- 1 hour 16 minutesBudgets Don't Work, Automation Makes You Rich | David Bach
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
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
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2 October 2026, 7:00 am - 1 hour 23 minutesWhy AI Is Making Us Lonelier and How to Truly Connect | Vanessa Van Edwards
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
Cues: Master the Secret Language of Charismatic Communication
Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People
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
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30 September 2026, 7:00 am - 1 hour 21 minutesYou Win When You Fail | Jo Koy
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.
Mixed Plate: Chronicles of an All-American Combo
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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28 September 2026, 7:00 am - 28 minutes 44 secondsYou're Not Unprepared, You're Afraid to Start | Lewis Howes
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
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25 September 2026, 7:00 am - 1 hour 8 minutesBurnout Is a Sign You're Doing the Wrong Work | Jonathan Fields
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.
Sparked: Discover Your Unique Imprint for Work that Makes You Come Alive
How to Live a Good Life: Soulful Stories, Surprising Science, and Practical Wisdom
Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt into Fuel for Brilliance
Career Renegade: How to Make a Great Living Doing What You Love
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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24 September 2026, 7:00 am - 1 hour 1 minute7 Signs You're About to Get Rich | Lewis Howes
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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23 September 2026, 7:00 am - 1 hour 13 minutesStop Grinding: Build a Business You Don't Hate | Codie Sanchez
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
Main Street Millionaire: How to Make Extraordinary Wealth Buying Ordinary Businesses
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
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21 September 2026, 7:00 am - 1 hour 1 minuteYour Phone Is Stealing the Life You Actually Want | Cal Newport
You have been trained to reach for your phone the second you get bored, and it is quietly costing you the ability to think.
Cal Newport, a computer science professor and the author of Deep Work, sat down with Lewis and explained why he has never once had a social media account. He also wrote Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World, and to test the idea he ran a 30-day declutter with about 1,600 readers who sent back reports on what happened when they stepped away.
The results are hard to shake. Roughly half found no real value in social media and dropped it for good. Of the half who did find value, like visual artists who needed Instagram to see other people's work, about 95% moved it off their phones entirely and onto a scheduled desktop session, sometimes twenty minutes on a Sunday night. Cal also points to college mental health centers that saw anxiety cases jump around fivefold the same year students started arriving on campus with smartphones.
Lewis tells his own story here too. Fifteen straight years with a phone on him every single day, then a trip to Hawaii where he left it at home. He got lost, asked strangers for directions at a gas station, and by day two he was floating in the ocean with zero anxiety. Cal calls that the baseline, not a breakthrough.
Listen and you will start noticing the small reach for your pocket at dinner, in line, on a walk. Then you will try leaving the thing at home once, and find out what your own thoughts sound like again.
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
In this episode you will:
- Reclaim the ability to focus deeply at a moment when concentration is becoming rare and therefore economically valuable
- Confront the hard personal questions your phone lets you escape, instead of numbing boredom with a constant digital companion
- Understand why campus anxiety disorders spiked once students arrived carrying smartphones, and what that means for your own mental health
- Practice productive meditation, the walking based cognitive pull ups that train your brain to think through problems without a screen
- Rebuild real connection by trading likes for sacrificed time and attention, the only currency that makes relationships deepen
For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1982
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18 September 2026, 7:00 am - 1 hour 4 minutesRebuild Your Identity in 3 Steps and Finally Make Habits Last | Dr. Kim Foster
You can have every fact, every plan, and still quit by Thursday, because the story underneath never changed.
Dr. Kim Foster, a family physician who practiced for twenty years, sat down with Lewis after a patient with rising blood pressure told her, “I'm just not an exercise person.” That one line reframed everything: behavior change is an identity problem wearing an information costume. Her book, Redesigning You, turns that into a three-step method of recognizing the old story, redesigning it, and then going out to collect proof.
She talks about the bridge identity, the small believable stretch your brain will actually accept instead of a mirror affirmation it answers with, “Interesting. Based on what?” Habit stacking is the app. Identity is the operating system, and glitchy apps on an old system crash on the hard days.
Then she tells on herself. She walked into the woods behind her clinic after stitching a patient's hand, realized she never wanted to go back, wrote her resignation letter, and then stayed through an entire pandemic wave anyway rather than leave at the worst moment. Her last day came in her birthday month, and she sat in her car and cried for fifteen minutes before driving home with the windows down, free.
Listen for the moment a senior resident nodded at her to keep going while ribs cracked under her hands, and for what that taught her about self-doubt. You'll start catching your own identity statement, about money, sleep, confidence, relationships, the ones you say like they're just facts. Then you get to argue back.
Redesigning You: Change Your Inner Story, Transform Your Health
In this episode you will:
- Discover with Dr. Kim Foster why lasting change fails as an identity problem rather than an information problem
- Apply the Recognize, Redesign, Ritualize framework to build an identity your brain actually believes
- Build a bridge identity that gives your mind proof instead of forcing affirmations you secretly reject
- Overcome the fear that keeps you loyal to a role you have outgrown, even a prestigious one
- Reframe self doubt as useful data and stop letting shame drive your attempts to improve
- Become genuinely magnetic in conversation without slipping into performance
For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1981
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16 September 2026, 7:00 am - 1 hour 19 minutesYou're Not Bad With Money, You Inherited Bad Beliefs | Lewis Howes
You're not stuck with money because you're lazy or bad with numbers. You're running a program you never chose.
You inherited it. It got set by what your family earned, what went quiet at the dinner table, what your friends made, what that first good job paid you. Nobody sat you down and taught you to fear money. You absorbed it and built a ceiling out of it.
In this solo episode Lewis walks through the five money beliefs that keep almost everyone stuck, and gives you a specific assignment for each one. It's the work at the center of his New York Times bestselling book Make Money Easy, stripped down to what you can actually do this week.
Your mind will defend that ceiling like it's protecting you. Every time you climb above it something pulls you back down and you call it bad luck. It isn't luck. It's a thermostat.
These beliefs only survive because nobody ever says them out loud. Four numbers, thirty days, and one uncomfortable conversation is where the whole thing breaks.
In this episode you will:
- Uncover why 99% of people are wired to sabotage their own money growth
- Learn why financial breakthroughs come from new beliefs, not better strategies
- Break the invisible income ceiling your mind quietly defends
- Reframe overwork by learning that money is payment for value, not for pain
- Give every dollar a destination before it arrives, the way wealthy people do
For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1980
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14 September 2026, 7:00 am - 1 hour 13 minutesYour Pain Pushes You Until Your Vision Pulls You | Michael Beckwith
Your pain will keep pushing you until a bigger vision starts pulling you instead. Not the vague, hopeful kind either, but the gut-level knowing that there’s more waiting for you than the life you’ve been tolerating. Most people never feel that pull until the pain gets loud enough to force it.
Michael Beckwith knows that shift intimately. Long before he became the founder of Agape International Spiritual Center, the global spiritual community he’s led since its first Sunday service in 1986, he was an agnostic revolutionary who spent his early twenties trying to talk Christians out of their faith. Then came a dream where three men held him down and drove a knife into his heart, and he woke up inside a wave of presence and love so overwhelming he spent the next four decades trying to help other people find their way back to it.
These days he’s walking through his own separation, from a marriage that began in 2000, and he refuses to call either of his marriages a failure. He calls them both successful, because love that changes shape isn’t love that disappeared. That kind of honesty runs through the whole conversation, including his mother’s sudden death and how quickly he chooses to forgive.
You’ll hear him explain where racism actually comes from and why mediocrity always attacks excellence the moment you start to grow. He also leaves you with the three truths he’d want you to carry if everything else he ever said disappeared, starting with this: give away more than you take before you go.
Prosperity, Plenitude & Infinite Possibilities
Life Visioning: A Transformative Process for Activating Your Unique Gifts and Highest Potential
40 Day Mind Fast Soul Feast: A Guide to Soul Awakening and Inner Fulfillment
Spiritual Liberation: Fulfilling Your Soul's Potential
In this episode you will:
- Discover how a near-death dream reoriented an atheist revolutionary into a spiritual founder
- Reframe two “failed” marriages as two successful ones by redefining what a relationship is for
- Recognize why mediocrity attacks excellence, and stop shrinking to keep others comfortable
- Overcome the shame of teaching principles you're still struggling to live yourself
- Distinguish crisis from insight as the two paths people use to grow into their purpose
For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1979
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