Alan Lazaros, founder and CEO of Next Level University, a top-ranked podcast and thriving coaching business with over 2,300 episodes and a global reach joins us to tell us his life story and how he's found success.

Alan shares his raw journey through profound loss, and how these wake-up calls shifted him from autopilot achievement to intentional personal growth.

He reveals why only about 4% of people truly believe in themselves at a deep level—and how this "unbreakable self-belief" fundamentally changes motivation, goal-setting, and resilience to failure. For high self-believers like Alan, setbacks ignite drive; for most, they trigger doubt and the "Doom Loop."

Drawing from his 11+ years of coaching, thousands of hours, and work with high-achievers, Alan breaks down practical strategies: aligning goals with your actual self-efficacy, building belief through the "state-prove-self-assign" formula, embracing personal responsibility, starting with health as the foundation, and escaping learned helplessness in a world full of excuses.

Whether you're rebuilding confidence after setbacks, scaling a coaching practice, or chasing bigger dreams in 2026, this conversation delivers no-BS insights on turning adversity into unbreakable self-belief and sustainable success.