I’ve lived both the collapse and the comeback. I built an $8M company, lost everything, and rose again as a single mom, entrepreneur, and life alchemist. From those ashes, The Phoenix Code Method was born, a framework for leaders ready to rise beyond survival, reclaim their life, and create impact that actually feels good.
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​At the heart of it all is my signature: Own Every Moment.
Because life doesn’t wait, and neither should you.
You don’t rise by avoiding the hard moments.
You rise by owning them.
Own Every Moment is more than a keynote, it’s a wake-up call for leaders and people of all kinds, ready to trade performance for presence and burnout for breakthrough.
It’s about turning pressure into purpose, challenge into clarity, and success into something that actually feels like fulfillment.
Because real power isn’t found in perfection…
It’s built in the moments you refuse to run from.
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I am not a coach, I am a comeback.
I built an autism services company from scratch, scaling it to $8 million with 180 employees. On paper, I had it all, yet the illusion of success left me burned out, disconnected, and vulnerable to collapse. When the business imploded and I lost my marriage, my savings, both my parents passed, I had to leave my dream home, and I nearly lost my life to alcohol, I was forced to confront the truth.
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What I discovered is that real success is not about performing perfection, it is about owning every moment with authenticity, agency, and intention.
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From that fire, I created The Phoenix Code Method, which proves that you can succeed at the highest levels and feel fulfilled at the same time. Today, I help leaders strip back the armor, reclaim their fire, and rise stronger, showing them that when you own every moment, you don’t lose your edge, you sharpen it.
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The keynote and workshops deliver a simple, powerful blueprint: stop owning the illusion and start owning every moment. Audiences will discover that collapse is not the end, but the beginning of clarity and power. They’ll learn how to turn pressure into presence, reclaim autonomy in real time, and lead without losing their edge. The promise is not abandoning responsibilities or scaling back ambition, it is succeeding in a way that feels whole. By owning each moment with intention and authenticity, leaders unlock a deeper fulfillment and often achieve more than they ever thought possible. Success and fulfillment are no longer at odds; they fuel each other when we own every moment.
Meet Christen
Christen Ruiz
Speaker.
Strategist.
Founder of The Phoenix Code Method.
Who is Christen?
Christen Ruiz teaches high-achieving women and leaders how to own every moment, especially the ones that break you.
Christen holds her Master of Psychology with an emphasis in Applied Behavior Analysis. After scaling an autism services company to $8 million in five years, Christen lost everything: her business, her marriage, her dream house, and both parents, in less than a year. The grief and pressure swallowed her whole. She became a depressed alcoholic who didn’t want to breathe anymore.
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But she refused to let that be the ending.
She got sober, rebuilt from zero, and created The Phoenix Code Method, a framework for turning collapse into clarity, and pain into personal power.
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Today, Christen helps leaders, teams, and audiences cut through the noise, tell the truth, and take back control of their lives and legacies. Her work is a reminder that strength isn’t about holding it all together, it’s about having the courage to face it all and own every moment anyway.
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Own Every Moment
Own Every M oment
Christen's signature keynote
The Keynote That Wakes People Up
Every leader wants impact, but most are exhausted chasing it.
Own Every Moment cuts through the noise and gets to the truth: how to lead, live, and perform with authenticity in a world addicted to appearances.
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Christen Ruiz delivers a powerful, no-fluff message that fuses psychology, leadership, and lived experience to show audiences how to transform breakdowns into breakthroughs, pressure into presence, and success into something that actually feels like fulfillment.
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Audiences leave this keynote with:
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Renewed agency- the ability to own their mindset, choices, and impact.
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Real resilience- not the polished version, but the kind that can stand in the fire and still move forward.
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Authentic leadership- the power to connect, communicate, and influence from truth instead of performance.
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This is not about motivation. It’s about mastery, the kind that lasts long after the applause.
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Key Takeaways
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How to rise in moments that test everything you believe about yourself.
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How to reframe failure as feedback and pressure as possibility.
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How to lead with presence, not perfection.
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How to transform everyday moments into defining ones.
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Because the moment you choose to own what’s real, everything changes.
Why Book Christen Ruiz?
Your audience doesn’t need another polished keynote.
They need someone who tells the truth, and makes them remember who they are.
Christen Ruiz doesn’t speak from theory. She speaks from lived experience and education- leading teams, losing everything, and rebuilding it all with more purpose, alignment, and presence than before.
Her approach blends the science of human behavior with the reality of leadership in high-stakes environments. She doesn’t motivate for the moment, she transforms the mindset behind every decision that follows.
When Christen steps on stage, the room doesn’t just listen.
It shifts.
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What Event Hosts Say
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“Christen doesn’t deliver keynotes. She delivers wake-up calls.”
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“Our team left seeing themselves, and their leadership completely differently.”
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What You Get
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✅ A message that moves from surface-level inspiration to lasting integration.
✅ An experience that combines psychology, strategy, and storytelling in one unforgettable delivery.
✅ A speaker who brings depth, clarity, and fire in equal measure.
Christen Ruiz | Own Every Moment
Testimonials
​​“There are speakers you forget the moment you leave. Christen Ruiz is the opposite. Her presence is magnetic, her message is bold, and her ability to connect is unmatched. Weeks later, my staff is still saying, ‘Own Every Moment.’”
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- Kelly Goode, Event Producer, Corporate Leadership Retreat
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“The highest-rated session of the entire conference. People left not only inspired, but changed. Christen doesn’t sugarcoat, she calls you forward into your power, and you can’t help but respond.”
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- Anonymous Feedback, Post-Event Survey
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“Christen’s workshops are the perfect balance of science, strategy, and soul. She gave us permission to be human, then showed us how to channel that into unapologetic leadership. The ripple effect is still unfolding in our company culture.”
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- Rachel Hairgrove, Director