Rising Through Hardship: Life & Love Lessons with Ry Doung
In conversation with Ry Doung, we uncover how discipline, resilience, and embracing love help transform personal struggles into peak performance. This episode shares how Ry’s journey from loss to empowerment inspires entrepreneurs and individuals to reclaim their power.
Ry Doung’s story is one of courage, resilience, and transformation. In this conversation with Mark, she shares her journey from a refugee camp to building a meaningful life, while helping others through her coaching and company, Eternal Love. The discussion highlights her definition of peak performance, grounded in discipline, routine, and self-care.
She reveals that waking up with intention sets the tone for the day. By choosing health, exercise, and positivity, she aligns her body and mind for success. Music, mindset shifts, and small daily habits help her stay motivated even on difficult days.
The conversation also touches deeply on personal tragedy. Ry lost her sister to depression just before COVID, a painful event that changed the trajectory of her life. Through therapy, support, and self-reflection, she rebuilt her identity and promised to live her best life as a tribute to her sister.
That loss also gave her the strength to leave a 17-year marriage that no longer served her. Choosing to stand in her truth, she turned hardship into opportunity and founded Eternal Love, a business that empowers people to find both personal and relational fulfillment.
Ry emphasizes that mental health struggles shouldn’t be carried in silence. She encourages those dealing with depression or relationship challenges to open up, ask for help, and allow others to support them. Sharing light with others, she says, reduces the weight of shame and secrecy.
Her coaching focuses on helping people embrace feminine energy, balance roles within relationships, and prioritize self-love. She introduces tools like her Fourth Space Strategy and manifestation practices to help clients attract healthy partnerships while staying true to themselves.
Ultimately, Ry’s story is about reclaiming power through courage, healing, and love. She reminds us that life’s hardships are not just obstacles but opportunities for reinvention — a lesson she models in her journey of resilience and transformation.
Key Takeaways
1. Discipline
Discipline is the foundation of peak performance. Ry emphasizes that consistency in routines, from morning exercise to healthy choices, keeps the mind and body aligned.
Daily habits build momentum and confidence.
Discipline sustains energy for both business and personal life.
Small acts, repeated daily, create lasting transformation.
Self-discipline sets the standard for how others perceive you.
Structure creates freedom by reducing decision fatigue.
Ry stresses that discipline is the backbone of peak performance. Building consistent routines like morning exercise, healthy eating, and positive habits creates momentum and sets the tone for long-term success.
2. Resilience
Resilience shaped Ry’s journey from a refugee camp to an empowered entrepreneur. Her hardships became a source of strength and clarity.
Challenges can be reframed as opportunities.
Support systems are vital during tough transitions.
Therapy and community provide necessary healing spaces.
Resilience is not about doing everything alone.
Every setback can be a springboard for growth.
Her life shows how resilience transforms hardship into growth. From refugee struggles to personal loss, she turned obstacles into stepping stones by leaning on support systems and refusing to stay down.
3. Authenticity
Ry discovered the power of standing in her truth, especially after her sister’s passing and leaving her marriage.
Relationships thrive on honesty and vulnerability.
Authentic living requires letting go of societal pressures.
Hiding struggles can create deeper pain.
Expressing needs builds stronger partnerships.
Authenticity attracts people aligned with your values.
Living authentically means standing in your truth, even when it’s uncomfortable. Ry highlights how honesty, openness, and vulnerability strengthen both personal identity and relationships.
4. Feminine Energy
Embracing feminine energy is central to Ry’s coaching practice, helping women balance strength with nurturing qualities.
Feminine energy emphasizes care, compassion, and grace.
Balancing masculine and feminine roles creates harmony.
Allowing vulnerability strengthens connections.
Submissive power doesn’t mean weakness it’s influence.
Feminine energy restores balance in relationships.
Ry teaches that embracing feminine energy compassion, grace, and nurturing creates harmony in relationships. Balancing it with masculine energy allows deeper connection and mutual respect.
5. Courage
Courage is the daily choice to take small steps forward, even when fear is present.
Courage grows through practice, not absence of fear.
Leaving toxic relationships requires bold decisions.
Trusting yourself builds inner strength.
Courage inspires others to do the same.
Every act of bravery compounds into transformation.
Courage, Ry believes, grows through small daily actions. Each brave step, whether leaving a toxic relationship or pursuing dreams, builds confidence and leads to lasting transformation.
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ABOUT RY DUONG :
Ry Duong is a woman on a mission. Her passion for empowering individuals and couples entrepreneurs comes from a deep place within her heart. After losing her sister to depression, Ry made the life-changing decision to leave an unhealthy 17-year-long relationship and start anew in pursuit of her own passions and purpose. With her background in Social Work and coaching, Ry combines her skills to provide exceptional guidance and support for her clients as they embark on their own journeys.