Kevin Palmieri describes how pursuing his dream forced him to abandon comfortable parts of his identity and endure panic attacks and emotional pain. He frames the suffering as necessary for growth, staying "all in" despite the fear, with his wife and podcast as anchors.
Commitment is I was willing to trade in so many of the parts of me that I was comfortable with and I felt safe with that were no longer serving me.
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I was committed to saying, look, this is not good for me. This is not good for my growth. And this is not the man that I want to be. I was committed to that. The identity level pain that you go through when you're growing like that is just something that a lot of people don't talk about. So I was willing to go through that. There was a point where I was having massive panic attacks for the first time I had ever had them. And I literally thought I was dying. And it was like, well, if this is how we go, at least I'm chasing my dream. So when I say I would die for this, I'm, I'm not saying that to sound cool. Like, I am all in on this. There's the, there's my amazing wife. And there's, there's the podcast.