Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero
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12 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What powerful truth does the donkey's story reveal?
You can let the world break you, or you can let it build you. See, I've learned something along the way. That pain can become power, fear can become fuel, and rejection, if you're willing to look it in the eye, can become the spark that ignites a new beginning entirely. The caveat...
is that it only happens, though, if you stop seeing your setbacks as the end and you start seeing them as the beginning of something bigger. There's an old story or anecdote that, I guess in its beautiful simplicity, has stuck with me. In this story, a farmer's donkey falls into a deep, dry well.
and obviously it's stuck down there and the donkey's crying and yelling and hours pass and the farmer becomes aware and he's doing everything he can to get his donkey out of the well, but it's just too deep and he's too far down there. And eventually with no way out, the farmer has to make an awful decision, the hardest decision he could make,
And he begins to shovel dirt into the well, thinking, well, I don't want him to suffer, right?
Chapter 2: How can pain transform into power according to the speaker?
So it's time to put the donkey to rest. But as he's doing this, something strange happens, right? As the dirt falls down the well and on the donkey's back, the donkey doesn't lay down to die. It shakes off the dirt and each time kind of steps up a little bit. Shovel full after shovel full. He continues to shake off the dirt and step up.
The very thing meant to bury the donkey became the platform it climbed. Until eventually the donkey walked right out of the well. And see, I've been that donkey. Maybe you have too. I've had people walk away when I needed them most. And that probably hurts more than anything else. I've heard, you're not good enough, more times than I could count.
Sometimes from others, sometimes from, yeah, myself. I've stared down rejection letters, empty rooms, silent phones. I've spent months and months and months on projects that I thought would change the world. And newsflash, they didn't.
Chapter 3: What lessons can be learned from setbacks and challenges?
And for a while, I believed that metaphorical dirt. I believed the labels, the silence, the fear. But somewhere along the way, I stopped asking, why me? And started saying, watch me. Maybe that adversity is not the end. Maybe it's an opportunity to turn whispers of doubt into battle cries. To use the heartbreak as a blueprint for strength.
What if it's letting the weight of the world fall on our backs and then standing up anyway? Not because we're ready, but because staying down is no longer an option. And see, in your world, you may feel buried under stress, under failure, maybe under someone else's expectations. You might be carrying that heartbreak, anxiety, that fear of not being enough.
But hear me, that pain wasn't sent to break you. It was sent to reveal you. You're not what was said about you. You're not the job you didn't get. You're not the love that left. You're not the voice that says you can't. You are the one standing in the well. And yes, the dirt is falling. But you get to choose what to do with it. Shake it off. Stand up. Every shovel of pain, use it.
Every bit of rejection, rise through it. Every storm you didn't think you could survive, let it push you higher. Because maybe you weren't meant to stay comfortable. Maybe you weren't meant to avoid the fall. Maybe the darkness you feel right now is just the bottom of that well. But the climb... That's the magic. That's where you become who you were meant to be. And so, all I ask is this.
Next time life's chaos, that metaphorical dirt, showers down upon you, find perspective. Shake it off, step up, and remember the well is not your grave. It's your starting line. What's up, guys? Eddie here. And before we jump into the next chapter, just a quick note.
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Appreciate your time. Always grateful, never satisfied. On to the next. What goes into your decision making? Particularly the big decisions, the important ones. I heard a quote that moved me from Jeff Bezos. It was a video on Twitter. And he said... My best decisions in business and in life have been made with heart, intuition, and guts, but not analysis.
And he continues, when you can make a decision with analysis, you should do so, but it turns out that in life, your most important decisions are always made with instinct, intuition, and taste. And that connected some dots for me. Because I think the big decisions... the life-altering decisions, where we are pointing the ship, should be made via intuition.
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Chapter 4: How does the speaker relate personal experiences to overcoming adversity?
It will provide the type of value that simply can't be quantified or even understood in the moment. The story of your life must be written by you. It must align with the person looking back at you in the mirror. That's the litmus test. That's the benchmark. So trust yourself and your intuition to write it. you don't become who you're meant to be in the spotlight.
You become that person in the dark while the world sleeps. As a kid, I remember never wanting to go to bed. I wasn't tired, not in the way they said I should be. While the lights dimmed and the world quieted down, Something in me lit up. A curiosity. The same curiosity I sense most of us dealt with. That feeling that life didn't just stop because it got dark.
That something, something was still happening. And I didn't want to miss it. I'd stare at the ceiling, ears tuned to the hum of the world outside. every creak of the floorboard, every whisper of wind through the trees, just reminded me things were happening, were moving, that life was going on all around me. What if a new idea floated by in the night? What if an adventure passed me while I slept?
What if the thing I was meant to see or become only showed up once the world stopped watching? And so... For as long as I could, I stayed up. Not out of rebellion, but because I felt like I was reaching for something no one else could see. I think even as kids, we understand. Some people dream with their eyes closed. Others, well, others dream with them open.
And so while the world slept, I stayed awake. But then some time passes. We grow up. Somewhere along the way, the magic they told you to chase becomes the very thing they urge you to forget. You trade wonder for a resume. You forfeit imagination for a schedule. You're taught that fitting in is wisdom. Dreaming beyond the blueprint is foolish. There's no utility for it.
And just like that, the same world that once read you bedtime stories now hands you a manual titled, This Is How It's Done. I think a lot of us come to accept it, close our eyes without question, fall asleep in the middle of our own lives, living by default, drifting through job we hate after job we hate, numbing with ache and distraction, mistaking comfort for meaning,
For a while, I even went down that road. But eventually, I couldn't. I couldn't unsee what I knew as a child. I couldn't pretend the fire inside me wasn't real. And so I walked away, not because I was lost, but because I knew exactly what I was after. The next chapter was locking myself in rooms surrounded by notebooks, silence, laptops, and stubborn hope.
I wrote, I reworked, I tore it down and built again and again. I dreamt with calloused hands and tired eyes. Not for applause. Believe it or not, there was none. Not for validation. There's very little of that as well. but because I refused to die with someone else's version of life in my chest. They told me to settle, to follow the rules, to make peace with good enough.
But I was busy making war with mediocrity. So while the world slept, I stayed awake. What they don't tell you is that growth doesn't come once. It comes in cycles. Sometimes loud, abrupt, fast-paced. Sometimes quiet. Empty. Barren. And every time you think you've arrived, life has this beautiful way of humbling you. of tearing you down just enough to rebuild something better.
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Chapter 5: What role does intuition play in decision-making?
You know, making products that didn't excite me. Talking to people I didn't really want to be talking to. Living a life that was not my own. I'd lost myself. Right? My love is storytelling. It's capturing life's seemingly overlooked secrets. That's what I get excited about in the morning. That's the value I want to share with the world. And look, money is important. It's necessary. It's freedom.
But for me, it can't be about the money or I lose the drive. Right? And here's the point I'm making where it all comes together. What I found... is that when you're a stranger in your own body, there's almost no incentive to push for that little extra. It's like, who cares about fighting for 22 seconds? I'm so misaligned, I don't even wanna be here, right? That is the red flag.
That's the indicator that it's time to adjust. Because if I'm someone who wants more, who pursues and acquires more, and I don't feel the urge to do so, you know, it's time to change. And I broke the lease, put everything I had in a car, went on a little three-month excursion, realigned. And if I'm not willing to suffer through that little extra to go above and beyond, it's not for me.
And so that's a big example, but it obviously manifests in smaller ways as well. Yes, you are someone who can and will chase down the beauty in life, who will transform that little extra into something meaningful, but you also have to position yourself and the world around you to make it possible.
And when you don't feel that hunger inside, and this is the point you need to understand, it's not you... It's not broken hardware. It's not that you innately lack drive or confidence. It's that you need to rearrange this scenario. You need to find alignment. Because I promise you, if you want something enough, you'll be willing to fight for it, to hurt for it, to break boundaries for it.
But you must first make sure that you're pointed at something you want, something that moves you, And here's the part where I remind you of all those things you've already overcome in your life. Of all the times you thought your tank was empty, but you found a way. All the times you were hurting but kept moving. All the times you were broken but put yourself back together.
We are not told in school or at work how resilient we are. We're not told that we often stop thousands of 22-second periods short. We aren't told that we're living at a 30% capacity, operating at a fraction of our potential. We don't even realize the little miracles we've created along the way. A strong purpose and a willingness to stretch yourself as you pursue it will change your life.
And that's not hyperbole, that is fact. If you want what you've never had, then push yourself further than you've ever gone. And we're talking little stressors, expanding one step at a time. Until you eventually look over your shoulder and see the miles you've traveled. Until you look at your reflection and see the evolution that has occurred. It was never just 22 seconds.
It was a consistent and sustained shot at the walls you placed around yourself for the opportunity to see them crumble. If you want to be empowered, understand this. The world is indifferent to you. It's not an enemy, but it's not a friend either. It's a tool. The same way that attributing any type of motive to a hammer would be ridiculous, right?
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Chapter 6: What does the speaker mean by 'quit or be exceptional'?
You go left at the fork, and you enter a world of escapism, refusing to confront your problems. finding reasons you can't do that which you know you need to do, hating others, those who have built, grown, or created themselves. Or you go right at the fork. You learn to do the hard thing, to humble yourself, to take control of your life and your world.
When things aren't the way you want them to be, you look around and you immediately ask, Things outside of my control may have brought me here, but what can I do to fix it? Those of you who have been listening to me for a while, you probably know my favorite articulation of this idea was explained by Will Smith. Basically, he said, look, you can't control where you start.
and how true that is, right? Life's not fair. Some people are born into more resources and opportunity. Some people find themselves in social situations that aren't ideal, and that list can go on and on and on, right? Human beings are all different, so there will always be discrepancy. But, and this is Will Smith's point, where you go from here will always be your responsibility.
What happens next is all you. You choose whether to complain, shake your fist at the sky and blame the world around you, or pick the pieces up and move forward. And like I said a minute ago, don't be fooled by the temptation to latch on to that fleeting moment of relief, of running from accountability. The only way to win in the long run is to face your demons.
It's that whole saying, when you're riding shotgun, you can dispute the route all you want, but ultimately, it's the driver who's in control. When will you take the wheel in your own life? Ensure the stakes become higher, right? Now it's on you. Now you can get lost. Now you're responsible for the maintenance. Now if you don't end up at the right place,
or, I don't know, you're late to a destination, it's your fault. But now, you can also be the one overseeing the journey. Now it's yours, and that's power. And as our world becomes more and more one of escapism, it's becoming more prevalent, easier to avoid or not fix something, but tweet about it.
How easy it is to not confront our problems but rather open Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and mindlessly scroll. How easy it is to leave that message on read and go about our lives because that's easier than saying what needs to be said. Strength is being the one amidst all this escapism and avoidance to confront what must be confronted.
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Chapter 7: How can one find their North Star in life?
Whether it's an interaction with someone else or that hard conversation with yourself. A personal change that must take place. Life is such a gift. It's such an opportunity. But we have to move through it with our eyes open. We have to see things that matter and gravitate towards truths that will shape us.
Like Mr. B said over 20 years ago now, we can't ever fall into the mentality of holding our hands up to the sky and asking life to give us anything. We can't only point at ourselves when things go the way we want them to go. No, let's be about accountability. Empowerment. understanding that if I don't like what's around me, the transformation starts now and it starts with me.
I wasn't perfect, I never will be, but I can learn, I can evolve, and most importantly, I have everything I need to make that happen. It's all awareness. The victimhood idea is the wolf in sheep's clothing, and I know that may seem harsh, maybe even lacking empathy. But dropping that narrative was truly the best thing I've done in my life. And I know countless others who would say the same.
You can't be both a perpetual victim and be in control. No, life is tough. It knocks us down and at times it brings us to our knees. But this is a reminder that you cannot stay there. It's a reminder that those who contributed to the situation are now minor detail and background noise. It's a reminder that the path forward is about you.
It's about you pushing all that aside and asking yourself what's required to move in the direction that I most want to go. Because you are that powerful. You are strong enough to make that move. And there will be a point where you look around you and the circumstances have changed, the people are different, the environment is different, you're different.
And you'll smile at yourself knowing it's not because of what the world provided. It's not because of what anyone gave you. It's not because of what people out there did or didn't do. No, it's because when you were at your lowest,
when life was presenting curveball after curveball, when you looked around and maybe even thought to yourself, there's no way forward here, you found a way to get up and create something new. What's the difference between simple and easy? Well, simple is straightforward, uncomplicated. Easy, on the other hand, means achieved without great effort.
The difference between those two words is subtle, but essential to understand. One deals with the complexity of an outcome. The other, your will and determination to achieve that outcome. Becoming who you most want to be is simple. but becoming who you most want to be is not easy. Just like walking is simple, yet hiking up a mountain is not easy.
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Chapter 8: What is the significance of taking small steps towards growth?
The procedure didn't change, the context did. So let's talk about context. Let's talk about this cyclical nature of growth because it's not that most people can't, it's that most people won't. It's not that most people don't get how, It's that they don't have a strong enough why. The path is laid out before you. You just have to be willing to walk down it. Will you?
Step one, realize there's more out there. It's not that what you're doing now isn't amazing. It's just that yesterday's act of courage is now today's status quo. What was the spectacular is now the mundane. What was once the ceiling you had to jump to touch is now the floor you walk on. So at the very least, it prompts you to ask, well, what's next? Simple. Not easy.
Step two, the acquisition of courage. Yesterday's courage was a fight. It took a lot out of you, and it's ultimately what got you here. But it dropped you at the curb, it waved goodbye and went on its merry way, and here you are. You can stay here. A lot of people do. You can reminisce of the glory days, the old path, yesterday's triumphs. Or...
You can do that perpetually uncomfortable exercise of vulnerability. Stepping into tomorrow's unknown, reminding yourself that life's greatest rewards have a hefty price tag, and that price is discomfort. But I've already played this game, one might think. No, what you did was learn the rules. Now it's time to apply them to a new setting, and around goes the merry-go-round.
It might seem like a replication, from the horizontal, but here's the secret. You can't see the vertical. You have yet to look down and see your ascent, see what you're becoming. Just by staying on, holding tight, just by believing in yourself enough to begin again, you are fanning those tiny flames of courage in your soul that wait to be spread like a wildfire. Simple, but not easy.
Step three, mistakes. Now, of course, it's not the mistakes themselves you fear. It's what you think those mistakes will mean. Ridicule, embarrassment, lack of direction or identity, losing what you have, but here's the catch. When you realize the upside is greater than the downside, you liberate yourself. When you realize there's more to gain than to lose, your potential for greatness is born.
How does one act on this? Mistakes, by making mistakes, by injecting yourself into the turbulence of progress. Our biology has not yet learned that the uncomfortable thing is the right thing. And that's why you get resistance. That's why it hurts. And it's why few people will accomplish what you will. When it comes to your climb, every day is opposite day. When they run out, you're running in.
When they play safe, you play for the victory. To become who you might be, you must learn how to get there. Mistakes are your curriculum. Simple, but not easy. Step four, trust yourself. Okay, sure, no problem, easy. Well, yeah, it's easy when you're getting what you want. But evolution takes time and there's nothing quite like giving and giving and giving and not getting.
There's nothing quite like stepping up to the plate again and again and again and bringing no runners home. So how does one find the strength to continue walking up to the batter's box? Well, growth is exponential, and those swings and misses matter. The infield singles matter. Everything matters. Because it's all chiseling your future self out of stone.
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