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Success isn't a secret. It's a system and we teach it every day.
Next Level University is a top-ranked daily podcast for dream chasers, entrepreneurs, and self-improvement addicts who are ready to get real about what it takes to grow.
Hosted by Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros, this show brings raw, honest conversations about how to build a better life, love more deeply, lead with purpose, and level up in every area... from health to wealth to relationships.
With over 2,000 episodes and listeners in more than 175 countries, we combine experience, data, and deep coaching insights to help you:
- Master your mindset and habits
- Scale your effort and income
- Create deep, aligned relationships
- Stay consistent when motivation fades
- Build a life you’re proud of one day at a time
No fluff. No hype. Just real growth, every single day.
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Your progress mirrors the expectations around you. In today’s episode, Kevin and Alan break down how the people, environments, and standards you accept quietly shape your discipline, confidence, and long-term trajectory. This conversation cuts through surface-level self-improvement and reveals why many driven people plateau despite consistent effort. You will hear how subtle influences affect identity, decision-making, and performance, and why real growth requires more than motivation. It de...
What if the thing holding you back is not confidence, but the feedback you keep avoiding? In this episode, Kevin and Alan challenge one of the most popular myths in self-improvement. Real self-worth is not built by feeling good. It is built by doing the work, facing blind spots, and improving what actually matters. Drawing from years of coaching, hard-earned lessons, and thousands of conversations, they explain why comfort-driven advice slows progress and why real growth requires honest mirr...
In today’s episode of Next Level University, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros dismantle a common lie in personal development. Priorities are not defined by what you say. They are defined by what you do when conditions are inconvenient. This episode focuses on execution, identity, and non-negotiable standards. It challenges the gap between intention and behavior and highlights why consistency under pressure is the real measure of growth. No motivation. No hype. Just the discipline requir...
Hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros expose a subtle trap that keeps high performers stuck longer than failure ever could. Holding onto what once worked. After years of building Next Level University and coaching thousands through real growth phases, they have seen how progress turns into comfort, and how comfort quietly caps results. This episode cuts through surface-level self-improvement advice and reframes what it actually takes to move from momentum to mastery. The focus is on leverage...
The next level costs more than most people expect. In today’s episode, Kevin and Alan challenge the belief that certainty comes before action. This episode confronts a subtle but costly pattern in personal development. Waiting for confidence. Waiting for clarity. Waiting for the right moment. The focus is on why progress demands courage first and how avoiding discomfort quietly limits growth, leadership, and self-respect. If you care about consistency, standards, and long-term results, this ...
What happens when life hits harder than your capacity can handle? In this episode, Kevin and Alan explain why readiness is not built in moments of pressure, but long before they arrive. Most people do not fail from lack of effort. They fail because their capacity is too small for the life they want. After years of building businesses, navigating setbacks, coaching clients, and recording thousands of conversations on growth, they have seen the same pattern repeat. Comfort weakens readiness. S...
In today’s episode of Next Level University, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros expose a common breakdown in personal growth that has nothing to do with motivation or effort. It starts with the moment you set a goal and quietly avoid the standard required to achieve it. This episode centers on self-leadership, accountability, and the discipline to act in alignment with who you say you want to become. It challenges the way most people negotiate with themselves, lowers expectations under pre...
Hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros address a quiet reason progress stalls even when effort, discipline, and consistency are present. The issue is not work ethic. It is distorted awareness, subtle blind spots that shape decisions, perception, and results without being noticed. Drawing from years of coaching and thousands of conversations, this discussion points to why most people reinforce the wrong strengths and overlook the one area quietly limiting growth. The focus is precision, not m...
Most limits stay invisible until results expose them. In today’s episode, Kevin and Alan challenge how most people think about progress, effort, and self-improvement. Hard work is not the problem. Misalignment, blind spots, and incomplete awareness are. This episode breaks down what actually drives outcomes beneath the surface and why real growth demands precision, accurate perception, and the courage to confront what is missing instead of doubling down on what merely feels productive. If yo...
Are you truly leveling up, or just moving faster without understanding who you are becoming? In this episode, Kevin and Alan break down why real growth often feels disorienting and why reflection is a non-negotiable performance skill, not a soft habit. They challenge the belief that progress means leaving the past behind and explain how reassessing previous seasons builds grounded confidence, sharper self-awareness, and long-term consistency. Drawing from years of experience, recurring clien...
In today’s episode of Next Level University, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros challenge a belief most people never question until it starts costing them results. This conversation explores why achieving a goal is often celebrated, but sustaining it quietly breaks discipline, focus, and standards over time. Rather than chasing motivation or surface-level habits, this episode examines the deeper tension between ambition, capacity, and long-term performance. It confronts why success creates...
Hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros challenge the quiet assumptions that stall progress long before people notice. This episode questions how time, effort, and standards are treated casually, even by those who say they want more. Grounded in years of execution, coaching, and building Next Level University consistently, they reflect on what changes when goals stop being abstract and start demanding structure, pressure, and follow-through. The conversation is direct, practical, and unsentime...
Standards decide who you become. In today’s episode, Kevin and Alan break down why grit is not something you chase or wish into existence, but something that forms when your standards leave you no alternative. This episode cuts through comfort-based personal development and examines why consistency collapses when conditions are imperfect. The focus is discipline, identity, and long-term performance, not motivation or hype. It challenges how goals are set, how resistance is handled, and why ...
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,...
In today’s episode of Next Level University, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros break down the mindset that determines whether progress compounds or quietly stalls. This episode centers on the difference between consumer thinking and investor thinking and how that distinction affects time, money, and long-term outcomes. The focus is discipline over impulse, standards over comfort, and decisions that pay off over years, not moments. If you care about consistency, leverage, and build...
Hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros confront the gap between intention and execution that quietly limits most personal growth. After years of daily episodes, client work, and building Next Level University from the ground up, they have learned that progress is earned through standards, not statements. This episode cuts through surface-level self-improvement and focuses on alignment, discipline, and credibility. It is about knowing the cost, choosing it deliberately, and following through l...
Your reputation is your follow-through. In today’s episode, Kevin and Alan break down why motivation, intention, and public commitment do not build credibility. Consistency does. This conversation reframes personal development around execution, identity, and long-term standards. The focus is self-awareness, accountability, environment, and the habits that quietly compound into trust and authority. This is not about inspiration. It is about alignment between what you say, what you do, and who...
Are you inconsistent, or are you starting things you were never willing to sustain? In this episode, Kevin and Alan confront the real issue behind consistency and long-term growth. Based on years of coaching, lived experience, and thousands of daily episodes, they examine how intention, belief, and identity shape whether habits compound or collapse. This is not about getting fired up. It is about precision. About understanding why serious progress requires commitment before clarity, and why ...
In today’s episode of Next Level University, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros break down a hard truth most people avoid. Growth does not make life easier. It makes life heavier. This episode reframes overwhelm as a byproduct of expansion rather than a personal flaw, and positions reflection as a critical tool for clarity, self-awareness, and long-term performance. The conversation centers on identity, responsibility, and the skill of handling more without losing direction. This is not a...
Hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros bring a grounded conversation on clarity and why so many driven people stay stuck despite working hard. Drawing from years of building businesses, coaching clients, and recording thousands of daily episodes, they speak to the patterns they see when focus is scattered and direction is undefined. This episode is for anyone who feels ambitious but unfocused, busy but not advancing. It challenges vague thinking and calls for a higher standard of self-leaders...
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