Chapter 1: What makes a life extraordinary according to David Meltzer?
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.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another exciting episode of Mic 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. 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. you know, 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. But if it wasn't for people like you and a little bit of acknowledgement
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 language, 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.
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Chapter 2: How does David Meltzer define happiness?
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 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 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'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, 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 to
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of being 'annoyingly consistent'?
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. That's what to me is Einstein's greatest genius. 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. If 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. 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.
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Chapter 4: What is the formula for creating luck in your life?
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 gonna 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 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. Not better than anyone else, not worse, just your best self.
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.
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Chapter 5: How can you find joy in activities you dislike?
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 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 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 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 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, backend 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 try to be.
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Chapter 6: What does David Meltzer mean by the '10% rule'?
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 was a superhero, you know what they would call me? Repeat man. My superpower, I consistently repeat myself to 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, 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.
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 that.
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.
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Chapter 7: How can storytelling enhance your speaking engagements?
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?
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. 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 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. 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, Mick. And it's a scary part for beginning speakers because usually a beginning speaker gets to speak in front of a hundred 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.
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Chapter 8: What are the essential skills for personal and professional growth?
You changed my life, brother. You are amazing. Right. And that's just a frequency thing. I believe, Mick, I could get on a stage, and 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 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 a stage and say, the, the, For 15 minutes. I promise you 10% of the people come up to me going, dude, the way you exhilarated me through your consistent, persistent pursuit. Oh, that exemplified your humility. 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 Dow, 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. 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. 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? 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 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 that they do, but sometimes they're disguised as people you think should love you.
And 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.
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