In this episode, Nikou speaks to one of her life mentors, David Meltzer, whose sports agency (Leigh Steinberg Sports & Entertainment) inspired the film Jerry Maguire. He is now co-founder of Sports 1 Marketing which tried to recruit Nikou when she was doing B2B and B2C marketing a few years ago. The pair talk about David's goal to empower one billion people to encourage each other to be happy.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

The three key ingredients to the pragmatic world of happiness are: make a lot of money, help a lot of people and have a lot of fun. You can reconcile this with the spiritual world as well by having faith.
I never lacked love from my mother and my grandmother as a child, but I did have a keen interest in being rich. It was the only thing missing in my life, the only area of scarcity.
Motivation is very important and is a lot different to inspiration, motivation always got me up, back up, started and restarted. I got my butt kicked again and again in life – physically, mentally, emotionally, financially – and all the lessons I've taken from that led to a world of more than enough.
By my mid-30s not only was I was a multi-millionaire, but I had access to things billionaires could afford: Throwing out first pitches, standing on the sidelines at the Super Bowl, and I had the money, and I had my dream girl… but I wasn't happy.
My motivation for money when I was young was originally to help my Mom and then to help everyone else. Although I had the right intentions, I went from living in a world of not enough, where I was a victim of things that happened to me, to a world of just enough where I wanted to give everything in order to receive back, in a zero-sum game. Economics always dictates my self-value.
When you appreciate what you have it adds value to it, to acknowledge what you have, you have to lose it, give it away, have it stolen, manipulated or removed from us. What's left is a bigger space created by the fact the universe is constantly expanding and we have expanded with it. Most people then don't ask for more and they dissipate and dissolve back to relying on other people for their health and wealth.
Appreciation is one thing, acknowledgement is easy. We live in a world of abundance, therefore it is your duty to ask for more. You can't be a resource unless you wish or ask for more.
Don't just think it, say it, do it, and believe it, but we need to feel it. Feel what it's going to be like to own that home, to have a mutually beneficial loving relationship with your dream boy or girl. Feel it because it's already done, you're already happy, healthy and wealthy. What are you doing that's interfering with it?
Gratitude is the only common denominator of happy people. I...

'Be Happy' Interview With David Meltzer

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