling like I was a victim with a chip on my shoulder, I'm going to show you. You know, for me, I tried to put myself at ease and I read Michael Singer's Surrender experiment about three times now. And I just blows me away.

I'm not familiar.

You got to read it. It's a guy who just wanted to be a yogi and ends up a billionaire.

Wow.

And by getting out of his own way and everything. And I literally feel like my life is there today. But the difference in my life is I got through things by going over it, under it, around it, lying to it, manipulating and cheating it with consistent, persistent behavior. My motto was, I could outwork you. And that's how I got through the hard times. But as I went through my transformation, this idea of ignorant humility that I live in today with gratitude Forgiveness, accountability and inspiration. I will give you a good. My life was like this. I'm going to get more happy, more healthy, more wealthy and more worthy. Today I believe I am happy, healthy, wealthy and worthy. I have to figure out what I'm doing to interfere with it. And that's the biggest paradigm shift that has occurred in my life. But the way that I did it is the way that most successful people think they have to do it is by going over it, under it, through it, around it, lying to it, manipulating or cheating it.

Yeah, no, I mean that's, that's powerful. You have a lot of phenomenal conversations with people in your world that are, you know, mentors to you. What inspires you to continue having so many conversations? We were talking about it earlier when you were talking about Ed, like you have so many interviews, conversations at a rate that I am so inspired by. What drives you to have such a presence, not only on social, but to the world and in other people's lives through, through conversations.

One book inspired me. Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich. It took him years to go around the world and meet the most powerful people in the world. The billionaire. Well, they weren't billionaires. So there's millionaires, entrepreneurs, celebrities, athletes, entertainers, the spirits of excellence. And when I started through my mentorship with Gary Vee, realizing that, oh my goodness. And then through the transition in Covid that I, you know, I spent over $1 million interviewing people before you could do it on Zoom, before it was acceptable. Yeah, right. The biggest names. Right. I had a whole crew with me. I mean, you talk about traveling.

Yeah, I've seen it. I've seen it.

We went to Phoenix and you know, today I'm. I'm not going to give up the opportunity to be more interested than interesting to be the modern day Napoleon Hill. But not just for me to write one book, but every day for millions of people to listen to. I mean, look at Office Hours. The, the think about the lineup on Office Hours and I'm just going to name a few. I was listing off just season two and I thought I was done and I was only halfway done. I turned the page. But everyone from Saad Guru to Deepak Chopra, you have bet. Brett Favre to Austin Eckler, you have Joe Dispenza to Ed Mylett, Grant Cardone to Tillman Fertita, Cameron Diaz to Dan Aykroyd. I could sit here. There's 144 of those names in just two seasons of the TV show. Now imagine I do on average 12 interviews a day. And that's either me being interviewed like this or me giving interviews. So I am learning. I'm more interested than interesting. I transcribe every single interview into words so I can search them so that I have not only the lessons and the stories, but if I can't remember Tony Orlando doing that interview with me and some great story about his dad who's a legend of Las Vegas, I might. If I can't remember even Tony's last name, I might just put Orlando. Right. Because I'm thinking, you know, it's John, Orlando's son. I would put Tony Orlando in Don, and then we would have talked about it in the interview. So now I can find immediately that clip and. And search within the clip exactly where I want to be. And so this idea of more interested than interesting is crucial in my life. I want to know. Life is about lessons. Lessons keep on coming until we learn them. Pain is an indicator. I have a lesson to learn. What makes me powerful is I've learned more lessons from the greatest people on Earth than most people who have ever walked the Earth.

That is powerful. I love that.

And believe it or not, that's why I'm here with you, because you have to learn from every age. Right. You're. Nobody could be more of an expert in what we're doing because you were there from the beginning. So you could be 80 years old, and they're not gonna be able to know more about podcasting than Casey Adams. That's just the truth. You've been there as long as I. From the beginning.

Yeah. It's almost been five years now. You've seen the whole process. Yeah. I think I first interviewed you on Zoom, and then it was on call in the app, and now we're here. It's like this. See the transitions?

No, I actually was in the Build the Empire studio.

You're right.

You're right. In person.

Yes. Yeah, totally right.

Yeah.

Wow.

And I thought it was so cool. I hadn't seen anybody with a real studio because Gary even used his office.

Yeah.

And I was just coming back from New York to be on Gary's show, and I was like, oh, that's cool. And you had, like, a real studio. We sat with, like, this. Not quite.

Like, a little smaller. Yeah, yeah. Not nothing like blue Iron. I actually. I want to talk about that, because I just had Roger on, who, you know, that works alongside Dan. And how we met was I was meeting with Gary when I was 17, like, five minutes in New York. He came out to record the interview. And then that's how we met. And then I introduced him to Dan, the whole thing. But how did you meet Gary Vaynerchuk, and what's your relationship with him, and what have you learned from him?

Well, first off, until Dan Fleischman is who you're talking about for those people that don't know. And I've been mentoring Dan Fleischman since almost he was your age. Right. We went to the same high school. He was roommates with Ricky Williams, who was one of our players, at least Steinbergen. So I think it's interesting how these coincidences happen. So this is great. So Gary's brother, AJ Vaynerchuk, asked me for help. He was going to start a sports agency. And, you know, that's where my core reputation lies, was as a sports executive. And so they wanted to meet me at the super bowl five years ago. Five Super Bowls ago. It's a little more than five years ago. And AJ said, hey, can I meet with you in the Nike suite? And I was like, yeah, that'd be great. And so I sat down with aj, and he said, I'd like you to meet my brother and my whole team who you know, most. The guys like Justin and Bradley. And those guys literally peed their pants. And, like, I'm at the super bowl, taking these guys around, Joe Montana, you know, you name it. You've been around me, bro. I marketed the Pro Football hall of Fame at the Super Bowl. That's my backyard. This. They actually did a special. You've seen it, right? The inside man at the Super Bowl. They followed me around. All of a sudden, my guys are peeing their pants in the Nike Suite over some guy, his brother, Gary V. And I'm like, what's a Gary V? And they're looking at me, dude, you got to meet Gary Vee. You got. Dude, you're going to love Gary Vee. You and Gary Vee are so much alive. I'm like, okay, okay, calm down. Where is he? And AJ's like, yeah, hold on. My brother will be here in 10. So Gary Vee walks in, and it's like a crowd, and it's reminiscent. I gotta tell this quick story. I went to a concert, and Stevie Wonder was sitting next to me, and nobody was bothering us. He didn't mind because he can't see, right? But more importantly, I'm looking around, all of a sudden, a crowd of people, right? And everyone. And he could hear the Rusty, what's up, man? I go, I don't Know, somebody super big's down there on the floor. He's like, who is it? I'm trying to see. It's Kim Kardashian, right? And he goes, Jesus Christ. Christ. Like, what has she ever done? You know, I got like, 20 platinum albums, and this girl got, you know, whatever. I would want to say what he said. But anyway, it had something to do with her derriere. Anyway, anyway, so same thing happened in the Nike suite. Whole bunch of corrosion, you know, commotion. And they're like, oh, is Joe Montana here? You know who's here? And they're like, that's Gary Vee. And here comes the small little guy, and he sits down with me, and he's like, hey, I just have to tell you, I really admire what you've done, and I appreciate you helping my brother. Anything you can do, we like to work with you. And he said, but by the way, I think you should switch over from. I had a nationally syndicated radio show called Sports Blender with Gal Media. It's a sports show. And he said, you should do a podcast. And I was like, oh, this is five years ago. No, man, too late. You know, I'm too late to the game. There's too many podcasts out there. It's like 200,00017.

Yeah, right? And 80 weren't doing anything. No.

Well, still, 99 don't do anything. Right. Nobody makes it to 10 episodes or let alone 1200 like I've had.

Yep.

So, anyway, I sit down with Gary and we do a mentorship trade. You know me, I'm always looking for mentorship. I get mentored by you. There's certain things you teach me, and, you know, I try my best to teach you what I know about other things in the investment side and things that take more experience. So I meet this guy, and he started to mentor me, and I was very resistant for a year. You know, he would tell me, he'd give me, like, five minutes a week, minimum. He looked at my Instagram. He's like, man, I love your content. I did 100 vlogs. Because he was doing vlogs at Drock. I just. Yeah, So I had 100 vlogs. And he's like, I love. Just love your stuff, Dave. He goes, all I gotta do is post more. And I'm like, I ain't posting more. People are making fun of me. Like, I'm gonna be bothersome. I'm not posting more. Dumbest thing to resist him. For a year, I was spending. Like I said, I invested Over a million dollars in my brand to build all the vlogs, the hundred, everything, man. And all I had to do is post more. And so finally now I hear myself because I coach so many people because they want, you know, give me the. The middle aged mutant turtles like me, you know, the CEOs of companies like give me the Dave Meltzer plan, right? They all call me, right? You know these people, right? I'm like, just post more, man. You're freaking genius. You run a billion dollar company. Just post more. No, my friends will. Right? Y Y. It's so simple resistance. But it's been a great relationship. And I know we've done some stuff with Gary and you, and he's a genius at what he does. And I think that's important when it comes to mentorship is find someone that's in the position you want to be in and ask them for help to be in that position, to get directions. So like, my mom gave me business advice one day, told me the Internet was a fad, right? If I would have listened to her, I'm in big trouble. But she still gives me family advice because she's probably one of the greatest moms in the world. And if I could be half the parent that she is. So when I get into these teenage daughter problems, I call her immediately and she gives me directions because her, she knows what to do. Why do I need the dummy tax? I've already paid enough. I don't want to do it myself.

I love that. When you think about your impact, empowering a billion people to be happy, don't worry me, brother. Over a million people.

Billion.

Where did that come from initially? And why is it so important to you?

So I'm not religious. I'm not. I'm faithful. I'm very faithful. And so my youngest daughter, who, you know, Marlena, her 12 year old friend when she was 12, committed suicide. And I walk what I found out, I still get choked up. I walk the beach at my beach house, which you've been to, and I'm walking the beach and I just, I can't understand it. Like I get people who are addicts and old and, you know, depressed. I get cte. I mean, there's so many things that I understand about someone, why they would even get to that point. But I couldn't with this 12 year old. I knew this 12 year old and I just couldn't get there of how life could have been that hard so fast. And so I started doing this research on happiness and I found out that the fastest growing cause of death in America of almost every demographic, was suicide. And then I started walking the beak every morning, trying to figure out, how can I make a difference, to have an impact? And I realized that I have these four values in daily practices that help people make money, help them, help people, and have fun. And I've never met anyone that makes a ton of money, helps a ton of people, and has a ton of fun that wasn't happy. And I thought, I think I could teach people that. And then I'm like, how can I create a collective consciousness of this? Not just teach people, but a whole change on earth. And I said, I need to find a thousand people like Casey Adams or John Orlando that empowers so many other people, give options, opportunities, and touches of favor as well. And I did the math in my head as I'm walking and as I'm thinking about this, my whole body gets goosebumps and I start crying on the beach. I'm walking and crying. I'm sorry. I know what people call this, right? You know, this anointment or religious terms that I don't understand quite as well. A calling. I got a calling. This was my mission. I just knew in my mind, my body and the soul that I can do this. Now I'm walking back to the house. You're talking about a man who lost over $120 million because, you know, he had a dream, a big dream. And, you know, I went from 33 homes in San Diego, golf course, ski mountain, to a rented house with rented furniture in one car and a wife who stayed with me and other things I was doing. And I was just walking back, going, how am I going to explain this to my wife? Right? Everything's going so well. I made back everything. I have this dream life again. And now I'm going to tell her, hey, by the way, I know I'm doing everything I'm supposed to do, but my real mission is to change the world by teaching people to be happy. And lo and behold, you know, my wife, she was 100% behind it. In fact, she was the one that said, I think you can do this, and whatever I need to do to help you, I will. And so that's beautiful. All the content that I do. As much as I want to learn, the reason I want to learn is I want to be able to communicate this empowering value system for free. I have over 63, sorry, 66,000 people today registered for my training.

Wow.

Thousands of people on the Instagram live. Thousands of people as well on TikTok now but on my just webinar, not the other stuff on that web. Over 66,000 people who I teach every single Friday for free.

Wow. To hear that story is incredible. So thank you for sharing that last question before we wrap up. If you were to give yourself advice at 18 years old, 18 years old, what would that advice be and why?

I love this question. So I'm going to tell you this. If I would give myself advice at 18, 28, 38, 48 and today, it would be one piece of advice. And it's really important that people listen ask for help. It's dude, it's hard. I, I, I people ask me today what's the most frustrating thing. It's like nobody asks for help and everybody wants to give it and everybody feels better when they give it. And you have to live in a value add world, not a zero sum world. When you ask for help, you are not taking away from anyone, you are giving, you are adding value to that person's life. So thank you. Think about when someone has asked you for help and how it made you feel. Hey, I think you're an expert. I think you right you're empowering someone by asking for help. You don't understand. The exponentiality that I have in my life is not because I give. It's because I receive help. And in order to receive help, I ask everyone, everyone's a sponsor or a power sponsor of mine as I want to be a sponsor, a power sponsor of theirs. And I ask every day not just of other people but of my source. So I can be a resource of infinity. I can be a resource of omniscient, all powerful, knowing, omnipresent abundance.

I love that. Well Dave, I just want to say thank you so much for coming on the show today. This has been my absolute pleasure. So for everyone that's listening or watching the show today, where's the best place they can follow you?

I'm a rarity. You know you can always google me to find me and where you like to follow me. But email me directly. I answer all my emails. David Meltzer.com I'm happy to give my book, pay for shipping send it exercises, the daily practices, the values, all the different exercises templates. David melter.com love that.

So everyone, I'll make sure to link that down below. And for anyone that is listening or watching, thank you so much for tuning into the show today and huge shout out to Blue Wire studio for having us and I will see you guys soon.

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