Episode 3 - If Instagram Showed The Meltdowns, We’d All Feel Better

Ever feel like everyone else got the easy script while you’re stuck with the plot twists? We dive into chapter one of Garden of Emuna and unpack the riddle of life with a practical toolkit: a weekly life inventory that swaps vague angst for grounded clarity. Instead of spiralling through why-me questions, we focus on reassessment—the professional habit first responders use to stabilize, treat, and then double-check the scene. Applied to daily life, that rhythm builds calm, reveals blind spots, and keeps your choices aligned with your deepest values.

We challenge the comparison trap head-on. From money to health to relationships, accusatory questions turn life into a rigged scorecard. Together we reframe them: What is mine to do now? What can I learn here? How can I stay joyful for others without shrinking my own story? That shift is powered by trust—emuna—the steady confidence that your portion can be lived with meaning, even when it’s heavy. We also pull back the curtain on the social media highlight reel and the selective privacy of fame, showing how curated images blur reality and fuel envy. When you see the theatre for what it is, you stop grading yourself against fiction and recover gratitude for your ordinary wins.

You’ll leave with a simple, repeatable practice. Once a week, take inventory: Where am I? What changed? What matters now? What one small change would move me closer to integrity? Celebrate a specific win, name a hard truth, and pick a tiny next step. Over time, questions get sharper, comparison softens, and contentment takes root. If this conversation stirred something, hit follow, share it with a friend who could use a reset, and drop the quote that landed for you—we’d love to hear your take.

Chapters

• 0:17 Welcome And Book Framing
• 0:37 Life’s Big Questions Laid Bare
• 1:20 The Practice Of Weekly Life Inventory
• 2:09 First Responder Lessons On Reassessment
• 3:16 Reassess Without Second‑Guessing Your Path
• 4:18 From Blame To Focused Questions
• 4:46 Money, Fairness, And Growing In Trust
• 5:22 Health Trials And Finding Meaning
• 6:05 Comparison, Envy, And Joy For Others
• 7:21 You Don’t See Behind Closed Doors
• 8:09 Social Media’s Highlight Reel Illusion
• 9:17 Fame, Privacy, And Selective Exposure
• 10:27 Unmasking A Hidden, Deceptive World
• 10:52 Peace Through Truth And Purpose
• 11:09 Closing And Listener Actions

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:17

Hello and welcome to the Trust Factor Podcast, the only podcast that guarantees your success when you implement its divine age old teachings. Good morning, everybody. Thanks for joining us today into chapter one of the book, Garden of Amuna. Guys, on every page here, we're gonna have multiple stops, it seems, because this is just the stuff that gets you thinking. Chapter one is called The Foundation of Emuna, The Riddle of Life. The world is full of questions. What's the meaning of life? What's the purpose of a life full of anguish and suffering? Nobody can doubt or deny that there is a tremendous amount of suffering, not just mental and emotional, but also physical, with all kinds of illnesses that we're living through today. What awaits humanity with so many philosophies in life? Who's right? So many people think they've got it right. Who's right? What's the path to happiness? Where am I going? What will be in the end? How should I live my life? Will I ever be happy? Is it possible to find a definite path to happiness? And on and on and on. All of these questions, my friends, are what I call taking an inventory. An inventory on life. Do you know where you're holding? Do you know where you've been? Do you know where you're at? And do you know where you're going? That's the accounting I keep talking about. We all need to do this on a regular basis. If you did it once when you were 16, hanging out with your buddies at a camping trip underneath the stars, that's nice. But you've got to do it at every single stage of your life. Ultimately, you do this at least once a week. You step back and you and you reflect. What am I doing? Where am I going? What's my purpose? Has it changed? Do I have more clarity now than I did yesterday? I've grown. I've gone through things, I've dealt with issues. Have I stopped to take a break and reassess? Because it's so important to reassess. You know, in Toronto, I'm a first responder. I'm a volunteer first responder. And I was trained by a school in Toronto that trains paramedics. And one of the critical components is that once you've come to a scene and you've found an individual who needs medical attention, you do your assessment to figure out what's going on. What happened to this individual? Where is the damage and what is most severe and what do I need to address right away? Once you've taken care of that and the situation is under control, you know what you do? You reassess. Did I miss anything? Am I forgetting something? Did what I just do, was that correct? Did I do it properly? It's called reassessment, guys. We need to be constantly reassessing. That doesn't mean doubting yourself. There's a very big difference. I'm not talking about saying, okay, I've put my life in motion, I'm heading in this direction, and then constantly stopping and asking, did I make a right choice? No, absolutely not. It's the exact opposite. You've made your choice, you've done your due diligence, you've done the analysis, and you're on the right path. Great, wonderful. But stop every once in a while and just look. First of all, it also gives you an opportunity to appreciate where you're at. Because when you're so into it, life goes by really, really quickly. And you don't get an opportunity to appreciate what you've accomplished, what you've achieved, where you're at in life. So taking that inventory allows you time to stop and reflect and be appreciative. At the same time, you're looking at the path. How am I doing? Am I on track? Do I need to alter my course? Do I need to make slight changes? Did I get off track completely? If you don't do that once in a while, my friends, life passes you by and you wonder what happened. Why me? The ones who ask the most questions are the ones who suffer the most from deficiencies. So, so true. But you may ask questions? Of course I'm gonna ask questions. I'm not just gonna take life lying down. And of course you ask questions. The question is what are the questions you're asking? About who or what are you asking them? And what you will find as you grow in your imuna and your relationship with your creator is that the questions will become less and less and more pointed and directed, not a sense of blame. What he's talking about here, what he's about to talk about, is a sense of blame. The person with a limited income asks, why does so and so have plenty of money? And even though I work just as hard, I go crazy trying to make ends meet. How many of us have said that in our lifetimes? Usually it's when you're young and inexperienced and you think that you're deserving of everything and you think that life is unfair. As you grow, especially in your relationship with your creator, you come to recognize that what you have is absolutely perfect and what your friend has is absolutely perfect. And you know what that allows you to do? It allows you to be happy for your friends. It allows you to be elated when your friend succeeds. Think about that today. Today, everybody just wants everything for themselves and they want nothing for anybody else. They want everybody else to do the hard work and the heavy lifting, and they want to get paid. The parent of a sickly child asks, why does everyone have strong and healthy children? And I have the hard luck of raising a child that needs round the clock medical supervision. We should never know of that challenge. We should never know of, God forbid, having to be in and out of hospitals and specialists and all kinds of doctors' appointments with a child from the moment they're born and sometimes throughout their entire lives. It's a full-time job. It's a job that robs you of any of your own free time. But that is what causes you to hyperfocus on enjoying your life, the life that was given to you. That ultimately you will find as a theme amongst all of these questions. The handicapped person asks, why is everyone so beautifully free and agile while I'm so repulsively limited and impaired? The poor look at the rich and asks, why do they deserve a silver spoon? When our lives are a never ending war with poverty and deprivation. The lonely individual who is approaching the age of forty and can't seem to find the spouse asks, Why am I, with all my good qualities, unable to get married yet others, with all their faults, find perfect spouses at a young age? We see that people's questions are endless. You're welcome to add your own to the list. And the list goes on and on, my friends. All of these are a common theme. The questions of life. But you'll notice that these questions are accusatory. These questions are all why am I not where I want to be? Why don't I have the things that I want to have, the things that I think I need, the things that I think are important? Why? Why do I have to deal with issues in life that seemingly other people don't have to deal with? And the answers to this go on and on and on. First of all, who says nobody else has to deal with these things? The only problem in this world is that we have no knowledge, we're ignorant of the vast majority of things that happen in this world, specifically with regards to other people. We don't know what happens in closed doors. Remember, I said the other day, if you're sitting around the table with your biggest heroes in the world, all the people that you've always said, I dream to be like that individual. If only I had that person's life, if only I had that person's money, if you all sat around the table and you all put your lives on the table and you had complete transparency into every individual's life at that table, the good, the bad, and the ugly, you would pick up your life and you would say, Thank you very much, enjoy your life, I'm perfectly content with mine. But we don't do that because we don't see it. We only see, especially in this generation of social media, where everybody's posting all the wonderful things in their lives, their visits to the White House, and their beautiful dinners, and their wonderful events that are heartwarming, and all these amazing successes and milestones that they've reached, and their vacation pictures, and their new house picture, and their new car picture, everybody wants you to see just how successful they are and how wonderful their lives are. They will not show you what happens as soon as that picture is taken. When they go back to what they were doing a minute ago, where their life was decrepit and they were fighting with everybody around them, and then nobody has any relationship with them, and they're constantly in a state of battle, and they're constantly complaining. Nobody wants to show you the dark side. Nobody wants to show you what happens when the camera goes off. You know, maybe we should start a social media site that does exactly that. You're not allowed to post anything good. You have to post all the stuff you wouldn't want anybody else posting. There was a whole news media article that came out a week or two ago about how these celebrities who were once the apple of America's eye, they were all over television and they were wearing fancy gowns and going to all these fancy events and rubbing elbows with the world elites. They wanted the camera on them then. But when their lives are in shambles, because when they're no longer in the industry, or they've gotten divorced, or they've lost all their money and they're in a state of mourning and depression, they try to sue the film industry and the paparazzi who were still chasing after them with the cameras because they don't want that stuff being aired to the point where they will literally file lawsuits and try and shut down the freedom of the press. Why weren't you so concerned when you wore your$10,000,$20,000,$50,000 ball gown going to a wonderful event that was only for specific Hollywood elites? Then you didn't care. Then you called the media to say, hey, I'm gonna be here. Please show up and make sure that you're filming from the perfect angle, right? But as soon as the stuff hits the fan and the things happen that they don't want to see, that they don't want you to show, that's when the lawsuits come out. That somehow they're entitled to privacy. They didn't care about their privacy then, they care about it now. Remember, this all leads back to one thing that we're living in a world that is hidden. It's a secret world, it's a world that is full of deceit, corruption, and lies, and it's our job to uncover those lies. It's our job to expose them, not just for us, but for all of humanity, so that when people recognize that it is all phony, it's one big bluff, what you're seeing out there is exactly the opposite of reality. That gives you peace of mind, it gives you calm, it allows you to relax, it allows you to recognize that your life is a great life, that you don't have to pull the wool over people's eyes, that you can be who you are and you can be proud in who you are because you're living a wonderful life. Thank you for spending time with us on the Trust Factor Podcast. If you've heard something today that moved you, save this episode and share it with someone who might need to hear it. Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss upcoming conversations that challenge, empower, and uplift. And if you're on social media, connect with us. Leave your thoughts, drop a quote that resonated with you. Hashtag the TrustFactor Podcast. Until next time, keep growing in your trust and keep living with purpose. I'm Jesse Revivo, and this has been the TrustFactor Podcast. Thanks for listening.