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#1833 - A Simple Habit That Changes EVERYTHING

• Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros

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Ever feel like you’re always behind? Want to know a small change that can supercharge your productivity and life? In this episode, Kevin and Alan reveal a habit that has transformed their routines—bedtime and wake-up schedules. They discuss the importance of creating a consistent nighttime routine to wake up refreshed and maximize productivity. Plus, they share their stories on breaking bad habits, making healthier choices, and even how something as simple as cooking rice daily has been a game changer. Tune in for practical tips on building better habits that stick!

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Show notes:
(2:56) Importance of consistent sleep and wake-up times
(6:46) Nighttime routine: winding down and prepping for a productive morning
(10:07) Kevin’s battle with hitting snooze and how he over

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Optimizing Sleep for Productivity and Success

Speaker 1

I wake up, I work for a little bit, I might go to the gym and then I'll watch it in the morning. That has been a fundamental shift that I never thought would happen. I never, ever, ever, ever thought that I would do that. Because I love UFC so much, I want to watch it live. I don't really care as much anymore.

Speaker 2

How well you treat the team, how well you treat Taryn, how generous you can be, based on how much money you have Fitness. If you're well you treat Taryn, how generous you can be, based on how much money you have fitness. If you're not weight training, you hate yourself. It's so obvious. You hate it so much and then you try to tell yourself you don't hate yourself. It's so funny to watch. And then when you don't get up early, you hate yourself when you sleep in.

Speaker 1

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Speaker 2

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Speaker 1

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Speaker 1

Welcome to Next Level University anywhere, completely free. Welcome to Next Level University, next Level Nation. Welcome back to another episode of Next Level University, where we help you level up your life, your love, your health and your wealth. I think it should be called Identity Crisis University because Alan and I based on the conversation Alan and I were just having behind the scenes, it wouldn't be a day if there wasn't a little bit of an identity crisis going on.

Speaker 1

We are recording this on a Saturday morning.

Speaker 1

It is chilly out and my window is open and I'm happy as a pig in poop. All right, the hardest, sorry. A simple habit that changes everything. That's what we're talking about today. I wanted to do this episode because I was getting ready to go to bed.

Importance of consistent sleep and wake-up times

Speaker 1

Last night and it's Friday night I had just had my dinner, I had just had my protein ice cream. I rolled into the bedroom at like 9.45. Taryn was snugging and she said hey, what's going on? What are you doing? And I I'm time for bed, babe, 9 45. She's, it's 9 45 already. I said yeah, it's 9 45, time for bed. Put my mouth tape on, put my nose, you know, I get ready, bed ready and I'm off to bed and asleep in the next 10 minutes. And saturday morning I get up at six, come into the. I actually have been doing my mobility and my learning every day, feel I feel like a new man. And then I went and I came in the office, I did some deep work and then I went to the gym and I had so much accomplished by eight o'clock today because alan and I were supposed to meet at nine, we ended up moving it back for me.

Speaker 1

The one thing and alan's gonna talk about his, but the one thing that I think you can control, that will help every other aspect in your life, is when you go to bed and when you wake up. I'm not saying you have to be part of the 4 am club. I'm not saying you have to be part of the 5 am club. I'm not saying that. But if you're going to be disciplined and you're going to be intentional and you're going to build habits during the day, one of the best habits you can build is when you start your day and when you finish your day. And I think that's something that a lot of people talk about. They talk about their morning routine, but they don't talk about their nighttime routine. How do you get to bed on time? And then a lot of people just say I get up at five because I want to have. If I get up at five, I have four days in one day instead of one day. No, you don't. You still have one day.

Speaker 2

It's just longer. So that's that. Go on, sir, go on. You ever hear people say I get more done by 9 am than you do all week. Yes, no, you don't, you definitely don't. Yeah, but I, I think those are funny sort of other side of the spectrum grind hacks. Remember that one time on the podcast when I said pro tip, pro tip, yeah.

Speaker 1

Yeah, pro tip. I don't like to name drop people, but I saw a clip of Ed Milet and he's like when I get up at five, I have four days in one day. I don't think so. I don't think that's how it works. I've gotten up at five too. I still have one day inside one day. Well, no, I do these four times. It's like dude. I don't think so. I think it looks really good on a social media clip and maybe in your mind awesome If that's the reframe, awesome. But I think it's fairly useless. I do, I think it's fairly useless information.

Speaker 2

I do. I think it's really useless information that is alarming and mathematically inaccurate, but that's all good, that's all good. So at NLU, we try to be as practical as possible, we try to be as accurate as possible and I think that ultimately, as I get older, that's all that really matters. It's what you say, think, do, feel and believe. So my linchpin is what Kevin called it in the sort of preamble. What is a preamble man?

Speaker 1

We just started saying that way back.

Speaker 2

Is it actually called a preamble? I should look that up.

Speaker 1

It is, yeah, preamble. How do I spell it? P-r-e-a-m-b-l-e.

Speaker 2

Yeah, A preamble is an introductory statement that explains the purpose and philosophy of a document. Yeah, I would say close, close, pretty close, close enough, I'd say. The preamble sets the stage for the Constitution. So we've been saying preamble for seven years. It's basically a pre-podcast conversation.

Speaker 1

I like preamble, just like sometimes I will use fall down seven times, get up eight, I will, and I'll see if somebody picks up on it.

Speaker 2

Sounds a lot like what Ed Milet said. All right, so I always like to have google up, just because for some reason I love googling stuff on podcasts now. So the emily and I for 35 days. So she has a group coaching program and in her group coaching program they all set a 90 day goal and hers was be in the bedroom by 10 pm every single night for 90 days. And we have a metric on our whiteboard in the center of our home. Right now we're at 35 out of 90. Now it doesn't mean we have to be in bed, it doesn't mean we're going to sleep. It means we're in the bedroom and the pets are away. Our pets are crate, trained for sleep time, so 9.50, the Alexa. Our pets are crate, trained for sleep time, so 9.50, the Alexa. I don't want my A-L-E-X-A to go off. The A-L-E-X-A starts an automation with a deep sleep playlist which tells Emilie and I ooh, R&R is over now.

Speaker 1

Your eight minutes of R&R is up up.

Speaker 2

Yeah, last night we got an hour and 20 world class that I haven't felt that much r&r in weeks, I'm not even kidding. So that goes off and immediately. That means we have 10 minutes to get back in the bedroom and so dishes, pets away, everything, heat slash, ac, because the fall is coming, essentially, and it's sometimes really hot, sometimes really cold, but we have to be in the bedroom at 10 and then after that she has a journaling habit and we do what we do and all the happy, awesome stuff. But ultimately we've done that for 35 days in a row and I have been waking up pretty early, and again early. For me I'm not 6 am, but I got a hold on. I got a 89 sleep score last night, my goodness and I went to bed. So let me just pull up my. We're not sponsored by aura ring.

Speaker 2

Not yet we do like them, we're not, we do love them.

Speaker 1

Big fan like them, though, so do love them.

Speaker 2

Big fan. We do like them, though. So total sleep eight hours and 14 minutes Time in bed. Eight hours and 59 minutes Resting. Heart rate 39 beats per minute. Sleep efficiency 92%. Sleep score 89. Bunch of REM sleep, bunch of deep sleep Great, excellent, wonderful.

Speaker 2

And I was cooked from a long week because of Friday night. I personally love the fact that we've been doing that and I told Emilia there's a part of me that hates it, because there is a part of me that loves to eat a big meal and watch a whole movie and R&R for two and a half hours, like every now and then. I need to stop saying like every now and then. I do enjoy going off the effing rails. Now, when I say off the effing rails way back in the day, that would mean I would party for an entire weekend Off the rails. Now is we're not going to bed at 10.

Speaker 2

Now the part of this I haven't told you yet is that we take Saturdays off of this. So we do Monday through Friday, 10 pm in the bedroom and Sunday nights, so that the week because we work Monday through Saturday, front-facing, 10 am to 6 pm. Often it's more than that, quite frankly, but that's the front-facing thing. And so we take Saturday. So Saturday night is our night to run amok, meaning we don't have a bedtime, let's go. Let's stay up till 2 am, we don't. We? Let's go, let's stay up till 2 am, we don't. We still end up going to bed, probably around midnight.

Speaker 2

But that's the linchpin to my week where it has been tremendous the amount that has helped my productivity. I told you we were on a walk last night. We were walking a little tuck around the neighborhood, 40-minute walk, and I said this is the most productive, constructive, effective and efficient I've ever been in my entire existence and it's unbelievable what this is building for our future. And I remember when I first turned 30, and this was five years ago, I remember, said I said my thirties are going to be about building. I think my twenties were about experimenting and learning and massive pain and failure, and my thirties are going to be about building. Everything I do and don't do is predicated on building toward a bigger, better, brighter future, everything. And I know that that's excessive and I am excessive, but but the one thing that has helped me build at such a better level is going to the bedroom at 10 pm. It has been a massive change. It's been hard to hold the line it really has, because I was used to staying up till 11 or midnight.

Speaker 2

It's easier for you. You've been doing it for years.

Speaker 1

It still sucks.

Speaker 2

Now that we're 35 days in, it's starting to feel a little easy Now. I got to stay humble, but I get so much done in the morning now.

Speaker 1

I have noticed. I don't even know how to explain this. You know how and maybe your experience is different, but I know when I first started building habits, it didn't seem. It was almost like one day. It just felt like it stuck. It's like, ah, that's a habit now. Now I can feel it. I can feel the difference between today and yesterday I don't know how to explain it when I was jeffing. I was jeffing for a time where I was hitting snooze, remember.

Speaker 2

I would say that I'm hitting snooze and I'm getting up at like 630. You hate yourself when you hit snooze, man. I absolutely hate myself, I know.

Speaker 1

I'm freaking worst when I hit snooze.

Speaker 2

I hate it Quick side attention.

Speaker 1

I'll be so quick, I promise. Please so good, hold your thought. I want to make sure you get it out. I've been studying Kevin for seven years.

Speaker 2

What a terrible, a terrible course you signed up for. The study is so important. The things that you tie your self-esteem to are so simple. It's how well you treat the team, how well you treat Taryn, how generous you can be, based on how much money you have. Fitness If you're not weight training, you hate yourself. It's so obvious. You hate it so much and then you try to tell yourself you don't hate yourself. It's so funny to watch. And then, when you don't get up early, you hate yourself when you sleep in 100%.

Speaker 2

Those are the five things you need to do to feel good about Kevin. It's really not much else. Oh, and you need to be able to have enough money for food that you want and UFC. That's pretty much it. That that's kevin in a nutshell right there, and the reason I'm saying all that side tangent. Maybe we'll do an episode on this for the listeners out there. You have to figure out, if you want to be fulfilled and successful, what you tie your self-esteem to, because I think most of it's unconscious. I don't think you can really change it. I think you can uncover it. I mean, obviously, neuroscientifically you can change it over decades or whatever, but I'm screw that.

Speaker 1

Figure out what? Yeah, should you? Even Sharon and I were talking about that today. I got home from the gym and I was, like you ever seen anything like this in your entire life? And I was flexing on her because I always do that when I get back from the gym. And I did shoulders today and she's like you really do love yourself, huh. And I said and then we had a deep conversation about it I said I do, I definitely do. I love myself. And I said but it's interesting because I love myself more when I'm pouring into myself. Yeah, of course, and I said I so it wasn't from an ego place, but I said yeah, I think I should have the opportunity to love myself more Because the truth of the matter is I love myself less when I'm not pouring into myself. And it was a really fun conversation to have right after the gym because I was in a goofy mood, but you were fulfilled.

Speaker 2

That's what that was. That's fulfilled and you're not fulfilled when those things aren't happening, and that's okay, and I think knowing that about yourself is self-awareness. I agree, I agree.

Speaker 1

So this is what I was saying. I was hitting snooze for a while. Don't like myself when I'm hitting snooze, don't like myself when I'm hitting snooze, don't like it, not happy. I wake up disappointed, and now I it went from. I would. So I have on my watch 6, 601, 602, 603, 604, 605. I don't want to hit snooze. I genuinely want to know. If I hit snooze, it's going off in a minute, not 5 minutes, not 10 minutes, not 15. Not five minutes, not 10 minutes, not 15. It's going off in one minute and then it's going to do that four more times. Just get up.

Speaker 2

It would be, I would do a little hack.

Speaker 1

Yeah, Little pro tip it would be six o'clock and then it would do 601, 602, 603, 604. And then I would get up on 605. Couple days. Then it was 604. Then it was 604. Then it was 603, then it was 602, then it was 601, then it was 6. And I noticed, I saw that actually happening. It was like, oh my goodness, this is progress. This is what progress feels like when you actually have a measurement of progress. Today I think it was 603.

Speaker 2

I jaffed it a little bit. How dare you? I was like Saturday. I'm going to live a bit From the kid who doesn't even set an alarm, yeah right.

Speaker 1

Two minutes extra. I deserve it. I deserve it, but it's. I have gotten to this point too. You know how I used to stay up until one or two in the morning on Saturday to watch UFC. I kind of stay up until 10 or 11, and I get up at 6 o'clock on Sunday and then I watch it sometime on Sunday morning instead, instead of staying up super late and jeffing my entire.

Speaker 1

Sunday I wake up, I work for a little bit, I might go to the gym and then I'll watch it in the morning before Taryn gets up or as she's up, and we don't really do anything until the afternoon usually anyway. So I want to. That has been a fundamental shift that I never thought would happen. I never, ever, ever, ever thought that I would do that. Because I love UFC so much, I want to watch it live. I don't really care as much anymore.

Speaker 1

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Speaker 2

Isn't it so fascinating, emilia and I. Our anniversary, our five-year anniversary, is coming up. It's on my calendar it's October. I have to look at my calendar, to be honest with you, ugh. And the reason why I want to give a little context to this is because I don't know if we're going off when I asked her to be with me or if we're going off when we met. So if it's when I asked her to be with me, I believe it's October 29th. If it's when we met, I think it's October 16th, I'm not sure. So I got to look at the calendar so it's obviously October 29th. No, I don't know, it's one of those two. Anyways, I saw it in my calendar because I was on with my EA and we do. We prepare for Q4.

Speaker 2

And I was talking to Amelia about all the things we used to do and not do that we are so much more evolved and she has a company called evolve ventures. So evolve is her number one core value, essentially, and evolve just means improve yourself, improve who you are, upgrade, upgrade, upgrade. Some of the ways we used to operate were just dumb Dude. Think about the way we used to play. Remember when we would nap regularly.

Speaker 1

Oh, I love those days, I miss those days. Yeah, so simple. I learned that from you.

Speaker 2

It was so good for your brain. Really good Naps are good for your brain, so for the nappers out there, keep it up. Good for your brain. But remember something's going to take a hit. But even something as simple, as I always talk about the automated shades I used to every morning wake up and open my own shades and now the we have automated shades that open and close at a certain time. You don't realize until later, when you look down the mountain and realize how ineffective and inefficient you were, you and I.

Speaker 2

Every now and then we'll go back to old episodes, and Emilia and I just completed our 39th relationship talks virtual event and even though each event still feels like hot garbage sometimes, it never is, because our new worst is better than our old best. And someone reached out and said that was the best event you guys have ever done, and this person's been to 20 of them. And I said I agree. And incremental improvements are the most powerful thing. The compound effect is a book you're reading. Incremental improvements are the most powerful thing in the entire world. This one linchpin. You saying I never thought I would ever do that. Dude, you may never go back. You might do that forever, because going back is going to be so much less productive is going to be so much less productive.

Speaker 1

Yeah, it's hard to know. I think if I get, if it's, I don't know, maybe if it's a special occasion or a special fight, I don't, maybe I don't know. I just like getting up at 6. You think you'll ever go back to 2 am. If so, I'll get up at 6. Four hours of sleep, that's. I mean, come on, man, that's nothing for the kid.

Speaker 2

You know what I mean, that's not good, I'm not saying it's good for me, but I can operate on four hours On a Sunday.

Speaker 1

It's not like I'm I'm not front-facing, I'm not doing interviews, I'm not doing coaching calls, not necessarily like I have to be cognitively optimal.

Speaker 2

Can you give us an example of something you used to do that in hindsight, was just so stupid?

Speaker 1

It's hard to know. Things change, so they either change so quickly or they take so long to change that you forget.

Speaker 2

Here's one thing we've been doing. We're using the air fryer constantly when we go on our walks. The food's done by the time we. The prep for an air fryer is nothing. All you gotta do is clean that thing once a week. It's awesome. Once a week, once a month, whatever, yeah, whatever. Either way, totally fine, depending on how many spices we used. Love the air fryer, game changer, instapot Unbelievable. I can't believe I used to meal prep and do a whole. I remember I took a half a day to meal prep back in the day. What a giant waste of time Lately.

Speaker 1

I have been cooking my rice every day based on your suggestion. Rice cooker Every day, Game changer man, and it's always fresh rice.

Speaker 1

It's always fresh rice. It's so much easier to eat. I don't ever waste it because I only cook the amount that I'm ready to eat. I appreciate that. That's been a game changer for me. For sure, I'll cook four pounds of ground beef once, twice a week at night, and then I cook rice every day, and then I'd just microwave my vegetables. I looked at the vegetables you were talking about. I can't see any micronutrient profile on there. It doesn't say anything about them. It's probably not great then. Just like there's potassium in this, pretty much there is some potassium in this. Congrats, thank you so much.

Speaker 1

Appreciate that I do take a daily multivitamin, but it's not the same, obviously, right, you know. Uh, what else? Is there anything else that I would, that I would say I had one I said stupid.

Speaker 2

I don't want to be unkind, I'm being playful. Obviously everyone does stupid things, including myself, all right that's the beauty.

Speaker 1

The beautiful thing is I'll be saying something in six months that I'm doing right now, yeah, no, I didn't realize.

Speaker 1

A good, really good example is I don't look at my phone first thing in the morning anymore Nice Game changer. I don't look at my emails first. It's a challenge. It's a challenge. I wake up, I come in here, I get my ZOA, my energy drink, go in the living room. I turn on the back lights of the TV so it illuminates it in a nice orange glow, which I love. I love lights. I have a weird thing with lights. I don't know something going on with that. I have to do some childhood experiment.

Speaker 1

I have to look back into the childhood. I don't know where that came from, but I'll do my yoga while listening to a book, and then I come into the office and then I start working Nice, and that's as of this week. So yeah, I've been doing the other way for a long time and I feel infinitely better.

Speaker 2

What are the tiny changes that you can make that will make a big difference? Long-term Quitting drinking is one of my big ones. That that's not a tiny change. I think that's a big change. But everything changed after that. That one habit of I drink alcohol versus I don't drink has changed my life to such a drastic extent, and this life that I'm living right now would be impossible if I didn't make that change. It changed everyone I spend time with. It changed what I invest my time and effort into. How much money have I saved?

Speaker 1

Do you remember when you and I had a studio and I would get a coffee every single time? Yeah, for both of us. Every single time I would get a coffee Too large.

Speaker 2

Too large. They were bomb you and me. Yeah, they were really good.

Speaker 1

Large iced caramel swirl, extra almond milk, two sugars is what I used to get, and I would get maybe a breakfast sandwich or I would get something. It wouldn't just be a coffee usually and then when we had the studio I would get breakfast all the time. That breakfast was awesome and it was somehow unreasonably cheap, but I would get breakfast.

Speaker 2

That's why they went out of business. Did they go out of?

Speaker 1

business they did. It wasn't. Yeah, it's because they somebody that had more money than they did built a restaurant in the same building. You can't compete with that. Yeah, Unfortunately.

Speaker 2

The other reason it was cheap is college kids.

Speaker 1

There was a lot of college kids in that area? Yeah that food was so good, but that thing was big, I was spending, we were going to every. I mean I was probably spending 20 bucks a week at least on coffee.

Speaker 2

More than that, because I was getting them too. Yeah, but we weren't. I was going to the studio every day.

Speaker 1

Oh, that's right, that's right. So that's just an example. All right, what's your quick takeaway so we can?

Speaker 2

let the folks go. Take out your journal, agenda, dreamliner, whatever piece of paper. Write out three habits that you know are no longer serving you. Pick the top one and switch it with an empowering alternative.

Speaker 1

Mine would be when you have the opportunity to reflect, look at all the things that you have the opportunity to laugh at in a positive way. Like Alan said, it's a stupid thing, but not in a bad way. It doesn't mean you're stupid. Stupid, it just means that you didn't know yet. You didn't know yet. I'm sure there's things we do with the podcast that at one point were mind blowing and now it's like yeah, that's just what you do. There's a lot of that stuff. We record our audio natively. I don't know anybody else that does that. Bianca and Emilia do Bianca and Emilia do.

Speaker 1

Nice Bianca and Emilia do they do theirs natively, I believe, based on we have great audio quality.

Speaker 2

When I go on shows with low audio quality. I was on a show yesterday 90 episodes and this guy had no idea how much Zoom filters audio and how bad it was, so I had him switch to the other setting. It's just cool what you accumulate, you, you learn a lot yeah 100 all right, that's, that's you, brother. I didn't, you were super, you were an audio stick.

Speaker 1

I was. I was obsessed with audio quality. I still am. I just know now it's different because when you're not together, it's we're in different places of the world.

Speaker 2

Different remember we used to face each other.

Speaker 1

Yeah, that was weird, yeah just now.

Speaker 2

It seems weird. We did that for 18, 1750 episodes. Oh, you mean like this? Yeah, remember when we used to face each other. Let's do it hello kevin.

Speaker 1

Well, we used to do that in the studio we used to face each other in real life.

Speaker 1

So yeah, it's a whole thing all right, we're gonna go because we're gonna. If not, we're just gonna reminisce on old times, which which Alan and I love doing If you're looking to evolve and hopefully make progress in life, love, health and wealth. Our 16th round of group coaching starts on October 8th at 5 pm Eastern Standard Time. When you get to the checkout you can use a discount code NLULISTENER and it will take 30% off the total price. It ends up being $96.60 per month and you get four calls per month. So it's $24 per call Super, super, super affordable.

Speaker 1

And if you don't find value, we will give you your money back. That's the way we do that. If you get to the end and you say this is terrible, well, don't get to the end because you can't eat all of the pizza and then say you didn't like the pizza. It doesn't really work that way. But if you take a bite out of the pizza and you don't like it, we're happy to give you your money back. One slice, we'll let you do one slice. Yeah, you can do one slice.

Speaker 2

But if you eat the whole pie, yeah, oh, you know what.

Speaker 2

The last bite, I realized I don't really like this. I'm showing it. It's climbing the metaphorical mountain. Take your big dreams, break them down into annual goals. Break them out in wow. Break them down into quarterly milestones. And break those down into inch pebbles, daily inch pebbles and metrics. Achieve your dreams 90 days at a time. This is a journal that I use, a planner that I use every single day. It is very noticeable when I don't use it. We have them on Amazon. We've got dark blue, light blue and black hardcover and paperback and if you're not in Next Level Nation, click the link in the show notes. There's a post right now that I just put in there that shows the inside. You've got gratitudes, most important tasks, most important win, most important improvement and then your next level lesson. So if you do listen to this podcast every day to improve, every day you have a next level lesson that you can write in there every single day.

Speaker 1

I'm genuinely sad mine hasn't come yet. I am looking for it every day. I don't know where it is. It's terrible. It's terrible. It's on its way.

Speaker 2

It took me. I was sad for 12 days.

Speaker 1

Could you put it on your list to check for me? Yes, sir, you don't have to do it right now, it will come.

Speaker 2

But for 12 days we would get Amazon packages and I'd get so pumped and I'd open them and go ugh, new tablecloth.

Speaker 1

It seems like you're the issue. Yeah, new tablecloth. You're the issue with the shipping, because other people I've talked to have gotten it almost immediately.

Speaker 2

I don't know why I'm gonna blame you me personally. Yes, it's your fault, absolutely okay, good quickly.

Speaker 1

I'm putting on my list. Okay, I appreciate it, thank you. Thank you very much. I just it's so hard you want to talk about not knowing the value of something until you lose it. I look, I need to know.

Speaker 2

I need to know when this thing's coming I can give you the login man, because this is technically oh yeah, yeah, no, no, it's not mine, it's, it's nlu, and you has our talk about that we'll talk about.

Outro

Speaker 1

Talk about that off the scenes all right as always behind the scenes, we love you, we appreciate you, grateful for each and every one of you at nlu. We don't have fans, we have family. We will talk to you all tomorrow please reach out thanks for joining us for another episode of next level university. We love connecting with the Next Level family.

Speaker 2

We mean it when we say family. If you ever need anything, please reach out to us directly. Everything you need to get a hold of us is in the show notes.

Speaker 1

Thank you again and we will talk to you tomorrow. You.

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Alan Lazaros

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Kevin Palmieri

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