The School of Greatness

Every diet you've ever tried has failed you for one reason: it never told you when to eat.

Your body runs on two energy systems. One burns sugar. The other burns fat. Most people never spend a single day in the second one.

Around eight to ten hours without food, the switch flips. Ketones flood your brain. Hunger quiets. Mental clarity hits. Healing turns on. This is what fasting expert Dr. Mindy Pelz has been teaching for over 25 years, and what her book Fast Like a Girl made impossible to ignore.

For women, timing is everything. Day 1 to 10, fast longer and lift heavier. Day 11 to 15, testosterone surges and libido climbs. Day 16 to 19 is for deeper fasts. After day 20, progesterone needs you to back off and rest. Fast like a man during the back half of your cycle and you'll tank the very hormones keeping you calm and regular.

Underneath all of it sits the hormonal hierarchy. Oxytocin at the top. Cortisol below it. Then insulin. Then sex hormones. When you feel safe and connected, the whole stack works. When you don't, nothing else matters. Connection isn't optional for women. It's biology.

Dr. Mindy’s books:

Age Like a Girl How Menopause Rewires Your Brain for Mental Clarity, Increased Confidence, and Renewed Energy

Eat Like a Girl: 100+ Delicious Recipes to Balance Hormones, Boost Energy, and Burn Fat

Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy, and Balance Hormones

The Menopause Reset: Get Rid of Your Symptoms and Feel Like Your Younger Self Again

The Reset Factor Kitchen: 101 Tasty Recipes to Eat Your Way to Wellness,Burn Belly Fat, and Maximize Your Energy

The Reset Factor: 45 Days to TransformingYour Health by Repairing Your Gut

In this episode you will:

Learn the fasting cycle for women, Dr. Mindy's day-by-day framework that syncs your fasting window, workout intensity, and food choices to your menstrual cycle

Uncover why your menstrual cycle is a monthly detox rather than a burden, and what an irregular or absent cycle is actually telling you about your body

Discover why timing your eating matters more than what you eat, and how the ketogenic energy system unlocks fat burning, mental clarity, and steady energy

Understand the hormonal hierarchy, how oxytocin, cortisol, insulin, and sex hormones stack on each other, and why female community and connection function as biological medicine

Find out what long-term birth control does to the gut microbiome and the brain-ovary connection, and why so many women struggle with hormonal imbalances after coming off the pill

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Dr. Mindy Pelz, intermittent fasting, ketogenic energy system, fasting cycle for women, hormonal hierarchy, menstrual cycle nutrition, cortisol and stress, birth control and microbiome, oxytocin and women's health, Fast Like a Girl

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Your money beliefs were locked in by the time you were seven years old. The patterns showing up in your bank account right now started somewhere in your childhood. And most of the financial advice you have been given is aimed at the wrong target.

Financial educator Haley Sacks, a.k.a. Mrs. Dow Jones, author of Future Rich Person: The New Rules for Building Wealth, breaks down why obsessing over lattes and pre-chopped vegetables is a waste of your financial energy. Negotiating your salary, understanding compound interest, learning to earn more. That is what actually moves the needle.

There's a real difference between looking rich and being rich. Looking rich is the designer logo, the signal, the illusion. Being rich is driving a Jeep, buying back your time, and not needing anyone to notice. Haley shares how she blew her first $3,000 windfall on an oversized fake Louis Vuitton bag on eBay and couldn't make rent that month. The bag is still on her shelf as a reminder.

Haley calls it learned financial helplessness. When you feel like the system is completely stacked against you and there is no real path to win, you stop trying and start looking for shortcuts. Faking rich becomes the move. But once you name what is working against you, you take back some of the power. That is where her IBIZA money mindset program (Identify, Blame, Interrupt, Z, Action) comes in.

You do not need a high salary to build wealth. A janitor named Ronald died with $8 million because he always kept action money, the money left after expenses, and put it to work in low-cost index funds consistently over time. The billionaires are investing in the same vehicles available to you right now. The only question is whether you start.

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In this episode you will:

Discover the three rules to becoming a Future Rich Person and why money mindset has to come first before any financial strategy will stick

Learn the difference between action money and the rest of your budget, and why understanding this gap is the key to actually building wealth

Understand learned financial helplessness and how to use the IBIZA framework (Identify, Blame, Interrupt, Z, Action) to shift your money self-identity

Break down the real difference between looking rich and being rich, and what your spending patterns reveal about your deeper beliefs around value and self-worth

Find out what to teach your kids about money early, including how to talk from abundance instead of scarcity, how to tie chores to pay, and how to introduce taxes through an allowance system

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Haley Sacks, Future Rich Person book, action money, learned financial helplessness, value-based spending, financial energy, IBIZA money mindset framework, frictionless finance, compound interest, money shame

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Most people don't realize they have a ceiling on their success. Not a skill ceiling. A preference ceiling. Brendon Burchard calls it the complexity ceiling, and it's the invisible line where your comfort wins over your vision.

The highest performers in the world share one non-negotiable: their preferences never outrank their aspirational self. They don't wait to feel ready. They generate the feeling they need and act from that place.

Brendon introduces his FREE framework (Feeling, Responsibility, Expression, Expansion), a four-part system for creating your internal state on purpose, every day, regardless of what's hitting you from the outside. It's the methodology he breaks down fully in High Performance Habits.

Lewis and Brendon also go deep on what happens when you succeed beyond what you believed was possible, and why that moment can trigger imposter syndrome or total emptiness if your belief never caught up to your achievement.

This one is about becoming the person your future self already is. It starts with one question: does your preference win today, or does your vision?

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Brendon's books:

The Millionaire Messenger: Make a Difference and a Fortune Sharing Your Advice

The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive

The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power

Life's Golden Ticket: A Story About Second Chances

High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way

The High Performance Planner

In this episode you will:

Learn Brendon's FREE framework (Feeling, Responsibility, Expression, Expansion) for clarifying exactly what you want to feel, do, and become

Discover the "complexity ceiling" and why your preferences, not your circumstances, are the real limit on your success

Understand why succeeding beyond your belief system leads to imposter syndrome and how to close that gap before it derails you

Shift from being stuck in stimulus-response mode to actively generating the energy and focus high performance requires

Build a dialogue with your future self that turns long-term vision into decisions you can act on today

Topics: high performance habits, complexity ceiling, FREE framework, imposter syndrome, future self visualization, mindset, personal development, Brendon Burchard

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Graham Stephan was relentless about one thing before he had anything else: not spending money he did not have to spend. He calculated the gas cost of visiting a friend and decided it was not worth it. Most people would call that extreme. He calls it the foundation.

The habits he built early, consistency, focus, and ruthless saving, did not feel heroic in the moment. They felt boring. But boring done every single day is what compounded into real estate commissions, YouTube income, and an investment portfolio split evenly between property, index funds, and cash.

What he did not do was wait until he felt ready. He held off on starting his YouTube channel for years because he did not have a Lamborghini like the other guys. When he finally started, none of that mattered.

The deeper conversation here is about what money actually means once you have enough of it. Graham is not chasing a bigger number. He wants to buy back his time, to read a book on a Tuesday if he feels like it. That shift from accumulation to freedom is where this episode gets genuinely interesting.

Graham on YouTube

Graham’s website

Graham on Instagram

In this episode you will:

Discover the three specific habits Graham used to go from nothing to his first million and why saving was the most underrated one

Learn how he structures his investments today across real estate, index funds, and cash, and the simple daily routine he uses to stay consistent

Understand why waiting until you feel credible is the trap that keeps most people from ever starting

Rethink what you believe about renting versus buying a home and when each choice actually makes financial sense

Shift how you think about the end goal of building wealth, from hitting a number to designing a life that gives you your time back

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Anita Moorjani did everything right. She ate organic, avoided sugar, studied cancer prevention obsessively. She still got lymphoma. That contradiction is the entire point.

Growing up as an Indian woman in Hong Kong, caught between British culture and a community that valued sons over daughters, Anita learned one thing above all else: make yourself small and keep everyone happy. That lesson followed her for 40 years, through a canceled arranged marriage, a cancer diagnosis, and a four-year deterioration that ended with her in a coma, 85 pounds, and organs failing.

Then she left her body. In that expanded state, she saw clearly for the first time: it wasn't the cancer that had been killing her. It was the fear.

When she came back, every trace of cancer was gone within three weeks. Doctors flew in from the US just to study her case. None of them could explain it.

What Anita brought back is a message she's been sharing for 20 years: you don't need to earn your place in the world, you already are what you've been spending your life trying to become.

Anita’s books:

Dying to Be Me

Sensitive Is the New Strong: The Power of Empaths in an Increasingly Harsh World

What If This Is Heaven?: How Our Cultural Myths Prevent Us from Experiencing Heaven on Earth

Anita's Sedona Healing Retreat

Anita's Website

Anita's Facebook

Anita's Instagram

In this episode you will:

Understand why living in constant fear can manifest as serious physical illness - and how shifting from fear-based choices to love-based ones changes everything

Discover what Anita experienced during her 30-hour coma, including what she saw, heard, and understood outside her physical body

Learn the mirror exercise that helped Anita rebuild self-worth from scratch after coming back from the edge of death

Recognize how people-pleasing and self-repression show up in the body, and why your authentic self will keep demanding to be heard

Apply Anita's framework for replacing fear of what you don't want with a focused attention on what you actually want to create

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