Join host Steven Pesavento as he sits down with renowned entrepreneur and mentor David Meltzer to discuss the power of faith, the importance of impact, and the balance between financial success and making a positive difference. Discover how to shift your mindset from a zero-sum game to a value-add world, where gratitude, acknowledgment, and receiving are key components. Learn how to apply your "why" and align with a unified, abundant system of thought to attract abundance, success, and fulfillment in both your personal and professional life.
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David Meltzer is an accomplished entrepreneur, author, and mentor, known for his transformative teachings on business, success, and fulfillment. With a focus on adding value, faith, and gratitude, David has mentored countless individuals and helped them achieve both financial success and a greater sense of purpose in their lives. Through his free trainings, books, and inspirational content, David continues to inspire and empower people to live their best lives and create positive impacts in the world.
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David Meltzer is an accomplished entrepreneur, author, and mentor, known for his transformative teachings on business, success, and fulfillment. With a focus on adding value, faith, and gratitude, David has mentored countless individuals and helped them achieve both financial success and a greater sense of purpose in their lives. Through his free trainings, books, and inspirational content, David continues to inspire and empower people to live their best lives and create positive impacts in the world.
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Steven Pesavento
I'm grateful to have David Meltzer in the studio today. How you doing today, David?
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David Meltzer
I'm fantastic. Thanks for having.
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Steven Pesavento
Me. And I'm excited to talk to. You've been somebody I've looked up to a long time. We worked together. You were a great coach and mentor and you've been a great digital mentor, and the purpose of naming your number is just setting that line in the stand to deciding what you want from your life and what it's going to take financially to get there.
00;01;19;14 - 00;01;59;26
Steven Pesavento
And I want to talk about something that I'm going through right now, and I wanted to get your your take on it and talk about some of your experience related to it. And that what I'm experiencing is this conflicting two sides of the same coin and wanting to understand how I can actually merge these two pieces together. Because, you know, I know at the core that the purpose that I'm here, the reason that I exist, is to make an impact and to help other people and to be able to help others discover what their gifts are and figure out how to create a great life.
00;01;51;02 - 00;02;28;25
Steven Pesavento
And yet I run a business that the core sole focus is to make money, you know, the private equity real estate investing. And so as I'm focused on impact, I'm being drawn back in to that feeling of needing to create safety and security for people. And what I want to know, David, is, you know, what have you dealt with in your own life that similar to and how have you been able to balance?
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Steven Pesavento
Because I think you do it so well that going for impact creating from that place first while having money follow in a close second.
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David Meltzer
Yeah, you know, it's interesting. First I think it's a mindset which is a difficult one to shift as far as the paradigm goes from what I call a zero sum game where you give to receive, or if I give, I'm at a lesser position to a value add world. And the differentiator between a zero sum game and a value add world is people in a zero sum game appreciate what they have.
00;02;53;04 - 00;03;44;21
David Meltzer
They add value to what they have, and then they acknowledge it by giving it away, even though acknowledgment can only happen by not having what you have. That's the only way you can acquire true knowledge of what you had is by not having it any more. So that would be inclusive of not just giving it away, but losing it, having it stolen, manipulated or even cheated from you.
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David Meltzer
They all will give you acknowledgment. And in a zero sum game, people continue, do appreciate and acknowledge, appreciate and acknowledge, and they feel guilty if they receive or they feel guilty for making money because they want to have this impact of appreciation and acknowledgment. But the truth is, if I can shift people's mindset, hard set, enhance that from not just appreciating and acknowledging, but to live any value add world where faith is backed with actions and activities, that there's more than enough of everything for everyone.
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David Meltzer
So there's no guilt or fear about making a lot of money first, because you cannot give more with less. And if you truly want to have impact, then you better have more to have more impact. So not only should you appreciate or add value to what you have, not only certainly should you live in a world of acknowledgment, trying to learn the lessons, the light, the love in all circumstances, events, peoples and ideas and experiences.
00;04;37;28 - 00;05;04;14
David Meltzer
But you need to ask for more and realize that when we ask for more, when we take, when we receive, we are living in a value add world in The proof that I know of is when so many people ask me for help or ask me for things. That is, when I'm at my best self. That's when I feel the greatest.
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David Meltzer
Now, when I'm giving, but when I'm giving to others because they ask me not when. And the inverse that I'm just giving without asking. It's counterintuitive. So I want people to understand appreciation, acknowledgment and the value add of receiving. Because giving, receiving and witnessing, giving, receiving are really the same in a value add world. There's no trade. Negotiate in quid pro quo, no losers in winners, just all winners in a world of more than enough.
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Steven Pesavento
Yeah, and it's it feels so much better when you're operating from that place, when you're truly operating from a place of win win, when it's about giving and knowing that that you're doing it from that place. Yet it's so easy to get drawn back into that scarcity, drawn back away from the abundance, drawn back into I got to get mine or I got to protect mine or or that place of control.
00;05;57;19 - 00;06;52;13
Steven Pesavento
And I know, you know, you've experienced some great financial wins, you've had some huge financial losses and you've had some incredible lessons. And I feel like those lessons have been the wisdom that you've been passing down to many people along the way. How do you approach business today and how does that change? How has that changed since when you got started or before some of these massive experiences happen for you?
00;06;25;27 - 00;07;20;21
David Meltzer
Yeah, well, you know, I used to detach my emotions to an outcome which created not only resistance, but it also helped cause me never to be happy because I was always I'll be happy when and when never came, even though the circumstances and the outcomes came and changed. And so number one was to shift my perspective to enjoying the consistent persistent pursuit of my potential, not enjoying the outcomes of my pursuit.
00;06;56;23 - 00;08;01;27
David Meltzer
And then the second thing that I did is I changed my daily practice is to really rely on the dependent variable of time. So what do I mean by that? That I take every day as its own individual activity and I utilize the past, the infinite past that I have, which is inclusive of successes and failures, defining moments, historical relevance is void shortages and obstacles, losses, manipulations, etc. And instead of being punished or creating limitations from my past, I actually take the time to align the meaning, the lessons, the light.
00;07;45;20 - 00;08;29;13
David Meltzer
In the love of my past successes and failures to a trajectory of where I think I want to be in the future or better. And once I have the meaning of the past aligned with the trajectory of where I think I want to be in the future better, I now can chart out a plan of daily activities, activities I planned unplanned in sleep, paid for, and unpaid for activities that are relegated by number one.
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David Meltzer
What is it I want today? Personally, experientially giving and receiving wise, aligned with the meaning and the trajectory where I think I want to be or better. Who can I help and who can help me in that alignment? And then utilizing lenses of productivity to provide value, accessibility to be accessible to others and receive to access what I want and the lens of gratitude to align that meaning of the light, the love in the lessons, to give me the perspective of how how I'm going to get what I want and help who I can and understand who can help me see once I know my what my, who am I?
00;08;55;03 - 00;09;39;09
David Meltzer
How I can prioritize what's important to me in the trajectory of where I think I want to be or better, and make sure it's aligned with the meaning of my past. And once I prioritize things, I now know my now my next. I now have the antidote to procrastination of feeling overwhelmed. So instead of searching for what I want, who I can help, who could help me, and how to get it done, I'm applying my why not searching for it.
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David Meltzer
So all I have to do is now do what I want. That's important to me subset of urgency and then do what's next. And if something should happen that's unplanned, I then reprioritize instantaneously, applying my wise thing in spirit inspired. So instead of trying to get more happy, more healthy, more wealthy, or more worthy, I simply am happy, healthy, wealthy, worthy.
00;09;48;27 - 00;10;03;09
David Meltzer
And I'm constantly trying to figure out what I'm doing to interfere with it.
00;09;53;03 - 00;10;24;20
Steven Pesavento
Yeah, that's such a powerful that's such a powerful lesson. This idea that you already are in living from that place, living from the enough, the health, the wealth, all those things, it puts you in a place to then start actually attracting those things in. I know it talks a lot about that in the course of miracles, and I know that's been a big guidance for you.
00;10;14;24 - 00;10;57;11
Steven Pesavento
You talked about something applying your why not searching for it? And I feel like so many people are searching for their why. I know when I started out I was in a place where, you know, I thought my why was to make money. And then I started getting into it and I had some money and I realized that there had to be something greater.
00;10;32;15 - 00;10;57;11
Steven Pesavento
There had to be something more than that. And on that journey, I've discovered a lot of things that have made a huge impact for me. And, you know, diving in spiritually, connecting to to source, to spirit, to whatever you want to call it, and then letting that come out through me for you. Dave, How have you actually gone about applying not only applying it, but how did you discover what your purpose is?
00;10;56;14 - 00;11;27;00
Steven Pesavento
Because I feel like from my perspective, you're clearly giving, you're clearly focused on adding value. You're clearly focused on making a difference in the world. And it comes through authentically. And I think so many people are searching for that part of themselves. And a lot of you share a little bit about what that was that you discovered in yourself to know that.
00;11;17;27 - 00;11;57;23
David Meltzer
Well, it's faith, and faith comes from a particular space for me because I see faith as gratitude of the future. If you're fully grateful for a future of the unknown with the idea that there's something bigger than you, this omniscient, all powerful, all knowing source, this abundant, infinite, unified system of thought that we belong to, and that that's something which is bigger than you, loves you more than your mom.
00;11;50;18 - 00;12;20;20
David Meltzer
You now have gratitude of the future, knowing that just like your mom, except for this mom or mother or God or Jesus, mom and Joseph Smith or whatever you believe in, it knows everything. So it's going to protect you at all times, just like your mom. It's going to promote you at all times, just like your mom. And although at times we seem to be punished, just like our moms seemed to had punished us when she was protecting and promoting us.
00;12;20;08 - 00;13;05;03
David Meltzer
But it seemed like punishment when we tried to touch a hot stove or, you know, we were doing something that could harm us. We've then have this faith in this faith. To me, Stephen is so peculiar in the respect that people ask me, Well, how do you have such deep faith that you're giving all the time authentically and that you know, and I say, Look, almost all the time I spend minutes and moments in greed and defense and guilt and, you know, manipulate all the areas because I'm human free.
00;12;51;00 - 00;13;21;17
David Meltzer
I call it fear. But how do I do it? It's based off of a best option premise. I challenge everyone out there in your audience. If you can tell me something better to believe in than something bigger than me that knows everything and protects it promotes me, love me more than my mom. I'll believe in it. But I've talked to literally hundreds of thousands of people and not one person.
00;13;13;27 - 00;13;41;06
David Meltzer
I still waiting for the phone to ring, for someone to give me something to have better gratitude of the future of faith. And and that is the cornerstone of everything I do, because it shifts the paradigm of I don't have to search for a why I'm part of a unified system that's abundant and infinite, and I'm protected and promoted in that.
00;13;34;23 - 00;14;21;23
David Meltzer
So all I have to do is apply what I'm connected to, protected with, promoted from and remember, recollect and remind with that. And I am so much better off. And it is a practice and it's not something that you do overnight, but I practice it every day. I went from spending days, weeks, months and years interfering with that faith.
00;13;58;09 - 00;14;21;23
David Meltzer
And now I spend minutes and moments like I told you previously, interfering with it. But that's where the applying the light comes from is when you're part of the lie. You can apply it when you don't realize that you're a part of that. Why then you're searching for what you already have.
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Steven Pesavento
Yeah, I mean, that's so powerful. You put words you're feeling that I've been discovering in myself, and it's this idea that, you know, from that place of faith, there is no there. There is no fear there. You already are safe and secure. You don't have to go and do anything. You don't have to push for something. It's already it's already within you.
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Steven Pesavento
And you feel like you can then apply the thing that you were meant to be here to apply. And it seems like it removes so much of what limits people.
00;14;46;17 - 00;15;14;14
David Meltzer
Yeah, it really does. Because remember, we can never overachiever our own self image. And if our self-image is based off of separation, inferiority and superiority need to be offended, separate, guilty, resentful, angry, worried. What do you think your self-image is going to be limiting in nature? But what if your self image was part and parcel of a unified, abundant, infinite system, omniscient, all powerful system?
00;15;15;01 - 00;16;09;24
David Meltzer
That's a pretty big self-image. Now you can achieve so, so much more without limiting it with fear. And so I'm actually in a practice at all time, like I said, identifying what I'm doing to interfere FBAR, FBAR, with what I'm doing. So I know there's only fear of the past and fear of the future. Once I identify what am I actually afraid of when I'm angry, worried, guilty, resentful, offended, separate, inferior, superior, whatever it may be.
00;15;43;23 - 00;16;09;24
David Meltzer
Then I go a step further and say, Hey, I know I'm afraid of the past in this scenario because I resent something because of the past. Now, what ego based consciousness in my prescribing, what interference in my prescribing to that fear? Oh, I have a need to be angry. I have a need to project an insecurity. I have a need to be separate.
00;16;07;22 - 00;16;34;16
David Meltzer
I have a need to be not worthy. All right. All these different things now, instead of having to resist it, go over it under, threw it around it, I simply can stop. And that's where we remind, remember, and we collect of the unified system of thought that we're a part of. And we roll in the right trajectory of where we want to be or better instead of in the wrong trajectory of what's missing, what we don't have, or what other people want from us.
00;16;34;13 - 00;17;06;06
Steven Pesavento
Yeah, and it's from that place of resistance that we actually prevent ourselves from becoming or living or doing any of the things that we actually want to do in our life. And yet it's such a habit that is so hard to break for so many people, even people like myself, who who does the work, who meditates every day, who who journals, reflects, who goes through the process that we talk about when it comes to naming your number.
00;17;03;02 - 00;17;43;16
Steven Pesavento
Yet it can still be challenging to persist through consistently. As you say, every single day. What do you recommend to people when it comes to stepping into a new version of themselves, stepping into that life that they want to create and actually making it a consistent action that that they do, that they feel that they know inside.
00;17;27;23 - 00;18;10;02
David Meltzer
Out we're one you have to have time is a dependent variable of all of the matter, subjective and objective matter in life, and then utilize that to reconcile it with your values. So if I'm utilizing time to say how much of my time in my spending in gratitude, learning the light, the love in the lessons, having the right perspective, doing the right things, having the right behavior, knowing that money times based behaviors are all energies that aggregate compound exponentially and greater results and accelerates the results as well.
00;17;59;12 - 00;19;00;16
David Meltzer
Then I can also utilize forgiveness or empathy in order to effectuate the flow or the ease to identify when I'm at disease and when I'm at disease. I then use accountability to figure out, okay, how am I responsible? How did I retract this to myself, and what perception in my participating in so that I can learn how to dissolve, dissipate or disappear, that interference that disease, and then finally reconnect, remember, remind and recollect with the inspiration to live and apply the why.
00;18;36;23 - 00;19;20;01
David Meltzer
So gratitude, empathy, accountability, Effective communication derives the in spirit, the inspiration that allows those to be in the flow, allows us to live at ease and dissipate and dissolve the disease, which will create much more abundance so that we make more money. How more people and are happier have more fun with all the activities in the day to enjoy the consistent everyday.
00;19;03;09 - 00;19;39;01
David Meltzer
See, we're enjoying it. It's easy to do. Every day is easy not to quit every day. It's easy to do our best, learn lessons and have fun to pursue our best, our potential. If things are difficult every day, all the time, it gets tiresome and we start building on the interference instead of dissipating and dissolving it.
00;19;26;25 - 00;20;02;05
Steven Pesavento
Yeah. And and that's. That's the key. It's almost like that's. That's the message that your body's sending to yourself or your spirit or whatever you believe. It's sending that message saying, Hey, you're out of alignment. You're doing something that you don't want to do, which is creating the resistance, which is making you tired, which is making you not feel good, not happy, not fulfilled, which is actually pulling you farther and farther away from what you are actually going for.
00;19;53;21 - 00;20;20;27
Steven Pesavento
And so when you say these things that it's like people know them in their core, but they're not actually applying them. And so I hope that this conversation today has been a beautiful reminder for so many, because when you talk about it, Dave, you make it so simple. And that's one thing that I've really loved about your message and your content.
00;20;13;07 - 00;20;52;21
Steven Pesavento
Who do you look up to and who have you learned from over the years to be able to take this part of you, this authentic part, and be able to share this and be able to really make a huge impact in the world? And what advice would you give to those who are listening, who want to do something in life that's bigger than themselves?
00;20;32;07 - 00;21;13;28
David Meltzer
I think they're all reconciled together with those questions is one I've always had for the last 17 years, at least three mentors, people that sit in a situation that you want to be in, which is why I do so much mentoring for free. I've been doing pre Friday trainings for almost 24 years now. We have over 86,000 people registered for our free variety trainings.
00;20;55;11 - 00;21;13;29
David Meltzer
I give my books away for free, but I've had some great mentors along the way as well. I've had a sleep mentor because that's a third of my life. I know very few people that pay attention or give intention to sleep. I maximize that experience that so many people ignore. Most people go to bed at night, wake up more tired the next day.
00;21;14;04 - 00;21;58;22
David Meltzer
They live their lives like tubes, food in, food out. For me, I've always had a sleep mentor. I've had great mentors like Bob Proctor and Sadhguru and Master Shah, Deepak Chopra, Jack Canfield, John Astrup, and the list to go on and on and on, and of people who have meant to be Dr. Wayne Dyer. Incredible mentors that have changed my life and have facilitated the acceleration, aggregation and growth that I've experienced and that's why I offer the same thing to everyone as well.
00;21;45;29 - 00;22;13;09
David Meltzer
In fact, for your community, I'd love to send my book out to everyone. I'll pay for the book. I'll pay for shipping, I will pay. I'll sign it for you. So, you know, just email me David Addy Meltzer dot com of all the exercises, guides, books, free variety trainings, everything I can do for you. So please reach out.
00;22;07;06 - 00;22;38;19
David Meltzer
And the best piece of advice, a few things. One, you talk about. I try to make things as simple as possible, but I want to give another lesson within the context of simple things like saying thank you before you go to bed, or when you wake up, like being kind to your future self by doing good deeds. These are simple pieces of advice.
00;22;28;07 - 00;22;59;22
David Meltzer
But remember, the simple things to do are unfortunate, at least simple not to do. So raise your awareness to the simple things that have the most impact. The non-negotiables of your life. Raise your awareness to the simplicity and you'll have a better statistical success. Making sure the simple things to do are also simple to do. Unfortunately, don't make them simple not to do.
00;22;52;00 - 00;23;19;07
David Meltzer
Please email me everyone. David at de Meltzer dot com or sign a book, send it. You pay for the book in shipping for your whole community. Reach out to me. I'm happy to be of service or value. Great to see your success. Stephen. I look forward to doing more with you.
00;23;06;16 - 00;23;31;27
Steven Pesavento
Yeah, the conversation that we're having is super important and the reason that it's so important is because when we focus on going out and finding that path towards creating that recurring revenue, that passive income, that money that's going to come in to fuel the life that we want, it really all starts with naming your number. It starts with drawing that line in the sand, deciding how much you're going to need, what that life is going to look like.
00;23;31;27 - 00;23;52;26
Steven Pesavento
And then, of course, creating a plan to get there. The reason that today's conversation is so critical towards that path of naming your number is you've got to get in a alignment with what it is that you want to create from your life and then take the lessons that you learn along the way and apply those so that you can become the best person that you're meant to be that day.
00;23;53;00 - 00;24;11;22
Steven Pesavento
Thanks so much for being with us here today. I really appreciate you've been an incredible mentor over the years. I love learning from you. I hope all of the listeners will take you up on the opportunity to get a free eBook or any of your free lessons and guides. And definitely I look forward to the next time we get to spend some time together.
00;24;12;14 - 00;24;13;12
David Meltzer
You got it. Thank you.