"Humility" - Kevin Palmieri

My guest today, Kevin, is the CFO, Founder & Co-Host of Next Level University, a Global Top 100 Self-Improvement Podcast. As Kevin explains it, "in his twenties he had it all: a beautiful girlfriend, high paying job, sports car, his dream body"-- but it wasn't enough. He still struggled with depression, anxiety, and a lack of self worth. After he hit rock bottom he decided to go all in on holistic self improvement and improving his mindset. Eventually he evolved enough to the point where he is today, where he can help coach, guide, and inspire others to achieve that same level of self improvement.  Real talk, when you first read that it would be easy to be cynical and say, "Oh great, another self improvement coach with a podcast talking about easy ways to improve your life." I get it, there seems to be a lot of them out there and it is easy to get jaded. But as I often say, that is why I love doing this show. I get to have conversations with people like Kevin and learn about who he really is. I get to hear how hard he has worked, for years, to overcome his issues. I get to see his value of "humility" in action as he talks about his missteps and the tough lessons he's learned a long the way. I am really glad I've been able to overcome some of my own insecurities so that my cynical side didn't win out and allowed me to have this beautiful conversation with Kevin. We covered a lot of ground in this one, talking about the pros and cons of caring what other people think, how to balance humility and confidence, and why it seems so hard to be a good person. He had such interesting, insightful, and authentic thoughts on all of these topics. And what made those thoughts even more valuable was that he rooted so much of it in real life stories and experiences he's had. That made it that much more tangible and impactful.  It is easy to claim to be a self improvement expert and try to make a few bucks, it is much harder to do the pain staking work to figure out your own shit and push yourself every day to try to continuously improve, in the hopes of helping others. Kevin falls into the second category and I thank him a ton for being on and sharing his perspective with me.