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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 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 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 Panics as Iran Sends Message Back in War
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump panicking in the morning as Iran once again rejects his threats to engage in a negotiation as Iran sends back its own 10 point framework the exact same non-negotiable they have been saying for weeks.
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00:19:52Apr 6, 2026
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The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
Systems Over Motivation - Discipline and Consistency
Motivation is unreliable.
And if your business depends on it…
You’re already in trouble.
In this episode of The Level Up Podcast, Paul Alex breaks down why discipline and systems—not motivation—are what actually build real success.
Most people wait to “feel ready.”
They wait for the energy.
The perfect mindset.
The right moment.
But here’s the truth:
Feelings don’t scale. Systems do.
Because the days you don’t feel like working?
Those are the days that determine your future.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
Why motivation fades—and why relying on it kills consistency
How building systems creates predictable results and stability
Why SOPs and automation are the foundation of real scale
How to remove emotion from execution and operate like a true CEO
Because success isn’t built on your best days…
It’s built on your most consistent ones.
The goal isn’t to feel inspired.
The goal is to build a machine that runs—
Whether you feel like it or not.
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00:03:24Apr 6, 2026
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The a16z Show
Peter Yang on Small Teams, Coding Agents, and Why Human Ambition Has No Ceiling
Anish Acharya speaks with Peter Yang, creator and product lead at Roblox, about how personal AI agents are replacing the apps we open every day, why coding agents feel like slot machines, and what happens when the cost of building software drops to near zero. They discuss why future companies will stay radically small, how the IDE is becoming a thinking tool rather than a making tool, and why human ambition will always create more jobs than AI eliminates.
00:28:37Apr 6, 2026
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The Toast
Rihanna's A Mess: Monday, April 6th, 2026
1. Summer House's Amanda Batula Seen Embracing Ex Kyle Cooke in N.Y.C. After Confirming West Wilson Romance (PEOPLE) (25:23)
2. Jessi Draper and Marciano Brunette of ‘SLOMW’ Spotted on a Date Weeks After Jordan Ngatikaura Filed for Divorce (Cosmopolitan) (38:50)
3. Hailee Steinfeld Welcomes First Baby with Husband Josh Allen (PEOPLE) (45:35)
4. Blake Lively’s Sex Harassment Suit Against Co-Star Justin Baldoni Gutted by Judge (Variety) (51:48)
5. Kylie Kelce Has Fiery Three Word Response to Questions About Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce Wedding Plans (E! Online) (53:57)
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01:00:37Apr 6, 2026
