The School of Greatness

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.

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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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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.

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

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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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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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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.

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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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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.

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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

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