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EXPANSION

What if the ordinary things around you are only ordinary because your brain has learned to stop looking?

A tree becomes tree.
A car becomes car.
A bed becomes bed.

Identified. Filed away. Move on.

But there's so much more there.

In this episode of Yup. I Got You., Tombo builds on The Moment and What Is It? with the next step: Expansion.

Instead of allowing your brain to quickly label something and move on, pause and ask:

What is it—to me?

A tree isn't just a tree. It can be shade, shelter, food, beauty, a home, a windbreak—or, as Tombo describes a quaking aspen, “a balm for my soul.” 

And that's where expansion begins.

When we stop rushing to conclusions, creativity wakes up. Creativity feeds imagination. Imagination opens possibilities. Possibility leads naturally toward gratitude—and gratitude brings us back to peace. 

Even the simplest experiences can become something more.

Getting into a bed with clean sheets. Driving with the windows down. Smelling a freshly cut field. Listening to another person without predicting what they're about to say.

These moments have always been there.

We may simply have stopped experiencing them. 

Expansion is an invitation to slow down and recover some of what hurry, prediction and constant stimulation have taken from us.

Take The Moment.
 Ask, “What is it?”
 Expand the answer.
 Let creativity awaken.
 Allow gratitude to come.
 Find the peace.

And from that place, leave room for something new.

Because your Best Reality Now may not be something you figure out.

It may be something you finally create enough space to experience.

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What Is It? — Breaking the Brain’s Prediction Code

What if one of the reasons life sometimes stops feeling fully alive is because your brain has gotten too good at predicting it?

We look at a lamp and instantly decide: lamp.
We look at a chair: chair.
We meet someone and almost immediately decide who we think they are.

Predicted. Classified. Filed away.

In this follow-up to The Moment, Tombo takes the idea of pausing the brain’s constant predictions one step further with a simple new tool:

Ask: “What is it?”

Instead of immediately accepting the label your brain gives you, stay in the unknown for a moment.

A lamp isn't only a lamp. It can be an illuminator, a light giver, a brightener. A chair can be a place of rest, conversation, meditation, comfort—and much more. The point isn't to pretend an object isn't what it is. The point is to interrupt the brain's automatic classification long enough for imagination, curiosity and possibility to return. 

And then the question gets much bigger:

Who am I?
Who is that person in front of me?

We are more than the labels our experiences have taught us to use. And the people around us are more than the quick judgments our brains make about them. When we stop assuming we already know, we create room to actually experience ourselves, other people and life again. 

This episode is ultimately an invitation to get off autopilot.

Don't finish somebody else's sentence.
 Don't assume you already know their story.
 Don't let your brain predict, classify and file away every experience before you've actually lived it.

Stay curious. Stay present. Allow yourself to be surprised.

Because maybe breaking the code isn't about escaping reality.

Maybe it's about getting the experience of reality back.

As Tombo puts it:

“We demand our experiences back.” 

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What if your brain isn't telling you what's going to happen?

What if it's simply predicting what it thinks will happen?

Our brains are incredible prediction machines. They assess, judge, anticipate and prepare—often before we've even realized they're doing it.

And because they're wired to protect us, those predictions tend to lean toward what might go wrong.

But there is a space between the prediction and what happens next.

The Moment.

In this episode of YUP. I GOT YOU., Tombo Baldwin introduces another tool for the YUP Toolbox: learning to pause before automatically accepting the reality your mind has predicted.

Instead of immediately deciding what comes next, leave the possibilities open.

Pause the predictor.

Find something beautiful.

Move toward peace.

Let the outcome remain unwritten for just a little longer.

Then intentionally reach for the healthiest, most whole possibility available to you.

It starts with little things—a drive to work, a stoplight, a parking space, a trip for coffee. But little moments become practice, and practice changes the way we experience our lives.

Your brain may make the prediction.

You don't have to accept it.

Push pause.

Take the moment.

And practice building your Best Reality Now.

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🎙️ Fear Loses Its Magic

Finding Peace Before Fear Finds You

Fear has a strange way of growing.

The more attention we give it, the bigger it becomes. The stories in our minds get louder, the possibilities become darker, and before long we're reacting to monsters that may not even exist.

In this episode, Tombo Baldwin explores one of the greatest obstacles to living your Best Reality Now: fear.

Using the familiar idea from Monsters, Inc. as a launching point, he explains how fear often feeds on our attention while peace quietly restores our perspective. Along the way, he revisits several tools from the growing YUP Toolbox—including Shift State, The Way Back Method, Speak Life, The Chalkboard Method, Your Built-In Know, and Keep It or Trash It—showing how they all work together to help us move from anxiety toward clarity. 

This isn't about pretending fear doesn't exist.

It's about recognizing that fear only has as much power as we continue to give it.

When you choose peace...
 fear begins to lose its magic.

Because courage isn't the absence of fear.

It's learning where to place your attention.

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Podcast Summary

🎙️ Pay Attention to Your Attention

What has your attention right now?

Social media. Entertainment. Food. Fear. Other people's drama. Your phone.

We often think the things we casually watch, listen to, and think about aren't affecting us. But your attention is one of the most valuable resources you have—and whatever you repeatedly give it to begins taking up space in your inner world.

In this episode, Tombo Baldwin gets painfully honest about his own attention. From ridiculous TikTok rabbit holes and scripted second-date drama to jalapeño corn dogs, he explores how one small thought can become a full-grown desire simply because we keep feeding it.

The question isn't just, "What am I watching?"

The better question is:

"What am I growing?"

Tombo introduces another simple tool for the YUP Toolbox: the Keep Bin and the Trash Bin. When a thought, image, or story enters your mind, make a conscious decision. Is this something worth planting in your Best Reality Now—or does it belong in the trash?

You don't have unlimited attention.

So stop giving your most valuable resource to things that don't deserve it.

Pay attention to your attention.

Because what you feed grows.

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🎙️ The Doorway: Why Vulnerability Is Where Healing Begins

Healing doesn't begin when we pretend everything is fine.

It begins the moment we're honest enough to admit we've been hurt.

In this deeply personal episode, Tombo Baldwin explores one of the hardest—and most freeing—steps in personal growth: becoming vulnerable. Many of us spend years protecting ourselves through control, avoidance, perfectionism, or emotional walls. Those survival strategies may have helped us make it through difficult seasons, but they often keep us from experiencing the healing we've been longing for.

Tombo explains that acknowledging your wounds isn't weakness—it's the doorway to restoration. Through practical encouragement and heartfelt affirmations, he shows how honesty, forgiveness, and speaking truth over your life begin replacing old patterns with authentic freedom.

You don't have to relive every painful moment.

You simply have to become willing to open the door.

Because on the other side of vulnerability...

...healing is waiting.

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🎙️ What's on Your Chalkboard?

What story are you telling yourself every day?

Whether you realize it or not, your mind is constantly writing a narrative—about your worth, your relationships, your work, and your future. But what if much of what's written there isn't truth at all?

In this episode, Tombo Baldwin introduces one of the most practical tools yet: The Chalkboard Method.

Using the simple image of a classroom chalkboard, Tombo explores how fear, perfectionism, rejection, and self-doubt quietly write themselves into our minds until we begin believing them as facts. The good news? Chalk can be erased.

You'll discover how to recognize the false narratives you've been carrying, intentionally erase them, and replace them with truths that deserve to be written in permanent ink.

If you've ever struggled with feeling "not good enough," replaying conversations, second-guessing yourself, or believing lies about who you are, this episode offers a practical exercise that can begin changing your inner dialogue today.

Because when you erase the illusion...

...you make room for the truth.

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🎙️ Speak Life

What if one of the most powerful tools for healing wasn't expensive, complicated, or hidden behind years of study?

What if it was your own voice?

In this episode, Tombo Baldwin shares a simple daily practice that has been transforming his life: intentionally speaking truth over himself through recorded affirmations. More than positive thinking, this practice is about replacing old narratives with life-giving beliefs that align with who you were created to be.

Drawing from themes explored in previous episodes—including Mind Soil, Shift State, The Way Back Method, and Best Reality Now—Tombo explains how repeated words shape identity, influence emotions, and help break free from fear, shame, and survival mode.

You'll hear dozens of practical affirmations you can begin using today, along with encouragement to create your own. Whether you're learning to forgive yourself, quiet self-criticism, or build a stronger foundation of peace and authenticity, this episode offers a simple practice that can become part of your everyday life.

Sometimes the voice that changes your future...

...is your own.

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🎙️ The Way Back Method: Restoring What Was Always Yours

Sometimes the greatest healing doesn't come from becoming someone new.

It comes from remembering who you were before fear, disappointment, and life's wounds convinced you otherwise.

In this follow-up episode, Tombo Baldwin takes a deeper look into The Way Back Method—a practical way of uncovering the false beliefs we've carried for years and replacing them with the truth that was there all along.

Through personal stories of fear, childhood memories, and moments of profound clarity, Tombo explains how experiences can shape our identity in ways we never intended—and how those same moments can become the doorway to restoration.

This isn't about blaming parents, circumstances, or the past.

It's about recognizing the wound, forgiving yourself for surviving, and reclaiming the courage, value, love, and purpose that were never truly lost.

You don't have to stay defined by your past.

You can go back... not to relive it, but to restore what always belonged to you.

As always...

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🎙️ The Way Back Method

What if the real you isn't something you have to become?

What if it's something you need to remember?

In this episode of YUP. I GOT YOU., Tombo Baldwin shares a deeply personal journey into what he calls The Way Back Method — a process of returning to the moments before fear, disappointment, and life's wounds covered up the authentic person inside.

Through stories of childhood joy, forgotten courage, and moments of rediscovering purpose, Tombo explores the idea that many of the qualities we search for today — peace, bravery, generosity, joy, and love — were placed inside us from the beginning.

The Way Back Method is about finding those moments:
The smile before the stress.
The courage before the fear.
The love before the hurt.

Sometimes healing isn't about becoming someone new.

Sometimes it's about reclaiming who you were always created to be.

Find the quiet.
Find gratitude.
Find the way back.

As always...

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