David Meltzer
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411 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Jul 2025
David Meltzer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And things are so easily accessible to allow people to think we're something we're not. And I think what you stand out on social media to me, and I try to do the same thing, is that people will meet you and say, oh my gosh, you're exactly the same. I'm not standing in front of shit I don't own. I'm around amazing people, but I'm not posting pictures all day.
I'm just posting words that I know would have helped me when I was 20 years old. And look, the worst thing that can happen is you're going to learn something. It's not even you get a no. I am a big asker. I still ask. People ask me, how the hell did you lose over $100 million? I never ask for help.
If I just want to come to you, and I sincerely mean this, that at the time that I was worth over $100 million, if I would come walk in here and said, I heard of this guy, he's the oldest broker on the floor. Can I talk to him? I have a few questions. And just say, Peter, I have all this money. Here's how right now I'm investing it. What should I do?
And I want to go back to what happened when you lost everything and had to reinvent yourself. But also, you're known on the street. People know who you are. You have embarked on this amazing journey. Everybody go read about this because there'll never be enough time that you've decided that your lifelong goal is to make one billion people, one person at a time, happy. Over a billion people, right?
And bring joy, right? Which is so important. It's something that I learned from my parents, Holocaust survivors who came out of the darkest moment on earth, surely, and were able to forge an incredible love and friendship and told me that joy and love and kindness will overriding any of the dark, evil, negativity that any devil can ever think of. But people will come up to you, right?
People will come up to me. I now get noticed on the street. I love it. It's a lot of fun and whatnot. They won't even, and something I learned from you is the connection, right? They'll walk up to me and they'll just say, they won't say hello. They won't say their name. They'll just go, can I take a selfie with you? And I learned that.
I don't know if it was, maybe it was even Michael Magic Johnson or somebody I saw in an interview. They said, so they get to take a picture with me, they'll walk away, and they will have achieved absolutely nothing except maybe posting a silly picture of me and them on the internet, as opposed to introducing themselves, saying hi, and engaging, right?
People, we have lost that ability or that necessity to actually engage with one human being and another. We're living behind this screen of the internet and social media and all that stuff, they will have achieved absolutely nothing, as opposed to saying, you know, hi, my name is, I follow you, I respect you, you know, maybe, thank you, and then maybe at the end, can I have a picture with you?
Yes or no, it's not that. Or at least get my contact information. I mean, this is a journey you talk about. But you also talk about the fact, how can you embark on a journey to bring joy to more than a billion people, one person at a time?
And you've talked about that, that exponential human reaction, that if I do it with you, and you do it with someone else, and then three people tell six people, that's how you do it. But people think that that's way too big a thing to embark on. to ever do that, so I'm not gonna do it.
As opposed to that baby steps towards any goal is better than waiting for the magic moment to do it because it'll never happen.
Most importantly, what people do is they limit themselves by their own self-image. You will never overachieve your own self-image. So the minute you tell yourself, oh, I could never do that, that's never going to happen to me. You're living in a world of not enough. Why? When there's more than enough of everything.
So I look at things and say, okay, and even over a billion people, people who ask me like Saad Guru, why not everyone? Why are you limiting yourself, Dave? I said, well, I did the math and it was a lot easier to say over a billion. It couldn't fit everyone. I'm not limiting myself. They sent me seeing the little hour again if I say everyone. Right.
But honestly, I literally taught my wife to think I was crazy because as I recovered and learned how to make more money, help more people and have more fun, I had to now tell my wife as we were back really on track and said, hey, what can I do for you? And the first thing she said is take care of yourselves.
Because if you don't take care of yourself, you're not going to be able to take care of all the people. And then I told her, hey, I'm on a new mission. She said, what's that? I said, to empower over a billion people. Because I know one particle of light, like you said, overcomes a million particles of darkness. Darkness is loud. It's very loud, especially on the internet and social media.
It's so weak. And when you shine your light, people, they are towering. You don't even see them. They don't even want to approach you. They won't even comment on your stuff because your light is so bright. They know how weak they are.
And the more you engage that, like it's like arguing with a drunk crazy person. You will achieve nothing because they're not listening. And life is too short to even waste time with that. That even goes back to like when we get on a plane, they always say put up the oxygen on first so that you can help the person next to you.
And my wife said the same thing to me, may she rest in peace, that when I went through what I went through in life and tried to recover through whatever dark spots I was through, challenges of being on Wall Street during the crash of 07, was take care of yourself and then I know you'll be able to take care of us because I know who you are when you're your best self, which is so important.
So you're suddenly, you're what, 28 years old, and you had everything in the world which you thought you had everything, which you had strived for, you had shitloads of money, and then you lost it all.
I had my dream job. It was a glamor, I stuck. When you have everything that you thought you wanted, and you have everything that other people want, and you are empty inside. And you're still empty inside.
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