Why Most Relationships Fail (And How to Break the Cycle) — Yung Pueblo

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Dr. Michael Gervais

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🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

What are the three things you need to know to love better?

This week, we’re joined by Yung Pueblo — a meditator, poet, bestselling author, and one of the most impactful modern-day wisdom teachers whose work is grounded in lived experience.

Diego shares his deeply personal journey: from hitting rock bottom in his early twenties to rebuilding his life through Vipassana meditation, emotional honesty, and the daily discipline of inner work. Together, we explore what it means to heal, how to let go of reactivity, and how real love is shaped through compassion, kindness, and growth.

In this powerful conversation, Yung Pueblo reveals:

The 3 things you need to know to love better
How emotional maturity is built through repetition and presence
Why meditation changed his life — and how it can support yours
What “letting go” really means
How to build relationships rooted in healing, not pain

This one’s for anyone on the path of self-discovery, deeper love, or emotional transformation.

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0:00.0	When you get into a relationship, you are going to see everything you're good at and everything you're not good at.
0:05.2	And it's going to be devastatingly clear. You kind of have to embrace the journey. What are the three things that you need to know to love better? I think if you feel like you're in a rut, especially within yourself and your relationship, you need to figure out a way to break the pattern. And I think in the act of doing something new, you can see yourself a little bit differently and see hopefully the thing that you've been ignoring that you know you probably
0:24.2	should do. Welcome back. We're welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast where we dive into the minds
0:30.5	of the world's greatest thinkers and doers. I am your host, Dr. Michael Jervais, by trade and training
0:36.2	a high-performance psychologist.
0:37.8	Now, the idea behind these conversations is simple, to sit with the
0:41.1	extraordinaries and to learn, to really learn about how they work from the inside out.
0:46.2	So the key to solving any argument is a very specific type of compassion where you can step
0:51.1	outside of your perspective to see the perspective of another person.
0:54.7	Diego Perez, known as the pen name Young Pueblo, is a meditator, bestselling author,
1:00.0	and modern day wisdom teacher whose work is grounded in lived experience. In this conversation,
1:06.1	he opens up about hitting rock bottom and the journey of rebuilding his life from the inside out.
1:11.8	When I got to college, I started just using drugs and alcohol as a way to get away from
1:17.1	myself as fast as possible. But I was also slowly killing myself.
1:23.5	We explore what the work really looks like and how emotional strength is built for repetition and honesty.
1:29.7	When you start really paying attention to your emotional history, there's going to be a lot of things in there that you like and that you don't like.
1:35.3	So moving into that with self-acceptance feels really important.
1:39.2	As you listen, the invitation here is to reflect on your own patterns.
1:43.7	What are the things that you need to let go of?
1:45.7	And what are the things you need to learn?
1:47.4	Now with that, let's jump into this week's conversation with Young Pueblo.
1:55.9	All right, Young Pueblo.
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