It Takes Courage To Admit Your Truth (2365)

In this episode of Next Level University, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros explore a hard truth about personal growth. You cannot change what you refuse to admit. Drawing from their own experiences building businesses, coaching clients, and producing thousands of episodes, they explain why the ego often protects comfort instead of truth. They unpack how denial and distorted self-perception quietly slow progress, while honest self-awareness becomes the starting point for better decisions and meaningful growth.

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Show notes:
(3:30) The five stages of facing hard reality
(5:50) How ego protection sabotages success
(9:23) Accepting your strengths and weaknesses
(14:39) Why accurate thinking drives real growth
(17:42) The cost of living in self-deception
(18:31) Accurate data creates better decisions
(20:11) Outro

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Transcript

Kevin Palmieri

(0:00) I think it is way more courageous to just admit the truth than it is to lie to yourself, but it hurts more, it sucks more, and I think at the end of the day we are conditioned to lie because it keeps us safe, and that's unfortunately holding us back and hurting us.

Alan Lazaros

(0:16) You can't make good, effective decisions on false data. (0:21) I say that to my clients all the time. (0:22) We're going to talk about it today.

Kevin Palmieri

(0:24) Welcome to Next Level University. (0:26) I'm your host, Kevin Palmieri. (0:28) And I'm your co-host, Alan Lazarus.(0:31) At NLU, we believe in a heart-driven but no-BS approach to holistic self-improvement for dream chasers.

Alan Lazaros

(0:38) Our goal with every episode is to help you level up your life, love, health, and wealth.

Kevin Palmieri

(0:44) 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

(1:00) Self-improvement, in your pocket, every day, from anywhere, completely free. (1:07) Welcome to Next Level University.

Kevin Palmieri

(1:12) Next Level Nation, today for episode number 2,365, it takes courage to admit your truth. (1:18) So this is a part two from Acceptance is the First Step, and the reason I wanted to do a part two, I think I probably wanted to do it more than you, is because, I don't know, it's, it has become abundantly obvious to me that when you start admitting things that suck, eventually it gets to the point where it's like, it really doesn't affect you almost at all. (1:45) Eventually, yeah.(1:46) Eventually. (1:47) How long do you think? (1:49) Oh, it depends, man.

Alan Lazaros

(1:51) Let's say level five insecurity. (1:54) It would have to be years. (1:55) I would say mostly, like, it almost sneaks up on you that it doesn't bother you anymore.(2:00) You know, like when I broke my nose, that really bothered me way back, and now I never think about it. (2:07) It's like you being short, it used to bother you every day, now you like, maybe you still think about it.

Kevin Palmieri

(2:11) Yeah, I still think about it, but it's, it's like, um, it used to be, I think it goes from like an anger to a sadness. (2:20) I used to be angry, and then it just, I think it's just like, yeah, I'm sad about it, but I don't know, sad, like a sad morning, morning, M-O-U-R-N-I-N-G. (2:32) What is, what is grief?

Alan Lazaros

(2:34) Like, there's the stages of grief. (2:36) One of them is acceptance. (2:37) One of them is anger, but there's like five stages of grief.(2:40) One of them is anger.

Kevin Palmieri

(2:42) I can look it up. (2:43) Yeah, I feel like that might be, that might be a good thing, because maybe that's all this really is. (2:49) Yeah, it is.(2:50) At the end of the day. (2:51) Yeah, definitely is. (2:52) All right, let's get them.(2:55) Today's episode is sponsored by Monster. (2:57) Also, no, what? (2:59) I just, I, you say it all the time, I can't say it one time, you say it every episode, and then it's blasphemy when I say it?(3:05) Well, you actually are drinking a Monster. (3:07) Yeah, but you'll say like, this episode's sponsored by whatever, would you? (3:09) I say sponsored by coffee mug.(3:12) Remember how you, you don't say actual brands, do I? (3:14) All right, sorry, well, maybe, but it's not. (3:15) It's not sponsored by anything.(3:17) Sponsored by Alan Lazarus and Kevin Palmieri. (3:19) Five stages of grief. (3:20) Please.(3:24) Oh, that, you're just saying that as you typed it? (3:26) Yeah. (3:26) I was just trying to bring us back.

Alan Lazaros

(3:28) Okay. (3:30) Number one is denial. (3:32) I'm not short.(3:34) Yeah, yeah. (3:35) You think I'm short?

Kevin Palmieri

(3:36) Well, remember, I got rejected by, I got rejected by two ladies I tried to, um... (3:40) Yeah, let's tell that story. (3:41) Let's do, let's do Kevin's five stages of grief.(3:43) Awesome, perfect. (3:43) Another great episode that will highlight my successes in life. (3:46) Alan and I were at a party together, and my God, it was a long, I mean, this was like...(3:55) We're talking 12 hours of drinking. (3:58) So we're past 2016. (4:00) Just a ton of drinking.(4:01) End of the night, I'm going back to my tent, solo. (4:05) See a couple of young ladies who, I knew one of them, I didn't know the other one. (4:08) And I proceeded to spit game, as the kids say.(4:12) And I'm pretty sure they just outright rejected me and said something about because I was short. (4:17) And then I naturally did what an ego-driven human would do. (4:21) It was something along the lines of, look, first of all, I'm jacked, first of all, and you have no idea how much money I make.(4:28) So this is a fucking giant loss for you. (4:30) And then I probably went and cried in the tent by myself. (4:33) And then the next day I woke up, it was pouring out.(4:36) And I packed my tent up in the pouring rain at like six o'clock in the morning. (4:41) And then I drove an hour back to New Hampshire, and it was terrible.

Alan Lazaros

(4:44) Yeah, hungover as hell. (4:45) So denial. (4:46) Is that the night that we swam at 3 a.m.? Yeah, I almost died. (4:49) That was a fucking blast, dude.

Kevin Palmieri

(4:51) It was reckless. (4:52) It was a blast. (4:53) I didn't know.(4:54) You acted like you were fine. (4:55) That is the key to not drowning for me, is act like you're fine around people.

Alan Lazaros

(5:00) All right, so denial is this can't be happening. (5:04) Psychological shock absorber that protects the mind from overwhelming reality. (5:08) That's what that was.(5:09) So you're like, oh, I make so much money. (5:12) It's like, what? (5:12) What did we even?

Kevin Palmieri

(5:13) Yeah, this says nothing to do with it, right?

Alan Lazaros

(5:16) Number two is anger. (5:17) Why is this happening to me? (5:18) Frustration, resentment, or blame toward others.(5:20) So you shot it back at them. (5:22) Yep. (5:22) Yeah.(5:23) Instead of what a mature man would have been is, okay, fair. (5:26) Fair. (5:27) And have a good night.

Kevin Palmieri

(5:30) Yeah, that would have been it. (5:31) All right. (5:32) Yeah, no, it's fair.(5:33) You are statistically correct. (5:35) You're actually correct. (5:36) And I thought I'd take the shot anyway.(5:38) And you know what? (5:39) That might actually work. (5:40) Yeah.(5:41) Believe it or not, you would have probably, it would have worked. (5:44) That would have been more successful than, well, I'm jacked and you don't even know how much money I make, so.

Alan Lazaros

(5:50) That's the, I hope that that's one of the lesson that comes out of this. (5:55) The lessons is that already of when you protect yourself from hard truth, you react in ways that almost guarantee you don't get success. (6:05) Yeah.(6:05) You know, cause you just don't face the reality. (6:08) If you would just face the reality and said, oh, I understand. (6:11) Okay, fair.(6:12) So you've never, you would never consider, you know, a short person and then you could have a conversation. (6:17) It could have led to something. (6:18) I'm not, I'm just saying like.(6:19) Yeah, a hundred percent. (6:20) It's a weird metaphor, but all right. (6:22) Anger's next.(6:23) You did that. (6:23) Good bargaining. (6:25) If I only had done X, mental negotiation to try to reverse or reduce the loss.(6:31) Did you bargain? (6:33) I'll give you $60. (6:35) I'm joking.

Kevin Palmieri

(6:35) No, no, no. (6:36) There was no prostitution involved. (6:38) Yeah, no, no, no.(6:39) No, maybe in my head after I probably like replayed like what I should have done, what I should have said. (6:45) So yeah, but not bargaining to them. (6:47) No.(6:47) Number four is depression. (6:48) The car ride home.

Alan Lazaros

(6:49) For sure. (6:49) Oh my God. (6:50) Brutal.(6:52) This is the reality now. (6:54) And then five is acceptance. (6:56) That's the one we're trying to get to here.(6:58) Just acceptance. (6:59) Sounds last. (7:01) Yeah, that took a long time.(7:03) And again, we use our examples. (7:05) I remember when I found out. (7:07) When I found out.(7:07) I remember when I realized that basketball wasn't going to take me anywhere. (7:12) I love basketball, man. (7:13) I play basketball every day.(7:14) I loved it. (7:15) 2009. (7:16) We played every summer, every day, the whole summer.(7:19) It was awesome. (7:20) It was like the best freaking summer. (7:21) We went to the beach.(7:23) We played basketball. (7:26) We partied and then we woke up and do it all again. (7:29) It was unbelievable.(7:30) We had a whole group of friends. (7:31) Like it was, it was amazing. (7:33) But anyways, I remember when I realized.(7:38) The fact that I would never, no matter what I did ever be in the NBA. (7:42) And it was like, I'm wasting my fucking time. (7:45) Now I know this is going to sound off to anyone who like does things for experiences.(7:49) But to me, you can love a lot of things in life. (7:53) You might as well love and pour time and effort into something that's going to pay dividends. (7:56) And for me, that was like, I went through this depression of realizing that I wasn't going to.(8:02) Like seriously, I had to, I did that with a lot of careers. (8:05) A lot of potential careers. (8:07) I had to like let go of.(8:09) It wasn't an easy decision for me to go to college instead of pro gaming. (8:13) Like that was like a really. (8:15) I remember taking like, I don't know.(8:17) I don't want to exaggerate. (8:18) Maybe a week of just like contemplating in my head of like, am I really going to not game anymore? (8:23) Like that's really fucking sad.(8:25) And you want to know the really sad part is not a couple of years later. (8:28) Some people that I used to stomp. (8:31) Like we're better than me.(8:32) I went to a tournament out of nowhere, like two and a half years later, and I got fucking crushed. (8:36) Dude, I got fucking crushed. (8:38) I was so bad.(8:39) And these are people that I used to fucking stomp like easily. (8:43) And it was devastating, man. (8:45) That was like, okay, Alan, well, you chose to go to college.

Kevin Palmieri

(8:48) Like, you know, that happened to me with grappling. (8:53) When I started jujitsu in like 2006, nobody was doing it. (8:59) And it was like relatively new.(9:01) When I went back last year or two years ago, I was getting smoked by everybody. (9:05) It was like the stuff that used to work, didn't work anymore. (9:09) Like everybody knew it.(9:10) It's like, oh shit, I'm like way behind.

Alan Lazaros

(9:12) Yeah.

Kevin Palmieri

(9:12) I mean, this has evolved way faster than. (9:14) So I had that moment of like, you're not going to be that. (9:18) You're not going to be very good at this.(9:20) Like there's no, if I kept at it, sure, but.

Alan Lazaros

(9:23) Well, this is why acceptance is of value. (9:25) Because if we didn't accept those truths, we wouldn't be where we are today. (9:30) It helps you close the loop.(9:31) Just close the fucking loop. (9:33) You can still do it if you want to as a hobby. (9:36) Yeah.(9:36) But it's not going to be your thing. (9:38) I always say this to my clients. (9:39) You do not build a career around something you suck at.(9:44) Do not do that. (9:45) Worst idea ever. (9:46) Because there's someone I'm telling you who is like just awesome at that and loves it.(9:53) And is going to be committed. (9:55) You're competing with those people. (9:56) Like we live in a very specialized world.(9:58) You're, there are certain people, I'll use this one example. (10:02) There's a woman who wanted to be a podcaster. (10:03) And I was like, there's not a chance.(10:07) You're not a strong communicator, even a little bit. (10:10) You're very monotone. (10:11) I didn't say this to her.(10:13) But like I was discouraging her from that path a little bit. (10:16) Just because I wanted to see her win at something she could win at. (10:19) And then there's someone else I've told the story before.(10:22) Where it's like you are, you would be better than 90% of people right now. (10:27) Jump on the mic and you're already better than most of the podcasters I've ever met. (10:32) But she doesn't know that no one gets a standing ovation on their first speech.(10:35) Like she doesn't understand how good she is at this. (10:40) And she does now because I've told her. (10:41) But I think that that's something that people have struggled to accept when they suck.(10:48) And then there's the other coin where you have to accept when you're great too. (10:50) When you're great. (10:51) Yeah, that's the rarer one though.

Kevin Palmieri

(10:53) Yeah. (10:54) That's the one that people don't have empathy for. (10:57) I'm sure it's just as hard.(10:59) It's just as hard. (10:59) It's probably harder. (11:02) What do you mean?(11:03) To accept, at least if you feel like you're not good at something. (11:07) You can go talk to someone who also experiences that. (11:10) Like, hey man, you ever felt not good enough when it comes to blank?(11:13) And that person most likely will resonate. (11:16) But if it's like, hey man, you ever like feel like you're like too good at everything? (11:20) They're gonna be like, fuck you.(11:22) Fuck you. (11:24) Oh my god, that must be terrible.

Alan Lazaros

(11:26) Oh my god.

Kevin Palmieri

(11:27) Oh, you're a fitness model. (11:29) Oh, oh, that must be terrible. (11:31) Oh my god.(11:33) Oh my god. (11:34) Oh, you have extremely high IQ. (11:37) Oh my god.(11:38) Oh, that must be terrible.

Alan Lazaros

(11:40) It's worse than you. (11:41) But again, socially, it's awesome in real life. (11:45) Socially, it's not good.(11:46) Yeah. (11:46) Because everyone's so insecure around you because they know you're studying them. (11:49) I know that.(11:50) I said that to somebody the other day.

Kevin Palmieri

(11:52) Who was I talking to? (11:53) I was talking to somebody. (11:56) And I was talking to a client who's a very intimidating woman.(12:04) And she said, for some reason, I don't know, women always treat me weird. (12:08) It's like, because you're fucking intimidating. (12:10) I said, I have a client.(12:12) I said, Emilia, her name's Emilia. (12:13) She's Alan's, Alan's partner. (12:16) I said, every time before I get on a call with her, I'm, I don't want to do it.(12:20) I'm hoping she'll cancel. (12:21) She doesn't ever, unfortunately. (12:23) But I'm hoping she'll cancel because I know.

Alan Lazaros

(12:26) Has she ever?

Kevin Palmieri

(12:28) No, no, she's been late. (12:30) Oh yeah. (12:31) Runs in the family.(12:33) That's her MO. (12:34) Will always be there, but not always on time. (12:36) She's never canceled.(12:37) But I'm, I'm always, yeah, I'm always nervous because I know she's studying. (12:42) And the person I said this to laughed and I said.

Alan Lazaros

(12:45) Well, now you know me, Emilia. (12:46) But like, how did you, how do you know? (12:48) Because I know you are.(12:50) Yeah. (12:50) But how did you know back in the day? (12:52) I didn't, I didn't until you told me.(12:54) No, but people can, by that rationale, people who meet me for the first time wouldn't be. (12:59) I don't think they think that you're studying.

Kevin Palmieri

(13:01) I think they think you're judging. (13:03) Which essentially is the same thing, but it does very similar.

Alan Lazaros

(13:06) It doesn't feel like the same thing. (13:07) One thing I want to give to everybody listening is just food for thought. (13:13) Can you make a decision without judging someone or something?(13:17) Like, like, why do you choose your partner? (13:19) You're supposed to, what people say when they say don't judge, what they really mean is don't judge unfairly.

Kevin Palmieri

(13:24) Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Alan Lazaros

(13:25) I'm in agreement.

Kevin Palmieri

(13:26) I'm in agreement.

Alan Lazaros

(13:27) I know you are, but I'm not trying to convince you. (13:28) I think that that's a massive blind spot for human beings. (13:31) Genuinely.(13:32) If you don't judge, you're going to end up in terrible relationships with terrible friends and terrible, like, what is an interview? (13:38) When we interview team members, what are we doing? (13:41) We're assessing and judging whether or not they'd be a good fit for NLU and anything other than that is a terrible idea.(13:48) What's a judgment call?

Kevin Palmieri

(13:49) If you've ever tried something and say like, yeah, I judged it wrong. (13:52) That means you were inaccurate. (13:53) That's all it means.(13:54) It doesn't mean it was bad or worse than that's not what it means. (13:57) It means you were inaccurate about your expectation and you got jeffed. (14:03) I remember when I was a young boy, we liked to ride our bikes and jump.(14:07) We had these jumps. (14:08) I...

Alan Lazaros

(14:09) BMX bike? (14:10) Yeah. (14:11) BMX was big.(14:12) It was very big. (14:13) Did you ever play Dave Mira? (14:15) Yeah, man.

Kevin Palmieri

(14:16) Of course.

Alan Lazaros

(14:17) They had a sick soundtrack on that. (14:18) You remember?

Kevin Palmieri

(14:19) All of those did. (14:20) Tony Hawk, the first Tony Hawk that came out. (14:22) Oh my god.(14:22) One of the greatest games. (14:23) Best soundtrack of all time. (14:24) Yeah, one of the greatest games of all time.(14:25) So good. (14:25) Yeah, those games were ahead of their time for sure. (14:28) But I...(14:29) Every time I went to do a jump, my judgment was off. (14:32) I don't think I ever did one successfully. (14:34) I was terrible.

Alan Lazaros

(14:35) Can we talk about that? (14:36) Because... (14:37) And I know we got to go here.(14:39) That's why people always ask, why are you so obsessed with objective truth? (14:43) Why does that matter? (14:45) Like, why do you need people to know the truth?(14:48) I have a client who I adore. (14:50) She is amazing. (14:52) And she admitted to me last night.(14:53) She's like, I got to get it together. (14:54) I'm overweight. (14:55) And I was like, good.(14:57) Good. (14:58) That's the first step. (14:59) If you delude yourself into thinking you're not, you're not going to do anything about it.(15:04) And that will... (15:05) Like, what if you have a heart attack? (15:07) I know that that sounds drastic, but that's common.(15:11) Heart attack is the top three causes of death in the United States. (15:14) This person's in the United States. (15:17) It's...(15:17) The first step is admittance and acceptance. (15:20) It is. (15:21) You have to admit and accept.(15:23) Okay, I'm not going to be a pro basketball player. (15:25) Okay, I am overweight. (15:26) Okay, I am out of shape.(15:27) Okay, my legs aren't as fit as my upper body. (15:30) Okay, I am short. (15:31) Okay, I am...(15:32) I'm not that naturally smart. (15:34) So now I got to go get around smart people. (15:36) It's...(15:36) There's so much positive constructive on the other side of the pain. (15:41) The first step to... (15:42) Okay, I admit I drank too much.(15:44) Awesome. (15:45) Now drink less. (15:46) It's like the...(15:47) It's the first step to transformation. (15:49) It's so logical though. (15:50) It's so logical.(15:51) I know. (15:52) It's the first step to transformation.

Kevin Palmieri

(15:53) It is.

Alan Lazaros

(15:54) But it's... (15:54) I purposely have been using shorts in the gym because I want the insecurity of seeing a top-heavy bodybuilder so that I force myself to get my legs bigger. (16:04) And I also need to re-comp.(16:05) And my legs have zero fat on them. (16:08) It's fucking crazy. (16:09) But my upper body carries a lot of fat.(16:11) So I'm like a little top-heavy right now because I'm 210. (16:14) When I dial down, it will even out. (16:16) When's that starting?(16:19) The 10-pound and 10-week challenge. (16:20) Yeah, the dialing down.

Kevin Palmieri

(16:22) Yeah, yeah. (16:22) When will you be starting that person? (16:25) Three days before.

Alan Lazaros

(16:26) No, I'm kidding. (16:27) I'm anywhere from two to four pounds down right now depending on how much salt I had the day before. (16:35) No, but I am re-comping.(16:36) I'm re-comping because I built a lot of fucking muscle this past year and I'm a little bit fat, honestly.

Kevin Palmieri

(16:43) I wore shorts. (16:44) I did legs today and I wore shorts for the first time in a long time. (16:47) So I don't...(16:49) The reason I don't normally wear them is because I wear knee sleeves and I don't... (16:53) You're never concerned about being top-heavy because you have big legs. (16:56) I don't like my calves.(16:58) Even though I get... (16:59) I think you've said many times like, dude, your calves are fine. (17:02) I don't...(17:02) I hate them. (17:03) I think everybody, every man just hates their calves. (17:07) Yeah.(17:08) And like of all things to make fun of somebody for. (17:11) Like, you know, this is a fucking miracle. (17:12) I can walk around with these things.(17:13) Like, what are we doing here? (17:14) Make fun of something else.

Alan Lazaros

(17:15) I got tall legs, man. (17:17) Long legs. (17:18) Super long.(17:18) You have tall legs. (17:19) Tall legs. (17:19) So as an ectomorph, I got long legs.(17:22) I can run like the wind, baby, but... (17:23) I'm built like a sausage. (17:24) It's not.(17:24) It's not. (17:25) There's very few tall, lanky bodybuilders who have really good legs. (17:29) There's a few I know of that are like really good.(17:32) It's not easy, man. (17:33) We all have our strengths and weaknesses.

Kevin Palmieri

(17:34) Of course. (17:35) I can only imagine. (17:36) I can only imagine.(17:36) I got these little legs, but they can push it, baby. (17:39) So what's your takeaway for this episode? (17:43) The only...(17:45) The only way to truly be accurate with yourself is to admit the truth. (17:49) Because you're only deluding yourself. (17:52) Everybody else already knows.(17:53) Everybody else already knows the truth. (17:55) You're only deluding yourself, and it's not going to help. (17:59) Imagine if I went around, it's like, I'm fucking so tall, baby.(18:03) I love being tall. (18:04) It's annoying how tall I am, you know what I mean? (18:07) At least when I...(18:09) Back in the day before I was happily married and I was on the dating apps, one of the first things I would say to somebody is how tall I was, because I didn't want to waste their fucking time.

Alan Lazaros

(18:16) Yeah.

Kevin Palmieri

(18:16) Now, I hated it, and I wish it wasn't that way. (18:21) But... (18:21) It is.(18:22) And that was also me coping because I didn't want to, like, get embarrassed face to face. (18:26) That was a piece of it too. (18:27) But yeah, that...(18:28) If you don't live in the truth, everything is going to be deluded.

Alan Lazaros

(18:31) And it's going to hurt you more than anybody else. (18:34) Ridiculous metaphor, but important. (18:36) Imagine if you had no idea gravity was a thing, and then you jumped out of a window.(18:41) Ignorance is not bliss. (18:42) Ignorance is... (18:43) If you really didn't know, now you're dead at the bottom.(18:48) That's a metaphor. (18:49) My point is people are so frustrated with accurate thinking, they don't like it. (18:54) Most of the books and book club are all about accurate thinking.(18:57) My whole world is like, how do I... (18:58) That's what I do in coaching. (18:59) I help you think accurately about yourself, others in the world.(19:02) The reason why is when you think accurately, now you're in control. (19:06) If you think inaccurately, you're going to try a double backflip and break your neck. (19:11) Seriously, I know that's an extreme example, but everything is that.(19:14) If you go to the Philippines to buy land, there's not a lot of land. (19:17) You go to Canada to buy land. (19:19) You need to understand the...(19:22) And people in Canada are like, well, land is so expensive in Canada. (19:24) I understand. (19:25) Okay, houses are expensive.(19:27) Land, not necessarily. (19:28) And then they're going to come at me for that. (19:29) Okay, relatively speaking, globally, the point is that data is so critical.(19:34) You can't make good decisions without accurate data. (19:36) And when you think about yourself, when you delude yourself and you don't accept all of who you are, you basically can't be as effective. (19:45) You just can't be as effective at getting your results.(19:47) And you can't transform something you don't admit.

Kevin Palmieri

(19:50) Boom. (19:50) All right. (19:50) If you want to be the most effective version of yourself, and you're looking for a coach to help you do that, Alan is your guy.(19:56) Reach out to Alan directly. (19:57) If you want to be the most effective version of yourself when it comes to fitness, we have the Next Level Fitness Accountability Group. (20:02) It's on fire.(20:03) People post there every single day. (20:05) It's amazing. (20:05) So if you're looking for an amazing group of humans who are also into fitness, reach out to Alan and or myself.(20:10) We will let you in. (20:11) As always, we love you. (20:12) We appreciate you.(20:13) Grateful for each and every one of you. (20:15) 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

(20:21) Keep leveling up to reach your full potential. (20:24) Next Level Nation.

Kevin Palmieri

(20:25) Thanks for joining us for another episode of Next Level University. (20:29) We love connecting with the Next Level family.

Alan Lazaros

(20:32) We mean it when we say family. (20:34) If you ever need anything, please reach out to us directly. (20:37) Everything you need to get ahold of us is in the show notes.

Kevin Palmieri

(20:41) Thank you again and we will talk to you tomorrow.