Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero
MORNING MOTIVATION | Start Your Day Right | Powerful Inspirational Speeches
21 Mar 2025
"You belong here." A simple phrase from a yoga class that hit me hard. Yoga has been a space for healing, but also for embracing being the beginner, the outsider. Those words reminded me how often we question our place—whether in a new environment, chasing a dream, or stepping into the unknown.After a decade of building something from the ground up, I still catch myself looking up to those I admire instead of standing beside them. But growth means realizing you’re not just an observer—you’re a part of it. So wherever you are on your journey, remember: You belong here.More from Eddie Pinero:Monday Motivation Newsletter: https://www.eddiepinero.com/newsletterYour World Within Podcast: https://yourworldwithin.libsyn.com/Stream these tracks on Spotify - https://spoti.fi/2BLf6pBInstagram - @your_world_within and @IamEddiePineroTikTok - your_world_withinFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/YourworldwithinTwitter - https://www.twitter.com/IamEddiePineroBusiness Inquiries - http://www.yourworldwithin.com/contact#liveinspired #yourworldwithin #motivation
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You belong here. This was something that was said to the class during yoga the other day. As I've said before, yoga is something I'm really turning to as both a mental and physical approach to a lot of the injuries and imbalances I've been dealing with for a very long time. And part of that, you know, starting something new was obviously not knowing what you're doing.
It's a willingness to play the fool, to be this student. It's signing up to be, you know, at times the worst in the room. And so I hear the instructor say this line, you belong here, and then kind of repeat it again for emphasis.
It hit me hard, you know, and I'll never know if this was prompted by me flailing around in the back trying to do crow pose, or she just felt like, you know, it needed to be expressed in the moment. I'm not sure, but what I do know is that it was exactly what I needed to hear. And in fact, it's what I've needed to hear throughout many stages of my life, which is why I think it hit so hard.
And I want to unpack it for a second. When I moved to Massachusetts, after spending the vast majority of my childhood in the Los Angeles area, I used to joke around with my friends back in L.A. I'm like, this is so different that it feels like a culture shock. It seems so little of the world. Why do these guys not wear dickies or spike their hair? Everyone has cargo shorts and New Balances.
What's happening here, right? You know, but all jokes aside, when you're a freshman in high school, that's a big deal. The differences were many. And it took a while, you know, but I acclimated. I made friends. I did the thing. But persistently, in the back of my head, I felt like an outsider, making my home somewhere that wasn't really mine. Like, I didn't really belong there. Then came college.
I went to a small private school where most of the students I knew came from prep schools, and I had somewhat of a more rigorous academic background than I did. And I decided to be a political science major, basically living in my professors' offices during their hours when they would spend extra time helping me write, showing me how to organize my thoughts and put together analytical papers.
It was a long and stressful learning curve. And just like before, I figured it out, did fine academically, but again, never really felt like I belonged there. There were some of the same sentiments with, you know, walking on to the rowing team, where many of the recruits had been doing it all their lives. Same thing in the corporate world. Felt a little out of place.
It was a feeling that, yeah, never prevented me from starting. You know, I'd dive in, I'd figure it out, but there was always this lingering fish-out-of-water feeling that I couldn't shake. Kind of a tangent, but this is, you know, one of the funniest moments for me looking back. In my early 20s, I was at an interview at some insurance company in Boston.
And the guy interviewing me is sitting on one end of a desk. I'm at the other. He's holding a physical copy of my resume and cover letter. Not saying a word, just kind of scanning them up and down. And he slowly kind of drops them on the desk and goes, So, Eddie, tell me more about... He pauses, looks back down at my cover letter, back up at me, back down at my cover letter.
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