How to Know You’re on the Right Path | Katt Williams
21 October - 56 minsWhat 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...
Series Episodes
What Sociopaths Really Feel | Dr. Patric Gagne
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.
1 hour 47 mins
19 October Finished
Your Anxiety Is a Smoke Alarm, Not a Broken Brain | Dr. John Delony
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.
1 hour 18 mins
16 October Finished
The Ancient 4-Step Method to Clear Your Mind | Shaolin Master Shi Heng Yi
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.
1 hour 15 mins
14 October Finished
How Stress Can Cause a Heart Attack (And How to Heal) | Dr. Tara Narula
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.
1 hour 19 mins
12 October Finished
A Divorce Lawyer on the Small Things That End Marriages | James Sexton
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.
1 hour 17 mins
9 October Finished
