Jarek Tadla is a prolific real estate investor who has built an enormous portfolio. He has over 30 years of experience in owning, managing, and improving property. But at the height of his massive success, Jarek suffered from profound depression and suicidal thoughts.

Now, Jarek is most passionate about mastering “inner wealth” and emotional intelligence and wants to share the secrets he’s learned with you. This is a fascinating conversation about personal development, and mental and emotional health.

Success at a young age, and how it negatively impacted him:

“I was at the pinnacle of my life; I had retired by the age of 28. And if anybody at that time had told me that my life was horrible (I wouldn’t have listened). I thought I was on the top of the mountain. When you’re not emotionally aware, it’s a curse, not a gift.”

Thoughts of suicide:

“I was like, ‘What are my options?’ I owed all this money, and I owned thousands of apartments. And I thought, ‘What do I do right now?’ And that was the first time I had suicidal thoughts.”

When he first realized something was fundamentally wrong:

“At that time, I realized I was a 44-year-old man that had zero emotional intelligence. By the rules of society, I had everything. My physical fitness (was great), my financial health, my relationship … I had everything. And I was miserable!”

Why ‘inner wealth’ is so critical:

“I call it my inner wealth. And it’s a lot more important than outer wealth. And it’s funny that I accomplished so much in outer wealth without the inner wealth because my mindset tricked everything else. But all the pain stayed. And it’s like in real estate with compound interest and compound equity. It can be humongous. Something that was worth $1,000 in equity or cash flow, ten years later can give you hundreds of millions of dollars. And the same thing happened with my compounded pain.”

The benefits of inner wealth:

“When your outer wealth is completely ahead of your inner wealth, we have disconnections and that’s when we break. That’s when the depression comes, and anxiety, and suicides, and all of those things. But when we take care of ourselves and we love ourselves, then what happens is that flows to others. Life happens from inside-out, not outside-in.”

How to practically build inner wealth:

“Number one, you have to forget everything that you’ve learned, forget it all and start fresh. Until you bury all the weight that you carry from your childhood, and forgive yourself, and start loving yourself, you’re not going to be able to do it.”

The top takeaway from Jarek’s book “Not Enoughness”:

“The biggest thing I want you guys to know is that you are enough. And that you are loved. And I want you, me, us, anybody who is listening to know that we need to evolve and have progress. We can never, ever stop. But at the same time, don’t turn this into a curse where you’re constantly chasing it without forgiving yourself. So, just to love yourself, and know that you are enough, and don’t let anybody fool you that you’re not enough.”

What he is most grateful for:

“I’m really grateful that right now, I have finally found a connection between my mind, and my soul, and my heart, and my spirit. They were completely working separately and I’m so grateful because now I can share the love and serve and finding my faith was everything for me.”