The School of Greatness

You can save a million dollars and still feel broke if the fear behind your money never got the message that you're safe.
Tiffany Aliche, a former preschool teacher who built The Budgetnista and wrote Get Good With Money, sat down with Lewis to tell how a friend she calls “Jake the thief” talked her into $35,000 in credit card cash advances. The recession took her teaching job soon after, and at 30 she was almost $300,000 in debt and back in her middle school bed.
Her first year in business grossed $8,000. Years later she brought in $10 million in a single year and felt worse than ever. A nurse took her blood pressure twice while she kept typing on her laptop in the exam room.
She calls it post-traumatic broke syndrome. With Lewis she gets into how shame keeps your debt hidden and why she named her older self Wanda, the woman she budgets for today.
Then her husband had a terrible headache on a Monday and was gone by Friday. What came after is something her therapist calls “the gift of grief.”
Made Whole: The Practical Guide to Reaching Your Financial Goals
Get Good with Money: Ten Simple Steps to Becoming Financially Whole
Live Richer Challenge: Homebuying Edition: Learn how to how to prepare for, finance and purchase your home in 22 days.
Live Richer Challenge: Savings Edition: Learn how to save your money and make more money in 22 days!
Get Good With Money Quiz
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In this episode you will:
Break free from post-traumatic broke syndrome, the fear that keeps you hoarding cash while life passes by
Discover how Tiffany Aliche climbed out of $300,000 in debt after losing her job
Silence the shame that blocks your money solutions by finding your own Linda
Write a plan for every dollar before it arrives so money stops bossing you around
Protect your older self by giving your future self a name and a budget
Stop chasing eight figures at the cost of your health and the people you love
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Two small words and one pause cut a restaurant’s no-shows by 67%, and the science of persuasion behind that will change how you ask for things.
Dr. Robert Cialdini, a research psychologist who wrote Influence: The New and Expanded Psychology of Persuasion, sat down with Lewis to walk through the seven principles he found after secretly training in sales programs. Lewis credits the book with turning his broke, couch-surfing years into a business that took off within months.
Kids handed a balloon at the door led their parents to buy 25% more food, and asking “Do you support the Boy Scouts?” lifted popcorn sales from 15% to 55%. Cialdini shares why you should ask for advice instead of feedback, and why “Congratulations on your commitment” beats praising progress.
He also gets honest about his own struggle to say praise out loud, a habit he picked up from parents who held it back. Now he makes himself say it, which costs nothing and changes the mood of any room he walks into.
Your next email or sales pitch will look different after this, and so might your next hard talk with someone you love. Start by giving first and pointing to what is already true.
Influence, New and Expanded: The Essential Guide to the Psychology of Influence and Persuasion in Everyday Life
Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade
In this episode you will:
Triple your yes rate by asking one pre-suasion question before your request
Master the seven principles of influence Robert Cialdini uncovered training undercover
Turn cold outreach into replies using similarity and genuine praise in your first line
Harness reciprocity by giving something meaningful first, before you ever ask
Discover how unity builds a “we” that makes compromise easier
Use loss aversion ethically so people act now instead of drifting away
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Your voice feels like who you are, but it might just be a habit you picked up as a kid.
Vinh Giang, a communication coach with more than 17 million followers, sat down with Lewis to talk about public speaking and confidence, and why the way you sound can change faster than you think. He changed his own name at 14 to break free of being the bullied, stone-faced kid who barely spoke English.
He gives you a 15 minute exercise: record yourself talking for five minutes, then review it with the sound only, then with the picture only, then as a transcript. Pick one fix from each pass. One of his students just spoke louder, used their hands and dropped the ums, and came across like a different person.
Then it gets personal. Vinh tells the story of his uncle Yibet, who captained the family's boat out of Vietnam and left the love of his life behind, a story he only found the courage to write in Before We Forget How to Connect.
The next time something feels fake when you try it, you might hear Vinh's reminder that it is just unfamiliar.
Pre-Order: Before We Forget How to Connect: Be Heard, Be Seen, and Communicate with Confidence
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In this episode you will:
Spot the invisible speaking habits you've repeated for decades and start changing them
Use Vinh Giang's look, feel and sound review to fix your delivery fast
Build gripping stories with the spark, point and link storytelling method
Find your natural voice again after years of speaking in a habitual one
Quiet stage nerves by shifting your focus from yourself to your audience
Turn a story of shame into one you proudly open with
For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/2002
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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
For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/2001
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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
For more information go to https://lewishowes.com/2000
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