Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero
THE COMEBACK IN 2025 IS PERSONAL - Best New Year Motivational Video Speeches Compilation
Wed, 01 Jan 2025
What does it mean to create authentically, free from the weight of external validation? This episode explores the power of creating as though it will all be discarded, embracing the raw, unpolished process of self-expression. It’s not about crafting perfection for others but about stepping into honesty and confronting our own shadows. By embracing both our hopes and fears, we unlock a world of freedom where authenticity reigns. Excellence isn’t a static concept—it evolves. It’s the courage to begin, to persist, to stop what no longer serves, and to walk away when necessary. Sometimes, excellence means donning the armor, but perhaps the greatest courage is learning to shed it. This episode invites you to embrace flaws, cracks, and imperfections, knowing that true bravery lies in baring yourself fully to the world. Monday Motivation Newsletter: https://www.eddiepinero.com/newsletter Free Ebook: www.eddiepinero.com/ebook YouTube: www.eddiepinero.com/youtube
Chapter 1: What does it mean to create authentically?
Create like you're going to throw it all away. Like not one word matters. Like there is no audience. Because when you do it for yourself and yourself only, you can finally do it honestly. In so many ways, courage is just honesty. I think the inclination is to hide from our shadows. to attempt to outrun them, leave them behind.
Chapter 2: How can we embrace our shadows?
But the world I want to live in is a product of dancing with those shadows. It's in bringing them in and not keeping them out. A world with no separation between your hopes and your fears is one of freedom. See, throughout each chapter of life, excellence has evolved, and it's evolved along with me, like a chameleon of sorts changing bending, transforming to fit the time.
Chapter 3: What does excellence mean in personal growth?
Excellence has looked like the courage to start at times, to continue at times, to not stop the right thing at times, and to walk away from the wrong things at times. It's been learning to put the armor on, and now perhaps it's learning to take it off. To step out and present that same message to the world, unpolished. Less thought through. More flaws, more cracks.
See, to be pristine is to be admired. To be brave enough to be flawed, though. To be so honest it increases your heart rate. To be so much of yourself that it creates a seismic shift. That's excellence. And we know excellence seems to always require of us what hurts the most in the moment. It demands we become what we most fear.
It makes floors out of ceilings, does excellence, as it lifts us up each new stair in the staircase. And it's always amazed me. looking back, how while the context has changed so much over the years, the premise has remained consistent. Do that which you are most scared to do. It's Joseph Campbell's quote that the cave we fear to enter holds the treasure we seek.
Well, one can only peer into that black abyss for so long before the anticipation grows worse than the discomfort of the darkness itself. And so, it has become time. Time to dance with the shadows. Not to destroy, but to make them mine. And so dance we will round and round the flames. Casting shadows and reeling them in. This moment is an inflection point. It's an inception.
The first crack of sunlight at dawn. the first step of a journey to the stars. It is the day you transformed an excellence right along with you. Look, the truth is that what got you here is not always sufficient to get you there. That what's made you will not sustain you. And so the question is, what lives beneath the surface? What lives under the hood and behind the curtain?
And will you dig deeper? Will you allow your younger self to follow you into the abyss? Even if out of sheer curiosity, will you step up and heed the call? perhaps to be less produced, rehearsed, packaged, and in the wake of these things become courageously you. Where courage and authenticity intersect, excellence is born. So what better time than now to rise again, to start anew.
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Chapter 4: How do we confront our fears to find freedom?
And I know you've pushed. I'm aware you've fought. But for what? To lay down here? To give up now? When the greatest story is yet to be told? when the finale still lies ahead, when all that is meaningful waits just around the corner. No, move further into the darkness. Push higher into the night. Release more of yourself to the world. Go until you can go no longer. Do until you can do no more.
Fight until there is no fight left in you. That is your ode to excellence. Find that spot where you're most scared to go and go there. And I promise you two things. One, that it will be painful, at least to some extent. And two, most importantly, it will be worth it. It will burn down the old you so that the new you can rise. And I'm speaking from nothing but experience.
Every word derived from the delta between how I used to live and how I live now. I'm referring to all the good that came from finding the courage to let my old self die. A recreation of sorts. And I'll tell you what happens. Your mind, your body, at least initially, start to panic. They say, wait, this is not you. Go back to how things were. You, you followed orders. You did what you were told.
You were linked to predictability. Remember how great that felt? Many of the people in your life, they won't like it either for various reasons. Perhaps it reminds them of their own limiting beliefs. Perhaps it shines a spotlight on the fact that most people in your life, yeah, they want you to do well, just not better than they're doing.
And so you'll get resentment and gossip and a very obvious tension. But just like your mind and body seek to hold you to the status quo, so does the world around you. What I'm asking you to do is to stretch beyond it, to reach for it anyway, to know, to see, to understand that there is chaos around you and embrace it, enter into it, right? Because that is the second piece.
the predictable, unavoidable friction that the unknown creates. We want to know. We want predictability. We want safety. But the truth is, everything of value, everything meaningful in the world started with the process disconnected from a result. It's like, how can you be sure how things will end up? How can you be sure this will work out? How do you know for certain that the hero wins?
You don't. And that's naturally scary, disconcerting. But you have to be okay. Dancing to the music before it plays. You have to place enough trust in yourself to let the wheels hit the road. And you may be thinking, my God, that's a lot, man. That's heavy. Sleepless nights, the risk, the judgment. You want me to invite all that into my life? Just open the door and wave the chaos in? Yes. Yes.
Because as hard as it might be, nothing is as beautiful or as meaningful as becoming an individual capable of slaying dragons. Suffering is inevitable. And look, you can either let the suffering come to you and hold you down, or you can go to it. Face it head on. Be propelled by its turbulence. I was recently at a live podcast where a man named Akshay Nanavati was being interviewed.
And he's taking 400 pounds and he's pulling it across Antarctica. Obviously, an insanely challenging feat. And someone asked him about suffering. He says, you know, I'm paraphrasing, but I need suffering in my life because it's what brings me closer to God. It's in those moments where we immerse ourselves into an unknown, something way bigger than us, way outside of our day-to-day lives, right?
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Chapter 5: What is the importance of stepping into the unknown?
They look around and see not tools for building, but a reality already constructed, a rule book of sorts. But imagine with me the freedom in knowing that life, this little experiment we were just dropped into, has infinite potential, infinite space, infinite room for the assembly of dreams. There are infinite games to be played and paths to be walked.
Just because most people refuse to walk down them, just because most people only ever know a fraction of themselves, just because most people never embark upon the adventures hidden in plain view, doesn't mean you should do the same. Everything in life has a price tag attached to it. Everything. And I'm not here telling you what is or should be important in your life. You already know that.
In your world, you're well aware
I'm just here to remind you that when you close your eyes and dream of a life lived on your terms, when you can see fragments of a world different than this one and you're playing with the idea of reaching towards it, maybe even digging deep to find the courage, I want you to know that price tag, the one so expensive you're tempted to move on, to deem it too much, that it's not only worth it, it's a bargain.
that once you've fought through the change, moved beyond the reliance on what your old friends and acquaintances think or thought, once you've redefined the standards in your life, you will find a contentment otherwise unreachable. You'll have arrived at a state beautiful beyond comprehension. So if you're scared, good. Good. Be scared. To let your old self die is a terrifying proposition, right?
After all, your old self is all you've ever known. But ask yourself this. Could it be that your old self fought and scrapped and fell and endured so that your new self could emerge?
Is it time to climb the ladder, see that next level, feel the sun on your skin, wind on your face, air in your lungs, from the perspective of someone who's not a cog in the wheel of life, but someone making the most of the masterpiece they are in? Feel it. Let it scare you. Own it. Fear is the cost of admission, right?
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Chapter 6: How can silence help us understand ourselves?
And when you see how incredible the show truly is, you'll understand fear was not this stop sign. It was an invitation. Don't walk towards that which scares you. Run. It's not you against fear. Fear is an ally. It's you against ticking clocks. You against the sands of time. So take fear by the hand. Bingo. Not tomorrow or next week, but today. Now. We don't know true silence.
And this came to light a few weeks ago during a trip with family and friends. We stayed in a cabin out in the middle of nowhere, about an hour from Zion National Park in Utah. And Ashley, a friend of the family, mentioned that even though our little sanctuary was quiet compared to our normal everyday lives, the airways were still inundated with noise.
And so we sat there for a little while, paying attention and listening in on all the sounds that surrounded us. you know, planes as they went overhead, it seemed like every 10 minutes or so. And I realized for the first time that even 10,000 feet up, you could hear a plane's engine echoing through the canyons.
Cars from the two-lane road out in the distance could be heard as if they were a few feet away. It was fascinating. Even while staying in a location as remote as ours, we weren't alone. We never experienced total silence. Apparently, there are only a few places in the world where this type of silence exists. Ashley briefly mentioned them, citing an article she'd recently come across.
I just found the whole thing more and more interesting. It never dawned on me before, you know, the extent to which noise and complexity surrounded us. My normal is one of chaos. Subtle chaos, sure, but chaos nonetheless. You may be wondering, you know, where am I going with this idea? Well, I found value in the understanding that we consistently operate
in such an extreme level of commotion, right? We've learned to navigate consistent noise penetrating our existence and our lives, but we haven't really learned how to separate ourselves from it. There is always buzzing, humming, and shaking as we go about our day to day.
We're so intertwined with our surroundings that even when we seek solitude, we're unable to totally remove ourselves or pull ourselves from the noise. And to me, that weekend was just an incredible reminder of the importance, the significance of remembering to separate ourselves from the world from time to time.
the value of truly being alone with our thoughts, shielding ourselves from the externalities. It's not that we have to exist in total silence and solitude, somewhere like Northern Washington.
which I believe is one of the locations from the article Ashley cited as one of our quietest locations, it's more so that we must realize the world around us is constantly seeking to inundate every thought with impressions and ideas and stories and other noise. The world around us is constantly seeking to influence. That's the million dollar point.
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Chapter 7: What role does belief play in achieving goals?
We gravitate towards the negative, not when we're living in abundance, but when we're living in scarcity. We quit, retreat, contract, not when we're confident in the road ahead, but when we're doubtful, alarmed. In other words, we find out in the world what already lives within us. Life, in many ways, is not absolute. It's evidence.
It's evidence that we'll use to justify the things we already believe. Wayne Dyer used to use the metaphor of an orange. It can be squeezed and squeezed and squeezed, but there will never be grapefruit juice pouring out of an orange. No, grapefruit juice doesn't live there. You can only find on the outside what lives in the inside. You can only extract from the orange orange juice.
Recently, a good friend of mine said to me that they'd like to change their financial situation. To which my response was, perfect, you most certainly can, right? Like anything, yeah, it'll take work and some planning and some restructuring, all that good stuff, but you most definitely can. And his response was, sure, that's what all you motivational people say.
Okay, smart guy, now you're an example on a podcast episode. Congrats. Why? Because you want the people around you to realize how much is possible for themselves. It's not sorcery or witchcraft to believe something better is possible. In fact, if one doesn't believe it's possible, they're effectively cementing their feet to the ground, at least with regard to that particular pursuit.
Let's face it, you don't begin journeys that are not possible. We don't allow ourselves to do that. And so to not believe in an outcome and somehow still wish for that outcome, well, that's essentially our orange metaphor, right? Can't squeeze financial freedom out of a mindset that only sees monetary constraint. Believing it's possible starts the journey.
See, there's so much pragmatism in growth. You know, people talk a lot about the law of attraction, and yeah, I get it, right? It sets targets. But the picture of, let's say, a dream house on your wall is not why you'll eventually have the dream house. The picture of the dream house on the wall reminds you.
It helps you believe that you're someone capable of someday acquiring that house, obtaining that type of success, which results in you, wait for it, doing things that help bring that to life. It is the doing. but that doing must be connected to belief. Mid-twenties, I was unhappy, wanted more, but didn't really believe myself capable of obtaining more, right? That was the issue.
Back to the old orange expecting grapefruit juice. Can't get results in an area not conducive to their creation, right? It wasn't until I said, you know what? Maybe, not definitely, but maybe it could happen. Maybe I can take control here. The odds have to be greater than 0%, right? It's Jim Carrey in Dumb and Dumber, so you're saying there's a chance.
Yeah, it's like starting out, that's all you need, a chance, the door cracked. In the beginning, I just needed to convince myself something different was possible. The beginning of transformation and that internal change prompted how I interacted with the external world. You do things differently when you believe differently.
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Chapter 8: How does courage transform our lives?
Life does in so many ways come down to the tactics, to the how, to the steps. But does that even matter if you don't believe in the pursuit? Does it matter what Google Maps says if you never step out your front door? You have to convince you. You have to create an environment in your world where change isn't crazy, more isn't absurd. It might be challenging.
But it's possible, and possible is enough. It is enough to begin, enough to step out, enough to see the trivialities as tools and the resistance as part of a beautiful game. Remember that the world is a mirror, reflecting back at us our worldview. We find what we look for, so give yourself permission to look for things that make life beautiful.
Give yourself the gift of believing change is possible. Courage is designed to move. Which is why one bold action can completely transform your life. It's why one step forward can create space for you to experience and obtain things you've never had before. I've been sharing with you quite a bit lately how I've essentially rediscovered Greg McCune's idea of essentialism.
Redefining focus, cutting away excess, refusing to operate at 65% on many things, right? And instead focusing 100% on the thing that means the most to me, right? Going all in on the right thing. Might seem small, But I promise you, in our world, it's not.
And the other day, I was in the car talking about how, basically, when you go all in on that thing that feels right, alignment's the word I've used many times, but that thing that's right for you, when you give it the attention and time and energy it deserves, the universe seems to hear you. It's like it gives you strength back. And obviously, there's a pragmatic element to it, right?
It's like what you water is going to grow. You can only improve what you focus on. But that relationship between attention, effort, and life seeming to help pave a way for you when you go all in It's so strong that it makes me think there might be more to it than that. It blows my mind how quickly, after realigning, things happened that haven't happened in years.
It's like you commit to something and life arms you for the journey. You lock in and you are, in your own way, provided wings. And I'm explaining this to Jules, who's riding shotgun. She goes, I love when that happens. It's like courage creates vibration. One of those light bulb moments, right? Exactly. The vibration of courage. Courage creates space for everything you need. That courageous act.
And by the way, everyone knows what that is in their own world. That thing they should be doing or that thing they've wanted to do. Depending on the season of life, maybe it's going faster towards something. Maybe it's slowing down a pursuit that isn't quite right. Maybe it's less, maybe it's more. Maybe it's solitude. Maybe it's putting yourself in more social situations.
Locking in on one thing or exploration and discovery. It's different. It changes. But you know what that is. Because you think about it. Because your soul communicates with your mind. Whatever it is, it's an arm's length away. The extended hand of courage doesn't mean the pursuit or task before you will be easier. In all honesty, it's probably the opposite.
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