The Grateful Podcast with Jack Wagoner

The Grateful Podcast with Jack Wagoner

Your ambition is costing you something. This show is about getting it back. The Grateful Podcast is a top 2.5% global podcast hosted by Jack Wagoner, entrepreneur, TEDx speaker, and creator of The Duality of Gratitude and Ambition framework. Every week, Jack sits down with bestselling authors, founders, psychologists, and world-class performers to answer one question: how do you pursue everything you want without losing yourself in the process? Guests include David Meltzer (Chairman, Napoleon Hill Institute), Dan Millman (author, Way of the Peaceful Warrior), Hala Taha (CEO, YAP Media), Trey Tucker (licensed therapist, author of Tough Enough), Dr. Anne-Laure Le Cunff (neuroscientist, King's College London), Rabbi Manis Friedman, and 120+ more. New episodes weekly. jackwagoner.co

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May 9, 2026 55 mins

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Michael Phelps won 23 Olympic gold medals. According to Jim Murphy, he only deserves 2% of the credit. In this episode, the mental coach behind world #1s, Olympic gold medalists, and Super Bowl champions, the author whose book AJ Brown was reading on the Eagles sideline (sending it from #523,000 on Amazon to #1 overnight and to #1 on the New York Times list) breaks down why self-centeredness is the root of all fear,...

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You know exactly what to do. You have the reels, the podcasts, the frameworks, the morning routines. And you're still in the same place you were six months ago.

In this solo episode, I break down the knowing-doing gap, why the information age isn't accelerating your growth but widening the distance between who you are and who you want to be, and the three things that actually move someone from permanently m...

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Episode 130 with Jim Britt

Most people think motivation creates change. The man who coached Tony Robbins in his first years as a speaker says it doesn't. Jim Britt picked cotton at six years old, dropped out of high school, made one sale in 3,650 attempts, and stood in his kitchen with 15 cents, an eviction notice, and no way to feed his family. What happened next turned him...

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The Grateful Podcast with Jack Wagoner episode 129
Guesting  ⁨@solhyde⁩  

He made everyone proud. His parents. His friends. Everyone who told him that corporate consulting job was incredible. Then he sat in the chair and realized the only person he hadn't made proud was himself. 

Sol Hyde quit that job, moved to the other side of the world, and built a six-figure-per-month online coaching ...

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She's built companies worth over a billion dollars. She's been on the cover of Inc. Magazine. She was the youngest woman ever accepted into Y Combinator. And what she told me in this conversation is something she says most founders at her level are too scared to admit publicly.

Jess Mah has been quietly tracking the happiness scores of high-performing CEOs for over a decade, and the results are devastating....

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The Grateful Podcast with Jack Wagoner episode 127
Guesting Blaine Bartlett

He wrote a bucket list at 18 with 20 goals he had no idea how to achieve. By 24, every single one was done — without ever asking "how." 

Blaine Bartlett has spent 53 years studying how people actually succeed. He's coached executives across five continents, co-hosts Office Hours on Apple TV with David Mel...

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She was about to die and her first instinct was to check her calendar. Dr. Anne-Laure Le Cunff is a neuroscientist at King's College London, former Google executive, founder of Ness Labs, and bestselling author of Tiny Experiments. In this conversation we go deep on the hidden scripts running your decisions, why "find your purpose" is doing more harm than good, how your brain is designed to keep you s...

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If a picture is worth a thousand words, why do most leaders still rely on words alone to get their most important ideas across?

Todd Cherches is a TEDx speaker, three-time award-winning professor at NYU and Columbia, a member of Marshall Goldsmith's elite MG100 coaches, and the creator of the patented VisuaLeadership methodology. He spent a decade in Hollywood working at Disney, CBS, and Columbia Pictu...

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In a world where the masculinity crisis is top of mind, this conversation couldn't be more important.

Trey Tucker is a licensed therapist with over a million followers known as Rugged Counseling. He works with men who look successful on the outside but feel lost, numb, and quietly desperate on the inside. His new book, Tough Enough, is the first book ever written specifically for men in their 20s — and...

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He went to Wharton. He worked at Goldman Sachs. He was worth $35 million.

Then the 2008 crash took everything, and his bank told him to intentionally destroy his own credit before they'd even talk to him.

In this episode of The Grateful Podcast, Jack sits down with Stefan Whitwell – investment banker turned financial advisor, Zen monastery resident, and father of four — to talk about what happ...

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You're not lazy. You're not broken. You're lost.

And the reason you're lost is simpler than you think.

In this solo episode of The Grateful Podcast, Jack breaks down why so many young people — and even millionaire CEOs — still feel directionless. He shares the two approaches to finding what you want, why 95% of people don't have a clear written goal, and the visualisation e...

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The people everyone trusts
are often the ones burning out the fastest.

In episode 121 of The Grateful Podcast, Jack sits down with Leah Marone, psychotherapist, TEDx speaker, and author of The Serial Fixer, to explore why the most caring and emotionally intelligent people often feel the most drained, overwhelmed, and unseen.

Leah breaks down how “helping” can quietly turn into control, why step...

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The Grateful Podcast with Jack Wagoner
Episode 120

Every piece of self-improvement content you consume promises results.
Money. Health. Relationships.

But here’s the uncomfortable truth: most of it is keeping you stuck.

In this solo episode of The Grateful Podcast, Jack breaks down a pattern he’s noticed after interviewing 100+ high performers — the most successful people aren’t wi...

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Episode 119
Guesting Taz Higgs

Most people never stop to ask what they actually want.
They chase what they were told to want.

In this episode of The Grateful Podcast, Jack sits down with Taz Higgs, an 18-year-old entrepreneur and sales mentor, to unpack how inherited beliefs from school, family, and society quietly shape our decisions — and why so ...

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Most people don’t fail because they lack discipline.

They fail because they ignore themselves.

In this episode of The Grateful Podcast, Jack sits down with Paige Goldstein, founder of The Ripple Effect, to explore why intuition often speaks before logic—and what happens when you finally listen.

Paige shares the moment a somatic breathwork session in Cape Town made it undeniable that it was time to leave her dream corpo...

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He’s 10 years old.He’s already speaking on national stages.

And he refuses to dream smaller.


In this episode of The Grateful Podcast, I sit down with William Miller, the youngest guest in the show’s history. William has been speaking publicly since age 8, challenging adults, inspiring kids, and reminding us what bravery actually looks like.


We talk about:


  • Why age doe...
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Is your ambition actually hurting you? In this episode of The Grateful Podcast, Jack Wagoner breaks down the dangerous difference between being lazy and being fragmented.

Most ambitious people aren't lazy—they are simply putting their energy into too many places at...

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Dan Millman joins The Grateful Podcast to reveal the deeper truths behind The Way of the Peaceful Warrior. At 18, I’m the same age Dan was when his real journey with “Socrates” began—and this conversation bridges that gap in a way I’ve never heard before.

We dive into why you can’t control your feelings, why your actions shape your life far more than your thoughts, why young people feel so lost, the real me...

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This solo episode is the most important thing I’ve ever recorded.

Most people think gratitude is just writing three things down in a notebook… but that’s level one. And if you stop there, you never unlock the energy, identity, and direction you’re actually searching for.

In this episode, I break down the five levels of gratitude that rebuilt my life — from material gratitude, to emotional gratitude, to identity-based ...

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What if the reason you’re not great isn’t because you’re lazy — but because you’re too divided?


In this solo episode of The Grateful Podcast, Jack Wagoner reveals the most dangerous advice almost everyone follows without realizing it — the myth of “balance.” At 18 years old, Jack has built a global podcast, a clothing brand, and a philosophy around the duality of gratitude and ambition. But in this episode, he s...

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