Carlos Granados Podcast

Finding Joy in the Present Moment

• Carlos Granados • Season 1 • Episode 38

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Carlos shares powerful reflections on finding contentment in daily life and the importance of building a life you don't need to escape from. He explores the paradox of always looking toward the future while missing the joy available in the present moment.

• Update on his grandmother's ongoing health challenges with congestive heart failure
• The perspective shift that comes when health becomes your primary concern
• Why time seems to fly by so quickly and how to counteract this feeling
• The importance of building a life at home that you're happy to return to after traveling
• Finding purpose in daily activities through developing passions and hobbies
• How comparison steals joy and prevents us from appreciating our progress
• The theory that those who fear judgment most might be the most judgmental themselves
• Personal story about turning down an opportunity to appear on a major podcast
• The value of organic growth versus seeking external validation
• Practicing gratitude as a daily discipline that transforms your perspective

Thank you for subscribing to my YouTube channel, watching in 4K, and listening on all audio platforms. We're getting closer to 1 million views which is incredible! All glory to the Lord as we continue pushing forward together.


Speaker 1:

what it do, baby. Yeah, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode of the carlos granados podcast. I am your host, carlos granados. Uh, welcome back to the cg podcast. Um, today, I don't know exactly what we're going to talk about, but stick. Don't know exactly what we're going to talk about, but stick around to find out what we're going to talk about, because I don't even know what we're going to speak about today. I have some ideas, but necessarily I don't have a set plan, and this is why I love to have my own podcast and my own channel. You know, you get to do what you want to do and hopefully you guys find it interesting or intriguing, right, and maybe you learn. You know a thing or two here and there, right? But before I begin, I want to thank everybody who always supports me, who supports my channel and all the audio platforms, and also who supports me through my YouTube channel. You can watch this video in 4K and also you can listen through Apple Podcasts, amazon Music and, of course, spotify. Yes, listen.

Speaker 1:

Quick update on life situations that have been going on. I know last time I mentioned to you guys about my grandmother, my abuelita. She is doing better, but we still haven't managed or at least the doctors haven't managed a plan when it comes to managing her health, so we won't keep going back to the ER and staying in the hospital. Right, she is suffering again. If you guys weren't part of the last podcast or you didn't listen to it, she's suffering from congestive heart failure. Um, essentially, um, we still haven't gotten to the point where, uh, the medications can manage her symptoms long enough, where she can just keep going to a doctor's appointment and they, you know, they can see her levels, how she's feeling, uh, and things of that nature. So then we can just, uh, you know, keep going to doctor's appointments and then stay out of the hospital. Well, for a while, that has been a struggle. That has been a struggle for several months. Right, we haven't gotten to a managing position yet where, you know, she stays at a hospital. She was actually back in the hospital, um, last week and this time around she was only there for about five days. So, you know, that was a.

Speaker 1:

That was a little bit of a struggle for everybody because, you know, my mom has to go over there and stay with my grandma and of course she, um, you know it's very stressing, very fatiguing, staying at the hospital. Um, I have to work, my siblings have to go to school, they, we all have different responsibilities and kind of having to manage those, and without our mom at home, you know it gets more difficult. I'm not gonna lie to you, especially because we have a traditional household. You know what I mean. But we get through it. You know we help my mom as much as we can with, with my grandma and other things, and I think as a, as a family, we're doing, we're tight in that sense. You know we were doing well so, but grandma's back home and then you know we're trying to manage those symptoms as well.

Speaker 1:

I heard a thing lately I forgot when it was, I think I saw it on TikTok. It says you have 99 problems until it's your health, then you only have one, and I was like, hmm, that hit home. And you know, know, but we're not. I'm not trying to get you guys to have. Uh, how do I say this? Um, I don't want you guys to be like, oh, this is a downer podcast, no, no, no, we're just gonna, you know, just giving you guys an update on what's been going on, what's been going on life. I appreciate you guys who have shown love. Uh, you guys heard my podcast last week in regards to my, to my grandma. You guys show me a lot of love and send me messages, whether it's through the YouTube comments or personal messages through my socials. So I appreciate that very much.

Speaker 1:

As far as my life goes, everything is all right Could be better, but I was blessed. You know, I think having an attitude of being grateful is always important. The Bible always talks about having an attitude of being, you know, grateful every day, every single day, regardless of what it is right, being thankful for what you have. I think in life, we're always having to move forward and always thinking ahead of time. You know, have you ever thought about why is it that time flies so fast? Well, because everything we're trying to achieve, or everything we're looking forward to, of course, is in the future. So we're always looking at the next thing. We're always looking at the next week, next month, next year. You know, think about, when you plan for a travel, how far ahead you have to travel right, especially if it's internationally right. Typically, people plan around two to three months, maybe more, uh, depending, um, on the type of person. You are Right, but typically you plan months ahead of time, right.

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And if you aren't happy with, or at least your life here at home, you feel like it's not the best, right, and you're always trying to leave the country to make yourself feel better, right, go to go to another country, go travel to feel more peaceful. Go travel to feel more joyful, forgetting about your life that you have here. Then you know it's always, I feel like with a lot of people, it's a cycle. For me, I feel like it's been a blessing going through what I've gone through, because I have a different perspective in life. When I'm here and I feel, let's say, I feel okay with my health, right, just, okay, I'm like man, I'm grateful because I couldn't be worse and I can be worse, right. People just say that, no, but until you actually really go through it, you're like no, no, no, I could actually be worse and this is not even worth complaining for.

Speaker 1:

So I look at life a little bit different. I look at life with, again going back to my point being more grateful, sometimes even getting more productive, being happy about the little things that you have here, and I always wanted to make sure that I built my life here at home. By the way. I don't mean just physically, you know, just here at my house, but like with my job, with my friends, with my church, community, family, all the above right, I feel like when you embrace the little things every day, you get to be more happy, right. You stop worrying about the next thing in life and you actually get to focus on what's going on.

Speaker 1:

Naturally, because of the way society functions and even as humans, the way we function, we always are thinking ahead of schedule every time. You know why? Because your job, right, you're always planning ahead of time, right, I had the fiscal year, the calendar year, I mean, you name it and everything that you want to become one day is in the future, right, but if you never reflect on how far you've gotten, then you're never going to be content, right. You're never going to have that peace that you want, right? So, having that mentality every day, it's hard to rewire it in your brain, but I think you guys should practice it. If you're constantly, always having to feel like you're always stuck, does that make sense tomorrow to better yourself in the future? That's important.

Speaker 1:

But the example that I give you with the traveling a lot of people always uh, that travel a lot, always tell me that, oh my, I just want to get away from this. I'm like, damn, you want to get away from your life. You know, so bad is work, that bad is your is is. You know what's going on, that you have. You want to get away from what you've built here. You know, to go out of the country, like, for example, if I go out of the country, man, for like more than 10 days, I want to come back home. I want to come back home. And it's not about the fact that I don't like to get out of my comfort zone, no, it's just I think I have such a good life here that I miss it when I'm, you know, after 10 days, two weeks, you're right, I miss being back home. Now, could I go and do you know certain things? You know, if my health was better, of course, and do all this and that? Sure, it's amazing and it's great, and I hope one day that I am able to do that and I know I will. It's just at the moment I feel like I'm building the life here at home.

Speaker 1:

So, whenever I travel or I go out or go to another state or another country, you're happy to come back to what you have here right and again, that can be, whether it's financially, what can be your job, your family, your community, the church. You go to your spiritual life right, be content with that. But if you're always trying to look for ways out, then maybe you should try to change what you have here first before you go out, right, before you try to concentrate on the next thing or the next big thing, because if not, it's always going to be that rotation, that cycle, right, a revolving door right, you enter one way, you come out another way, but then when you return, it's the same thing in the same cycle, right, it keeps going back and forth. And I've noticed that in a lot of people, like, think about this. How many times have you said you went to a vacation or you went to do something and you're like it's time to go back to reality? Think about that. I'm like, is your reality that bad? And again, maybe because I've gone through so much um in life and my health issues and I'm not saying you guys haven't, by the way, you, you guys, that's not what I'm trying to say here, just from my perspective maybe because I've learned to embrace here home better than most people I've embraced, embracing life every day. Right, the little things in life that you don't appreciate, right, that changes your perspective in life. It changes so much. You become so grateful, right, it doesn't become well, it becomes more. You feel like it's a privilege to do certain things, right. Imagine if everything you did felt like a privilege, right, think about this perspective right here, ladies and gentlemen. If, oh, okay, good examples.

Speaker 1:

I'm going to give you different examples. Let's say, driving a car. You don't think about that. You get in the car, you drive a car, right. Well, there's people out there that can't do that. Right. What about getting up walking without feeling any pain? There's people in the world that are hurting to even do that. Falling asleep right. There's people in the world that are hurting to even do that Falling asleep right. There's people that are hurting or that can't fall asleep whenever they want, take naps whenever they want. I'm one of them, by the way. But just different examples. Just think about everything that you do in life, right. Speaking, hearing, hearing right for the people that are hearing. Or people that are watching me on YouTube, watching, right. Think about that. There's people that can't do that. And when you start thinking about the little things that you have providing having a job being having the ability to go to work right. Having the ability to to spend time with family right.

Speaker 1:

You are in a spot in life where you can be grateful for so many things, but typically, as humans, we aren't right, because it's always the next thing, it's always the next big thing. It's never, you know, it's never the I. I'm not where I used to be. Uh, what was what's the saying here? Um, um, I'm not where I want to be. What's the saying here? I'm not where I want to be, but I'm glad and grateful that I'm not where I used to be. It's never that right, it's always the next thing. And listen, and that can be a vicious cycle, because that's how time keeps flying us by, because we never embrace the moment. And the time that we do embrace the moment, it's again when we're off of work, when we're on vacation, right, when we want to do whatever we want to do, which is great.

Speaker 1:

But if what you're building on your day-to-day life is not something that you're content with, then maybe you can rewire that and change that right. Or maybe you can look into hobbies. There's people out there that don't have any hobbies. I'm like, what do you do with your life? And again, not judging, that's not my place to judge but like, is there anything else that like intrigues you, right? Is it just your life? Just work, right? Is that what your purpose is in? You know what I mean, where you can be, let go anytime and you can be so replaceable so easily, because I'm pretty sure there's people that are probably better at what you do, because there's always somebody better out there, better than you. You can be replaceable. And you're telling me this is what you know, you're, you're trying to focus on the most.

Speaker 1:

Um, what was that other saying? Uh, that I heard recently too, was all the rifts that have been going in the, in the government. Uh, you should work to live, not live to work. Right, think about that. You got to work so you can live, but you don't work so you can live, but you don't live so you can work. And maybe changing something up, right, getting into new things, that there's a lot of people that have gotten into my, a lot of friends that have got into running, and running marathons or not, marathons for the 5ks, you know, the 10ks, uh, half marathons, right, and of that nature which is beautiful to see, because you know, besides your regular life, you you can practice. Trying to get better at running, and obviously that part of your health will be would be great. I hope so. Right, or maybe getting into painting, um, photography, something, man, something else that keeps you wanting to do and explore things while you're doing life right, and, again, it keeps you more content with what you're doing in life right.

Speaker 1:

A lot of people have asked me in the past you know, how do you do all of this? How do you do the podcast, the YouTube, you're learning piano, you play video games, you stream, and then I see you doing this, that and the other, and I'm like well, I have a passion for a lot of things that you do right, because it's important to have a passion. And this is why I'm telling you guys find a hobby, find something right, but obviously see if you become passionate about it. Sometimes you may start a hobby and you're like let me try something else, cool, then try something else, see what, what happens. Um, and for me, I have a passion. I have a passion for for speaking in the mic and sharing real life with you guys.

Speaker 1:

I'm not a professional at this? I don't. I don't even think I do this very well, if I'm being honest. Um, you know, compared to what other people do but I don't compare myself to them, right? Comparison is a thief of joy. I do what I do and hopefully the people that listen to me and watch me, they learn something from myself, right, that I can share and I can give back to me. That's very purposeful and it keeps me happy, right. And going back to my point, it's something that I enjoy, something that I feel like it's a blessing that I'm able to do. I'm able to go through life and speak on it and then hopefully, affect other people, right, I'm learning the piano. I'm learning.

Speaker 1:

You know, one of the hardest things I've ever done in my life is trying to learn the piano. It's so hard to me. First of all, I've gotten, you know, my fingers are jammed for playing sports, so it's hard to be elusive with my fingers. I literally get stuck sometimes and notes, learning how to read the freaking music. It's a struggle, my friend like it's one of the hardest things that I've done, but it's a challenge, it's something that keeps me wanting to strive more. Do I practice it every day, no, but when I do, I make sure that I always have this feeling of I'm passionate about it. I want to get better.

Speaker 1:

I want to say that one day I learned an instrument not for anybody else, for myself. I was able to do it. I was always intrigued by instruments and now that I'm, you know, have the time and able to do it I'm taking it slow, but eventually, one day, I know, I'll get better at it right, I play, you know, the video games, all that stuff. I mean, you name it. I can tell you so many things, but I feel like these are the things that have always kept me grounded and you know I'm like okay, there's certain things that I can concentrate on, right.

Speaker 1:

So, to let you more in on my life the piano we've talked about it. The YouTube content creation, the podcast right, so you can do two or three things there. Work, of course, which is my full-time job, all right. All right, I need a job and I need to do well so I can do the rest of the things that I'm doing now right. And, of course, my faith, right.

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So five things that I have currently that I feel like, if you want to include my health in that, which is six, which is another day-to-day thing, but that's fine, no problem, right, but there's six things, for example, that I focus on on a daily. That gives me different purpose, a different passion. I try to manage and handle that differently. All of that, and all of that to say, is because now I have something that I look forward to in my day to day. Right, I look forward to getting better at certain things. Right, I don't just go to work and be like, oh, work, no, even at work there's some challenges that I try to put myself in or situations where I'm like, can I get better at this? And I'm always doing certain things so it can affect my future, and I think about my future a lot, but I don't try to forget what I have now and how far I've gotten. Does that make sense? So let's say, those six things keep me content, keep me happy, keep me with a purpose, right?

Speaker 1:

I've always discussed this with people, you know. Do you know why you were placed here on earth? Right? Is your purpose just to live? And I don't believe so. So I think we all have a different purpose, and some purposes in the eyes of society might be bigger, but some purposes, in the eyes of society, might look smaller, but what is your purpose, you know might look smaller, but what is your purpose, you know. So, putting all that together to say, to have something that's constant here and being grateful for the things that you can do and, you know, always looking forward to the things you can get better in doing.

Speaker 1:

I feel like it's a good place to be in so you can have peace, happiness in what you're doing on your day-to-day life. So, whenever you go, you know traveling, and you know look always forward to the future. When that day arrives, yeah, you're happy and it's an amazing time, it's an amazing thing in general, but you will feel a little bit different when you're away from the things that you do very often or you're trying to achieve very often, you know, but if your life that you have here at home it's never, um, a place where you have peace, uh, where you have joy, uh, if anything it's, you know you're you're driving yourself crazy with a lot of stress and, uh, a lot of things. Maybe you should change that up. Maybe you need to take a break, and I'm not saying go on vacation, but you can. If that's your definition of a break. Fine, but take a break and try to enjoy yourself here.

Speaker 1:

You know, and I promise you, eventually, when you, when you start embracing the little things, you will get more into this mindset of you. Know, I like here, you know, and I'm not saying this to say, oh, doing all the other things that I said are bad or anything like that. No, it's just I feel like people need to be more happy and content and have peace, have more joy, embrace which is a big word, embrace what you have now and what you're doing now, and more often than not, try to look back and be like you know I'm not where I used to be. You know I've gotten a little bit better, I've done a little bit more, or at least I'm not where I used to be. You know I've gotten a little bit better, I've done a little bit more, or at least I'm happy my family, whatever your purpose might be, whatever your goal might be, but don't always live in the future. Um, you know tomorrow is not promised and sounds cliche, but it's really not. There's a lot of things that from here and tomorrow and other days that can happen. That you know. It changes your life Right, and having a positive and good outlook on life, not letting the little things bother you as much, being chill, being peaceful, embracing it.

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Obviously for me, I do it through through, through Christ. Um, the walk, you know, the faith. Uh, it's hard but I feel like I've gotten better and again I'm not where I used to be. Um, I'm glad I'm not where I used to be, but I have gotten a little better and I could get better. And I think embracing that is appreciating that. It's a blessing. Man, just being grateful, it's a blessing, and I love people watching people that are grateful.

Speaker 1:

As humans, naturally we're going to complain about certain things and what we don't have, because we always want the next thing. But I think you get to a certain point where it's never going to become enough, if that's the way you look at it, and then you're always going to look for the future and by the next time you notice you're going to be old and retired and be like dang, everything I wanted I achieved, but now that I want to embrace it, I wish I would have done it along the way. This is why, when you're going through a struggle, embracing it and being grateful for it, they're blessings because you get to enjoy the struggle in the moment. You get to enjoy the blessing, right, whether it's a positive or you think it's a negative, embracing that moment in time, whatever you're going through it makes it more joyful because you were able to do that through the storm, right through your journey, right, everything is a journey. Everything is a little uh, goals and things of that nature.

Speaker 1:

But don't get me wrong, as humans we're, and, as you know, human beings, we're naturally going to do that, especially the way society has us set up. You know, all of that stuff is is something that you can at least your mindset, not caring about what they think. But what do you think, right? Are you happy? Not what other people are thinking, right, like, like I just mentioned earlier, comparison is a thief of joy and you don't want to compare yourself to other people along your journey, along the way. You don't want to do all that. Concentrate on yourself, right? And if that's a struggle for you, and speak to God, tell him. You know to spot what is the issue as to why you can't get better or you can't let that go.

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Why is it that you care so much about what people think about you, um, and things of that nature. You know, try new things, right? You know, talking about that, I have let me know what you guys think about this. If you guys have made it this far in the podcast, I have a theory and this might not be true all the time, right, so I will put that out there. But, and I feel like there's people out in this world that don't try new things or are afraid or nervous or scared for whatever reason to do put themselves out there. It doesn't matter what, it is right, just do different things, because the first thing they think is what is people going to think about me? What is a certain person going to think about me? What is, um, you know, my family going to think about me? What, if this person is going to think about I don't want them to think this about me. It's always that the other people. It's never, it's never your happiness, right, it's never you know what. Let me give it a try and if I fail or miss, then so be it, that's cool, but I will not care what people think about me.

Speaker 1:

So I say that, right, I feel like people who are afraid to be judged by other people are afraid because If they were Watching other people try and do new things, they will be the ones judging them. Am I, am I making sense here, right? So if person one Is you and person two people right are two and you're afraid of what they think, if the roles were reversed, you would probably be judging them because that is what you do to people, because you know yourself and you don't want to admit this, subconsciously though you would judge. You'd be like I see, this person is trying something new, uh-huh, right, so you hate watch, you know, or maybe you even hate it because you wish that was you. But it's not because you're afraid of what people will think, because you are people. You yourself are people and again, this is not everybody, but I've noticed this in most people.

Speaker 1:

Like, every time I talk about people doing certain things or trying certain things, oh, I don't know. Uh, if, um, it's just people, you know, I don't, I don't want them to, I don't do this because people, it's always people. Bro, I'm like man. Imagine living a life where you always care about what everybody thinks. That's that to me. I can't, I can't, you know it, I, I don't know, I just it doesn't click with me. I'm like man, you're, you're, you're stealing from yourself from having the ability to try new things that one day could take you places or make you happy, or have certain things in life right that you probably would have never had, or get to meet new people that you never would have. Right. But because of what people thought and what people would say is what's stopping you Right? Their opinions. They're not facts, these are opinions. By the way, even those people you're afraid of, some people might not even care, man, so you're afraid of them, not even just having an opinion, possibly having an opinion on what you're doing right. But I promise you, when you cross that line and you keep going forward, there's people that would hate on you or hate watch or dislike or have this to say about that. That would be like damn. I actually respect that Because you kept going. So it actually shifts, because you did something that they probably can't fathom doing.

Speaker 1:

You know, and I feel like there is this thing within people nowadays that are afraid because they will be judged right by other people. Oh, no, I don't want them to. No, no, no, you know what I mean. You don't do you because of the possibility of what people are going to think about you which I think, in my eyes I'm like I get it. There's people that have a lot of insecurities and they need to work on that, but if it's just a sole reason that you know you're gonna be judged and man, you, you're basically everything in life you can be judged for. You know, somebody can always be judgeful, but I promise you that person or those people that do it, are not happy. You know they're blocking their blessings and they're blocking their own blessings by judging other people for what they do, probably the only example. Well, there's a lot of things that I feel like I can talk to you about my life and when it comes to this issue, but even when I started my, my, my YouTube channel and making a podcast, bro, I have no doubt that there was people that looked at me a certain way. Maybe I about certain things, but until you keep going, they're like yo, this actually, this actually is kind of it's kind of cool, he's doing something with it, you know, but because I've never cared about what people thought, it doesn't matter. You know, and this is the thing and talking about just myself, with my quick experience, with my, like, the podcasting or the youtube, all that stuff.

Speaker 1:

A lot of people don't start a podcast. You know why? Because they are afraid that they won't get a certain amount of views. They think they're going to come in here and they have the ability to do blah, blah, blah and the viewers are not intrigued. The listeners are not intrigued and they don't pop off as fast as they think they would and they lose motivation. But why? Because the whole time it wasn't about you, it was about other people, it was about them. So your happiness is coming from what they think and whoever is accepting what you're doing. If that was the case with everybody, we'll be in shambles.

Speaker 1:

But in my case, I don't care, listen. I've always told myself and I have a motto Whether it's five people, ten people, a hundred people, a thousand people, it doesn't matter how many people listen to what I have to say or what I do with my podcast. It doesn't matter how many people listen to what I have to say or what I do with my podcast, but the people that stick around those 550 people. It's better to have those 50 people that are loyal than have, you know, 10,000 people that would just come in and out, because my goal is just it's better to build a small community, have something that you know people can be proud of, even that they're a part of. You know even friends and family that come on this podcast. They can be proud of things of that nature, and whatever other people think, it doesn't, you know, matter.

Speaker 1:

I'm pretty sure there's people surprised that still are. You know, I still put content out when it comes to my podcast and things of that nature. Yeah, but because I've never done it to to my podcast and things of that nature, yeah, but because I've never done it to for, for, um, for the clout. You know, it's never been that and I'm I can probably say that it's never been for that, uh, it's never been for, uh, anything else. Oh, let me give you guys an example. This is, this is actually pretty interesting. I haven't told many people this. I did tell somebody this, this and this is interesting for you guys to know and for you guys to listen to the party. This is pretty cool actually. So I had a very popular podcast reach out to me. Uh, this particular podcast has probably, I'd say, um, millions of views on millions of followers on instagram, millions of followers of subscribers on youtube and, I'm pretty say, millions of views on, millions of followers on Instagram, millions of followers of subscribers on YouTube and, I'm pretty sure, millions of listeners, right, if the trend follows Reached out to me and the admin reached out to me, said, hey, would you like to submit an application so you can be in our podcast?

Speaker 1:

Right? And I said, oh yeah, of course, right, I'm also not willing to grow, right, but listen to the full story. So I end up applying. You know they ask you different questions. Your YouTube channel, you know you put your links and stuff like that, and essentially, I think what your podcast is about.

Speaker 1:

I don't remember very well, but I think this was like last year or some change ago and I'm over here like, oh great, right, so I submit my application. I get a text, you know, several days later saying, hey, you have been approved to be on this podcast. You know these are the dates, blah, blah, blah. But at the end it said but you have to pay a certain amount of money to be on the podcast. And I said, hmm, you have to question. Then, right, think about this. This is an official podcast where famous people have gone. Celebrities what is this called? People that are famous from social media, influencers. So, where I was looking for things of that nature all of them and I'm like I could be part of that, I could say I could be part of that podcast, right, but then I'm like, is so, so I'm going to pay money to be on that podcast and I'm like I can't justify that, right, because it's not.

Speaker 1:

I never started this podcast on my channel to to just be on other people's podcasts. First of all, pay for it, Right, one and two. I'm like it doesn't make sense, Right, but listen to why it doesn't make sense. I actually think the pain for it. It makes sense for the people that are either they have a book, right, they want to expose themselves. Imagine this If you have a book, have a story, you're selling something, a course, whatever. There's something that you want more exposure on and you only pay a certain amount of money to be on it so that you can have all these, all this exposure on, and you only pay a certain amount of money to be on it so that you can have all these, all this exposure. It makes a complete sense.

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I was like, if I was a person that was dealing with that, I'm jumping in that, I'm jumping the pocket, I'm taking it right, which would have been great. But for me, in my podcast, I'm like I I'm not selling anything to people. One, uh, I can say that it would have been cool to be part of such a big podcast. You know why? Because it validates what I'm doing here. It validates what I'm doing with my channel, right, you know, going from a couple of thousand subscribers on YouTube to now being in a platform that is big, has millions of subscribers, millions of followers, yeah, that's intriguing, you know, that's awesome. But I had to sit back and say there's nothing that would benefit me from there. I would just be giving my money out to share my story. Now, could that be something that's justifiable? Maybe, but I do it now already through my platform.

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And the fact that I love the most was that I was validated enough to be in a bid podcast and I told one, I told my several friends. I'm like that means I'm doing something right, if, if there's people that found me somehow, uh, through my socials, you know, asking to for me to be part of a certain podcast, right, and them actually being, uh, reaching out to people with models, a smaller podcast to give them a platform, which I thought was great. By the way, I don't I don't feel offended by the money situation because, again, this can benefit different content creators. It just wasn't for me right. But I can definitely say that I'm doing something well.

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Where they looked at my content and say, hmm, this will be something interesting that we could have and share in our platform with millions of people. That gave me like a peace of mind, saying, all right, you know what you're doing is actually not bad. You know, it's pretty straight how deep they look into my content. I don't think they really did much, but you know, I was still happy that I'm like, okay, I'm doing something right and I'm doing something well. So they gave me some validation Validation, to be honest, that I don't think I really needed, but it's cool to have right Because, again, I don't care about what other people think.

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Their opinion doesn't make me happy. Helping other people with my experience, with the people that I bring on my podcast, the things I talk about on my YouTube channel and all my vulnerability helping them is in helping people in general, even with this conversation makes me happy. That gives me a sense of joy and peace and and and and uh, gratitude. Right, that is. So all of that, to say it was a great possibility. It was.

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I could have. Maybe from there, if my story, one of the um, you know, tiktoks, or instagram reels or youtube shorts pop off, I could have been on other podcasts, possibly intrigue other people you know what I'm saying and maybe could have grown to whatever. But uh, it's never been really necessarily my goal. Now, does it feel good? Yeah, of course, to get noticed to you know again, human nature, how can you not? But at least it gives me more motivation to keep doing what I do, to strive, even if it's a little bit, even if the growth is small. It's small but organic, you know, and small but it's it's. It's a good feeling.

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By the way, if your wife tells you that it must not be a good thing. Wait, I'm sorry, guys, this is, this is. This is the part where I mean I might need to, I might need to cut the podcast right here. That was a joke, by the way, if you guys know me, I'm a clown, I'm a clown. But yeah, man, again, everything we just talked about that was not planned. This was just me yapping um, I'm telling you, I'm getting fluent in japanese, I'm more and more fluent, and I know we went several places with this, uh, but it just comes in the top of my head and I can just freely talk about it. Uh, again, hopefully it helps you guys in some type of way. And, um, that joke still, that still got me.

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But, yeah, man, be happy, have gratitude, um, have something you can be proud of here at home on your day to day, you know. Be grateful for the things that you have, um, uh, things that you're doing. Remember, you're not where you want to be, but you're also not where you used to be, and that is a blessing, because it means you're not where you want to be, but you're also not where you used to be, and that is a blessing because it means you're getting better and you're doing better. And if you haven't heard this from anybody, I will tell you I'm proud of you. And keep going, step at a time, a day at a time, you eventually get there. But don't forget to be graceful and grateful every day. That's something that you know you can always practice. You can always practice gratitude as a thing. You can always practice. And then, of course, build discipline right, the D word and that's not a joke actually like the discipline, discipline, build it. Uh, it's a serious thing. It's something that you can always look into and practice it right. So enough yapping for me today.

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Ladies and gentlemen, I just wanted to come share and, you know, get on the podcast real quick, talk a little bit. I'm actually kind of hungry. I might go eat a little bit right now. But, as always, thank you guys for subscribing to my YouTube channel, for watching this video in 4K, also, if you're listening on all the audio platforms. Thank you guys for listening. Thank you guys for rating my channel, giving it a five star. It's always pretty cool to see that and all the love that I've always received from my YouTube channel and my podcast. That really means a lot. Thank you guys for the love.

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We're getting closer to 1 million views, which is going to be pretty cool. Actually, I've always wondered what it's like to say that you've reached a million views. It probably won't feel like anything, to be honest, but it's always, you know, like that 1 million. It always lingers on a lot of people. Whether it's 1 million subscribers, 1 million dollars, you know, one million views, I don't know. Whatever, I think it's a pretty cool number that I'll probably hopefully one day reach, but we're getting closer to that.

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So it's pretty cool, man, and again that, by the way, wow, that sounded like everything I just said earlier. You know that trumps it, but no, I think it's just cool, I think it's a good feat. You know something to to have and it's just a blessing, it helped it, it it tells me that you know I'm, I'm changing, I'm affecting, uh, a lot of more people in this world. Um, you know, obviously people are intrigued for what I'm doing, uh, things that I have to say, and it's cool. You know, again, it's a blessing. All the glory to the Lord and we keep, you know, keep, pushing forward. So, thank you guys for liking, subscribing, commenting, but, yeah, hopefully see you guys in the next one. As always, peace and love, familia, peace.