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Lewis Howes

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.

The School of Greatness

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 in your muscle.

She breaks down why muscle is your metabolic currency, your body armor, and the closest thing we have to a longevity drug. And why the protein advice most people follow was set during wartime rationing, not built for the life you're trying to live.

The hard part isn't the science. It's that the changes stay subtle until one day they're not.

This conversation will make you rethink every plate of food and every workout you skip.

Forever Strong: A New, Science-Based Strategy for Aging Well

 Amazon
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Dr. Lyon on Instagram

Dr. Lyon on YouTube

DrGabrielleLyon.com

In this episode you will:

 • Discover why your muscle, not your body fat, is the real driver of metabolic health and survival

 • Learn the leucine meal threshold and the protein number to hit at your first meal

 • Understand anabolic resistance and why you need more protein, not less, as you age

 • Uncover where the 0.8g/kg protein guideline actually came from and why it falls short

 • Rethink cardio versus resistance training and build a plan that protects muscle for life

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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. Most of us are stuck grinding in By Me, mistaking motion for meaning.

He's lived the test, not just taught it. Six months in a UK prison, stripped of his business, his marriage, and everything he owned, and he chose to walk in smiling.

This conversation will change how you carry whatever you're carrying right now. Because the outer world always follows the inner one.

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The Inside Track: An Inspirational Guide To Conquering Adversity

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Peter's Website

Peter on Instagram

Peter on YouTube

In this episode you will:

 • Understand the Curse of the White Rabbit and why achievement alone never delivers fulfillment

 • Learn how to raise your financial thermostat so your own programming stops sabotaging you

 • Discover the four levels of consciousness (To Me, By Me, Through Me, As Me) and why most people stay stuck

 • Break free from GOOP (the Good Opinion of Other People) that quietly drives your decisions

 • Master the three levels of change (intellectual, emotional, identity) that make new behavior actually stick

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Why You Suffer and How to Finally Stop | Peter Sage

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 when you connect to something greater than yourself, a bonding network, an attention network, and a parietal network, each wired to receive love, guidance, and the awareness that you are never alone. The awakened brain is one-third innate, two-thirds cultivated. Which means you can build it.

The research on teens will stop you cold. A strong shared spiritual life is 82% protective against completed suicide, which has now surpassed auto accidents as the leading cause of teen death. 80% protective against the onset of addiction. This is not philosophy. These are numbers from global studies of 270,000 children.

The path to your best life might not require more effort. It might require a different kind of listening.

The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life

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The Spiritual Child: The New Science on Parenting for Health and Lifelong Thriving

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Dr. Lisa's Instagram

Dr. Lisa's Website

In this episode you will:

 • Learn why the #1 illness of our time is an ailment of perception, not biology, and what that means for how you live

 • Discover the three brain circuits that hardwire every human being for spiritual connection and how to activate them starting today

 • Recognize the difference between achieving relationships and awakened relationships, and why that shift changes every room you walk into

 • Explore the 4 P's framework developed with the Pentagon for raising spiritually grounded children and adults

 • Understand why a shared spiritual life is the single most protective factor against teen depression, addiction, and suicide, and what every parent can do right now

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Your Brain Is Built for God, Not Scarcity | Dr. Lisa Miller

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 isn't how much you save. It's whether you're using your wealth, your health, and your time together, in the right order, to get the most out of your one shot.

That's where memory dividends come in. When you invest in an experience, you don't just get the moment. You get a return every time you recall it, tell the story, or relive it in conversation. The joy compounds long after the trip ends.

But timing matters more than most people realize. Your ability to convert money into meaningful experience decays as you age. The adventures your body wants now won't be available at 72. Life is like Tetris. Get the pieces in the right order, and you get everything. Delay too long, and the window quietly closes.

Die With Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life

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Bill on X

Bill on Instagram

In this episode you will:

 • Understand the Die With Zero philosophy and why every dollar you die holding is proof you worked for no reward

 • Discover the memory dividend concept and why investing in experiences now pays compounding joy long after the moment passes

 • Learn the time bucket framework for getting your biggest experiences in the right order before your body, not your bank account, makes the decision for you

 • Identify the biggest psychological crime around money: fearing you'll run out instead of fearing you'll waste your one life

 • Build the belief, mindset, and consistency that Bill Perkins says are the three keys to earning more and actually feeling fulfilled by what you have

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Why Your Retirement Plan Is Wasting Your Life | Bill Perkins

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 people who earned great money and lost it all. People who confused looking rich with building wealth. Couples who kept separate bank accounts right up until the marriage fell apart.

His take: debt is never just a math problem. It's a behavior problem. And no budget in the world sticks until you decide what kind of person you're going to be with money.

In this conversation, George breaks down why buy now pay later apps are engineered to increase your cart size by 40%, why prediction markets like Polymarket are doing to young men what gambling apps did to the last generation, and why the moment someone calls a financial decision an "opportunity," they've usually already started justifying a terrible one.

The path to financial peace is simpler than you've been told. And it starts with creating friction, not removing it.

Breaking Free From Broke: The Ultimate Guide to More Money and Less Stress

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Smart Money Happy Hour

George Kamel YouTube

George's Instagram

In this episode you will:

 • Discover why debt is a psychology problem, not a math problem, and the identity shift you must make before any budget will actually stick

 • Recognize the doom loop of emotional spending and how buy now pay later apps are designed to make you spend more, feel worse, and repeat the cycle

 • Learn the seven Ramsey Baby Steps framework that has helped millions get out of debt and build real generational wealth

 • Apply the SMART Spender framework from Breaking Free from Broke to make intentional purchases without guilt or impulse

 • Understand how financial infidelity quietly destroys marriages and the warning signs hiding in plain sight

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The Psychology Behind Why You're Still Broke | George Kamel

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 years learning to close. She grew up with clinical depression, ADHD, anxiety, and a victim mindset baked in by illness and circumstance. She wasn't looking for a life philosophy. She switched her major to neuroscience because it sounded cool and got a 100 on her first exam. What she found changed everything.

The science she uncovered is this: your brain holds a model of who you are in the default mode network. It uses that model to predict your thoughts, behaviors, and choices on autopilot. If the model says you're someone who struggles with money, or fails at relationships, or can't focus, your nervous system quietly steers you toward confirming that story. The identity is the destiny.

Shifting it means more than positive thinking. It means identity anchors, environment, the people around you, the habits encoded in your body. Emily calls it identity shifting, and she coaches people through it by asking a deceptively simple question: do you have a to-do list or a to-be list? Most people have never sat down to ask who they're becoming, only what they're accomplishing.

This conversation will rewire the way you think about why you keep falling back into old patterns, how affirmations can actually work against you, and what neuroscience actually says about the law of attraction.

Emily's Website

Emily's Instagram

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In this episode you will:

 • Understand how the default mode network stores your identity and drives your choices below conscious awareness

 • Learn the identity shifting process Emily uses with coaching clients to break subconscious patterns holding them back

 • Discover why affirmations backfire and how to use forward motion and dopamine to make them actually work

 • Explore the neuroscience behind the law of attraction and why you attract what your nervous system is wired for, not what you want

 • Understand how ADHD medication, dopamine dependency, and addiction cycles form in the brain and what it takes to rewire them

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The Neuroscience of Identity: Why You Keep Repeating the Same Patterns | Emily McDonald

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. And still, the criticism came.

This conversation is about what you do with that. How do you hold your identity when the world tries to hand you someone else's version of it? Emmanuel turned down comparisons to Michael Strahan because he understood something most people miss: you cannot become the greatest version of yourself by trying to become someone who already exists.

He stopped setting goals. Not because he stopped caring, but because he realized goals create a ceiling. Instead he started moving toward objectives, things that stretch beyond what logic says is possible. He fell and got back up. He didn't fail. There is a difference.

If you have ever achieved something and felt emptier than you expected, or gotten harder on yourself the more successful you became, this episode will crack something open in you.

Emmanuel’s books:

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew

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Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man

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Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy

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In this episode you will:

 • Understand why reframing failure as falling, not losing, can keep you moving when everything feels like a setback

 • Explore the self-love scale Emmanuel used to assess himself at a six and a half, and what it takes to grow that number through success instead of despite it

 • Discover why Emmanuel Acho stopped setting goals and replaced them with objectives that remove the ceiling on what you can achieve

 • Learn how to protect your identity when success brings comparisons, criticism, and pressure to become someone else

 • Hear the story of how a call from Oprah Winfrey led to Emmanuel becoming the only person outside of Oprah to have multiple books published under her imprint

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Why You're Still Playing Small (And How to Stop) | Emmanuel Acho

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 theater performance for three straight years, he threw up. He kept a bucket backstage. The negative voices in his mind were relentless, and he spent years drinking heavily, using drugs, and force-feeding himself in a desperate attempt to hide the shame he felt about a physical condition that had left him feeling deformed since childhood.

What changed everything was not a breakthrough moment. It was a choice to stop running from the fear and bury himself in the work. He memorized a 105-minute one-man show in 10 days, playing 16 different characters, and walked on stage without throwing up for the first time. That experience taught him something he still carries: preparation is armor. The deeper a role is in your bones, the more freedom you have to be alive inside it.

He is still working on the personal side. He describes himself as a disaster in relationships, not from a lack of care, but from years of treating his career as the only thing that could not touch him. He talks about wanting to find the balance between the structure that builds trust and the childlike wonder that keeps him creative. That tension is where this conversation lives.

Joel’s IMDB

In this episode you will:

 • Understand how shame about a physical condition called pectus excavatum triggered an eating disorder that took years to unpack and overcome

 • Discover how Joel turned debilitating stage fright and a 3-year pattern of pre-performance vomiting into a breakthrough that rewired his relationship with fear

 • Learn why preparation is the most underrated performance skill and why Joel insists on being at least 3 nights ahead on every scene he shoots

 • Hear why Joel sees himself as a different man in his career versus his personal relationships, and what he believes he needs to change to close that gap

 • Explore how Joel uses psilocybin experiences, breathwork, and the Buddhist concept of shepa to create space between triggers and reaction in his daily life

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Fear, Shame, and the Fight to Get Out of Your Own Way | Joel Kinnaman

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 you.

You'll hear how a company in the early nineties assembled arguably the greatest collection of tech talent ever, had unlimited resources, and still collapsed under the weight of its own options. Meanwhile, two people who left that company with small, focused projects built eBay and the Palm Pilot. The lesson isn't about talent. It's about the bounding box.

David introduces his BCS Press Release framework: batch your work so you're not toggling all day, make your commitments visible so you can actually subtract the right ones, use satisficing rules to make decisions without drowning in choices, and write the press release before you start anything, so you know what matters before you're too deep in to see clearly.

This conversation also gets personal. David talks about the childhood arm injury that ended his baseball career and pushed him toward running and memory techniques he still uses today. He opens up about forgiveness, about the grudges that are hard to shake, and about the Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest study of human happiness ever conducted, which concluded that happiness is love. Real relationships. Mutual obligation. The stuff you keep forgetting to schedule.

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David’s books:

 Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better
 Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
 The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance

In this episode you will:

 • Discover why having too many options can kill your creativity and how the psychology of the path of least resistance explains it

 • Learn the BCS Press Release framework for batching work, making commitments visible, and using satisficing rules to stay focused

 • Understand the difference between kind and wicked learning environments and why the 10,000-hour rule only applies to one of them

 • Explore what MIT, Northwestern, and Census Bureau research reveals about the average age of fast-growing startup founders and why late bloomers have an edge

 • Apply the subtractive neglect bias and the subtraction game to cut commitments and create more clarity in your work and relationships

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The Science of Doing Less to Achieve More | David Epstein

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.

What she learned will shift the way you think about every relationship you are in or hoping to find. The true measure of someone is not who they are when things are going great. It is who they are under pressure. Pain is inevitable, she says. Suffering is optional.

You cannot be cynical about love and expect to attract it at the same time. That single idea might change everything. Somewhere between the heartbreak and the closed doors is the version of you who is finally ready, and that is the person your partner actually gets to meet.

Faith married the right person six months after writing down that she would. She did not fight the breakup that made space for him. She radically accepted it, let it go, and stepped into the biggest open door of her life.

Faith’s book: Sis, Don't Settle: How to Stay Smart in Matters of the Heart

Faith’s website

Faith on YouTube

Faith on Instagram

In this episode you will:

 • Understand why emotional maturity, not chemistry, is what separates a healthy ending from a destructive one

 • Learn Faith's practice of radical acceptance and how separating your feelings from the facts protects your peace through breakups

 • Discover why doing pre-engagement counseling before getting engaged gives you real clarity on alignment before pressure sets in

 • Recognize the hidden reasons so many people settle, from fear of loneliness to past experiences that erode self-worth

 • Apply Faith's approach to staying open to love after betrayal, and how reframing your past protects your future partner from paying for it

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Why You Keep Choosing the Wrong Person (And How to Finally Stop) | Faith Jenkins

Los Angeles based rapper, actor, teacher, songwriter, and award winning spoken word artist, In-Q is a unique voice in entertainment. His work has been featured on HBO's Def Poetry Jam, two seasons of Verses & Flow, the Discovery Channel, the Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, EA Sports, ABC, NBC, and A&E.

In-Q is a National Poetry Slam Champion The School of Greatness.

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