The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex

Welcome to The Level Up Podcast with Paul Alex, where real stories fuel real success. I’m Paul Alex, ex-Detective turned 8-figure entrepreneur. After leaving law enforcement, I built multiple businesses helping everyday people create residual income and freedom on their own terms. This podcast isn’t just talk, it’s your weekly dose of mindset, money, and mission-driven motivation. Whether you’re still working your 9-5 or building your first business, every episode is designed to help you start, scale, and sustain your own journey. 💥 Listen in to hear: How I went from 100-hour weeks to financial freedom Interviews with underdogs who made 6+ figures from scratch Real-life strategies to build passive income What it really takes to level up mentally and financially 📲 Add me on Instagram: @PaulAlex 📣 Tag your favorite episode in your IG Story and I’ll repost it with a personal message from me. Let’s build together. Let’s grow together. And most importantly, let’s level up. 👊 Paul Alex Founder, OfficialPaulAlex.com

Episodes

Wall Street to Dubai: How Tan Gera Turned $57K Into Millions After a Total Crypto Crash

December 22, 2025 • 44 mins
Wall Street to Dubai isn’t just a headline — it’s the real-life journey of Tan Gera, a former investment banker who lost everything in the 2018 crypto crash… and then rebuilt from the ground up. In this episode, Tan breaks down how he walked away from a traditional Wall Street career, turned $57,000 into millions, and went on to build a global crypto education company. He shares the hard lessons from losing seven figures, navigati...
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LegalZoom Co-Founder Eddie Hartman Explains Why 72% of Businesses Fail

December 20, 2025 • 56 mins
Why do most businesses fail—even when founders are working nonstop and doing “everything right”? In this episode, Paul Alex sits down with Eddie Hartman, co-founder of LegalZoom, to break down why 72% of businesses don’t make it and what separates sustainable companies from the rest. Eddie explains why pricing is often misunderstood, how entrepreneurs confuse value with revenue, and why relying on a single growth engine eventually...
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Why High-Performing Men Secretly Feel Broken at Home — Mitchell Osmond Explains

December 18, 2025 • 49 mins
High performance doesn’t always equal fulfillment—and for many men, success at work hides chaos at home. In this episode, Mitchell Osmond breaks down why so many driven, high-achieving men feel disconnected in their marriages, overwhelmed in their personal lives, and silently burned out despite outward success. Mitchell shares his raw journey from financial stress, addiction, and near divorce to rebuilding his mindset, body, marri...
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This One Belief Is Secretly Ruining Your Life — Shelly Lefkoe Explains Why

December 16, 2025 • 47 mins
Most people don’t fail because of lack of effort, motivation, or discipline — they fail because of a belief they don’t even know they have. In this episode, Paul Alex sits down with Shelly Lefkoe, co-founder of the Lefkoe Institute and one of the world’s leading experts on eliminating limiting beliefs. With over 35 years of experience, Shelly breaks down how unconscious beliefs are formed, why positive thinking doesn’t work, and h...
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Nike, Ford, Pepsi… What They Get Wrong About Innovation (Bud Caddell)

December 14, 2025 • 29 mins
Innovation doesn’t fail because companies lack ideas—it fails because leadership and culture aren’t built to support change. In this episode, Paul Alex sits down with Bud Caddell, founder of NOBL (nobl.io), to break down what actually stops organizations from executing on bold ideas. Bud shares real-world lessons from working with global brands and fast-growing companies, explaining how misaligned incentives, poor leadership behav...
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The AI Skills That Will Make You Rich in 2025 — According to Expert Alicia Lyttle

December 12, 2025 • 42 mins
What if mastering a few simple AI skills could completely change your income in 2025? Today, Paul Alex brings on AI powerhouse Alicia Lyttle (@alicialyttle) to break it all down. Alicia has spent more than 25 years in the online space, built multiple multi-million-dollar businesses, trained governments and universities worldwide, and became one of the top voices in AI literacy. Today, she reveals how anyone—from total beginners to...
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From Broken Ankle to $100K Months — How Ted Stern Turned Police Work Into a Fitness Empire

December 11, 2025 • 48 mins
What happens when a career-ending injury becomes the catalyst for a completely new life? In today’s episode, Ted Stern (@fitresponder) shares how snapping his ankle on duty pushed him into the online world — and how that single moment transformed him from a frustrated first responder into a multiple 6-figure fitness entrepreneur. Ted breaks down the exact steps he used to scale from making a few thousand a month to consistently hi...
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From Homeless to 9 figure real-estate Mogul Saving Children Around the World: William Fonseca

December 9, 2025 • 68 mins
From sleeping under bridges to building a 9-figure real estate empire, William Fonseca has lived through darkness most people never escape — addiction, homelessness, abuse, and complete loss. But instead of letting his past define him, William transformed his pain into a global mission: saving and educating children around the world through purpose-driven real estate and charitable work. In this powerful and deeply emotional conve...
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From Door-to-Door Sales to Multi-Million Deals: Justin Colby’s Brutal Entrepreneur Truths

December 8, 2025 • 53 mins
In this episode of The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex, we sit down with Justin Colby (@thejustincolby) — a seasoned entrepreneur who reveals the unfiltered truth behind building wealth, surviving market disasters, and reinventing yourself when everything falls apart. 💥 Justin shares powerful stories from his early days knocking on doors to the multi-million-dollar real estate empire he eventually built. But beyond the highlight re...
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The Hidden Side of Health Insurance Sales — And How Mara Dorne Became the Industry’s Outlier

December 6, 2025 • 25 mins
In this powerful episode, Paul Alex sits down with health insurance powerhouse Mara Dorne (@maradorne) — a woman who went from losing six businesses, her home, and every sense of stability… to becoming one of the most respected leaders in the health insurance industry, generating over $1 billion in team production. Mara breaks down the real truth behind health insurance sales — the part most people never see. She opens up about fa...
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How Lee Edward Smith & Katherine Aguilar Turned Dance, Culture & Real Estate Into an Empire

December 4, 2025 • 64 mins
What happens when two world-class Latin dancers mix culture, community, and entrepreneurship? You get Lee Edward Smith (@leeelgringuito) & Katherine Aguilar (@kataguilarsmith) — the power couple behind DCBX (@dcbxevents), Rhythm Investor, and one of the strongest relationship-driven networks in real estate today. In this episode, we dive deep into how they transformed their passion for dance into a multi-industry empire built on c...
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The Biohacking Blueprint: How TereZa & Anthony Lolli Transformed Their Bodies & Lives

December 2, 2025 • 47 mins
In today’s episode of The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex, I sit down with powerhouse entrepreneurs TereZa Lolli (@terezalolli) and Anthony Lolli (@anthonylolli) — a couple who turned their personal battles, health crises, and parenting challenges into a global blueprint for transformation. From becoming a multi-millionaire at 22… To ballooning to 315 lbs and nearly losing his life… To rebuilding his body, mindset, and mission from ...
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Confidence Under Pressure – Winning When No One Believes in You

December 1, 2025 • 3 mins
🔥 What do you do when no one believes in you? When people smile to your face but doubt you behind your back? In this episode of The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex, we dive into how pressure can either break you — or build you into someone unstoppable. Paul Alex shares the real story behind leaving law enforcement, walking away from a stable career, and building multiple companies despite the doubts, criticism, and silence from peo...
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How Faith and Grit Took Brock McClelland From Homeless to Eight Figures

November 30, 2025 • 46 mins
In this episode of The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex, Brock McClelland (@thebrockmcclelland) shares the raw, unfiltered truth about overcoming addiction, surviving rock bottom, rebuilding his life through faith, and the mindset that took him from “nothing” to leading multiple successful companies. This is more than a story about entrepreneurship—it’s a story about grit, discipline, spiritual alignment, and the belief that your pas...
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Rejection Is Redirection – Building Resilience in Business

November 29, 2025 • 3 mins
🔥 Rejection hurts — but it’s not a dead end. It’s a detour pulling you toward something better. In this episode of The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex, we break down how rejection becomes one of the most powerful tools for growth, clarity, and resilience in entrepreneurship. Paul Alex shares how setbacks, ignored emails, closed doors, and lost deals redirected him toward the biggest wins of his life. From early ATM pitches to major...
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The Real Reason You Lack Confidence — Tomo Marjanovic Breaks It Down

November 28, 2025 • 64 mins
What does it really take to reinvent your life? To go from a career built on discipline and danger… to becoming a multi-millionaire, global entrepreneur, and high-performance machine? In this episode of The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex, Tomo Marjanovic breaks down the real blueprint behind confidence, discipline, pain, standards, and what it takes to join the top 1% of men. Tomo isn’t just successful — he’s intentional. From his...
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From His Mom’s Garage to a National Agency — How Drew Lutzke Built ADL Search from Nothing

November 27, 2025 • 25 mins
When life forces you to start over, most people freeze.Drew Lutzke built a business. In this powerful episode of The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex, Drew (@andrew_adltalentplug) breaks down how he went from sitting in his mom’s garage—unsure of his future—to launching ADL Search & Staffing, a faith-driven recruiting agency now expanding across major U.S. cities. Drew shares how he: 🔥 Pivoted from college baseball coaching into re...
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How Jon Briseno Went From Addiction and Jail to Multi-Millionaire Sales Leader

November 24, 2025 • 70 mins
From battling addiction… to facing jail time… to becoming a multi-millionaire in high-ticket sales — Jon Briseno has lived a transformation most people wouldn’t believe. In this episode, Jon opens up about the darkest chapters of his life, the moment everything collapsed, and how hitting rock bottom forced him to rebuild with discipline, sales skills, and relentless self-belief. He went from having nothing — no money, no opportuni...
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How Fareed Abedini Lost $1.7M at 20 — Then Rebuilt Through Airbnb

November 21, 2025 • 64 mins
What would you do if you earned $1.7 million before turning 21… and then lost every dollar? Most people would crumble. But today’s guest — Fareed Abedini — used that rock bottom moment as the catalyst for one of the greatest comebacks you’ll ever hear. In this episode of The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex, Fareed opens up about the brutal reality of losing millions through day trading, the shame of watching it all disappear, and t...
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Take the First Step – How Successful Entrepreneurs Think Differently

November 20, 2025 • 3 mins
🔥 The hardest step in success isn’t the tenth — it’s the first. In this episode of The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex, we break down the mindset that separates dreamers from doers — and why your first uncomfortable step matters more than any strategy. Paul Alex opens up about the key decisions that changed his life, from leaving his 9-to-5 to launching multiple companies from scratch. None of it happened because he had the perfect...
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