The Blueprint for Growth: David Meltzer’s Advice on Motivation and Mindset

And I said, professor Force, respectfully, when my I go, my reality surpasses your imagination. That's what makes my life so unbelievable. And I sat down.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another exciting episode of Mick Unplugged. And today we're going to talk to a man who has inspired me, has been a mentor of mine and, and I owe a lot of gratitude to the success that he's allowed me to have through him. And he doesn't quite know that yet. He's built and lost multimillions. He's led one of the world's most iconic sports agencies and now teaches millions how to make money, how to help a lot of people, but more importantly, how to have fun doing it. He's the embodiment to me of service, of purpose, of profitability, and what it is like to truly be a mentor. Please join me in welcoming the bold, the visionary, the unstoppable, my guy, Mr. David Meltzer. David, how you doing today, brother?

I gotta be honest, I'm a little bit choked up, you know, it never stops for me. And today was one of those days. They all start at 4am but to hear someone like you tell me you hop on my IGs, you know, as I'm back to back to back to back one more time and my wife's out at the myriad of hot springs with her high school friends and they're having a ball in the bud baths and all of that. And I just have to tell you, you know, I do what I want, when I want, with who I want, for as long as I want. But if it wasn't for people like you and a little bit of acknowledgment, I'd probably be out at Murrieta Hot Springs today thinking that I earned a day off. And instead I know that I've earned an opportunity, an opportunity to change people's lives in a little way. To change the meaning of what's going on in their lives. To not limit their own potential, to not limit their own self image. And all of a sudden, a little bit of jealousy this morning, a little bit of loneliness, even though my kids are here. I'm a self admitted, excuse my lane. I'm just whipped over my wife. I was pretending for seven years, the first seven years that I, I didn't love her as much as I did. I have surrendered to how much I adore my wife. And I woke up this morning hitting it like I normally do. But there's a part of me going, man, you, you maybe have a, the wrong Harmony, you know, you're prioritizing things incorrectly. But when I hear you tell me what you've told me, there's no doubt in my mind I'm doing the right things. I'm prioritizing things correctly. And it's a meaningful existence because people like you are in it, man.

I appreciate that. And like I said, I just wanted to tell you, man, like, what you mean to me, how you've inspired me, is literally second to none, man. Like you, you told me that life is about making impacts, right? And if you're not making impact on people, on businesses, then you're in it for the wrong thing. And you taught me also how to be happy doing it, right? A lot of times we get in this grind, man, it's like, on to the next thing. And you look at your schedule for the week or for the month, and it's like, holy crap, it's just a grind. And people don't understand, Dave, right? Like, we go through it, bro. Like, we sacrifice time, we sacrifice family for other people. But you told me, like, Mick, you can still do it and be happy because then when you get home, right? Like, your heart should be overjoyed. And I don't think people understand that. So I love for you, man. Just take a moment and talk about that. Like, why happiness has to be the root of what you do.

Yeah. And understanding happiness, you know, and happiness is derived by the meaning you give your past. You know, so many people limit their self image, but they also create interference with their happiness. Happiness is homostasis. It's the normal. And we need to figure out what we're doing to interfere with it. And a lot of times what we're doing to interfere with it is a meaning that we're giving. The failures, setbacks, mistakes, defining moments, historical relevances, all of these different things and successes, even of our past. What am I doing to participate in this perception? Why? For the sake of learning. What am I supposed to learn from it? And then I can be, in spirit, inspired. Now I can utilize my 24 hours, the guarantee God gives each of us every single day till the last day of our life, when he cheats us. One simple day of your entire life, he's gonna. God's gonna cheat your time every other day, he's gonna give you 24 hours. Every single human being is gonna get the same 24 hours. Everything you do in that 24 hours. From sleep, to snore, to eat, to move, to breathe. All the different things that we do are just activities. And so if you can't enjoy all your activities, then you're interfering with your blessing you've been given. So have gratitude, forgiveness, accountability and inspiration in your life. And I promise you, you'll really understand how to have fun and enjoy that. That those things that you can't or other people don't like or you don't like in your life every day without quitting in the pursuit of your best self. Not better than anyone else, not worse to just your best self, ladies and gentlemen.

That is why he's my mentor. It's, it's nuggets like that on a daily basis that David pours into not just me, but to, to millions of others. And David, you talked about your why earlier. You, you brought up the term my.

My clothes, your height and my height, your hair and my hair or your no hair in my hair or very little hair. If we appreciated the differences. Imagine how awesome life is simply by having gratitude. And then secondarily, how about just having forgiveness of self knowing in the context of meaning and relativity of this idea of being happy. And I'm making a meaningful, definite, purposeful choice. I'm applying my why, I'm applying my spirit, I'm applying my God to being happy. Well, then I have to forgive myself. You cannot find happiness outside of you. In fact, you can't find anything outside of you that you don't seek inside of you. And so if we're not utilizing the appreciation given through gratitude, the ease that's given through and peace that's given through forgiveness, then we are not aligned with the purpose of our human experience, which is to learn from Sanskrit thousands of years ago. There is only texts that say the reason you're here, dummy, from the time your heart starts till the time it stops, is to learn. That's it. It doesn't say you're here to be perfect. It doesn't say you're here to be an angel. It doesn't say you're here to achieve more than anyone has ever achieved on the face of the earth. It simply says, hey, brothers and sisters, I'm going to give you a body from the time the heart starts till the time it stops to learn. And so utilizing gratitude and forgiveness to give us appreciation and ease, then we can be accountable. Because how do we learn? What did I do to be responsible? What did I do to attract this to myself? What meaning am I giving this? What am I doing to participate in this perception? Why? For the sake of learning. What am I supposed to learn from it? And then I can be in spirit, inspired. Now I can utilize my 24 hours, the guarantee God gives each of us every single day till the last day of our life, when he cheats us, one simple day of your entire life, he's gonna. God's gonna cheat your time every other day. He's gonna give you 24 hours. Every single human being is gonna get the same 24 hours. Everything you do in that 24 hours, from sleep to snore, to eat, to move, to breathe, all the different things that we do are just activities. And so if you can't enjoy all your activities, then you're interfering with. With your blessing you've been given. So have gratitude, forgiveness, accountability, and inspiration in your life, and I promise you, you'll really understand how to have fun and enjoy that. That those things that you can't or other people don't like or you don't like in your life every day without quitting in the pursuit of your best self, not better than anyone else, not worse, just your best self, ladies and gentlemen.

That is why he's my mentor is nuggets like that on a daily basis that David pours into not just me, but to millions of others. And David, you talked about your why earlier. You brought up the term like your why, applying.

I like to go applying your why.

Applying your why. That's like your real reason, like the why behind the why behind the why, right? And so for the listeners and viewers, if I were to ask David Meltzer, like, what's your because?

Like your apply applying.

I like to go applying your why, applying your why. I like to go a little deeper with what I call your because that thing. That's like your real reason, like the why behind the why behind the why, right? And so for the listeners and viewers, if I were to ask David Meltzer, like, what's your because? What's that real reason that you do what you do on a. I'm not even gonna say a daily basis, an hourly basis. You're inspiring people every hour. What's your because?

For the sake of making everyone's life better, for the sake of. I will be happy for the sake of making other people's, as many as I can, hopefully the whole world's life better. And I found a formula to it. And it's including you, Mickey. A thousand of you. If I can empower a thousand people like you, who I know in your lifetime will empower a thousand people to empower a thousand people, a thousand times a thousand. A million. A million times a thousand. A billion. That's a collective consciousness that's never been seen before. And I know that if I can create that collective consciousness one person at a time by being what I have defined, I know they're going to be a little bit confused when I say this word, but. But I want to be the most annoying thought leader of all time. Damon John, thought leader. Les Brown, thought leader. Both friends of mine, both mentors of mine as well. But they're not as annoying as David Meltzer. Because I'm going to tell you why I need to be annoying in the in my force. The sake of changing the world. Because what annoys human beings the most is what it's going to take to change the world. One honest. You're not going to find anyone that's more vulnerable and honest about all the f ups that I've had in my life and what I've learned from them. I am going to fight myself. The genetic and energetic inheritance that I am an overseller, back end seller, liar, manipulator and cheater by genetics, by energetics. I'm going to fight that. To be annoyingly honest. And it almost cost me my marriage. And first of all, not nearly as close as the lying, cheating, manipulating and overselling almost cost me my marriage. But it's scary to be honest. And I am very honest. Not all the time. I'm still working on it, but I am as honest as I and I try to be. Now here's the one that I'm really good at. I'm probably not the most honest person on earth, but in order to be annoying, you've said it several times about me. I. I am the most repetitive mofo in the world. If I. If I was a superhero, you know what they would call me? Repeat man. Like nobody, right? I. My superpower. I consistently repeat myself that my children, my family, my friends, all the listeners out there. I think that I can change the world by being annoying. By being repetitively honest to help people every day. IG office hours to all the different things I do every day. I am repeat man. Build me a cape. I will fly around doing the same every day to help people.

Yes, sir. The repeat man. I love that, brother. I love that. That's. I'm going to label that as you now moving forward. The repeat man. That is your superpower for sure, man. One of the things that you also don't know, like, you know, I haven't told you this part either. When I started my keynote speaking journey and like really got into keynoting and I want people to Understand, speaking and keynoting are two different things, right? Like, you get hired to keynote for a specific reason. So when I really got, you know, into keynoting and busting my chops, Les Brown is my mentor, and he knows this. I told him, les, I don't want to emulate you. And he was like, what do you mean? He was a little hurt. I was like, every time I listen to David Meltzer, I walk away captivated. And he's like, tell me why? And I said, because we have the same tone and energy. David isn't screaming at you from the stage. David isn't, like, pointing at you. He's got a lot of energy, right? But he's calm, cool, and collective, and that's my style. So I wanted to let you know that you're the person that I emulate when I speak because I feel that energy, that presence, and to me, that's my style. And I'd love for you to talk to people about that that are getting into speaking about how, one, you've got to be yourself, but two, you've got to know your audience, because there are times, yeah, when David will yell and scream and be loud, because that's what the audience is there for, right? But 80% of the time, you're having a conversation with your audience. Why is that important?

What's important? Number one, you nailed the essence. I'm a frequency person, and I understand frequency and the three different characteristics of frequency. You and I have the same frequency as what you're telling Les in the respect that frequency is a signal. And when we're closest to our truth, and, you know, I'm very vulnerable on a stage, whether it's a speech or a keynote. I illuminate as best as I can the truthful things through stories to teach lessons so that other people don't have to pay the dummy tax that I paid. And they're entertained by the stories I tell. And I practice my storytelling capability, which I suggest people do to practice at my frequency because I want my signal to make you feel something, because you and I both know all the greatest minds in the world to tell you nobody's ever going to remember what you say, but they'll remember how they felt. The second thing that frequency does is it broadens the spectrum so I'm going to reach more people. It's a bigger range of people that are going to feel my signal of who I am. Now, under the guise of that, we also know when you're at your essence, you're at your clearest meaning that as a speaker and a keynote, it's not what I say, it's what they hear. And a lot of times, if I'm not clear in my own frequency, my own essence, I'm definitely going to have interference in communicating the lesson through the story that I'm telling. And the basis of understanding this whole frequency thing, especially as a keynote, is that you have to be aware that 10% of the people, no matter what, are going to love you. Nick. It's a scary part for beginning speakers because usually a beginning speaker gets to speak in front of 100 people for free. Chamber of commerce, graduate school, whatever it is, right? And they go up the very first time and they speak, and 10 people come up to them afterwards and they ruin their speaking career because they say, man, that was one of the best speeches I've ever heard. You changed my life, brother. You are amazing. And that's just a frequency thing. I believe, Mick, I could get on a stage, and I almost convinced the Aspire Tour to let me do this. I would want to stand on stage in front of 4,000 people before David Goggins, before Tim Story, before Gary Vaynerchuk, before, you know, all the great people. I get to. I'm sharing a stage next Sunday with Kevin Costner. Now, they're not going to let me do this then, but I want to stand on the stage and say the, the. The. For 15 minutes. I promise you, 10 people, 10% of the people come up to me going, dude, the way you exhilarated me through your consistent, you know, persistent pursuit. Oh, that exemplified your humility and your. They. Whatever it was, it made them feel it. Now, this is important to know, because what we're talking about is essence. There's another thing that most beginning speakers don't know about essence. And we all need to know that 10% of the people are going to love you no matter what. So under the dao, the way that I study the yin and the yang of the universe, guess what? 10% of the people. This is a valuable lesson in everything you do. Not just keynotes or speeches or content, right? 10% of the people out there, everyone, because of your frequency, because of your essence, when you're true to it, are going to hate you no matter what you are. Tabasco in a wound. No matter how you could be Einstein expressing God's genius through you. And, and this is true about Einstein, by the way. True about Gandhi, true about John Lennon, true about Bob Marley. 10% of the people hated those dudes. In fact, they killed Gandhi, they killed Lennon, and they shot Bob Marley. Right? And I love their frequency. I'm a 10% on the other side. I'm like, who the hell would ever try to kill Gandhi? Like, what the f did that dude do? Right?

Yeah.

And I bet you people hated Mother Teresa. But anyway, it's important to know this because so many people limit their own self image by what other people think or they want them to think. And so when we understand frequency not just as a keynote, not just as a speaker, but when we understand that we live our lives at our essence, and that the more we're consistent with that essence, more people will be aware of us, which means 10% of them will love us, and, and more people will like us. But be aware, the loudest voices will be the ones that hate you.

Absolutely. And sometimes they're disguised as people that you think should love you, not do. But sometimes they're this. They're disguised as people you think should love you.

And there are, there are best teachers and protectors as well. So don't be afraid of people who hate you. Know that they're teaching you and protecting you from other people that would not like you. Yes.

Yes. So, Uncle David, right? Superman, repeat, you are one of the greatest storytellers because you have some of the greatest, sometimes almost unbelievable stories in life.

Oh, God, it's funny you say that.

What's the story that you haven't told recently, right? Because I. I hear you so much that, you know, like, I've got a hundred stories that I could just recall from, but I hear you all the time. What's. What's a story, man, that people don't know or that's like a crazy, wild story you haven't told in a while.

Because I'm gonna tell a story about the storytelling and my own reality. So when I was in law school, I was going to be an oil and gas litigator. That story is known. And I decided to sell legal research and go against my mom and everybody else's wishes. But my first summer, I worked half the summer in New York City because I needed money. But I borrowed money to study admiralty law in Greece. And my Uncle Eli, who co signed on my law loans just so I could go to law school, was very upset. Uncle Eli was in that doctor, lawyer failure type of mentality and he couldn't believe that I was borrowing with his co, signing an extra $2,500 to go study in Greece when I was borrowing money to go to law school. So I go to Greece and it is literally the best time of my life. I am with, like, all these rich Tulane kids. And when I didn't have money, you know, they would hook me up and help me out. Anyway, one of my rich, rich, rich friends who own banks in Panama is like, you got to come to the Bolshoi Ballet with me. And I was like, dude, I can't afford to go to the Bolshoi Ballet. Oh, no. My dad got us tickets. I'll take the ferry with you, you know, So I go back to Athens from Rhodes, the island we were studying on, to go see the Bolshoi Ballet, right? Poor white kid from Akron, Ohio, going to see the Bolshoi Ballet in Athens. Anyway, we couldn't find the guy that had the tickets. And Solly Bihar, my friend from Panama, he's like, oh, what are we going to do? I'm like, you know, I'm from the street. I'm a hustler. Follow me. So I see the orchestra going in, and we were suited up, and we walk in the middle of the orchestra and. And we walk across the stage, and as they go into the pit, the orchestra pit, we walk out and we snuck in. We snuck into the Bolshoi Ballet. It was amazing. So here's the. Here's the part of the story. We end up actually meeting some girls and having a great night and great fun while I get back to school late. And Bob Force, professor of criminal law, who's a hard ass, in fact, my first day in criminal law, he said to me, please stand up for recitation. I stand up and I'm nervous. And he goes, don't worry, Mr. Meltzer, don't jump off the cliff. I'll push you. This is what he says. My first day of law school, I'm like, my pants, like, off. Now, this is the same professor. I'm done with his class. I got an A, by the way. Anyway, he. He said, where? Mr. Meltzer, Mr. Behar, where have you guys been? So me being me, I tell him the story, bragging, you know, I snuck into the Bolshoi Ballet, met these beautiful girls, spent the night, and I'm sorry I'm late, but it was well worth it. Professor force, he says, Mr. Meltzer, sit down. You are so full of. And I said, professor Force, respectfully, when my I go, my reality surpasses your imagination. That's what makes my life so unbelievable. And I sat down. So I love the fact that my life has been one in which from, you know, running Samsung's phone division to running Lee Steinberg Sports Entertainment, building a global sports marketing company with Warren Moon, chairman of Napoleon Hill Institute, Honorary doctorates, like the chief chancellor of Junior Achievement University, with Les Brown, chairman of Unstoppable Foundation. All these things are at once. Plus TV shows, movies, all the speed, all the things I do. A lot of people are like, no way. And I always say, hey, man, you're living a life when your reality surpasses other people's imagination. And so that's a story I've never told. And I also am teaching a lesson. May your reality surpass everybody's imagination.

That. That story and how you just ended it is literally where I was gonna go, because I'm gonna take a moment, I'm gonna freaking try not to get emotional right here so that the world can know what David Meltzer means to me. So everybody knows I started this podcast, let's call it, a year and a half ago, right? Didn't want to start a podcast, but Les was like, dude, go do a podcast. I was like, I just want YouTube content. I don't. I don't like podcasts. I'm not telling you, but I don't like podcasts, right? So I started studying David Meltzer even more. And, David, you told me indirectly but directly, mick, if not you, then who, right? The success that you're destined to have. If not you, then who? And I was frozen because, again, you were not talking to me directly, but you were. I laid out a map of all the things that I wanted to accomplish with the podcast. And last month, we did three and a half million downloads, right? Like, today we're. I don't know when this is going to. This is going to air, but we're number six in all of Apple.

I got four. I got number four is what I saw, right after Mel Robbins.

All right, the number four. But here's what's crazy. You didn't inspire me. You gave me the blueprint, brother. And people don't understand. Inspiration and motivation are internally, right? Like, your drive is your drive, and everybody's not going to have the same drive as you, but you gave me a blueprint that I could follow. And I knew there were going to be challenges. I knew there were going to be bumps, but you gave me the blueprint to overcome them. I just want to tell you I love you, man. Oh, I really do.

Well, I want to tell you one thing, and I. I've watched you as well, and you never know who you're impacting or what impact you have. And as I started emotionally to say divine time, someone like you and the success that you're having is reaffirming to apply my why there's three things that are different in all of us, and it is to me a great quantification of your essence. And I want everyone to listen because I don't believe in transitioning. I believe in expanding. I believe the universe expands. We expand three things within the context of our essence or our frequency. One is our skills. So if you're not taking inventory of the skills that you want to expand, develop and aligning them with what's doing well, what's stable, and what you think is doing well within the context or subject matter, topic expertise. For example, that's what you did with your podcast. You aligned your skills and you developed them to apply them to what was doing well, what you thought would be doing well in podcasts. Then the second one is knowledge. You know, we need to develop and expand our knowledge and we have such great capacity today to do so, but not just of what, but of who. And both are equally valuable. And as you talked about mentorship and two of the most extraordinary entrepreneurs and for me, thought leaders in the world, Daymond John and Les Brown, I knew that you understood that the fastest way to get to where you want to be is find someone that's already there and ask them for directions. But knowing those guys as well, the responsibility of helping other people get to where they want to be and giving directions as well. So we want to develop our skills, develop our knowledge of who and what. But you already mentioned the common denominator of the passionate, purposeful and profitable people on Earth. They have a desire that they must be what they can be, and they have to develop that. They have to develop that and expand that desire as well. And when you take inventory and align the skills, knowledge and desires with where you want to be or better, and you have that desire that you must be what you can be, you know, it's just a matter of time before you're number three and number two and number one. And I'll tell you when I was primarily focused on my podcast with Gary Vee and you know, I was more just a podcaster than all the different things that I do. Yeah, I was in that top five and sometimes touch it when I get a great guest like you, which you better promise me you'll come on my podcast so I can hit hit top five for a week or so, which I always like. Gotta stroke the eagle once in a while, but it doesn't happen by accident. I want people to know there's a mathematical formula of luck and I'm gonna give you this formula. Mick paid attention to what he wanted. He focused in on it as I did when I focused in on just my podcast. But the difference is he didn't just put up a vision board. Top five Apple Podcast Mel Robbins, Ed Mylett, Dave Meltzer. It wasn't that he not only paid attention and focus, but he gave it his intention. He said, every day I'm gonna do, say, think, feel and believe my way to the top five Apple podcast. I'm going to think, say, do, feel and believe my way every single day. Because it's the attention plus the intention that equals the coincidences, the coinciding of the universe, the luck that people tell you you're blessed to have. I will tell you I am one of the luckiest human beings in the world because I am repeat man and I repeat attention and int attention to the coincidences I desire. I also want to offer your audience. If you want mine, I send my book out to everyone. I pay for the book, I pay for shipping. So don't worry, it's not one of those type of freebies. I pay for the book, I pay for shipping. I'll sign it if you want it devalued, but I would love to help change the world by giving connected to goodness to everyone of your community. David meltzer.com if you could put that in the notes, I will gladly send a copy to everyone.

We will do that. And Uncle David, just so you know too, I've got some events going on later this year that I'm gonna buy 200 copies to give to my VIP and my inner circle members. So have Nick or whoever from the team thank you, invoice me, send me whatever. So for if you're coming to the lead Loud series, you are getting a copy of Uncle David's Mr. Repeat man himself of his latest book. And I promise you it's going to change your life. It's to me, it's the blueprint to success. It's how to stay motivated, inspired internally in a world that we're in today. Brother. I love you man.

I love you too. I want to invite you, I get to on these stages. I'll be a Fanatics Fest. I have a stage. I'd love to interview you in New York at Fanatics Fest. You know there's a Victor Cruz, Marshall Falk, Michael Chandler, but we do events ourselves and anytime you want to rock and roll with Uncle Dave, you just reach out to my team, whatever city we're in 200 cities a year. You and I got to do more together. We can together do much more than separate. And please tell Les and Damon thank you for teaching you so much. They should be super proud.

You should also be proud, man. Like you were. You were in that mentor list as well, man. And I mean that from my soul. I mean that.

Thank you.

So everybody in the show notes. I'm going to have links to everything for those coming to my live events. We'll have books follow David Meltzer. He's. He's the one person I can say if you want to figure out how to connect with him, just google him. It's all there. He google David Meltzer. He's everywhere. And definitely make sure you are on his IG. He goes live all the time. And those 10 minute segments will change your life every day. You've got them for 10 minutes if you want them, Uncle David. Repeat man. Love you more than you know, brother.

God bless you, my friend. Congratulations man.

You got it. To all the viewers and listeners, remember your because is your superpower. Go unleash it.