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The School of Greatness · Jun 5, 2025 · 5 min read
Wim Hof: Master Your Breath to Live Happier & Defend Against Disease with ‘The Iceman’

In this electrifying and deeply personal episode of The School of Greatness, Dutch extreme athlete Wim Hof, famously known as The Iceman, returns to share the full power of his method—revealing how breathwork, cold exposure, mindset, and simplicity can unlock radical healing,…

The School of Greatness · Jun 5, 2025 · 12 min read
Create Financial Success, Develop PRINCIPLES & Understand Your Purpose with Ray Dalio

Ray Dalio on going broke in 1982, learning to welcome disagreement, the three big forces he sees at work, and basic money habits.

The School of Greatness · Jun 5, 2025 · 12 min read
A Guide to Financial Freedom & Your Highest Potential with One of the World's Richest People, Charles Koch

Charles Koch, at 85, on discovering his gift, self-actualization at work, raising kids with wealth, handling criticism, and why he keeps contributing.

The School of Greatness · Jun 5, 2025 · 14 min read
How to Upgrade Your Brain, Boost Metabolism, Maximize Hormones & Burn Body Fat with Shawn Stevenson

Shawn Stevenson explains the five kinds of body fat, why calories are not the whole story, and how food shapes metabolism, mood and relationships.

The School of Greatness · Jun 4, 2025 · 10 min read
How To Prevent Cancer With Your Food & Fasting with Jason Fung

Dr. Jason Fung argues type 2 diabetes is a reversible dietary disease and explains how he thinks about fasting, fruit, keto and longevity.

The School of Greatness · Jun 4, 2025 · 14 min read
Unlock Self-Confidence, Heal Trauma & Make Money as an Artist with Pulitzer Prize Winner Jericho Brown

Pulitzer-winning poet Jericho Brown on shame, changing his name, healing from trauma, faith, vulnerability and surviving as an artist.

The School of Greatness · Jun 4, 2025 · 12 min read
Habits of Success for Creatives, Artists & Entrepreneurs with Seth Godin

Seth Godin on choosing passion, shipping creative work on a schedule, refusing reassurance, and why creativity is a skill.

The School of Greatness · Jun 4, 2025 · 15 min read
Robert Greene: The Positive Side of Human MANIPULATION (The number 1 Skill for SUCCESS)

Robert Greene on recovering from a stroke, learning from failure, channeling anger into work, empathy as the top skill, and his next book.

The School of Greatness · Jun 4, 2025 · 11 min read
The Science of Intermittent Fasting (Foods To Live Longer & Reverse Type 2 Diabetes) with Jason Fung

Dr. Jason Fung argues obesity is about insulin, environment and constant eating, not willpower, and explains how to make fasting a habit.

The School of Greatness · Jun 3, 2025 · 12 min read
The Spiritual Guide to Inner Peace, Mastering Grief & Understanding God with Rob Bell

Rob Bell tells Lewis Howes how pain, curiosity and presence open us up, how to handle disagreement, and why the question of God is misframed.

The School of Greatness · Jun 3, 2025 · 12 min read
How to Connect with Presidents, Royalty & World-Class Celebrities with Terrence J

Terrence J on networking as an introvert, breaking the ice with anyone, dropping people-pleasing, and why staying successful is harder.

The School of Greatness · Jun 3, 2025 · 9 min read
Healing, Forgiveness & Finding Freedom with Holocaust Survivor Dr. Edith Eger

Holocaust survivor and psychologist Dr. Edith Eger on grief, rage, forgiveness, and freeing yourself from the prison in your own mind.

The School of Greatness · Jun 3, 2025 · 11 min read
Overcome Shame, Process Pain & Maximize Mental Health with Lori Gottlieb

Therapist Lori Gottlieb on why we are unreliable narrators of our own lives, how shame keeps us stuck, and what makes relationships work.

The School of Greatness · Jun 2, 2025 · 11 min read
An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Success with Guy Raz

Guy Raz shares what hundreds of founders taught him: absorb rejection, put mission before money, and treat failure as fuel.

The School of Greatness · Jun 2, 2025 · 11 min read
Pursuing Happiness with Ravi Patel

Actor Ravi Patel on why achievement left him tired at 40, how he and his wife learned to fight better, and what his travels taught him about happiness.

The School of Greatness · Jun 2, 2025 · 5 min read
Lessons on Greatness, Growth, and Healing with Kobe Bryant, Preethaji & More

This episode of The School of Greatness marks a powerful milestone—episode—and reflects on the most defining conversations from the podcast’s journey so far. Host Lewis Howes revisits transformative moments with guests like Kobe Bryant, Preethaji, Rob Bell, and Laverne Cox to…

The School of Greatness · Jun 2, 2025 · 12 min read
The Positive Side of Stress & the Science of Self-Control with Kelly McGonigal

Psychologist Kelly McGonigal on stress mindsets, why exercise reshapes the brain, gratitude as a social emotion, and willpower.

The School of Greatness · Jun 2, 2025 · 10 min read
How to Stop Aging (Can Humans Become Immortal?) with Dr. David Sinclair

Harvard geneticist David Sinclair on age reversal in mice, fasting and autophagy, sugar and fruit, COVID-19 risk, and why he thinks aliens exist.

The Joe Rogan Experience · May 21, 2025 · 10 min read
Bert Sorin on The Joe Rogan Experience

Sorinex co-founder Bert Sorin and Joe Rogan talk strength for fighters, Highland stones, bowhunting gear, near-fatal injuries and the 90% life.

The Mel Robbins Podcast · May 20, 2025 · 11 min read
If You’re Feeling Uncertain or Anxious, You Need to Hear This

Psychologist Dr. Julie Smith shares practical tools for fear, overwhelm, self-criticism, comparison, anxiety and a life that has shrunk.

Book summary · May 17, 2025 · 7 min read
The Let Them Theory

Mel Robbins argues that two words, Let Them, free you from managing other people, and two more, Let Me, put your energy back into the only thing you control: yourself.

Book summary · May 15, 2025 · 7 min read
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

A clinical psychologist's twelve blunt, oddly named rules for carrying responsibility, telling the truth and finding meaning in a life that will include suffering.

Book summary · May 15, 2025 · 7 min read
10x Is Easier Than 2x

A coach and a psychologist argue that a tenfold goal is simpler than doubling, because it forces you to drop the 80 percent of your work that cannot come along.

The School of Greatness · May 14, 2025 · 8 min read
The 7 Keys To Thriving After A Breakdown with Chris Lee

Chris Lee's seven steps for breakdowns: accept, take responsibility, process emotion, forgive, recommit, act with support, celebrate.

Book summary · May 12, 2025 · 8 min read
Can’t Hurt Me

A retired Navy SEAL and ultramarathon runner tells how he turned an abused, overweight, aimless young man into one of the toughest people alive, and hands over the mental tools he used.

Book summary · May 12, 2025 · 8 min read
Ikigai

What the centenarians of an Okinawan village can teach the rest of us about purpose, calm, food, friends and a reason to get up in the morning.

Book summary · May 12, 2025 · 8 min read
You Can Win

Shiv Khera's step-by-step case that success is learned: begin with attitude, then build self-esteem, people skills, habits, goals and values on top of it.

The Mel Robbins Podcast · May 10, 2025 · 11 min read
4 Books That Will Change Your Life

Mel Robbins shares four very different books that changed her life, from daily meditations to fantasy, and the backstories that make them matter.

The Mel Robbins Podcast · May 9, 2025 · 12 min read
The Body Reset: How Women Should Eat & Exercise for Health, Fat Loss, & Energy

Exercise physiologist Dr. Stacy Sims explains why women aren't small men: eat before training, lift heavy, sprint briefly, and rethink cold plunges.

Huberman Lab · May 9, 2025 · 15 min read
Charting the Architecture of the Universe & Human Life with Dr. Brian Keating

Cosmologist Brian Keating on how stargazing shaped time, why astrology fails, his near-Nobel retraction, and whether we are alone.