The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes

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, mental health and literature—to inspire YOU to unlock your inner greatness and live your best life.

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Friday · 2 hr 15 min
How to Design a Life That Runs Without You | Rob Dyrdek
Rob Dyrdek, professional skateboarder turned MTV personality behind Rob & Big and Ridiculousness, and founder of the venture studio Dyrdek Machine, breaks down the Machine Method, his 80-page Rhythm of Existence life operating system, and exits including Superjacket Productions and Street League Skateboarding. He details daily guided manifestation in a Soma Dome, quantified life tracking, Dr. George Pratt, Ray Dalio, and the Do or Die Foundation.
Wednesday · 1 hr 42 min
The Neuroscience Behind Why You Can't Manifest What You Want | Dr. James Doty
Stanford neurosurgeon and neuroscientist Dr. James Doty, author of the New York Times bestseller Into the Magic Shop and his new book Mind Magic: The Neuroscience of Manifestation, joins Lewis Howes to explain the brain science of manifestation, covering the salience network, executive control network, value tagging, hedonic happiness versus true fulfillment, and how the parasympathetic nervous system drives compassion and self worth.
Monday · 2 hr 5 min
The Childhood Question That's Secretly Running Your Life | Aaron Doughty
Aaron Doughty, YouTube spiritual teacher with over 1 million subscribers and founder of the Shift Academy, joins Lewis Howes to unpack his SHIFT framework for identity transformation. Doughty discusses family constellation therapy, Dr. Mark Wolynn's book It Didn't Start With You, Psycho-Cybernetics, breathwork, the mother-father-child dynamic, and hypnotherapist Dolores Cannon's research on subconscious patterns and nervous system regulation.
July 24 · 1 hr 36 min
The Real Reason Stress Is Hurting You | Kelly McGonigal
Stanford University health psychologist Kelly McGonigal, author of The Willpower Instinct, The Upside of Stress, and The Joy of Movement, joins Lewis Howes to discuss the stress mindset effect, the biology of willpower, and depression recovery through exercise. McGonigal, founder of the Stanford Compassion Cultivation Training Program, also covers the pause and plan response, exercise induced endocannabinoids, and benevolent beliefs research.
July 22 · 1 hr 13 min
Fortune vs. Luck, and Why It Matters | Dr. Tina Seelig
Stanford professor, neuroscientist, and bestselling author Dr. Tina Seelig joins Lewis Howes to unpack the science behind luck, drawn from her book What I Wish I Knew About Luck: A Crash Course on Turning Aspirations into Achievements. Seelig, who also wrote What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20 and runs Stanford's Entrepreneurship Center, breaks down her Risk-O-Meter framework, the three-part model for catching luck, and the science of reframing failure, risk, and opportunity.
July 20 · 1 hr 11 min
Why Your Body Blocks You From Making More Money | Jamie Sea
Jamie Sea, entrepreneur, educator, and author who built an eight-figure company after walking away from two seven-figure businesses, joins Lewis Howes to unpack the Wealth Container framework, the five layers of visibility, loyalty, responsibility, ease, and identity that govern financial growth. The conversation covers nervous system regulation, subconscious rewiring, and Human Design as tools for receiving money without burnout or self-sabotage.
July 17 · 1 hr 35 min
The 3 AM Truth That Cost Him $14.5 Million | Matthew McConaughey
Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey, author of the memoir Greenlights and founder of the just keep livin foundation, joins Lewis Howes to discuss his 20-month departure from Hollywood, the goals he handwrote in 1992, and the spiritual reckoning he experienced during a solo trip through the Amazon.
July 15 · 1 hr 16 min
How to Turn Any Desire Into Reality | David Bayer
David Bayer, entrepreneur and author of A Changed Mind, joins Lewis Howes to unpack the Golden Equation, desire plus non-resistance equals desired result, along with the Two States of Being, the Core Program, and the Whole Human Framework, a twelve-step model for personal growth rooted in Alcoholics Anonymous. Bayer also details his Decision Matrix for rewiring limiting beliefs.
July 13 · 1 hr 20 min
The Real Enemy of Performance Is Fear | Dr. Mark McLaughlin
Neurosurgeon Dr. Mark McLaughlin, author of Cognitive Dominance: A Brain Surgeon's Quest to Outthink Fear, joins Lewis Howes to break down the IRIS protocol and the F.E.A.R. framework he uses to dismantle fear under pressure. Drawing on over 1,000 brain surgeries and 8,000 spine surgeries across 25 years, McLaughlin covers the four fear quadrants, self-esteem versus self-identity, and lessons from Iain McGilchrist, Paulo Coelho, and Joseph Campbell.
July 10 · 1 hr 24 min
Why Your Relationship Keeps Repeating the Same Pattern | Gary John Bishop
Gary John Bishop, Glasgow-born author of Love Unfucked: Getting Your Relationship Shit Together and a longtime speaker alongside figures like Tony Robbins and Arnold Schwarzenegger, joins Lewis Howes to discuss relationship breakdown, blame, childhood identity patterns, vulnerability, and the mindset shift that helped him build what he calls authentic wealth in his fifties
July 8 · 1 hr 15 min
The Fastest Way To Make $10,000 A Month | Chris Koerner
Chris Koerner, serial entrepreneur and host of The Koerner Office podcast, breaks down how to launch a business with no money, the barbell method for choosing what to build, Parkinson's Law, and the post and ghost strategy for beating fear of failure. Koerner also shares the story of his daughter's double lung transplant for pulmonary hypertension and the kidney he and his wife each donated to strangers.
July 6 · 53 min
The 5 Wealth Secrets No One Ever Taught You | Lewis Howes
Lewis Howes, host of The School of Greatness podcast and author of the book Make Money Easy, shares five wealth-building secrets on money mindset, the shift from active to leveraged income, multiple income streams, the proximity principle, and generosity as a wealth strategy. He cites the nonprofit Pencils of Promise, founder Adam Braun, and income categories including earned, investment, royalty, rental, and digital income, closing with a 30-day wealth-building challenge.
July 3 · 1 hr 3 min
The Untapped Potential Inside You | Colin O'Brady
Colin O'Brady -- world record holder for the Explorers Grand Slam (all Seven Summits plus both poles in 139 consecutive days) and first person to complete a solo, unsupported, unaided crossing of Antarctica (The Impossible First, approximately 1,000 miles in 54 days) -- discusses flow state training, Vipassana silent meditation retreats, and the daily mantra "you are strong, you are capable." He covers his recovery from severe burns in Thailand that doctors said would prevent him from walking, h
July 1 · 1 hr 24 min
Turn Your Pain Into Power, Not Poison | Sadhguru
Sadhguru, New York Times bestselling author of Karma: A Yogi's Guide to Crafting Your Destiny and Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy, joins Lewis Howes to reframe karma as memory and liberation rather than punishment, explain the yogic concept of vasana, argue that limited identity is the root of all crime, and teach the Shambhavi practice and Inner Engineering method for creating distance between you and your body and mind.
June 29 · 1 hr 17 min
The Hidden Part of You That's Blocking Everything You Want | Katie Clarke
Spiritual coach Katie Clarke explains shadow work, the process of making the unconscious conscious, detailing how unresolved childhood trauma creates shadow selves, protector parts including perfectionism, people-pleasing, and self-sabotage, and energetic frequency blocks to manifestation. Clarke introduces her Law of Displacement for belief rewiring, the Be-Do-Have order of creation from Genesis, the in-between phase of personal transformation, and masculine versus feminine energy polarity. Ref
June 26 · 1 hr 10 min
Break the Cycle of Toxic Love for Good | Sheleana Aiyana
Sheleana Aiyana, author of Becoming the One and founder of the Rising Woman community, joins Lewis Howes to discuss conscious relationships, attachment wounds, trauma bonding, and somatic healing. Drawing on Peter Levine's somatic experiencing and his book Waking the Tiger, Imago therapy from Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt, and Gottman Institute research, Aiyana covers nervous system regulation, inner child re-parenting, the father wound, and the shadow vows she created with her husband
June 24 · 1 hr 51 min
Why Kids Are Struggling More Than Ever (And How to Protect Yours) | Dr. Shefali
Dr. Shefali Tsabary, clinical psychologist and pioneer of the conscious parenting movement, returns for her third School of Greatness appearance to discuss her books Raising Conscious Daughters and Raising Conscious Sons. The conversation covers conscious parenting, parental emotional regulation, the seven pillars for raising girls (voice, embodiment, enoughness, boundaries, anti-fragility, sovereignty, sisterhood), male initiation, the manosphere, the youth mental health crisis, and the digital
June 22 · 53 min
Why Smart People Struggle to Manifest | Lewis Howes
Lewis Howes, three-time New York Times bestselling author and host of The School of Greatness, breaks down five mindset shifts blocking high achievers from manifesting their goals, citing frameworks and language from Dr. Joe Dispenza, Bob Proctor, Rhonda Byrne, and Price Pritchett's Quantum Leap framework, alongside his book The Greatness Mindset and a 30-day embodiment and alignment challenge.
June 19 · 1 hr 24 min
The Secret Skill of People Who Never Feel Lonely | Charles Duhigg
Charles Duhigg, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of The Power of Habit and Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection, joins Lewis Howes to explore the neuroscience of deep conversation. Topics include the Harvard Adult Happiness Study, neural entrainment, looping for understanding, the three conversation types (practical, emotional, and social), emotional reciprocity, bids for connection, motivational interviewing, the matching principle, and Verna Myers' wo
June 17 · 1 hr 6 min
Stop Living for What Others Think of You | Meg Josephson
Meg Josephson, licensed psychotherapist, certified meditation teacher, and New York Times bestselling author of Are You Mad At Me? How to Stop Focusing On What Others Think And Start Living For You, joins Lewis Howes to break down the psychology of people pleasing through the lens of the fawn response, a nervous system threat response alongside fight, flight, and freeze. Josephson explores her six people pleaser archetypes (peacekeeper, performer, perfectionist, chameleon, caretaker, lone wolf),

The School of Greatness

How to Design a Life That Runs Without You | Rob Dyrdek

The Neuroscience Behind Why You Can't Manifest What You Want | Dr. James Doty

The Childhood Question That's Secretly Running Your Life | Aaron Doughty

The Real Reason Stress Is Hurting You | Kelly McGonigal

Fortune vs. Luck, and Why It Matters | Dr. Tina Seelig

Why Your Body Blocks You From Making More Money | Jamie Sea

The 3 AM Truth That Cost Him $14.5 Million | Matthew McConaughey

How to Turn Any Desire Into Reality | David Bayer

The Real Enemy of Performance Is Fear | Dr. Mark McLaughlin

Why Your Relationship Keeps Repeating the Same Pattern | Gary John Bishop

The Fastest Way To Make $10,000 A Month | Chris Koerner

The 5 Wealth Secrets No One Ever Taught You | Lewis Howes

The Untapped Potential Inside You | Colin O'Brady

Turn Your Pain Into Power, Not Poison | Sadhguru

The Hidden Part of You That's Blocking Everything You Want | Katie Clarke

Break the Cycle of Toxic Love for Good | Sheleana Aiyana

Why Kids Are Struggling More Than Ever (And How to Protect Yours) | Dr. Shefali

Why Smart People Struggle to Manifest | Lewis Howes

The Secret Skill of People Who Never Feel Lonely | Charles Duhigg

Stop Living for What Others Think of You | Meg Josephson