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Own Or Be Owned is about building a business that makes more money without needing more of you. Grab your FREE ticket to the live launch, get our scaling tool, and enter for a shot at $1 MILLION in cash and prizes: https://contrarianthinking.biz/bigdeal-yung-pueblo You’ve been telling yourself the same story: you need more time to start meditating, the perfect conditions to find peace, or for everything to settle before clarity comes. But the only thing between you and the life you want may be believing you need something you don’t already have. Yung Pueblo is a bestselling author with millions of followers who has spent more than a year of his life in silent meditation retreats and meditates two hours every day. In this episode, you'll learn: Why pain has a magnetic force that can pull you toward evolution or trap you in darkness, and how building awareness through meditation creates the spacious mind you need to choose skillfully The slow down framework: how pausing before you react gives you the space to transmute defensive impulses into productive action, and why your first reaction is never the real you Why Yung Pueblo meditates two hours every day no matter what and how spending more than a year of his life in silent retreats taught him that the breath and the body give you total access to all the wisdom in the universe How to tell the difference between ego and intuition: ego is snappy, loud, and mental, while intuition feels bodily, calm, and like waves repeatedly pointing you toward the same direction The don't grab anything principle: how observing everything that arises without grabbing onto any story or emotion reveals that all pain eventually passes away, and why letting go is healing but never a one-time event Pre-order Yung Pueblo's new book "Journey: The Year That Changes Everything" here: https://yungpueblo.com/journey ___________ (00:00:00) Introduction: The Burnout Trap and the Power of Saying No (00:00:31) The Tattoo Test: What Resonates Most With Millions (00:01:28) The 60-Day Silent Retreat: 14,000 Hours of Meditation (00:02:57) Obsession vs Focus: The Healthier Path to Success (00:07:43) Slow Down: Breaking Bad Patterns Through Awareness (00:09:04) The Hurricane Years: How Meditation Saved His Marriage (00:12:39) The Work That Nobody Wants to Hear: Relationships Require Problem Solving (00:13:37) Your Habits Are the Paint: Designing Life From the Inside Out (00:14:26) Waiting Doesn't Get You Anywhere: The Momentum Principle (00:17:05) The 80 Percent Rule: When Good Enough Is Actually Perfect (00:18:56) Gratitude for the Basics: Good Water and Silly Dads (00:20:22) Purpose Is Where Talent Meets Intuition (00:21:39) The Five-Star Life Trap: Why Easy Is Making Us Miserable (00:22:33) There Is No Making It: The Constant Stream of Ups and Downs (00:23:17) Following Your Intuition: The Courage to Close Chapters (00:24:50) Self-Acceptance vs Self-Improvement: Holding Both Truths (00:25:41) Attachment Creates Stress: The Enemy of Adaptability (00:32:44) Ego Dissolution and the Visceral Fear of Letting Go (00:34:50) Trauma Drives Success: The Scarcity Imprint (00:36:19) Intuition vs Ego: How to Tell the Difference (00:37:29) Don't Grab Anything: The 60-Day Strategy That Changed Everything (00:43:43) The Gossip Rule: Dave Ramsey's No Second Chances Policy (00:45:35) The AI Meat Box: Holding On to Humanity in a Robotic World (00:51:18) Journey: The Year That Changes Everything (00:52:19) The Best Energy: Never Using Your Hurt to Hurt Others ___________ MORE FROM BIGDEAL 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@podcastbigdeal 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bigdeal.podcast 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@big.deal.pod MORE FROM CODIE SANCHEZ 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@codiesanchezct 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/codiesanchez 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@realcodiesanchez OTHER THINGS WE DO 🌐 Our community: https://contrarianthinking.typeform.com/to/WBztXXID 📰 Free newsletter: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3XWLlZp 📚 Biz buying course: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3NhjGgN 🏠 Resibrands: https://resibrands.com/ 💰 CT Capital: https://contrarianthinking.biz/4eRyGOk 🏦 Main St Hold Co: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3YfGa8u Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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