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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Charles Koch, at 85, on discovering his gift, self-actualization at work, raising kids with wealth, handling criticism, and why he keeps contributing.
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.
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.
Comedian Nikki Glaser opens up about feeling ugly since childhood, her fear of intimacy, cancel culture, and how meditation changed her life.
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.
Dr. Ramani answers listener questions on narcissistic partners, parents and adult children, and why strategy beats confrontation.
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 young Boston florist falls for a brilliant surgeon, then finds herself inside the pattern she grew up watching, just as her first love walks back into her life.
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.
In a world where career advice often sounds generic, intimidating, or completely out of touch with reality, this episode of The Mel Robbins Podcast delivers something radically different: data-driven strategies that are both empowering and immediately usable. Mel sits down with…
Sex educator Emily Nagoski uses the science of accelerators, brakes and context to show women that their sexuality is not broken, only theirs.
Retired FBI undercover agent Scott Payne recounts infiltrating the Outlaws biker club and the neo-Nazi group the Base, and the toll it took.
Mel Robbins shares four very different books that changed her life, from daily meditations to fantasy, and the backstories that make them matter.