The School of Greatness

The School of Greatness

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.

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December 22, 2025 119 mins

This conversation hits close to home. Christian Howes is Lewis's brother, and Lewis has shared many times what it was like visiting him behind bars as a young man, watching someone he loved trapped in a system designed to break people. Now Christian sits alongside Shaka Senghor, who spent 19 years in prison, including 7 in solitary confinement, to reveal a truth that will shake you: most people walking free are more imprisoned than...

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Matthew Hussey reveals the hidden patterns keeping you stuck in unfulfilling relationships. He exposes why trying to impress someone on a first date actually pushes connection away and how most people unknowingly attract partners who mirror their deepest insecurities. You'll discover why being truly vulnerable means something completely different than what you think, and how showing your authentic self, quirks and all, is the only ...

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I'm breaking down why most people visualize for two minutes, hope for a miracle, and wonder why nothing changes in their lives. I'm sharing the exact three-step process that pulled me from sleeping on my sister's couch, broke and directionless, to building a thriving business and podcast empire. The secret isn't more visualization or positive thinking. It's about becoming someone who naturally attracts what you want through clarity...

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Jim Curtis spent 20 years believing he deserved his chronic pain, never realizing that a childhood program was running his entire life from the shadows. That hidden belief kept him successful in business while destroying his relationships, his health, and his connection to himself. If you have ever felt stuck, unworthy, or trapped in patterns you cannot seem to escape, this episode reveals exactly why your subconscious mind is wait...

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Price Pritchett reveals that 10x growth can be just as difficult as 10% improvement, challenging everything you believe about achievement. You've been taught that success requires grinding harder, following the same path with more intensity, but that's exactly what keeps you stuck. The real breakthrough comes when you stop being the fly pounding against the window and turn around to see the open door ten feet away. You'll learn why...

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I'm opening with my most vulnerable truth: the problem wasn't the money, it was the mindset that creates money. I'm revealing five transformational shifts I learned from the world's greatest financial thinkers, shifts that helped me go from broke on a couch to building extraordinary wealth with peace and fulfillment. You'll discover why most people are still carrying the financial beliefs they learned as kids, and how those old mon...

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Dr. Daniel Amen reveals that most chronic pain isn't just in your back, knee, or neck - it's in your brain. He explains the doom loop, a vicious cycle where pain triggers suffering, which activates automatic negative thoughts, creating physical tension that leads to harmful coping habits and more pain. Through scanning over 300,000 brains from 155 countries, he's proven that healing your brain can eliminate pain that's haunted you ...

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Jen Sincero shares the moment she realized her biggest money block was believing financial success would hurt her father, the one person who showed love by slipping her twenties. You'll discover why your thoughts about money are keeping you broke even when you're working hard, and how changing your internal conversation from “I can't afford it” to “money flows to me easily and freely” can reshape your entire reality. Jen breaks dow...

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Dr. Ramani Durvasula reveals the shocking truth that one in five people you know may be narcissistic, explaining why this personality pattern has exploded with the rise of social media and reality TV. She shares how narcissistic relationships follow a predictable cycle of love bombing, devaluation, and discarding that leaves survivors confused and blaming themselves. Through raw personal stories and decades of clinical research, sh...

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Dr. Joe Dispenza was told he'd never walk again after a truck ran over him during a triathlon, shattering six vertebrae in his spine. Instead of accepting the prognosis and undergoing dangerous surgery, he made a radical choice to heal himself through the power of his mind, spending hours each day reconstructing his spine in his imagination and connecting to an invisible intelligence within. Ten and a half weeks later, he was back ...

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Dr. Michael Greger reveals that the number one cause of death in America isn't cancer or heart disease alone, it's our diet, which kills more people than cigarette smoking every year. His grandmother was given a medical death sentence at 65, confined to a wheelchair with end stage heart disease, yet she lived another 31 years to age 96 simply by changing what she ate. This personal transformation inspired him to abandon traditional...

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I'm opening up about a painful truth I learned the hard way: the more you try to please everyone, the less people actually respect you. I'll share a vulnerable childhood memory of literally paying kids five dollars just to hang out with me, and how that wound shaped decades of people-pleasing behavior that drained my energy and fractured my sense of self. Through five powerful strategies, I'll walk you through the exact process I u...

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Scott Galloway doesn't hold back about the crisis facing young men today. Four times more likely to die by suicide, three times more likely to be addicted or homeless, 12 times more likely to be incarcerated. While women's ascent has been remarkable and necessary, society stopped asking what happens when an entire generation of men loses access to the traditional pathways that once helped them become providers, protectors, and part...

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Bruce Lipton drops a truth bomb that will shake your entire understanding of reality: you are not living your life, you're living a program installed by your parents before you could even tie your shoes. For the first 40-plus years of his life, Bruce struggled with relationships, depression, and feeling like a victim until he discovered the science behind why we stay stuck. His research in cellular biology revealed that our cells d...

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Former Secret Service agent Evy Poumpouras spent over 12 years protecting Presidents Obama, Bush, and Clinton while mastering the art of reading people under life or death pressure. Her insight into human behavior goes beyond what most of us will ever need, but the principles she shares apply to every conversation, negotiation, and relationship you have. She reveals why most people fail at reading others because they're looking for...

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Esther Perel reveals why modern relationships demand more from us than any generation in history, and why that's actually a gift. Growing up as the child of Holocaust survivors taught her that nothing is permanent, and that dread shaped her life's work around helping people create meaningful connections. She explains why women get bored with monogamy faster than men, why desire dies when you stop taking risks, and why the very thin...

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Dr. Ellen Langer has spent 45 years proving something most doctors still resist: your thoughts don't just influence your health, they are your health. In her groundbreaking counterclockwise study, elderly men lived as their younger selves for one week with zero medical intervention and emerged with improved vision, hearing, strength, and even looked noticeably younger. She's discovered that chambermaids lost weight simply by viewin...

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Dr. Gabor Maté reveals a truth most people never hear: the abuse itself isn't always your deepest wound. He challenges everything you've been told about healing, explaining how the real trauma often comes from the people who should have protected you but couldn't. Through deeply personal stories including Lewis's own journey with sexual abuse, Gabor shows why shame keeps us trapped and how our nervous system's freeze response was a...

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Rhonda Byrne shares what she's learned in the two decades since The Secret became a global phenomenon. She opens up about the night she collapsed in despair, $2 million in debt, and how one book changed everything in 90 minutes. The conversation goes deep into why trying too hard actually blocks your abundance, how judgment undoes everything you're building, and why gratitude is the fastest way to change your entire day. Rhonda rev...

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Rick Rubin reveals something most nine-time Grammy winners would never admit: he walks into every new project terrified because he has no control over what will happen. This vulnerability, paired with an unshakeable commitment to making art as a devotional act, has guided collaborations with everyone from Johnny Cash to the Red Hot Chili Peppers. You'll hear how Rick lost 135 pounds by surrendering control, why he believes wrestlin...

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