The School of Greatness
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, and literature—to inspire YOU to unlock your inner greatness and live your best life.
- 1 hour 30 minutesStop Limiting Yourself: How Your Beliefs Become Your Biology | Nir Eyal
Nir Eyal spent six years researching why brilliant, talented people consistently fall short of their potential, and what he found will surprise you: it's not a lack of knowledge, resources, or intelligence holding most people back. It's the invisible belief system running silently in the background, shaping every decision you make without your awareness.
Most of us are walking around with beliefs forged in survival mode, and we're using them long after they've stopped serving us. The good news is that beliefs, unlike facts, are tools you can examine, update, and swap out.
In this conversation, Nir walks you through the motivation triangle that explains why willpower and information alone never work, and the exact four-step turnaround process that rewrites the beliefs costing you peace, progress, and connection.
Whether you're struggling with a goal that keeps stalling, a relationship that stays stuck, or a quiet voice telling you that you're not enough, this episode gives you a practical way out.
The Greatness Playbook: The Belief Breakthrough Edition
Nir’s books:
- Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
- Indistractable, Updated Edition: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
- Beyond Belief: The Science-Backed Way to Stop Limiting Yourself and Achieve Breakthrough Results
In this episode you will:
- Learn the exact four-question turnaround process Nir uses daily to dissolve limiting beliefs about people, including the one about his own mother that changed everything
- Discover why being "too smart" can actually work against you and how liberating beliefs outperform facts when it comes to achieving what you want
- Understand the motivation triangle and why you'll never stay consistent on behavior and benefit alone without the third element most people skip entirely
- Find out why positive visualization and manifesting can actually decrease your chances of success and what athletes do instead that works
- Understand why the words you say out loud about yourself become your biology, and how to use secular prayer as a tool for pain tolerance and inner peace
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2 March 2026, 8:00 am - 1 hour 10 minutesHow to Reignite a Dream After You've Lost Everything | Shaun White
Shaun White admits that losing at the 2014 Sochi Olympics had nothing to do with his body and everything to do with his heart not being in it. That honest reckoning launched a years-long process of rebuilding from the inside out, patching broken relationships, ditching a fake social media persona, and assembling a team that actually shared his vision.
Then a training crash in New Zealand left him with 62 stitches and lungs full of blood just months before the 2018 Olympics, forcing a gut-check question: how badly do you really want this?
His answer carried him to a third gold medal and the most emotionally charged finish of his career. Whether you are chasing a world record or a business breakthrough, Shaun's approach to mental resilience, goal-setting, and self-discovery applies directly to your life.
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In this episode you will:
- Discover why raw talent is never enough to win when your heart is not fully committed to the goal
- Learn how resolving personal and relational friction off the field can unlock peak performance on it
- Understand why pairing a massive goal with small, specific, even playful sub-goals keeps motivation alive
- Recognize the trap of delayed happiness and how to find fulfillment along the path rather than only at the finish line
- Build a mental framework for separating your self-worth from outcomes so loss stops defining you
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27 February 2026, 8:00 am - 1 hour 7 minutesNarcissism Experts Reveal How To SPOT, Handle & Heal From Trauma | Lewis Howes
Most people think narcissism looks like a loud ego, but the truth is it often disguises itself as care, protection, or even victimhood.
This episode brings together six of the world's leading experts to walk you through every layer of the problem, from learning to spot the patterns to understanding why you keep attracting them to finally healing the wound underneath it all.
You'll discover that the real danger isn't just the narcissist in front of you, it's the unexamined programming from your family of origin that keeps pulling you back into the same cycles. Whether you're navigating a toxic relationship, recovering from one, or realizing for the first time that something in your childhood wasn't as normal as you thought, this is your roadmap to reclaiming your self-trust and building relationships that actually fuel you.
Make Money Easy: Create Financial Freedom and Live a Richer Life
The Greatness Mindset: Unlock the Power of Your Mind and Live Your Best Life Today
The School of Greatness: A Real-World Guide to Living Bigger, Loving Deeper, and Leaving a Legacy
In this episode you will:
- Learn the six types of narcissists so you can finally name the dynamic that's been draining you
- Spot the body language "danger zone" cues that manipulative people leak without realizing it
- Recognize how covert narcissism controls you from underneath through guilt, victimhood, and passive aggression
- Identify whether your self-criticism is actually your family of origin still running the show inside your head
- Shift from "me over us" thinking to the kind of connected, whole relationships you actually want
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25 February 2026, 8:00 am - 1 hour 19 minutesWhy You're Afraid to Share (And What It's Costing You) | Leslie John
Leslie John drops a finding that stops most people cold: couples married an average of 12 years guessed what their partner was thinking and feeling correctly only 20% of the time. That gap between how well you think you know someone and how well you actually know them is where relationships quietly break down.
It's the same dynamic playing out in friendships, at work, and in families everywhere. You think you're saving people discomfort by holding back, but what you're actually doing is building a wall you can't see.
Leslie walks through the science of "disclosure decisions," the hundreds of small choices you make each day about what to say and what to swallow, and what it costs you over time when the scales tip too far toward silence.
Learning to share with the right people, at the right moments, with the right context isn't just good communication. It's how you build the kind of relationships that actually hold.
The Greatness Playbook: The Communication Mastery Edition
Leslie’s book Revealing: The Underrated Power of Oversharing
In this episode you will:
- Discover why undersharing, not oversharing, is quietly destroying your closest relationships and what the research says about the real cost of silence.
- Understand how "mind reading expectations" create a hidden trap in romantic relationships and learn the simple shift that breaks the cycle before resentment builds.
- Learn the one question that can open any conversation with a guarded partner and why leading with your own vulnerability is more powerful than finding the perfect words.
- Recognize how the things you leave unsaid pile up into a weight that erodes your self-respect over time and what it takes to start speaking your truth again.
- Apply the science of the feedback sandwich, including what the research actually found about which part matters most, so you can deliver hard truths in a way people can actually hear.
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23 February 2026, 8:00 am - 1 hour 12 minutesThe Mindset That Took Her From 2% Survival Odds to the Paralympics | Amy Purdy
Amy Purdy was a 19-year-old with big dreams when meningococcal meningitis put her in a coma within 24 hours of her first symptom, leaving her a double-leg amputee fighting her way back from 83 pounds and kidney failure.
Her story isn't just about survival; it's about a near-death experience that gave her a quiet certainty that everything would make sense in the end, and how that faith became the foundation for everything she built next.
Most people let obstacles define the outer edges of their lives, but Amy turned hers into a launchpad, spending 12 years innovating her own prosthetic feet to compete at the 2014 Sochi Paralympics. You'll hear how she stopped competing for medals and started competing for the girl in an Italian mountain village who drove four hours just to ask how it's done.
The real lesson here is that your limitations aren't walls, they're the very thing you push off of to go somewhere new.
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In this episode you will:
- Understand why setting a specific, audacious goal during your darkest moment creates the momentum to recover
- See how embracing limitation as creative fuel, rather than a ceiling, opens possibilities you couldn't have planned
- Find out what it really means to live an inspired life and why it's more contagious than you think
- Discover how a near-death experience at 19 can reframe everything you think you know about fear and purpose
- Learn how to shift from survival mode into a life that's bigger than what you lost
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20 February 2026, 8:00 am - 57 minutes 18 secondsStop Attracting The Wrong Relationships. Do This To Find Lasting Love! | Lewis Howes
If you keep attracting the wrong people or sabotaging good relationships, this masterclass reveals why.
Lewis brings together the most powerful insights from Esther Perel, Jillian Turecki, Matthew Hussey, Baya Voce, and Mel Robbins to show you how your unhealed wounds are running your love life.
You'll learn why you chase what hurts you, how your nervous system sabotages connection, and what it actually takes to stop repeating the same painful cycles. The path to lasting love starts with understanding yourself first, learning to regulate your emotions, and choosing partners who can help you heal rather than partners who keep you broken.
Make Money Easy: Create Financial Freedom and Live a Richer Life
The Greatness Mindset: Unlock the Power of Your Mind and Live Your Best Life Today
The School of Greatness: A Real-World Guide to Living Bigger, Loving Deeper, and Leaving a Legacy
In this episode you will:
- Identify what role you played in past relationship failures instead of only blaming your ex
- Recognize when your childhood wounds are triggering fights about cardboard boxes or daily frustrations
- Understand why depending on your partner for happiness creates catastrophic disappointment
- Discover how play and humor keep relationships alive when everything else feels dead
- Transform conflict into healing by learning to tolerate uncomfortable emotions in your body
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18 February 2026, 8:00 am - 1 hour 27 minutesThe Danger Line: Why 84% Never Reach Their Potential | Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais opens up about surviving a head-on car collision at 70 miles per hour and how decades of psychological training shaped his response in that split second.
The high performance psychologist, who has spent 14 years inside NFL locker rooms and coached athletes through four Olympic Games, shares why he believes humans don't rise to moments but fall to the level of their training.
He breaks down what he calls "the danger line," that messy emotional edge where growth actually happens, and explains why most people never practice getting there in their careers, relationships, or conversations with loved ones. Gervais also delivers a pointed warning about youth sports in America, revealing how untrained coaches are shaping the psychological development of children in a system where 99.95% won't achieve their athletic dreams.
Whether you're navigating a career setback, building mental resilience, or raising kids who can thrive without tying their worth to performance, this conversation offers a framework for training your psychology the same way elite athletes train their bodies.
The Greatness Playbook: The Psychological Strength Edition
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In this episode you will:
- Recognize why performance-based identity fuels achievement but never delivers freedom, and what to build instead
- Discover why negative self-talk is actually a protective mechanism borrowed from childhood and how to replace it with what Dr. Gervais calls "the epic thought list"
- Learn the difference between optimism, agency, and efficacy and why every world-class performer Dr. Gervais has met shares one of these traits
- Understand how "fight, flight, freeze, and submit" plays out in boardrooms and relationships, not just physical danger
- Apply the "support then challenge" framework that the best coaches and parents use to unlock potential without causing psychological harm
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16 February 2026, 8:00 am - 53 minutes 43 secondsThe Hidden Cost of Winning Too Much | Mikaela Shiffrin
Mikaela Shiffrin was throwing up before almost every race, drowning in performance anxiety no one could see.
The world's winningest alpine skier reveals why thinking about winning made her lose, how her mom taught her to master the mental game, and why she didn't want to break the all-time wins record.
She won a race by three seconds after an injury and the world called her slow for only winning the next one by seven tenths. Shiffrin opens up about the choking sensation that triggered her gag reflex, the sports psychologists who helped her reframe fear, and why she hopes people debate the greatest of all time forever.
This is about the gap between external success and internal struggle and what it takes to stay human under superhuman pressure.
In this episode you will:
- Recognize why refusing a title can be more powerful than claiming it
- Discover why focusing on outcomes sabotages performance
- Learn how to transform crippling anxiety into competitive fuel
- Understand the difference between pressure you create and pressure others impose
- Master the art of staying present when the stakes are highest
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13 February 2026, 8:00 am - 1 hour 2 minutes5 Powerful Manifestations You Need To Say Every Day | Lewis Howes
Lewis shares how the main thing stopping you from manifesting isn't that you don't want it enough, but that you haven't gotten your inner self sorted out first.
He breaks down the internal blocks keeping you from believing you deserve good things and shows you how your inner critic has been building a prison brick by brick.
You'll learn why confidence comes from keeping promises to yourself, not from positive thinking, and how courage isn't a personality trait but a daily decision. This episode teaches you how to step into the identity of your future self through consistent action, trust the process even when it doesn't make sense, and open yourself to receive support instead of carrying everything alone.
Make Money Easy: Create Financial Freedom and Live a Richer Life
The Greatness Mindset: Unlock the Power of Your Mind and Live Your Best Life Today
The School of Greatness: A Real-World Guide to Living Bigger, Loving Deeper, and Leaving a Legacy
In this episode you will:
- Learn to trust that everything is working in your favor even during challenging times
- Build anti-fragile confidence by choosing courage over comfort in every area of your life
- Discover why you'll never outgrow the level of worthiness you believe you deserve
- Transform your identity through the power of I am statements and daily practice
- Understand how to surrender the need to control the method, and allow what is intended for you to enter your life
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11 February 2026, 8:00 am - 1 hour 27 minutesThis Hidden Belief May Be Sabotaging Your Abundance | Brendon Burchard
Brendon Burchard shares a powerful truth most high performers miss: creating significant life changes is more dependent on an understanding of sociology than psychology.
While personal discipline and habits matter, the real breakthroughs happen when you surround yourself with people who see possibilities in you that you don't yet see in yourself. You're likely stuck not because something is wrong with you, but because you're an A player performing on a B field.
The path forward isn't about working harder or gaining more information. It's about investing in the right rooms, whether that's a mastermind, a volunteer group, or a team that elevates your thinking and challenges your timeline for what's possible.
The Greatness Playbook: The Network is Net Worth Edition
Brendon’s books:
- The Millionaire Messenger: Make a Difference and a Fortune Sharing Your Advice
- The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive
- The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power
- Life's Golden Ticket: A Story About Second Chances
- High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way
- The High Performance Planner
In this episode you will:
- Unlock the proximity audit framework to identify which relationships expand you and which ones drain your potential
- Discover why sociology is more powerful than psychology when creating breakthrough moments in your business and life
- Transform from showing up as your minimal self to consistently embodying your aspirational self in every area
- Break through the plateau that comes from relying solely on personal discipline and self-improvement tactics
- Master the art of making strategic bets on yourself by investing in rooms where excellence is the standard
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9 February 2026, 8:00 am - 55 minutes 48 secondsThe Lonely Price of Olympic Gold | Lindsey Vonn
Lindsey Vonn reveals the hidden cost of becoming the greatest downhill skier of all time: devastating loneliness, crippling depression, and an exhausting pattern of people-pleasing that nearly broke her.
You've probably felt that same pressure to make everyone else happy while your own needs get pushed aside, or wondered how to come back after life knocks you down repeatedly. She shares the exact mental shifts that helped her process trauma without storing it in her body, the journaling practice that kept her grounded through 20 years of crashes and comebacks, and why working on yourself isn't selfish.
You'll learn how to stop abandoning yourself in relationships and career decisions, and discover that your greatest moments come not from perfect performances, but from pushing past your absolute limits when everything seems impossible.
Lindsey’s books:
In this episode you will:
- Discover how to turn every crash and failure into fuel for your next breakthrough instead of emotional baggage
- Learn the brain spotting technique that releases years of stored trauma in a single session
- Break through the exhausting pattern of people-pleasing that drains your energy and authenticity
- Master the art of staying completely present under extreme pressure without fear taking over
- Unlock the daily journaling practice that builds unshakeable confidence and helps you find your way back when you're lost
For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1886
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