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Consciousness Beyond the Brain: What Nearly Dying Taught Me | Robert Greene Nov 02, 2026

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What if your consciousness was never locked inside your head in the first place?

Robert Greene, the best-selling author of The Law of the Sublime, sat down with Lewis for his sixth visit, eight years after a stroke nearly took his life. His wife saw his slurred words and drooping face, made him pull over, and called 911 about 30 seconds before he would have been brain dead.

He came back to a world that seemed to sparkle, and he spent seven years writing so you could feel that without having to die. He explains why a small child gives 90% of their attention to the world while most adults give 98% to themselves, and how that shift feeds anxiety and addiction.

One story stays with you: a woman in surgery, with no brain activity and her ears plugged, later described the drill and the Hotel California song playing in the room. Robert talks through near-death experience research and the old idea that awareness might run through everything, along with what his marriage taught him about letting the ego go quiet.

When this one ends, you'll want to step outside and look up at the sky. Then you'll look a little longer at the person you love.

The Law of the Sublime

The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy, and Human Nature

The Laws of Human Nature

Mastery

The 50th Law: Overcoming Adversity Through Fearlessness

The 33 Strategies of War

The Art of Seduction

The 48 Laws of Power

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In this episode you will:

Discover how Robert Greene’s near-fatal stroke taught him to see the world with new eyes
Rediscover the childhood sense of awe that adult routine and ego slowly bury
Learn The Law of the Sublime and the doors that open you to wonder
Spot the false sublime behind addiction and choose experiences that come from within
Strengthen your relationships by giving first and letting go of defensiveness
Face your own mortality in a way that brings urgency instead of fear

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What 2,000 Episodes Taught Me About Greatness and Consistency | Lewis Howes Oct 30, 2026

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Most of us were taught that if you want something badly enough, you have to chase it. After 2,000 episodes and 13 years without missing a week, Lewis Howes has learned the opposite, and it comes down to consistency. The life you want starts coming toward you when you keep showing up, serve other people and do the work on the inside.

In this solo milestone episode, Lewis looks back on the road from an iPhone in his living room to a show heard in more than 100 countries. He shares the four lessons 2,000 conversations taught him about building a life that pulls your dreams toward you. They cover consistency, service, knowing who you’re building for and the inner work that lets good things stay. It’s a journey that started with a first grader who wrote a poem about hating school and grew up to build a school of his own.

The dreams worth having don’t come from chasing harder. They come from who you become by showing up week after week.

Make Money Easy

The School of Greatness

The Greatness Mindset

The Mask of Masculinity

In this episode you will:

Learn why committing for years, not months, gives you the freedom to keep going when no one is listening yet
Discover why most people quit right before things start coming to them
See how serving others builds relationships that outlast ego and open doors you can’t open alone
Get clear on who you’re building for so the right people find you
Understand why inner work is what lets good things stay once they arrive
Hear how Lewis’s definition of greatness has changed over 2,000 conversations, and what he’s building toward next

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You Can't Buy Inner Peace, Here's How to Find It | Yung Pueblo Oct 28, 2026

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You can't buy inner peace, no matter how much money or success you pile up.

Yung Pueblo, an author who has meditated two hours every day for more than a decade and has finished a 60 day silent retreat, sat down with Lewis to talk about what inner peace feels like day to day. For him, it means having enough space in your mind to feel tension without letting it run your actions.

Meditation got tested first in his relationship. He and his wife Sarah spent six years in what he calls a hurricane of blame. They were on a break when he sat his first 10 day retreat, and two weeks later he proposed with the tiny ring his dad had once given his mom.

You'll hear why the lightning fast reaction you think is the real you is your past self defending itself, and why slowing down gives you a pause button. His book Journey: The Year That Changes Everything keeps coming back to that practice, along with lining up your values with your intuition.

The next time you're about to snap at someone you love, you might catch it a beat sooner and let it pass.

Pre-Order Journey: The Year That Changes Everything

How to Love Better: The Path to Deeper Connection Through Growth, Kindness, and Compassion

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The Way Forward

Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future

Clarity & Connection

Inward

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In this episode you will:

Learn the four-stage process for designing your life with intention and consistency
Stop chasing peace through money by seeing that your mindset defines it
Discover how Yung Pueblo’s daily meditation saved a relationship that was nearly over
Pause the lightning-fast reactions your past self uses to defend itself
Embrace impermanence so change stops feeling like a hurricane
Build self-awareness rooted in compassion instead of harsh self-judgment

For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1999

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Let Go of Expectations and Attract What You Desire | Lewis Howes Oct 26, 2026

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The thing you want most might be closer than you think, and the expectations you keep gripping could be what keeps pushing it away.

Lewis goes solo in this episode to walk through five expectations that block money, love and your peace. He starts with the silent contract so many hard workers carry: I did this, so I’m owed that.

He tells you about making zero dollars from his podcast for the first year, and about sleeping on his sister’s couch when a mentor told him, “Money comes to you when you’re ready for it.” He also explains why he asked his wife Martha to start therapy at the very beginning of their relationship, and how she answered, “That sounds exciting.”

You’ll hear why comparing your year one to someone else’s year ten will wreck your peace, and why a simple “Would you be willing to...” can fix relationships that silent hints keep breaking. There’s also the goal he has chased for eight years without hitting it, and what changed once he stopped demanding a timeline for it.

Afterward you may find yourself writing down your own silent contracts and checking the numbers less. You might ask someone for what you actually need, too, while you keep doing the work and keep your standard high.

Make Money Easy

The School of Greatness

The Greatness Mindset

The Mask of Masculinity

In this episode you will:

Run the silent contracts exercise to expose the hidden “I’m owed” thoughts ending relationships
Replace expectations with the “Would you be willing to” ask so people choose yes
Drop made-up timelines that make real progress still feel like falling behind
Track your daily effort instead of the numbers to escape comparison and resentment
Release neediness so the opportunities and people you want can finally find you

For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1998

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Heal Your Trauma or Stay at War With Yourself | Robin Sharma Oct 23, 2026

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The trauma you never healed is running your relationships and your work.

Robin Sharma, author of The Everyday Hero Manifesto, tells Lewis about the day ten years of his private journals vanished from a cupboard, along with every fear and heartbreak he had written in them. What he took from losing them was the ability to let go.

He walks through a tool he calls AFRA: the moment you get triggered, you find the feeling in your body and ask what old wound just woke up. "If it's hysterical, it's historical," he says. The bigger the overreaction, the bigger the thing that was already there.

Robin admits he used to be drawn to partners who created a crisis whenever things got peaceful, and he owns his part in that. He also passes on a divorce lawyer's test for a relationship: can you enjoy 10,000 dinners with this person?

You'll hear his eight forms of wealth, of which money is only one, and his five great hours rule for productivity.

The Wealth Money Can't Buy: The 8 Hidden Habits to Live Your Richest Life

The Everyday Hero Manifesto: Activate Your Positivity, Maximize Your Productivity, Serve The World

The 5AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life.

Little Black Book for Stunning Success+ Tools for Action Master

The Mastery Manual

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In this episode you will:

Discover why Robin Sharma says losing ten years of private journals taught him how to let go
Dissolve the field of hurt that keeps old emotional wounds running your daily behavior
Trade the chase for fame, fortune and applause (FFA) for joy, peace and freedom (JPF)
Make the leap from victim to hero by behaving your way into a new way of thinking
Recognize the seasons meant for rest and spiritual growth so self-doubt stops derailing you
Build a life of service that puts family and craft ahead of applause

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How to Know You’re on the Right Path | Katt Williams Oct 21, 2026

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What if the dark stretch you're in right now is proof your faith is about to pay off?

Katt Williams, a comedian with 14 stand-up specials, sat down with Lewis to talk about leaving home at 13 and the moment around age 20 when drug dealing could turn $100 into $700. He asked God for another way to make a living, and comedy showed up.

Door-to-door sales taught him that 300 no's buy 30 yeses, and he still tells a joke to himself 35 times in the mirror before any audience hears it. To him the crowd is never wrong, so every silence is feedback he can use.

His years as a teenage missionary in Haiti come up too, where he watched starving families choose joy and pride. His memoir, “Nine Lives, No Wives, and 69 Concubines,” lays out his whole life so you can decide for yourself whether any of it was luck. His new podcast, According 2 Katt, is on the way to Netflix.

You'll come away treating rejection as information and seeing every hurdle as a chance to jump higher.

Nine Lives, No Wives, and 69 Concubines

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In this episode you will:

Discover how Katt Williams walked away from a $700 drug hustle by asking God for another path
Treat every rejection as feedback so your self-worth never hinges on a yes
Trust that your darkest season has a limit before the light breaks through
Reframe obstacles like a hurdler who sees each one as a chance to jump higher
Welcome opposition as proof you are on the right path

For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1996

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What Sociopaths Really Feel | Dr. Patric Gagne Oct 19, 2026

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People with psychopathy still feel, just differently from everyone around them.

Dr. Patric Gagne, a diagnosed sociopath who went on to earn a doctorate and work as a therapist, sat down with Lewis and told the story she tells in Sociopath: A Memoir. As a kid she learned that saying “I don't care” out loud got her in trouble, so she lied, and lying made her feel safe.

She talks about the pressure she called a vice, which she relieved by breaking into homes just to sit in the quiet, and the first grade day she stabbed a classmate with a pencil. Then she explains why secondary psychopathy, which may touch 5% of people, is treatable when kids get caught early.

You will hear why a therapist who doesn't absorb your pain can be the best container for it, and why stopping someone from crying can stop the brain from healing. She also gets into the shame under people pleasing and narcissism, and the question she asks her own kids: how does it feel when you feel?

You may come away a little gentler with the people you never understood, and with the kid you used to be.

Sociopath: A Memoir

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The Society for the Prevention of Disorders of Aggression

In this episode you will:

Become a calm container for someone's pain without needing to empathize
Raise emotionally aware kids through boundaries, apologies and positive reinforcement instead of punishment
Learn why awareness is 80% of the work in changing destructive patterns
Discover why psychopaths can feel emotion and what actually separates them from everyone else
Spot the warning signs of sociopathy in dating, relationships and business partnerships
Break free from people pleasing by choosing honesty over curated, falsified emotions

For more information go tohttps://lewishowes.com/1995

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Your Anxiety Is a Smoke Alarm, Not a Broken Brain | Dr. John Delony Oct 16, 2026

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What if your anxiety is a smoke alarm, and your body is working perfectly?

Dr. John Delony, a mental health expert with two PhDs, sat down with Lewis and said the thing most of us dodge: if you are awake at 2:30 in the morning, something in your life is on fire. Numbing it with a drink or a screen is like duct taping a pillow over the alarm while the house burns around you.

Then he got personal. While he was writing Building a Non-Anxious Life, his wife walked into his basement gym and told him, “I'm watching my husband die,” and then, “John, we have enough.” His little girl would not hug him, and in counseling he could not put a fist to his chest and say “I love this guy.”

Back then he would have rated himself a zero out of ten on being enough. Now he says nine, and his daughter uses him as a jungle gym. He and Lewis also talk about why “me over us” hurts so many relationships and how paying off debt let him grieve a cousin without a single worry about money.

You'll finish this one wanting to put your phone down and ask what your own alarm has been trying to tell you about your marriage and your kids.

Building a Non-Anxious Life

Own Your Past Change Your Future: A Not-So-Complicated Approach to Relationships, Mental Health & Wellness

Redefining Anxiety: What It Is, What It Isn't, and How to Get Your Life Back

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In this episode you will:

Hear how Dr. John Delony went from 0/10 to 9/10 on believing he is enough
Use neuroception to understand why your kids pull away when you stop feeling safe to them
Discover why anxiety is a smoke alarm proving your body works perfectly, not a flaw to silence
Break the common male lie that your only value is your utility
Build an antifragile life where hard seasons bring grief without spiraling into anxiety
Replace rigid beliefs with shared values so your relationships choose us over me

For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1994

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The Ancient 4-Step Method to Clear Your Mind | Shaolin Master Shi Heng Yi Oct 14, 2026

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You keep making the same mistake because you haven't failed enough yet. That sounds harsh until you hear the reasoning, and then it feels like relief.

Shi Heng Yi, a 35th generation Shaolin master who has practiced kung fu since age four, sat down with Lewis and explained why manifestation stalls for most people. You can touch the hot plate five times and it still hurts, he says, and one day you simply stop. Lewis admits he touched it about 100 times across 15 to 20 years of relationships before he changed.

Then he gets practical. He walks through RAIN, his four step method for a restless or doubting mind: recognize it, accept it, investigate it, and stop identifying with it. He also teaches you to build a skill in focused cycles, 7 days for skin and 30 days for muscle, with more time the deeper the change goes.

The cup is the part that stays with you: you arrive empty, and then your parents and your teachers pour their ideas in until you are chasing a life that never came from you. His mindset advice is simple: learn to empty the cup.

You will finish this one wanting to pick a single skill to practice and asking which of your goals are actually yours. And you might sit with gratitude a little longer tonight.

Shaolin Spirit: The Way to Self-Mastery

Shi Heng Yi's Website

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In this episode you will:

Break the cycle of repeating the same painful mistakes before they cost you another decade
Learn Shi Heng Yi's RAIN method for moving through doubt, restlessness and other inner hindrances
Empty your cup of borrowed expectations so you can pursue a vision that is truly yours
Build lasting skills through focused cycles of practice matched to how deep the change goes
Cultivate gratefulness as a daily embodied practice instead of something you only talk about

For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1993

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How Stress Can Cause a Heart Attack (And How to Heal) | Dr. Tara Narula Oct 12, 2026

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Stress can give you a real heart attack even when your arteries are perfectly healthy. Doctors call it broken heart syndrome, and it can follow losing someone you love or even winning the lottery.

Dr. Tara Narula, a board certified cardiologist and chief medical correspondent for ABC News, sat down with Lewis and shared what her patients say when she asks how they are. Almost nobody mentions blood pressure. They tell her they are overwhelmed, and many of them cry.

She knows that fear from the inside. At 22, in medical school, she lost vision in part of her right eye and spent the first weeks reading every stumble as proof of something worse. A note card from her mom with the Serenity Prayer pulled her out of the spiral.

In The Healing Power of Resilience she lays out eight tools, and she walks Lewis through acceptance and flexible thinking, then makes the case for purpose and real social connection. She also explains why burnout is the final phase of chronic stress, and why a study across 52 countries found chronically stressed people are twice as likely to have a heart attack.

You will finish this one wanting to call a friend for coffee and start practicing resilience before you need it.

The Healing Power of Resilience: A New Prescription for Health and Well-Being

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In this episode you will:

Learn Dr. Tara Narula's eight resilience tools for turning a stress response into a resilient one
Discover how stress alone can trigger a real heart attack, even in people with perfectly healthy arteries
Recognize when your fight or flight dial is stuck on high before burnout makes you sick
Reframe a frightening diagnosis as a trauma you can accept and build a meaningful new life after
Build resilience before you need it, using the daily practices that help your body heal faster

For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/1992

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