Guest:

Rudi Riekstins — Leadership Expert, Top 20 Thought Leader, Mindfulness-Based Business Strategist, Co-Host of The Empowered Life Podcast

🔍 What This Episode Covers

In this deeply inspiring conversation, Rudi Riekstins breaks down:

✨ His early journey

Growing up in South Africa in a loving but financially limited home

The childhood experiences that shaped feelings of not being “enough”

Why he thought becoming a millionaire would finally make him worthy

The realization at age 26 that money doesn’t heal inner wounds

✨ Understanding the human brain + emotional patterns

How thoughts become chemicals that create emotions

Why 95% of your thoughts are unconscious

How old childhood beliefs keep showing up in adulthood

Why most people repeat emotional patterns without realizing it

✨ The most transformative question you can ask yourself:

“Is it even true?”

How this breaks subconscious patterns

How to replace old beliefs with evidence-based new truths

Why this single question can change your identity and your life

✨ Rudi’s life-changing morning priming technique

How to shift your emotional state in the first 20 minutes of your day

Why you should avoid your phone immediately upon waking

The exact 20-minute routine that alters your brain and rewires your emotional default settings

How visualization elevates your frequency and inspires aligned action

✨ A powerful tool to use TODAY

Breathwork + visualization + emotional elevation

How to access the free Mood Elevator Meditation on his website

Why gratitude is one of the fastest ways to change your reality

✨ The “millionaire by 25” story

The declaration he made at age 12

How he manifested it by 26

The heartbreak in realizing success didn't fix his internal pain

The turning point that led him toward deep inner work instead of external validation

✨ A message for anyone struggling

Why you must stop giving your power away

How to step into your divine identity

Why you were created to create and impact the world

The truth that transformation is not a one-time event—it’s daily refinement

🔗 Connect with Rudi Riekstins

Website: rudiriekstins.com

Free Mood Elevator Meditation

Empowered Life Community

Courses, events & coaching programs
 

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