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
Episodes
Savio Joseph, Canada's Got Talent finalist, has built his entire career around one idea. The best hypnotist you know is already in your head. The words you say to yourself, the limits you accept before you ever try, the patterns you run without noticing. In this conversation, he walks me through how he sees that loop in other people, the auditions the world never saw before Canada's Got Talent, and what he had to un...
Barnet Bain produced What Dreams May Come with Robin Williams.
He wrote Jesus. He directed the Eckhart Tolle film Milton's Secret.
He co-wrote The Celestine Prophecy.
I asked him what was really driving forty years of making the most spiritually charged films in Hollywood.
He said: "You busted me."
This conversation goes places Barnet has not gone in any other interview. The fa...
The Grateful Podcast with Jack Wagoner episode 137
What if most of what you're doing to grow yourself isn't actually growing you?
Rich Diviney spent 20 years as a Navy SEAL commander. 13 deployments, 11 of them to Iraq and Afghanistan. He ran selection for one of the most elite SEAL commands in the world, deciding who was good enough to operate at the apex of human performance and who wasn't. He has wr...
The Grateful Podcast with Jack Wagoner
Most people think the person asking questions is the dumbest in the room. In this solo episode, Jack breaks down why the opposite is true, how he developed the skill of asking great questions through 130+ podcast episodes, and why curiosity might be the most underrated skill in business, relationships, and life.
We go deep on why curiosity peaks at age 4 and decli...
The Grateful Podcast with Jack Wagoner guesting Jay Yang
Episode 135
Jay Yang is 20 years old. He cold-emailed his way into Beehiiv at 16. Sent a 19-page deck to Noah Kagan at 17 and became Head of Content at AppSumo. Wrote a bestseller at 19. Today he's the youngest Written Media Strategist on Alex and Leila Hormozi's media team at Acquisition.com, where he helped run the $100M Money Models launch that br...
The Grateful Podcast with Jack Wagoner episode 134
Guesting Allison Brenner
She left therapy after a patient on the child unit took their own life. That moment sent her on a 25-year journey into the science of why people can't see themselves clearly, and what it actually costs them.
Allison Brenner is an IO psychology consultant, certified professional coach (PCC), and founder of InnerVue, a 360-deg...
Joe O'Connor pioneered the global 4-day work week movement. He's coached governments, Fortune 500s, and pilot programs across three continents. But in this conversation, he says something every founder, employee, and student needs to hear: the way we're thinking about AI in the workplace is broken, and most people are about to sleepwalk into the same mistake we made with digitalization 30 years ago.
We go dee...
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,...
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 motivated t...
The Grateful Podcast with Jack Wagoner
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 into...
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 coac...
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. We go dee...
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 Meltzer, and...
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 stuck, and the s...
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 Pictures bef...
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 ...
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 h...
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 exercise that chan...
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, w...
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...
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