This is synchronicity. This is synchronicity.

My guest this week is Diego Rivera. You know him as Young Pueblo. He is an Instagram poet writer. I mean, I say Instagram. I lead with Instagram because that's how I found out about him. That's where he has a large audience. But he's really just a writer and a poet and someone who uses words wisely to affect positive change.

That's a simple way of saying that.

I've had him one before.

He's great.

He wrote a book called In Word.

Go check that out at ideally your local bookstores, Barnes and Nobles even, just any place

with physical books,

but of course it's available everywhere and you can get that.

Really highly recommend it.

It's a very kind of centering tool that if you kind of need some centering, it's a good thing to have.

We talk about a lot of stuff in this episode. I say that

everyone, how can you not talk about a lot of stuff in an hour? But you know, especially with me,

I'm trying to jam-packing topics into that time. So we really do cover a lot of ground. But one of the

probably most important aspects of what we spoke about

is this idea of, at what point do you say, I am a teacher? I am someone who has accumulated

knowledge or wisdom, and now I will bestow that wisdom upon other people or, you know, have some either financial component of saying,

hey, I created a course or going to a retreat or something like that. Where is that line? How does it

work? How should it work? How does it actually work? And I always think about this issue. I mean,

how can you not? Like, I think just even my, you know,

beginning forays into trying to figure out how to monetize podcasts and a network and all

of these things from from multiple different angles for going on, geez, you know, five or six years,

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