Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - If You’re Ready for a New Chapter, Watch This

Episode Date: July 3, 2026

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Wayfair, every style, every home. What if I fall, the man asks. Looking nervously over the edge. Oh, but my friend, a voice responds back. What if you fly? A little quote. I heard not too long ago demonstrating our proclivity to maintain, to preserve, to protect, to move away altogether from the risk for fear that we might lose our grip on the status quo.

Completely forgetting to think about what life could become if things worked out. Forgetting that life is a game of trade-offs. and to fixate on never losing what you have means forfeiting the possibility. It is that simple. To stay is a refusal to go. We need to constantly reinforce the idea, the truth, that what we aren't doing is a decision.

And while we place our energy and efforts on minimizing the falling and the failure, someone else is stepping into it. They're capitalizing on it. Falling again and again and again until they can fly. Because the danger is not in falling. It's in never taking to the sky. It's becoming only a fraction of the person you are capable of becoming

with the required sacrifice and courage. It's an understanding that we're not wrong for initially thinking small. playing to not lose, thinking only to protect, protect, protect. That's how human beings arrive out of the factory, right? Stock. And you can thank millennia of evolution for that. You're not weak for being scared. You're not less than for shaking when you stand face to face with the adversity of life.

Again, this is what being human is. But what we also possess is the ability to understand these default limitations and transform them. To understand being scared of the world around us was incredibly valuable forever ago, right? When we roamed around hunting and gathering, it made sense not to inquire further when there was a shaking in the bushes.

It made sense not to rashly run into the cave. It made sense to fear deeply the prospect of being abandoned by your small tribe that was the only reassurance separating you from the vast unknown lurking in the darkness, the wilderness. But anyone listening to this today must also understand that these biological drivers are outdated. The lions in the bushes are no more. The caves are generally metaphorical, and one's quote-unquote tribe should be carefully and methodically chosen.

Civilization provides that cushion. and what a luxury. So when life pushes back, and it will, and you feel like you're on that ledge, you will want to turn back. Not because you're weak, but because you've forgotten that the voice in your head screaming in fear

can't see the upside. It's blind to the possibility. It only sees downside. It only says, hey, this might bring about discomfort. There are things out there you don't know, foreign entities, possibly adversaries. Why would you even contemplate taking that leap? And that's where you step in and provide reassurance. Yeah, things could go wrong, but the wrong steps are one, usually reversible, and two,

provide the wisdom that I need. It gives you a chance to inject into the conversation that if things go right, your life changes. that this could be the beginning, and that we don't live until the excitement about what life can become if things work out is greater than the fear of what life would regress into if they didn't. Without upside, there's no hope. Without hope, there is no purpose. And as Viktor Frankl has said,

life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. We're all operating within the same parameters, same playing field. But the difference is we have different soundtracks, interpretations, and narratives playing behind our eyes. He may see the world collapsing and spend the rest of his life mourning what is gone, while she may see this same devastation and bring herself to wonder, well, what can I build in its place? What can arise from the wreckage. Same circumstance, different storyline, different result. I often cringe when I hear mindset misinterpreted as this magical thing that becomes reality the second you close your eyes

and make a wish. The law of attraction, as far as I'm concerned, is not magic. I think this whole song and dance is much simpler than that. We act in accordance to the things we believe. And if you believe you're not good enough, if you believe you're not worthy, if you believe more is out of the question, what incentive do you have to change? None. It's much easier to default to hating the world when that's your perspective. But when you can find the discipline, even for a moment, to pause and ask, well, what if things got better. What if my life could be more? That spark has suddenly given you a reason to take

another step forward. It's made an argument as to why that discomfort just might be worth it. The magic isn't that you wished for it, and so it was. The magic is that you saw it as a possibility, and in doing so incentivized yourself to move towards that outcome. It's hard. It's hard. It's hard to gravitate towards something that has not yet been built. It's hard to stand with conviction in defense of a life that hasn't yet materialized. But that, my friends, is the beauty and mystery of life. You don't get what you want until you start living like you already have it. Like you can touch it, taste it, like it's real. So when the journey feels impossible, know that you're you are on the right track.

You're competing against some very formidable adversaries, your very DNA. You're competing against the people around you that don't understand. You're competing against the obstacles that make you question whether that conjured up castle in the air existing only in your head could ever come to fruition. That is some resistance. But as you step forward into the head,

haze, your single, solitary acts of courage will begin to tell a story, to take shape. The ones make-believe will become tangible. You'll see the pieces coming together, and you'll see yourself as the one capable of assembling them. An architect of sorts, a designer, one with courage and self-belief. The truth is, you will never completely mitigate fear. that will be with you forever. It's par for the course.

You just need to remember that the power of purpose, of meaning, the value of upside and opportunity is greater than that nagging voice of fear. It's not about closing your eyes to who you are or where you've been. There's beauty and all that. It's merely about opening them to all you can become. What's up, guys, Eddie here. And before we jump into the next chapter, just a quick note.

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Appreciate your time. Always grateful, never satisfied. On to the next. There is one person who can save you. And that person exists in the mirror. I was recently doing an audit of some of the most important conversations I've ever had. Mentors, friends, coaches, people that have changed my life, people that I love and beyond grateful for and started kind of going one by one.

What did I learn from this person? What was it that I took away from them? And, you know, in one way or another, across the board, the answer was the same. It was some variation of confidence. It was belief that I could step into that next chapter, that I have what it takes, that the unknown, you know, wasn't impenetrable. In fact, you know, the unknown is inviting. And truthfully, I don't know how many people started from the same starting point that I did,

where I essentially had to learn every step of the way that I was good enough, had to reteach myself that I belonged where I was, that the room that I was in, there was a reason I was there, that the circle I was in, that I earned a right to be in that circle. They say confidence is earned, and I had to continuously earn it. And I value that progression, truly, for a few reasons. One, because, you know, I've been on the other side. And when I see other people, you know, making that ascent,

I do everything I can to make them feel welcome and comfortable, right? But the second thing is I understand at a deep level how much of success is simply believing you are worthy of it. You know, I look at the things that I do now and it's like so much of it's just because I allowed my myself to do it. At some point I looked around and said, you are worthy of this. Believe it. Step into it. There's nothing stopping you, but you. And I've seen the power of, as someone near and dear to me once said, walking into a room like God sent you. It's not a fake it till you you make it game. It's believing in your heart that you are worthy game. No one who's achieved success on a consistent basis got there accidentally. At some point they looked at that reflection

and said, hey, this is me. At some point they looked around and said, there is no difference between me and the people who have done great things. Those people just gave themselves the green light and chose to stay consistent. I can do that. You can. You can. can do that. Everybody can do that. Will you? That's the question. No one can save you because no one can make you believe. No one when your eyes open in the morning can position your mindset to say today is mine. The world is my opportunity. No one can convince you that you're capable of magic on your short time on this planet. That's an internal decision. Do you believe you are worthy of it? And if not, let's get you to that point. That's the name of the game. Look hard at that reflection

and remind yourself that you have everything you need to begin. Not a few things or some things, everything you need. You're good enough. What's required is you giving yourself permission to go on whatever journey you deem important. It's allowing yourself to tap into the strength that's already there. Be resilient. Ship away little by little every day. That's it. That's the formula.

You approach that lane with tenacity and drive. And life changes. As the saying goes, days turn into months, which turn into years, and you'll look back and, you know, you'll see you're not the same person you once were. You'll see that you had this potential all along. you just had to give it life. See, we attribute complexity to things we don't understand. We assume people on mountaintops were placed there,

that they had godlike abilities. And it's like, no, they just believed they were worthy and stepped forward into the night. Just like a seed must be planted, you too must give your potential the opportunity to be nourished by what's around you. When the alarm clock goes off, your eyes open and your feet touch the ground in the morning, remember that getting what you want is far less complex than you think.

It's simple. Not easy, but it's simple. You say yes to more and start walking down the road. And you'll change, you'll adjust, you'll evolve. There will be times when you backtrack, course correct, and perhaps even switch lanes altogether. But the gift of going is the best gift you'll have ever present. presented to yourself. No one is coming to save you.

And when you realize how powerful you are, you will have not wanted it any other way. I have long believed that the solution to even our biggest problems, right? Our toughest tasks, our greatest challenges, they can be solved. Or at least the process of solving them can begin. exactly where you are using only what you already have.

Right? Meaning the solution to your problem exists in the room with you, an arm's length away. And you might hear that and think, dude, you know, that's way too good to be true. That's too idealistic. It's too simple. But what I want to try and explain over the next few minutes

is how the most important changes we make in life. The things that matter the most, they're simple. Incredibly simple. And it's only our tendency to make things unnecessarily complex that becomes the problem. One of my favorite thinkers, Thomas Sol once said, people who pride themselves on their complexity and deride others for being simplistic.

should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth. And he's coming up this more societally from a political angle. But I think so many of these things in the big picture and the macro, they make sense in the micro. Like I hear this and I think at a personal level, this is so true. You should see the things I come up with in my mind when I'm procrastinating or dragging my feet on something.

This angle, that angle, what if this happens or that? Have I thought about A, what about B, what about C? And I usually dance around these things until I remember, Eddie, we've been here before. No. Turn the internal dialogue off and start. Go. Put the project into motion. Breathe life into the pursuit.

Then it's off to the races. It's not that complicated. You go before you're ready and you adjust along the way. That's one example. And a few weeks ago, this was sort of reinforced to me in a funny way. It's a seemingly trivial metaphor that I think in its simplicity can be truly valuable. So picture this, right? I was on a train in Venice, Italy, big family trip.

And so we'd all been overseas for about five weeks, so we're not exactly traveling light. We have pretty big suitcases. is the standard size you'd have to check if you were at an airport going onto an airplane. But we weren't on an airplane. We were on a train with tight quarters and big suitcases. Big crowds, right? So we board this train. People start piling into their seats.

And I'm like, okay, what do we do with these things? And I'm looking around, seeing if I could find a place to store them. I point to one of them. and, you know, one of the folks working there kind of just scowls and walks by. And it's like, okay, I get it. We're the Americans in Europe with the big suitcases. And it just becomes a circus, right? Now, there's an overhead compartment where you can put bags above the seats, but it just, it looks small,

looks tiny. My brother and I were peering around. We both see it immediately go, no, no chance. That's fitting. So I'm like, okay, well, we'll put the bags on our seats and either stand by them or sit on the suitcase. is let the people board the train, and then when everyone's sitting, we can move all our bags to the aisle,

and, you know, we're solving this thing in real time. And suddenly, I just get this jolt of, why not? Pick up one of the massive bags, and I just start jamming it into the overhead compartment. And, you know, people all the way up and down the aisle are staring at me like I'm losing my mind. I'm trying to condense the suitcase as much as I can. And after about 30 seconds, the thing somehow fits.

My brother jumps up out of his seat. We start grabbing the bags and jamming them all in this overhead compartment. Now, I need you to trust me. I feel dumb as I sit here even speaking this. Imagine how dumb I felt in that moment, right? This whole little traffic jam and commotion was avoidable. didn't even really want to rehash this, I just want to let it fade into history.

But it's one of those things where it's like, the more you think about it, the more the seemingly obvious solution is the point. I'm drawing up a plan to sit on a 55-pound bag and all this unnecessary nonsense when the thing just fit where bags are supposed to go. And maybe it didn't seem like it at first, but regardless. You know, the solution was right there in the overhead compartment.

You know, that's like dying of thirst right next to a lake. You're not too far from what you really needed there, pal. So now, let's take this to where it really matters, our personal lives. The things that weigh us down, the obstacles that feel big and ominous and intimidating. Resolving them must call for some larger-than-life response, right? There must be some 5,000-page answer book to encompass my solution here. Nah, not true. What's the simple, singular root of the issue and how can you attack it head on?

There's an idea I've talked about before, but I want to bring up again about the idea of little hinges. W. Clement Stone once said little hinges swing big doors. meaning there's certain small things we do that have just this monumental impact. It's just we aren't looking for them. We're not thinking about them the right way. As simple and obvious as it may seem. I'll give you a few personal examples. Headaches.

Talked about them before. I've battled with them plenty. They've almost completely disappeared from my life. Knock on wood. If that was my suitcase scenario, right? I was doing everything but addressing the root cause. Ibuprofen every day, seeing doctors, different medicines, cat scans, you name it. What helped?

Electrolite tablets. It's like I did everything but that. Sports injuries, right? Constantly dealing with stuff. And I still am to some extent, but stretching has made a monumental difference. Just waking up in the morning and stretching for 10 minutes. Or my writing output. Having a block of time in the morning where every day I write no matter what.

Diet. Here's the magic solution. Don't have bad stuff in the cabinet. I'm looking at you, Flaming Hot Cheetos. These aren't of little consequence. They're decisions that have drastically changed my life. And I know they're right because I look at them now and it's like, it just feels so obvious.

Oh, look at the rocket scientist over there. He started stretching more and now he doesn't pull his back every Thursday. But they only seem obvious in hindsight. When you're moving forward, they feel complex and messy and impossible. You know how difficult life feels when you can't open your eyes because of a headache? The last thing I was thinking was get some electrolyte tablets off and Amazon. It was way bigger than that. It was I hope whoever has to cut my head open and perform surgery knows what they're doing, right? We think the solutions need to be as painful as the

problem. No. The reason we're still there stuck in the issue is because we put the problem on a pedestal. And I firmly believe that. And so my ask of you is to take a second and think about your life. Truly, think about where you are and the so-called obstacles before you and pretend you had to distill life down into its simplest form. If you had to, and I mean had to find a solution right now where you are, where would you start? If you had to do one thing today that would give you the biggest bang for your buck, what could that look like? Solutions are not as big as the problem. And I think that's why they're hidden in plain sight.

I think that's why we walk right by them. We think we need a team of Harvard neurologist when we need electrolyte tablets. We're running around trying to camouflage five cases of luggage when they can be squeezed in the overhead department labeled. Yeah, I know. Luggage. Use what you have where you are. are because where you are answers live.

And maybe it doesn't fix the problem overnight. But I promise you, it'll get you closer to a solution than the obstacle you've unknowingly transformed into a seven-foot-eight, four-handed monster with razor sharp teeth. You have this. You can slay this dragon and come out on top. Just one, believe it, and two, open your eyes. That combination seems to work. Miracles.

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to truly succeed is to cut off the lifelines. It's to commit to the road filled with adversity and struggle and hardship, but that leads to that which is meaningful. Over the weekend, I was invited to join my friend Evan Carmichael and his mastermind to talk a little bit about YouTube and my experience with it, my progression over the years. And it was a blast, incredible group, some amazing conversation. And I want to share a moment in particular that stuck out to me. I was talking about essentially the journey from zero subscribers to where I am now,

some tips and flexion points along the way. And, you know, I pulled up behind me this chart that shows basically seven years of minimal growth, right? Starting in 2014, going all the way up to 2021. where suddenly you see that flat line spike, right? The channel sort of leaps to the next stratosphere, 4x, then 5x, then 10x, then 20x. After years of consistency, you see this sort of exponential curve. In my point is, you know, I didn't change my craft at all.

I was speaking and sharing stories the same way that I always had, right? The way that I'd love to do it. What changed was the packaging. It was the titling. the thumbnail images and the branding, stuff that because I enjoyed and was immersed so deeply in the creative process that I kind of ignored, right? All that stuff was an afterthought, which is funny when you think about it, right, to work so hard on something and then to sort of mail in or not pay attention to the marketing component that opens the door to

what you're offering. So that would flip the switch. And, you know, I was thinking the group would want to dive fully into it. Okay, Eddie, what were those thumbnail adjustments? What was the titling? What was the branding that you did? But to my surprise, people were far more interested in, Eddie, how the hell did you not quit during seven years of minimal growth? How did you do that? Were you tempted to quit?

Did it cross your mind? And so I've been thinking more and more about the question. And I think there are a variety of reasons. didn't really give an in-depth answer at the mastermind. So I'm going to share now and see if I can unpack this a little bit. First and foremost, I genuinely love what I do. I saw those seven years every day getting up to dive into this as a chance to do something truly meaningful.

I felt in my own personal world like I was doing something that mattered. And to me, that's foundational. You know, my metric wasn't necessarily YouTube numbers. I mean, I was aware, don't get me wrong, but I would just be excited when I finished a speech if I felt it was powerful. You know, my game was trying to move myself to tears playing back something I created.

If it was powerful to me, that would be a W. Maybe it won't get millions of views, but I know this is good, right? It's like the Oprah metaphor I've used before. When Oprah walks into a bakery and declares it amazing, suddenly everyone hears Oprah and wants the cakes and the donuts or whatever's in the bakery. That doesn't mean the bakery suddenly got amazing overnight. It just means it was discovered.

The baker knew he or she was making good stuff. They've been following that course all along. And so that same idea pulled me through. Second, as I said in the intro, I didn't leave the door cracked at all. I knew this is what I was going to do. this is the arena. I was going to continuously attempt to improve in, and I was either going to be poor doing this or successful doing this, but I was going to do it. And so that saved a lot of internal deliberation when something I created, quote unquote, failed, or the result was

underwhelming. There's nothing for me to discuss. I'd have bad days, absolutely. There were days where I felt so down on myself that, you know, I couldn't get out of bed, right? Few and far between, but it happened. Felt like I was letting my family down at times. I felt like I was a disappointment. Felt like I was losing some imaginary race. All part of the process.

But here's what I always did. I recovered and kept going. I regained perspective. I got on the phone with people that mattered to me. I recalibrated and I continued on, right? You take your L's. That's life. You give yourself time to cope when you're down, whatever, right?

But you carry on. You give yourself a chance. I think part of this mentality comes from being on the rowing team or crew team in college. I wasn't the greatest by any stretch. But I learned to suffer. I learned that to win means you have to get your ass kicked. It's just how it goes. And I'm sure that was valuable, you know, when the race course changed from 2,000 meters on the water to the creative slash entrepreneurial space.

Suffering does not mean you win, but a refusal to suffer ensures you will lose. Next, I focused on adding value, right? You can't skip that. There has to be an exchange of value. And I was getting messages from people saying, Eddie, your work, help me. It wasn't a substantial influx of people reaching out, but there's an idea that if you can help one person, you can help one million people.

It's not a can I do it question. It's a logistics question. It's a scaling question. Which means it's just a matter of time. Right? It was all just tying to the self-belief, understanding that there was a way to scale that value. When you approach your mission, not with,

is it possible, but how do I make it happen? you drastically increase your odds and anything you do. Next, I believed, and this is perhaps the most important, you know, that I was always one decision away from a totally different life, one creation away from that change that I've been looking for. And, you know, when you believe this and failure occurs, the mind simply asks, okay, what's next? Almost like, you know, imagine you're shooting three-pointers.

There's a rack of basketballs next to you. You miss a shot. Okay, you're probably not going to break down, right? Start weeping, convince yourself to take up soccer. No, you're going to reach over, grab the next ball, and shoot again. The possibility of what's next trumps the previously missed shot because of the opportunity, because it's there, because it's tangible, because you just have to pick it up and fire away again.

And life provides, using the same metaphor, an endless rack of basketballs. It will allow you to shoot as many shots as you're willing to shoot. The next one could be the one that falls. And every rep increases that likelihood. Just like your next creation could be the one that changes everything. Lastly, there was a continued commitment to adjust. See, if you're not winning, if you're falling short, short, yet you continue to do the same thing over and over and over again, you're not going to

improve, right? It's continuously showing up, its commitment, its consistency, but there has to be a willingness to evolve. There has to be some type of learned advantage. So next time you show up, you're a little bit smarter, a little bit more intelligent. It's that commitment to try adjust, try adjust. try adjust that ultimately, you know, over time compounds into something bigger than the sum of its parts. They're just saying you can't stop someone who refuses to quit.

I think that's right on the money. But it's important to note, I think implied in that quote, is that the person doesn't just keep trying to, you know, jam that square peg into the round hole. No, they're asking every day, what's one little thing I can do better? When I re-approach it next time, how can I be a little smarter? That's the magic. So yeah, I totally get why that graph prompted so many questions. When you look back in totality, it looks huge. But really, it was just a dude every day doing what he loved,

making little adjustments over time with no plan B. That's all. Taking the setbacks in stride, always thinking about the next creation. And what's even more exciting to me is that this is not some remarkable skill set. It's not some, you know, powerhouse ability I was born with. Anyone can commit to a process. And even better news, right? If you utilize your resources, seek help and guidance from those who have been down the same road,

your exponential growth can occur, you know, way faster than seven years. Just don't leave that door