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The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
Building Emotional Calluses
If one bad client, refund, or comment can ruin your day…
You’re not ready for scale yet.
In this episode of The Level Up Podcast, Paul Alex breaks down the importance of building emotional calluses—the ability to handle pressure, criticism, and client friction without losing focus or momentum.
As your business grows, so does the volume of problems. More clients means more feedback, more complaints, and more situations that test your patience and emotional control.
The key isn’t avoiding problems…
It’s learning how to handle them without letting them control you.
Paul explains how elite entrepreneurs detach emotion from outcomes, enforce strong boundaries, and operate from logic instead of reacting to every situation.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
Why friction with clients is normal and expected at scale
How taking things personally can hurt your performance and decision-making
Why enforcing boundaries protects your time, energy, and margins
How developing emotional resilience helps you stay consistent under pressure
You can’t control how people act…
But you can control how you respond.
Because when you build emotional strength and stay grounded, nothing in the market can shake your focus—and that’s what separates average entrepreneurs from elite operators.
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00:03:27Mar 29, 2026
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This American Life
884: The Idiot
M. Gessen returns to our show with a true-crime story that takes place entirely within their own family. This story comes to us from the producers at Serial Productions—who invented the true-crime podcast more than a decade ago—and from The New York Times.
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- Act One: M Gessen tells Ira Glass about the surprising events that prompted them to begin reporting on their own family for their new podcast, The Idiot. They play the first episode of the series. (14 minutes)
- Act Two: Ira Glass and M Gessen continue to talk through the story of M’s cousin, Allen Gessen. They play more clips from the podcast, and we finally hear about the big, shocking thing that snapped their family apart. (20 minutes)
- Act Three: M Gessen tells Ira Glass about Allen’s trial, and we hear a recording of his conversation with the undercover agent. (21 minutes)
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00:59:50Mar 29, 2026
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The Rest Is History
656. The Ku Klux Klan: Birth of a Nation (Part 3)
How did the second incarnation of the clan, born in Georgia in 1915, grow into a seemingly indomitable nation-wide fraternal organisation, numbering millions? Who were its new targets? And, with the Klan’s momentum seemingly unstoppable and an election on the horizon, would their appalling violence be publicly condemned?
Join Tom and Dominic as they chart the second rise of the violent, tyrannical, Ku Klux Klan….
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01:15:09Mar 29, 2026
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The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump’s Health Collapses as War gets Out of Control!!!!
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s health crashing faster by the day and Meiselas interviews Democratic Congressman Suhas Subramanyam about Trump’s failing health and Trump’s disastrous presidency.
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00:23:51Mar 29, 2026
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The MeidasTouch Podcast
Fox News Scrambles as Trump's War Strategy Backfires
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Fox News collapsing on air as Trump’s was is backfiring in his face and harming the entire country.
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00:19:29Jul 13, 2026
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The MeidasTouch Podcast
All Hell Breaks Loose After Trump Monday War Directive
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on all hell breaking loose Donald Trump gives a disastrous Monday morning war directive.
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00:22:19Jul 13, 2026
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The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
The Paradox of Availability: Why Being 'Always On' Makes You Invisible
Being available all the time does not make you more valuable.
It can make you look less premium.
In this episode of The Level Up Podcast, Paul Alex breaks down the paradox of availability and why constant access can destroy your authority, positioning, and focus.
Let’s be real…
If clients can text you at midnight…
Get instant replies on weekends…
Interrupt your deep work…
And pull you into every minor issue…
They may not see you as a high-level expert.
They may start treating you like an employee.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
Why constant access can dilute your value
How boundaries create authority and premium positioning
Why clients must be trained to respect your communication standards
How strategic inaccessibility gives you space for deeper, higher-value work
The truth is simple:
Your time is a premium asset.
And premium assets are protected.
High-level operators do not operate like emergency hotlines.
They set expectations.
They create communication systems.
They enforce operating hours.
They deliver elite results inside the right structure.
Because boundaries do not weaken the client relationship.
They strengthen the respect around it.
When you restrict access…
You protect your focus.
You raise your authority.
You command the room.
Set the standard.
Protect your time.
Deliver the results.
And keep leveling up.
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00:03:38Jul 13, 2026
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Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
Rewire Your Self-Image to Perform Under Pressure | Collin Henderson
Your strategy may not be the bottleneck. Your self-image might be.
01:02:52Jul 13, 2026


