Jul 15, 2026 · 54 min · 15 segments
What separates people who succeed from those who give up? In this episode of **Empower**, Ryan Napierski sits down with **Rikki Salvage, President of North America Sales**, to explore the mindset…
Rikki SalvageGuest
Ryan NapierskiHost
So I want to go back into this stuff and I know you don't, so you don't feel comfortable talking about it, but I think it's important to talk.
I remember at 10 years old, I was just trying to make sure my braces didn't get caught on my teeth while I was talking.
So where did that come from? Was it your parents? Was it just something inside of you that you're like, I'm sick of being his younger sister? It was just more innate?
My dad was a miner until he decided to put himself through college and became a broker.
My mother's from Great Falls, Montana, comes from a farm, and she put my dad through college by being a nurse.
And so they were always the type of people that worked extremely hard, but never... made anyone feel bad about it, never said, look at all these things that we were doing.
of that humble, hungry, and smart kind of mentality, right? They're just willing to put their heads down, grind.
And they must have instilled that in you because at 10 years old, for you to kind of feel this innate drive to just go work is probably not how most people are.
And I know the value of podcasting to me is that we're able to share kind of messages that may or may not resonate with other people, right? Because not everyone kind of wakes up and says, man, I'm just going to grind today, right? That's not a traditional capability.
But I think if we translate that now into work, because you've had the opportunity to work a lot with a lot of different types of people, you know, it sometimes gets, was that born? Was it nature versus nurture? How would you view that, like, for you? Like, is it mostly as your innate drive? Was it nature or was it nurture? I
So I want to go back into this stuff and I know you don't, so you don't feel comfortable talking about it, but I think it's important to talk.
I remember at 10 years old, I was just trying to make sure my braces didn't get caught on my teeth while I was talking.
So where did that come from? Was it your parents? Was it just something inside of you that you're like, I'm sick of being his younger sister? It was just more innate?
My dad was a miner until he decided to put himself through college and became a broker.
My mother's from Great Falls, Montana, comes from a farm, and she put my dad through college by being a nurse.
And so they were always the type of people that worked extremely hard, but never... made anyone feel bad about it, never said, look at all these things that we were doing.
of that humble, hungry, and smart kind of mentality, right? They're just willing to put their heads down, grind.
And they must have instilled that in you because at 10 years old, for you to kind of feel this innate drive to just go work is probably not how most people are.
And I know the value of podcasting to me is that we're able to share kind of messages that may or may not resonate with other people, right? Because not everyone kind of wakes up and says, man, I'm just going to grind today, right? That's not a traditional capability.
But I think if we translate that now into work, because you've had the opportunity to work a lot with a lot of different types of people, you know, it sometimes gets, was that born? Was it nature versus nurture? How would you view that, like, for you? Like, is it mostly as your innate drive? Was it nature or was it nurture? I
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