What Does Worth It Mean To You? (2315)

What if the reason you keep stopping is not weakness, but misalignment?

In this episode, Kevin and Alan share lessons learned through years of daily execution, coaching real clients, and navigating the unseen costs of consistency. They break down why effort only lasts when goals match personal standards, identity, and long-term values, and why chasing goals that merely sound good leads to burnout and regret.

This is a focused conversation on choosing battles wisely, committing with clarity, and building consistency that holds under pressure. Listen once for insight. Listen twice to decide what is truly worth it.

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Show notes:
(2:01) The worth-it factor explained
(4:15) Why misaligned goals kill consistency
(9:14) Standards, identity, and self-honesty
(13:08) Why it has to be worth it the entire way
(21:05) Choosing hard things on purpose
(23:46) Outro

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Chapters

• 2:01 The worth-it factor explained
• 4:15 Why misaligned goals kill consistency
• 9:14 Standards, identity, and self-honesty
• 13:08 Why it has to be worth it the entire way
• 21:05 Choosing hard things on purpose
• 23:46 Outro

Transcript

Kevin Palmieri

(0:00) Three beliefs every human must have before they take a new action. (0:04) One, it is humanly possible. (0:06) Two, it is personally possible.(0:08) And three, it will be worth it. (0:09) And today we're talking about the third one because I think that's where a lot of people unfortunately get hung up.

Alan Lazaros

(0:14) Do you regret more the things you don't do or the things that you do that fail horribly?

Kevin Palmieri

(0:20) Welcome to Next Level University. (0:23) I'm your host, Kevin Palmieri. (0:25) And I'm your co-host, Alan Lazarus.(0:28) At NLU, we believe in a heart-driven but no BS approach to holistic self-improvement for dream chasers.

Alan Lazaros

(0:34) Our goal with every episode is to help you level up your life, love, health, and wealth.

Kevin Palmieri

(0:41) 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

(0:57) Self-improvement in your pocket every day from anywhere completely free. (1:03) Welcome to Next Level University.

Kevin Palmieri

(1:09) Next Level Nation today for episode number 2,315, what does worth it mean to you? (1:14) I'm on the road again at the old hotel. (1:18) What can I do for you?(1:19) On the road again. (1:20) On the road again. (1:22) But, well that won't be changing but we got a cool story about that.(1:27) I get asked all the time and I don't, I feel bad because I never have a good answer. (1:32) I still don't have a good answer. (1:33) One that I think actually resonates and is very helpful to people.(1:37) How did you not quit? (1:39) How did you not miss an episode? (1:41) How did you blah blah blah?(1:41) Any question of like how did you continue going? (1:44) And I say I just always thought it would be worth it. (1:47) I have a firm belief that all of what we've done and all of what we're doing and all of the effort and the sacrifice, I have a firm belief that it will be worth it and the day I don't have that anymore I will think about what that means.(2:01) So, I was with our client today and they're like an hour away from where I live and I come here Thursday and Friday. (2:09) So, I just stay at a hotel as I mentioned. (2:12) For podcast production?(2:14) For podcast production, social media strategy and... (2:19) Content creation. (2:20) Content creation in a nutshell.(2:22) Nice. (2:23) I would say. (2:24) So, rather than driving an hour here, being there all day, driving an hour back, waking up at four o'clock in the morning, driving an hour back.(2:32) It just made sense to say look just find a close hotel, stay there. (2:36) It's got really strong Wi-Fi. (2:37) I can get a lot of work done.(2:38) Well, I said this, we were chatting today and I was like I'll do it when I go back to the hotel. (2:44) No worries. (2:45) And he's like what do you mean the hotel?(2:47) Like why aren't you going home? (2:49) And I was like because there's a hotel like six minutes down the road. (2:51) It's just I don't have time to drive back and forth.(2:54) Like there's too much going on. (2:55) I need the time. (2:55) And he's like dude, just stay here.(2:58) And I was like you want me to like stay in one of the offices? (3:01) He's like yeah, I'll buy you a bed. (3:02) I will like literally buy you a bed and you can stay.(3:05) We have a shower. (3:06) Here's a key. (3:07) There's a fridge.(3:08) There's water. (3:09) Like just do... (3:10) You can go to the gym in the morning and then come back and shower.(3:11) Whatever you want. (3:12) There's a gym in there? (3:14) No, not in there.(3:14) But there's one like... (3:16) This is pretty prime location. (3:18) So there's stuff everywhere.(3:20) Nice. (3:20) Starbs right down the road. (3:21) Everything you can need within.(3:23) Starbs? (3:24) Starbs. (3:25) Since when do you call them starbs?(3:26) Seven bucks for a coffee. (3:28) Yeah, it's getting brutal. (3:29) It's unbelievable, sir.(3:33) God, unbelievable. (3:34) But what I am doing in terms of coming here twice a week is not necessarily sustainable. (3:43) And I am exhausted and definitely hinging on burnout.(3:48) And in two weeks, I have to pack my entire house to move it to another house, which that's a whole fucking thing.

Alan Lazaros

(3:54) And you're going to Florida again.

Kevin Palmieri

(3:56) And I might be going to Florida again to see clients, which again, all really, really good things. (4:01) But it comes down to how do I know? (4:05) How do we know?(4:06) What is the belief that says that this will all be worth it? (4:09) And I don't know necessarily how to answer that. (4:14) But I think it's an important question.(4:15) I think, isn't that what everything comes down to at the end of the day? (4:20) Is it worth waking up early to go to the gym? (4:21) Is it worth having the difficult conversation with your partner?(4:24) Is it worth asking your boss for a raise? (4:26) If it's not worth it, you're not going to do it. (4:28) It just doesn't make sense to do it.(4:29) So that's the jump off point here.

Alan Lazaros

(4:32) My goal in this episode is going to be every listener walks away, steps away from this episode knowing themselves a little better. (4:44) And I have a specific story that I've told at events before. (4:48) I've probably told it on a show before, but it always resonates when it comes to this worth it factor.(4:54) This is a client that I've been coaching for three years, maybe more, maybe a little less. (5:01) I think it's around three. (5:01) I'm rounding.(5:02) Three years. (5:03) So we've met. (5:06) And in the beginning, I always talk about what are your goals?(5:10) What do you want to achieve this year? (5:12) And he said he wants to hit a certain weight. (5:15) I did fitness coaching for a long time, fitness competitions, fitness model, blah, blah, blah.(5:19) I love it. (5:20) I love helping people in fitness. (5:22) And back when I first started working with this person, I think I was a peak performance coach.(5:26) I don't even think I was labeled a business coach yet. (5:29) I didn't change that label till later. (5:32) And so it's health, wealth, and love.(5:33) And I was like, let's rock. (5:34) Okay. (5:34) What's your health goal?(5:34) What's your wealth goal? (5:35) What's your love goal? (5:37) And person's married to kids.(5:40) So love good. (5:43) Definitely wanted to get, I think he was like two 10, maybe. (5:46) And he wanted to get down.(5:47) He wanted to get sub one 80, which we did hit by the way. (5:51) But anyways, so I remember at one point, I was trying to get him to do more. (5:56) It's like, brother, come on, you can work out more.(5:59) You can, you can do more than 20 minutes, whatever it is. (6:02) And this dude cares. (6:04) So everyone out there think of health, wealth, and love and how much you care about each.(6:09) And I don't mean you want to care. (6:11) Like I should really work out more. (6:13) I'm talking.(6:13) I, and I, I sat him down and I said, I sat him down. (6:17) I was on zoom and I said, brother, this physique that you're seeing right now. (6:26) And I know, you know, I'm in shape.(6:27) I know, you know, I exercise consistently. (6:29) I know, you know, that I'm a fitness fanatic, quote unquote, to a lot of people. (6:34) This bothers me every second of every day.(6:38) This is not okay. (6:40) This pisses me off. (6:42) I know you think I'm in shape and all that.(6:44) And you think this is great. (6:45) I hate it. (6:46) This is so bad now for, let me unpack that because I know that that doesn't resonate.(6:52) I said, when you're at a barbecue brother, does it bother you every second that you're not like in freak athlete shape? (6:59) And he's like, no, no, I don't care at all. (7:03) I said, I fucking knew it, dude.(7:05) Don't worry about it. (7:06) Then you're not going to do what I'm willing to do. (7:10) I need to walk into a room and it'd be like freak athlete.(7:14) That dude's a fucking animal. (7:17) That's what I want. (7:18) You don't need to fucking want that.(7:20) You don't even care. (7:21) You want to be sub one 80 and we achieved it. (7:23) Congratulations.(7:24) Move on with your life. (7:26) Here's my truth. (7:27) I do think everyone should be healthier, wealthier, and more in love.(7:29) I do. (7:29) I really believe that. (7:31) I think it would be dumb not to.(7:32) You need to have goals under each. (7:33) I'm with you. (7:34) But this person's worth it factor in fitness is not close to mine, brother.(7:42) I have a ton of drive in that area. (7:45) Like a ton, so much like standards and drive. (7:51) And I don't know where that comes from, but I would never be okay with an average body.(7:58) I would never be okay with that. (8:00) I wasn't okay with it when I had one and he's totally cool with it. (8:03) And he's not in bad shape.(8:05) He's, he's in statistically higher. (8:07) He's probably the 80th percentile. (8:08) He's probably a hundred people in a room, a hundred dudes in a room.(8:11) He's probably top 20, but dude, that, that would never do it for me, dude. (8:16) That would never do it for me. (8:18) So my point is to everyone out there watching or listening, it might not be worth it.(8:26) You need to set goals that are worth it. (8:30) You're not going to exercise as hard as me when you don't care at all. (8:35) It bothers me every day and it doesn't bother you at all.(8:37) You think you're going to be as driven as me? (8:42) What's your take on that?

Kevin Palmieri

(8:45) I mean, it makes sense. (8:47) I think that's, if we want to talk about motivation at the simplest form, when you look at yourself and again, health, wealth, and love, and you feel like you are wildly under your own standards, that's one of the best motivators in the world. (9:05) So I think that's spot on, but I think it's, I think people get scared.(9:09) I think that's a scary thing to like put yourself up against maybe.

Alan Lazaros

(9:14) Okay. (9:14) When you say scary, do you mean what's the fear? (9:17) Is it fear that you actually don't have standards or is it fear that you do have standards and you don't want to admit it because you don't believe you can achieve them?

Kevin Palmieri

(9:24) I think it's a mix of both. (9:25) And like, I'm going to end up becoming a slave to the standards and like, I'm going to... (9:32) That grown up conversation, you are.(9:35) I know, but I think it's, I don't know. (9:40) I think something has to happen before you're willing to have that conversation with yourself of, all right, I'm going to admit it. (9:46) I'm under my, I'm living under my standards and now I'm going to dedicate a portion of my existence forever.(9:52) I mean, that's a big, that's a big, I mean, people have commitment issues. (9:57) You know what I mean? (9:59) That's a big, that's a big thing.(10:01) Does that not excite you?

Alan Lazaros

(10:02) It excites me. (10:03) Dedicate my existence to something. (10:05) Exciting.

Kevin Palmieri

(10:07) No, no, it doesn't excite me like it excites you, no. (10:12) All right. (10:12) This is Worth It Factor, right?(10:14) Yes.

Alan Lazaros

(10:16) What? (10:16) I said this on a podcast earlier. (10:18) Awesome show.(10:22) I don't say that lightly, by the way. (10:25) I said something, I don't know, because they asked me like, how are you so fucking driven? (10:29) Like, where does that come from?(10:30) Like, is that... (10:31) And I said, I used to think it was from my really hard childhood. (10:35) And I thought when I went to therapy, I was so afraid to lose my drive.(10:40) And it got way bigger. (10:43) As I've healed through things and learned myself and highly recommend therapy for anyone out there, if you have a good therapist, and that is a big if, but it's been unbelievable. (10:54) It's gotten way bigger.(10:54) I said, some people have a candle, some people have a bonfire, some people have a forest fire, some people have the fucking sun. (11:00) Mine got bigger, not smaller. (11:03) And I was so afraid it was going to go away.(11:04) I was like, do you remember me talking to you about that? (11:06) Like, brother, am I going to be like, unmotivated and average and mediocre and ordinary? (11:12) Like, am I going to lose my fucking tenacity?(11:15) What did you think back then? (11:17) No.

Kevin Palmieri

(11:18) I thought if anything, it would just be healthier. (11:24) What are you trying to say? (11:25) I think you had some shit buried down there.(11:28) You know, you're just shoveling coal. (11:30) There was no part of you that was afraid I'd lose the drive? (11:34) No.

Alan Lazaros

(11:35) Seriously?

Kevin Palmieri

(11:35) If anything, it was probably a part of me that was like, yeah, maybe I'll calm down a little bit. (11:38) My life will get a little bit easier. (11:40) How'd that go?(11:41) It's got worse. (11:42) It's gotten worse, actually. (11:43) Gone in the opposite direction.(11:45) My life will get a little easier. (11:47) Okay. (11:47) No, I don't think I...(11:48) No, I wasn't thinking that.

Alan Lazaros

(11:49) Well, the worth it factor is everyone has a flame that's lit in each area. (11:55) Your flame is lit in finance and generosity around money more than most. (12:05) Mine is lit in mastery.(12:08) I love mastery. (12:11) So where is your fire lit and how do you pour oxygen on that fire? (12:16) Because I've gotten to the point with certain clients where it's like, and I know you're listening, brother, so this is a different person.(12:22) And I was like, for me, Chris Hemsworth, 2011 in Thor, it was like that, done. (12:28) I'm doing it. (12:29) Whatever it takes.(12:30) He's like, I think I can go Chris Pratt. (12:34) When he first did Guardians of the Galaxy, you know exactly. (12:37) So for anyone out there who doesn't study physiques, the point I'm making is that's a big difference.(12:43) One of them is like dedicate my existence and maybe never hit it because Kev believes he was on the sauce.

Kevin Palmieri

(12:50) I would bet money.

Alan Lazaros

(12:52) And the other one is like, you should work out consistently and diet a bit. (12:56) And again, nothing against you, Chris Pratt, but at the end of the day, the level you shoot for in life, it has to be worth it in advance.

Kevin Palmieri

(13:08) Yeah. (13:09) But you know, I was thinking of this because I knew we were going to do this episode. (13:12) I think you also have to have trust in yourself that you'll be able to read the signs as you get deeper into the journey.(13:20) Like if it's not worth it at the beginning, it's not going to be worth it at the end. (13:24) There's no way like, oh yeah. (13:27) When, when X happens, it's like, no, I'm telling you I've had a lot of, it's a lot of the X has happened.(13:33) It didn't. (13:34) No, no, it wasn't like, oh yeah, now it's all. (13:38) I would have been in a lot of trouble if I thought that eventually we would get to this magnificent land where everything just clicked and it was like, yes, now everything is whole and complete.(13:51) Like that doesn't happen. (13:53) That doesn't happen. (13:54) So I think you ha it has to be worth it.(13:57) It has to be worth it. (13:58) The whole time when you're arguing with your partner, it has to be as much worth it then as it is when you're having the best, most passionate lovemaking ever. (14:05) When you're broke as shit, it has to be worth it just like it is.(14:09) If not more, when you get your first, whatever client that there's something to that, there is no mythical land of you get to a place and then it's like, oh, this was all worth it because then do you just stop?

Alan Lazaros

(14:27) I don't know if that can really work. (14:29) Okay. (14:30) Debate with me on this a little bit.(14:31) We got time. (14:32) We got time. (14:33) We have time.(14:35) I think there are minutes and moments where you do have the, I'll give you one. (14:42) And I want the listeners thinking of themselves, but this was one for me. (14:46) I told myself I would be, I'd win a fitness competition for men's physique.(14:54) And I said that for years. (14:56) And the first show I thought I'd get first, I got fifth second show. (15:01) I thought I'd lose and I stomped everybody, but that was because I was scarce and had lower body fat percentage than ever in my entire life.(15:08) And it was messing with my head. (15:10) But that moment when they call second place and it's not your name. (15:15) Cause I won the show and the overall you were, were you there for that one?(15:19) I was competing with that dude. (15:22) Okay. (15:22) Um, and when they, they, they do fifths, you know, fourth, third.(15:26) And when his name got called for second, I knew I got first. (15:29) It was like that moment was like, fuck. (15:32) Yeah.(15:33) I fucking knew it. (15:34) I fucking knew I could do it. (15:36) I live for that.(15:38) I don't even care if anyone else was there. (15:42) It I live for that moment where it's like, it was all worth it, baby. (15:48) I fucking knew I could do it.(15:51) I live for that. (15:53) I also live for one more thing. (15:55) I'll share briefly is, is breakthrough moments when I'm with a client and it clicks.(15:59) I had one the other day. (16:00) I know you're listening. (16:01) It was like, Oh, it took me six fucking years of coaching you to get you there.(16:07) You got it. (16:08) You fucking got it. (16:09) And you'll never be the same.(16:10) I live for that moment. (16:11) So I think there's minutes and moments that are wonderful. (16:14) They're there.(16:15) I'm addicted to them, but most of it blows. (16:20) I do think 90% of the journey is really, really hard. (16:24) And I think there are minutes and moments that make it worth it.(16:26) That's my truth.

Kevin Palmieri

(16:27) I think 100% of the journey is really hard. (16:31) I think 100% of the journey is really hard. (16:33) I do.(16:35) I told you life is harder now in different ways. (16:39) That's the thing. (16:40) It's all contextual, right?(16:41) Like I am grinding. (16:46) No, no, but it doesn't mean from my perspective, it isn't harder in certain things because you and I've said this before. (16:53) And again, this isn't from a place of ego.(16:55) It's not that it's just the, so much of the struggle is just unseen because again, you see me one hour a day, a half hour a day. (17:05) What's that? (17:05) One 48th of the day.(17:06) Like that's not that much time. (17:09) If, if you're a podcaster out there, I could give you the keys to the kingdom. (17:16) So here you go.(17:17) You can have my seat and you can have my mic and you can, and you can get the clients and you can do all this stuff. (17:22) I don't think for most people it's worth it. (17:25) I think it sounds really good.(17:27) And then like a weekend, you'd be like, this is fucking terrible. (17:30) This is absolute. (17:32) How many WhatsApp messages do you get a day?(17:34) I don't know, like a hundred depending on the day. (17:37) It depends how many, I don't think it would be worth it. (17:41) Just like you, whether you're watching or listening, have something that to me is not worth it.(17:47) And I wouldn't do it. (17:49) What if you learn how to love hard things? (17:53) Like that's, I think there's a difference between a hard thing and a, and a thing that just isn't that valuable to you, you know?

Alan Lazaros

(18:05) Okay. (18:06) And again, I want to clarify, cause I want to be accurate and I, we have fun on here and I said the rest blows. (18:10) It doesn't, it's, it's a spectrum of wonderful, fulfilling, meaningful things.(18:15) And then things that just kind of suck that are necessary. (18:19) Call it my want, love, hate framework. (18:20) I want more clients.(18:21) I love one-on-one coaching. (18:22) I hate social media. (18:23) That's my truth.(18:24) It is what it is.

Kevin Palmieri

(18:25) But it's still hard.

Alan Lazaros

(18:28) What'd you say? (18:28) Coaching's hard. (18:30) I know, but, and it's the meaningful heart I want.(18:33) And I think that that's what we should fight for in life. (18:35) We should fight for the meaningful work that's worth it. (18:39) And then the rest is just kind of a pain in the ass, but that's also par for the course.(18:44) Like I think about this all the time. (18:48) There are people that don't have food. (18:50) Like what the hell?(18:52) I don't, that's really important. (18:54) I feel like everybody should do that. (18:56) You should wake up in the morning and think to yourself, like there's people without food.(19:00) That doesn't land for everybody. (19:02) I know. (19:03) That's what one of my, one of my clients said that too.(19:05) She's a therapist. (19:05) She's like, you can't, that doesn't work for everybody.

Kevin Palmieri

(19:07) It does.

Alan Lazaros

(19:07) Because what it does is it invalidates their suffering. (19:10) It's like, I know, but isn't that, well, that works perfectly for me. (19:14) That's my truth.(19:14) It works really good for me.

Kevin Palmieri

(19:16) A lot of things work for you that aren't necessarily, well, that's why we should have the dialogue healthy for other people. (19:22) I would say, what do you mean, man? (19:26) You're, I don't know.(19:28) You have very high self-belief. (19:30) You have very high self-efficacy. (19:34) Like you're very capable.(19:35) I feel like it's different. (19:37) I, for me, it's like, I understand. (19:40) I think I'm that way now more than ever.

Alan Lazaros

(19:42) Nice. (19:43) But back in the day, it was like, sorry, I didn't mean to come at you. (19:49) Well, then F and explain it, man.(19:51) But seriously, like you got, you can be both because you, I can't remember a time in my life where I wasn't like, fuck yeah. (19:57) Suffer your way.

Kevin Palmieri

(19:58) Because I think if somebody is listening and they're like, I can't, I'm so depressed. (20:02) I can't get out of bed. (20:03) The last thing you need to do is say, oh, there's somebody out there that can't eat.(20:06) Like you don't need that. (20:06) You don't need that shit. (20:08) You don't need that.(20:09) That's not going to help. (20:10) That's not motivational. (20:11) That's a fucking anchor.(20:12) That's heavy. (20:14) That is a heavy, heavy realization. (20:16) If you're, if it rained and you forgot your umbrella, I need you to lock it up.(20:25) I need you to lock it up. (20:27) Like that is not a big deal. (20:29) That is not one of your plates broke.(20:33) I don't care. (20:34) One of your what? (20:35) One of your plates.(20:36) You broke one of your plates. (20:37) Not a bit. (20:37) You dropped a glass.(20:38) Not a big deal. (20:39) Like, you know, I think there's, I think perspective is important, but I do think perspective can be very overwhelming depending on the size of it.

Alan Lazaros

(20:49) Okay. (20:50) I know we got to go. (20:51) I got a coaching session.(20:53) I'm excited for, I think meaning helps you reorient around doing hard things. (21:03) Here's what I know for sure. (21:05) Everything that is required of success, if you're not going to lie, steal, cheat, status your way to success, is going to be challenging.(21:16) And the levels of that challenge will be in proportion to the size of the goals and the rarity of the goals. (21:21) But to me, suffering by choice can be meaningful if it's worth it. (21:28) And you have to decide what's worth it because when I'm, when it's fucking 10 degrees out and I don't want to exercise, but I do anyway, and I'm out there alone while no one else is out there or with Amelia, when no one else is out there, I feel a sense of that's who I am.(21:50) You can call it pride. (21:52) You can call it ego. (21:52) I don't care what you call it, but it's self-esteem.(21:55) It's self-respect. (21:56) It's, I do hard things even when it's inconvenient. (22:00) I do hard things even when it's raining, rain, sleet, snow, shine.(22:05) I do not care. (22:06) The weather does not dictate what Alan Lazarus does or doesn't do. (22:09) Period.(22:10) Only Alan Lazarus dictates that. (22:12) Now I realize that I'm a little bit intense, but that doesn't mean we don't all have a warrior in us. (22:18) Everybody has a warrior in us and I want to ignite it in our listeners because I have a coaching client recently who said, I think I lost my fucking warrior.(22:25) I said, I know you did. (22:27) You did. (22:27) And I did for a little while too.(22:29) I was soft as puppy shit for a little while there. (22:31) And it pisses me off. (22:32) Now I'm not saying I want to be toxic, but I definitely don't want to lose my warrior again.(22:37) And I think that the worth it factor, baby, find something you're willing to fight for something you believe in so deeply that no one can take it. (22:44) Ooh, you're going to be a powerful human.

Kevin Palmieri

(22:47) Well, I think that's, that's the point that I'll end with is what I'm talking about is like the privileged. (22:51) You chose this. (22:54) That's a lot different than I don't going to a job that you hate every day.(22:57) Cause you have to, I think that's a different, obviously that's different, right? (23:00) Those are different circumstances, but then again, you have to do that. (23:03) Will it be worth it to do that in order to get to where you want to go?(23:05) That's a, I mean, that is essentially what we're talking about. (23:07) So I would challenge everybody to sit down. (23:10) And I think the best question is what I regret it.(23:13) What I regret stopping. (23:16) Even if I never get my goal, even if I never get the thing I signed up for, even if I never get, I, I think that's the best question. (23:22) Cause I don't, I haven't found that mythical thing yet.(23:26) I don't know. (23:27) Does it exist? (23:27) I don't know.(23:28) I don't even care anymore. (23:30) I don't, I'm not going after the mythical thing. (23:32) I don't know something.(23:32) It's the wiring's different now. (23:34) You love it. (23:35) All right.(23:36) If you're looking for coaching, Alan has slots available. (23:38) If you're looking for podcasts, coaching slash production, next level podcast solutions is always working with aligned people. (23:44) So we'll have the links in the show notes for those things below.(23:46) As always, we love you. (23:47) We appreciate you grateful for each and every one of you. (23:49) And if you are as committed as you say you are to getting to the next level, make sure you tune in tomorrow because we will be here every single day to help you get there.

Alan Lazaros

(23:56) Life doesn't get easier. (23:57) You handle hard better. (23:58) Keep leveling up to your full potential.(24:00) Next level nation.

Kevin Palmieri

(24:02) Thanks for joining us for another episode of next level university. (24:06) We love connecting with the next level family.

Alan Lazaros

(24:09) We mean it when we say family, if you ever need anything, please reach out to us directly. (24:14) Everything you need to get ahold of us is in the show notes. (24:18) Thank you again.(24:19) And we will talk to you tomorrow.