The School of Greatness

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.

Lewis Howes, host of The School of Greatness, examines the fear of starting before the feeling of readiness arrives. The episode argues that preparation can become a sophisticated form of procrastination, and that confidence follows action rather than preceding it. Examples include his interview with Tony Robbins, a Kobe Bryant interview booked the night before, and the launch of The School of Greatness.

Jonathan Fields, author of Sparked: Discover Your Unique Imprint for Work That Makes You Come Alive and a former securities lawyer, talks with Lewis Howes about burnout and meaningful work. Each person carries a distinct impulse for effort that makes work feel alive, and aligning with it eases burnout. It covers the Sparketype framework, an Indeed report on burnout, Katie Milkman's behavior change research, and Katie Byron's The Work.

Lewis Howes, host of The School of Greatness and author of Make Money Easy: Create Financial Freedom and Live a Richer Life, lays out seven signs that wealth is close before any bank balance confirms it. The episode works through Myron Golden's four levels of value, why moving up levels beats working harder, the practice of measuring runway in months rather than income, and how Toastmasters built the communication skill behind it.