How to Say No to Your Past and Embrace Growth with Yung Pueblo | Being Well Podcast
Diego Perez, widely known by his pen name Yung Pueblo, joins me to explore how we can release old patterns, deepen our personal practice, refine the mind, and feel lighter than we were before.
This was one of my absolute favorite conversations I’ve had on the podcast, and being with Diego was a real pleasure. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
About our Guest: Diego Perez is a poet, meditator, and New York Times bestselling author widely known through his pen name Yung Pueblo. His writing focuses on how we can grow and change for the better, create healthy relationships, and come to truly know ourselves. His newest book is Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future.
Key Topics:
0:00 Introduction
0:55 Why the name Yung Pueblo?
2:40 What holds most people back from growth
4:55 Habits Diego struggled with and the logical basis of coping mechanisms
10:00 Moments of insight in learning Vipassana Meditation
12:45 Finding stability in the gradual separation from the ‘self’
22:45 Stories others have told us about ourselves
27:55 What has helped Diego find a flexible sense of identity?
30:55 Relationships as a process not a person
33:40 Diego’s personal meditation and creative practice
36:55 The benefits of a pen name, and healthy detachment from your work
43:10 Benefits and pitfalls of social media
46:15 Forrest’s meditation practice, and the positive aspects of difficult emotions
52:25 What Diego would tell his younger self.
54:35 Recap
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Again! Splendid conversation! I can deeply resonate with the anxiety and fear feeling spectrum and hearing you both share your experiences about that is liberating. One of the things I have been doing consciously is to remind myself with these meditation words when I start feeling these powerful emotions “You are not real” But you are valid. You are just a feeling Passing through my body Right now. I let you pass through me Gently. Without holding on to you. I release you. You are not meant to stay. You are only visiting. I release you gently.
So excellent to see two young men speaking so well. Fluent and easy to watch
So great! Another fab podcast filled with insight and lots of takeaways! Thanks so much!🙏✌
That was a wonderful podcast Forrest! My husband and I both enjoyed listening to your talk with Yung Pueblo. You connected deeply like brothers and explored some powerful concepts. I like to hear your thoughts on social media and managing how that beast affects us all. Keep up the great work! 👏👏👏
“The mind wants to keep you alive, but the brain doesn’t want (or seek) to keep you happy.” Wow yes.
The entire conversation felt comfortable, enlightening, and reassuring. You two definitely clicked well and the flow felt fabulous. Thank you so much!💓🙏🏻🙌
@ForrestHanson
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Thanks Shari!
What a truly awesome podcast. The conversation between the two of you was beautiful to watch. Definitely kindred souls. Thank you so much for sharing it with us. I felt a deep understanding while watching/listening. ❤🙏🏻
My daughter introduced me to yung pueblo when she gave me a copy of Inward, his first book. I have since read Clarity & Connection and am nearly finished reading Lighter, which I am absolutely loving. Not at all surprising Forrest and yung pueblo would feel a strong brotherly connection to you. Those of us on the transformational journey of healing and growth benefit greatly from all the honesty, wisdom and relatability that both of you share in this podcast episode. I'll be sharing it and making it a noteworthy resource on my blog!
@summersalix
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I just bought his books and the energy from them is so comforting and speaks so deeply to me for some reason. He’s a rare gem
Wonderful interview!! I’m a meditator and I’m going to up my time slowly! I went to a silent retreat last month and it was life changing! Thanks for always having interesting people, there is hope for this world!!❤
Love the authenticity and vulnerability you both express in this conversation. That "realness" is what draws the loyal followers. Life is fleeting...there isn't time to get lost in the weeds around "likes" and metrics. What's real is connection and relationship...i The content that is you're sharing, extends into that river of experience that we all inhabit together. ❤😊
Absolutely great!
Do like 'the brain wants to keep you alive, but not happy', but what part of our 'us' wants the higher vision of a deeper {inner/Buddhic?) happiness eg? A treuly wonderful & enjoyable exchange between you both, thank you!
how small the world is! lol i just discovered your channel through a pmdd video earlier today and boom! i find my cousin in another one of your videos
@ForrestHanson
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That's so cool!
Bro flow! 😃 It seems like you had resonance - if that's a description...and it's very powerful to watch and listen to. 🙏❤️ Thank you both for being the beings you are. Love and light 🦋
@ForrestHanson
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Diego was very easy to talk to, and we had a really good time together.
Yes! Mother Nature's game is definitely quantity and NOT quality. That is up to another part of us.
I realize this is my stuff.. Diego seems so real, mature and sincere. Forrest is almost always smiling and it is distracting and seems phony. It could be he's really that happy and I'm jealous? Either way it's hard for me to relate to someone who is constantly smiling. I sort of feel left out of the joke.. Yes, it's my stuff!!
@ForrestHanson
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I've gotten occasional questions about this before so this seems like a good time to respond to them. I mostly smile a lot because I smile easily in general, and because I'm typically having a pretty good time when I'm recording the podcast. But some of it is that in my role as an interviewer one of my main goals is for my guest to feel as comfortable as possible, and smiling is one of the best "comfort cues" we've got. Comfortable people are relaxed, and relaxation typically leads to more honesty/authenticity. That's one of the big things we shoot for on the podcast. So it depends on the conversation a bit - in this one I was smiling because I was having a great time. But yeah occasionally I'm smiling because I want the guest to feel a bit more comfortable or relaxed.
@talonr7818
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@@ForrestHanson Keep smiling. Some of us want to learn to smile again.
@dublingirl1691
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The ease that comes across in this conversation between the two of you is one I repeat watching; because I get so much out of it, and love the ease energy of the experiences being shared. Thank you! 🙏🏻
I think that to be able to access this "non being" in a healthy way, you need to already be relatively securely embodied. When you have been on the receiving end of trauma and abuse, maybe especially in childhood, you have, or at least i have, a learnt and overwhelming tendency to dissolve into nothingness in an unhealthy way.