The School of Greatness

Vinh Giang is a communication and public speaking coach and former magician who wrote Before We Forget How to Connect. Communication is a set of temporary behaviors that can be changed, though habits repeated for decades become invisible to the speaker. Topics include his four pillars of voice, body, storytelling and listening, the Spark, Point, Link storytelling method, neutral ears, reviewing recorded video, and Toastmasters table topics.

Robert Greene is the author of The Law of the Sublime and was the first guest on The School of Greatness. The sublime is a feeling of awe that comes from seeing the world with new eyes, and a bond with something larger than the ego eases the misery that disconnection breeds. Topics include the death sublime, the false sublime versus the true sublime, panpsychism, Bruce Greyson’s near-death research, the Pamela Reynolds case and the Eleusinian Mysteries.

Lewis Howes, host of The School of Greatness and author of Make Money Easy, marks 2,000 episodes of the show with lessons on consistency and service. Greatness comes from using unique gifts to serve others, and showing up consistently matters more than feeling ready. Named touchpoints include The Mask of Masculinity, The Greatest Mindset, the Summit of Greatness, and his years on the USA National Team in team handball.

Yung Pueblo is the author of Journey: The Year That Changes Everything and a long-term daily meditator. Inner peace is the spaciousness to witness tension without letting it control reactions. Topics include Vipassana silent retreats, impermanence, the four elements framework from Journey, and a four stage process for designing a life through intention, action, consistency and letting go.

Lewis Howes, host of The School of Greatness and author of Make Money Easy, examines why unspoken expectations leave hardworking people feeling stuck and resentful. Releasing demands on timing and outcome while keeping the effort high makes room for good things to arrive. Topics include the silent contracts journaling exercise, the “Would you be willing to” ask, therapy at the start of a relationship, and the book Eight Dates.

Robin Sharma, author of The Everyday Hero Manifesto and The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, joins Lewis Howes on The School of Greatness. He argues that unhealed trauma forms a field of hurt that shapes daily behavior, and that healing it frees a person for service and personal mastery. The conversation covers the AFRA tool, the eight forms of wealth, the 5 AM Club protocol, journaling, meditation, and University College London research on habit formation.

Katt Williams is a stand-up comedian with 14 specials who also wrote a memoir about his life. Faith turns every obstacle into a chance to jump higher, and every rejection becomes useful feedback. The conversation covers his missionary years in Haiti, door-to-door sales, meeting Prince in Dayton, spiritual warfare, and his Netflix podcast According 2 Katt and his book Nine Lives, No Wives, and 69 Concubines.

Dr. Patric Gagne, author of Sociopath: A Memoir, is a diagnosed sociopath and therapist who wrote her doctoral dissertation on sociopathy. Limited access to emotion is not inherently evil, and secondary psychopathy can be treated through awareness and re-socialization. Topics include the Psychopathy Checklist, the DSM, primary versus secondary psychopathy, the Society for the Prevention of Disorders of Aggression and The Body Keeps the Score.

Dr. John Delony is a mental health expert and host of The Dr. John Delony Show on the Ramsey Network. He argues that anxiety works like a smoke alarm pointing to a real problem, and that addiction only muffles the alarm. With Lewis Howes on The School of Greatness, he discusses neuroception, values over beliefs, the antifragile life, seasons of work, The Body Keeps the Score, and his book Building a Non-Anxious Life.

Shi Heng Yi is a 35th generation Shaolin master and founder of the Shaolin Temple Europe, in conversation with Lewis Howes on The School of Greatness. He argues that people fail to manifest what they want because a hindrance cannot change until it is accepted. The episode covers the RAIN method (Recognize, Accept, Investigate, Non-identification), the five hindrances, Heaven, Man, Earth, yin and yang, gratefulness, focused cycles of practice, and shaolin.online.

Dr. Tara Narula is a board certified cardiologist and chief medical correspondent for ABC News. She argues that chronic stress damages the heart and that resilience is a learnable skill that protects it. Topics include takotsubo cardiomyopathy, Hans Selye's general adaptation syndrome, the Harvard Study of Adult Development, cognitive behavioral therapy, the Serenity Prayer, and the American Heart Association.

James Sexton is a divorce lawyer and the author of If You're in My Office, It's Already Too Late: A Divorce Lawyer's Guide to Staying Together. He tells Lewis Howes that marriage is a technology with tradeoffs, and that it erodes through small unaddressed disconnections around sex and money. They discuss Hit Send Now emails, Go Without or Go Elsewhere, prenups, joint and individual accounts, infidelity, and Mating in Captivity.

Brad Beeler, a US Secret Service agent for 25 years and polygraph examiner for 17, is the author of Tell Me Everything. He argues that people disclose the truth when an interviewer builds safety and curiosity, since body language is a poor lie detector. The conversation covers the Buddy framework, FEEL, the crime equation, horns and halos, tactical empathy, confirmation bias, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Terry Bradshaw is a Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers and a longtime host of Fox NFL Sunday. He argues that lasting change begins when a person accepts that the common factor in repeated failures is himself and speaks openly about depression. The conversation covers his memoir Looking for Terry, his ADD diagnosis after retirement, years of counseling, and a self-honesty exercise he calls mirror evaluation.

David Bach, author of The Latte Factor and The Automatic Millionaire, spent nine years at Morgan Stanley and co-founded a registered investment advisory firm. He argues with Lewis Howes that automated saving and long term ownership of stocks and real estate build wealth, while get rich quick thinking keeps people broke. The conversation covers Smart Women Finish Rich, the Rule of 72, Acorns, and Federal Reserve data on emergency savings.

Vanessa Van Edwards, behavioral researcher and founder of Science of People, is the author of Cues and Conversation. Conversation is a learnable skill, and moving past small talk through deeper levels of intimacy builds the connection that technology cannot supply. Topics include Dr. Dan McAdams' Three Levels of Connection, the Nine Power Questions, Dream Building versus Dream Killing, Conversational Confetti, the Candor corpus, and charisma as warmth plus competence.

Jo Koy, a stand-up comedian performing since 1989 and the winner of Showtime at the Apollo, talks with Lewis Howes about how repeated failure and rejection built the craft behind a career in comedy. The conversation covers his early days at BET's ComicView, Def Comedy Jam, and The Comedy Store, self funding a special after Netflix passed, selling out SoFi Stadium, plus a special co-produced with Martin Lawrence.

Lewis Howes, host of The School of Greatness, examines the fear of starting before the feeling of readiness arrives. The episode argues that preparation can become a sophisticated form of procrastination, and that confidence follows action rather than preceding it. Examples include his interview with Tony Robbins, a Kobe Bryant interview booked the night before, and the launch of The School of Greatness.

Jonathan Fields, author of Sparked: Discover Your Unique Imprint for Work That Makes You Come Alive and a former securities lawyer, talks with Lewis Howes about burnout and meaningful work. Each person carries a distinct impulse for effort that makes work feel alive, and aligning with it eases burnout. It covers the Sparketype framework, an Indeed report on burnout, Katie Milkman's behavior change research, and Katie Byron's The Work.

Lewis Howes, host of The School of Greatness and author of Make Money Easy: Create Financial Freedom and Live a Richer Life, lays out seven signs that wealth is close before any bank balance confirms it. The episode works through Myron Golden's four levels of value, why moving up levels beats working harder, the practice of measuring runway in months rather than income, and how Toastmasters built the communication skill behind it.

Codie Sanchez, author of Own or Be Owned and host of the podcast Big Deal, is a former journalist who later worked at Goldman Sachs. Business owners build lasting wealth when their companies run on systems and recurring revenue instead of the owner's constant labor. Topics include the OWN system of profit levers, key man risk, lifetime value, Profit First, the wallet share phenomenon, and the ownerscore.com assessment.

Cal Newport, computer science professor and author of Deep Work and Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World, joins Lewis Howes to argue that concentration is growing more valuable as it grows more rare. The conversation covers productive meditation, solitude, and a 30 day digital declutter Newport ran with 1,600 readers who reported back on what they kept, what they dropped, and what they moved off their phones.

Dr. Kim Foster, a family physician of 20 years turned YouTube creator, coach, and author of Redesigning You, joins Lewis Howes. Dr.Kim argues that lasting behavior change stalls because it is an identity problem rather than an information problem. The conversation covers her Recognize, Redesign, Ritualize framework, the bridge identity concept, her metaphor of identity as an operating system running apps, and her decision to leave clinical medicine.

Lewis Howes, host of The School of Greatness and author of Make Money Easy, breaks down the five inherited money beliefs that build a personal financial ceiling: what people like me earn, pain as the price of payment, guilt about wanting more, spending to prove status, and the taboo against talking about money. Includes the 30-day four-number challenge, the 72-hour rule, real hourly earnings, and the second price tag.

Michael Beckwith, founder of Agape International Spiritual Center (est. November 30, 1986) and author of seven books including Life Visioning, The Answer Is You, and Spiritual Liberation, discusses his path from Morehouse College and USC psychobiology studies through Black Panther Party-aligned activism to spiritual leadership. Topics include his Synthesis Dialogues with the Dalai Lama, presenting Nelson Mandela the Season for Nonviolence Award, induction with Bishop Desmond Tutu into the Martin Luther King Order of Preachers, and United Nations addresses.

Licensed therapist Kier Gaines, author of “It All Starts When You Do: How To Do The Real Work Of Self Healing,” discusses anger, victimhood versus accountability, and identity formation rooted in his upbringing in Washington, D.C. The conversation references “Sapiens” and “The Mask of Masculinity,” alongside journaling as a therapeutic tool, survivor's guilt, and youth mentorship program experience.

Psychologist Angela Duckworth, former McKinsey Consulting analyst and Duckworth Lab founder, is author of Grit, which has sold over 5 million copies, and Situated: Find the People and Places that Bring Out Your Best. The episode references The Person and the Situation, Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, the fundamental attribution error research of Dick Nisbett and Lee Ross, and Bob Rosenthal's Pygmalion effect study.

Dr. Katy Milkman, Wharton School professor, host of Choiceology, and co-director of the Behavior Change for Good Initiative with Angela Duckworth, discusses How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. Covers Status Quo Bias, Fresh Start Effect, Temptation Bundling, and If-Then Plans, citing studies with Hengchen Dai, Peter Gollwitzer, Marissa Sharif, Hal Hershfield, Ayelet Fishbach, and Kaitlin Woolley.

Sharran Srivatsaa, CEO and managing partner of Acquisition.com alongside Alex and Layla Hormozi, is a former Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse investment banker with a Vanderbilt University MBA and former professional tennis coach to Richard Branson and Bill and Melinda Gates. He discusses frameworks including the Four Money Monsters, Four Goods, Wealth Ladder, Golden Stairways, TIGA, and the 70/20/10 Rule, referencing Rich Dad Poor Dad and Vanguard ETFs VOO and VNQ.

Dr. Bradley Nelson, chiropractor with 38 years experience and creator of the Emotion Code, Body Code, and Heart Code, founder and CEO of Discover Healing, discusses trapped emotions, Heart-Wall theory, and muscle testing methodology. He has certified over 17,000 practitioners across 108 countries, authored The Emotion Code, The Body Code, and The Heart Code, and references emotioncodenow.com and Albert Einstein’s frequency medicine concept.

Amy Cuddy, social psychologist, Harvard Business School lecturer, and former Kellogg School of Management faculty, discusses power posing, postural feedback, self-affirmation theory, and 4-7-8 breathing. Topics include her TED Talk research, meta-analyses of power posing studies, Alison Wood Brooks’s anxiety-reframing research, and her friendship with Alex Wubbels. References include What Every Body is Saying, 12 Rules For Life, and imposter syndrome data from Harvard Business School students.

Dr. Sasha Hamdani, board certified psychiatrist and best-selling author, discusses ADHD, ADD, and Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD), diagnostic misclassification, and gender disparities in diagnosis age. Topics include her book “Too Sensitive: Rejection, Resilience, and the Science of Feeling Deeply,” medication versus behavioral modification, amygdala hyperresponsiveness, misdiagnosis cycles involving antidepressants, and her personal ADHD diagnosis history.

Transformational coach, hypnotherapist, and author Jim Curtis joins Lewis Howes to break down his Release, Align, Become framework from his book The Book of Possibility. Curtis explains how subconscious identity, forgiveness practices like the Ho'oponopono prayer, and the Three Gs of grounding, giving, and gratitude shape manifestation, confidence, and wealth.

Clinical psychologist Dr. Becky Kennedy, founder of Good Inside and author of Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want To Be, presents frameworks including Same Team, Sturdy leadership, and the three lines, alongside the Good Inside app and membership community. Discussion contrasts timeout- and sticker-chart-based discipline with identity-based, connection-first parenting and boundary-setting; Time Magazine has called Kennedy “the millennial parenting whisperer.”

Peter Crone, a human potential expert and performance coach who has worked with PGA Tour golfers, Major League Baseball athletes, and top executives, joins Lewis Howes to break down the difference between willpower and identity, the mechanics of subconscious conditioning, and why healing requires exiting the level of consciousness that created the problem. Crone also discusses his upcoming 2.0 World membership platform and his three month coaching mastermind.

Anthony O'Neal, personal finance expert and author of Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheck: The Proven Path to Break Free From Debt, Build Real Wealth, and Live Free on Any Income, outlines a five-phase wealth strategy with Lewis Howes covering consumer debt elimination, emergency fund building, index fund and 401(k) investing, HSAs, 529 plans, tithing, and estate planning through trusts and wills.

Chris Voss, former lead FBI international kidnapping negotiator and founder of The Black Swan Group, discusses tactics from his bestselling book Never Split the Difference, including the Black Swan Method, calibrated questions, and the accusations audit. Voss explains why yes is often a counterfeit signal in negotiation, why no unlocks real progress, and shares FBI hostage cases alongside everyday tactics for negotiating discounts, upgrades, and raises.

Cell biologist and former medical school professor Bruce Lipton discusses epigenetics, quantum biology, and the subconscious mind's role in shaping behavior, health, and belief. Lipton explains the theta brainwave programming window from conception to age seven, the biology of stress and immune suppression, and the four cultural myths from his book Beyond Darwin: How Epigenetics, Quantum Science, and Cooperation Shape Humanity's Future.

Grief expert and bestselling author David Kessler, longtime collaborator of psychiatrist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and author of Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief, joins Lewis Howes to explain the sixth stage of grief, unattended grief, trigger work, and the Tender Hearts online grief support groups offered through Grief.com and AboutGrief.com.

Psychologist and emotions researcher Susan David, author of Emotional Agility and editor of The Oxford Handbook of Happiness, joins Lewis Howes to explain forced positivity, emotion granularity, self bias, and why the World Economic Forum names emotional agility a core future skill, drawing on two decades of research into grief, resilience, values, and psychological safety.

Jesse Cole, founder of Fans First Entertainment and owner of the Savannah Bananas, author of Find Your Yellow Tux: How to Be Successful by Standing Out, discusses building Banana Ball from a wooden bat league into a billion dollar entertainment brand inspired by Walt Disney and P.T. Barnum. Cole details the Fans First Playbook philosophy, his family's foster care and adoption journey with wife Emily, and scaling from 100,000 to 3.4 million fans annually across six touring teams.

Patrick Teahan, clinical social worker and childhood trauma educator known for his YouTube channel and PatrickTeahan.com, joins Lewis Howes to break down inner child work, re-parenting, and a three-part healing framework: finishing business with family of origin, re-parenting the inner child, and intimacy work. The conversation covers the ACE study, hypervigilance, imposter syndrome, no contact boundaries, and Teahan psychology-journal-published assessment, the Toxic Family Test.

Rob Dyrdek, professional skateboarder turned MTV personality behind Rob & Big and Ridiculousness, and founder of the venture studio Dyrdek Machine, breaks down the Machine Method, his 80-page Rhythm of Existence life operating system, and exits including Superjacket Productions and Street League Skateboarding. He details daily guided manifestation in a Soma Dome, quantified life tracking, Dr. George Pratt, Ray Dalio, and the Do or Die Foundation.

Stanford neurosurgeon and neuroscientist Dr. James Doty, author of the New York Times bestseller Into the Magic Shop and his new book Mind Magic: The Neuroscience of Manifestation, joins Lewis Howes to explain the brain science of manifestation, covering the salience network, executive control network, value tagging, hedonic happiness versus true fulfillment, and how the parasympathetic nervous system drives compassion and self worth.

Aaron Doughty, YouTube spiritual teacher with over 1 million subscribers and founder of the Shift Academy, joins Lewis Howes to unpack his SHIFT framework for identity transformation. Doughty discusses family constellation therapy, Dr. Mark Wolynn's book It Didn't Start With You, Psycho-Cybernetics, breathwork, the mother-father-child dynamic, and hypnotherapist Dolores Cannon's research on subconscious patterns and nervous system regulation.

Stanford University health psychologist Kelly McGonigal, author of The Willpower Instinct, The Upside of Stress, and The Joy of Movement, joins Lewis Howes to discuss the stress mindset effect, the biology of willpower, and depression recovery through exercise. McGonigal, founder of the Stanford Compassion Cultivation Training Program, also covers the pause and plan response, exercise induced endocannabinoids, and benevolent beliefs research.

Stanford professor, neuroscientist, and bestselling author Dr. Tina Seelig joins Lewis Howes to unpack the science behind luck, drawn from her book What I Wish I Knew About Luck: A Crash Course on Turning Aspirations into Achievements. Seelig, who also wrote What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20 and runs Stanford's Entrepreneurship Center, breaks down her Risk-O-Meter framework, the three-part model for catching luck, and the science of reframing failure, risk, and opportunity.

Jamie Sea, entrepreneur, educator, and author who built an eight-figure company after walking away from two seven-figure businesses, joins Lewis Howes to unpack the Wealth Container framework, the five layers of visibility, loyalty, responsibility, ease, and identity that govern financial growth. The conversation covers nervous system regulation, subconscious rewiring, and Human Design as tools for receiving money without burnout or self-sabotage.

Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey, author of the memoir Greenlights and founder of the just keep livin foundation, joins Lewis Howes to discuss his 20-month departure from Hollywood, the goals he handwrote in 1992, and the spiritual reckoning he experienced during a solo trip through the Amazon.

David Bayer, entrepreneur and author of A Changed Mind, joins Lewis Howes to unpack the Golden Equation, desire plus non-resistance equals desired result, along with the Two States of Being, the Core Program, and the Whole Human Framework, a twelve-step model for personal growth rooted in Alcoholics Anonymous. Bayer also details his Decision Matrix for rewiring limiting beliefs.

Neurosurgeon Dr. Mark McLaughlin, author of Cognitive Dominance: A Brain Surgeon's Quest to Outthink Fear, joins Lewis Howes to break down the IRIS protocol and the F.E.A.R. framework he uses to dismantle fear under pressure. Drawing on over 1,000 brain surgeries and 8,000 spine surgeries across 25 years, McLaughlin covers the four fear quadrants, self-esteem versus self-identity, and lessons from Iain McGilchrist, Paulo Coelho, and Joseph Campbell.

Gary John Bishop, Glasgow-born author of Love Unfucked: Getting Your Relationship Shit Together and a longtime speaker alongside figures like Tony Robbins and Arnold Schwarzenegger, joins Lewis Howes to discuss relationship breakdown, blame, childhood identity patterns, vulnerability, and the mindset shift that helped him build what he calls authentic wealth in his fifties

Chris Koerner, serial entrepreneur and host of The Koerner Office podcast, breaks down how to launch a business with no money, the barbell method for choosing what to build, Parkinson's Law, and the post and ghost strategy for beating fear of failure. Koerner also shares the story of his daughter's double lung transplant for pulmonary hypertension and the kidney he and his wife each donated to strangers.

Lewis Howes, host of The School of Greatness podcast and author of the book Make Money Easy, shares five wealth-building secrets on money mindset, the shift from active to leveraged income, multiple income streams, the proximity principle, and generosity as a wealth strategy. He cites the nonprofit Pencils of Promise, founder Adam Braun, and income categories including earned, investment, royalty, rental, and digital income, closing with a 30-day wealth-building challenge.

Colin O'Brady -- world record holder for the Explorers Grand Slam (all Seven Summits plus both poles in 139 consecutive days) and first person to complete a solo, unsupported, unaided crossing of Antarctica (The Impossible First, approximately 1,000 miles in 54 days) -- discusses flow state training, Vipassana silent meditation retreats, and the daily mantra "you are strong, you are capable." He covers his recovery from severe burns in Thailand that doctors said would prevent him from walking, his path to winning the Chicago Triathlon 18 months after his accident, the philosophy of infinite love and untapped human potential, and the 50 High Points speed record. Also discussed: competing against British explorer Lou Rudd, wife and co-creator Jenna O'Brady's role in strategy and logistics, and the universality of human potential beyond elite achievement.

Sadhguru, New York Times bestselling author of Karma: A Yogi's Guide to Crafting Your Destiny and Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy, joins Lewis Howes to reframe karma as memory and liberation rather than punishment, explain the yogic concept of vasana, argue that limited identity is the root of all crime, and teach the Shambhavi practice and Inner Engineering method for creating distance between you and your body and mind.

Spiritual coach Katie Clarke explains shadow work, the process of making the unconscious conscious, detailing how unresolved childhood trauma creates shadow selves, protector parts including perfectionism, people-pleasing, and self-sabotage, and energetic frequency blocks to manifestation. Clarke introduces her Law of Displacement for belief rewiring, the Be-Do-Have order of creation from Genesis, the in-between phase of personal transformation, and masculine versus feminine energy polarity. References include the quantum double-slit experiment, Bob Proctor, Myron Golden, and Genesis 1.

Sheleana Aiyana, author of Becoming the One and founder of the Rising Woman community, joins Lewis Howes to discuss conscious relationships, attachment wounds, trauma bonding, and somatic healing. Drawing on Peter Levine's somatic experiencing and his book Waking the Tiger, Imago therapy from Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt, and Gottman Institute research, Aiyana covers nervous system regulation, inner child re-parenting, the father wound, and the shadow vows she created with her husband before marriage.

Dr. Shefali Tsabary, clinical psychologist and pioneer of the conscious parenting movement, returns for her third School of Greatness appearance to discuss her books Raising Conscious Daughters and Raising Conscious Sons. The conversation covers conscious parenting, parental emotional regulation, the seven pillars for raising girls (voice, embodiment, enoughness, boundaries, anti-fragility, sovereignty, sisterhood), male initiation, the manosphere, the youth mental health crisis, and the digital hijacking of attention and attachment. Tsabary references her Conscious Coaching Institute and the work of Scott Galloway.

Lewis Howes, three-time New York Times bestselling author and host of The School of Greatness, breaks down five mindset shifts blocking high achievers from manifesting their goals, citing frameworks and language from Dr. Joe Dispenza, Bob Proctor, Rhonda Byrne, and Price Pritchett's Quantum Leap framework, alongside his book The Greatness Mindset and a 30-day embodiment and alignment challenge.

Charles Duhigg, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of The Power of Habit and Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection, joins Lewis Howes to explore the neuroscience of deep conversation. Topics include the Harvard Adult Happiness Study, neural entrainment, looping for understanding, the three conversation types (practical, emotional, and social), emotional reciprocity, bids for connection, motivational interviewing, the matching principle, and Verna Myers' work at Netflix.

Meg Josephson, licensed psychotherapist, certified meditation teacher, and New York Times bestselling author of Are You Mad At Me? How to Stop Focusing On What Others Think And Start Living For You, joins Lewis Howes to break down the psychology of people pleasing through the lens of the fawn response, a nervous system threat response alongside fight, flight, and freeze. Josephson explores her six people pleaser archetypes (peacekeeper, performer, perfectionist, chameleon, caretaker, lone wolf), the distinction between reassurance seeking and validation, complex trauma and generational trauma patterns, internal family systems (IFS) developed by Dick Schwartz, and the role of shame, the inner critic, and self-blame in compulsive approval-seeking.

Cognitive scientist and UC Irvine professor Donald Hoffman, author of The Case Against Reality, presents mathematical evidence from evolutionary game theory that the probability any organism has ever perceived reality as it truly is equals zero. Hoffman introduces the Trace Logic mathematical model of consciousness and argues that brains are perceptual interfaces rendered by a single universal consciousness, that spacetime falls apart at the Planck scale, and that consciousness, not neural activity, is the fundamental nature of reality.

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon, fellowship-trained geriatrician and founder of muscle-centric medicine, mentored for two decades by protein researcher Dr. Donald Layman of the University of Illinois, explains why skeletal muscle, not body fat, governs glucose disposal, metabolic health, and longevity. Covers the leucine meal threshold, anabolic resistance, sarcopenia, myokines including interleukin-6 and BDNF, the WWII nitrogen-balance origins of the 0.8g/kg protein RDA, and the GRADE-system red meat analysis published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Peter Sage, serial entrepreneur, transformation coach, and author of The Inside Track: The Ultimate Guide to Conquering Adversity, breaks down his four levels of consciousness framework (To Me, By Me, Through Me, As Me), adapted from Michael Beckwith. Drawing on Tony Robbins, Dr. Joe Dispenza, Viktor Frankl, and Napoleon Hill, Sage explains the Curse of the White Rabbit, GOOP (Good Opinion of Other People), the financial thermostat, and lessons from his six months in Pentonville prison.

Dr. Lisa Miller, Columbia University professor and author of The Spiritual Child: The New Science of Parenting for Health and Lifelong Thriving, draws on 10 years of MRI research and a global study of 270,000 children to explain the three circuits of the awakened brain (bonding network, ventral attention network, parietal network). Covers the 4 P's framework (Practice, People, Purpose, Path), achieving vs. awakened relationships, spiritual injury, post-traumatic spiritual growth, and findings showing a strong spiritual life is 80% protective against addiction onset and 82% protective against completed teen suicide.

Hedge fund manager and Die With Zero author Bill Perkins discusses his framework for maximizing life fulfillment through memory dividends, time buckets, and the three-variable model of wealth, health, and time. Topics include the "life is like Tetris" concept, optimal timing for transferring wealth to children, breaking generational scarcity conditioning, net fulfillment over net worth, and three keys to earning more: belief, mindset, and consistency.

George Kamel, #1 national bestselling author of Breaking Free from Broke and co-host of The Ramsey Show, reveals the Baby Steps framework, debt snowball method, and SMART Spender framework (Self-awareness, Motive, Affordability, Research, Timing). Covers financial infidelity, lifestyle creep, the doom loop of emotional spending (Dr. Arthur Brooks), buy now pay later dangers (Klarna, 40% cart size increase), prediction markets, the Goldman Sachs finding that 40% of $500K+ earners live paycheck to paycheck, and Ramsey Solutions EveryDollar app.

Neuroscientist and mindset expert Emily McDonald, known as Emonthebrain, joins Lewis Howes to break down the neuroscience of identity shifting, neuroplasticity, and subconscious reprogramming. The conversation covers the default mode network, identity anchors, the kitten experiment in early neural development, law of attraction through a neuroscience lens, ADHD medication dependency, dopamine system hijacking through addiction, and Emily's personal journey from victim mindset and clinical depression to building a coaching business and social media platform reaching millions.

Emmanuel Acho, former NFL linebacker, Fox Sports television host, bestselling author of Illogical: Saying Yes to a Life Without Limits, and the only person outside of Oprah to publish multiple books under the Oprah Winfrey imprint, joins Lewis Howes to discuss reframing failure, releasing goal-setting in favor of objectives, navigating public criticism, building self-love through success, and the mindset shifts required to break through limits others cannot yet see.

Joel Kinnaman, Swedish-American actor known for The Killing, Robocop, For All Mankind (season 5), Altered Carbon, and House of Cards, opens up about battling anorexia, debilitating stage fright, panic attacks, and self-loathing while building a 16-year Hollywood career. He discusses overcoming performance anxiety through radical preparation, the psilocybin experiences that accelerated his self-awareness, and why success in his career has not translated to consistency in his personal relationships.

David Epstein, investigative journalist, science writer, and bestselling author of Range and Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better, joins Lewis Howes to explore how strategic constraints unlock creativity, focus, and performance. The conversation covers the BCS Press Release framework, kind vs. wicked learning environments, the 10,000-hour rule myth, the Harvard Study of Adult Development, satisficing rules, the subtractive neglect bias, and research from MIT, Northwestern, and the Census Bureau on founder age and startup success.

Attorney, television judge, and author Faith Jenkins joins Lewis Howes to discuss her book Sis, Don't Settle: How to Stay Smart in Matters of the Heart. Jenkins draws on her experience presiding over divorce cases, her own 10+ relationships before marrying at 42, and personal encounters with heartbreak, rejection, and radical acceptance to offer a practical framework for choosing love wisely, identifying red flags early, and building emotional maturity through each chapter of your dating life.

Dr. Michael J. Breus, board-certified sleep specialist, clinical psychologist, and bestselling author, shares his five-step framework for transforming sleep quality through circadian rhythm alignment and chronotype optimization. Topics include adenosine and sleep drive, the 4-7-8 breathing technique developed by Dr. Andrew Weil, the Napa Latte protocol, non-sleep deep rest (Yoga Nidra), melatonin misconceptions, the Time Shifter jet lag app, thermoregulatory sleep pads, chrono longevity, PTSD and nightmare therapy, and how timing of caffeine, exercise, and alcohol impacts restorative sleep.

Lewis Howes, New York Times bestselling author and host of The School of Greatness, breaks down the five-step mental reprogramming process he used to move from winning on the outside while feeling empty on the inside. This episode covers default programming awareness, pattern interruption, identity shifting, subconscious rewiring through repetition and emotion, and mental environment protection, drawing on Lewis's personal transformation from fear-driven achiever to aligned and purpose-led leader.

Dr. Mindy Pelz, fasting expert, functional health practitioner, and bestselling author of Fast Like a Girl, joins Lewis Howes to discuss intermittent fasting, the hormonal hierarchy, the menstrual fasting cycle, ketogenic energy systems, cortisol, oxytocin, the effects of birth control on the gut microbiome, the Power Sync 60 fitness program, and how fasting timing affects fat loss, libido, and hormone balance for both men and women.

Financial educator and author Haley Sacks, known as Mrs. Dow Jones and called the financial guru millennials listen to by The Wall Street Journal, joins Lewis Howes to discuss her book Future Rich Person: The New Rules for Building Wealth. This episode covers Sacks' three rules for building wealth (money mindset, action money, and securing the bag), her IBIZA money mindset program (Identify, Blame, Interrupt, Z, Action), the concept of learned financial helplessness, value-based spending, frictionless finance, compound interest and index fund investing, and the psychology behind why people look rich instead of building real wealth.

Three-time New York Times bestselling author and high performance coach Brendon Burchard joins Lewis Howes to introduce his FREE framework (Feeling, Responsibility, Expression, Expansion) and the "complexity ceiling" concept from High Performance Habits. They cover imposter syndrome after success, generating internal state on purpose, and building a dialogue with your future self.

You have probably been told to live for today and stop worrying so much about money, but Graham Stephan built a multi-million dollar portfolio by the time he was in his late twenties by doing the exact opposite. In this episode, he breaks down the specific habits, investment strategies, and mindset shifts that took him from his first real estate sale to financial freedom.

Anita Moorjani spent decades living in fear of cancer, people-pleasing her way through life, and shrinking herself to fit others' expectations - until the disease she feared most put her in a coma with organs shutting down. You'll discover why the real illness was never the cancer, and how facing death finally taught her to love herself enough to come back and live.

Kevin Love is one of the most decorated players in NBA history, and he'll tell you that none of it prepared him for the real work: learning to feel. In this conversation, you'll discover what it actually takes to build emotional resilience before you hit rock bottom, and why facing athletic mortality may be the most clarifying moment of a man's life.

At 95, Dr. Edith Eger -- a Holocaust survivor, psychologist, and bestselling author -- sits down just days after losing her sister to share the lessons that carried her from the gas chambers of Auschwitz to a life overflowing with joy, meaning, and freedom. You will walk away knowing the one shift that separates people who heal from those who stay trapped forever.

Two-time Olympic gold medalist Chloe Kim opens up about the mental battles most people never see behind the podium, including competing injured, an ADHD diagnosis that reframed her entire career, and why winning everything still left her searching for peace. You will walk away with a new way of thinking about pressure, self-worth, and what it actually means to show up for yourself.

Ryan Leak has spent his career pulling people's lives off the floor, and in this conversation, he gets radically honest about what it actually takes to deal with difficult people, set boundaries on your friendships, and trust something bigger than yourself when others let you down. You will walk away with a framework for handling the hardest relationships in your life without losing who you are in the process.

Most people chase love, success, and significance without realizing a childhood wound is running the whole operation. In this conversation with pastor and bestselling author Michael Todd, you'll discover how to stop letting past damage quietly destroy your closest relationships, your health, and your greatest potential.

At 19, Amy Purdy lost both legs, a kidney, her spleen, and the hearing in her left ear overnight, and she made a choice in that operating room that changed everything. This conversation will show you how to stop seeing your hardest moments as detours and start using them as the path to a life you never could have planned.

Dr Joe Dispenza returns with his most significant research yet, revealing how meditation can produce the same brain changes previously only documented with psychedelics. You will learn the exact science behind why your body stays stuck in the past and what it actually takes to change your biology in seven days.

Michael Pollan, the bestselling author who changed how we think about food, reveals why the healthiest-sounding foods on your grocery shelf are actually making you sick. You'll discover the simple seven-word mantra that transforms your relationship with eating and finally breaks free from processed food cravings.

Dan Martell's life looked like it was over at 17 when he was in jail, addicted to drugs and alcohol, and standing on the edge of suicide. Today he's built multiple multi-million dollar companies, travels in a private jet, and has mastered artificial intelligence. This is the story of how one choice completely transformed everything.

Emma Grede grew up as the eldest of four girls in East London, raised by a single mom with no safety net, no connections, and no blueprint for success, yet she never once believed she was at a disadvantage. This conversation reveals the raw, unfiltered mindset shifts that took her from cooking dinner for five at age ten to building some of the most recognizable brands in the world, and the hard truth about what it really takes to get there.

Dr. Andrew Weil, one of the world's leading voices in integrative medicine, reveals what actually drives cognitive decline and why most of us are focused on the wrong things. You will walk away with a clear, practical framework for protecting your brain, reducing stress, and building the kind of health that compounds over decades.

When the world is changing faster than you can keep up, the most dangerous thing you can do is wait until you feel ready. Dean Graziosi shows you how to stop chasing certainty and start building the inner strength to move forward anyway, with practical tools for creating a compelling future no matter what is happening around you.

Myron Golden grew up poor, contracted polio as an infant, wore a leg brace his whole life, and still drove a trash truck for $6.25 an hour as a married man with a baby — and he says none of it was working against him. In this conversation, you'll discover how a single shift in belief about money, faith, and identity unlocks a level of abundance most people never experience.

Most people never realize that the obstacles standing between them and their goals are not out in the world but inside their own minds. Shaolin master Shi Heng Yi reveals the five mental hindrances that block every human being and gives you a practical method to recognize, name, and move through them.

Your identity isn't who you are — it's a story your mind built to protect you from pain, and Harvard psychiatrist Dr. K explains exactly why that story is keeping you stuck. You'll learn a radically different way to think about goals, motivation, and what you can actually control in your mind.

Arthur Brooks reveals the neuroscience behind why your phone addiction is destroying your ability to find meaning, and how the same brain chemistry that makes you fall in love can guide you toward real happiness. You'll discover the exact daily practices that rewire your brain to escape the simulation trap and live fully awake.

You know Rainn Wilson as Dwight Schrute, but in this conversation he pulls back the curtain on the years behind the fame, revealing a man who struggled with addiction, comparison, and a deep feeling of being unlovable even at the height of his career. You will walk away with a clearer understanding of why your inner world determines your outer peace, and one simple daily practice that can begin to shift everything.

You've been working hard, pushing harder, and still feel like something is missing. This episode breaks down the five things you need to let go of right now to stop blocking the life you've been trying to build.

What if the chronic stress, pain, or emotional patterns that keep resurfacing in your life are not problems to solve but blocked energy waiting to be freed? Dr. Sue Morter reveals how tapping into the body's energetic system can dissolve the unconscious beliefs holding you back from full health, deeper relationships, and the life you actually want.