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The 4 A’s Of Growth (2126)
Four steps. One path to a life that truly fits. In this episode, Kevin and Alan unravel the Four A’s of Growth: Awareness, acceptance, action, and alignment. These aren’t just milestones in the rearview mirror; they’re the rhythm of lasting transformation. Kevin recalls the moment he realized success without purpose is empty. Alan opens his heart about the quiet war with self-acceptance. Together, they reflect on growth not as a destination, but a dance we return to again and again. If you’re standing at a crossroads or feeling like something’s missing, this conversation might reveal which of the four A’s is calling you forward.
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Show notes:
(2:06) Kevin’s wake-up call at 26
(3:10) What alignment really means
(6:26) Why awareness is everything
(9:49) Radical self-acceptance
(11:43) Meet your people. Chase your dreams. Level up your life with Next Level Group Coaching.
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Kevin Palmieri
(0:00) You know us, we like to break things into phases. (0:03) And when I look back on this journey, I feel like it's really been four phases of growth. (0:09) And then when I look forward, I also understand that those four phases of growth are essentially just gonna be forever.(0:15) So it's not just in the past, that's also what's gonna create a brighter future. (0:19) I'm gonna give them right out of the gate.
Alan Lazaros
(0:21) It's awareness, acceptance, action, and alignment. (0:27) Nice. (0:29) And I think we all struggle with one of those four.(0:32) For me, it's acceptance that I struggled with. (0:35) Which one was it for you?
Kevin Palmieri
(0:36) Welcome to Next Level University. (0:39) I'm your host, Kevin Palmieri. (0:41) And I'm your co-host, Alan Lazarus.(0:44) At NLU, we believe in a heart-driven, but no BS approach to holistic self-improvement for dream chasers.
Alan Lazaros
(0:50) Our goal with every episode is to help you level up your life, love, health, and wealth.
Kevin Palmieri
(0:57) We bring you a new episode every single day on topics like confidence, self-belief, self-worth, self-awareness, relationships, boundaries, consistency, habits, and defining your own unique version of success.
Alan Lazaros
(1:13) Self-improvement, in your pocket, every day, from anywhere, completely free. (1:19) Welcome to Next Level University.
Kevin Palmieri
(1:25) Boom. (1:26) Next Level Nation. (1:27) Welcome back to another episode of Next Level University.
Alan Lazaros
(1:30) Today, for episode. (1:31) I didn't think I was gonna get them.
Kevin Palmieri
(1:31) I didn't think you were gonna get them. (1:32) Today, for episode number 2,126, the four A's of growth. (1:38) We wanted to do an episode a while ago about, it was like the four, if we could go back and do the four layers of this journey over, what would they be?(1:48) And I couldn't remember what those layers were, so I put together a little something. (1:52) Alan already gave them away, so you might as well just leave now, because you already have the answers, so you can take off. (1:57) We appreciate you joining us.(1:59) But I think everything, essentially, goes through this journey, and I would like you to tear it apart, if you disagree. (2:06) One, awareness. (2:08) I opened up my final pay stub of the year, I made $100,000 at 26, with no college degree, and I remember thinking to myself, my God, I have no fucking clue what I'm doing with my life.(2:18) For most of my life, I've lived unconsciously. (2:21) The opposite of unconscious is hyperconscious. (2:24) Acutely aware.(2:25) But that started with me realizing that I didn't know what the hell I was doing. (2:30) So awareness, phase one. (2:32) Phase two, acceptance.(2:33) Being able to and being willing to look in the proverbial mirror and say, oh my goodness, I am Jeffen. (2:40) Or oh my goodness, I haven't done what I said I was gonna do. (2:45) Or oh my goodness, I haven't been as consistent as I want.(2:48) Acceptance, like let's really admit what's real, because we can't change it until we do. (2:52) That's ownership. (2:53) Three, action, strategy.(2:55) What do we do? (2:56) How do we do it? (2:58) We watch a YouTube video, we watch a TED Talk, we listen to a podcast, whatever it is, and then we actually take action based on that.(3:04) And then four, and this is the interesting one, and I think we're working extra hard on this one right now, alignment. (3:10) Now that I have the awareness, now that I've taken the acceptance, now that I am working on the action, how do I make sure that I stay within myself and I don't fuck up my character and I don't do things that are out of alignment, inauthentic, that type of stuff? (3:23) And then it starts over again.(3:26) Then you realize, oh my goodness, I am the bottleneck to my success, awareness. (3:31) Shit, I am not prioritizing the things that I really need to. (3:34) Acceptance, action, I'm gonna block my calendar off.(3:37) Boom, does that mean I don't see people anymore? (3:40) And I just sit in the office all day like Alan? (3:43) Don't know.(3:44) Boom, new awareness, rinse and repeat that forever. (3:47) Tear that apart. (3:49) Sir.(3:50) Nice job. (3:51) I appreciate it. (3:52) Yeah, strong words.(3:53) I forgot you were even here. (3:54) That was flow, I was in flow. (3:56) I didn't even know where, I lost myself.
Alan Lazaros
(3:58) Yeah, I appreciate it. (3:59) The hero's journey. (4:01) Become the hero of your own story, the hero's journey, the victim, villain, hero, guide, the phases of this.(4:07) I think those are strong. (4:09) Sometimes I think you just say stuff.
Kevin Palmieri
(4:12) Preschool, kindergarten, middle school, elementary school, college, corporate, fucking. (4:17) No one says that. (4:18) No, no, you say that for sure.
Alan Lazaros
(4:20) No one ever talks about that. (4:21) No. (4:22) There's a lot of things I've realized I talk about that no one talks about.(4:26) That's why seven episodes ago or something I said, I talked about the ecosystem and the economy. (4:32) And I said, is that the first time you connected that that's where that term economy came from? (4:36) 100%.(4:37) I wish people talked about things like that. (4:40) It's really important to know that.
Kevin Palmieri
(4:42) Do you think they don't because it makes now you understand the economy better? (4:48) I mean this respectfully. (4:48) I'm not saying this to put you down.(4:51) Nobody fucking cares. (4:53) Potentially. (4:54) That's why nobody says it.(4:59) I know it's funny, but I mean that with the utmost. (5:01) I'm not like calling you out, but it's like, I wonder if nobody cares.
Alan Lazaros
(5:05) But it's really important. (5:06) I think it is. (5:06) You now understand how the economy works way better because you understand.(5:10) Yeah.
Kevin Palmieri
(5:10) 100%. (5:11) Yeah, yeah.
Alan Lazaros
(5:11) There's a lot of important shit no one cares about.
Kevin Palmieri
(5:14) Yeah, yeah.
Alan Lazaros
(5:15) That's what I mean. (5:15) Completely unfortunate.
Kevin Palmieri
(5:15) That's wicked depressing, honestly. (5:19) It is. (5:20) Like even this, it's like, ah, four A's.(5:23) I'll keep scrolling. (5:25) Yeah, no, I understand. (5:26) I understand.(5:26) I do. (5:27) I totally understand. (5:28) I don't.(5:28) I think this is some good shit right here.
Alan Lazaros
(5:30) Yeah, yeah, yeah. (5:31) The truth is, and again, I'm not trying to be unkind. (5:33) I just need to tell the truth.(5:35) You're fucked if you don't work on your future. (5:36) You're fucked. (5:37) Like.(5:38) Yeah. (5:39) You're in some trouble. (5:40) You're not, like, you're in a lot of trouble if you don't work on your future and learn these things.(5:46) You can't watch cat videos and be wildly fulfilled if that's all you do. (5:53) If that's all you do. (5:53) I was gonna say, look.(5:54) No, no, I like cat videos, too. (5:56) I like cats. (5:56) I don't like cat videos.(5:57) I like cats. (5:59) You understand what I'm saying. (6:00) I do.(6:02) Like, I'm in a weird mood. (6:03) We got 15 minutes per episode and it's like. (6:06) I just don't want anyone to take this one snapshot and then put it on the internet.(6:09) What I would prefer is. (6:11) Yeah. (6:11) If Next Level University is built on an idea.(6:17) It's built on the idea that you can design your future in advance. (6:22) Day by day. (6:22) Whatever level you want to get to, baby.(6:23) You got this.
Kevin Palmieri
(6:24) Day by day.
Alan Lazaros
(6:24) Day by day and improve. (6:26) And if you scroll right past this and you don't learn awareness. (6:31) If you don't have awareness, you might as well be a child.(6:34) Children don't know anything. (6:36) They can't make good choices. (6:37) You've never seen a six year old building a resume.
Kevin Palmieri
(6:42) No.
Alan Lazaros
(6:43) Why? (6:43) Because they don't know. (6:44) They're not supposed to know.(6:47) And so awareness, acceptance, action, alignment. (6:51) They're critical. (6:52) Absolutely critical.(6:53) And there was a time in you and I's life where we didn't connect those four. (6:58) You certainly couldn't have articulated it the way you just did. (7:01) And so I'll go through each.(7:02) You said pick it apart. (7:04) Awareness is first, for sure. (7:06) If you don't have awareness, you can't do anything.(7:10) Everyone right now, out there watching or listening, I want you to imagine you don't know anything. (7:17) You don't know how the economy works. (7:19) You don't know how your job works.(7:22) You don't know how you work. (7:23) You don't know how to speak. (7:24) You don't know how to read.(7:24) You don't know how to write. (7:25) You don't know how to add or subtract or multiply or divide. (7:28) You don't know how StreamYard works.(7:30) You don't know how microphones work. (7:31) You don't know how computers work. (7:32) You can't work a phone.(7:34) You don't know how to use YouTube. (7:35) You don't know how to use email. (7:37) You don't know how to drink or swallow or eat or chew.(7:40) You're fucked. (7:42) Awareness is everything. (7:44) It's everything.(7:46) One of the things that's so alarming for me is when I go back to my past and I look at conversations that I had and I realize how little I understood. (7:54) Awareness equals understanding. (7:56) It's the dots that you connect.(7:58) When you're 12 and you're trying to talk to a girl and you're in middle school, you have no fucking clue what you're doing.
Kevin Palmieri
(8:05) I think it worked so well for me because I didn't know what to say. (8:08) I just don't think I said anything.
Alan Lazaros
(8:10) What do you think you said? (8:11) Nothing. (8:11) I don't think I said anything.(8:13) I would literally pay money to see your AIM conversations with a girl you're trying to date. (8:19) Same with me.
Kevin Palmieri
(8:19) I would probably give all my money so you couldn't. (8:22) I don't know if I can even handle.
Alan Lazaros
(8:23) Give me an example.
Kevin Palmieri
(8:24) Give me one you think. (8:26) Hey, baby girl. (8:27) When I was 12?(8:28) No, I don't think I called people baby girl. (8:30) No, I just thought you had to tease someone. (8:34) I thought you had to seem like you didn't care.(8:37) I was definitely mildly disrespectful, for sure. (8:39) Not like toxically, but I thought that's what everybody did. (8:44) I didn't know.(8:47) Well, look, I was nexted more than I was negative towards people. (8:51) So, poor guilty. (8:52) Okay, that's a perfect example.
Alan Lazaros
(8:55) Nobody has any clue. (8:57) So awareness, I really hope that everyone can go back to when they were 10 and realize, oh, I didn't know anything. (9:05) Now go 10 years from now.(9:07) You're gonna think the same thing about you now, hopefully. (9:11) I never understood why people, Emilia and I, when we first got together, we would say a quote. (9:17) I don't want to know.(9:19) I fucking need to know. (9:22) The other day, we're walking down our neighborhood and I said, what books you read right now? (9:27) Like, what do you got for me?(9:29) And she'll always ask me the same thing. (9:31) We always exchange books. (9:33) And she's like, honestly, they suck.(9:35) I'm like, fuck. (9:37) Damn, give me something good. (9:38) What do we got, right?(9:40) I'm always trying to absorb how the world works and why it works that way. (9:43) That's awareness. (9:44) So I think that's fire.(9:45) It's the place to start for sure. (9:47) So linchpin, all right. (9:48) Acceptance.(9:49) This one's hard. (9:53) If you're great, you have to accept it. (9:55) Otherwise, you see the world wrong.(9:57) If you're not great, you have to accept it. (9:59) Otherwise, you see yourself wrong. (10:01) Basically, if you don't accept who you are, you see everything wrong.(10:07) So I used this in group coaching last night. (10:09) There's 340 species of dog. (10:12) And we think there's only one type of human.(10:14) No, there's a bunch of different types of humans. (10:18) Some of us are Dalmatians and some of us are Chihuahuas and some of us are Great Danes. (10:22) Not everyone's supposed to be Michael Jordan, right?(10:26) And I just use him because he's famous. (10:28) So acceptance, self-acceptance is, I accept that I am not gonna be in the NBA. (10:38) I accept that I am naturally tall and lanky and I'm never gonna build muscle like some people.(10:46) I also accept that I am extremely intelligent and I accept the fact that not everyone is and that I'm, if I don't accept that, I'll see everything wrong. (11:03) Because if I think I'm unintelligent, what am I gonna think of everyone else? (11:09) And it's a duality.(11:10) So you kind of, so Kev has to accept that he's short. (11:12) You can't even talk about this stuff. (11:14) It's brutal.(11:15) You can, I can accept everything, every weakness. (11:17) I have, you know, you need to accept all the good and the bad and the ugly of yourself. (11:23) And then the third one is improve it.(11:25) You can improve it. (11:26) Take action to improve it. (11:27) Certain things you can't change, some things you can.(11:30) You can improve. (11:31) Yeah, I struggled to build muscle. (11:33) Okay, too fucking bad.(11:35) Go do it anyway. (11:36) Okay, you can run really well. (11:38) Well, I don't really like running, so I'm not gonna go all in on that sport.
Kevin Palmieri
(11:44) Next level nation, what is happening? (11:47) 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. (11:54) That's really why we created it in the first place.(11:56) We start a new round every 90 days. (11:59) So if you're hearing this, go to the website, nextleveluniverse.com, and we have the landing page where you can actually hold your spot right now. (12:07) Even if there's a group going on right now, you can still lock your spot for the next one.(12:12) The biggest thing that we've seen is as we get closer and closer to the date, unfortunately, some people end up missing. (12:19) The group fills up and they can't do it, and then they end up regretting that. (12:22) So please head over to the website.(12:24) The link will be in the show notes, and we would love to see you there.
Alan Lazaros
(12:28) It's not that I don't like running. (12:29) I would rather just be in great shape. (12:32) Running doesn't, running bodies aren't for me.(12:35) Not a fan. (12:35) Doesn't do it for you. (12:36) Doesn't do it for me.(12:37) I want to be able to lift heavy things. (12:38) Yeah, agreed. (12:41) Action, you got to do something about it.(12:42) After you're aware you know how to do it and why to do it, and you accept who you are for who you are and for what you are, now you got to take action. (12:51) And then alignment is, okay, I'm gonna over swing a little bit here for a minute. (12:56) That's like the, alignment's like the long game.(12:59) Yeah, it's really hard to figure out what is and isn't aligned. (13:03) People will say, oh, that's really not aligned for me. (13:05) Okay, well, it was two years ago.(13:06) What changed? (13:07) My standards. (13:07) Okay, well, why?(13:08) Well, my goals. (13:09) Okay, well, why? (13:10) So the growth journey, I think of it like a pendulum.(13:14) When I was 10, I would swing for the fences. (13:17) I mean, it was just, you know, just swinging like crazy. (13:22) What's a good example?(13:22) Oh, I fucking hate that food and I love this food. (13:26) Now, okay, this food's okay and this food is not that bad. (13:31) When you're an adult and you mature, you still swing, but you don't swing as far.(13:36) And I do think there's some truth to this. (13:39) When we're growing up and the psychology of adolescence comes into play here, that's how you figure out who you are. (13:46) You go out and you try.(13:48) You remember the days and it's like, oh, girls suck. (13:50) And then it's, oh, well, my guy friends kind of suck. (13:54) And you just keep swinging back and forth.(13:56) It's like, well, okay, video games are great. (13:59) And no one wakes up when they're three and goes, I know who I am. (14:05) And I know who I'm not.(14:06) No, you go explore and you go, oh, shit. (14:10) Okay, I'm not actually that smart or I'm really freaking smart. (14:14) Oh, shit, I'm actually not that attractive.(14:16) Damn, I better be funny or something. (14:18) You just go out in the world and you start learning who you are. (14:21) The problem is a lot of the feedback you get is very inaccurate.(14:24) That's a whole nother conversation. (14:25) But alignment's tough because it's constant. (14:27) All these are constantly changing and they're all connected.(14:30) Raise your awareness. (14:31) Therefore, you have to take new action. (14:33) You have to accept yourself differently.(14:34) And then you have to, what used to be aligned is no longer aligned. (14:37) When I used to drink all the time, that was aligned at the time. (14:39) And now it's not aligned.(14:41) Imagine if I was in a fraternity, that was aligned at the time. (14:44) It's not aligned anymore.
Kevin Palmieri
(14:47) Well, it's so hard because this just is forever. (14:51) You get a new opportunity, it creates a new level of awareness. (14:54) Then you have to take acceptance.(14:55) Like, oh, fuck, I'm not as, maybe I'm not as brave as I thought I was. (14:58) Then you gotta take action to get braver. (15:00) And then next time you have the opportunity to do something that scares you, you gotta stay in alignment and do it.(15:04) And then rinse and repeat that. (15:06) And that is why growth is so hard because it's easier to stop than it is to continue. (15:10) Why did you used to think that other people were more than you?
Alan Lazaros
(15:16) Because they had results I didn't. (15:18) Now you know that, what do you know now? (15:22) I would guess.(15:22) Because when we first started, Kev would say, behind the scenes, he'd say, I don't know, man, it's kind of arrogant that you think you can get that house. (15:30) It's like a $50 million house. (15:31) And I was like, well, someone has to buy it.(15:34) And he's like, well, yeah, why you?
Kevin Palmieri
(15:36) I've never met that person before. (15:37) That was my, I think that was my response. (15:39) I've never met that person.(15:40) So I don't, how could it be you? (15:42) My response was, Kev, they build it for somebody. (15:44) Well, I know.(15:45) What are the odds I know that person? (15:47) That will still land. (15:49) If you're out there, that resonates.(15:51) What are the odds that I'm working with a person who's gonna buy that house? (15:53) There's a lot of $50 million houses. (15:56) I know, but I've never met anybody that owns it.(16:00) I've never met the person that owns it. (16:03) So what are the odds it's you? (16:05) That, it's a numbers game.(16:07) That's all it is. (16:08) Right. (16:09) Well, okay.(16:10) What are the odds the kid I went to middle school with and high school with, who's now my business partner, is gonna buy that house? (16:15) What are we doing here?
Alan Lazaros
(16:16) Well, so now you know how, right? (16:18) Well, now I understand, yes. (16:20) Yeah, it's just reverse engineering.(16:22) Okay, here's what the mortgage would be. (16:23) Here's what the insurance would be. (16:25) Here's how, and then, okay, I'm not gonna do it tomorrow.(16:27) But that's, it's just a very specific, like, you know how to do it, so. (16:31) If I had broke it down, I wish I had a piece of paper. (16:33) I wish I broke it down.(16:34) Okay, when I'm 60, I'm gonna buy that house. (16:38) And if I don't have one, obviously. (16:40) I could have broken it down to present day and you'd be like, oh shit, yeah.(16:43) I don't know at that point.
Kevin Palmieri
(16:45) Really? (16:46) This was years ago, I don't know. (16:49) I didn't have the awareness that I have today.
Alan Lazaros
(16:52) We would interview these people and one of them, Brant, for example, in this really, really big mansion. (16:58) And you would think, whoa. (17:00) And he thinks nothing of it because he knows that it's actually not that impressive.(17:04) And I'm not trying to be unkind. (17:07) I wasn't that impressed.
Kevin Palmieri
(17:08) Right? (17:09) I was super impressed.
Alan Lazaros
(17:09) Right, and again, I'm nothing against Brant, it's all good. (17:12) What I mean is, okay, the shape you're in right now, statistically speaking, is as rare as Brant's house.
Kevin Palmieri
(17:23) It's hard to imagine that, you know?
Alan Lazaros
(17:27) If we were to research it. (17:29) What is it, like? (17:30) I actually think there's more people.(17:32) It's more likely for you to be a millionaire than it is for you to have a six pack. (17:35) Yeah, yeah. (17:36) And so anyways, what did you used to think?(17:39) You used to think people had more awareness. (17:41) Like, what did you used to think versus now?
Kevin Palmieri
(17:43) I used to think they were just different. (17:44) They were just the type of person that, I don't know, they were just the type of person that was successful and I wasn't the type of person that was successful. (17:50) Are you smiling because of how dumb that sounds now?(17:52) No, I think it was true because they practiced stuff that I didn't practice. (17:56) I'm not saying that they were born the type of person. (18:00) I'm not saying that.(18:01) They just obviously had habits that I didn't have. (18:04) And I didn't know what those habits were. (18:07) So it just, it didn't equate.(18:09) It's like, well, they're different than I am. (18:10) And they are different than I am. (18:12) But maybe it's different through behavior, not through the way they were born.(18:15) And I don't think I understood that. (18:17) I didn't think I understood how much behavior shifts changed everything. (18:20) Nice.(18:22) Is what I would say. (18:23) Cool, man. (18:24) Cool, man.(18:24) Next level lesson before we get out of here. (18:26) It's weird. (18:26) Hey, I fucking hate doing 15-minute episodes.(18:29) I apologize to each and every one of you. (18:30) This is not the jam. (18:31) I don't enjoy this.(18:32) I want to go so much deeper into all this. (18:35) We gotta get these episodes done because we're never gonna fucking miss. (18:37) But I promise we will do better.(18:40) There's some travel back-to-back weeks here. (18:42) I haven't traveled while being this busy and overwhelmed yet. (18:48) So we're working through it.(18:49) So we appreciate you.
Alan Lazaros
(18:50) The next level lesson is, which of those do you struggle with most? (18:55) And if it's acceptance like it is for me, you don't just accept the thing. (18:59) Some people struggle to accept where they suck.(19:02) I'm just gonna come out and say it. (19:03) They really have trouble. (19:05) They want to think they're smart when they're not.(19:06) Listen, you'll be better off just saying I'm not that smart and then just go learn. (19:11) And then there's other people who struggle to admit that they are. (19:14) And I think the acceptance piece is really overlooked.(19:18) You gotta accept where you're great and you have to accept where you're not because otherwise you're gonna make decisions based on low self-awareness.
Kevin Palmieri
(19:26) Growth is hard for these reasons because this cycle runs forever. (19:30) And I think the awareness gets a little bit harder. (19:33) The acceptance gets a little bit harder.(19:34) The action gets a little bit harder and the alignment gets a little bit harder and then rinse and repeat that forever. (19:39) But then you're really good and you're really competent and you have self-belief and self-worth and I think it's worth it. (19:45) That's the thing that matters the most.
Alan Lazaros
(19:46) Wait, you mean all this doesn't just get easier?
Kevin Palmieri
(19:48) No, not yet. (19:49) Maybe we haven't got to that level yet. (19:51) The world's biggest lie is that success makes life easier.(19:55) That'll be year nine or 10. (19:57) We're just not there yet. (19:58) Once we get there, we'll be like Mario Mushroom.(20:02) Big size. (20:03) All right, cool. (20:04) If you are looking for a group of amazing humans who are into deep conversations and they just want to get to the next level, we have a private Facebook group called Next Level Nation.(20:12) We'd love to have you. (20:12) Link will be in the show notes.
Alan Lazaros
(20:15) We do a monthly meetup every single month. (20:17) The next one is on August 7th. (20:20) The link will be in the show notes.(20:22) It's on the top 10 reasons people are not more successful. (20:26) I believe that people are not more successful not because they don't believe enough in what they already believe. (20:32) I think it's because they have blind spots.(20:35) Let's figure out where yours are so that you can crush it.
Kevin Palmieri
(20:39) Oh, as always, we love you. (20:41) We appreciate you. (20:42) Grateful for each and every one of you.(20:44) And at NLU, we don't have fans. (20:45) We have family. (20:46) We will talk to you all tomorrow.(20:47) Keep it Next Level. (20:48) Next Level Nation. (20:51) Thanks for joining us for another episode of Next Level University.(20:55) We love connecting with the Next Level family.
Alan Lazaros
(20:58) We mean it when we say family. (21:00) If you ever need anything, please reach out to us directly. (21:03) Everything you need to get ahold of us is in the show notes.(21:07) Thank you again, and we will talk to you tomorrow.