Diego 'Yung Pueblo' Perez

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Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha: Entrepreneurship and Self-Improvement Podcast · Yung Pueblo: How Self-Healing Unlocks Success in Business and Relationships | Mental Health | E341 · 10 Mar 2025 podcast
And I realized to myself, I'm like, my greatest trauma was growing up in poverty. I'm glad that my mom and dad had a good relationship, but my relationship with them was often seeing them fight because they were arguing about how to pay the rent. And there was a moment when I was about 13, 14 years old, where it hit me that I have my back up against the wall.
And I realized to myself, I'm like, my greatest trauma was growing up in poverty. I'm glad that my mom and dad had a good relationship, but my relationship with them was often seeing them fight because they were arguing about how to pay the rent. And there was a moment when I was about 13, 14 years old, Thank you. Thank you.
No one's ever gonna come save me because my family just doesn't have money. So I need to figure this out. And that's when I felt this impulse to just get more savvy, put more effort into the jobs that I was working in back then. And even when I think about writing, I write to help people, but I also write to help my family because I know that my mom and dad are counting on me.
I'm fortunate enough that I have this ability to speak to a lot of people, to have a big audience, but that's also a responsibility to take care of my family.
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Yeah, there's two things that are really important. Even if you don't have a therapy practice or even if you don't meditate, it's still really important to understand how short the walk is from gratitude to happiness or from gratitude to peace.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
So reminding yourself that even if you're in a dark moment, even if your company feels like it's going to fail, there's still a few things to be grateful for. There's still so much that's been accomplished. The other aspect too that's valuable outside of gratitude is even intellectually embracing the truth of impermanence.
A lot of what I do when I meditate is I'm learning how to literally feel impermanence in the body. But even at the mental level, you can understand this hard moment, it's going to pass. It's going to change. We've already gotten over so many hard moments before. This is another one that we can face and overcome. But I think reminding yourself, because when we get caught in a storm,
Our logic goes out the window and we're like, oh my God, this storm is going to last forever. Like, this is going to be terrible. It's going to end everything. But no, you're probably going to be fine.
Temporary, changing. Yeah.
It's hard because a lot of times when people go into, and you see this a lot in Silicon Valley, where it's like, we create companies, we go into it with the love to create, but then it becomes like a social status game. And it's like, who knows who has accomplished this? Who sold at a higher valuation? And those are important facts, but that doesn't define if you're a good person or not.
Thank you.
That doesn't define if I want to talk to you or not. There are so many people who have negative assets and they're amazing human beings. So I think it's really important to understand that your value and your happiness as a human being is just not fully connected to what you've accomplished. And I think it's dangerous territory to walk on. It's almost like walking on a pond that's frozen over.
And when you're walking around with that mentality, it's so easy for you to just fall into the water because it's an illusion. You know, it's fake.
This one's been really special because I've sort of forced myself to hold off on writing it because I wanted to spend some more time cultivating my craft as a writer and just becoming clear, developing better chapters, just really honing the message. But the inspiration from the book really came from when I went to those first few meditation retreats. I went because I needed to save myself.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
I felt like I needed to overcome the sadness. I needed to just deal with myself and start a new life. But I was shocked to see how the moment that I went in to go and save myself, I was cultivating these qualities of patience, of better understanding, of compassion, of listening to myself. And then when I got home and I'm talking to my wife,
These are the exact skills that were missing in my relationship. And because I spent time cultivating them, I was then able to offer them and almost started a new chapter of harmony that wasn't there before. And to me, it was shocking because I went into meditating to save myself. And then I did help myself, but I also almost like reignited my relationship with her.
Those are three really big, important green flags because kindness, it's really valuable to understand that whoever you're in proximity to, whoever you're closest to, that could be your roommate, your partner, family members, they're going to see the best of you. And they're also going to see the worst of you. And part of that is because we feel vulnerable with them.
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