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Three shared meals a week can protect your kids’ health more than any diet plan you could buy.

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Shawn Stevenson, who has spent over 20 years in the health field, told Lewis that family meals work like a shield. In the research he shares, kids who ate with a parent just three times a week had lower rates of obesity and eating disorders.

Shawn grew up in Ferguson, Missouri, without ever seeing what health looked like. He spent years trying to change the wider cul...

What if every rejection was just someone telling you exactly what to fix?

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Comedian Katt Williams, who once sold door to door, told Lewis that sales taught him to collect nos on purpose. Knock on 900 doors, he figured, and 90 yeses will come.

The shift came when Katt decided a no only meant he hadn’t done a good enough job. Maybe it was how he stood, or the look on his face when the door opened.

He carries that into comedy. “The...

The best longevity foods might be the ones you keep walking past at the grocery store.

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Dr. Michael Greger, a physician who tracks the research on diet and life expectancy, told Lewis that beans and lentils are tied to the biggest lifespan gains in the Global Burden of Disease Study. His reason is your gut: the good bacteria live on fiber, and most of us are starving them.

Ounce for ounce, walnuts pull ahead of every other nut. Michael says a palmful, about 10 h...

What if guilt was never the thing keeping you good?

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Dr. Patric Gagne, a diagnosed sociopath, told Lewis she lives without shame or guilt. What keeps her in line is an internal code built on logic, and the amount of harm she chooses to do is zero.

She once stole from a cruel woman and handed the item to a stranger on the street. It felt so good that she saw the slippery slope right away.

Patric traces that urge to...

The story that you are a slow learner might be the only thing holding your brain back.

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Jim Kwik, who has spent two decades teaching people how to learn and remember, told Lewis about the head injury that left him feeling broken as a kid. It took him two extra years to learn to read, and by college he was ready to quit.

Then he pushed so hard he passed out in the library and woke up in the hospital two days later, d...

You don't have to wait until your fear is gone to start moving toward the life you want.

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Scott Barry Kaufman, the psychologist behind the sailboat model of human needs, told Lewis that Maslow never drew a pyramid at all. Scott sees your needs as one vessel: the boat keeps you afloat, and the sail is what moves you.

When you're short on safety, you start screaming for it, and that gap quickly drains your connection and self-esteem too. Scott calls it the...

Your anxiety might be the one part of you that is working perfectly.

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Dr. John Delony, a mental health expert, told Lewis that anxiety is a smoke alarm in your house. It can't tell you which room is burning. It just knows there is smoke.

If you carry six figures in student loans and a mortgage, your body would be failing you if it let you sleep all night. Waking at 2:30 in the morning means it is doing its job.

Numbing...

The richest person you know might have almost nothing, as long as they wake up full of gratitude for it.

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Tony Robbins, the life and business strategist, told Lewis that billionaire investor Sir John Templeton once gave him the secret to wealth in one word: gratitude. A billion dollars lived pissed off and frustrated is still a pissed off, frustrated life.

Tony was broke and working 18 hour days when he pulled over on a California freeway near midnight. He wrote in his journal, “the...

What if the purpose you are chasing was never yours to begin with?

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Shi Heng Yi, a Shaolin master, told Lewis that it can go very wrong to spend your lifetime building a vision that came from someone else.

He named the worst case plainly: you follow it, you achieve it, and then you realize it doesn't give you what you were looking for. What he offers instead is gentle. Learn how to deal with failure, and learn to accept the way you...

The money you want might be waiting behind a belief about deserving it that you never chose.

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Rhonda Byrne, creator of The Secret, told Lewis she once opened bills with her stomach dropping to her knees. She had mortgaged her own home to make the film, and the debt was piling up everywhere else too.

So she started to play. Rhonda pretended each bill was a check, then added zeros until $1,200 became $150,000. When she paid, she pictured the money as a donation that f...

Your stress response was built to save your life, and you might be leaving it switched on all day.

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Dr. Tara Narula, a cardiologist, told Lewis that stress may be the biggest health threat we face, even on its own.

Tara pictures people walking around with the dial stuck at 10 over a bad phone call or a fight with a coworker. That system was made for escaping a predator, so the body keeps pushing back until it simply burns out.

Her...

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Alex Honnold recounts that though he has witnessed tragic climbing accidents and the sobering fragility of life while pushing extremes, staying open to loss and grief is essential, as going numb leads people to underestimate risks and make poor choices. He notes while the emotional stakes differ, the fear of failure in competitive arenas can subjectively feel as intense as mortal danger depending on one's psyche and neuroses. Honnold believes managing fear and persevering through discomfort are skills climbing specifically hones, yielding some of life's most potent l...

The fear you keep running from could become your superpower, starting with one speech you read without looking up.

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Lewis Howes, host of The School of Greatness and author of The Mask of Masculinity, talks straight to you in this solo episode. He remembers being so nervous before speaking to 20 people that he read his first speech word for word and never looked up once.

Years later he faced a much bigger fear: telling his podcast audience about the sexual abuse he lived...

The best marriage advice might come from the people who stayed married, and from the ones who didn't.

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James Sexton, a divorce lawyer, told Lewis that everyone should spend an hour with someone like him before the wedding. As he puts it, in marriage, there's no way to know if you're doing well at it.

Is a fight every week a lot? Nobody can say, because we post the best vacation photos and keep our real daily lives to ourselves.

James...

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Erwin McManus delves into the shadows that haunt him and the constant struggle to overcome the fear of not living up to his full potential. McManus emphasizes the importance of living a life of intention rather than obligation, recounting his personal journey as a Christian pastor who also pursues unconventional passions like fashion design. He shares the liberating realization that his inner voice, advocating for intentional living, holds more p...

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Brad Beeler spent 25 years in the Secret Service getting people to admit the worst things they've ever done. His top communication tip: be interested more than you try to be interesting.

A nervous suspect sits at 120 or 130 beats a minute, deep in fight or flight. Beeler wants that heart rate down before he asks anything hard.

So he bought one suspect Wendy's and a Frosty...

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Charles Duhigg highlights research showing social connections, not prestige or wealth, most determine happiness and longevity, with double the close friends equating to 20 more years; he argues combating isolation begins with conversation skills, which historically were taught but now are overlooked, causing uncertainty. Duhigg defines "supercommunicators" as those who make us feel heard and valued, a learnable skill not innate charisma, just as babies babble to master language; by d...

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Terry Bradshaw did not shed a tear when his mother died. It still bothers him.

Then his dog James died. Bradshaw carried the casket from the vet to the back seat of his car and bawled uncontrollably.

He built his mother a house and bought her a Mercedes. She still asked why he never called and told him to stop traveling so much.

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Wim Hof explains how plunging into icy waters showed him the power of conscious breathing to regulate body chemistry and adapt to stress. He advises that by training ourselves to breathe deeply, we can withstand heat, cold, grief - any extreme situation life throws at us. Hof wants to demystify human limits, show how adapting brain connections expands consciousness and perception. If we consciously connect neurological channels, he believes s...

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Andy Puddicombe spent years as a monk, certain he'd given up the dream of ever having a child.

Then he landed in America and found out overnight he had testicular cancer. Advanced, aggressive, surgery in four days.

The doctor told him if he wanted kids, he had three or four days to get to the sperm bank.

Next came the scans. Had it spread? Had...

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David Bach heard a CNBC guest say renting in Brooklyn and investing the difference beats owning. He thinks that math is wrong.

Put $20,000 down on a $100,000 home. It grows 10% and you just made $10,000 on $20,000. That's a 50% return.

Then the tax piece. Sell your own home after two years and the first $250,000 of profit is tax free. Married, it's $500,000.

Bach has done it with...

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Rich Paul, a prominent sports agent, reflects on his journey from playing multiple roles, including stylist and jeweler, to becoming a powerful figure in the sports industry. He emphasizes the importance of relationships, hustle, and adaptability. Paul shares valuable lessons, highlighting the business aspect of sports and the need for a long-term mindset. He discusses the observer's paradox, the value of consistency, and the significance of evolving, managing transitions, a...

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“Been busy?” is the worst question you can ask anyone. Vanessa Van Edwards says it sends the other person's brain hunting for negativity.

They either list how exhausted they are or admit nothing is going on. No win.

“What do you do?” comes second. Everyone has answered it so many times the brain stays on autopilot.

Her fix when someone asks you: start with a c...

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Mark Manson explores the dynamics of long-term relationships, emphasizing the importance of alignment on key values while acknowledging the natural evolution of individuals over time. Mark delves into the challenges that arise when partners diverge in their beliefs around money, religion, and family, suggesting that surviving misalignment on one but not all of these issues is possible. He also shares personal experiences of intentional evolution within his own marriage, c...

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Jo Koy used to stand in the shower and pretend he was winning the Apollo. Full self-introduction, no jokes written. Just the intro.

His first real set: 18 years old, lied and said he was 21, drew a mustache on with his mom's eyeliner, wore a borrowed suit into a bar on Eastern and Tropicana.

He did nothing but sex jokes. Dead room. Then cottonmouth hit and...

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Cedric the Entertainer shares valuable insights into his mindset shift throughout his career, from his early days in St. Louis to his current success. Cedric emphasizes the importance of humility, hard work, and the constant need to earn success, debunking the idea of entitlement. He reflects on moments of self-awareness during periods of fame and how he navigates the changing landscape of comedy, expressing admiration for the unique talents o...

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Jonathan Fields told Lewis Howes that when everything finally lines up, career, relationships, the whole thing, that's exactly when the old patterns come back to burn it down.

His answer wasn't more willpower. It was scaffolding. Inner practices plus an environment engineered so the right action happens by default, before you've spent a single unit of cognitive bandwidth deciding.

Fields has done a breathing and...

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Dr. Ellen Langer's decades of research shows our mindsets directly impact physiology, evidenced by her landmark study where elderly men regained youthful strength and cognition simply by living one week as their younger selves. She posits we must challenge the harmful tendency to cling to absolutes since external realities are constantly changing, so mindful awareness of novelty is key to wellbeing. Dr. Langer stresses that psychology, not just biology, w...

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Lewis Howes says you will never become the thing you speak badly about. Your nervous system won't let you turn into the person you just insulted.

Lewis admits he used to get jealous and insecure when someone got ahead of him. Swirling in comparison and not enough-ness. That energy went nowhere.

The shift: someone ahead of you shows up and the first thing out of...

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Pastor Michael Todd stresses that counseling helps release and heal trauma, yet too many avoid it; just verbally airing feelings to a safe person starts positive change. He finds successful leaders lose self-awareness as they rise, so must proactively self-evaluate despite external praise. Todd believes rest is a powerful weapon - facing fear of losing progress, leaders should set enough goals then purposefully rest to tap the best ideas. H...

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Codie Sanchez spent 16 years grinding to keep up with people she says she doesn't even like.

Her line that stopped me: most of the people giving you business advice online were miserable long before success, and still kind of miserable after it. So why take their map?

Sanchez points at Jeff Bezos puttering in the morning. Tim Cook working out for his first hour, back...

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Yung Pueblo advises choosing a partner who amplifies your power and helps you shine brighter together through complementary strengths. He would tell his younger self to start meditating sooner for the self-awareness to communicate lovingly, receive openly, understand each other's pain. Pueblo suggests knowing your respective strengths so you can lead or support appropriately in different situations. To assess a potential partner, he would ask about their relationship with e...

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Leila Hormozi didn't believe she could make money. Not doubted. Flatly did not believe it.

Then at 21 she closed a $1,300 personal training package. Words out of her mouth, money in her hand. She thought: I never have to worry again.

That belief had to be re-earned at every level. $1,300, then $20,000, then $50,000. Each time she assumed she couldn't until she had.

Her rule, borrowed...

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Cal Newport tracked down the development lead for the first iPhone. Nothing about the tech ever required you to look at it constantly.

Steve Jobs was a minimalist. A beautiful object you pulled out to play a song, call your mom, find an address.

Then the Facebook IPO hit and the apps needed revenue. They re-engineered everything around likes, retweets, photo auto tags.

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Rob Dial advises living life on the front foot by proactively planning each morning to build momentum, avoiding starting reactive and behind. He suggests small wins like waking on time, making your bed, preparing gear for a workout generate positivity to power bigger goals. Dial notes that like money, self-love is an inside job - no achievement or bank account alone changes core feelings about yourself. To him, easing d...

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Dr. Kim Foster says you can decide to be a different person in a single moment. The part that takes time is convincing your own brain.

You look in the mirror and say “I'm very confident,” and your mind goes: “Interesting. Based on what?” That's why grandiose affirmations collapse.

Foster's fix is a bridge identity. Not “I'm a social butterfly,” but “I'm someone who can start a conver...

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Shawn Stevenson explains that by focusing on adequate protein intake, we prompt more calorie burning because protein digestion utilizes the most energy. He advises against isolating macros, saying we evolved eating whole foods not calories; real ingredients build better tissues and gene expression. Stevenson notes calorie counts are rough estimates, not precise lab measurements, so quality matters more than quantity for metabolic health. Though calories can loosely guide appropriate i...

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Lewis Howes was in his early 20s making a couple hundred bucks a week when he begged a guy earning multiple six figures to sit down with him at a Starbucks in Columbus, Ohio.

He asked for the secret to money. The guy asked him what he was most afraid of.

Public speaking. Lewis couldn't get through five people without stuttering and stumbling.

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The Glucose Goddess believes the key to balancing health with enjoying sugary treats is understanding how our physiology interacts with different foods, not extreme restriction, since deprivation inevitably fails. She advises maximizing pleasure while minimizing blood sugar crashes and inflammation by only having sweets after a full meal, never on an empty stomach, as spiking glucose then crashing causes addictive cravings. Knowing how to indulge smartly, like saving sweet b...