Finding Joy in the Present Moment

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

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Transcript

Welcome and Life Updates

Speaker 1 0:09

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 1:06

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 2:27

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 3:11

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 3:51

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

The Power of Gratitude

Speaker 1 4:30

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 .

Speaker 1 5:02

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 6:00

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 6:43

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 7:46

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 8:45

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 10:43

I'm going to give you different examples . Let's

Building a Life You Don't Escape From

Speaker 1 10:45

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 11:48

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 12:44

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 13:33

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 14:44

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 15:21

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 15:59

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 16:33

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 17:01

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 .

Speaker 1 17:21

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

Finding Purpose in Daily Living

Speaker 1 18:17

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 18:25

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 19:05

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 20:08

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 .

Speaker 1 21:29

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 22:02

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 23:03

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 .

Speaker 1 23:52

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

Breaking Free from Others' Opinions

Speaker 1 24:30

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 25:12

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 26:29

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 28:15

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 29:41

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 30:26

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 31:17

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

Podcast Journey and Opportunities

Speaker 1 31:45

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 32:20

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 32:40

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 33:46

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 .

Speaker 1 34:26

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 .

Speaker 1 35:29

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 .

Speaker 1 36:12

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 .

Speaker 1 36:53

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 .

Speaker 1 37:22

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 .

Speaker 1 38:10

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 .

Speaker 1 39:01

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 .

Speaker 1 40:06

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 .

Speaker 1 40:38

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 ,

Final Thoughts and Appreciation

Speaker 1 41:10

but we're getting closer to that .

Speaker 1 41:11

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 .