Going Back Home Does Something To You PT2 (2464)

In this episode of Next Level University, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros break down how self-belief shapes identity, learning, and long-term success. Kevin reflects on an old dream that once felt impossible and reveals the deeper lesson: most limits are accepted internally before reality ever tests them.

They discuss fantasy, visualization, rumination, action, insecurity, and the role of better questions in real growth. Belief matters, but only when it turns into skill, consistency, and self-awareness. Belief opens the door. Skill keeps you from getting escorted out.

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Show notes:
(3:02) The belief behind the goal
(5:27) Self-identity and assumed limits
(7:28) Fantasy, visualization, action, and rumination
(11:28) Insecurity, questions, and learning
(14:28) Why belief creates the need to grow
(15:35) Self-awareness makes better coaching possible
(19:45) Outro

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Transcript

Kevin Palmieri

(0:00) Somebody once said something to me and it was based on a goal that I had. (0:06) It was something that I really wanted and I was shooting for the stars. (0:09) I was really reaching.(0:10) I was reaching. (0:10) I was shooting for the stars and this person shot them down gently, not in a super negative way, but I had a conversation about it with a new perspective and I want to share that with you.

Alan Lazaros

(0:22) I have no idea what this is going to be. (0:23) This is a Kevin episode. (0:25) I'm fascinated for sure and it's a part two of face your past, reassess your past, to learn from it, to slingshot into your bigger, better, brighter future.(0:36) Welcome to Next Level University.

Kevin Palmieri

(0:38) I'm your host Kevin Palmieri and I'm your co-host Alan Lazaros. (0:43) 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

(1:12) Self-improvement in your pocket, every day, from anywhere, completely free. (1:19) Welcome to Next Level University.

Kevin Palmieri

(1:24) Next Level Nation today for episode number 2464. (1:28) Essentially, it's going to be going back home part two. (1:31) Okay.(1:31) All right. (1:32) I want to paint context on this because it's very important that I don't paint this person in a negative light because this person, um, yeah, yeah. (1:42) Okay.(1:43) When I was living in New Hampshire by myself back in the day, I think I was just getting into this. (1:51) Like I was just starting to believe in myself a little bit. (1:54) And I sent a picture of a Corvette, a really nice Corvette to my mom.(1:58) And I said, I'm going to have this one day. (2:00) I'm going to have this fucking car one day. (2:03) And I think she was like, Kev, there's no way you can have that.(2:06) That's like super expensive. (2:07) And I was like, I know exactly how much it, I know exactly how much it is. (2:09) I'm going to fucking have this car.(2:10) A hundred percent. (2:11) It was like $80,000. (2:13) This was like 2018.(2:15) Shit was cheap back then. (2:15) It was like $80,000. (2:17) And again, I know that's an expensive car.(2:19) And I was like, but here's the thing. (2:23) Don't you have a $70,000 car right now? (2:25) Let me get to the fucking point.(2:26) All right. (2:27) Sorry. (2:27) That was a little bit delusional because I had no idea how I was going to do it.(2:30) It was like, but I'm going to fucking do it. (2:32) But it wasn't like, then it goes into the movie montage of them doing it. (2:35) It's like, then it goes into the movie montage of them like smoking weed and eating pizza.(2:39) You know what I mean? (2:39) Like that's, I was like, I'm going to fucking do this. (2:42) It's like, all right, we'll worry about that later.(2:44) Go hang up. (2:46) But I remember, and again, the reason I want to make sure that it's not painted in a negative light. (2:51) My mom, when I told her I'm not going to college, there was no like, you have to go.(2:55) There was none of that. (2:56) When I said, I'm going to be a, Hey, um, I've decided I'm going to be a professional cage fighter. (3:02) She's like, okay, I wish you wouldn't, but you do your thing.(3:07) Awesome. (3:08) I'm going to work this job where I just like travel all over the place and I don't know what's going to happen. (3:13) I'm going to pack my suitcase.(3:15) Wish me the best. (3:16) Yep. (3:16) Okay.(3:17) Good luck.

Alan Lazaros

(3:18) Like, this is why we can't use you and I as examples.

Kevin Palmieri

(3:20) Yeah. (3:20) This is a reason. (3:21) Yeah.(3:21) This is a reason we had a conversation this weekend. (3:25) I said, Hey, remember, remember when you told me I couldn't get that car? (3:29) She's like, I do.(3:30) I said, that's not the car anymore. (3:32) This is the car. (3:33) This is the new car.(3:34) She said, how much is that? (3:35) I said, I think it's $230,000. (3:37) And I said, I'm going to get that fucking car.(3:38) Trust me. (3:39) I mean, I could buy the Corvette now if I wanted to. (3:41) Yeah.(3:41) I could buy that fucking car. (3:42) You told me I couldn't get right now. (3:44) I can go do it right now.(3:45) Don't want it. (3:46) I don't want that fucking car anymore. (3:47) I want this car and I'm going to get this fucking car.

Alan Lazaros

(3:49) When you become the person who can do it, you actually won't want it anymore.

Kevin Palmieri

(3:52) It's interesting. (3:53) That is, I think that's the important thing is like, I don't want this to be one of those like bro episodes. (3:58) That's not that it's not that it's not about the money.(4:00) It's not about the car. (4:02) I, but it's, it's about the belief. (4:05) It's about the belief of belief.(4:07) And I think that's why the reflection is so valuable because you get to go to a place where you had a certain level of belief with a new level of belief. (4:14) And you get to see how much of that shit was made up.

Alan Lazaros

(4:18) Let me ask you a question, please. (4:21) Okay. (4:21) So this is what my brain did back when I was a kid.(4:24) Okay. (4:25) I would see an end in Massachusetts, which we both born and raised in the nineties. (4:35) There was a lot of wealth.(4:37) Not everyone had wealth, but there was a lot of wealth. (4:40) Okay. (4:41) Dot com bubble was a big deal.(4:42) Look it up. (4:43) Whoa. (4:45) And as a kid, I would look at these people who had a Corvette like that.(4:52) And I would go, if he can do it, I am dead ass certain that I can do it because he is an idiot. (5:00) Right. (5:01) And the truth is he was an idiot.(5:03) There was a lot of people who had a lot of money that weren't very bright and they weren't very hardworking and they certainly weren't virtuous and they weren't well-developed. (5:09) Like my childhood was had a lot of underdeveloped, immature people. (5:15) It's like big kids with money.(5:16) It was weird. (5:17) It was just weird. (5:18) Hmm.(5:19) When you didn't believe in yourself, did you not have that same? (5:22) Like, well, he did it. (5:23) So obviously I can, this is why the self identity is so important.

Kevin Palmieri

(5:27) I'm still working through the, I have to, I have to stop myself. (5:31) What did you think?

Alan Lazaros

(5:32) You thought they had something you don't.

Kevin Palmieri

(5:33) I assume everybody has something. (5:35) I don't. (5:35) That's I still do.(5:36) It's not true. (5:37) I still, now you override it because you know, it's not true. (5:40) Yeah, but it's not my natural.(5:41) My natural is still like, I'll see something and be like, Oh fuck. (5:45) Okay. (5:45) Seriously.

Alan Lazaros

(5:47) And then what's your second thought? (5:51) Because mine goes to, they have, they, they've done something I haven't done or they know a formula. (5:57) I don't know yet.(5:58) That's it. (5:59) It's, it's, there's a way and, and I need to figure out the way that's, that's the whole thing. (6:06) I know that sounds probably overly simplified because, but there's a way obviously someone did it.

Kevin Palmieri

(6:12) I assume it's like this, this treasure chest information that is just inaccessible.

Alan Lazaros

(6:19) Not now, but that was it in the past. (6:22) What is it now then? (6:23) Because that's really what I think is of value in this episode is like, you look around you, look at, look at people in the world.(6:30) Now, a lot of people in the world have inherited wealth. (6:34) Like most wealthy people statistically is inherited wealth. (6:38) So under, but there's some people who started from nothing.(6:41) The guy was on with earlier, apparently started with 25 bucks, immigrated from Holland to Canada and started from the ground up, started a lumber company. (6:50) There are people who literally are multimillionaires in some cases, billionaires who started from nothing. (6:57) So getting a car is not like impossible.(7:01) Yeah. (7:01) But I think the thing is, I still don't, I don't know if I'll ever naturally dealership. (7:06) You know what I mean?(7:06) I don't understand why people can't. (7:08) And I know I sound like a pretentious prick right now because most, because most people, the person who owns that dealership is not that is not smarter than you. (7:16) But how would I know that when I never talked to them?(7:19) You, I guess you wouldn't. (7:21) I mean, this is the simulation thing. (7:22) And I have one more thing.(7:23) I know we got to go in eight minutes and I know this is supposed to be your episode. (7:26) I need to share this. (7:28) We did an episode recently on fantasy versus imagination versus visualization versus action.(7:33) There's one more Emilia rumination. (7:35) She said rumination. (7:37) And I think that's a really powerful framework.(7:39) It's like, how much time do you spend? (7:41) And we'll do another episode on this at some point in fantasy, which is like not grounded in reality at all. (7:48) Everyone has them.(7:49) Don't pay them any mind. (7:51) What a waste of fucking time, right? (7:52) Then there's imagination.(7:53) You need that to be creative. (7:55) You need to imagine the future that you could have. (7:58) You need to, that's important.(8:00) Visualization. (8:01) Now it's like, what am I going to do? (8:04) And I'm going to visualize doing it in advance.(8:05) Like that Toastmasters speech. (8:07) I visualized the whole thing before I did it. (8:09) Of course.(8:10) Right. (8:11) And that's called simulation slash visualization. (8:13) You don't have to get hit by a car to simulate what that might be like.(8:19) We human beings, dolphins and primates have that ability. (8:22) You can simulate things in advance. (8:23) That's why dolphins can work together, man.(8:26) They do some really good techniques for hunting and stuff. (8:29) Like they're amazing. (8:30) I, my cat doesn't have to fall off the fridge to know that it might fall off the fridge.(8:36) Like we can all do this. (8:38) And if a cat can do it, you certainly can. (8:40) Right.(8:40) Human beings have these brains. (8:41) It's, it's unbelievable, but we don't, if you don't practice it, you won't get better at it and you won't practice it if you don't have belief. (8:46) So it's this conundrum and then rumination.(8:48) So it's like fantasy, imagination, visualization slash simulation. (8:52) And then you have doing the actual thing. (8:54) That's the physical action.(8:55) And then you have rumination, which is basically all the things that could go wrong, ruminating, stopping you from doing the thing. (9:02) When in reality, if you just went and do the fucking thing, like brother, you and I talked to Brent Penvedic and we were talking about leverage buyouts and his future and finances. (9:12) And now you would understand every word.(9:14) You would understand exactly what we're talking about. (9:16) Yeah. (9:16) But I got, I got catapulted to places that I just wasn't ready for.(9:21) For sure. (9:22) Yeah, I know. (9:22) But, but that doesn't mean you obviously were able to adapt.(9:26) Yeah.

Kevin Palmieri

(9:26) Brain and body have adapted, but in the moment you don't know that. (9:30) Absolutely. (9:30) In the moment it's like the Delta between who I am and who I think I need to be are seem insurmountable.(9:36) Yeah, for sure.

Alan Lazaros

(9:38) Now it's less, it's like, imagine that same conversation with me and Brent. (9:43) I bet you would understand most of it now. (9:46) Probably.(9:46) You, you studied shark tank for years. (9:48) You have been with me for nine years.

Kevin Palmieri

(9:51) Can I put that on my resume? (9:53) I've watched 236 episodes of shark tank.

Alan Lazaros

(9:55) No, I know everything. (9:57) It's a very bad business textbook. (10:01) Don't use it as a business textbook.(10:03) But like all the Jim Collins, like you would understand what we were talking about. (10:06) You would. (10:06) That was an amateur conversation for me, right?(10:09) Because I had been around people smarter than Brent my entire life. (10:12) Straight up. (10:12) Brent's not that bright.(10:13) I love him. (10:14) Great. (10:14) Awesome.(10:14) Not that bright. (10:15) And, and that's all fine, but there's levels to understanding. (10:21) And, and Brent didn't, doesn't know anything that I don't know.(10:23) He's better at communicating. (10:24) He's better at sales and he's in Hollywood and he's older. (10:27) Like there's no, the older thing.(10:29) Never. (10:30) I never, you don't think about that. (10:32) I mean, age is everything.(10:33) You know, I know, but you don't personally talking about with the 35 grand, like I guarantee you she's late forties, early fifties, younger, younger than you think. (10:41) Early forties.

Kevin Palmieri

(10:43) Um, yeah, very early forties. (10:45) Yeah.

Alan Lazaros

(10:45) Then she's doing very well. (10:47) That's rare. (10:48) That's very rare.(10:49) Yeah. (10:49) Well, you know, I coach forties and fifties. (10:51) I coach some successful people too.(10:52) You know what I mean? (10:53) No, I see that. (10:53) And that's impressive.(10:54) But if she was 22, we'd be having a different conversation. (10:57) For sure. (10:57) You know, there's no 22 year olds who make 35 grand consulting.(11:00) And if there are, they're hoodwinking somebody. (11:02) You don't know shit at 22.

Kevin Palmieri

(11:04) Yeah. (11:05) Well, unless it's like social media. (11:06) Yeah.(11:07) That's interesting then.

Alan Lazaros

(11:08) Yeah. (11:08) Like that's, there are things that are, there are some, but that's rare. (11:11) That's rarer than before the youth.(11:13) Yeah, for sure. (11:13) It's rarer than virtual thing. (11:14) Even though everyone on YouTube makes it sound like it, that's the way to win on YouTube, unfortunately.

Kevin Palmieri

(11:20) And in the world. (11:21) It is a fugazi. (11:24) It is a fugazi.(11:25) What would you tell older Kev about that? (11:26) You said there was a question in there somewhere.

Alan Lazaros

(11:28) What would I tell, tell older Kev? (11:29) Yeah. (11:30) What would you, what would you tell Kev sitting at that table, feeling insecure about not knowing what we were talking about?

Kevin Palmieri

(11:37) I don't know if there's, I don't, nothing I would have said would have helped me in the moment. (11:43) Like, that's like the realization, like nothing. (11:47) I mean, like, yeah, in the future, man, you'll be, you'll be okay in the future.(11:50) Keep learning. (11:51) Yeah. (11:51) You're okay.(11:52) You're in a conversation.

Alan Lazaros

(11:53) You say, ask some questions. (11:56) Like if you had just asked questions instead of stayed insecure, you'd have been smarter.

Kevin Palmieri

(12:01) Well, that, I mean, that's a, that's a through line of my life for sure. (12:05) But I don't know if that's the place to ask questions. (12:06) I think there are certain places where you just absorb, you know?

Alan Lazaros

(12:11) I don't agree with that.

Kevin Palmieri

(12:12) No.

Alan Lazaros

(12:13) Yeah. (12:13) I always, I, the 80s, you're not a good example. (12:16) I know, I know.(12:17) But you're not a good example necessarily. (12:18) Why? (12:19) Because you're very high, very high belief.(12:23) I think it always comes down to that same thing. (12:25) I know. (12:25) It's always going to, it doesn't mean asking questions isn't good.

Kevin Palmieri

(12:29) No, no, no.

Alan Lazaros

(12:29) I always ask more questions. (12:30) That's one thing about my life. (12:32) I always ask more questions.(12:33) But I think your questions were valuable to the conversation.

Kevin Palmieri

(12:36) I don't think mine would have been necessarily. (12:37) Like, what am I going to ask? (12:39) What's a leveraged buyout?

Alan Lazaros

(12:41) I don't even know if I would have known. (12:44) I think you're too insecure to ask because you don't want to be found out. (12:48) I think me sitting in silence is being found out.

Kevin Palmieri

(12:53) Genuine, like in my mind, it's like, I'm just going to absorb. (12:56) I don't feel like I can add any value to the conversation. (12:59) Okay.(12:59) So that's not me withholding because I think I'm going to be found out. (13:03) That's me like knowing I'm already found out in my mind at least. (13:06) Yeah.(13:07) I don't think you're like, you guys are waiting for me. (13:09) Like, fuck it. (13:10) Kevin's gonna, Kevin get in here in a second.(13:13) Don't tag me in.

Alan Lazaros

(13:14) Yeah. (13:14) I don't think you guys are waiting on me to be like, what would you say to the listeners to me? (13:18) And this is something that we, one of the reasons you and I are so again, aware for our age is just questions.(13:24) I ask questions to every one of my clients. (13:26) I ask questions to every, I asked the 86 year old a bunch of questions on his show. (13:30) I was like, Hey, let me, let me ask you something.(13:32) He's like, okay. (13:34) I'm like, you're 86 years old. (13:37) How can you tell if someone's arrogant?(13:39) You know? (13:40) Oh, good. (13:41) Good.

Kevin Palmieri

(13:41) What did he say?

Alan Lazaros

(13:42) Yeah. (13:42) He said, I can tell, I can feel it. (13:44) I said, okay.(13:45) Do you push him? (13:46) Well, for some, yeah. (13:47) I said for someone who fucking can't like, how do you know I'm not arrogant?(13:50) Cause everyone thinks I am. (13:52) And he's like, I can tell, I can feel it. (13:53) And it's like, that's not an answer.(13:55) Help me your favorite answer. (13:57) Yeah. (13:57) And we went deeper.(13:58) I don't, I, it was good. (13:59) And I don't want to take the point is, is like, yeah, when you were younger, dude, if you just focused on learning, you would have been, I mean, it would have been, I think it would have made everything better.

Kevin Palmieri

(14:12) It's hard to focus on learning when you don't know what you want to learn. (14:15) I think, yeah. (14:17) You know, like it didn't make sense.(14:18) What am I just, what am I gonna learn about? (14:20) It's like geography. (14:21) Why did you learn more about baseball?

Alan Lazaros

(14:24) Cause I didn't fucking care that much. (14:26) Yeah. (14:26) I don't care that much.(14:28) I think it's cause you didn't believe in yourself. (14:29) It's like, you don't believe in yourself. (14:31) So you don't set a goal.(14:32) And if you don't have a goal, you have no necessity to learn. (14:34) It always comes back to that same thing.

Kevin Palmieri

(14:36) I think it's because my goals were just incredibly shallow and way too broad. (14:40) It's like, I want her to be, I want her to have money. (14:42) That was my goal.(14:44) So you never learned about money?

Alan Lazaros

(14:46) No. (14:50) Like, I know, I know.

Kevin Palmieri

(14:52) I understand.

Alan Lazaros

(14:53) I can't even with that. (14:54) It's like, there's how many books are there on money? (14:57) You know, the problem is didn't like read neither, you know, I didn't either.

Kevin Palmieri

(15:03) So that's fair, you know, but I did like reading the stuff that I was, that I needed to read.

Alan Lazaros

(15:07) I don't know of anybody. (15:08) I don't like listening to books. (15:09) I do.(15:10) I do know. (15:10) I enjoy listening. (15:11) Nice.(15:11) See, that's why you're the guy. (15:13) Because I, when I found books, I was like, oh my God, personal development books are the best. (15:18) Nobody cared.(15:19) Like no one, this is why I like our show. (15:23) You are, you're honest. (15:26) You're like, fuck books.(15:27) Okay, great. (15:28) Read them anyway.

Kevin Palmieri

(15:29) I'm telling you, I am the every man's self-improvement guy. (15:32) Every person's self-improvement guy. (15:33) That's perfect.

Alan Lazaros

(15:34) Because I now know that I'm not. (15:35) Emilia, last piece, Emilia said this yesterday on a coaching call. (15:38) We coach an individual together and she has had anxiety.(15:42) She had memory challenges. (15:43) And, and one of my clients is about to take a big licensing exam for finance. (15:50) And she basically said, I know that you failed a few times.(15:54) It's okay. (15:55) I took my real estate license exam a couple of times because I had memory challenges. (15:59) Who do you think's more helpful when you become a financial advisor?(16:02) Someone who had to work their way to get there and can empathize and understand how hard it is to understand finance or Alan over here who perfect photographic memory didn't even have to study and aced every test after getting blasted the night before. (16:16) And I was like, oh my God. (16:18) She didn't say it exactly like that, but it's like, that's so true.(16:21) How un-fucking-relatable am I? (16:23) Dude. (16:23) Oh, it's the worst.(16:24) It's so bad. (16:25) I'm just the worst. (16:26) Everyone shuts off immediately.(16:28) Like you don't get me. (16:30) And you've been trying to tell me that for nine years, but now I get it. (16:33) Like, of course I don't get you.(16:35) I have no test anxiety. (16:37) I have a photographic memory. (16:38) I don't even have to study.(16:40) Like, of course I don't get you. (16:44) Makes sense. (16:45) And so I'm such a bad teacher because I've been trying to help him for years.(16:49) And now Emilia is helping him more than I ever did because she pulled up this graphic of test anxiety and all this stuff. (16:55) And it's like, oh my God, I had no idea about, like, I've never been afraid to fail a test. (17:01) You know, like never.

Kevin Palmieri

(17:02) No, I don't. (17:03) Okay. (17:04) No, I was afraid to fail every test.

Alan Lazaros

(17:05) Right. (17:06) And that's so, of course I'm not relatable. (17:08) And now that I know I'm not, now I can really help.(17:11) So I'm excited. (17:12) But the point is, learning is everything. (17:17) I agree.(17:18) I just happen to love it and be good at it. (17:21) Nobody could have sold me on it, I don't think. (17:24) God, I certainly couldn't have, but you could have.

Kevin Palmieri

(17:27) Well, yeah, but it's not going to be a one-liner. (17:31) It's not going to be a quote. (17:32) I mean, this has to be like a conversation and experience.(17:34) Like, give me a day with old Kev, I could do it. (17:36) But give me a conversation. (17:38) You don't have a day.(17:38) You have a podcast. (17:39) Well, listen to the podcast tomorrow, young Kev. (17:41) And then just keep listening.(17:43) Just don't stop listening.

Alan Lazaros

(17:44) Just keep listening. (17:44) Yeah, agreed. (17:45) But he's not going to keep listening unless you give him something tangible today that he actually resonates with that will get him a little bit of results.

Kevin Palmieri

(17:53) The story. (17:54) Like, look, I have a nicer car than I ever thought I was going to have. (17:57) Like, I could buy that car, that my dream car that I said it in 2000, whatever, I could buy that right now if I wanted to.(18:02) And go, I could go buy that right now.

Alan Lazaros

(18:04) The second.

Kevin Palmieri

(18:04) That would sell him. (18:05) The second. (18:06) And I don't even want it.(18:07) And I don't fucking even want the car I have, because it's like, ah, it's a fucking waste of money. (18:11) But don't worry about that yet. (18:12) You'll get there eventually.(18:13) Like, don't, I want you to want it right now. (18:15) I want you to want stupid things. (18:18) Because eventually you'll realize what is not stupid and what you value more, and that'll be awesome.(18:23) Nice. (18:24) All right, cool.

Alan Lazaros

(18:24) This podcast is going to get a lot more valuable now that we understand ourselves better.

Kevin Palmieri

(18:28) Well, hey, thank you for sticking around for 2460 episodes. (18:31) Buds get valuable now. (18:32) So for you early adopters, you're really going to get something more valuable.(18:37) Thanks for giving it a shot. (18:39) A real shot. (18:40) You know, not many people do it for this many episodes and then realize, like, this might be, this might be worth listening to.

Alan Lazaros

(18:46) I'm on to something with this. (18:48) I didn't realize how off I was about that stuff. (18:52) If you don't have high self-belief, nothing I've ever said will probably resonate.

Kevin Palmieri

(18:57) I've been trying to tell you for nine years.

Alan Lazaros

(18:58) I know, but dude, it doesn't. (19:00) Well, that's the thing. (19:01) You've been trying to tell me.(19:02) You don't understand and neither do I, because I've never not had self-belief.

Kevin Palmieri

(19:05) Yeah, yeah.

Alan Lazaros

(19:05) And you've never had this level. (19:07) It's been the constant for you and me. (19:08) Now you can be on my side more and then remember what it was like, which again, is why you have to be the guy who teaches this stuff.(19:15) That's job security right there.

Kevin Palmieri

(19:17) I like that. (19:18) A little job security. (19:18) All right, we're going to go.(19:19) If you're looking to get help with any of the things we talked about today, right? (19:23) Maybe you don't have a lot of self-belief. (19:24) Maybe you have a ton of self-belief and you have nobody in your life who gets you.(19:26) Reach out to Alan. (19:27) He can help you on both fronts, as you've seen based on this episode. (19:30) And if you want to get jacked, whatever that means to you, you want to be more consistent when it comes to fitness, we have the Next Level Fitness Accountability Group.(19:36) Free WhatsApp group. (19:37) No strings attached. (19:38) We post in there every day.(19:39) Join us. (19:40) We would love to have you. (19:40) We love meeting members of the community.(19:42) It's the best. (19:43) It's the best. (19:44) We appreciate you all so very much.(19:45) All right. (19:46) As always, love you. (19:47) Appreciate you.(19:47) Grateful for each and every one of you. (19:48) If you are as committed as you say you are to getting to the next level, make sure you tune in tomorrow because we'll be there every single day to help you get there. (19:54) Keep leveling up to reach your full potential.

Alan Lazaros

(19:56) Next Level Nation.

Kevin Palmieri

(19:58) Thanks for joining us for another episode of Next Level University. (20:02) We love connecting with the Next Level family.

Alan Lazaros

(20:04) We mean it when we say family. (20:06) If you ever need anything, please reach out to us directly. (20:10) Everything you need to get ahold of us is in the show notes.(20:13) Thank you again, and we will talk to you tomorrow.