Saying No to Your Past, Embracing Growth, and Becoming Lighter with Yung Pueblo

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Diego Perez, widely known by his pen name Yung Pueblo, joins Forrest to explore how we can deepen our personal practice, refine the mind, break old patterns, relax the self, 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.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome to Being Well, I'm Forest Hanson.
0:10.5	If you're new to the podcast, thanks for joining us today, and if you've listened before,
0:14.3	welcome back.
0:15.3	Today, I'm joined by a very special guest, a poet, author, meditator, teacher, and permanent
0:20.9	student who is widely known through his pen name Young Pueblo, Diego Perez.
0:26.0	Diego's writing focuses on how we can grow and change for the better, create healthy
0:30.4	relationships, and come to truly know ourselves.
0:33.4	He has an enormous audience online, and is the best-selling author of several books, including
0:38.6	Inward, Clarity and Connection, and his newest book, Lighter, which was recently released.
0:44.0	So Diego, thanks for joining me today.
0:45.8	How are you doing?
0:46.8	I'm doing really well.
0:47.8	I'm really happy to be here and excited for where our conversation will go.
0:52.4	Yeah, same.
0:53.4	I've been really looking forward to this.
0:55.2	I've enjoyed your work for a long time.
0:57.2	I first bumped into it on Instagram, as I would imagine many people do.
1:01.4	And when I first encountered it, I just saw the pen name.
1:03.9	I just saw Young Pueblo, which translates to Young People in English.
1:08.4	And I'm wondering what that name really meant to you and why you chose it?
1:11.9	Yeah, it's a name that when my Instagram account was just a personal account, and I signed
1:17.4	on, I think in 2012, it just immediately came to me.
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