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The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes

300 episodes

Lewis Howes is a New York Times best-selling author, 2x All-American athlete, keynote speaker, and entrepreneur. The School of Greatness shares inspiring interviews from the most successful people on the planet—world-renowned leaders in business, entertainment, sports, science, health, mental health and literature—to inspire YOU to unlock your inner greatness and live your best life.

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  1. You Can't Buy Inner Peace, Here's How to Find It | Yung Pueblo

    · 53 min · S1 E1999

    You can't buy inner peace, no matter how much money or success you pile up. Yung Pueblo, an author who has meditated two hours every day for more than a decade and has finished a 60 day silent retreat, sat down with…

  2. Let Go of Expectations and Attract What You Desire | Lewis Howes

    · 46 min · S1 E1998

    The thing you want most might be closer than you think, and the expectations you keep gripping could be what keeps pushing it away. Lewis goes solo in this episode to walk through five expectations that block money,…

  3. Heal Your Trauma or Stay at War With Yourself | Robin Sharma

    · 1 h 37 min · S1 E1997

    The trauma you never healed is running your relationships and your work. Robin Sharma, author of The Everyday Hero Manifesto, tells Lewis about the day ten years of his private journals vanished from a cupboard, along…

  4. How to Know You’re on the Right Path | Katt Williams

    · 56 min · S1 E1996

    What if the dark stretch you're in right now is proof your faith is about to pay off? Katt Williams, a comedian with 14 stand-up specials, sat down with Lewis to talk about leaving home at 13 and the moment around age…

  5. What Sociopaths Really Feel | Dr. Patric Gagne

    · 1 h 48 min · S1 E1995

    People with psychopathy still feel, just differently from everyone around them. Dr. Patric Gagne, a diagnosed sociopath who went on to earn a doctorate and work as a therapist, sat down with Lewis and told the story…

  6. Your Anxiety Is a Smoke Alarm, Not a Broken Brain | Dr. John Delony

    · 1 h 18 min · S1 E1994

    What if your anxiety is a smoke alarm, and your body is working perfectly? Dr. John Delony, a mental health expert with two PhDs, sat down with Lewis and said the thing most of us dodge: if you are awake at 2:30 in…

  7. The Ancient 4-Step Method to Clear Your Mind | Shaolin Master Shi Heng Yi

    · 1 h 15 min · S1 E1993

    You keep making the same mistake because you haven't failed enough yet. That sounds harsh until you hear the reasoning, and then it feels like relief. Shi Heng Yi, a 35th generation Shaolin master who has practiced…

  8. How Stress Can Cause a Heart Attack (And How to Heal) | Dr. Tara Narula

    · 1 h 19 min · S1 E1992

    Stress can give you a real heart attack even when your arteries are perfectly healthy. Doctors call it broken heart syndrome, and it can follow losing someone you love or even winning the lottery. Dr. Tara Narula, a…

  9. A Divorce Lawyer on the Small Things That End Marriages | James Sexton

    · 1 h 18 min · S1 E1991

    A marriage can end over a bag of granola, a full year before anyone says the word divorce. James Sexton, a divorce lawyer for over two decades, sat down with Lewis and told the story of a client whose husband always…

  10. Secret Service Agent: How to Get Anyone to Tell You the Truth | Brad Beeler

    · 1 h 23 min · S1 E1990

    People tell you the truth when they feel safe, and one raised eyebrow can shut them down. Brad Beeler, who spent 25 years as a US Secret Service agent and polygraph examiner, sat down with Lewis and explained how he…

  11. I Was a Champion on the Field and Broken at Home | Terry Bradshaw

    · 1 h 14 min · S1 E1989

    You can win four Super Bowls and still spend every game afraid of losing. Terry Bradshaw, a Pro Football Hall of Famer and longtime host of Fox NFL Sunday, sat down with Lewis and admitted he was never confident as an…

  12. Budgets Don't Work, Automation Makes You Rich | David Bach

    · 1 h 17 min · S1 E1988

    Four out of ten people can't put their hands on $400 in an emergency, and almost none of them know why. David Bach, who spent nine years at Morgan Stanley and co-founded an advisory firm with more than $7 billion on…

  13. Why AI Is Making Us Lonelier and How to Truly Connect | Vanessa Van Edwards

    · 1 h 23 min · S1 E1987

    The questions you ask on autopilot might be the reason you feel lonely in a room full of people. Vanessa Van Edwards, a behavioral researcher who has studied master conversationalists for two decades, sat down with…

  14. You Win When You Fail | Jo Koy

    · 1 h 22 min · S1 E1986

    Every stage you never took is the only real failure. The rest is just data. Jo Koy, the comedian who has sold out SoFi Stadium and won Showtime at the Apollo, sat down with Lewis and told the story of driving Vegas to…

  15. You're Not Unprepared, You're Afraid to Start | Lewis Howes

    · 29 min · S1 E1986

    You already know where to start. What scares you is finding out you might not be good enough once you do. Lewis goes solo here on the fear that hides inside preparation. He read every page of a 500-page book before…

  16. Burnout Is a Sign You're Doing the Wrong Work | Jonathan Fields

    · 1 h 08 min · S1 E1985

    What if your body is already telling you the work you do every day is wrong for you? Jonathan Fields, founder of Good Life Project and a former securities lawyer, sat down with Lewis to answer the question so many of…

  17. 7 Signs You're About to Get Rich | Lewis Howes

    · 1 h 02 min · S1 E1984

    There are seven quiet signals that show up in your life long before the money does, and most of them feel like losing. In this solo episode, Lewis walks you through the money mindset shifts he lived from his sister's…

  18. Stop Grinding: Build a Business You Don't Hate | Codie Sanchez

    · 1 h 14 min · S1 E1983

    What if the grind you think makes you successful is the very thing keeping you broke and exhausted? Codie Sanchez, a former Goldman Sachs employee who has run 1,621 businesses through her company’s systems, sat down…

  19. Your Phone Is Stealing the Life You Actually Want | Cal Newport

    · 1 h 01 min · S1 E1982

    You have been trained to reach for your phone the second you get bored, and it is quietly costing you the ability to think. Cal Newport, a computer science professor and the author of Deep Work, sat down with Lewis…

  20. Rebuild Your Identity in 3 Steps and Finally Make Habits Last | Dr. Kim Foster

    · 1 h 05 min · S1 E1981

    You can have every fact, every plan, and still quit by Thursday, because the story underneath never changed. Dr. Kim Foster, a family physician who practiced for twenty years, sat down with Lewis after a patient with…

  21. You're Not Bad With Money, You Inherited Bad Beliefs | Lewis Howes

    · 1 h 20 min · S1 E1980

    You're not stuck with money because you're lazy or bad with numbers. You're running a program you never chose. You inherited it. It got set by what your family earned, what went quiet at the dinner table, what your…

  22. Your Pain Pushes You Until Your Vision Pulls You | Michael Beckwith

    · 1 h 14 min · S1 E1979

    Your pain will keep pushing you until a bigger vision starts pulling you instead. Not the vague, hopeful kind either, but the gut-level knowing that there’s more waiting for you than the life you’ve been tolerating.…

  23. Stop Waiting for the Perfect Moment, It Never Comes | Kier Gaines

    · 1 h 09 min · S1 E1978

    You get good at whatever you practice, and most of us have quietly mastered waiting. Kier Gaines knows what that waiting costs. He's a licensed therapist who grew up in a rough DC neighborhood never expecting to see…

  24. Why Grit Isn’t Enough to Get What You Want | Angela Duckworth

    · 1 h 18 min · S1 E1977

    Angela Duckworth, the psychologist who made “grit” a household word, sat down with Lewis and confessed something her research almost missed. Effort alone doesn’t build a great life. The situation you’re in does, and no…

  25. Why You Feel Stuck and How to Actually Change | Dr. Katy Milkman

    · 1 h 39 min · S1 E1976

    80% of people feel stuck in their own lives right now, and it has nothing to do with willpower. Dr. Katy Milkman, author of How to Change and professor at Wharton, breaks down why status quo bias and sunk cost…

  26. Money Loves Speed, but Wealth Loves Time | Sharran Srivatsaa

    · 1 h 18 min · S1 E1975

    The version of you who thinks debt is the enemy has never heard it explained this way. Sharran Srivatsaa went from dumpster-diving for food his first week of college to running Acquisition.com alongside Alex and Layla…

  27. The Trapped Emotions Blocking Your Love and Health | Dr. Bradley Nelson

    · 1 h 14 min · S1 E1974

    That chest pain you can't explain, that anger that fires before you can think, that heart you've quietly sealed off since someone broke it. There might be a reason it's still there. Dr. Bradley Nelson spent 18 years as…

  28. Your Body Language Is Telling You You're Not Safe | Amy Cuddy

    · 1 h 43 min · S1 E1973

    Your body is talking to your brain constantly, telling it either 'I'm safe' or 'I'm not safe.' The posture you default to when no one's watching might be the thing keeping you stuck. Amy Cuddy, the social psychologist…

  29. The Real Root of ADHD Isn't Trauma, It's This | Dr. Sasha Hamdani

    · 1 h 20 min · S1 E1972

    That feeling when a small comment ruins your entire day? There's actually a name for it, and it's not a character flaw. Dr. Sasha Hamdani is a board certified psychiatrist and ADHD specialist who spent years thinking…

  30. Why You Can't Manifest With an Old Identity | Jim Curtis

    · 1 h 03 min · S1 E1971

    You can't manifest a new life while you're still living inside an old identity. Transformational coach and hypnotherapist Jim Curtis has worked with entrepreneurs and public figures on the pattern behind their stuck…

  31. Raise Resilient Kids Without Punishment | Dr. Becky Kennedy

    · 1 h 26 min · S1 E1970

    The reason your kid melts down over a puzzle has nothing to do with the puzzle. It's about whether they've ever been shown that frustration is survivable instead of something to run from. Dr. Becky Kennedy, a clinical…

  32. Why Willpower Never Actually Changes You | Peter Crone

    · 2 h 01 min · S1 E1969

    There's one reason your new habits never stick, and it has nothing to do with willpower. Peter Crone has spent decades coaching PGA Tour golfers, Major League Baseball athletes, and top executives on the subconscious…

  33. The 5-Phase Plan to Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheck | Anthony O’Neal

    · 1 h 18 min · S1 E1968

    You could hand two people a million dollars and one of them would be broke again within a year. The other builds a legacy. The difference has nothing to do with luck. Anthony O'Neal, author of Stop Living Paycheck to…

  34. Why No Is More Powerful Than Yes | Chris Voss

    · 1 h 37 min · S1 E1967

    You've been taught that YES means you won. Chris Voss says it's usually the moment you get played. The former lead FBI international kidnapping negotiator built a career proving the opposite of what most of us believe…

  35. Bruce Lipton: The Program Running 95% of Your Life

    · 1 h 41 min · S1 E1966

    You've been running on a program installed before you could even talk, and you had no say in writing it. Cell biologist and former medical school professor Bruce Lipton spent his career studying epigenetics and…

  36. The Grief Expert Who Discovered a Sixth Stage | David Kessler

    · 1 h 22 min · S1 E1965

    Your grief is not the thing keeping you stuck. Running from it is. David Kessler spent years working alongside Elisabeth Kubler-Ross before everything he taught got tested against his own life, when his son died…

  37. Why Forced Positivity Is Making You Miserable | Susan David

    · 1 h 30 min · S1 E1964

    Some feelings get labeled good. Others get labeled bad. That single belief might be running your entire life. You'll hear why chasing happiness on command wears you down instead of building you up, and why the fastest…

  38. How Jesse Cole Turned Baseball Into a Billion Dollar Show

    · 1 h 50 min · S1 E1963

    He slept in his socks on a garage floor because it was too filthy to touch. That was Jesse Cole eight years ago, broke, sleeping on an air mattress, betting everything on a wooden bat baseball team nobody wanted.…

  39. The Trauma That Hurts People Most (And Never Gets Named) | Patrick Teahan

    · 1 h 13 min · S1 E1962

    A calm, healthy relationship can feel more dangerous to you than the chaos you grew up in. That's hypervigilance. It hates the absence of a threat, so it manufactures one, even when you're finally safe. Patrick…

  40. How to Design a Life That Runs Without You | Rob Dyrdek

    · 2 h 16 min · S1 E1961

    A clinical hypnotist told him the problem in one sentence. You don't believe, at a subconscious level, that you were meant to be successful. That was Rob Dyrdek in his twenties, long before the professional…

  41. The Neuroscience Behind Why You Can't Manifest What You Want | Dr. James Doty

    · 1 h 42 min · S1 E1960

    You're manifesting every single day. You're just doing it the wrong way. That's according to Dr. James Doty, a Stanford neurosurgeon and neuroscientist who has spent decades studying what actually happens in your…

  42. The Childhood Question That's Secretly Running Your Life | Aaron Doughty

    · 2 h 06 min · S1 E1959

    There's one childhood question that's secretly running your whole adult life. Aaron Doughty asks it straight: who did you have to be as a kid to receive Mom or Dad's love? Whoever that was became the role you're still…

  43. The Real Reason Stress Is Hurting You | Kelly McGonigal

    · 1 h 36 min · S1 E1958

    Your body can't tell the difference between anxiety and excitement. The only difference is the story you tell yourself. Kelly McGonigal has spent her career at Stanford studying that story, and how the way you think…

  44. Fortune vs. Luck, and Why It Matters | Dr. Tina Seelig

    · 1 h 14 min · S1 E1957

    What if the story you keep telling about yourself is the only thing standing between you and everything you want? You will hear the real difference between fortune and luck, and why one of them is completely in your…

  45. The 5 Hidden Layers Blocking You From Receiving Money | Jamie Sea

    · 1 h 11 min · S1 E1956

    Your body might be blocking the money you say you want. Jamie Sea walked away from two seven-figure businesses and rebuilt everything from scratch. Now she runs an eight-figure company teaching people how to actually…

  46. He Turned Down $14.5 Million for a 3 A.M. Truth | Matthew McConaughey

    · 1 h 35 min · S1 E1955

    He turned down $14.5 million because a 3 a.m. truth wouldn't let him go. Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey walked away from Hollywood for 20 months. No calls, no offers, no plan B. He talks about the exact…

  47. The Golden Equation That Turns Desire Into Reality | David Bayer

    · 1 h 17 min · S1 E1954

    The gap between what you want and where you are isn't bad luck. It's a belief you made as a kid. David Bayer, author of A Changed Mind, calls it the Golden Equation: desire plus non-resistance equals your result. The…

  48. Neurosurgeon: How to Outthink Fear Under Pressure | Dr. Mark McLaughlin

    · 1 h 21 min · S1 E1953

    The best in the world don't have high self-esteem. They have none at all. That single idea changes how you think about confidence, pressure, and every story you tell yourself before something hard begins. This…

  49. Why You Tolerate a Relationship You Know Should End | Gary John Bishop

    · 1 h 24 min · S1 E1952

    Most breakups have one thing in common, and it's never who you think it is. You can point to the fight, the distance, the way things quietly went cold. But the real story starts years earlier, in the exact moment you…

  50. How to Make $10,000 a Month Starting With Nothing | Chris Koerner

    · 1 h 16 min · S1 E1951

    You don't need money to start a business. You need to let go of your ego and find one customer, even if you don’t charge them anything. Chris Koerner has built dozens of businesses from nothing, and he hosts The…

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