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Your Body Language Is Telling You You're Not Safe | Amy Cuddy Aug 28, 2026

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Your body is talking to your brain constantly, telling it either 'I'm safe' or 'I'm not safe.' The posture you default to when no one's watching might be the thing keeping you stuck.

Amy Cuddy, the social psychologist behind one of the most-watched TED Talks ever, sat down to unpack what actually builds confidence when the world feels unstable. She talks about the difference between faking it and becoming it, why imposter syndrome hits 75-85% of people, and why the bullies who came after her post-TED fame taught her more about personal power than the research ever did.

You'll hear about the exact breathing pattern she uses before high-stakes moments, the simple writing exercise that beats any pep talk, and why she thinks reframing anxiety as excitement changes everything. There's also a story about a nurse named Alex Wubbels who got thrown against a wall for doing the right thing, and what that taught Amy about the kind of bravery that has no glory attached to it.

This conversation will make you rethink every time you've shrunk yourself to avoid being noticed. Sit up straight, not for anyone else, but because you deserve the respect you keep giving away.

Bullied: The Culture of Cruelty and the Surprising Power of Social Bravery

Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges

In this episode you will:

Reclaim your sense of personal power using postural feedback and 4-7-8 breathing before high-stakes moments
Rewrite the self-doubt that keeps you silent by practicing self-affirmation theory rooted in your core values
Transform pre-performance anxiety into excitement using Alison Wood Brooks's reframing research
Discover why bumblers earn more trust than pointers when things go wrong in public
Overcome imposter syndrome by shifting focus from how you're judged to how you can serve others
Draw the line between confidence and arrogance so self-belief fuels you instead of blinding you

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The Real Root of ADHD Isn't Trauma, It's This | Dr. Sasha Hamdani Aug 26, 2026

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That feeling when a small comment ruins your entire day? There's actually a name for it, and it's not a character flaw.

Dr. Sasha Hamdani is a board certified psychiatrist and ADHD specialist who spent years thinking something was fundamentally wrong with her before she connected the dots between her emotions and her ability to function. She was diagnosed with ADHD in fourth grade but her parents never told her, calling her medication a “vitamin” until she found out by accident in medical school, mid breakdown, after a grade crash she couldn't explain.

In this conversation she breaks down why ADHD is genetic rather than trauma driven, why women are diagnosed on average at 35 instead of childhood, and why so many get handed antidepressant after antidepressant for the wrong diagnosis. She also opens up about rejection sensitive dysphoria, the moment her father's sudden death taught her that unregulated emotion can shut down your whole life, and the years she spent secretly dating her now husband while terrified of rejecting her family's expectations.

If you've ever felt like your emotions hijack your entire day, or you've been told to just calm down when your whole nervous system feels like it's on fire, this one will change how you see yourself.

Pre-Order Too Sensitive: Rejection, Resilience, and the Science of Feeling Deeply

Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You!

Dr. Hamdani Instagram

In this episode you will:

Distinguish real ADHD from anxiety, trauma, and depression so you stop cycling through the wrong diagnosis and medications
Uncover why women are diagnosed with ADHD nearly three decades later than men, and what that misdiagnosis actually costs
Recognize Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD) as a neurological response, not a character flaw, so you can finally make sense of overwhelming emotional pain
Replace well-meaning but harmful advice like “just calm down” with language that actually helps someone spiraling from rejection
Transform deep sensitivity into a genuine strength instead of a source of shame
Build emotional regulation habits early so grief, rejection, and stress stop hijacking your ability to function

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Why You Can't Manifest With an Old Identity | Jim Curtis Aug 24, 2026

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You can't manifest a new life while you're still living inside an old identity.

Transformational coach and hypnotherapist Jim Curtis has worked with entrepreneurs and public figures on the pattern behind their stuck points. He calls it release, align, become, a framework built to break the subconscious programming running your life.

It starts with forgiveness. Not the version where you forgive everyone else. The version where you look yourself in the mirror and say I'm sorry first.

Your subconscious can't build a life it doesn't believe you deserve. Chase the money or the relationship hard enough without changing the belief underneath it, and it finds a way to hand it back.

This episode gets into imposter syndrome in high achievers, the Three Gs of grounding, giving, and gratitude, and the exact prayer Jim uses to settle his own fear. You'll want a mirror by the end of it.

Pre-order Jim's New Book: The Book of Possibility

The Stimulati Experience: 9 Skills for Getting Past Pain, Setbacks, and Trauma to Ignite Health and Happiness

Jim's Website

Jim on Instagram

In this episode you will:

Learn the release, align, become framework Jim Curtis uses to help people rewire their identity and finally get unstuck
Discover why forgiving yourself first, using the Ho'oponopono prayer, can unlock what years of goal setting couldn't
Understand the Three Gs, grounding, giving, and gratitude, and why Jim says they're the real key to receiving wealth
Recognize the confidence gap and imposter syndrome that quietly runs even the most outwardly successful people
Explore how a hidden subconscious belief will sabotage your success until you release the identity behind it

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Raise Resilient Kids Without Punishment | Dr. Becky Kennedy Aug 21, 2026

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The reason your kid melts down over a puzzle has nothing to do with the puzzle. It's about whether they've ever been shown that frustration is survivable instead of something to run from.

Dr. Becky Kennedy, a clinical psychologist who spent years teaching parents the textbook model built on timeouts and sticker charts, once stopped mid-session with a paying couple and told them she no longer believed what she was teaching them. That moment of honesty became the seed of Good Inside.

She walks through the three lines she leans on with her own kids in almost any hard moment, starting with letting them know she's glad they came to her at all. It sounds small, but she says it might be the single most healing thing a parent can offer a kid who's struggling.

Boundaries come up too, and she reframes them completely. A boundary isn't a threat or a punishment, it's what lets a kid feel like someone calm is actually flying the plane, even while they're the one melting down in the back.

By the end you'll understand why she thinks punishment quietly teaches kids the opposite of what parents intend, and why she keeps coming back to one word above all: repair.

Good Inside website and app

Dr. Becky’s books:

One More Book!: A Good Inside Story About Bedtime

Leave Me Alone!: A Good Inside Story About Deeply Feeling Kids

That's My Truck!: A Good Inside Story About Hitting

Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

In this episode you will:

Learn why treating a child's identity as separate from their behavior is the foundation of raising a genuinely good kid, not a fear-based one
Discover the three lines Dr. Becky uses to defuse almost any hard moment with her kids
Understand why validating your kid's feelings alone isn't enough, and how boundaries keep those feelings from running the whole household
Break down what actually causes entitlement, and why rescuing kids from frustration too quickly backfires later in life
Practice the Same Team framework for handling conflict and misbehavior without turning it into a fight you have to win
Rebuild your own confidence as a parent by learning to validate yourself instead of chasing your child's approval

For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1970

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Why Willpower Never Actually Changes You | Peter Crone Aug 19, 2026

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There's one reason your new habits never stick, and it has nothing to do with willpower.

Peter Crone has spent decades coaching PGA Tour golfers, Major League Baseball athletes, and top executives on the subconscious wiring behind their results, and he breaks down why force can override a habit but never an identity.

He explains why most relationships start as attachment and codependency instead of real love, why hatred is a wound you carry inside yourself, and why the story you keep telling about your pain is the thing keeping you stuck in it.

You'll hear why the mind isn't the brain, why you can't heal from the same level of consciousness that created the problem, and why chasing certainty is the exact thing keeping you anxious.

This conversation will change how you see the parts of yourself you've spent your whole life trying to fix.

Peter on Instagram

Peter on Facebook

In this episode you will:

Discover why willpower fails to create lasting change and what actually shifts an identity
Learn the difference between force and true power, and why force always collapses on itself
Uncover how childhood conditioning quietly writes the script for your adult relationships
Understand why you can't heal from the same level of consciousness that created your pain
Break down what's really driving your need for certainty, and why it feeds your anxiety

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The 5-Phase Plan to Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheck | Anthony O’Neal Aug 17, 2026

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You could hand two people a million dollars and one of them would be broke again within a year. The other builds a legacy. The difference has nothing to do with luck.

Anthony O'Neal, author of Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheck, walks through the five phases that took him from borrowing money for car speakers to building a real estate portfolio he pays for in cash. He breaks down why 48% of people earning over $250,000 are still living check to check, and why your credit score might be lying to you about your actual wealth.

This conversation gets honest fast. You'll hear what it actually felt like to write a will in your 30s, why his family assumed something was wrong the moment he brought it up, and the real reason his bank account resets to zero every few months even now.

There's a moment near the end where Anthony explains the difference between being rich and being free, and it will change how you think about your next raise. You'll walk away with a completely different definition of what winning with money actually looks like.

AO on Instagram

AO on YouTube

Pre-Order AO's New Book: Stop Living Paycheck To Paycheck

Take Your Seat at the Table: Live an Authentic Life of Abundance, Wellness, and Freedom

Debt-Free Degree: The Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Your Kid Through College Without Student Loans

Destroy Your Student Loan Debt: The Step-by-Step Plan to Pay Off Your Student Loans Faster

The Graduate Survival Guide: 5 Mistakes You Can't Afford To Make In College

In this episode you will:

Discover the five-phase strategy for breaking the paycheck to paycheck cycle for good
Learn why your credit score can quietly work against you and what to check instead
Uncover the psychological reasons you overspend even when the money isn't there
Build a system for merging finances with a spouse without losing your freedom
Understand the real difference between looking wealthy and actually being wealthy

For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1968

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Why No Is More Powerful Than Yes | Chris Voss Aug 14, 2026

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You've been taught that YES means you won. Chris Voss says it's usually the moment you get played.

The former lead FBI international kidnapping negotiator built a career proving the opposite of what most of us believe about persuasion. NO isn't rejection. It's the moment the real conversation starts. YES, more often than not, is a counterfeit answer people give just to get you off the phone.

Voss is the founder of The Black Swan Group and the author of Never Split the Difference, and in this conversation he breaks down the exact language that turns a stuck negotiation into a done deal. You'll hear the calibrated questions he used to save hostages, and the same questions people are now using in boardrooms and car dealerships.

He also gets specific. What to say when someone dismisses your price. How to ask for an upgrade without ever demanding one. Why the words you choose in the first nine minutes of any conversation decide how the rest of it goes.

This one will change how you hear the word NO for the rest of your life.

Chris’ Books:

The Full Fee Agent

Empathy and Understanding In Business

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

In this episode you will:

Learn why a fast YES is usually a fake yes and how to spot it in real time
Discover the calibrated question format Chris used in real FBI hostage negotiations
Overcome the instinct to fear a NO and use it to move the conversation forward
Recognize the accusations audit and how naming objections before they're raised disarms them
Build a simple script for getting upgrades, discounts, and better deals anywhere

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Bruce Lipton: The Program Running 95% of Your Life Aug 12, 2026

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You've been running on a program installed before you could even talk, and you had no say in writing it.

Cell biologist and former medical school professor Bruce Lipton spent his career studying epigenetics and quantum biology, and he says your subconscious recorded almost everything about how to live before age seven. That program runs 95% of your day on autopilot, and you're the one person who can't see it while it's playing.

Stress hormones don't just make you anxious. They shut down your immune system and reroute blood away from your gut, which is why kids get sick right before exams and adults get sick the moment a hard season finally ends.

Quantum physics says the material world you're so sure of is an illusion, and once that clicks, the way you see your relationships, enemies included, changes completely.

Bruce lays out the myths keeping humanity trapped in a cycle of self-destruction and the honeymoon shift that rewired his entire life after 40 years of running the wrong program. This is the science behind changing your story for good.

BOOKS:

Pre-Order Beyond Darwin: How Epigenetics, Quantum Science, and Cooperation Shape Humanity's Future

The Biology of Belief

Spontaneous Evolution

Join Bruce Lipton’s Community for Conscious Evolution!

In this episode you will:

Learn why 95% of your day runs on subconscious autopilot and how that program got installed
Discover how stress hormones shut down your immune system without you ever noticing the trigger
Overcome the four cultural myths keeping humanity trapped in a cycle of self-destruction
Recognize how quantum physics reveals the material world as an illusion and what that means for your relationships
Build a new subconscious program using the same theta-state window that shaped you before age seven

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The Grief Expert Who Discovered a Sixth Stage | David Kessler Aug 10, 2026

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Your grief is not the thing keeping you stuck. Running from it is.

David Kessler spent years working alongside Elisabeth Kubler-Ross before everything he taught got tested against his own life, when his son died unexpectedly and the grief expert became the one who needed help.

He talks about sitting in a grief group with his own books on the table and still not being able to say the words out loud. About discovering there is a stage past acceptance, one built on meaning instead of just getting through it.

You will hear why anger is often just pain wearing a disguise, why your triggers are actually a map back to what needs healing, and why the people who seem to have it all together are usually the ones running the hardest.

This conversation will change how you think about every hard thing you have survived and every hard thing still ahead.

David’s books:

Finding Meaning: the Sixth Stage of Grief Workbook: Tools for Releasing Pain and Remembering with Love

Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief

You Can Heal Your Heart: Finding Peace After a Breakup, Divorce, or Death

Visions, Trips, and Crowded Rooms: Who and What You See Before You Die

Grief.com

David's Instagram

David's Facebook

Online Grief Group and Grief Education

In this episode you will:

Learn the sixth stage of grief that goes beyond acceptance and into real meaning
Discover why your triggers are actually a map to your deepest healing
Overcome the fear of speaking your pain out loud to the people who love you
Recognize the difference between grief and clinical depression
Build the courage to feel your feelings instead of outrunning them

For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1965

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Why Forced Positivity Is Making You Miserable | Susan David Aug 07, 2026

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Some feelings get labeled good. Others get labeled bad. That single belief might be running your entire life.

You'll hear why chasing happiness on command wears you down instead of building you up, and why the fastest path to resilience runs straight through the emotions you've been avoiding. Susan David, the psychologist and researcher behind the book Emotional Agility, has spent over two decades studying why some people bend under pressure and others don't.

She breaks down the difference between having an emotion and being owned by it, using a simple image you'll carry into your next hard day. You'll hear about the notebook she started writing in as a teenager that nobody else could read, and how her father answered the one question she couldn't stop asking him.

Susan and Lewis get into why negativity isn't always the enemy, how self bias quietly convinces you that other people were right about your limits, and what it actually takes to stop reacting and start responding.

You are not the feeling that showed up today. You are the whole sky it's passing through.

Get a copy of Susan's book: Emotional Agility

Susan on Instagram

Ted Talk: The gift and power of emotional courage

In this episode you will:

Learn why forced positivity and "good vibes only" culture quietly increases anxiety, depression, and burnout
Discover emotion granularity, the practice of naming what you actually feel instead of defaulting to broad labels like stressed or overwhelmed
Recognize the difference between being hooked by an emotion and simply having one
Overcome self-limiting beliefs rooted in self bias by reconnecting with your own values
Build real emotional agility by treating your emotions as data, not directives

For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1964

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