The Perfect Summary Podcast
Every summary, narrated: the GIST of great conversations and books in minutes, so you can decide if you want the REST.
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Shawn Stevenson explains the five kinds of body fat, why calories are not the whole story, and how food shapes metabolism, mood and relationships.
Dr. Jason Fung argues type 2 diabetes is a reversible dietary disease and explains how he thinks about fasting, fruit, keto and longevity.
Pulitzer-winning poet Jericho Brown on shame, changing his name, healing from trauma, faith, vulnerability and surviving as an artist.
Seth Godin on choosing passion, shipping creative work on a schedule, refusing reassurance, and why creativity is a skill.
Robert Greene on recovering from a stroke, learning from failure, channeling anger into work, empathy as the top skill, and his next book.
Dr. Jason Fung argues obesity is about insulin, environment and constant eating, not willpower, and explains how to make fasting a habit.
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.
Zach King on practical-effects filmmaking, surviving the rise and fall of platforms, creative self-doubt, and why he and his wife foster children.
Terrence J on networking as an introvert, breaking the ice with anyone, dropping people-pleasing, and why staying successful is harder.
Holocaust survivor and psychologist Dr. Edith Eger on grief, rage, forgiveness, and freeing yourself from the prison in your own mind.
Therapist Lori Gottlieb on why we are unreliable narrators of our own lives, how shame keeps us stuck, and what makes relationships work.
Guy Raz shares what hundreds of founders taught him: absorb rejection, put mission before money, and treat failure as fuel.
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.
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…
Psychologist Kelly McGonigal on stress mindsets, why exercise reshapes the brain, gratitude as a social emotion, and willpower.
Harvard geneticist David Sinclair on age reversal in mice, fasting and autophagy, sugar and fruit, COVID-19 risk, and why he thinks aliens exist.
Sorinex co-founder Bert Sorin and Joe Rogan talk strength for fighters, Highland stones, bowhunting gear, near-fatal injuries and the 90% life.
Raekwon tells Joe Rogan how RZA united nine MCs into Wu-Tang Clan, the story behind C.R.E.A.M., and why 90s hip-hop still matters.
Psychologist Dr. Julie Smith shares practical tools for fear, overwhelm, self-criticism, comparison, anxiety and a life that has shrunk.
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.
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.
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.
Chris Lee's seven steps for breakdowns: accept, take responsibility, process emotion, forgive, recommit, act with support, celebrate.
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.
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.
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.
Mel Robbins shares four very different books that changed her life, from daily meditations to fantasy, and the backstories that make them matter.
Big Jay Oakerson and Joe Rogan riff on stand-up's evolution, reading the room, hecklers, Hollywood side gigs and street-fight bravado.
Exercise physiologist Dr. Stacy Sims explains why women aren't small men: eat before training, lift heavy, sprint briefly, and rethink cold plunges.
Cosmologist Brian Keating on how stargazing shaped time, why astrology fails, his near-Nobel retraction, and whether we are alone.