Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero
CHANGE THE WAY YOU SEE YOURSELF | Powerful Motivational Videos
Mon, 17 Feb 2025
Your journey matters more than you think. There are people right now standing where you once stood, facing the same doubts, the same struggles, unsure if they can push forward. But you did. You kept swinging the axe, step by step, and now you’re in a better place—not by chance, but by choice. Your growth, your resilience, and your wins, no matter how small, can be the light that guides someone else forward.Don’t diminish your progress by comparing it to someone else’s. If you’ve gone from zero to one, that’s a victory worth sharing. There are people at zero who need to see it’s possible. Your story holds power—own it, share it, and keep moving forward.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
Chapter 1: What is the essence of sharing your story?
I want to share my story, but there's a problem. My pain is not as severe as the pain that a lot of people have endured. He said this to me on the phone, kind of working his way through the chaos of his mind and towards that calm and freedom of a blank piece of paper. And all I could think was, sure, maybe some folks have had it worse.
After all, there's always going to be some who do and some who don't. But here's another truth. There will always be people right now who are where you were six months ago. Yeah, you didn't barely survive a car wreck. You didn't climb the tallest mountain in North America. No open heart surgery for you. But you did navigate heartbreak.
And you did lose yourself and your purpose and your direction. And you did look in the mirror and ask yourself how in the hell you were going to put these pieces back together. And you didn't just sit there and let life fade away. In fact, you picked up the axe and you took a swing at that tree every single day. And now you're mentally tougher than you were.
Physically stronger than you used to be. Surrounded by people who want you to win further along than you've been in a long time. And I'm speculating, but maybe ever. These things don't happen by mistake. And you're going to sit here and tell me you don't feel worthy of sharing that because you didn't climb Everest with one leg or something. You went from zero to one.
Chapter 2: Why is personal growth important?
So brother, this is no longer just about you. This is about the people currently sitting at zero. Do you get that? You are a gift. See, this is an example of something we all do. And Lord knows I wouldn't be able to recognize it if I wasn't myself guilty of doing it. The brain wants to tell us why we aren't ready, aren't enough, aren't worthy, why everyone else is more deserving.
They've climbed higher, ran further. But everyone, and I mean everyone, has their demons. So maybe I've triumphed in my particular lane over the hurdle of being vulnerable online. But guess what? When I walk into a room of 10 people, five who know my work and not me, you don't think I feel worried? I'm not perfect. I'm beyond flawed, in fact.
These videos that have helped so many, they're a product of pain being experienced in real time. There is a fear of not living up or even being found out, right? What if I'm not the man on the screen? After all, this is but a fraction of me. And so how do you solve for this? Well, you keep showing up.
You keep earning that confidence for you and for the people who will someday be where you currently are. So that you can be the one who says, see, you're not alone. This is the cost of entry, my friends. I don't speak from a place of perfection. I speak from a place of someone who's adamant about figuring it out because I'm capable and I'm worthy and it's possible.
Chapter 3: How can we overcome self-doubt?
I can change the world, not because I was miraculous or broke records, but because when it hurt the most, I kept going. And that's all. That's it. That's the message in real time. and that message at the right moment, at the right place, landing amidst the right ears, well, that's worth more than gold.
And so you, in your current situation, I would go as far as to say, not only can you do that, not only can you be that, but you have an obligation to. To gift that to yourself and the world. When I say the words, you are enough, I mean it not in the sense of roll over and go to bed, son, you've arrived. Not stop moving towards meaning in your life.
Chapter 4: What does it mean to show up consistently?
But I mean it in the sense that you are armed with enough to take this life anywhere you want to take it. Just keep showing up. Look over that shoulder of yours. Stare into the distance and focus on that version of you way back there. That's who you were. Do you remember that? That's where it started. And every so often I need you to reflect back on the storms you've walked through.
I want you to think about the times that you felt broken or hopeless. Reflect back on the moments that felt like the whole world had it figured out, everyone but you, and how small those moments made you feel. And now, close your eyes and think, not only did you survive it, but you evolved. You've grown. You moved beyond the loss and the heartbreak.
You stretched further than the fear and the doubt and the anger. Through it all, you were relentless. You kept going. That's who you are. And so if you ever doubt whether the road you've traveled is enough, kindly remind yourself not to disrespect the work you've put in. the hills you've climbed, the losses you've overcome and transformed into wind at your back.
When you were there, remember how sweet the words, I was once there too, so keep going. Because every step you take is not only etching into stone your new story, the next evolution of you, but it's lighting a path for those just a step behind. You are both the innovator and the messenger, the warrior and the poet, carving answers out of stone so that others may know the way.
And friends, I'll leave you with this. Your greatness is not just about you, and it was never just about you. Your courage is a vehicle. So keep your eyes fixated on the horizon and keep moving forward until you can reach out and touch it with your hands, because God, will that feel good.
for both the child inside you who wondered whether it was possible and the people miles away who see a little flickering light in the distance that prompts them to be delusional enough to think, hey, maybe I can too. Behind our house, there were rolling hills, as far as the eye could see.
And we would run them, we would run up and down until the sun disappeared over the horizon and we couldn't see our hands in front of our faces. In a sense, it bothers me that 25 years later, I even have to ask why something so simple and elementary could be fun. How something so out in the open can be profound. Something so basic. Oh, how we've flipped the script.
Now, today, I build and scratch and claw and fight and chase and seek and climb. But my soul just wants the hills. And you might hear that and think, well, how tragic to live in that gap, to exist without that which you so deeply desire. But let me reframe the scene. I never gave up the hills, and neither did you. They're there, covered in complexity.
Deemed at some point to be just a little too simple. A little too elementary. So we built on top of them. We laid a foundation of external expectations. We erected structures that would bring us validation. In other words, we built someone else's world on top of our own. Called it a day. And as in one of my favorite sayings, two things can be true at once.
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Chapter 5: How can past experiences shape our future?
You were always one decision away from that evolution. So next time you find yourself looking down at the step in front of you, the step you know in your soul is the right step. Remind yourself, yes, it sure would be easy to walk away here. It sure would be easy to turn back. Yeah, it's just one tiny step. But in totality, it's exponentially more than that. It's the lifeblood of your new reality.
The water to your sea, the oxygen to your lungs, the crossroads in front of you will be, with your permission, the beginning of something larger than life. It will ultimately be the difference. It's easy to look back and think about all the things you could have done differently. Especially since as we get older, we get wiser, right? Time provides this beautiful gift of clarity.
And ultimately we realize things like maybe a lot of our hesitation was unwarranted. Maybe a lot of our decisions or indecision It was fear-based. And knowing that, it's easy to look over your shoulder and feel like you could have lived a different life or taken a different path. At the very least, wish you'd done things differently.
But the reality is, everything you've done has, in fact, taken you here, to this moment. And when you dwell on the past, the should-haves and the could-haves, You completely diminish the power of right now, the current moment. You completely underestimate the knowledge and the wisdom you've been collecting for years, whose single job is to assist you in your next move.
It's a compounding of experience. The good, the bad, and the ugly has landed you right here, right now, and how beautiful right here is. The infinite blank page. The forever fresh start. And that's not to say the past doesn't matter. It's to suggest that your prior discomfort, your mistakes and lessons have equipped you to deviate from the routines and the cyclical nature of your past.
The past is a gateway to now, not a life sentence. And there's a difference. You say last year or last month or last week is valueless because you did X when you should have done Y. I say to that, doing the wrong thing has positioned you to now do the right thing. Potential energy, right? Like a spring being pulled back tighter and tighter and tighter, awaiting its opportunity to propel forward
You don't get that without those could haves and should haves. They're integral to the process. The reason you'll be different moving forward. You can say, I wish I'd taken more chances. I wish I was bolder. I wish I followed my heart. Two pieces of news for you. One that's fantastic. It seems as though you're now aware of those times you fell short and can therefore mitigate them moving forward.
And two, you're not dead yet. We have to stop looking at yesterday like it's anything but a ladder to greater competence. The gymnasium for your decision making. Anyone can cherry pick the past. But the practical me asks, what does beating yourself up about what's gone do for you? What does it add to your life?
Except for enabling and legitimizing the same identity you're looking to evolve and move on from. See, we don't limit ourselves because of right now. It's always because of yesterday. Look what happened. Look what I lost. Look how things turned out. And it's like, take the data and trudge forward. You now have the tools to move right into that darkness of night.
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Chapter 6: What role do small decisions play in success?
Because I want to hammer my subconscious with the understanding that I show up when it's inconvenient. That very moment when, you know, I could easily trick myself into thinking it's small or dumb or arbitrary. It's a sink, who cares, right? That's the moment that I need to bleed into the rest of my life. And I think that's exactly it, right? The floodwaters are always looking to come in.
And how many cracks until the room gives way? You know, when you've had a few rough days, when you've lost something important to you, when you're sad or disappointed about an outcome, what then? When life calls you to exceed expectations, what then? Because the world around you will always give you evidence to support dialing it back, right?
Selling yourself short if that's the case you're looking to make. But here's the deal. Should you choose the inverse, you are strong enough to be better than you've ever been in those challenging moments. You can show up when it hurts. You can reestablish your why and carry forward even after the turbulence of yesterday. Life will never be easy. It will never all make sense.
And this understanding has helped me to roll up my sleeves and continue forward. When I'm disappointed with yesterday, or overwhelmed by the conditions or landscape of the moment, when I question how much I have left. But I've found that when I look hard enough, there's always something to draw on. And that's the message of note. That's what we must show ourselves.
When you're on that ledge, this can be where you're at your best. This is where you get to uncover just how deep-rooted your greatness is. This is where you set the standard and the pace for everything to come. Most often, our greatest source of pain comes not from the moment, but what we suspect that moment will mean. It's not the situation, but in how we perceive the situation.
And this is an idea or a concept that I connect pretty directly with fitness or running simply because that's where, to me, it's most apparent. It screams at me. So being that I run quite a bit, let's dive into that. Most days when I'm out for a jog or I'm running, it's strictly for endurance, you know, cardio base, chance to get out there and breathe or reset, think.
But then there are times when I say to myself, this run's going to be a little different. It's going to be dedicated to seeing what I'm made of. I'm going all out, going to push. And what I find as I gradually increase my speed over the course of the eight-mile route is that my brain likes to focus on what's ahead. It becomes fixated on how much is to come.
consistently warning me about the distance yet to be traveled, and asking whether I have enough left in the tank to get there. It's most extreme in the last mile or so, when my body is most exhausted, when I'm pushing as hard as I possibly can. It's a straight shot. I'm looking up at the road ahead. My eyes are constantly reminding my brain that I'm not yet done, that there's more.
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Chapter 7: How can we embrace vulnerability?
Creating an association between more road and more hurt. In a way, creating a little cycle of panic that sometimes appears and hangs out as I'm simultaneously talking myself out of slowing down. Now is not the time to pump the brakes. I've come too far and the finish line is so close.
But it eventually dawned on me that while the adversity contained in this last stretch of the run is difficult, it's the idea that more waits ahead. That's what hurts the most. It's not the body, but the internal voice that's creating the discomfort. In fact, I bet I could run for hours and hours and hours at this speed if it were a life or death situation. If I had to.
It's not the task laid out before me. It's my perception. And so this little line has helped me rethink and readjust my approach. Not just in situations like this, or when doing interval training or working out, but when trying to do everything else associated with my life. Grow my business, build a brand, nurture relationships, push boundaries in any other aspect of what I do. Three words.
Stay within yourself. It goes to the idea that your job is so incredibly simple that it's almost insulting. Put one foot in front of the other. Sure, look up so you know where you're going. which you don't need to analyze or interpret or dissect. There's no gap between there and here, then and now. There is only this moment. And so step. Again and again and again.
When the brain starts thinking about how much is left to go, I've betrayed the mantra. Nothing external is allowed. Stay within yourself. You have a job to do, and you're capable, beyond capable of doing it. But the external must be kept out. The distraction must be kept at bay.
And sometimes, when you get it right, you hit this stride, this pace that is equivalent to flying, a rhythm that's unparalleled. stay within yourself. Step by step by step, the air making its way into your lungs and then exhaled back out into the world when you simplify life down in such a way.
Seemingly large things are exposed for what they really are, a mere commitment to do the little things consistently. It's funny to look back on all the places I've run over the years and identify or match the geography with the lesson, the routes with the epiphanies, the maps forever entwined in my life, what they gave me and what it meant as I took it all forward into the world.
And here we are again, new chapter, new lesson. Then after the shoes come off, the rest of the day commences this little stretch This last mile plays the role of mentor. Eddie, simplification is everything, it says. The hard thing is not that hard because it's not that big. It's not that complex. Your monsters are self-created. Your hurt isn't a spotlight on the now.
It's pointed at the road ahead. It's asking, what if things go wrong? It's asking, how long can this be sustained? It's asking whether I have the strength to endure this. Every question breathes life into an adversary that has no business existing in my world. They're not helping me get to any finish line. In fact, they're that negative self-talk I try so hard to mitigate.
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Chapter 8: What are the keys to finding your purpose?
What metaphorical race are you running? Have you identified, one, the finish line, and two, what needs to happen right now to get there? Forget about the gap. Right now. What is the simple solution? What is required of you in this moment? And perhaps most importantly, what needs to be pushed out and mitigated?
It's often true that we stagnate not because we don't have the tools or ability, but because we're oversaturated with the wrong things, the wrong routines, the wrong thoughts, the best way to break through that self-imposed wall. to actually build walls that will prevent complexity from even attempting to rear its ugly head? What is your run-breathe cycle?
So stay within yourself because when you do, you see how strong you are. Stay within yourself because you are the author of your story. Stay within yourself because all you need is now to push forward. Stay within yourself because that is where the power lives. Stay within yourself because the only way to lose is to let the external in.
Stay within yourself because at some point that road will have been traveled down. The finish line will have been crossed. And it will have been precisely your ability to condense it all down into the simple, the ground under your feet that allowed you to get there. Life tried to pull you 1,000 different directions.
tell you one thousand different stories but you pushed it all away found that power within the moment and stayed within yourself
Do you know this one friend who just comes out of bed in the morning and then doesn't come out of the grinning at all? Who is even in front of the first coffee, shamelessly well-groomed and shines around the bed with the morning sun? Terrible, disgusting, how can you just be so... Restless?
Very simple. Train your sleep and become a morning person. With the Galaxy Watch 7 or the Galaxy Ring and the Samsung Health App.
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. 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.
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