Hi guys, it's Tony Robbins. You're listening to Habits and Hustle. Crush it.

I'm excited about this podcast because this guy is just so popular, but because he's so popular because he has such wisdom in only 35 years of living.

It's pretty amazing. So it's Diego Perez, otherwise known as, I'm sorry

if I pronounced it incorrectly, but young Pueblo. Perfect. I said it well, right? Perfect.

Yes. Good. And I'm going to quickly read this bio. It's a quick one. So it's Diego Perez is a

meditator and a number one New York Times bestselling author,

who is widely known on social media through his pen name, Young Pueblo. Online is an audience of

over three million people. You've sold over a million books worldwide already? Yeah. Damn. And it's

also been translated into over 25 languages. His writing focuses on the power of self-healing,

creating healthy relationships and the wisdom that comes

when we truly work on knowing ourselves.

And now his fourth book, The Way Forward is coming out.

So congratulations, by the way.

Thank you so much.

No, thank you for being here.

I was saying to you outside, like people have been like telling me to get you on this podcast. Oh, it's so nice. You know, it's true. You're like very, like people love you. Yeah, you know, it's funny because it only, it only, I can only feel how big things have gotten when I leave the woods. Because my, my wife and I live in the middle of nowhere, so life could not be more mundane and normal. Really? Yeah, we live in this tiny little town, 2,000 people, acres between neighbors, and like... Was that intentional? Oh, yeah, yeah. We used to live in New York City for about seven years, but we've been up in the woods for about three years now. So why did you move to the woods? I think it felt like where I was in terms of young Pueblo and writing and interfacing with publishers and all of that, it felt like we made the connections that we needed. And because New York City is the type of place where being there can help you depending on so many different parts of your career, like where you're at or what you're trying to do. And I was able to meet a lot of people that opened a lot of doors for me and just, you know, served me in such profound ways. And then I felt like we were both just missing nature. Like we were, we were tired of the cement. Yeah. Just concrete, concrete. And, but being out in the woods, having a garden, like, seeing the deer every day, like, just being around. These baby foxes will come and, like, they'll, like, their babies will be born under our porch, like, for a month or every summer. We get to see them grow for, like, a few weeks before they move on. Like, these are the type of things that you can't really get in the city. Absolutely not so what did you say when you like leave what happens you get do do people come up to you do they recognize you do they know who you are very rarely very rarely because like i don't i don't promote my face that much it's only when i go on podcast tours and some of them are filmed then you know i'll share a clip every now and then, or if I, you know, get to be on TV or

something, I'll share a clip. But other than that, all you see is black and white. Totally.

Just what I'm writing. You're so wise, though. I got to say, so do you have a background in writing

and journalism? No. Nothing. Zero. Yeah. I honestly never thought I'd be a writer. never thought that my life would go in this direction. It honestly just all comes from decreasing the density and heaviness of the mind through meditating. It wasn't until like my third meditation course when I was like, oh, I should write. And then I started picking up the skill from there.

So before that, you were not doing any of this. Like in high school, you weren't writing. Never, never. It was never my strength. I got like, you know, bees and English class and all that. I like to read, but not like more than, you know, the biggest readers or anything. Nothing like unique like that. The only thing is just, it's, I think all the

hours of meditation that I've done have kind of shifted my mind in a way where the creativity

just opens up. It's amazing. It really is amazing because like, okay, where's the book I have? Oh,

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