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Your life follows the beliefs you reinforce. In this episode, Kevin and Alan explore how the belief that “it doesn’t matter” can quietly shape your habits, relationships, health, and future. They explain how small acts of avoidance compound over time, why responsibility can feel heavy, and how constructive beliefs create a more intentional life.

Kevin reflects on the years when he saw himself as a victim and how goals forced him to take greater ownership. Alan shares how facing mortality after his car accident reshaped his standards, purpose, and sense of responsibility. Together, they break down the difference between self-belief, self-worth, and the beliefs you inherited without questioning. Your choices may feel small, but they are never meaningless. Choose the belief that makes your next action count.

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Show notes:
(2:38) Upward and downward belief cycles
(5:12) Belief, responsibility, and consequences
(10:51) Inherited beliefs shape your choices
(12:37) Self-worth drives self-investment
(14:09) Responsibility grows with maturity
(18:49) Escaping the victim mindset
(19:56) Three levels of personal responsibility
(22:06) Outro

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Transcript

Kevin Palmieri

(0:00) I think one of the most destructive beliefs on the planet is that doesn't matter. (0:06) I think that is one of the things that if you say that, you're probably not going to do almost anything that matters because you don't think it's actually going to make a difference.

Alan Lazaros

(0:14) One person thinks everything they do, say, think, feel, believe, it all matters, it all means something. (0:22) The other person is hopeless and nihilistic and why bother?

Kevin Palmieri

(0:26) Welcome to Next Level University. (0:29) I'm your host, Kevin Palmieri. (0:30) And I'm your co-host, Alan Lazaros.(0:34) At NLU, we believe in a heart-driven but no BS approach to holistic self-improvement for dream chasers.

Alan Lazaros

(0:40) Our goal with every episode is to help you level up your life, love, health, and wealth.

Kevin Palmieri

(0:47) 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

(1:02) Self-improvement in your pocket, every day, from anywhere, completely free. (1:09) Welcome to Next Level University.

Kevin Palmieri

(1:15) Next Level Nation, today for episode number 2,530, your beliefs are controlling everything. (1:20) I imagine it this way, Alan, if you've ever watched a... (1:24) You ever seen 500 Days of Summer?(1:25) You ever seen that movie? (1:27) Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel. (1:31) Great movie.(1:32) It's a love story. (1:33) Nice. (1:34) It's a throwback love story.(1:37) But it's about the ups and downs of falling in love quickly and just relationships in general. (1:44) And there are several points... (1:45) I watched it on the plane.(1:46) That's why I'm referencing it. (1:47) There are several points in that movie where he is just... (1:50) The main character is nihilistic and he doesn't think that anything he does is going to matter.(1:55) He doesn't think that anything he does is going to be worth it because he just got his heart broken. (2:00) And it becomes this perpetual cycle of it doesn't matter. (2:03) It's not going to make a difference.(2:04) It doesn't matter. (2:04) It's not going to make a difference. (2:05) It doesn't matter.(2:06) And then when you run that cycle long enough, you dig a deeper hole and a deeper hole and a deeper hole. (2:10) And then eventually the only way to get out of that hole is to change the belief and say, well, today does matter. (2:16) This meal does matter.(2:18) This conversation does matter. (2:19) This text message does matter. (2:20) Whatever, right?(2:20) Whatever it is, this workout does matter. (2:23) This coaching call does matter. (2:24) But I think kind of to the point of this episode, when you have a snowball of destructive beliefs, it's really hard to start the process of melting that snowball or whatever the example would be in this episode.

Alan Lazaros

(2:38) Yeah. (2:39) These are downward cycles of defeat and failure and suffering and struggle versus the sort of upward cycle of success, hopefulness, optimism, goals, dreams, that sort of thing. (2:58) And the ironic part that I want to highlight is that the upward one actually forces you to face more failure.(3:09) So when you reach the next level, next level, next level, next level, you now have next level responsibilities and next level problems. (3:17) And I think that that's one of the reasons why I don't think anyone is fully, I don't want to say no one. (3:21) The majority of the population I think is either the flip-flopping between the two.(3:28) They have three or four weeks where they're optimistic and they're doing it there. (3:32) This workout matters. (3:33) This meal plan matters.(3:35) This coach matters. (3:36) This therapy session matters. (3:37) Boom, boom, boom, boom, invest, invest, invest, invest, fail forward, feel forward, feel forward, feel forward, forward, fail upward, maybe even better fell upward.(3:46) Okay. (3:47) Then it's like something hits you, knocks you down, injury, heartbroken, someone attacks you for seemingly no reason. (3:56) And then you go into the other one and it's like, why bother?(4:01) If I'm just going to lose anyway, if I'm just going to get hurt anyway, why bother? (4:04) And then you just invest a little bit of less, excuse me, I had to burp, a little bit less, a little bit less. (4:10) So you invest a little less.(4:13) You get a little less optimistic. (4:16) You get a little less hardworking. (4:18) You get a little less gritty.(4:22) You get a little less effort. (4:25) And then you, ah, nothing seems to be that bad. (4:29) Nothing, I'm not falling off a cliff.(4:30) Everything, you know, things are still going. (4:33) And then it perpetuates, it perpetuates. (4:35) And then all of a sudden you're near rock bottom going, did I get here?(4:40) How did we get here? (4:42) You don't check in with your partner for years. (4:44) And it's like, what happened to our relationship?(4:47) I've seen that. (4:49) You don't check in, in the mirror in years, what the hell happened? (4:52) What happened to my six pack, man?(4:54) Oh my God. (4:56) You see a photo of yourself on a hike, hypothetically. (4:59) And you're like, I can't even believe what happened to me.(5:02) I'm joking. (5:03) I, there was a unflattering photo this past weekend of me, but that's what happens is you just don't check in. (5:10) You don't weigh yourself all of a sudden.(5:12) And so either everything matters. (5:15) I'm reading a book right now called the power of beliefs by Sean Aker. (5:18) I believe it's an important book.(5:19) I haven't finished it. (5:21) I don't know if I can wholeheartedly recommend it, but here's what I can say. (5:26) These beliefs that are constructive and destructive that he is talking about in this book and the placebo effect of they literally gave knee surgeries to people for free.(5:37) And they, the, the catch you get a free knee surgery, but the catch is you might get a placebo with an incision incision, and you might get a placebo and a certain percentage, a pretty high percentage. (5:50) I think it was 25. (5:51) Don't quote me on that.(5:52) A high percentage, almost a third got better with a fake knee surgery. (5:58) And it was just the power of belief, which is maybe they started using their knee a little more. (6:03) Maybe they started being less sedentary.(6:04) Maybe they thought in their mind that it was better. (6:07) So they maybe felt a little better about it. (6:08) There's been so many studies about the placebo effect, placebo effect for decades.(6:13) I mean, it's so much. (6:14) So look into it. (6:15) But the point is, is belief matters.(6:18) Belief matters. (6:19) Belief matters so much. (6:20) Belief about yourself, others in the world, belief about what you say, think, and do belief about what to say next on this podcast.(6:26) I believe it matters. (6:27) Now here's the problem. (6:28) When everything matters, everything's your fault.(6:31) It's so brutal. (6:33) Yes. (6:33) What I say on this podcast matters.(6:35) And that also means I can't just say whatever I want. (6:38) I have to conduct myself as a conscientious aware individual that knows the implications of his words and actions. (6:50) Like that's responsibility.(6:53) That's what, that's what it is. (6:54) And when you're a kid, you don't have any of that. (6:56) Say whatever you want, do whatever you want.(6:58) Nothing matters. (6:58) Be a kid. (6:59) When do you grow out of that shit?(7:01) Like you get a choice. (7:04) Everybody gets to choose. (7:06) You can choose what to believe.(7:07) You can choose everything matters and therefore everything is going to be more responsibility and more heavy. (7:12) Or you can choose nothing matters. (7:14) Go into video games and gambling and pornography and shopping and social media and TV and nicotine and THC and alcohol and food and squander your future and squander your life.(7:23) What's the point anyway? (7:24) It's all going to shit anyway. (7:25) That's, that's nihilism.(7:28) And by the way, if you're so certain that the climate change can't be reversed, you're not going to recycle. (7:34) And then you're going to guarantee climate change can't be reversed. (7:38) I want us all to take personal responsibility for the future of this freaking planet, at least of our own lives for F sake.(7:44) That's what I'm fighting for. (7:46) And yes, I'm fighting for that, but I'm leading by example behind the scenes when no one's watching too. (7:50) I just can't show you that because it's behind the scenes by definition.

Kevin Palmieri

(7:54) It's so, it's always weird to me when people are like, well, yeah, I don't know. (7:58) I'll be dead by then. (7:59) Myself and my children will be dead by then.(8:01) It's like, that's a weird way to look at things.

Alan Lazaros

(8:03) You know, remember when I told you, someone was smoking and I'll never forget this around a campfire. (8:11) Just hammering butts, right? (8:12) Hammering butts, ripping darts, ripping darts.(8:17) And I said, you know, those are going to kill you, right? (8:20) Like those are statistically guaranteed to increase the chances you die of lung cancer. (8:26) Like there's no, at least before it was like, nah, maybe, maybe not.(8:30) We didn't have the data. (8:31) Now it's like fucking clear. (8:33) Okay.(8:34) And he's like, well, I'm going to die someday anyway.

Kevin Palmieri

(8:36) It's like, it's so clear. (8:38) They have to put it on the box. (8:40) That's how clear it's so clear.(8:41) In fact, they have to put it on the box to tell you.

Alan Lazaros

(8:44) So why not do it faster? (8:45) I don't understand. (8:46) On one person says I get one life, so I'm going to make it as meaningful as possible.(8:50) I'm going to do all I can with all I have to make it the most, the highest quality possible. (8:55) The other person, well, we're going to die anyway. (8:56) Might as well rip butts.(8:57) I think it's all ego.

Kevin Palmieri

(8:58) It's attitude. (8:59) I think it's ego. (9:00) I think, look, I have, I've had so many family members say that my mom smoked for, yeah, my mom smoked for, Oh God, I don't know how many years, but I, for so long, I was trying to get her to quit.(9:11) You know, as a young boy, it's like, well, I mean, what are you doing? (9:14) Oh yeah, for sure. (9:15) I was never heard you say that.(9:16) Yeah, for sure. (9:17) I was wildly unsuccessful. (9:19) I printed out a 12 page report.(9:21) You had better influence than I did. (9:23) I got my mom to quit, but she still blames me for that. (9:26) Not thanks me, blames me.(9:27) Well, at least there's worse things to be blamed for. (9:30) But that she used to say that, like I'm going to die eventually anyway. (9:34) It doesn't matter.(9:34) It's like, that's just an ego thing. (9:36) You, I don't know if you, maybe you get to a point where you just are so unwilling to reflect on the vulnerability of the thing you're doing, where it's just easier to ego bonk yourself. (9:48) Like I'm sure I've said stuff like that in the past.(9:51) I'm sure. (9:53) I am sure. (9:53) Definitely made poor choices and rationalized them.

Kevin Palmieri

(9:57) Yeah, of course.

Kevin Palmieri

(9:58) I'm still making, I mean, I had a Shake Shack last night for dinner. (10:03) I had Shake Shack. (10:04) Never been.(10:04) What do you think? (10:05) Don't get it delivered, but it's world-class. (10:08) I got, I got a burger, normal burger.(10:10) And then I got a double lettuce burger, lettuce wrapped burger. (10:13) Cause I'm, I'm dieting. (10:14) And then a small fry.(10:17) Need my fries. (10:18) But their, their burgers are, their burgers are shit. (10:21) And a pack of cigs.(10:22) Yeah. (10:23) And a pack of darts. (10:24) A pack of darts.(10:25) But that, that's the thing is like my, my grandfather used to say, uh, I don't know the context of it, but like, I think I heard one time somebody said, well, you gotta be careful because if you die, you're going to go to hell. (10:36) And he used to say, uh, life is hell. (10:39) Death is heaven.(10:40) I was like, that's fucking dark. (10:42) That's pretty dark. (10:44) That's pretty dark.(10:45) That's a pretty, that wouldn't have anything to do with your tattoo, would it? (10:47) No, it has everything to do with my tattoo. (10:49) Probably that.(10:51) I think that's the important thing that I would say. (10:53) That's like my wrap up my, my put a pin in it piece of this is, uh, most of your beliefs aren't even yours. (11:00) First of all, most of your beliefs, if you were raised in a household where people said, if you were raised in a household that recycles, willing to bet you recycle.(11:07) I wasn't, we still recycle, but that was not a belief I had. (11:13) Yes. (11:14) Nice.(11:14) Honestly, we recycle more because of her. (11:17) I have to drive to the fucking dump on Saturday. (11:19) It's a whole thing.

Alan Lazaros

(11:20) Yeah, it is.

Kevin Palmieri

(11:21) Our, our, our neighborhood doesn't do it. (11:23) So I, we have I feel like a full grown ass adult. (11:26) I have a little sticker on my car.(11:27) When I pull in, I get to drive right to the back. (11:29) I get to go dump it. (11:31) Nice.(11:31) But if you guys, if your family had alcohol in the fridge all the time and you didn't go through some sort of journey with that, you probably have alcohol in the fridge. (11:42) Like, just think about it that way. (11:43) If your family had a dog grown up, you probably have a dog grow now.(11:46) Yeah. (11:46) A hundred percent. (11:47) I think there's something to that.(11:49) And the hard part is you also tend to surround yourself with people who have similar beliefs, whether they're positive or negative. (11:56) Right. (11:56) So like, yeah, this is, again, I know we talk about belief a ton, but I still, to this day, I think it is the most important thing.(12:02) Now we're not talking particularly specifically about self-belief in this episode, but I, the belief around whether or not something is worth doing or it's meaningful, or it's going to make a difference. (12:13) I mean, that's as big as self-belief is for sure.

Alan Lazaros

(12:16) For context, cause I mentioned your tattoo. (12:18) Kev has a tattoo of an angel and the devil fighting for the world, playing chess, right?

Kevin Palmieri

(12:23) An angel and devil playing chess for control of the world. (12:25) The devil is winning.

Alan Lazaros

(12:27) Okay. (12:28) That, I just think it's important for us to provide, provide context because any new listeners. (12:34) So, all right.(12:37) What are your beliefs about yourself? (12:38) Are you worthy? (12:40) Are you worth it?(12:41) I always use the metaphor of why would you improve a house that you don't value? (12:46) I'm not going to renovate the kitchen. (12:48) If you don't care about it, you're not going to cut your fingernails, cut your hair, take care of your skin.(12:55) If you don't care about yourself, if you don't love yourself, if you don't value your life, that's really what it comes down to. (13:02) If you don't value your life, you're not going to invest in making it better. (13:06) And if you don't invest in making it better, it's going to get worse.(13:08) It's going to get worse. (13:10) What happens to a house? (13:11) You don't landscape.(13:13) It just gets destroyed. (13:15) Just completely destroyed. (13:17) Entropy says all things will fall into chaos, like unless energy is injected into them.(13:22) So, I don't know. (13:25) Maybe I'm, I know I'm on the very extreme end of this, but I want to put a maximum effort into everything that matters.

Kevin Palmieri

(13:34) It is a lot of pressure though, to your point.

Alan Lazaros

(13:36) Yeah. (13:37) It is a lot of pressure. (13:38) What's the alternative?(13:40) Maybe you don't go to 10, but you dial it up. (13:43) That's all.

Kevin Palmieri

(13:44) Well, that was, that was going to be my question for you is like, I don't know. (13:50) Yeah. (13:51) Is it that, I think for some people it's that binary where it's zero or one, but like, I think there's, I don't know.(13:57) I think it's constructive to be on the spectrum moving your way more because I think if you don't have a ton of self-belief and then you under, then you start to understand how important this very second is, it can be fucking overwhelming.

Alan Lazaros

(14:09) Yeah. (14:10) It can be super overwhelming. (14:12) Well, me at seven took less responsibility than me at 37.(14:18) Of course. (14:19) And I think that that's what it's supposed to be. (14:20) That's why I, and again, maybe this is me being existentialist.(14:24) Like I think about that all the time. (14:26) Like we're 37, we're supposed to be the generation that leads the future right now. (14:35) Like if you look at bell curve of humanity, average life expectancy is 83.(14:39) There are no 83 year old like leaders that are going to change the world. (14:44) They're, they're on their way out. (14:46) They're living there.(14:47) There's like a circle of life thing. (14:50) There's no seven year old presidents. (14:52) There shouldn't be, you know, like, and so for our listeners, if you're 30, it's game time, there's no more fucking around.(15:01) Like, it's like, trust me now is the time you're thirties, forties, and fifties. (15:06) That's when you're supposed to lean into responsibility. (15:09) Like why don't kids take care of their parents?(15:11) Some do they're called parentified children because they have adult children as parents. (15:17) But for the most part, parents are supposed to take care of their kids, not the other way around. (15:23) So when you're 37, you're supposed to take more responsibility than when you're 17.(15:28) And I just don't, maybe did we not get a book on this? (15:31) Is this not a class? (15:33) Like, what are you supposed to take responsibility for from zero to 10, 10 to 20, 20 to 30?(15:38) And I don't mean supposed to like you have to, I mean, you get to, and you choose to because you're a goddamn conscientious, free thinking adult. (15:46) Like fine, go ruin your fucking life. (15:48) Then go ahead.(15:50) It's going to make everyone's life worse. (15:51) It's going to make the world worse. (15:52) It's going to make your family and friends suffer to see you like, there's no courage in that.

Kevin Palmieri

(15:58) Yeah. (15:59) But isn't that like one, for some reason, we, I think as a society love certain self-destructive behavior. (16:07) Been there.(16:08) We just do. (16:08) Been there. (16:09) Yeah.(16:09) But we like watching it. (16:11) Like give me five movies Charlie Sheen has been in. (16:16) I can't.(16:17) No, most people can't. (16:19) Most people can't. (16:20) So he's known more for being a destructive human than he is his acting career for most people.(16:24) If older, you probably have the films, but like if you're 22 years old and you know who Charlie Sheen is, it's probably because of his recklessness, not his, not that he was in major league or whatever, whatever other movies he was in. (16:36) I think that's part one. (16:37) And I think part two is like, I don't know, blanket statement for sure.(16:42) If you're, if you don't believe what you do matters, you're definitely not thinking of the implications of those around you or the world at large or your kids.

Alan Lazaros

(16:54) Like, I think that's just, what did you used to think about this versus now? (16:57) Cause you've definitely come up. (16:58) I mean, you're definitely more than you used to be in this.(17:03) I mean, back in the day, you always took responsibility for your own life. (17:06) You did. (17:07) Okay.(17:07) You had level one.

Kevin Palmieri

(17:08) Yeah. (17:09) But I fucking, I had, I had excuses and yeah.

Alan Lazaros

(17:13) But you, you definitely didn't blame others for your terrible life. (17:16) I don't think maybe you did before I like way back dad and whatever. (17:20) But like when I met you 26, you and I started, you know, working together and then podcast started not long after that from, from at least when we started working together nine years ago, March of nine years ago, I feel like you took personal responsibility for, for making your life better at that point.(17:37) I think I tried. (17:39) I think I tried. (17:39) I wouldn't have gotten along if you didn't.(17:41) Cause that was what my, since my car accident, it was like, that was my thing. (17:45) It was like, everything is on me and it's time for me to change and start with me. (17:51) And if I'm going to, that's grown as my belief has.(17:55) Right. (17:55) I think it's, but I think that's the more you take responsibility, the more you grow your belief and then the more responsibility you take.

Kevin Palmieri

(18:02) It's a virtuous cycle. (18:03) It is. (18:03) But I think sometimes you need to be forced to take responsibility.(18:07) I don't, I don't know. (18:08) It's like, I don't know if I would have just decided to take more responsibility. (18:11) I think I just was forced to take more responsibility.(18:13) What do you mean by forced? (18:15) Was there someone who. (18:16) The dreams, the goals, the ambitions, the, what we're trying to do.(18:20) It's like forced right now. (18:21) Yesterday was one of the hardest days I've ever had in my life. (18:24) It was fucking brutal.(18:25) I was, it was terrible. (18:26) It was great. (18:27) It was the best, but it was also like extremely overwhelming.(18:31) I'm like, there's a new level of growth for me here, which is great. (18:34) It's awesome. (18:35) But it's based on very specific goals and it's based on very specific things that we're aiming for.(18:41) And it's like, I don't, I wouldn't have signed up for it just to sign up for it. (18:44) No way. (18:46) No, it's the necessity of the goals.(18:48) Yeah. (18:49) But for us, dude, for so much of my life, I felt like a victim for so much of my life, for so much of my life, I felt like a victim. (18:55) And then as I started to believe more, it was like, okay, well to this whole episode, I know we got to, we got to pop after this.(19:03) If your belief is that you are a victim, everything that happens to you, you're going to find a way to make it negative. (19:09) Yeah. (19:10) Or make it someone else's fault.(19:12) Or make it somebody else's fault. (19:13) Every opportunity that you get, maybe you're going to self-sabotage. (19:17) Every opportunity that you don't get, you're going to say, well, that never works for me.(19:19) Trust me, I was there. (19:21) I was there. (19:21) I applied at fucking, I applied for a security position that paid like 12 bucks an hour when I was a gas station attendant.(19:28) And I thought for sure I was going to get that job. (19:30) And then I didn't, it was like, I never, this, I can never be successful. (19:34) I never get, they never...

Alan Lazaros

(19:35) It's a hell of a leap after one job.

Kevin Palmieri

(19:37) It wasn't one, it was... (19:38) You needed a mentor to say, brother, try to a hundred... (19:41) That was the trend.(19:41) Yeah. (19:41) But like, I didn't have the self-belief to get rejected a hundred times.

Alan Lazaros

(19:44) That one rejection... (19:45) If you had a mentor that really got through to you, that would have changed your life.

Kevin Palmieri

(19:49) I didn't have much to offer as a mentee at the time. (19:52) That would have been a big leap.

Alan Lazaros

(19:54) I know we got to go. (19:55) I need to say this. (19:56) Level one, level two, level three.(19:57) Level one responsibility is I am responsible for my own life. (20:01) That's level one. (20:01) You got to start there.(20:03) It's a pyramid. (20:04) The second layer of the pyramid, level two is I take responsibility for myself, my family, and my community, others, myself and others. (20:12) Number three, this is a heavy one.(20:13) I didn't have this one until I was 26 years old. (20:16) I take responsibility for the world, the earth, leaving the earth a better place, leaving humanity and the earth and the animals a better place. (20:28) After 26, when I faced mortality, I took all three layers of responsibility.(20:33) When I say I want to change the world, I meant even if no one else knew it. (20:39) I know you know that, but I take responsibility for making the world a better place. (20:45) So yourself is level one.(20:47) Others is level two. (20:48) The world is level three. (20:50) Don't start at level three if you don't have self-belief.(20:53) But you touch a thousand lives who touch a thousand lives who touch a thousand lives. (20:57) That's a billion people. (20:58) If you can get a billion people to recycle, you change the freaking world.(21:02) You can. (21:02) You can change the world. (21:03) People do it.(21:04) I can name 50 names of people who have done it. (21:07) Mahatma Gandhi, Oprah Winfrey. (21:08) I can keep going.(21:10) You can change the world for better or for worse, but you don't have to start there. (21:14) No one starts there at seven. (21:16) Took me till 26 to take that third layer of responsibility fully.(21:20) I obviously had some of it, but fully where it was like, okay, all right. (21:24) All right. (21:24) That's what I'm here for.(21:25) Let's do it. (21:26) Let's, let's rock and roll and insert an NLU, right? (21:29) Insert NLU.

Kevin Palmieri

(21:30) Also, if you don't return to your shopping cart, I don't like you. (21:35) Cause that's a belief that like, well, they pay somebody to do that. (21:38) It's like, yeah, sure.(21:39) You shouldn't make it entitlement. (21:40) They pay somebody to clean the bathroom. (21:42) Doesn't mean you should piss on the floor.(21:43) Nice job. (21:44) You should probably still piss in the, in the toilet or the urinal or like, you know what I mean? (21:48) It's dumb.(21:49) It's dumb. (21:50) Well, you know, they pay. (21:51) Unless you're blackout drunk, in which case it's an accident.(21:53) I mean, but if you, but if you do it or like you litter, it's like, well, yeah, no, they pay people to pick that. (21:59) That's the dumbest shit I've heard in my entire life. (22:00) A hundred percent.(22:01) Some of the dumbest shit I've ever heard. (22:02) All right. (22:02) Reach out to Alan for coaching.(22:04) Next level fitness accountability group, all that happy jazz. (22:06) As always, we love you. (22:07) Appreciate you.(22:07) Grateful for each and every one of you. (22:08) 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 here every single freaking day to help you get there. (22:14) Keep leveling up to reach your full potential.(22:17) Thanks for joining us for another episode of next level university. (22:21) We love connecting with the next level family.

Alan Lazaros

(22:24) We mean it when we say family, if you ever need anything, please reach out to us directly. (22:29) Everything you need to get ahold of us is in the show notes. (22:33) Thank you again.

Kevin Palmieri

(22:34) And we will talk to you tomorrow.