What Do You Take More Seriously, Your Self Or Your Job? (1891)

Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros explore the harmony between personal and professional development, uncovering how your focus shapes your life. Kevin shares his journey from resisting professional development to finding its value, while Alan dives into why blending personal and professional growth is essential. They explore how applying discipline across life areas can help you achieve success and fulfillment. Whether striving for better health, wealth, or love, this episode offers actionable takeaways to help you level up in all areas of life.

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Show notes:
(2:04) Avoiding jobs Vs. Embracing entrepreneurship
(7:57) The gap between professional and personal development
(12:43) Level 10 results require level 10 effort
(15:48) Meet like-minded people and jumpstart your journey to achieving your dreams while optimizing your life. Join Next Level Group Coaching. https://bit.ly/3Up1FkG
(21:49) Becoming the top 1% in health, wealth, and love
(27:10) Professional growth as a key to external success
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Transcript

Kevin Palmieri 0:00

and you say I want to be remembered for the way I make people feel, I'm willing to bet you're more focused on self-improvement and self-development. And if you want to be remembered for what you've accomplished, I'm guessing you're probably more focused on professional development. I care more about what people feel.

Alan Lazaros 0:17

And the truth is, your results in your personal life will always be better than his. And his results in his professional life would always be better than his, and his results in his professional life would always be better than yours, unless you continue to raise your professional development and or work with me Welcome to Next Level University.

Kevin Palmieri 0:33

I'm your host, Kevin Palmieri.

Alan Lazaros 0:35

And I'm your co-host, Alan Lazarus.

Kevin Palmieri 0:38

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Alan Lazaros 0:44

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Kevin Palmieri 0:51

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Alan Lazaros 1:07

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Kevin Palmieri 1:13

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. Today, for episode number 1,891, what do you take more seriously yourself or your job? There have been times where well, alan and I have realized I'm not the guy to talk about professional development.

Kevin Palmieri 1:44

Alan and I have realized I'm not the guy to talk about professional development, because I don't like jobs. I don't like it. I don't like jobs. I like being an entrepreneur, I like doing my own thing and I never really was good at jobs, jobs.

Alan Lazaros 1:57

I was never.

Kevin Palmieri 1:58

I wouldn't say I was a strong.

Avoiding jobs Vs. Embracing entrepreneurship

Alan Lazaros 2:02

Professionally developed person.

Kevin Palmieri 2:04

Yeah, in the workforce I wasn't sought after. I definitely didn't do a lot of professional development. Alan and I were talking before this behind the scenes and we were talking about. Oftentimes, when I go on podcasts that are about business, I don't have a business background. I don't have a master's in business, I didn't go to business school. So oftentimes the host will say what do you want to talk about? And many times I say I want to talk about how some of the best business owners are not in shape and their relationships are terrible and if they just did what made them successful in business, they'd probably be successful in their relationships and their health.

Alan Lazaros 2:48

Did you have any trouble saying that? No, most business owners are not in shape and their relationships are terrible.

Kevin Palmieri 2:54

I would say, most people aren't in shape and their relationships are terrible, and business owners are a subset of that.

Alan Lazaros 3:01

Good for you. I always had trouble saying that because I would see these. I was mentored by a lot of very wealthy people and have many leather-bound books now the.

Kevin Palmieri 3:15

I always had trouble saying that, even though I always noticed it well, just like I wouldn't be offended if they said, hey, I'm more successful than you are financially. It's like, yeah, no, you, most people would be, though. Well, I'm not, because if it's true, it's true if, if you make 15 million dollars a year and I don't make 15 million, if I make way less than that you are more financially successful than I am in that regard but they would be.

Alan Lazaros 3:39

Typically, people are offended by hard truths like that, that's what I'm saying.

Kevin Palmieri 3:42

So, yeah, I I digress continue. I I just for me. I think everybody wants life, love, health and wealth to improve.

Kevin Palmieri 3:54

Agreed to to improve whether they admit it or not is a different story yeah, yeah, I, I, whether they admit it or not, whether they do the necessary changes in behaviors and mindset to do it, whether they're consistent with it, whatever, whatever. But yeah, it's easy, it's very easy, I'm guessing, to say that you know what, I don't really care that much, I'd rather be a bachelor. Anyway, when you're making $5 million a year, maybe that's your truth, maybe you would rather be a bachelor, I don't know. No-transcript. Disciplined, you're most likely somebody who prioritizes things pretty well. There's things you most likely have, grit. There are things that you have in that arena that you could carry over to your love arena. Okay, what is a similarity between fitness and love? Well, you have to do the reps, even when they're uncomfortable. You have to be consistent with your partner, right? There's things that just carry over. Same with money. So, yeah, that's kind of what we're chatting about today.

Alan Lazaros 5:23

So way back a couple years ago three, however many years ago I started coaching a young man and he started a company and he built a team out and it was awesome and I coached the whole team for a while and this was in the crypto space. So this was before a lot of the crypto stuff crashed and apparently some of that's coming back. I do think eventually it will, but again, that's a whole other conversation and I coached the project manager of this team, because I was kind of the coach of the business owner and then the business owner hired a project manager and then I was the coach of the project manager, even though it's the project manager's job to keep everyone on point. So I'm like meta keeping people on point. It was manager's job to keep everyone on point, so I'm like meta keeping people on point. It was such a cool thing for me and again, I'm a weirdo in this, but like I loved to be able to coach everybody because I could see everything, I could see I'm coaching the business owner, the project manager and the people with the feet on the street, I'm it was just a great learning experience. But anyways, that's neither here nor there. My point of this, this.

Alan Lazaros 6:25

This story is the project manager who, by the way, I coach the business owner, right. So so all these people that he's paying to uh do the best they can to grow the company. I'm now hired to help them be on point and dialed in, and so they didn't come to me directly, which I had to learn. The hard way is way harder in certain regards and better in other regards. Number one it's better because they have to be there and they're being held accountable by whoever you know signs their paycheck, metaphorically and literally, I guess Uh. But he showed up one time with a beer and yeah, I know you'd love that Uh Kev shows up with beers. I'm kidding, no, he does not. But I remember thinking oh yeah, that's right, you're a project manager, you're not like here to coach health, wealth, life and love. This isn't a self-improvement coaching session, this is very so.

The gap between professional and personal development

Alan Lazaros 7:17

I've been coaching for mentoring for 10 years, coaching for eight. First two were free. In my eight years of coaching for revenue, I've had one person show up with a beer in my entire thousands and thousands of sessions and I remember thinking that is so interesting. This dude is the most dialed in ever professionally. He six sigma, he's got it. You know, three part defects per million. I mean he's got they something called scrum in professional development. So professional development and personal development this podcast is personal development, so we never we almost never, talk about professional development love it like a lot of people don't even know what six sigma is.

Alan Lazaros 7:57

A lot of people don't know what scrum is. Scrum picture it this way. It's, it's uh, it's a system of success. So Scrum picture it this way. It's a system of success for computer programmers to create technical products. Usually software industry knows Scrum. So help people in all the different areas be successful holistically, because if you don't understand it all, you can't like. I want to help you be successful and fulfilled. I want to help you be in love and wealthy. I want to help. So Scrum is a very intensive system that a team consistently and sustainably integrates, crushes projects.

Alan Lazaros 8:42

For lack of better phrasing, and this dude was dialed in with metrics and he was professionally developed. He was a project manager for what? Three decades at least. So he's dialed in. He comes into me dialed in professionally and I'm sitting there going how in the world and and I'll keep this anonymous, but I'm gonna be to be very direct I could tell that he was not a good partner to his. I mean, he was divorced and he didn't apply those same principles this I'm certain of. He did not apply those same principles in his personal life and he wasn't fit by any means, showing up, you know, with a beer, and he was fine, like we got along well. But I remember thinking to myself how interesting, how interesting that someone is, 10 out of 10, dialed in with their habits and their scrum and their metrics and their calendar, and then in their personal life they don't apply. He didn't apply any of it to my awareness, any of it to his health or love, and I remember thinking that is not good or love, and I remember thinking that is not good, that's not intelligent. Now I also need to say that I'm guilty.

Alan Lazaros 9:52

Pre-26, pre-car accident, I was professionally developed resume, cover letter, linkedin, computer engineering, bachelor's, master's in business. I was professionally developed to a T, but my personal development was not there, not nearly to the same extent it is now, and that was a huge mistake. So everyone out there watching or listening, the point of this episode is are you more professionally developed or are you more personally developed? We have one community member who I'll keep anonymous, but she posted one time and Kev and I behind the scenes said that's awesome, I love that and I loved the post because it was a professional development post and Kev said that that's not going to get a lot of love. That's not what our group is about and what you really were trying to say is that our group is about personal development, not necessarily about professional development, although I do think that's merging quite beautifully.

Alan Lazaros 10:40

Level up yourself, level up your podcast, level up your podcast, level up your business. If you guys want to be successful in the external world Anyone metaphorically listener, viewer, anyone watching Professional development is how you become successful in the external economy. Personal development is how you become successful in your relationships and behind the scenes and with your family, and I do Believe seriously you need both. You need both. I regret not having both kevin and I. I came in professionally developed. Kevin came in a little bit more focused on character and personal development, and so we we really merged. We drove to five and now we're both professionally and personally developed. And you need to be ambidextrous in the 21st century with righty and lefty if you want to succeed holistically health, wealth, life and love. It is a challenge.

Kevin Palmieri 11:31

I think that's why it's easy to excuse off. I think one of the common thought patterns is if I have level 10 in one, it doesn't really matter if I have level 5 in the other two. If I have level 10 money, it doesn't matter if I have a level 2 relationship and a level 3 physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health.

Alan Lazaros 11:58

Real quick, I'm going to crack an energy drink.

Kevin Palmieri 11:59

This is not a beer Crack a beer.

Kevin Palmieri 12:02

There, it is Nice. Did you hear that? I mean, it was weak, it was a weak crack. You know, I would have Put that thing right up To the mic, crack it, get a little. Get a little foam on the mic. Let's party on a Monday, I think that's. That's why it's so hard. I went on a podcast recently, shout out to Phillip and we were talking about. He messaged me one day. Phillip has a podcast. It's called Wits and Weights and it's all about Scientific, a scientific approach To fitness and nutrition.

Kevin Palmieri 12:29

And he messaged me one day and said hey, can I ask you a question? Philip's the, the physique engineer. He said can I ask you a question? I said, of course, man. What do you got? He said, as an entrepreneur, what have you learned Recently about fitness? Something like that.

Kevin Palmieri 12:43

And I said You're never going to get level 10 results with level 5 effort, but you also may never be able to put level 10 effort into something that isn't your number one yeah thing and that's something I've been working through is I'm doing 45 minutes consistently and I'm trying to make sure I'm eating the right amount, I'm eating the right quality stuff and protein, carbs, fats. You know, I'm trying to make sure I'm eating the right amount, I'm eating the right quality stuff and protein, carbs, fats. I'm trying to make sure I'm doing all that. But it's not going to get as much time as the podcast is. So can I really ever expect to have level 10 fitness results if I don't put in level 12 effort? I don't know, and I think that's why it's so hard. The juggling act of all of this, because the thing that you're winning at, I'm willing to bet you're also putting the most time into and you're most likely going to have to take some of that time and put it into the other stuff that isn't working.

Kevin Palmieri 13:38

I've said this behind the scenes to Alan and I think it makes total sense. It's fairly obvious. If I was a single man, I would be able to work way more, but I would also be way less fulfilled and I would be so lonely and I wouldn't feel like I have someone, a partner, on this journey with me. It would be terrible. I would definitely be able to work more, though, so would I be more financially successful? Yeah, probably Would I be in as good a shape. Don't know, maybe not.

Alan Lazaros 14:14

You'd probably be in better shape, because there's an incentive underneath that too. Regarding when you're single, there's that extra motivator to be in better shape. That's what I've noticed to that. Not just in myself, but observing clients when they get single, they get in shape. That's what you do when you're single, because you want to be so bad.

Kevin Palmieri 14:31

That's the winter arc. You get your heart broken or you get jacked.

Alan Lazaros 14:38

That's it, yeah, literally.

Kevin Palmieri 14:40

Regardless. It's just the point that if I stopped going, if I just said you know what, but regardless, it's just the point that if I stopped going, if I just said you know what, screw fitness, my relationship and the business would have an opportunity to succeed at a higher level because I would have more time to put into them. 100% Did it, tried it, tried it. It worked really well.

Alan Lazaros 14:58

It worked really well. It was doing real well.

Kevin Palmieri 15:00

But then I didn't like it. That's why I think that's why it's so hard, because you, if we were going to say, all right, cool, you only have to track three habits, okay, that's it. Three habits. You can make it however you want. You can do three habits under health. You can do three habits under wealth. You can do three habits under love and none under the others. You can do one habit under each or love and none under the others. You can do one habit under each. You can go two on one and one on the other and just leave the other one blank. Your life is going to look drastically different depending on how you set that time up, and I just think that is a fact. I do. I think that is just a fact because there's only so much time and there's only so many inputs. There's only so many inputs. So, depending on what you're choosing, you're quite literally choosing to get results or not get results.

Kevin Palmieri 15:48

Next level nation. What is happening? If you've thought to yourself I want to try coaching, but you don't really know where to start, group coaching would be a wonderful place for you. That's really why we created it in the first place. We start a new round every 90 days. So if you're hearing this, go to the website nextleveluniversecom, and we have the landing page where you can actually hold your spot right now. Even if there's a group going on right now, you can still lock your spot for the next one. The biggest thing that we've seen is, as we get closer and closer to the date, unfortunately, some people end up missing. The group fills up and they can't do it, and then they end up regretting that. So please head over to the website. The link will be in the show notes and we would love to see you there.

Alan Lazaros 16:32

I crunched the numbers on this once. It's very simple and I think it's really powerful for this podcast in particular, because if you're listening or watching this, what makes us unique is the holistic piece. It's health, wealth, wealth and love. Health is physical, mental, emotional, spiritual. Wealth is how much how you make your money. Do you, do you have meaningful work? How much are you making? Is it increasing or decreasing? And then where are you investing it, spending it? And then love is intimate relationship, immediate family, extended family, colleagues, clients, mentors, mentees, friends all of that Self, self-love as well.

Alan Lazaros 17:09

If you're one in a hundred top 1% in health, top 1% in love and top 1% in wealth, the math means you're one in a million. So everyone out there listening or watching this this is one of the reasons why our podcast doesn't go viral like some shows is because you're one in a million. You're shooting for one in a million. I'm not saying you're one in a million. I don't know a ton of people that are one top one percent in all three. That's very difficult to do. Yeah, it's. It's exponentially more difficult to be one top one percent in health, wealth and love than it is to just do it in one of them and most of the people.

Alan Lazaros 17:43

If you look and you mentioned playfully Leonardo DiCaprio like, why is he dating supermodels that are 19 years old? Like, what does that mean? Obviously, I would be willing to bet he hasn't dialed in the love and the long-term relationship as much as acting. And again, I don't know and I don't know, leo, and I don't care to be quite frank, but what I'm saying is one of the things that I can't stand about podcasting, to be honest, is that you have to use references that everyone knows. So therefore, you have to go to famous people that you don't even necessarily want to talk about, just say allegedly and say whatever you want yeah.

Alan Lazaros 18:17

Allegedly, allegedly, he's that way.

Kevin Palmieri 18:23

But it's not untrue though. Leonardo DiCaprio is not in good shape, exactly, and the suggestion again, blanket statement. But I would argue that your self-improvement set point is probably not super high if you're dating people 30 years younger than you. I mean, it would be different if it was like a 70-year-old and a 50-year-old.

Alan Lazaros 18:45

I think, that's different. Yeah.

Kevin Palmieri 18:46

Then I don't know how old Leonardo DiCaprio is 50 and 19?

Alan Lazaros 18:50

100%.

Alan Lazaros 18:51

That's strange it is. I remember I went on a date I guess you could call it that long before I met Emilia and this person was, I think, a senior in college and I was in my late 20s and I remember telling kev like it felt like a little kid in comparison. I can't do this, it's not. And so, to bring it back to this episode, professional and personal development, your personal development set point physical, mental, emotional and spiritual development. You all know, we all know kevin and myself included us five years ago wouldn't have hung out with us now, and if we would, we would have been mentors.

Kevin Palmieri 19:30

Us five years ago, wouldn't have hung out with us today.

Alan Lazaros 19:34

Correct.

Kevin Palmieri 19:35

Because if we would have been mentees, yeah, good call, strong work.

Alan Lazaros 19:42

Kev often says. I don't even know if old six-year-ago Kev would like me. I don't think he would. I don't agree with that. I think he'd like you Because your energy is good.

Kevin Palmieri 19:52

Yeah, but I think I would think I was arrogant, even though I just actually finally have some level of self-belief.

Alan Lazaros 20:00

But I didn't know, even with the energy, though, you don't have an arrogant energy.

Kevin Palmieri 20:06

I don't know what my energy is. I am me, and me is I, and I just show up. So I don't know. All right, that's an arrogant energy.

Alan Lazaros 20:16

Is it really?

Kevin Palmieri 20:17

I don't know. I thought it was philosophical.

Alan Lazaros 20:18

Yeah, I honestly don't know. You could ask me what I think is arrogant. I don't know how I come off to anybody. I don't. You could ask me what.

Kevin Palmieri 20:25

I think is arrogant. I don't know how I come off to anybody.

Alan Lazaros 20:26

I don't think that's fair. I'm starting to learn, I think, but I do think it's more of an energy than anything. But ultimately, everyone out there watching or listening think about you five years ago, what you were thinking, what your worldview was, what you understood and didn't understand, what you had experienced, what you, what I think of even just one book, the 15 invaluable laws of growth by John Maxwell, highly recommend it. I remember when I first read that book I was, oh, my goodness, this is awesome, this is it, this is the stuff I wish I had this when I was a kid. So we, we exponentially improve in health, wealth and love.

Becoming the top 1% in health, wealth, and love

Alan Lazaros 21:03

And if you are looking back, you should be a little bit alarmed at how little you understood, and I'm constantly reminded of that as I coach. It's oh yeah, that's right, like this, kevin and I learned this five years ago. But I remember when that was a breakthrough. I remember when that was, oh, I'd never thought of that before and so hopefully, that's an exponential increase in awareness. That's what this is about hyperconsciousness, awareness, getting better, 1% improvement, health, wealth, life and love in your pocket. But for everyone. The last piece here is are you on the professional? You can pick 100 people out of a lineup, I could tell you who's more professionally developed and who's more personally developed. That person I referred to that project manager professional development developed that person I referred to that project manager professional development. His professional development is honestly higher than yours, but his personal development it's not close.

Alan Lazaros 21:49

It's not close and the truth is, your results in your personal life will always be better than his and his results in his professional life would always be better than yours, unless you continue to raise your professional development and or work with me challenge accepted, challenge accepted.

Kevin Palmieri 22:06

This is my thought. This is my last thought before we get out of here. If somebody said to you what do you want to be remembered for? And again, tell me if you think I'm missing the mark with this, but it seems to make sense and you say I want to be remembered for the way I make people feel, I'm willing to bet you're more focused on self-improvement and definitely self-development. And if you want to be remembered for what you've accomplished, I'm guessing you're probably more focused on professional development. 100. I care more about what people feel.

Alan Lazaros 22:33

Then and my reframe would be how do you find a way to care about both of those? But? But the syntax, kevin, is going to be always the feel and then what you accomplish. I'm is going to be always the feel and then what you accomplish. I'm always going to be what you accomplish and then what you feel, but we both care about both and it's the order that matters. Good episode.

Kevin Palmieri 22:55

Man, I hate these episodes.

Alan Lazaros 22:57

Keep it 100, I'm not going to lie about it yeah, I don't like it.

Kevin Palmieri 23:02

why? Because I never wanted to get good at my job, I just wanted to get about it. Yeah, I don't like it. Why? Because I never wanted to get good at my job, I just wanted to get a job I liked. Now I know they go hand in hand. I understand that, sir.

Alan Lazaros 23:09

I understand Very ignorant. No, no, no, now you're a business owner.

Kevin Palmieri 23:12

It was accurate. It was accurate, ignorant and accurate. You need to want to have a job. I wanted to do something I liked, oh, and I knew that was never going to be working for somebody else.

Alan Lazaros 23:25

I knew that as someone who doesn't like professional development. Can you please sell it?

Kevin Palmieri 23:30

No, I cannot sell things I don't like, you know that.

Alan Lazaros 23:32

But you do like it. Now you understand it's a necessity now.

Alan Lazaros 23:35

If somebody said to me I don't even know if I know what the the definition of professional development, skill development, skill acquisition, organization, prudence, diligence, work ethic. It's your ability to achieve and accomplish things externally. Professional development is leadership skills, that kind of thing, versus all the inner work stuff that you always want to talk about. I like that. That is personal development. I like it. Professional development is leadership acumen and leadership style and your ability to communicate effectively the 25 impact points of effective communication. That is professional development, that's not personal.

Kevin Palmieri 24:16

But it does help you in your personal development. They have caused me those 25 impact points of effective communication have caused me a lot of pain.

Alan Lazaros 24:23

Yeah, for sure, we'll save that for another day. I think professional development in general has caused you a lot of pain, which is why you probably don't like it.

Kevin Palmieri 24:30

Yeah, I also don't. I mean I probably didn't understand the benefit of it. I think that's probably.

Alan Lazaros 24:36

You do now though, yeah yeah, I don't know.

Kevin Palmieri 24:40

I don't know how I would sell it to. I don't know. I genuinely don't know how I would. I'd have to literally have to think about it. I don't know.

Alan Lazaros 24:49

I don't know what the answer is one of the reasons why our podcast uh and again I'm very grateful and we've definitely grown a ton. But like people who love professional development more tend to like me more shout out to people who like personal development more, tend to like you more.

Alan Lazaros 25:05

We are a very subset of a subset. So picture everyone who would resonate with me and then picture everyone who would resonate with you and now take those fractions. So let's say it's one out of 10 that would resonate with me and I don't know four out of 10 that would resonate with you. That's four out of 100. So four out of 10 that would resonate with you, that's one. That's four out of a hundred. So four out of a hundred people would resonate with both of us.

Alan Lazaros 25:28

You ever wonder why that? That's why our podcast, that's why PGE will grow faster than I know Well the number one.

Kevin Palmieri 25:34

I, the. You're looking at the two reasons that it doesn't grow faster, mostly one. I'd say there's one and a half reasons.

Alan Lazaros 25:41

You're the one I'm the half, it's mostly me. No, no, no, it is, it is.

Kevin Palmieri 25:46

Anytime there's two people, it always makes it challenging.

Alan Lazaros 25:52

Right, there's a small subset of the population that resonates with Kev, and then there's a smaller subset of the population that resonates with me. There's an even exponentially smaller subset that resonates with both of us. So, if you are watching or listening, thank you for being on this journey with us, because that means you actually are in the small, small, small, small, small percentage of people that do resonate with both personal and professional development.

Kevin Palmieri 26:15

I think we should start wearing masks. We should wear, like, a different mask every day or something Really kind of up the curiosity.

Alan Lazaros 26:23

What kind of mask are they going to wear today?

Kevin Palmieri 26:25

I show up with a Jason Voorhees hockey mask on.

Alan Lazaros 26:28

I'm going to wear a Darth Vader mask. You could do that.

Kevin Palmieri 26:30

Yeah, for sure. All right, we're going to get out of here. Kevin, I am your father. You very well could be you very well, could be my father, who knows, it could be anybody at this point.

Kevin Palmieri 26:41

Next Level Nation if you're looking for a group of like-minded individuals who are into self-improvement and also into professional development. So, self-development, professional development. We have a private Facebook group called Next Level Nation. It's mostly self-improvement, I'm not going to lie to you, but I think, being in a group of other people who are focused on improvement, you're always going to find something that crosses over. So if you're looking for that group, the link will be in the show notes. We'd love to have you there Never connected this before.

Alan Lazaros 27:10

But if you are someone who loves self-improvement but doesn't feel like you're winning in the economy in your career. Career development and business development is what I do best. Professional development we talk more about self-improvement on this show than we do about professional development, but that might be what you are missing. If what you wanted was what you needed, you'd already have it. Let me help you on the side of the coin that is outside your comfort zone, which is maybe the professional development side. So if that resonates, please book a free 30-minute session. Business breakthrough session is what it's called, but ultimately it can be career development as well. Love career development. I've helped tons of people with their resumes, linkedin bio, who to apply, where to apply, what to say cover letter. I got you. I love this, always been doing this.

Kevin Palmieri 27:53

So, uh, the link will be in the show notes I can send you an example of the resume I could help you create as well. If you kind of want to compare between alan and I to see who might be a better fit for you, I'll send you just an example of what I would create for you, and then Alan can do the same, and then at least you'll be able to choose with the highest of awarenesses.

Alan Lazaros 28:11

What's your favorite part of your resume?

Kevin Palmieri 28:13

I really like to throw the personality in there. It's like, yeah, do I have a lot of external successes? Yeah, just like everybody else, of course. But I also have some soft skills that might cross over from the stream where I'm casting and reeling in a fish and I really have to be on my toes and I have to know the environment well and I have to deal with grit of the weather, An avid martial artist as well, Somebody who is really committed to improvement and practices with humility. You know, just you know anybody can get a GED or a degree.

Outro

Kevin Palmieri 28:48

Not everybody can be an avid fisherman. That's all I'm saying. And what are you really going to remember about somebody, where they went to college or how many fish they caught? Second one for sure, and here's why I don't like professional development. In a nutshell, all right, as always, we love you, we appreciate you, grateful for each and every one of you, and at nlu, we don't have fans, we have family. We will talk to you all tomorrow stay professionally and personally developed.

Kevin Palmieri 29:15

Next elimination thanks for joining us for another episode of next level university. We love connecting with the Next Level family.

Alan Lazaros 29:25

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.

Kevin Palmieri 29:34

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