Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - Go Before You're Ready | A Motivational Story About Resilience

Episode Date: March 15, 2025

Eddie shares the story of his 10-year journey to start a media company and grow the Your World Within Podcast, highlighting the value of simply continuing forward through uncertainty and hardship.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

It's been 10 years. If you're new to my channel, my name's Eddie Panero. I'm a writer and speaker currently living in Scottsdale, Arizona. And right now, dare I say, things are good. It doesn't mean they will be forever. It certainly doesn't mean they were when this journey began. But as you'll find out, that's the point entirely. See, right now I have my dream car.

I'm living in my dream spot. I have amazing friends, amazing family. an incredible team, and I'm just genuinely excited to wake up every morning. But before you say, oh, here we go again, some marketing dude trying to impress us, let me pause you right there, because of the last 10 years, seven of them I've had very, very little, sometimes barely enough to get by. And no, this isn't some get-rich, quick tale, this is a story about stepping into your purpose, directly into a world of which you know very little.

It is about going before you're ready to go. So some background. All the way back in 2014, I left my corporate job. Not because I knew what I wanted, I didn't, but because I knew what I didn't want. And in that moment, that was enough. And so it was onward to the next adventure. To be honest, it took some time to simply not feel guilty

for having a little bit of freedom back in my life. I'd always played guitar and figured, hey, let's start doing small shows around Boston. I learned how to record, engineer music, made a little album. My grandmother bought 10, handed them out to all her friends. Somehow that didn't land me on the iTunes charts, though. I studied videography, made some short films, got into writing, discovered I loved the writing.

At the end of the day, I did it all. It was just what I needed. But sometimes what you, you need smashes head on into reality. Because, as you can imagine, going from the financial services industry to covering the fray local dive bars didn't exactly create financial stability. I wanted to go back. But not because I was called to.

I wanted to go back because I was scared, like genuinely scared. You know that feeling where it seems like everyone around you has everything squared away and figured out and you're the only one stumbling through life? Yeah, I had that all the time, every day. But one day, as I sat at my desk and watched my bank account dwindle, I thought, no. What if, Eddie, you put your back against that wall? What if, for once, you don't hedge or play it safe? What if you trust yourself to move into the abyss fully?

And so I made that promise to myself in a video called Odette. excellence, where I took all the things that I learned over the past, let's call it a half year, audio, video editing, some recording engineering, the speech writing, all of it packaged together to create this little piece of art. And I'm not sure I've ever been more proud of anything I'd done at that point. Finished. YouTube.com upload, boom. My world changed forever.

But no, not because of a million views overnight or anything like that. It changed for two reasons. One, I loved it. It was real. It was personal. It scratched that creative itch. It was me. And two, it added value to others.

Which, whoa, what a concept, right? I actually got an email. I don't remember if it was the next day or a few days later. It said simply, thank you. Eddie, I needed that. And my brain went, well, hey, if you can help one person, you can help a million. And if you can up a million, you can help. a billion. And so I was off to the races. It was years of highs and lows. The highs felt quick and sparse.

The lows, on the other hand, well, they had a tendency to feel long and reoccurring. You know, I would write and I'd write, and there'd be times where I'd think, wow, this one's going to change the world. This hits so deep. This is transformative. Boom, upload. And it turns out, it didn't change much. at least not much I could see in the moment. In fact, it took about seven years before I could crack that ever-evolving content creation code. It was the first time I'd ever seen some real audience growth and numbers growth and financial growth.

Seven years. And perhaps if I was less stubborn in my approach, it could have been sooner. It's possible that if I'd gotten a little bit of help and consultation along the way, the process could have been expedited. Who knows? But I don't think there's much value in asking that question. As the saying goes, some things, well, they are what they are.

I was recently asked to talk about YouTube strategy at a conference, and I prepared, prepped, and wrote down my best strategy, content ideas, analytics, got it already, stood up there. Turns out, I don't think people cared much. What they did want to know, though, is how I did not quit for seven years. How when sitting in my boxers, writing in various studio apartments, I was trusting enough that something, some time would work out. Well, the truth is, there was no magic formula. And that's what I think is the most meaningful part.

That's what I want you to take away from this. I simply started before I was ready. that long, hard conversation in the mirror. Dude, you're either going to be poor doing this or rich doing this. You're either going to help a few people or millions of people. But I would, in fact, be spending the rest of my life doing this. And it's a funny thing. When you mitigate off-ramps, it turns out you often find a way.

And so, again, what better a time to share, particularly in a world that's constantly trying to sell overnight success, where social media seems to fuel the flames of inadequacy and feelings of, I know, not good enough. You are. See learning the difference between simple and easy changed my life. Getting what you want is simple but not easy. Simple because it requires that you simply begin even when you don't feel prepared. It requires that you simply keep going, learning and adjusting along the way. Those are simple things but not easy things. Why?

Well, because it leaves out a lot. Those mornings you wake up without definitive proof that what you want will materialize. It leaves out the ego, the hurt pride, the times you have to pick yourself up. But I'm here to tell you those things, you're stronger than those things. You're bigger than anything life can throw at you. Most of us just don't know that. Because most of us never step out into the unknown and give life a chance to throw those curveballs.

And so as I sit here now, am I where I want to be? No way. I have big plans. I want to do more, help more people, create an even bigger impact. But I've learned to trust myself and have fun along the way.

I learn that when you let go of the results and you do what feels right, when you find that intersection of what you love and what adds value to others, well, there's fireworks. So if you are looking for some type of signal from the universe that you have everything you need,

I hope this can be it. I hope it's that tap on your shoulder reminding you that there will never be a perfect time to start. There will never be a hand extended to pull you along the way. No, just life waiting for you to green light the journey. And what better a time. Then now.