The Grateful Podcast with Jack Wagoner

The Grateful Podcast with Jack Wagoner Episode 152 Richard Moore spent 23 years in sales before anyone knew his name. Ten years in the City of London, standing up, cold calling 100 businesses a day, not allowed to sit down. In this conversation he breaks down the thing nobody explains to you: how you manufacture leverage when you have zero proof, zero network, and zero reason for anyone to say yes. He also names the exact reason mo...

Episode 151 of The Grateful Podcast with Jack WagonerEvan Carmichael has 4.3 million subscribers, more than 8,000 videos, and a list of interviews that reads like a who's who of the last two decades. Ask him who he still wants to talk to and the answer is nobody. He says he wouldn't know what to ask. Twenty seconds later in this conversation he pulls out a camera, unprompted, and records a pitch on behalf of a 19-year-old he met th...

Episode 150 of The Grateful Podcast with Jack WagonerScott Clary hosts a Top 10 business podcast with over 100 million downloads. He's interviewed 700 founders. And he wrote publicly that advice is just other people's trauma dressed up as wisdom. So I asked him how he squares that with running an advice show every single week.His answer changed how I think about content, consumption, and the entire self-improvement industry my gene...

The Grateful Podcast with Jack Wagoner Episode 149 with John LeeJohn Lee built a property portfolio in London, wrote a bestselling book, and has amassed 6 million followers teaching people how money actually works. He says he was self-made by 27. What he does not usually lead with is how it happened: he sold his car for $15,000, kept $5,000, and handed the other $10,000 to a stranger for two days of his time.We go deep on the tomat...

The Grateful Podcast with Jack Wagoner Episode 148 with Bob BurgBob Burg co-wrote The Go-Giver, a parable that's sold over a million copiesand reshaped how a generation thinks about success. But before he wrote it,he spent decades noticing something most people miss: the most sustainablysuccessful people he's ever met all had one trait in common, and it isn'tthe one Hollywood taught you to expect.We go deep on why Jack didn't want ...

Amberly Lago was T-boned by an SUV on Ventura Boulevard. Thrown thirty feet. Femoral artery severed. Induced coma. She woke up to doctors telling her they had to amputate. She had a 1% chance to save the leg. She took it. 34 surgeries later, they saved it.

Today she's a USA Today bestselling author, TED speaker, Today Show and Doctors guest, and host of True Grit and Grace.

She wrote 90% of her first book in a spiral notebook. She d...

Nat Eliason left a decade of independent building to take his first job in over ten years. He is now running Founder School, a new private high school in New York City that promises every graduate a million dollar business, or the family gets their $600,000 tuition refunded in full. The refund pool is backed by a billionaire's personal capital, not insurance. If the model fails, he writes the check.We go deep on why grades don't ma...

You don't get to choose what you believe. That's the standard line on confidence, stated as law by the biggest podcast in this space. Markus Kaulius disagrees, and he's got a $170M company to back it up.

I sat down with him right after his daughter closed out a room of authors at Book Thinkers 2026. Markus built Magnum Nutraceuticals from nothing and wrote the USA Today bestseller Play a Bigger Game. He decided he was a confident ma...

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The CEO of the largest positivity community on the internet says you're doing gratitude wrong.

I sat down with Kristen Butler at BookThinkers Live. Over 50 million people follow her work, and she'll tell you the gratitude journal on your nightstand is not doing what you think it's doing. Not a list. A somatic practice that regulates your nervous system in three minutes.

We got into the two weeks she sp...

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Most people ask before they get a yes. The best ask after.

This weekend I recorded 23 podcast interviews in two days at Book Thinkers Live 2026, including Evan Carmichael, Kristen Butler, Marcus Kaulius, and Amberly Lago. I landed the live podcast at 19 because I broke a rule most people never think to break: I asked for more after the person had already said yes.

Nick, the CEO of BookThinkers, invited...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 motivated t...