David Meltzer: Unleashing Your Reality Beyond Imagination

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0:55Mick: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 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 multi-millions. 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.

1:33Mick:Please join me in welcoming the bold, the visionary, the unstoppable, my guy, Mr. David Meltzer. David, how are you doing today, brother? I got to be honest, I'm a little bit choked up. It never stops for me. And today was one of those days, they all start at 4 a.m. 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 Bass 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.

2:13But if it wasn't for people like you and a little bit of acknowledgement, I'd probably be out at Myrieta 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 name, I'm just whipped over my wife. I was pretending for seven years, the first seven years that I didn't love her as much as I did.

3:01I 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 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.

3:30Mick:Man, I, I appreciate that. And like I said, I just wanted to tell you, man, like Like what you mean to me, how you've inspired me is literally second to none, man. Like 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 onto 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.

4:09Mick: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'd 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, inhappiness 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.

4:46And 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. And so I think to understand happiness, to be able to enjoy what you don't like or love, to enjoy what other people don't like or love, you have to start with giving the correct meaning. And the way we give meaning is it's called relativity meaning, by the way. So when you study Einstein, I study time and relativity.

5:25uh that's what to me uh is einstein's greatest genius uh the physics the quantum physics the metaphysics the applied mathematics are all interesting but what really drives me is understanding how am i utilizing infinite time in the context of the incremental 24 hours that i'm given every day and it's meaning it's the relativity of it and here's the keys to that and I'm sure you've heard me say it, but simple gratitude. Talk about giving meaning. Gratitude itself is an appreciation. It's the solution to our political problems, our religious problems, our philosophical, and all of these different theoretical problems that exist.

6:06If you just would appreciate difference, think about if your perspective was a gracious perspective, one in which is protected, promoted, loved, and perfected by your God. And we appreciated the difference between your God and my God. We appreciated the difference between your color and my color, your clothes and my color, my clothes, your height and my height, your hair and my hair, or your no hair and 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.

6:53I'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's only texts that say the reason you're here, dummy, from the time your heart starts till the time it stops, is to learn.

7:39That'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, God's going to cheat you time.

8:40Every other day, he's going to give you 24 hours. Every single human being is going to 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 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.

9:18Not better than anyone else, not worse, just your best self.

9:23Mick:Ladies and gentlemen, that is why he's my mentor. It's 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 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 going to say a daily basis, an hourly basis.

10:07Mick: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 Mick 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 to 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 I want to be the most annoying thought leader of all time.

11:03Damon 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 my 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.

11:47I'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 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 be all the different things i do every day i am repeat man build me a cape i will fly around doing the same shit every day to help people.

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15:02Mick:Sign up now. It only takes a few minutes. Chime is a fintech, not a bank. Banking services and Chime card provided by Chime's bank partners. Qualifying direct deposits required. Terms and limits apply. Go to chime.com slash disclosures for details. Yes, sir. The repeat man. I love that, brother. I love that. 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?

15:43Mick:Like you get hired to keynote for a specific reason. So when I really got 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.

16:29Mick: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 when David will yell and scream and be loud because that's what the audience is there for. But 80 % of the time, you're having a conversation with your audience. Why is that important? Well, it'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.

17:14And 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 pay. 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.

17:50The 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.

18:38and 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 i believe mick i could get on a stage and i i'm 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.

19:29Now 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 % of the people will 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 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 Tao, the way that I study the yin and the yang of the universe, guess what?

20:1410 % of the people, this is a valuable lesson in everything you do, not just keynotes or speeches or content. 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. You could be Einstein, expressing God's genius through you. 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 lenin 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 uh yeah and i bet you people hated mother theresa uh 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.

21:15And 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 more people will like us. But be aware, the loudest voices will be the ones that hate you.

21:41Mick:Absolutely. And sometimes they're disguised as people that you think should love you. Not that do, but sometimes they're disguised as people you think should love you. And they're our 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. Pete, 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. Go ahead. What's a story that you haven't told recently?

22:32Mick:Right? Because I hear you so much that, you know, like I've got a hundred stories that I can 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 going to 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.

23:17And 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 or 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.

24:03And 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 soli behar uh my friend from panama he's like oh what are we gonna 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 we walk across the stage and as they go into the pit the orchestra pit we walk out and we snuck into the Bolshoi Ballet.

24:54It was amazing. So here's the part of the story. We end up actually meeting some girls and having a great night and great fun. Well, I get back to school late and Bob Forrest, 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 shitting 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.

25:34Behar 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. And Professor Force, he says, Mr. Meltzer, sit down. You are so full of shit. 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 to entertainment building a global sports marketing company with warren moon chairman of napoleon hill institute honorary doctorates uh 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

27:00that that story and how you just ended it is literally where i was gonna go because i'm gonna

27:06Mick:take a moment i'm gonna freaking try not to get emotional right here so that the world can know what david melcer 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 like podcasts. I'm not telling you right, 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.

28:16Mick:All right. Then 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. I really do. I want to tell you one thing, and I've watched you as well, and you never know who you're impacting or what impact you have.