Live Show: Yung Pueblo on Relationships, Change, and Mindfulness

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

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🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Forrest is joined by poet and author Diego Perez - better known as Yung Pueblo - for a live conversation recorded at City Arts & Lectures in San Francisco. They reunite the sensitive boys club to talk about how inner work transforms our relationships, what it means to love with an open hand, and the difference between attachment and commitment. Diego shares how his meditation practice reshaped his life and partnership, how he and his wife built a new culture of honesty together, and why real love always shows you what you need to work on. About our Guest: Yung Pueblo is a poet, meditator, and the bestselling author of five books, including How to Love Better: The Path to Deeper Connection Through Growth, Kindness, and Compassion. Key Topics: 0:00: Introduction 4:55: Diego’s personal background, and how he came to meditation 9:25: How meditation affects your relationships 13:40: Attachment vs. commitment, and developing comfort with receiving love 20:50: The student mentality, spiritual arrogance, and ‘don’t know mind’ 26:45: Preventative communication 30:40: Being in a relationship when both partners are constantly evolving 35:55: What happens on a silent retreat 40:45: How “advanced meditators” argue, and how to have a low stakes relationship check-in 47:45: Rebuilding after past hurt 54:50: Diego’s relationship with the internet, and why he goes by Yung Pueblo 59:35: RecapSupport the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. Sponsors Head to fastgrowingtrees.com/BEINGWELL to get 15% off the best deals for your yard. Use BEINGWELL at checkout, and take advantage of their Alive and Thrive Guarantee! Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at shopify.com/beingwell. Go to ZOE.com and find out what ZOE Membership could do for you. Use code WELL10 to get 10% off membership. Get 15% off OneSkin with the code BEINGWELL at https://www.oneskin.co/ Connect with the show: Subscribe on iTunes Follow Forrest on YouTube Follow us on Instagram Follow Forrest on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Visit Forrest's website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to being well. I'm Forrest Hanson.
0:10.1	If you're new to the podcast, thanks for joining us today. And if you've listened before,
0:14.0	welcome back. Today's episode is a special one for me. About a month ago, I was invited to host a
0:19.5	live conversation at City Arts and Lectures
0:22.3	in San Francisco by my friend, poet, author, and longtime meditator Diego Perez.
0:28.0	Diego is better known to most by his pen name, Young Pueblo, and City Arts is an absolute
0:32.7	institution in the Bay Area.
0:35.0	They have hosted so many incredible people over the years, and there were over
0:39.0	1,300 people in attendance. This made it easily the biggest live event that I've ever been a part of,
0:45.3	and the conversation also aired on NPR and over 130 public radio stations around the country.
0:52.5	It was an incredibly unique experience. I was very grateful
0:56.4	to have the opportunity to do it, and I was really proud of it. So I wanted to share it with our
1:01.0	podcast listeners as well. Diego and I had an honest and even at times really very funny conversation
1:07.6	about relationships, change, and what it means to love with an open hand.
1:11.9	Diego shared his personal story, how his meditative practice reshaped both his mind and his
1:16.8	relationships, and he also offered a lot of practical advice from his new book, How to Love
1:21.7	Better. Before we get into the episode, just a quick reminder about subscribing to the podcast
1:26.4	if you haven't subscribed yet. And you can also find us on Patreon if quick reminder about subscribing to the podcast if you haven't subscribed
1:27.8	yet. And you can also find us on Patreon if you would like to support the podcast in other ways.
1:32.3	That's patreon.com slash being well podcast. Here's my conversation with Diego Perez at City Arts
1:39.1	and Lectures. I hope you enjoy it.
1:46.4	Welcome to City Arts and Lectures,
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