- 1 hour 31 minutesHow Fear Almost Killed Her (And What Saved Her Life) | Anita Moorjani
Anita Moorjani did everything right. She ate organic, avoided sugar, studied cancer prevention obsessively. She still got lymphoma. That contradiction is the entire point.
Growing up as an Indian woman in Hong Kong, caught between British culture and a community that valued sons over daughters, Anita learned one thing above all else: make yourself small and keep everyone happy. That lesson followed her for 40 years, through a canceled arranged marriage, a cancer diagnosis, and a four-year deterioration that ended with her in a coma, 85 pounds, and organs failing.
Then she left her body. In that expanded state, she saw clearly for the first time: it wasn't the cancer that had been killing her. It was the fear.
When she came back, every trace of cancer was gone within three weeks. Doctors flew in from the US just to study her case. None of them could explain it.
What Anita brought back is a message she's been sharing for 20 years: you don't need to earn your place in the world, you already are what you've been spending your life trying to become.
Anita’s books:
- Dying to Be Me
- Sensitive Is the New Strong: The Power of Empaths in an Increasingly Harsh World
- What If This Is Heaven?: How Our Cultural Myths Prevent Us from Experiencing Heaven on Earth
Anita's Sedona Healing Retreat
In this episode you will:
- Understand why living in constant fear can manifest as serious physical illness - and how shifting from fear-based choices to love-based ones changes everything
- Discover what Anita experienced during her 30-hour coma, including what she saw, heard, and understood outside her physical body
- Learn the mirror exercise that helped Anita rebuild self-worth from scratch after coming back from the edge of death
- Recognize how people-pleasing and self-repression show up in the body, and why your authentic self will keep demanding to be heard
- Apply Anita's framework for replacing fear of what you don't want with a focused attention on what you actually want to create
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6 May 2026, 7:00 am - 1 hour 13 minutesWhy Winning Didn't Fix Me: The Truth About Pain | Kevin Love
Kevin Love has an NBA championship ring, five All-Star selections, and an Olympic gold medal. He also had a panic attack that changed everything.
In this conversation, he gets radically honest about what it means to carry anxiety, rage, and childhood wounds into a life that looks like success from the outside. He talks about nine years of estrangement from his parents, the reconciliation that came just before his father died, and what becoming a father himself has taught him about what it means to finally become a man.
What comes through most is this: the things you don't say will find a way out. Kevin built a career on channeling pain into performance, and now he's doing the harder thing; learning to actually heal. His Kevin Love Fund is bringing emotional language into classrooms so the next generation of kids doesn't have to wait until their 30s to learn what they're feeling.
This is a conversation about athletic mortality, grief, fatherhood, and what it looks like to build a life that matches the work you've done inside.
The Greatness Playbook: The Mental Resilience Edition
In this episode you will:
- Learn how to create boundaries with family that are rooted in growth, not punishment, and why subtraction is sometimes the path to finding yourself
- Understand what it means to face athletic mortality and how to hold your identity when the thing you've chased your whole life starts letting go of you
- Discover how unprocessed childhood anger can become both the fuel for elite performance and the thing that quietly destroys your relationships
- Explore why reconciliation and forgiveness can exist alongside pain, and how two completely opposite truths can be real at the same time
- Find out why the things we don't say are the most dangerous things we carry, and what it looks like to build a life that is relentlessly curious without fear
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4 May 2026, 7:00 am - 1 hour 2 minutesThe Auschwitz Survivor Who Chose Freedom | Dr. Edith Eger
Dr. Edith Eger was 16 years old when she danced for Josef Mengele at Auschwitz the same night her mother was sent to the gas chamber. She survived. And then she spent decades running from what happened until she finally turned around and walked straight back into it.
What she found there changed everything.
Edith teaches that freedom is not something that happens to you. It is something you choose. Again and again. By becoming your own good parent, facing what you have been carrying, and giving yourself permission to let go.
Anger is not the primary emotion, she says. Underneath it is always fear. And underneath fear is a little child who just needs someone to show up.
This conversation will rearrange something inside you. It is not about forgetting. It is not about overcoming. It is about learning to cherish the wound, and using it to become more alive.
Dr. Edith’s books:
- The Choice: Embrace the Possible
- The Gift: 14 Lessons to Save Your Life
- The Ballerina of Auschwitz: Young Adult Edition of The Choice
In this episode you will:
- Discover why the key to your freedom is already in your pocket, even if you have been in your own mental prison for years
- Learn how to turn depression into expression by facing the rage you have been running from instead of medicating or analyzing it
- Understand the critical difference between being a victim and being victimized, and why one destroys your potential while the other leaves your power intact
- Find out how to stop living for other people's approval by becoming the loving parent to yourself that you may have never had
- Reclaim the joy and passion you thought you lost by asking one simple question about everything you do
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1 May 2026, 7:00 am - 1 hour 23 minutesHow to Perform Under Pressure Without Losing Yourself | Chloe Kim
Chloe Kim won her first Olympic gold at 17, became the most dominant athlete in her sport, and then quietly started questioning whether any of it made her feel the way she expected it to.
She reveals that the greatest pressure she ever felt came not from the crowd or the competition but from internalizing the belief that first place was simply where she was supposed to be, making every win feel expected and every loss feel like failure. That belief quietly ate at her for over a decade, and unpacking it took therapy, an ADHD diagnosis at 26, and the brutal test of entering her third Olympics on eight days of snow training after a serious shoulder injury.
What she discovered is something any high achiever will recognize: the version of yourself that performs at the highest level and the version that knows how to rest, feel, and connect are often two very different people, and you have to build the second one on purpose.
This conversation gives you a real look at what it takes to stop measuring your worth by your results, start celebrating smaller wins, and build a life that feels as good as it looks from the outside.
In this episode you will:
- Learn how she competed in the 2026 Olympics with only eight days on snow after shoulder surgery, and what genuine grit actually looks like when the outcome is uncertain.
- Discover how Chloe reframed outside expectations as a crowd of believers instead of a wall of pressure, and use that same mental shift when performance stakes feel crushing.
- Understand why you cannot eliminate self-doubt and what she does instead to quiet the noise enough to trust muscle memory and show up anyway.
- Recognize the trap of tying your identity to your results, and follow the perspective shift that helped Chloe finally feel genuine happiness when competitors she loves beat her.
- Apply Chloe's three personal truths to your own life: keep learning at any age, take care of yourself first, and give yourself real permission to have fun and celebrate the small wins you keep skipping.
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29 April 2026, 7:00 am - 1 hour 16 minutesHow to Stop Reacting and Start Winning with Difficult People | Ryan Leak
Ryan Leak spent the last day of his twenties at a speaking event where a woman told him his documentary had pulled a young man off the floor of a crack house and back into life, and that single moment changed how he decided to spend the next decade of his career.
What makes this conversation surprising is how openly Ryan admits he is still working through his own lies, like the belief that the only value he brings to the world is what people see on a stage or a screen.
He talks directly to anyone who has ever burned energy on relationships that were never really friendships, anyone who has reacted to a difficult person and become someone they did not recognize in the process, and anyone who keeps saying yes when everything inside them is asking them to pause.
Ryan lays out a practical case for why becoming proactive instead of reactive is the only real solution to handling difficult people, and why the most generous thing you can give someone is not money but a path to make their own.
The episode closes with a question every listener deserves to sit with: if you stayed on the exact same path for another decade, would you look back knowing you truly went for it, or would you realize you were playing it safe inside something that felt comfortable?
The Greatness Playbook: The Self-Trust Edition
Ryan’s books:
- How to Work with Complicated People: Strategies for Effective Collaboration with (Nearly) Anyone
- How to Work with Complicated People: A Survival Guide
- Leveling Up: 12 Questions to Elevate Your Personal and Professional Development
- UnOffendable
- Chasing Failure: How Falling Short Sets You Up for Success
In this episode you will:
- Discover why reacting to difficult people is the one habit guaranteed to turn you into someone you do not want to be, and what to do instead
- Learn how to identify the difference between a good opportunity and the right one, using a simple prayer practice that cuts through the noise
- Uncover the lies you have been telling yourself about your potential and why the story that starts with "I can't" is the one costing you the most
- Recognize which relationships in your life are real friendships and which ones are draining you with the illusion of closeness
- Understand why generosity at its highest level has nothing to do with money and everything to do with putting people in a position to grow
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27 April 2026, 7:00 am - 1 hour 13 minutesWhy Your Past Trauma Is Costing You Real Love | Pastor Michael Todd
Pastor Michael Todd reveals something most high achievers refuse to admit: the drive fueling their rise is often rooted in a wound they have never faced.
He shares the moment he realized his obsession with greatness traced back to a 12-year-old boy sitting on a maroon chair, told he wasn't good enough to play drums in the big church, and how that single unprocessed moment shaped decades of his life.
That pattern lives in so many of us: we build careers, relationships, and whole identities on top of old damage without ever treating the root. Michael breaks down why people struggle to love and be loved, how unhealed trauma quietly transfers to the people closest to you, and what it actually means to bring your full self to a relationship instead of a defended version.
Whether you're healing inside a committed relationship or doing the work alone, this conversation gives you language and tools to start going to the root. So what you build from here can actually last.
Michael’s books:
In this episode you will:
- Discover why your relationships reflect the level of love you have for yourself and how to raise that floor
- Learn how to identify the root wound beneath your most self-destructive patterns before it costs you everything you've built
- Understand how to heal inside a committed relationship rather than waiting until you feel ready on your own
- Recognize the moment your drive for success stops serving you and starts threatening your legacy
- Gain a framework for choosing the right partner by getting clear on purpose before chasing chemistry
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24 April 2026, 7:00 am - 1 hour 6 minutesThe Mindset That Turned Losing Both Legs Into a Paralympic Medal | Amy Purdy
Amy Purdy walked into an operating room at 19 about to lose both legs, and instead of collapsing into fear, she gave herself three goals before the anesthesia took hold.
You know that feeling when life pulls the ground out from under you and every identity you had disappears overnight? Amy has lived that more than once, and what she discovered is that the challenges you most want to escape are actually moving you closer to your purpose, not away from it.
The key is learning to lean into problems rather than run, to find the smallest sliver of possibility and let it grow.
In this conversation, you will walk away with practical tools for building a new identity after loss, understanding why your struggles are not obstacles but doorways, and discovering how staying present transforms the way you compete, create, and connect.
Amy’s books:
In this episode you will:
- Learn how to set a north star in the middle of crisis so fear does not get to make your decisions
- Discover why leaning into your problems instead of avoiding them is the only way to find real strength
- Understand how to step into a new identity after loss without pretending the old one did not matter
- Recognize the hidden reason so many high achievers crash after reaching their biggest goals
- Find out how shifting your focus from outcome to contribution changes everything about why you show up
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22 April 2026, 7:00 am - 1 hour 40 minutesThe Science of Healing Your Body with Your Mind | Dr Joe Dispenza
Dr Joe Dispenza drops a finding that most people are not ready for: a seven-day meditation retreat produces measurably greater healing than most pharmaceutical drugs, with 80% of participants expressing the same healing genes by the end.
If you have ever tried to think positive and felt nothing shift, Dr Joe explains why that happens and what your body is actually doing instead. Most of us are unknowingly running 95% of our lives from subconscious programs rooted in the past, and our bodies quite literally cannot accept thoughts that contradict what they have already been conditioned to feel.
The path forward is not more willpower or better affirmations. It is learning to match your thoughts with a new feeling so completely that your biology has no choice but to change.
The Greatness Playbook: The Future Self Edition
Dr Joe’s books:
- Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself
- Becoming Supernatural
- You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter
- Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind
In this episode you will:
- Understand why positive thinking alone fails and what your body actually needs to accept a new belief as real
- Learn how your brain's default mode network traps you in predictable patterns and what seven days of focused practice can do to rewire it
- Discover how advanced meditators are producing factors in their blood that stop cancer cells from multiplying and moving
- Explore the quantum field science behind how focused intention can influence healing in people who are not in the same room or even the same country
- Identify the one emotional shift required to move from survival mode into the kind of creative energy that makes transformation possible
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20 April 2026, 7:00 am - 1 hour 42 minutesWhy Your "Healthy" Foods Are Making You Sick | Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan cuts through nutrition confusion and exposes the uncomfortable truth: ultra processed foods now make up more than 60% of the American diet, and they're engineered to manipulate your body and brain.
Most foods you think are healthy, like plant-based burgers with 21 synthetic ingredients and diet sodas that trick your metabolism, are actually sabotaging your health and creating cravings that trap you in a cycle of poor eating. Your gut microbiome holds the key to everything from your weight to your mental health, and it's starving without the 30 different plants per week it needs to thrive.
By understanding how food companies exploit your evolutionary instincts for sweetness and fat, you can reclaim control and use Pollan's seven-word mantra to make choices that honor both pleasure and nutrition. The transformation begins when you stop lying to your body about what you're eating and start thinking of food as medicine rather than entertainment.
Michael’s books:
- This Is Your Mind on Plants
- How to Change Your Mind
- Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
- Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
- In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
- The Omnivore's Dilemma
- The Botany of Desire
In this episode you will:
- Identify the hidden ingredients in "healthy" foods that are actually toxic to your body
- Learn why diet sodas sabotage weight loss faster than regular soda
- Discover the 10 trillion organisms in your gut that control your mood and metabolism
- Master Michael Pollan's seven-word mantra for eating real food
- Understand how to retrain your appetite signals to stop overeating at every meal
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17 April 2026, 7:00 am - 1 hour 36 minutesWhy Your Past Doesn't Determine Your Future | Dan Martell
WARNING: This episode includes sensitive discussions that may be distressing for some listeners. If you or someone you know is struggling, support is available anytime by calling or texting the number 988.
Most people see Dan Martell's highlight reel: the private jet, the millions, the AI mastery. But they don't know about the angry, ashamed teenager who felt worthless and unlovable, who attempted suicide and spent time in jail.
In this episode, Lewis goes deep into Dan's journey from rock bottom to extraordinary success, unpacking the exact moment he decided not to take his own life and what shifted in his mind to make him believe he deserved love and greatness.
You'll discover that redemption isn't about forgetting your past, it's about extracting the lesson and becoming someone new. Dan shares his journey of transformation, explaining that his foundation is built on faith and how he moved from repeating errors to making new ones. He emphasizes the core principle that the pain one endures ultimately shapes the purpose they are meant to serve.
If you're stuck in shame or fighting to believe in yourself again, this conversation will prove that your past does not determine your future.
Dan’s books:
- Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire
- Software as a Science: Unlock Limitless Recurring Revenue Without Losing Control
In this episode you will:
- Understand the exact moment that pulled Dan back from suicide and gave him a reason to choose life
- Learn why making new mistakes instead of repeating old ones is the secret to actual growth and transformation
- Discover how to separate your identity from your past and stop believing the shame narrative you've been told
- Uncover the specific conversation with God that became the turning point in Dan's entire life trajectory
- Explore how vulnerability, faith, and the willingness to do the hard work on yourself unlocks the life you're actually meant to live
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15 April 2026, 7:00 am - 1 hour 15 minutesStart With Yourself: The Mindset That Built an Empire | Emma Grede
Emma Grede's most surprising confession is that she never saw her childhood in East London as a disadvantage.
While raising her younger sisters, skipping school, and watching Oprah to find her blueprint for life, she was quietly building the belief that she was more capable than anyone around her. That unshakable self-trust is the thread running through everything she has built, from Good American to SKIMS to the Obama Foundation board.
For anyone who has ever let fear, self-doubt, or the weight of other people's opinions keep them stuck, Emma's story is a direct challenge to reconsider what is actually holding you back.
This conversation will show you how to stop measuring yourself against everyone else's standards, put money at the center of your plan without shame, manage your emotions like a skill rather than a sentence, and build a life that is entirely your own design.
The Greatness Playbook: The Self-Led Success Edition
Emma’s book: Start With Yourself: A New Vision for Work & Life
In this episode you will:
- Discover how to reframe your hardest life experiences as the very thing that makes you exceptional rather than the thing that holds you back.
- Learn why putting money at the center of your goals is not greed but the clearest path to freedom, and how to stop apologizing for it.
- Understand the practical steps Emma used to manage anger and emotional reactivity starting at age nineteen, and how that discipline became one of her greatest competitive advantages.
- Break free from the trap of other people's opinions by building a personal scorecard rooted in your own values, not what the world expects of you.
- See how to think in seasons so you can go all in when it counts, protect what matters most, and make tradeoffs without guilt.
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