Let's Talk Motivation with Rahkim Sabree | Ep. 50

• Tiffany introduces Rahkim as a returning guest from episode 12, noting his transformation from 'started from the bottom' to celebrity status in just one year.

• Key accomplishments: TED Talk on Financial Empowerment, Amazon bestseller 'Financially Irresponsible,' features in Black Enterprise, The Griot, Yahoo Finance, and Business Insider's 23 Most Innovative Coaches nomination.

• Rahkim defines imposter syndrome as 'that feeling of doubt relating to your belonging or your deserving of the things that you otherwise deserve or where you belong.'

Finance is a very personal topic. It's a very intimate topic and not everybody is going to be as forthcoming about their situation, especially, and this is unfortunate, if they look like you, they come from where you come from.

• Tiffany shares her experience as a young Black woman in a predominantly white, male, older industry, noting the pressure to prove herself and the disheartening reality of rarely seeing others who look like her at professional events.

Sometimes we look at somebody's credential... as all-encompassing, as if that PhD qualifies them to talk on a level of authority on finance, when the discipline that they studied had nothing to do with finance.

• Rahkim reveals he never finished his four-year degree, stopping at an associate's. He fell into finance through banking and leveraged his psychology interest to help people with their money mindset and generational curses.

Now that I'm being recognized by large brands... all of a sudden I'm credible because these big names are associated with me, but I'm the same person. I'm the same person that I was a year ago.

• Tiffany discusses teaching a university class on goal setting and motivation, emphasizing that people get deterred when they don't see immediate results and must find intrinsic motivation.

There's somebody out there that's already acting on that thought. And then what gets me is when people say, oh, this person stole this... really it's because you didn't act on it fast enough.

• Rahkim shares a tweet about blocking blessings: 'Know that your blessing might require some work, some growth, some fear, some discomfort, some pain. And that's okay.'

• Rahkim opens up about losing Kobe Bryant, then losing his best friend of 15 years to murder, and navigating the pandemic while maintaining mental and physical health.

I chose to continue to produce in all of that... I firmly believe that the work that I do is aligned to what is my spiritual destiny. And that is why, through it all, I'm still prevailing.

• Tiffany shares her own mental health struggles, including a recent episode where she felt she 'did not want to be on this earth anymore' but was anchored by her children. She emphasizes the power of vulnerability and that entrepreneurship is not easy—it's fulfilling but requires intrinsic motivation beyond money.

• Rahkim directs listeners to his website rahkimsabree.com where all social links, books, interviews, and publications are centralized. He also has a Google knowledge panel.