“I know people think the comeback was monetary. The truth is, Nik, I always made money.” - David Meltzer David Meltzer lost more than $100 million, went bankrupt and lost his mother’s house. But he tells The Resiliency Project that his biggest failure was losing the values his mother taught him. When his wife said she was leaving, she asked him a question he could not shake: If his mother knew who he really was, what would she say?
“I know people think the comeback was monetary. The truth is, Nik, I always made money.” - David Meltzer
David Meltzer lost more than $100 million, went bankrupt and lost his mother’s house. But he tells The Resiliency Project that his biggest failure was losing the values his mother taught him. When his wife said she was leaving, she asked him a question he could not shake: If his mother knew who he really was, what would she say?
Recorded live at SoFi Stadium, Meltzer shares how a jacket with no pockets from his father helped him face the person he had become. He talks about his wife giving him another chance, the people he had to distance himself from and the daily choices that helped him rebuild trust. For Meltzer, the comeback began when he took stock of who he was and decided who he wanted to become.
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