The Exponential Entrepreneur

Do Not Trust Your Feelings


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“Most people go through life with blinders on, unaware of what reality actually is.” – RJon Robins

The Cost of Trusting Your Feelings

Your feelings are lying to you. Every day, you make critical decisions based on stories, assumptions, and emotions that feel absolutely true, but aren’t. This episode uses optical illusions, surprising scientific facts, and a revealing hot seat session to expose just how disconnected entrepreneurs can be from reality.

Most people substitute perceptions, opinions, feelings, and stories for reality. The surprising thing is that they have no idea they are doing it. In this episode, RJon Robins explains why successful leaders ground every decision in facts, not feelings. He provides examples of how we’re completely oblivious to huge parts of reality that surround us every day. When you operate from feelings instead of facts, it isn’t just impractical, it’s the most unprofitable decision you can make. Get ready to be challenged about trusting every feelings, every assumption, and every “obvious” truth.

Hot Seat

Listen as one entrepreneur takes the lesson and puts it into action in real time. What starts as a conversation about overwhelm transforms into a powerful lesson about finding the real source behind feelings. Starting with a simple question, RJon peels back the layers to reveal a universal truth: nothing breaks suddenly. There are usually warning signs along the way, ignored until they shifted from inconvenient to urgent. The lesson? Those inconveniences you’re avoiding today become the emergencies that derail you tomorrow.

Your Reality Challenge:
  1. Question every feeling: Good or bad, stop and ask “What facts created this feeling?”
  2. Quantify everything: Can you measure it? If not, it might be a story.
  3. Track the trail: When something “suddenly” breaks or fails, list all of the warning signs you ignored.
  4. Audit your priorities: Compare what you say matters against where your time and money actually go.
  5. Document one day: Write down every decision and whether it was based on fact or feelings.
  6. The goal is to understand what’s driving your emotions so you can respond to reality instead of reacting to illusions.

    About the Podcast

    The Exponential Entrepreneur is for driven entrepreneurs who already know that mindset is the key to everything and are ready to move beyond knowing into doing.

    Hosted by Erika Ferenczi, the show features lessons from the co-creators of The Practical Profitable Mindset Program: RJon Robins, Alejandra Leibovich, Erika Ferenczi, and Oscar Ferenczi. They are a team of battle-tested entrepreneurs who have built multimillion-dollar businesses from the ground up.

    They didn’t get lucky. They got disciplined. They did the inner work that made exponential growth possible. 

    Each episode delivers one clear lesson pulled directly from the program, with actionable strategies and real-world application. No theory. No fluff. Just the truth about what it takes to think bigger, act bolder, and create results.

    This podcast is for entrepreneurs who are ready to stop playing small and start creating exponential growth in their business and life. This is where it all begins.

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