Yung Pueblo: The Power of Self-Healing to Thrive in Business and Relationships | Mental Health | YAPClassic

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Diego Perez (1:09)

Collectively, misery has gone out of style.

I grew up really poor. I was being so deeply imprinted with sadness and what I ended up doing was try to numb myself so that I wouldn't have to be aware of my own pain. But when I started meditating, there was this idea of internal liberation, literally the freedom from misery, the misery that we cause ourselves. Then when you, life changes dramatically after that.

Hala Taha (1:34)

If we're dating, how do you think we should choose the person?

Diego Perez (1:38)

It's not so much about the other person, but it's about how you feel when you're with them.

Hala Taha (1:43)

How can we tell if somebody is actually ready to be in a loving relationship?

Diego Perez (1:47)

A lot of that is.

Hala Taha (1:48)

You have three million followers. What tips do you have for entrepreneurs that are trying to become creators on Instagram or any platform?

Diego Perez (1:56)

Tip number one is...

Hala Taha (1:59)

Hey YAP fam, are you ready to truly thrive instead of just survive? My guest in this YAPClassic has a beautiful ability to help people find their inner strength. Diego Perez is a poet, speaker, and best-selling author widely known online by his pen name, Yung Pueblo.

His work has helped millions rethink healing, self-love, and emotional maturity.

In this conversation, he shares how inner peace can change the way we handle stress, build businesses, make decisions, and show up in our relationships. So stay right here YAP fam and listen up. I give you Yung Pueblo. Diego, welcome to Yung and Profiting Podcast.

Diego Perez (2:39)

Thank you so much. I'm so happy to be here.

Hala Taha (2:41)

I'm so pumped to be here. I've been waiting for this interview for a long time.

And so offline, I was just asking you like, can I call you Diego? And you're like, yeah, of course. And I asked that because your pen name on social media is Yung Pueblo. And that means young people in Spanish. I didn't really know what it meant before I was researching for this. Why did you decide to move through the world with that pen name? What does it mean to you? And how does it relate to all the work that you do?

Diego Perez (3:05)

Yeah, it took on a lot of meaning over time. You know, I initially put that name together just because it was like an honor to my Ecuadorian roots because I was born in Ecuador but grew up in the United States. And as I started meditating, I started realizing that I'm really immature. I have a lot of growing to do.

But I've also been a big fan of history. I've been studying history since I could read. And I saw that humanity as a whole, like we don't know the basic fundamentals that we try to teach children. You know, when a child is like three or four years old, we're trying to teach them how to clean up after themselves, how to share, to not hit each other, to tell the truth, to be generally kind to each other. And these are things that individuals may have mastered. But as a human collective, we haven't mastered these things at all. So the name Yung Pueblo to me, it's more so a reminder to me personally to just remember that humanity is in this moment of maturing in a great transition.

Hala Taha (4:03)

Yeah, it's so interesting. When I read that, I was thinking, we think we're so tech savvy.

We've got AI coming out. We're driving in cars, going in the air in airplanes. But then we don't even have control over ourselves. No, we have no control over our minds. Exactly. So it's so interesting. So you're saying young people like humanity is young, and there's so much room for improvement.