The School of Greatness

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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.

3h ago

The 3 AM Truth That Cost Him $14.5 Million | Matthew McConaughey

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 moment that decision landed, and why turning down the money changed how the industry saw him. At 20 years old he wrote 10 goals in a notebook, signed his name, and never looked at the list again. Thirty years later he found it while writing his memoir Greenlights. He'd hit all 10. He also opens up about a solo trip through the Amazon where he stripped away every title he'd built, his name, his fame, his nationality, until nothing was left but a mammal, a child of God. That's the moment everything got quiet. Gratitude, fatherhood, and the goal that once felt too big to say out loud. This one will change how you write down what you want. Matthew on Instagram Matthew on Facebook Poems & Prayers Amazon Audiobook Greenlights Amazon Audiobook In this episode you will: Recognize the difference between chasing significance and giving yourself credit for what you've built Build a daily gratitude practice that reciprocates back into every part of your life Learn why writing your goals down by hand changes how your subconscious chases them Discover the exact 3 a.m. moment Matthew knew it was time to walk away from Hollywood Overcome the fear of losing your identity by learning what's left once everything else is stripped away For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1955 More SOG episodes we think you’ll love: Lewis Howes Solo [Manifest the Life You Actually Want] Eckhart Tolle Josh Groban Get More From Lewis! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
2d ago

How to Turn Any Desire Into Reality | David Bayer

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 block isn't the wanting. It's the meaning you attach to not having it yet. Somewhere between 40 and 60, the exact strategy that made you successful starts to suffocate you. Bayer calls it the Core Program, the compensation you built around a childhood wound that's finally asking to be healed. He spent years numbing himself with drugs, alcohol, sex and pornography before hitting bottom at 33. What got him sober wasn't willpower. It was learning to stop fighting his own thoughts. You don't need more hustle. You need less resistance. This conversation shows you exactly where yours is hiding. David's Website David on Instagram David on YouTube Take The Limiting Belief Assessment! A Changed Mind: Go Beyond Self Awareness, Rewire Your Brain & Reengineer Your Reality Amazon Audiobook In this episode you will: Learn the Golden Equation for turning desire into consistent results without hustle Discover why your Core Program hijacks your success between ages 40 and 60 Overcome limiting beliefs using David Bayer's Decision Matrix from A Changed Mind Recognize the difference between primal states and powerful states in your nervous system Build a personal relationship with a higher power through David's communion journaling practice For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1954 More SOG episodes we think you’ll love: Lewis Howes Solo [Ignore your limiting beliefs] Price Pritchett Katie Clarke Get More From Lewis! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
4d ago

The Real Enemy of Performance Is Fear | Dr. Mark McLaughlin

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 conversation features Dr. Mark McLaughlin, a neurosurgeon who has performed over 1,000 brain surgeries and 8,000 spine surgeries and is the author of Cognitive Dominance: A Brain Surgeon's Quest to Outthink Fear. He built a protocol for dismantling fear in the exact moment it shows up, tested across two and a half decades of operating on the human brain. He walks through the four quadrants every hard moment falls into, from flow to what he calls the all is lost quadrant, and why naming which one you're in changes what happens next. You'll hear the real difference between self-esteem and self-identity, why judging other people always turns inward, and the line it took him sixteen years to actually believe: the outcome doesn't define you. By the end you'll have a new way to sit with worry before it turns into paralysis, and a reason to stop treating fear as something to defeat and start treating it as something to understand. Dr. McLaughlin's Instagram Dr. McLaughlin's Website Princeton Brain and Spine Care Cognitive Dominance: A Brain Surgeon's Quest to Out-Think Fear Amazon Audiobook In this episode you will: Learn the IRIS protocol Dr. McLaughlin uses in the operating room to dismantle fear in real time Discover the four quadrants of the F.E.A.R. framework and how to recognize which one you're standing in Recognize the difference between self-esteem and self-identity, and why elite performers have none of the former Overcome the sixteen year lesson it took a brain surgeon to unlearn about outcomes and self-worth Build a personal practice for facing fear before high pressure moments, from the operating room to everyday life For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1953 More SOG episodes we think you’ll love: Lewis Howes Solo [Life Comes When You Let Go] Meg Josephson Emily McDonald Get More From Lewis! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Jul 10

Why Your Relationship Keeps Repeating the Same Pattern | Gary John Bishop

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 stopped noticing the shift. Gary John Bishop, author of Love Unf*cked: Getting Your Relationship Sh!t Together, has spent decades studying why people stay stuck in relationships long after they know something is wrong. He built a career teaching people how to spot the moment they started tolerating what should have ended. This conversation gets personal fast. Bishop opens up about the 28 years he went without telling his mother he loved her, the phone call that broke him open, and the identity he had to dismantle before he could fully love his own wife. You will hear why competitiveness can quietly wreck intimacy, why blame is the anchor that keeps you stuck in the past, and why the story you tell about what happened to you matters more than what actually happened. By the end, you'll see why the real work is getting "complete" with your first twenty years. And why the best lovers are the ones who stopped looking for someone else to fix them. Gary’s website Gary on Instagram (Pre-order) Now What?: You, Your Life, and the Truth You’ve Been Avoiding Amazon Audiobook Yellow Kite GROW UP Becoming the Parent Your Kids Deserve Amazon Audiobook Love Unf*cked Amazon Audiobook Wise as Fu*k: Simple Truths to Guide You Through the Sh*tstorms of Life Amazon Audiobook Do the Work: The Official Unrepentant, Ass-Kicking, No-Kidding, Change-Your-Life Sidekick to Unfu*k Yourself Amazon Audiobook Stop Doing That Sh*t Amazon Audiobook Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and into Your Life Amazon Audiobook In this episode you will: Learn why blame keeps you anchored to your past and how to release it Discover the exact moment relationships quietly start to break down Overcome the identity patterns you built in childhood that sabotage intimacy Recognize the difference between overcoming a problem and truly transforming it Build the kind of authentic wealth and love that comes from bringing value instead of seeking it For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1952 More SOG episodes we think you’ll love: Lewis Howes Solo [How To Find Real Love] Esther Perel Matthew Hussey Get More From Lewis! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Jul 8

The Fastest Way To Make $10,000 A Month | Chris Koerner

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 Koerner Office podcast where he shares new low cost business ideas every day. He says most people fail before they even begin because they play business instead of doing business. He breaks down the barbell method for picking what to build next, why distribution beats the idea every time, and the year he spent learning to fix iPhones on YouTube in between paying customers. Then the conversation turns personal. Koerner opens up about his daughter's double lung transplant, the stranger's family who donated the lungs that saved her, and why he and his wife each later donated a kidney to someone they will never meet. This is a masterclass in bias for action, wrapped inside one of the most quietly emotional stories you’ve heard in a long time. The Koerner Office Chris on YouTube Chris on Instagram In this episode you will: Discover why launching without money beats waiting for the perfect plan Learn the barbell method for choosing a business that actually works Apply Parkinson's Law to create momentum instead of procrastination Explore the post and ghost strategy for pushing through fear of failure Uncover the emotional story behind two kidney donations that changed everything For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1951 More SOG episodes we think you’ll love: Lewis Howes Solo [How To Go From $0-1M] Jaspreet Singh Vivian Tu Get More From Lewis! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Jul 6

The 5 Wealth Secrets No One Ever Taught You | Lewis Howes

What if everything you were taught about wealth was designed to keep you stuck? Lewis Howes spent his mid twenties broke, sleeping on his sister's couch with no degree and no plan. He turned that into The School of Greatness, a podcast nearing 2,000 episodes, and three New York Times bestselling books. He says the real block between you and wealth was never effort. He walks you through the shift from trading hours for income to building systems that pay you while you sleep, plus the exact kind of room you need to sit in if you want money to start feeling normal instead of stressful. He also breaks down why one income stream is basically a financial emergency waiting to happen, and the one unexpected money move every wealthy person he has ever interviewed swears by. By the end you will see exactly why, and how to start applying all of it over the next 30 days. Make Money Easy The School of Greatness The Greatness Mindset The Mask of Masculinity In this episode you will: Identify the hidden money beliefs that are quietly sabotaging your bank account Shift from trading time for income to building systems that earn while you sleep Recognize why one income stream is a financial emergency and how to build more Apply the proximity principle behind 80 percent of Lewis's wealth Uncover why generosity might be the most underrated wealth strategy you're ignoring For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1950 More SOG episodes we think you’ll love: George Kamel Jaspreet Singh Vivian Tu Get More From Lewis! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Jul 3

The Untapped Potential Inside You | Colin O'Brady

There's a reservoir of untapped potential inside you right now. The only question is whether you'll reach it. Colin O'Brady is the first person in history to cross Antarctica solo, completely unsupported and unaided, covering nearly 1,000 miles alone in 54 days while pulling a 375-pound sled through temperatures reaching minus 80 degrees wind chill. He's also a world record holder for the Explorers Grand Slam, having completed all Seven Summits and expeditions to both poles in 139 consecutive days -- a project he called The Impossible First. Before any of that, he was a 22-year-old backpacker in Thailand with 25% of his body severely burned, told by doctors he might never walk normally again. What pulled him through was a single visualization exercise, a mother who refused to let him see his own darkness, and a goal set from a hospital bed he had no business believing in. What you'll hear in this conversation is how he trained his mind more than his body, how flow states carried him through 32 consecutive hours on the final push across Antarctica, and what a four-word mantra repeated every morning for 54 days can actually do to a human being. The 12-Hour Walk: Invest One Day, Conquer Your Mind, and Unlock Your Best Life Amazon Ebook Audiobook The Impossible First: From Fire to Ice―Crossing Antarctica Alone Amazon Ebook Audiobook Colin on Instagram In this episode you will: Discover why flow state, not physical fitness, was the deciding factor in crossing Antarctica alone for 54 days Learn the four-word mantra Colin repeated every single morning that kept him moving through frozen tears and impossible conditions Hear how he went from a hospital bed in Thailand, told he would never walk again, to winning the Chicago Triathlon just 18 months later Understand the philosophy of infinite love and why positivity multiplies the more you put it into the world Rethink what it means to be superhuman and why this capacity already lives inside you For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1949 More SOG episodes we think you’ll love: Alex Honnold Kobe Bryant Wim Hof Get More From Lewis! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Jul 1

Turn Your Pain Into Power, Not Poison | Sadhguru

When something painful happens, you get to make one quiet choice that decides everything after it. Do you become wise, or do you become wounded. That single choice is what Sadhguru, the New York Times bestselling author of Karma: A Yogi's Guide to Crafting Your Destiny, calls the real meaning of karma. Not reward. Not punishment. A platform you can either dance on or sink into like quicksand. He explains why the same waste that smells like filth is also the fertilizer everything beautiful grows from. Why your intelligence becomes a curse the moment your identity stays small. Why the people who hurt the world most are not the worst people, just the most empowered ones. This is a conversation about memory, freedom, and the difference between chasing happiness and expressing joy. Death: Only for Those Who Shall Die--a Yogi's Guide to Living, Dying, and Beyond Amazon Ebook Audiobook Youth and Truth: Unplug with Sadhguru Amazon Ebook Audiobook Karma: A Yogi's Guide to Crafting Your Destiny Amazon Ebook Audiobook Death: An Inside Story: A Book For All Those Who Shall Die Amazon Ebook Emotion and Relationships Amazon Adiyogi: The Source of Yoga Amazon Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy Amazon Ebook Audiobook Sadhguru on YouTube In this episode you will: Understand why karma is about liberation and memory, not guilt or punishment Discover how a limited identity quietly turns intelligence and competence into harm Learn the yogic meaning of vasana and what your inner "smell" reveals about you Explore why chasing abundance backfires and why you nurture the root, not the fruit Uncover how the Shambhavi practice creates distance from body and mind to end suffering For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1948 More SOG episodes we think you’ll love: Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Shi Heng Yi Jay Shetty Get More From Lewis! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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The stories you tell yourself on a daily basis determines the person you will become.The good, the bad, the negative, the positive, the uplifting, the draining – they’re all part of the equation. But YOU are the author of your life story – so, what story are you writing? Top Podcaster & Best-selling Author Lewis Howes brings you the The Daily Motivation Show, where you’ll hear from industry-leading experts, you’ll learn proven principles, and you’ll discover life-changing ideas that will help you get motivated and STAY motivated.

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Self-Improvement
Your mindset can be a shield against negativity, or it can be the door that lets it in. And with so much negativity out in the world, if we don’t actively shift our focus toward optimism, we run the risk of letting it consume us. So where and how do you start? How can you develop an abundance mindset that will help you attract the life of your dreams? What steps can you take today to begin manifesting a more fulfilled life? In Manifestation & The Law of Attraction, host Lewis Howes and top experts will show you how to do exactly that. The episodes from this curated feed can be found on The School of Greatness podcast feed or can be accessed ad-free here when you become a GREATNESS+ subscriber.

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Self-Improvement
No matter how ambitious, talented or intelligent you are, you’ll only go as far as your habits will take you. And by prioritizing your happiness and emotional well-being in the habits you develop, you’ll equip yourself with the tools you need to thrive through anything. But how do we get there? With all the curveballs life throws at us, how can we create positive habits that will bring us peace in times of chaos? In Happy Habits, host Lewis Howes and top experts will show you how to do exactly that. The episodes from this curated feed can be found on The School of Greatness podcast feed or can be accessed ad-free here when you become a GREATNESS+ subscriber.

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Mental Health
When you learn to master your mindset, your entire life starts to change. Your relationships, your career, your health & wellness all begin with taking control of your mind – and not letting your mind control you. But how do you get there? With all of the content and endless tips out in the world, how can you determine what works and what doesn’t? How can you continue to try new mindset strategies without getting overwhelmed? In Unlock The Power of Your Mind, host Lewis Howes and top experts will show you how to do exactly that. The episodes from this curated feed can be found on The School of Greatness podcast feed or can be accessed ad-free here when you become a GREATNESS+ subscriber.

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Health is the fundamental building block to any fulfilled, high-quality life. When you choose to invest in your health, you’re choosing to invest in every other area of your life as well – your relationships, your career, and making your dreams become reality. But how can we stay motivated enough to continually show up for our health & wellness? And with SO much content out there on the topic, how do we know what’s true and what isn’t? In Health, Happiness & Wellness, host Lewis Howes and top experts will show you how to do exactly that. The episodes from this curated feed can be found on The School of Greatness podcast feed or can be accessed ad-free here when you become a GREATNESS+ subscriber.

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When you decide to learn the language of money, you begin to unlock abundance in all the areas of your life. Most of us have been taught to approach money from a place of fear – fear of losing it, fear of making too much, fear that we won’t ever make enough. So how do we turn things around? How can we begin to shift our scarcity mindset to one of abundance? How can we stop being afraid to approach our finances head on instead of avoiding them? In Money Mindset, host Lewis Howes and top experts will show you how to do exactly that. The episodes from this curated feed can be found on The School of Greatness podcast feed or can be accessed ad-free here when you become a GREATNESS+ subscriber.

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I’m you Lewis

Apr 10

zazen420

Love it all I’m going to listen to them all i binge them constantly love you Lewis 🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀
How fear almost killed het

May 12

Geoplanter

It was an interesting interview, but it should DEFINITELY come with a disclaimer that this is NOT the official opinion of the Lewis Howard podcast that cancer patients should forgo chemo or radiation therapy and instead rely on fierce courage & bravery alone!
Meh

May 12

Big-reviewer

Something about Lewis seems to have shifted to be more inauthentic. Maybe it’s the overuse of his platitudes such as “seasons of life” “chapter of life”. Many other sources that have better content and easier listening.
Used to be great - now it feels sexist

Apr 21

Kelsey kookies

This used to be my ultimate favorite podcast. I’ve had interviews on here change my life. But slowly, Lewis started saying negative things about women in relationships. Saying things like “I feel like women these days…” and puts some super generic, untrue assumption about what women want in relationships, or how they are in relationships, and we do not have room or time for that in MAGA country. Extremely disappointed that Lewis seems to have become misogynistic and blind to his assumptions, even though he admits that what you get in relationships is often a reflection of yourself. Why don’t you talk about what MEN want in relationships these days and make assumptions about them? Do better.

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.