This week’s guest is Alan Lazaros, a coach and consultant, who shares the incredible story of how a horrific car accident at the age of 26 led him along the path to success and fulfilment.

As a small child Alan tragically lost his father, who was only 28-year-old, in a car accident.

His mother eventually remarried and, for a while, Alan gained some stability and lived a conventional upper-middle class childhood.

Unfortunately, his mother’s relationship failed and at the age of 14 Alan was suddenly on free school meals and struggling to take onboard what had happened.

“It was the hardest year of my life,” he says on the show, describing how he and his mother had to readjust their lives yet again.

At this point in the show the discussion turns to how we handle trauma as children and the process we go through.

For Alan, he focused on school and excelled academically and won scholarships that helped fund his education. He graduated in computer engineering and also completed his MBA.

As a young adult he had worked hard to create a secure financial footing for himself and was doing well at work, excelling in the corporate sector.

Then, at the age of 26, Alan was involved in a major traffic accident. He couldn’t help but see a parallel with his father’s tragic death, and took his survival as a chance to start again.

Daring to make a change

Alan talks about what he went through and how he set out to change his life. He liquidated his assets and set up in business for himself, striving to create a successful and fulfilling life.

“I questioned who I was and the choices I was making,” he says. “I was at an all-time low.”

So he set out on a journey of self-improvement “to design a life of meaning and purpose”, he says.

Today he is CEO of Next Level University and is on a mission to help others create a life full of both success and fulfilment.

“I learned the hard way how empty success without fulfilment is and how limiting fulfilment without success is as well,” he says.

Now he leads a global team of 21 people, and is rapidly approaching 10,000 hours of speaking, podcasting, training, and coaching individuals from all walks of life.

As Alan explains on the show, he’s all in on building the premier consultancy to get people from all walks of life “to the Next Level of (…) life, love, health and wealth.”

Links

• Alan on Linkedin
• Alan’s website
• Alan’s Next Level University podcast