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The School of Greatness

The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes 1941 episodes Latest Jun 1, 2026

Lewis Howes, a New York Times best-selling author, former All-American athlete, keynote speaker, and entrepreneur, hosts The School of Greatness. The podcast features inspiring interviews with world-renowned leaders in business, entertainment, sports, science, health, and literature. Each episode aims to help listeners unlock their inner greatness and live their best lives.

Episodes

The Truth About Muscle, Protein, and Living Longer | Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Jun 12, 2026 01:16:52 You're not over-fat. You're under-muscled. That single reframe changes how you think about your weight, your energy, and how well you'll age. Dr. Gabrielle Lyon, a fellowship-trained geriatrician and the founder of muscle-centric medicine, has spent her career arguing that we've fixated on the wrong organ. Obesity, insulin resistance, even cognitive decline don't start where you think. They start
Why You Suffer and How to Finally Stop | Peter Sage Jun 10, 2026 01:19:11 You can spend your whole life chasing the thing you think will make you happy, and never once realize you were never built to catch it. That's the trap most high achievers live inside. Run faster. Earn more. Hit the next goal. The rabbit just speeds up. Peter Sage has spent decades coaching people out of that loop. He breaks human consciousness into four levels: To Me, By Me, Through Me, As Me. Mo
Your Brain Is Built for God, Not Scarcity | Dr. Lisa Miller Jun 8, 2026 01:13:51 The #1 illness of our time has nothing to do with your body. Dr. Lisa Miller, Columbia University researcher and author of The Spiritual Child, has spent over a decade scanning human brains to understand how we're built for God's presence. What those MRIs reveal is both startling and deeply hopeful. You were not built for scarcity or isolation. Three specific circuits in every human brain light up
Why Your Retirement Plan Is Wasting Your Life | Bill Perkins Jun 5, 2026 01:08:55 The real mistake isn't spending too much. It's dying with money you never used. Bill Perkins built a career generating over $2.2 billion in trading profits as a hedge fund manager. His book Die With Zero reframes what money is actually for. Money is a tool, not a goal. Every dollar you hold at death represents life energy you spent earning it and never converted into something real. The question i
The Psychology Behind Why You're Still Broke | George Kamel Jun 3, 2026 01:31:47 You can earn half a million dollars a year and still have nothing left by the end of the month. That's not a theory. A Goldman Sachs study found 40% of people making over $500,000 are living paycheck to paycheck. The income isn't the problem. The identity is. George Kamel, #1 national bestselling author of Breaking Free from Broke and co-host of The Ramsey Show, has taken thousands of calls from p
The Neuroscience of Identity: Why You Keep Repeating the Same Patterns | Emily McDonald Jun 1, 2026 01:18:03 Your brain is making choices for you before you even realize it. Neuroscientist Emily McDonald, known as Emonthebrain, studies how your identity, nervous system, and subconscious programming quietly run the show. Most people think they're choosing. Research shows the neural pattern of a decision lights up in a brain scan before you're consciously aware you've made it. That's the gap Emily spent ye
Why You're Still Playing Small (And How to Stop) | Emmanuel Acho May 29, 2026 01:11:32 Not everyone is going to like you. And that is okay. Emmanuel Acho built one of the most meteoric rises in media in recent memory. Former NFL linebacker. Fox Sports host of Speak for Yourself. Author of multiple New York Times bestselling books, including Illogical: Saying Yes to a Life Without Limits, published under the Oprah imprint. He has done things no one outside of Oprah herself has done.
Fear, Shame, and the Fight to Get Out of Your Own Way | Joel Kinnaman May 27, 2026 01:27:53 You can be wildly successful and still be quietly falling apart inside. Joel Kinnaman has appeared in some of the most talked-about shows in Hollywood. He has starred in The Killing, Robocop, House of Cards, Altered Carbon, and is currently in his fifth season of For All Mankind. And he will be the first to tell you that none of that made the war inside his head any quieter. Before every live thea
The Science of Doing Less to Achieve More | David Epstein May 25, 2026 01:08:35 Too many options isn't freedom. It's paralysis dressed up as possibility. David Epstein, investigative journalist and author of the bestseller Range, is back with a counterintuitive idea: the constraints you've been avoiding might be the exact thing that unlocks your best work. His new book, Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better, makes the case that boundaries don't limit you. They focus
Why You Keep Choosing the Wrong Person (And How to Finally Stop) | Faith Jenkins May 22, 2026 01:15:50 Most people learn how to love the hard way. What if you didn't have to? Faith Jenkins is a TV judge who has presided over more divorce cases than most people will ever witness in a lifetime. She has also been through roughly 10 serious relationships of her own, waited until 42 to marry, and did both pre-engagement and premarital counseling before saying yes. She knows this terrain from every angle
The Sleep Doctor's 5 Rules for Your Best Night Ever | Dr. Michael Breus May 20, 2026 01:33:16 You already know sleep matters. What you don't know is why you keep waking up at 2 AM, why your tracker is probably lying to you, and why the rules you've been following may not be meant for you. Dr. Michael Breus is one of the world's leading sleep doctors - not just a sleep expert, but a clinical psychologist who actually treats patients and pressure-tests every theory in real life. The differen
The 5 Steps to Reprogram Your Mind and Break Every Ceiling | Lewis Howes May 18, 2026 00:48:06 Your effort isn't the problem. Your programming is. Lewis Howes spent years outworking everyone around him, and it still wasn't enough. He had the discipline, the results, even the New York Times bestseller. But inside he still felt like that broke kid on the couch who wasn't enough. That gap between outer success and inner peace is where this episode begins. Most people are running a mental opera

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