The School of Greatness

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Nov 2, 2026 1 hr 22 min

What 2,000 Episodes Taught Me About Greatness and Consistency | Lewis Howes

Season 1, Episode 2000

Show notes

Most of us were taught that if you want something badly enough, you have to chase it. After 2,000 episodes and 13 years without missing a week, Lewis Howes has learned the opposite, and it comes down to consistency. The life you want starts coming toward you when you keep showing up, serve other people and do the work on the inside.

In this solo milestone episode, Lewis looks back on the road from an iPhone in his living room to a show heard in more than 100 countries. He shares the four lessons 2,000 conversations taught him about building a life that pulls your dreams toward you. They cover consistency, service, knowing who you’re building for and the inner work that lets good things stay. It’s a journey that started with a first grader who wrote a poem about hating school and grew up to build a school of his own.

The dreams worth having don’t come from chasing harder. They come from who you become by showing up week after week.

In this episode you will:

• Learn why committing for years, not months, gives you the freedom to keep going when no one is listening yet
• Discover why most people quit right before things start coming to them
• See how serving others builds relationships that outlast ego and open doors you can’t open alone
• Get clear on who you’re building for so the right people find you
• Understand why inner work is what lets good things stay once they arrive
• Hear how Lewis’s definition of greatness has changed over 2,000 conversations, and what he’s building toward next

For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/2000

Pre-Order Journey: The Year That Changes Everything

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Oct 30, 2026 1 hr 11 min

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

Season 1, Episode 1999

Show notes

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 Lewis to talk about what inner peace feels like day to day. For him, it means having enough space in your mind to feel tension without letting it run your actions.

Meditation got tested first in his relationship. He and his wife Sarah spent six years in what he calls a hurricane of blame. They were on a break when he sat his first 10 day retreat, and two weeks later he proposed with the tiny ring his dad had once given his mom.

You'll hear why the lightning fast reaction you think is the real you is your past self defending itself, and why slowing down gives you a pause button. His book Journey: The Year That Changes Everything keeps coming back to that practice, along with lining up your values with your intuition.

The next time you're about to snap at someone you love, you might catch it a beat sooner and let it pass.

How to Love Better: The Path to Deeper Connection Through Growth, Kindness, and Compassion

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The Way Forward

Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future

Clarity & Connection

Inward

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In this episode you will:

• Learn the four-stage process for designing your life with intention and consistency
• Stop chasing peace through money by seeing that your mindset defines it
• Discover how Yung Pueblo’s daily meditation saved a relationship that was nearly over
• Pause the lightning-fast reactions your past self uses to defend itself
• Embrace impermanence so change stops feeling like a hurricane
• Build self-awareness rooted in compassion instead of harsh self-judgment

For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1999

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Oct 28, 2026 53 min

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

Season 1, Episode 1998

Show notes

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, love and your peace. He starts with the silent contract so many hard workers carry: I did this, so I’m owed that.

He tells you about making zero dollars from his podcast for the first year, and about sleeping on his sister’s couch when a mentor told him, “Money comes to you when you’re ready for it.” He also explains why he asked his wife Martha to start therapy at the very beginning of their relationship, and how she answered, “That sounds exciting.”

You’ll hear why comparing your year one to someone else’s year ten will wreck your peace, and why a simple “Would you be willing to...” can fix relationships that silent hints keep breaking. There’s also the goal he has chased for eight years without hitting it, and what changed once he stopped demanding a timeline for it.

Afterward you may find yourself writing down your own silent contracts and checking the numbers less. You might ask someone for what you actually need, too, while you keep doing the work and keep your standard high.

In this episode you will:

• Run the silent contracts exercise to expose the hidden “I’m owed” thoughts ending relationships
• Replace expectations with the “Would you be willing to” ask so people choose yes
• Drop made-up timelines that make real progress still feel like falling behind
• Track your daily effort instead of the numbers to escape comparison and resentment
• Release neediness so the opportunities and people you want can finally find you

For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1998

The Wealth Money Can't Buy: The 8 Hidden Habits to Live Your Richest Life

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Oct 26, 2026 46 min

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

Season 1, Episode 1997

Show notes

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 with every fear and heartbreak he had written in them. What he took from losing them was the ability to let go.

He walks through a tool he calls AFRA: the moment you get triggered, you find the feeling in your body and ask what old wound just woke up. "If it's hysterical, it's historical," he says. The bigger the overreaction, the bigger the thing that was already there.

Robin admits he used to be drawn to partners who created a crisis whenever things got peaceful, and he owns his part in that. He also passes on a divorce lawyer's test for a relationship: can you enjoy 10,000 dinners with this person?

You'll hear his eight forms of wealth, of which money is only one, and his five great hours rule for productivity.

The Everyday Hero Manifesto: Activate Your Positivity, Maximize Your Productivity, Serve The World

The 5AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life.

Little Black Book for Stunning Success+ Tools for Action Master

In this episode you will:

• Discover why Robin Sharma says losing ten years of private journals taught him how to let go
• Dissolve the field of hurt that keeps old emotional wounds running your daily behavior
• Trade the chase for fame, fortune and applause (FFA) for joy, peace and freedom (JPF)
• Make the leap from victim to hero by behaving your way into a new way of thinking
• Recognize the seasons meant for rest and spiritual growth so self-doubt stops derailing you
• Build a life of service that puts family and craft ahead of applause

For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1997

Nine Lives, No Wives, and 69 Concubines

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Oct 23, 2026 1 hr 37 min

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

Season 1, Episode 1996

Show notes

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 20 when drug dealing could turn $100 into $700. He asked God for another way to make a living, and comedy showed up.

Door-to-door sales taught him that 300 no's buy 30 yeses, and he still tells a joke to himself 35 times in the mirror before any audience hears it. To him the crowd is never wrong, so every silence is feedback he can use.

His years as a teenage missionary in Haiti come up too, where he watched starving families choose joy and pride. His memoir, “Nine Lives, No Wives, and 69 Concubines,” lays out his whole life so you can decide for yourself whether any of it was luck. His new podcast, According 2 Katt, is on the way to Netflix.

You'll come away treating rejection as information and seeing every hurdle as a chance to jump higher.

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In this episode you will:

• Discover how Katt Williams walked away from a $700 drug hustle by asking God for another path
• Treat every rejection as feedback so your self-worth never hinges on a yes
• Trust that your darkest season has a limit before the light breaks through
• Reframe obstacles like a hurdler who sees each one as a chance to jump higher
• Welcome opposition as proof you are on the right path

For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1996

The Society for the Prevention of Disorders of Aggression

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Oct 21, 2026 56 min

What Sociopaths Really Feel | Dr. Patric Gagne

Season 1, Episode 1995

Show notes

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 she tells in Sociopath: A Memoir. As a kid she learned that saying “I don't care” out loud got her in trouble, so she lied, and lying made her feel safe.

She talks about the pressure she called a vice, which she relieved by breaking into homes just to sit in the quiet, and the first grade day she stabbed a classmate with a pencil. Then she explains why secondary psychopathy, which may touch 5% of people, is treatable when kids get caught early.

You will hear why a therapist who doesn't absorb your pain can be the best container for it, and why stopping someone from crying can stop the brain from healing. She also gets into the shame under people pleasing and narcissism, and the question she asks her own kids: how does it feel when you feel?

You may come away a little gentler with the people you never understood, and with the kid you used to be.

Sociopath: A Memoir

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In this episode you will:

• Become a calm container for someone's pain without needing to empathize
• Raise emotionally aware kids through boundaries, apologies and positive reinforcement instead of punishment
• Learn why awareness is 80% of the work in changing destructive patterns
• Discover why psychopaths can feel emotion and what actually separates them from everyone else
• Spot the warning signs of sociopathy in dating, relationships and business partnerships
• Break free from people pleasing by choosing honesty over curated, falsified emotions

For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1995

Building a Non-Anxious Life

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Oct 19, 2026 1 hr 48 min

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

Season 1, Episode 1994

Show notes

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 the morning, something in your life is on fire. Numbing it with a drink or a screen is like duct taping a pillow over the alarm while the house burns around you.

Then he got personal. While he was writing Building a Non-Anxious Life, his wife walked into his basement gym and told him, “I'm watching my husband die,” and then, “John, we have enough.” His little girl would not hug him, and in counseling he could not put a fist to his chest and say “I love this guy.”

Back then he would have rated himself a zero out of ten on being enough. Now he says nine, and his daughter uses him as a jungle gym. He and Lewis also talk about why “me over us” hurts so many relationships and how paying off debt let him grieve a cousin without a single worry about money.

You'll finish this one wanting to put your phone down and ask what your own alarm has been trying to tell you about your marriage and your kids.

Own Your Past Change Your Future: A Not-So-Complicated Approach to Relationships, Mental Health & Wellness

Redefining Anxiety: What It Is, What It Isn't, and How to Get Your Life Back

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In this episode you will:

• Hear how Dr. John Delony went from 0/10 to 9/10 on believing he is enough
• Use neuroception to understand why your kids pull away when you stop feeling safe to them
• Discover why anxiety is a smoke alarm proving your body works perfectly, not a flaw to silence
• Break the common male lie that your only value is your utility
• Build an antifragile life where hard seasons bring grief without spiraling into anxiety
• Replace rigid beliefs with shared values so your relationships choose us over me

For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1994

Shaolin Spirit: The Way to Self-Mastery

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Oct 16, 2026 1 hr 18 min

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

Season 1, Episode 1993

Show notes

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 simply stop. Lewis admits he touched it about 100 times across 15 to 20 years of relationships before he changed.

Then he gets practical. He walks through RAIN, his four step method for a restless or doubting mind: recognize it, accept it, investigate it, and stop identifying with it. He also teaches you to build a skill in focused cycles, 7 days for skin and 30 days for muscle, with more time the deeper the change goes.

The cup is the part that stays with you: you arrive empty, and then your parents and your teachers pour their ideas in until you are chasing a life that never came from you. His mindset advice is simple: learn to empty the cup.

You will finish this one wanting to pick a single skill to practice and asking which of your goals are actually yours. And you might sit with gratitude a little longer tonight.

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In this episode you will:

• Break the cycle of repeating the same painful mistakes before they cost you another decade
• Learn Shi Heng Yi's RAIN method for moving through doubt, restlessness and other inner hindrances
• Empty your cup of borrowed expectations so you can pursue a vision that is truly yours
• Build lasting skills through focused cycles of practice matched to how deep the change goes
• Cultivate gratefulness as a daily embodied practice instead of something you only talk about

For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1993

The Healing Power of Resilience: A New Prescription for Health and Well-Being

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Oct 14, 2026 1 hr 15 min

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

Season 1, Episode 1992

Show notes

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 pressure. They tell her they are overwhelmed, and many of them cry.

She knows that fear from the inside. At 22, in medical school, she lost vision in part of her right eye and spent the first weeks reading every stumble as proof of something worse. A note card from her mom with the Serenity Prayer pulled her out of the spiral.

In The Healing Power of Resilience she lays out eight tools, and she walks Lewis through acceptance and flexible thinking, then makes the case for purpose and real social connection. She also explains why burnout is the final phase of chronic stress, and why a study across 52 countries found chronically stressed people are twice as likely to have a heart attack.

You will finish this one wanting to call a friend for coffee and start practicing resilience before you need it.

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In this episode you will:

• Learn Dr. Tara Narula's eight resilience tools for turning a stress response into a resilient one
• Discover how stress alone can trigger a real heart attack, even in people with perfectly healthy arteries
• Recognize when your fight or flight dial is stuck on high before burnout makes you sick
• Reframe a frightening diagnosis as a trauma you can accept and build a meaningful new life after
• Build resilience before you need it, using the daily practices that help your body heal faster

For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1992

If You're In My Office, It's Already Too Late: A Divorce Lawyer's Guide to Staying Together

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Oct 12, 2026 1 hr 19 min

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

Season 1, Episode 1991

Show notes

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 time, and says most couples put more thought into the wedding cake than into what they are signing. In his book If You're in My Office, It's Already Too Late: A Divorce Lawyer's Guide to Staying Together, he shares what works: send the hard email while the hurt is still small, and get a prenup even when you feel certain. He also explains why infidelity usually starts with lost connection long before anyone cheats.

The line I keep repeating to people: the opposite of love is indifference. And he still believes in marriage. He compares it to the lottery, where the prize is so good that it is worth buying a ticket.

You will finish this one wanting to do some small, kind thing for your partner tonight without asking for credit. If you care about relationships and honest communication, you will probably start a conversation you have been putting off.

How to Stay in Love

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Better Call Sexton Podcast

In this episode, you’ll:

• Rethink the prenup as a conversation about caring for each other, not a bet against your marriage
• Understand the Go Without or Go Elsewhere dynamic behind infidelity, and why sharing desires openly protects your connection
• Discover why James Sexton treats marriage as a technology, with trade-offs to understand before you sign up
• Learn the Hit Send Now habit for voicing what bothers you while it's still small enough to fix
• See how small, unaddressed disconnections erode a relationship long before anyone calls a divorce lawyer
• Get the Yours, Mine and Ours approach to money, so financial stress stops turning into resentment

For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1991

Tell Me Everything: A Secret Service Agent's Proven Strategies for Earning Trust, Revealing the Truth, and Communicating with Anyone

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Oct 9, 2026 1 hr 18 min

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

Season 1, Episode 1990

Show notes

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 flash of contempt crossed his face.

You will hear why a neutral face reads as a threat in first impressions and why lie detection is close to a coin flip, with people getting it right only 54% of the time. Brad watches your feet to see how comfortable you are, and he treats every cue as a check engine light to follow up on later. He also shares the cases he got wrong, including the day he fixated on a 6 foot 4 biker while the quiet man in front of him kept saying “that's not it.”

His book, Tell Me Everything, grew out of those mistakes, and the lessons carry straight into your relationships and your parenting. Swap “why did you do that” for “help me understand” and give the other person an off ramp to save face. Lewis admits how hard that is when someone has hurt you, and Brad admits he lost his cool with his own son's coach.

After this one, you will catch your own face in the next hard conversation. And you will probably ask one more question before you say “me too.”

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In this episode you will:

• Discover why a Secret Service polygraph expert says spotting lies from body language barely beats a coin flip
• Create the judgment free environment that makes people feel safe telling you the truth
• Learn the Buddy framework for giving someone an off-ramp to confess without excusing what they did
• Build instant rapport with Brad Beeler's FEEL method: family, education, employment, leisure
• Treat first impressions as a hypothesis so horns and halos stop steering you wrong
• Protect your face from flashing contempt and shutting down a hard disclosure

For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1990

Looking for Terry: A Memoir

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Oct 7, 2026 1 hr 23 min

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

Season 1, Episode 1989

Show notes

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 anything.

He talks openly about depression and ADHD, which he didn’t learn about until after football. He also talks about three divorces, and the moment it hit him that the common factor was him. Three years of counseling and a hard look in the mirror later, he married his best friend, a woman who makes him talk about what he’d rather bury.

In his memoir Looking for Terry, and in this conversation, he explains why he sobbed over his dog but not his mother, and how his wife taught him to say no. He also shares how his faith held through cancer twice in one year, and why he cares more about kindness than greatness.

You’ll come away gentler with your own fear, and maybe ready to ask for the help you’ve been putting off.

The Bradshaw Family Cookbook: Our Favorite Recipes for Game Days, Weekdays, and Any Day

In this episode you will:

• Discover how Terry Bradshaw turned childhood criticism and harsh coaching into fuel instead of letting it define him
• Break the relationship pattern that repeats when you finally admit the common factor is you
• Practice mirror evaluation, the self-honesty exercise Terry uses to see himself clearly without inflating or tearing himself down
• Recognize depression and ADD as manageable conditions by talking them out rather than hiding them
• Build a marriage grounded in friendship, where saying no is allowed and hard conversations happen
• Redefine greatness around kindness and hope rather than trophies or money

For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1989

The Automatic Millionaire, 20th Anniversary Edition: A Powerful One-Step Plan to Live and Finish Rich

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Oct 5, 2026 1 hr 14 min

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

Season 1, Episode 1988

Show notes

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 Brooklyn who works 70 hours a week and never goes anywhere. He also explains the Rule of 72, why a new car payment eats three months of your year, and how selling a home you live in can hand you a quarter million dollars the government never touches.

The part that will stay with you has nothing to do with money. His grandmother was broke at 30, saved 50 cents a week in a coffee can, and helped him buy his first share of McDonald's stock when he was seven. On her deathbed at 86, he asked her about regrets. Every single one was a fork in the road where she chose the safe path.

Then Lewis puts his own finances on the table and gets told what he's still missing. David talks about sitting in a hospital waiting room days before this conversation, sure his wife was having a stroke, and what that did to his sense of what actually matters. His last piece of advice is about forgiving someone you stopped speaking to.

You will pull out your phone and look at your subscriptions. You may also call someone you've been avoiding for years.

The Latte Factor: Why You Don't Have to Be Rich to Live Rich

Debt Free for Life: The Finish Rich Plan for Financial Freedom

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In this episode you will:

• Automate your wealth so money grows while you sleep, instead of relying on a budget you will abandon within a month
• Discover the Latte Factor with David Bach and see how small daily spending quietly costs you a million dollars
• Apply the Rule of 72 to know exactly how long your money takes to double
• Escape the paycheck to paycheck trap that traps seven out of ten Americans who cannot find four hundred dollars in an emergency
• Reject get rich quick thinking and build real wealth over decades by owning quality assets you never touch
• Forgive the people you resent before that stored pain turns into the regret you carry to the end

For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1988

Cues: Master the Secret Language of Charismatic Communication

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Oct 2, 2026 1 hr 17 min

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

Season 1, Episode 1987

Show notes

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 we talk to each other.

In her book Conversation, she lays out three levels of connection, from basic facts all the way up to the private story you tell yourself about yourself. She explains why “Been busy?” is the single worst question in small talk, and why asking for stories beats asking for facts every time.

The most honest moment comes when Lewis asks what she still struggles with. Her answer is charging for her own work, a belief she traces back to her early twenties, and you get to hear a level three conversation happen live.

You will walk into your next dinner or team call ready to say “tell me more” and actually mean it. Pick one person you love and ask them a better question tonight. You might be surprised how deep your relationships can go.

Pre-Order:Conversation: How to Connect with Anyone & Make Every Interaction Count

Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People

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In this episode you will:

• Replace dead end small talk like “Been busy?” with questions that invite stories instead of facts
• Discover Dr. Dan McAdams’ three levels of connection to move any conversation past surface chatter
• Become a dream builder who adds energy to other people’s ideas instead of poking holes in them
• Signal warmth and competence through your body language and voice so people believe what you bring
• Rewrite the self narrative holding you back by shifting from contamination stories to redemption stories
• Break the loneliness cycle by practicing real conversation skills that AI can never replace

For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1987

Mixed Plate: Chronicles of an All-American Combo

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Sep 30, 2026 1 hr 23 min

You Win When You Fail | Jo Koy

Season 1, Episode 1986

Show notes

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 building with a fake resume and a headshot his dad took, and asked a promoter for five minutes she did not have to give him.

She gave it to him anyway. Three weeks after crawling through a curtain as an unannounced warm-up act at Def Comedy Jam, he won the Apollo. Years later, when Netflix passed on him, he paid for the special himself, shot it, and brought it back to them. They bought it, and then he broke Mariah Carey's attendance record in Hawaii with 22,000 tickets.

He still prints flyers. Ten thousand of them, for sold-out shows, put on windshields by hand. He talks about his mom rolling lumpia to sell at work during her divorce, about his stepdad teaching him that a messy bed is a messy head, about hugging his son on stage in the same arena where he watched Eddie Murphy at fifteen.

This one will make you uncomfortable in the best way, because you will start counting the lines you did not walk to the front of. Jo's definition of greatness is doing what you love for absolutely nothing, and he says he is still asleep, still dreaming the thing he dreamed at nine.

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Watch Jo Koy: Blue in the Face

In this episode you will:

• Hear how Jo Koy talked his way backstage with a fake resume and turned one stolen set into a career
• Reframe bombing as proof you showed up, because you win the moment you accept the challenge and fail
• Overcome the insecurity of broken teeth and hair loss that shadowed him for decades
• Bet on yourself the way Jo Koy did when Netflix passed and he funded his own special anyway
• Redefine greatness as doing what you love when nobody is paying you a dime for it

For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1986

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Sep 28, 2026 1 hr 22 min

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

Season 1, Episode 1986

Show notes

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 the next morning, 20 minutes, a publicist handing over a list of banned topics, other crews waiting in the hallway. With almost no prep time, it became one of the best conversations Lewis has ever recorded, because he stopped performing his homework and just stayed present and curious.

He gets honest about launching The School of Greatness with an iPhone and no idea what he was doing, asking questions he thought were basic and dumb. Confidence came after the action, never before it. Perfectionism and procrastination wear the same costume, and self-trust only gets built by surviving the attempt.

Ask yourself the uncomfortable question: are you still preparing because the work requires it, or because preparing feels safer than beginning? Whatever you have been circling for months, you will want to take one real step on it today.

In this episode you will:

• Put ChatGPT to work on your most ambitious ideas and projects.
• Spot the moment preparation quietly turns into a sophisticated form of procrastination
• Move through the terror of not feeling ready by understanding that confidence arrives after the action, not before it
• Steal the mindset that let Lewis turn a Kobe Bryant interview booked the night before into one of his best conversations ever
• Answer the question underneath your stalling: what are you actually waiting for
• Build real self trust by proving to yourself that failure never gets the final word

Sparked: Discover Your Unique Imprint for Work that Makes You Come Alive

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Sep 25, 2026 29 min

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

Season 1, Episode 1985

Show notes

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 surgery.

From there you hear why burnout keeps climbing, why an existential crisis is really a crisis of meaning, and how collapsed boundaries between home and work make it worse. Lewis opens up about eczema that cleared within days once he stopped abandoning himself in his relationships and career.

Jonathan walks through the ideas in his book Sparked: Discover Your Unique Imprint for Work That Makes You Come Alive, and Lewis learns he is a Maven who hates Essentialist work. You also get Jonathan’s blunt question for finding purpose: what should I just stop doing entirely?

You will finish this one ready to take the free Sparketype assessment and finally chase the work that makes you feel alive.

How to Live a Good Life: Soulful Stories, Surprising Science, and Practical Wisdom

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In this episode you will:

• Discover your Sparketype to uncover the unique imprint for work that makes you come alive
• Recognize the physical warning signs your body sends when your work or relationships fall out of alignment
• Break free from burnout by rebuilding the boundaries between work and home that have collapsed
• Question the hidden assumptions that keep you stuck in a rut using Katie Byron's The Work
• Eliminate the tasks that drain you so you can focus on what truly matters
• Close the gap between your felt and expressed potential without sabotaging yourself once you finally align

For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1985

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Sep 24, 2026 1 hr 8 min

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

Season 1, Episode 1984

Show notes

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 had no idea where his next meal was coming from.

Then comes the number that stops you cold: 48% of people earning over $250,000 a year are still living paycheck to paycheck. A raise was never the answer. Lewis walks through why rich is a number and free is a length of time, and why saying no to a $20,000 sponsorship or a $10,000 coaching call felt like losing his mind right up until it felt like peace.

You will hear how one conversation at a salsa club sent him to Toastmasters and rewired what he could charge, and how he bought a life insurance policy in his twenties for a wife and kids who did not exist yet.

By the end you will have one small assignment: take what you have, divide it by what you spend in a month, and look at the number without flinching. Then start adding months.

In this episode you will:

• Spot the seven quiet signs that wealth is already arriving before anyone else confirms it
• Climb Myron Golden's Four Levels of Value so you get paid for deciding and imagining instead of grinding harder
• Dismantle the scarcity habits that keep hardworking people stuck, including judging the rich and hoarding out of fear
• Reclaim your peace by saying no to real money that violates your values, the way Lewis Howes turned down millions in sponsorships
• Measure your runway in months rather than chasing a net worth number, so freedom becomes something you can count
• Break the paycheck to paycheck trap that still swallows nearly half of people earning over $250,000 a year

For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1984

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Sep 23, 2026 1 hr 2 min

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

Season 1, Episode 1983

Show notes

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 uncomfortable question: do you own a business, or does it own you?

She tells the story of walking into a bank for a loan and finding the account she thought held a million dollars almost empty. That night she sat in the dark and called her dad, who told her you are not really in the game until you have had a night like that. She never ran a business without systems again.

The fixes she shares are simpler than you expect. Most businesses are underpriced by 30 to 300 percent, fewer than a third have recurring revenue, and hard work has almost nothing to do with how much money you make. She also explains why more than 80 percent of kids want nothing to do with their parents’ business.

You will finish this one ready to raise your prices and build a life where work fits around the people you love.

Pre-Order:Own or Be Owned: Build a Business So Good It Doesn't Need You

In this episode you will:

• Learn the OWN system of 12 profit levers Codie Sanchez uses to build a business that runs without you
• Raise your prices with confidence once you see why most businesses are underpriced by 30 to 300%
• Escape key man risk by building systems and hiring people who can outperform you
• Test real market demand before you build, so your next venture doesn’t start from your pain
• Break the money beliefs that keep you living paycheck to paycheck
• Pay yourself first and add recurring revenue so your profits turn into lasting freedom

For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1983