Mind Soil

Mind Soil

In this episode of YUP! I Got You, Tombo Baldwin digs into one of the most overlooked drivers of our reality: the soil of our mind.

Using a simple but powerful metaphor, Tombo explains how our thoughts—especially worry, self-condemnation, bitterness, and fear—take root, consume our energy, and crowd out peace, creativity, health, and abundance. If you’ve ever felt mentally exhausted, stuck in old patterns, or unable to move forward despite “doing all the right things,” this episode connects the dots.

Drawing from real life—including health changes, family challenges, forgiveness, weight loss, relationships, and faith—Tombo walks through how to:

• Recognize the thoughts running in the background of your mind
• Stop feeding worry and stress without condemning yourself
• Release old survival patterns with gratitude
• Make room for peace, healing, creativity, and legacy
• Prepare your mind for real, lasting change

This isn’t about positive thinking or pretending hard things didn’t happen. It’s about acknowledging truth, letting it go, and intentionally clearing space to plant something new.

Before you can build a new reality, you have to tend the soil.

If you’re ready for peace, abundance, better relationships, and a healthier life—this episode sets the foundation.

Real talk. Real life. Real solutions.
And like always… Yup. I got you.

Transcript

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(Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited to remove this message.) Hey, welcome to the Yup! Podcast. Hey, this is Tombo Baldwin getting ready to give you some good, good, good stuff. Oh yeah. Liking that music. Yes, I am. Hey, welcome to the Yup! Podcast. I was listening to one of my previous podcasts the other day and I'm like, dude, you know how to ramble and get sidetracked. And I apologize for that. But hey, real talk, real life, real solutions and some other stuff. I am in my closet podcasting, looking at my wife's beautiful clothes. Man, does she have good taste? And trying to pull my headphones out of my shoes. Gosh, this dude loves shoes. But hey, we're going to continue the podcasting subjects about getting into this new reality. And, uh, that just sounds weird by itself, but you know, I've been on this journey, I would say my whole life, but realistically the intense bootcamp has probably been for the last two years with a turbo boost through Adrian's cancer diagnosis treatment and recovery. And, uh, we totally leveraged that to just really, um, begin to switch into a new reality and do it in, um, uh, yeah, a turbo boosted form because I love my 99 F3 food. 50 diesel. And when I hit that turbo and I blow that black smoke, Oh, does my heart just warm? You're like redneck. Ah, that something about diesel just makes my heart happy. The power that's at your foot. I don't use it all the time. Mainly save for teenagers and soccer moms that are tailgating me. You know, they may experience a little cloud of black smoke. And they're Tesla following me to, uh, just, uh, help them practice patience. Oh, I'm really not trying to help anyone other than you guys and myself. And, uh, Adrian and I are experiencing changes in our realities and it's woo woo and it's not woo woo. It is so real, but as it is in that untangible realm and we talk spiritual technologies and today we're not going to so much focus on a spiritual technology as we're going to talk about spiritual preparation and maybe you don't like spiritual, maybe quantum technologies, wherever you're at. I hear a lot of people use this a lot of different terms for the same thing. And, uh, everybody kind of wants to build their own tribe, but there are principles out there. I believe that they were from us superior being supernatural. I God father, you who show, you know, for me, um, I believe that but for our access and us to utilize and it's not necessarily advertised out there and it's maybe has been, I believe suppressed over the years to put us into this kind of slave state where we're just working for the next paycheck or the next new thing, whether it's a gun or whether it's decorations at target, whatever it is for you. For me, the next tool, not so much anymore, but you know, the next, the next, whatever. And we're so busy that we can't discover the truth right in front of our eyes. And there is a truth that there is a different path and there is a different way. And there's rest and there's peace and there's abundance out there for you if you choose. And when I'm podcasting here, I'm trying to give you the things that I'm learning. I didn't necessarily read a book. I've heard people and I have read books. I've read a lot of books, listened to a lot of books. I've done a lot of research, but these are things that I am utilizing in my own life that are changing the reality in my life personally, like so much more peace. I'm actually to a place you guys heard the podcast where I talked about getting on the scale and leveraging that. Happy to tell you I'm down 10 pounds. Yeah. And even 10 pounds at, you know, 117 that I was, or 317 pounds that I was at. Can I tell you how much more amazing I feel? It's, it's incredible and it is applying those principles and sticking to them. But today when I want to talk to you is we're going to talk about your thought life. It's like, take a moment right now. What are you thinking about as you're listening to me? Are there worries running in the background about finances, about projects you're working on, about kids, car payments, you know, the list just goes on and on. What is running in the background of your mind? Your mind is the place where you grow a reality. And if your mind and your soil is just fraught with things running in the background and that you're always thinking, you've got your to do list. This is what I'm going to do next. This is what I'm going to do next. Oh, I'm worried about this. I'm concerned about this. I wonder if so-and-so is going to show up or I hope so-and-so doesn't show up. I didn't want to invite them, but it's a family dinner. So we have to invite them and you're playing out in your head. How's that going to work out? Or you had a bad interaction at work with a coworker and you're running it through your head or you were just driving along today and someone came up, slow down and you looked over as you're driving and they flip you off and then they move on and you're just like those things plant themselves in our mind and we water them when we worry, when we think about them, when we replay them, we water them, we grow them, they take roots. And so as you are trying to grow new things in your life, new thoughts, you want to create a new reality. You want abundance, you want peace, you want joy, you want bliss, you know, you want to improve relationships around you, things that you think cannot change. And so you get stuck worrying will worry and those things in your mind are not stagnant. They grow and they crowd out everything else in that soil. And the more you worry about them, the more strength you give them, the more they take root. And what do plants need from the soil nutrients? So what they are, Hey, hang on here. I'm getting a phone call. It is my wife. We're just going to take this and see what she says. Hello? Hey. Oh, well, well, all right. Well, I'm right in, I'm right in the middle of a podcast here, but I'll try to wrap it up. So you're on my podcast right now. Everybody's listening to the phone call here. So, uh, she's worried about being on the podcast, but she is. So all right. I will. All right. Bye. Well, real life here. There she is. And, uh, well, we're going to get back to it. Uh, I love her and anytime I hear or see that she's calling, I answer it no matter what, cause she is number one in my life. I treat her like that. And this is part of growing, uh, what's important to you. You give it priority. And so right now in your life, if you're given priority to all those worries, all those concerns, all those stresses, nothing new can grow. And actually there's no room to plant anything in there. And so they're sucking up the nutrients. Guess what the nutrients are? Your energy, your peace, your bandwidth to handle stress, your emotional stability, all that. So the more you grow all those things, guess what? Pretty soon you've tapped everything out and guess what starts to happen? The body starts to fail. So not only is it so important for manifesting a new reality to stop, the growth of all those things, but for your health, like those things are like every morning, wake up and think all your thoughts are racing and you're worried about this and this and say, Hey, I think I'm going to have a glass of Drano to go with my worries. That's what it does to your body. You are hurting yourself and slowly yeah, bad word, like slow death here. I'm not going to say the K word yourself. So what do we do? How do we do? Hey, and I've, I've been there and I still struggle, but I have to say, I don't struggle much anymore. Um, I still have moments of worries and stuff, but when those things come up, I leverage them like the way I could have really got down on myself. I could have beat myself up for a long time saying, how'd you let yourself get here? And all that is truth. Okay. And we can acknowledge the truth of a thing, but we got to let it go. See what I did there. This is powerful. I hope you didn't miss it. Acknowledge and let it go. That is true. I made a mistake. I forgive myself. We're going to move on. Okay. That's how you get rid of this stuff. If you missed it, you got to rewind. You got to listen to that 10, 20, 30, a hundred times. And this plays true for everything that is taking up the soil of your mind. You have to give it up. I don't want to say kill those things because worry often comes out of genuine concern and we don't want to condemn it. But what we do want to do is release it. And so when worry comes up, say, ah, just, I'm worried about the car payment. Acknowledge the worry. Thank your body. Thank your mind for having concerns and say, we're just going to let go of this for now because it's not doing me any good. I'm going to do everything I can to work this out, but it is no longer taking up the soil of my mind. Self-condemnation. This is a hard one because, you know, I don't like necessarily the way I look right now and, uh, acknowledging I'm not happy how I look. I'm going to acknowledge that there's concern around that. I'm going to speak. These words, Tom Bo Baldwin. I love you. You know, I did that. What's hilarious. Maybe even a little scary is the response was, we love you. Well, the whole we thing had me a little concerned, concerned. But when I realized there are multiple aspects of me and, and any given day, you know, this is true too. You know, you play, if you're a man, maybe husband, father, boss, worker, we play a lot of different roles. And so when I looked at it that way, I was like, Oh, and you know, what's what, what's really interesting is when I found when I talked to my body, if I listen, it responds and you just have to quiet your mind enough to listen. And so when you come up against a relationship, I acknowledge this is a tough relationship. I believe that I've done everything I can. I forgive myself for the things that I've done wrong. I'm going to release this. And for me it's easier because I do believe in a higher power. And if you don't, you can just release it to the universe. You know, there is pretty evident that there's an intelligence out there. I think it's blatantly evident and we can argue about what it is. But for this purpose, you don't necessarily have to define any specific thing. You just release it into the universe and the concerns because you can't change it. You're already doing everything you can. It's training your emotional spaces, maybe even training your creativity that would get you out of this situation. And so you have to find peace. And as you do that, these things release themselves from the soil and now there's room to plant things. So what we're doing is we're telling up that soil of the mind really before we can even talk about the kind of thoughts that you need to have and the kind of practices you need to have to really begin manifesting a new reality. Your new reality is going to blossom and burgeon. The first thing that's going to happen is that as you address these issues and can I tell you, at least for me, it's not one and done. This is a battle and you may have to fight it at the first second to second to second to two seconds to three seconds to five to 10. The 30 to a minute you are just going to gain ground little by little, but you're continuing to do this. You're going to wake up in the morning. If your first thought is worry about something, stress about some, you're going to release it. You're not going to condemn yourself. You're going to be like my mind and my body. This is what they have done for a long time and they are trying to help me survive, but I am learning new ways. So thank you for your help. I don't condemn you. I don't rebuke you. I thank you, but I'm learning a new way so I no longer need you. You can relax. You're off duty. So important. You're not casting anything out. You're not condemning anything. You're not saying it's bad because these things to this date have helped you survive and you need to be grateful to these things because they have kept you alive. They have kept you to this place. They have, you know, let you move into this position and even though at this point they're preventing you because they've done all they can and you are needing a new thing because if you're listening to this, you're needing a new reality and you realize it's time. Not everybody's time is now, but if you're listening, your time is now. So we always default to gratitude. You know, my son the other day was in a serious car accident, totaled his car, only had liability insurance. So, you know, his medical costs and his car are not covered, but we turned it to gratitude and I told him the same things. I'm telling you now, forgive yourself for the mistake. Let it go. Move on and find something to be grateful for. I'm so grateful that he's okay. We can replace cars. We can replace money. We can do all that. Resources are abundant. Remember the podcast about abundance, but you're not going to really be able to embrace abundance until you deal with these things that are taking up the soil of your mind. These things that have served you, they've served you well and you're grateful for them, but this is a new season. So you're releasing them. You're thanking them for their service and you're moving in to this new season. And those of you that are human out there, uh, yes, all of us have some form of dysfunction and I have a lot of dysfunction or have had. I've been dealing with it in the same way, like eating. I ate for comfort. Food helped comfort me. So the more stress and like you have lived a very stressful life. So 317 pounds at my height, 355 because there was a lot of stress. So there needed to be a lot of food inputted into my life to help with that. So when I came to the realization of what that was, I think my body for helping me survive this long and I said, I'm learning a new way. So I no longer need this method of dealing with my stress. I am finding other methods. Thank you for your service. I appreciate you and you can retire and you can relax bitterness, you know, out of woundedness. The woundedness is so hard and you know, the, the victim mentality I think is probably one of the hardest things to overcome. But say, you know, something, okay, this is about you. This isn't about right or wrong and the victim thing is so much about right and wrong. I've been a victim and I've been there and I felt that and it hurts and it stings, but you're moving forward. And so you thank yourself for that situation. It's like, I know it's hard, but we're leveraging everything that's happened to me. I'm not sure why I'm really angry and mad, but you're no longer serving me. We're finding a new way. Thank you that you've given me energy through anger and pain, but we're finding new sources of energy. And so I thank you for your service. I'm going to let you go. Leverage your gratitude. Gratitude is a huge lever. Lever moves boulders and bitterness is a boulder and unforgiveness. And it may take a while to get there, but forgiveness. Yeah. Unforgiveness. Oh, it's just like cutting yourself again and again and again. You have to forgive for yourself. I forgive you. It wasn't right. We're not justifying anything, but for your own good to make room in the soil for great things. Legacy. You're making room for legacy. If you have kids or family, you're making room or legacy. And so when you approach forgiveness, think legacy, don't think about the issue, acknowledge that it was wrong and thank yourself that you can even get to the place to think about. Okay. I'm not telling you to do it. You may have to think about it first. Okay. I am telling you to do it, but you don't have to do it right away. You may have to move into it in some steps by thinking about doing it and knowing how good it is for you and the universe or God knows what happened to you, knows what the person did. They will not escape justice. It may not come through your hand and you're not producing any kind of justice by staying angry and bitter. You're just cutting, hurting, whatever metaphor analogy works for you. Drinking Drano poison. I don't know, but you're just hurting yourself and forgiveness. Unforgiveness takes up a lot of mind soil space because you are getting ready to plant a brand new, beautiful future. Okay. It's time to focus on your legacy and if you're the leader of your family, so important. You've got to just let go. I joke with my wife cause we, we joke about hard things cause we have, we have hard things when, when it comes up and we realize, wow, yeah, that's pretty evident that we're taking up some mind soil there and we're like freeze it from the movie frozen. Let it go. Let it go. You know, let it go. Take that fist that's clenched around that issue and open it. Let it go with gratitude. Gratitude pours nutrients upon nutrients upon nutrients into your mind. Gratitude is one of the most powerful things that you can start now as you're releasing those worries and concerns and battling for the space to plant the new things. Oh gratitude and get creative. Find creative ways to be grateful. Leverage everything. Don't let a bad circumstance be bad. Leverage it for good. Squeeze the goodness you can out of it. Like those saying you turn lemons into lemonade, a bad squeeze leverage, get whatever good you can out of it. Leverage everything because your mind is your reality and if your mind is full of all that stuff, your reality is full of all that stuff and change has to start at some point. What are you going to do? Just going to stay stagnant. Well not this crowd and if that's you, there's probably a different podcast out there for you. I ironically, not even ironically Hugh, this podcast has over 10,000 downloads. Thank you so much for your support. I so appreciate it. I am going to continue to share my life, share the things that I've learned, help you leverage, help you succeed. I want us all to rise together. You know, I don't make any money off this podcast. Honestly, I think I've spent thousands upon thousands of dollars just to get this podcast out there and that's not begging for your support. I'm not. There are ways that you can support me. I now have a subscription and I am going to be putting some exclusive content out there and if you want to support that way, thank you so much. I so appreciate that. But before we end, capture your thoughts, examine your thoughts and then only keep those things that are going to help that mind's soil have space to plant the new things. We're going to go there the next podcast where man, we are going to plant some good stuff in that mind soil. So you got to get to work. I mean, it's probably going to be a week before I release the next one. You got to get to work. You got to be ready for when we're planting that new stuff and with that gratitude, you're going to make that soil so rich. You're doing it. Hey, we're going to wrap it up here. I so appreciate you. Thank you for listening. Those of you that choose to support me, thank you so much. I appreciate you. And like always, I got you. I do. I do. I do. Hey, and check out my new Instagram post. There's some cool stuff there.