The School of Greatness

Lil Jon is the award winning producer and global hype master known as the King of Crunk, behind the hits Yeah and Turn Down for What. Happiness follows a chosen mindset, because the energy a person puts out, whether gratitude or doubt, is what comes back. The conversation covers daily affirmations inside a copper pyramid, binaural beats, the meditation album Total Meditation with Kabir Sehgal, and his memoir I Only Shout So You Can Hear Me.

Tiffany Aliche is the author of Get Good With Money and a former preschool teacher. Shame shields solutions, so money problems grow in secrecy until someone says them out loud and asks for help. The conversation covers post-traumatic broke syndrome, corrective experiences, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, writing a plan for money before it arrives, The One Week Budget and The Budgetnista.

Robert Cialdini is a retired research psychologist who studied influence by training incognito in sales and fundraising programs. Persuasion works best when a communicator gives first and builds a shared sense of unity before making a request. The conversation covers reciprocity, social proof, scarcity, loss aversion, the unity principle, his books Influence and Pre-Suasion, the Gordon's Restaurant no-show study and Bose ad tests.

Vinh Giang is a communication and public speaking coach and former magician who wrote Before We Forget How to Connect. Communication is a set of temporary behaviors that can be changed, though habits repeated for decades become invisible to the speaker. Topics include his four pillars of voice, body, storytelling and listening, the Spark, Point, Link storytelling method, neutral ears, reviewing recorded video, and Toastmasters table topics.

Robert Greene is the author of The Law of the Sublime and was the first guest on The School of Greatness. The sublime is a feeling of awe that comes from seeing the world with new eyes, and a bond with something larger than the ego eases the misery that disconnection breeds. Topics include the death sublime, the false sublime versus the true sublime, panpsychism, Bruce Greyson’s near-death research, the Pamela Reynolds case and the Eleusinian Mysteries.

Lewis Howes, host of The School of Greatness and author of Make Money Easy, marks 2,000 episodes of the show with lessons on consistency and service. Greatness comes from using unique gifts to serve others, and showing up consistently matters more than feeling ready. Named touchpoints include The Mask of Masculinity, The Greatest Mindset, the Summit of Greatness, and his years on the USA National Team in team handball.

Yung Pueblo is the author of Journey: The Year That Changes Everything and a long-term daily meditator. Inner peace is the spaciousness to witness tension without letting it control reactions. Topics include Vipassana silent retreats, impermanence, the four elements framework from Journey, and a four stage process for designing a life through intention, action, consistency and letting go.

Lewis Howes, host of The School of Greatness and author of Make Money Easy, examines why unspoken expectations leave hardworking people feeling stuck and resentful. Releasing demands on timing and outcome while keeping the effort high makes room for good things to arrive. Topics include the silent contracts journaling exercise, the “Would you be willing to” ask, therapy at the start of a relationship, and the book Eight Dates.

Robin Sharma, author of The Everyday Hero Manifesto and The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, joins Lewis Howes on The School of Greatness. He argues that unhealed trauma forms a field of hurt that shapes daily behavior, and that healing it frees a person for service and personal mastery. The conversation covers the AFRA tool, the eight forms of wealth, the 5 AM Club protocol, journaling, meditation, and University College London research on habit formation.

Katt Williams is a stand-up comedian with 14 specials who also wrote a memoir about his life. Faith turns every obstacle into a chance to jump higher, and every rejection becomes useful feedback. The conversation covers his missionary years in Haiti, door-to-door sales, meeting Prince in Dayton, spiritual warfare, and his Netflix podcast According 2 Katt and his book Nine Lives, No Wives, and 69 Concubines.

Dr. Patric Gagne, author of Sociopath: A Memoir, is a diagnosed sociopath and therapist who wrote her doctoral dissertation on sociopathy. Limited access to emotion is not inherently evil, and secondary psychopathy can be treated through awareness and re-socialization. Topics include the Psychopathy Checklist, the DSM, primary versus secondary psychopathy, the Society for the Prevention of Disorders of Aggression and The Body Keeps the Score.

Dr. John Delony is a mental health expert and host of The Dr. John Delony Show on the Ramsey Network. He argues that anxiety works like a smoke alarm pointing to a real problem, and that addiction only muffles the alarm. With Lewis Howes on The School of Greatness, he discusses neuroception, values over beliefs, the antifragile life, seasons of work, The Body Keeps the Score, and his book Building a Non-Anxious Life.

Shi Heng Yi is a 35th generation Shaolin master and founder of the Shaolin Temple Europe, in conversation with Lewis Howes on The School of Greatness. He argues that people fail to manifest what they want because a hindrance cannot change until it is accepted. The episode covers the RAIN method (Recognize, Accept, Investigate, Non-identification), the five hindrances, Heaven, Man, Earth, yin and yang, gratefulness, focused cycles of practice, and shaolin.online.

Dr. Tara Narula is a board certified cardiologist and chief medical correspondent for ABC News. She argues that chronic stress damages the heart and that resilience is a learnable skill that protects it. Topics include takotsubo cardiomyopathy, Hans Selye's general adaptation syndrome, the Harvard Study of Adult Development, cognitive behavioral therapy, the Serenity Prayer, and the American Heart Association.

James Sexton is a divorce lawyer and the author of If You're in My Office, It's Already Too Late: A Divorce Lawyer's Guide to Staying Together. He tells Lewis Howes that marriage is a technology with tradeoffs, and that it erodes through small unaddressed disconnections around sex and money. They discuss Hit Send Now emails, Go Without or Go Elsewhere, prenups, joint and individual accounts, infidelity, and Mating in Captivity.

Brad Beeler, a US Secret Service agent for 25 years and polygraph examiner for 17, is the author of Tell Me Everything. He argues that people disclose the truth when an interviewer builds safety and curiosity, since body language is a poor lie detector. The conversation covers the Buddy framework, FEEL, the crime equation, horns and halos, tactical empathy, confirmation bias, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Terry Bradshaw is a Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers and a longtime host of Fox NFL Sunday. He argues that lasting change begins when a person accepts that the common factor in repeated failures is himself and speaks openly about depression. The conversation covers his memoir Looking for Terry, his ADD diagnosis after retirement, years of counseling, and a self-honesty exercise he calls mirror evaluation.

David Bach, author of The Latte Factor and The Automatic Millionaire, spent nine years at Morgan Stanley and co-founded a registered investment advisory firm. He argues with Lewis Howes that automated saving and long term ownership of stocks and real estate build wealth, while get rich quick thinking keeps people broke. The conversation covers Smart Women Finish Rich, the Rule of 72, Acorns, and Federal Reserve data on emergency savings.

Vanessa Van Edwards, behavioral researcher and founder of Science of People, is the author of Cues and Conversation. Conversation is a learnable skill, and moving past small talk through deeper levels of intimacy builds the connection that technology cannot supply. Topics include Dr. Dan McAdams' Three Levels of Connection, the Nine Power Questions, Dream Building versus Dream Killing, Conversational Confetti, the Candor corpus, and charisma as warmth plus competence.

Jo Koy, a stand-up comedian performing since 1989 and the winner of Showtime at the Apollo, talks with Lewis Howes about how repeated failure and rejection built the craft behind a career in comedy. The conversation covers his early days at BET's ComicView, Def Comedy Jam, and The Comedy Store, self funding a special after Netflix passed, selling out SoFi Stadium, plus a special co-produced with Martin Lawrence.