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The School of Greatness

The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes 1941 Episodes Oct 14, 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 Ancient 4-Step Method to Clear Your Mind | Shaolin Master Shi Heng Yi
The Ancient 4-Step Method to Clear Your Mind | Shaolin Master Shi Heng Yi Oct 14, 2026 01:15:04 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 kung fu since age four, sat down with Lewis and explained why manifestation stalls for most people. You can touch the hot plate five times and it still hurts, he says, and one day you si
How Stress Can Cause a Heart Attack (And How to Heal) | Dr. Tara Narula
How Stress Can Cause a Heart Attack (And How to Heal) | Dr. Tara Narula Oct 12, 2026 01:19:04 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 board certified cardiologist and chief medical correspondent for ABC News, sat down with Lewis and shared what her patients say when she asks how they are. Almost nobody mentions blood
A Divorce Lawyer on the Small Things That End Marriages | James Sexton
A Divorce Lawyer on the Small Things That End Marriages | James Sexton Oct 9, 2026 01:17:31 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 quietly restocked her favorite granola. One day the bag ran out and he never noticed. She knew right then that it was over.He calls marriage a technology that fails about 53% of the tim
Secret Service Agent: How to Get Anyone to Tell You the Truth | Brad Beeler
Secret Service Agent: How to Get Anyone to Tell You the Truth | Brad Beeler Oct 7, 2026 01:22:44 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 got a couple thousand people to open up about the worst things they had ever done. His rule is simple: never punish the disclosure. He once watched a suspect go silent the second a flas
I Was a Champion on the Field and Broken at Home | Terry Bradshaw
I Was a Champion on the Field and Broken at Home | Terry Bradshaw Oct 5, 2026 01:13:31 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 NFL quarterback. Fear cost him his throwing motion, and he completed just 51.9% of his passes. Underneath it all were his mother’s words when he was eight: you’ll never amount to anyt
Budgets Don't Work, Automation Makes You Rich | David Bach
Budgets Don't Work, Automation Makes You Rich | David Bach Oct 2, 2026 01:16:39 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 its platform, sat down with Lewis and made the case that budgets fail everyone while automation quietly works. His book The Latte Factor tells the story through a broke travel editor in
Why AI Is Making Us Lonelier and How to Truly Connect | Vanessa Van Edwards
Why AI Is Making Us Lonelier and How to Truly Connect | Vanessa Van Edwards Sep 30, 2026 01:23:01 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 Lewis to talk about why so much of our talking leaves us empty. One in six people worldwide are affected by loneliness, and she believes the way we talk to AI is quietly changing the way
You Win When You Fail | Jo Koy
You Win When You Fail | Jo Koy Sep 28, 2026 01:21:58 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 LA with a broken taillight for a $40 set, getting a ticket both ways. He rode a Greyhound nine hours home from an unpaid audition. He walked to the front of a line wrapped around a bu
You're Not Unprepared, You're Afraid to Start | Lewis Howes
You're Not Unprepared, You're Afraid to Start | Lewis Howes Sep 25, 2026 00:28:44 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 his first Tony Robbins interview and still walked in nervous, and that nervousness never actually went away.Then there was Kobe Bryant. A 5pm phone call the night before, an interview th
Burnout Is a Sign You're Doing the Wrong Work | Jonathan Fields
Burnout Is a Sign You're Doing the Wrong Work | Jonathan Fields Sep 24, 2026 01:08:20 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 us carry around: what should I do with my life? He shares how 100 hour weeks at a big law firm ended with an infection eating a hole through his intestine and a trip to emergency surge
7 Signs You're About to Get Rich | Lewis Howes
7 Signs You're About to Get Rich | Lewis Howes Sep 23, 2026 01:01:50 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 couch to a life where his investing runs on autopilot. He tells you about the networking event where he stuffed cheese and crackers into his pockets with a full arm cast on, because he
Stop Grinding: Build a Business You Don't Hate | Codie Sanchez
Stop Grinding: Build a Business You Don't Hate | Codie Sanchez Sep 21, 2026 01:13:41 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 with Lewis to talk about money, freedom, and why most entrepreneurs across the US earn less than California’s $78,000 minimum wage. Her book Own or Be Owned is built on one uncomfortabl

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