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Lewis Howes

The stories you tell yourself on a daily basis determines the person you will become.The good, the bad, the negative, the positive, the uplifting, the draining – they’re all part of the equation. But YOU are the author of your life story – so, what story are you writing?

Top Podcaster & Best-selling Author Lewis Howes brings you the The Daily Motivation Show, where you’ll hear from industry-leading experts, you’ll learn proven principles, and you’ll discover life-changing ideas  that will help you get motivated and STAY motivated.

The Daily Motivation

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Sheleana Aiyana shares her own personal experiences of trauma and how it shaped her understanding of the healing journey. She emphasizes the importance of acknowledging and honoring one's pain as the first step towards healing. By fostering self-compassion and acceptance, viewers are encouraged to begin the process of healing from their own traumatic experiences.

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How To Heal from Trauma and Embrace Healthy Connections | Sheleana Aiyana

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"My father would wake up in the morning, study the Bible, say a prayer, rub his knees and look up to God like, 'how am I going to feed these 10 people today?' Then he'd go. And he'd come back with dinner." - Marlon Wayans

Marlon Wayans grew up watching his father combine faith with relentless action. Every single morning started the same way: Bible study, prayer, then that moment of looking up at God before figuring out how to feed 10 kids that day. His mother taught him something equally powerful but different: how to find joy in poverty, how to stay vulnerable when disappointments could easily make you bitter, how to love hard even when life is brutal. These weren't abstract lessons. They were daily survival skills that shaped everything about how Marlon approaches his work now. When Hollywood tells him to wait, when networks say they're booked until 2026, he hears his father's voice: don't wait for anyone to tell you you're ready.

That mindset led him to self-fund his own comedy specials, film them on his terms, then license them to HBO and Amazon while keeping ownership. He's the guy who works three extra hours with his acting coach after a 14-hour shooting day because he refuses to show up unprepared. He drops a new hour of standup material every year, writing it live on stage while audiences think they're just watching a show. Most people fixate on what their parents did wrong. Marlon studied what they did right. That shift, that choice to extract wisdom instead of resentment from his upbringing, unlocked something fierce in him. His father taught him God and grit belong together. His mother taught him that joy is a choice you make, not a circumstance you wait for. Now he lives by a simple truth: everything is God, every closed door is redirection, and a thousand new doors are already open if you stop staring at the one that shut.

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How To Turn Faith Into Action When You Have Nothing | Marlon Wayans

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"Everybody has the Elon Musks capacity in them, right? But we are just wasting our brain energy on the wrong things." - Jenna Zoe

Your mind keeps telling you to figure it all out, to copy what worked for someone else, to ignore what genuinely lights you up because it seems too simple. Jenna Zoe says that's exactly the problem. She breaks down Human Design, a system that treats your body like a machine with its own operating manual, and explains why the universe speaks to you through what brings you joy, not through your overthinking mind. When you see someone else's success and try to replicate their exact path, you're working against your unique design. Different people have different energy types—generators, manifestors, projectors, reflectors—and each has a specific way of using energy that creates maximum results with minimum resistance.

The revelation here isn't complicated personal development theory. It's understanding that everyone carries the same genius capacity, but most people waste their brain power trying to control outcomes instead of letting their body's wisdom guide the way. When you stop letting guilt override what genuinely excites you, when you trust that your enjoyment is divine guidance rather than distraction, your mind becomes free to do what it does best: observe, create, innovate. Jenna walks through the mechanics of how your body directs you toward your purpose, and why fighting against your natural design keeps you stuck while others seem to effortlessly manifest their dreams.

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If You're Copying Others' Paths, You're Blocking Yours | Jenna Zoe

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Ed Mylett explains that even small daily improvements, as little as one percent, can lead to significant transformation over time. Ed highlights the idea that success is not an overnight achievement but rather a result of consistent effort and repetition.

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Get One Percent Better Every Day | Ed Mylett

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"How many kids in our country are getting the emotional education they need to achieve their dreams in life?" - Dr. Marc Brackett

Dr. Marc Brackett was eleven years old when he finally told someone about the sexual abuse. His mother had a breakdown. His father grabbed a bat and went to kill the man. Then came the arrest, the court case, and the decision that would make everything worse: going on television to talk about it. Overnight, he became the kid nobody wanted their children near. Teachers whispered. Parents pulled their kids away. The bullying intensified. He was labeled damaged goods, living proof that some wounds mark you forever. But one summer, his Uncle Marvin asked him a question nobody else had bothered with: "How are you feeling?" They sat together working through emotional vocabulary, and Marc realized he couldn't name a single time he'd felt elated, but he could talk all day about feeling alienated. That conversation became the foundation for everything that followed.

Years later, Marc saw "Emotional Intelligence" on the cover of Time Magazine and recognized his uncle's work from twenty years earlier. He pulled Uncle Marvin out of retirement, and they met at a Dunkin Donuts in Fort Lauderdale to build a curriculum that would eventually change how schools teach kids about emotions. Marc earned his PhD studying with the scientists who pioneered emotional intelligence research, got a fifth degree black belt in Hapkido, practiced Zen meditation, and spent three decades researching what it actually takes to heal. Now a professor at Yale (the same school that once rejected him), he's honest about what it required: an uncle who cared enough to ask, thirty years of dedicated study, martial arts discipline, and relentless inner work. Lewis and Marc dig into why accomplishing every goal on your list means nothing if you still don't feel enough, and how emotional education is the missing piece most people never get access to.

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How To Heal From Childhood Trauma & Build Emotional Intelligence | Dr. Marc Brackett

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Chris Voss highlights the significance of recognizing and acknowledging the emotions and underlying motivations behind an argument. By demonstrating empathy, individuals can establish a connection and create an atmosphere conducive to constructive dialogue.

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Use These PSYCHOLOGICAL TRICKS To Win ANY ARGUMENT | Chris Voss

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"Motivation is a feeling, but discipline is a choice. We are what we repeatedly do." - Lewis Howes

Lewis reveals the brutal inner voice that haunted him for years—the one that called him an idiot after every mistake, that told him he wasn't good enough, that kept him stuck in cycles of self-destruction. He shares how he spent two decades struggling to learn Spanish, constantly telling himself "I can't do this" until he discovered a simple phrase that changed everything: "I'm learning to." It sounds almost too simple, but that shift from self-criticism to self-compassion became the foundation for everything else. He talks about his basketball days, diving after loose balls, and how coaches kept him on the court not because he was the most talented, but because he hustled in the moments that mattered. That same mentality carried into his entrepreneurial journey—until it nearly destroyed him.

When Lewis finally started making money after being broke on his sister's couch, he went all-in on the hustle-culture mentality. He worked 24/7, gained weight, ate garbage, stopped sleeping, and burned himself completely out. Thirteen years and almost 2,000 podcast episodes later, he's learned the truth: real hustle isn't about grinding yourself into the ground—it's about showing up consistently when no one's watching. He breaks down why discipline beats motivation every time, how to pick one non-negotiable habit that aligns with your actual vision (not someone else's), and the morning question that helps him face his fears instead of running from them. If you've been trapped between beating yourself up for not being perfect and burning out trying to prove you're enough, this is the reset you need.

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If You Beat Yourself Up After Failure, This Will Change Everything | Lewis Howes

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Muniba delves into the profound life lessons she has learned on her journey to self-discovery and empowerment. She emphasizes the importance of embracing vulnerability and finding strength in the face of adversity. Muniba shares how she overcame her initial despair and found solace in art, which became a therapeutic outlet for her emotions and a medium to express her unique perspective.

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You’ll Never Be The Same After This Life Advice | Muniba Mazari

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"As a child, I don't have to absorb the stress of my parents. I don't have to take care of the needs of my alcoholic father." - Gabor Maté

Gabor Maté sat across from Lewis and said something most parenting experts won't admit: he hurt his own children. Not through malice or neglect, but through something more insidious—unhealed wounds he didn't even know he carried. He reveals how your stress as a partner affects your child before they're even born, how children absorb their parents' unresolved pain like emotional sponges, and why so many well-intentioned parents end up repeating the very patterns they swore they'd never inflict. But here's what makes this conversation essential: Maté doesn't just diagnose the problem. He breaks down the four irreducible needs every child must have—needs that indigenous societies naturally provided for millennia, but that our modern world systematically denies.

This isn't about perfect parenting or having all the answers before your kid arrives. It's about understanding that the work of raising healthy children starts with facing your own shadows first. Maté explains why free play matters more for brain development than any educational program, why children need to rest from the burden of managing adult emotions, and what happens when we give toddlers screens instead of space to be bored, curious, and wildly creative. Whether you're expecting your first child, struggling with teenagers, or trying to make sense of your own upbringing, this conversation illuminates why so many of us feel broken—and what it actually takes to stop that cycle.

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The 4 Needs Every Child Has (That Modern Society Completely Ignores) | Gabor Maté

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"Right where the pain is, is the portal of entry." - Dr. Lisa Miller

Dr. Lisa Miller knows what it feels like to have your heart completely shattered. At 19, sitting with a pain so heavy in her chest she could barely breathe, she asked the most dangerous question someone in despair can ask: Is love even real? And if love isn't real, is God? That brutal honesty—that willingness to sit in the wreckage of a broken heart and question everything—became the doorway to understanding something revolutionary about human suffering. Through decades of research in neuroscience and psychology, she discovered what her own pain had been trying to tell her: depression isn't always the enemy we think it is. For over two-thirds of young adults, that crushing weight isn't a chemical malfunction to be medicated away—it's a spiritual alarm clock, banging on the door of your soul, demanding you wake up to a deeper way of living.

This conversation will shift how you see your own struggles. Lisa reveals why that restlessness you feel—the sense that your relationship, your career, your entire life just doesn't fit anymore—might not mean you need to blow everything up and start over. Sometimes the answer isn't out there in a bigger job or different partner. It's an invitation to go inward, to discover the spiritual dimension of yourself that's been hungry for something more meaningful all along. She walks through the three unavoidable bridges we all cross (early adulthood, midlife, and our elder years) where these questions become impossible to ignore, and shares exactly how to recognize when your pain is actually propelling you toward awakening rather than destruction.

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Turn Your Deepest Pain Into Your Greatest Breakthrough | Dr. Lisa Miller

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"We're living in a fractal holographic light matrix. Human beings only can see less than 1% of the light spectrum." - Billy Carson

Billy Carson just shattered everything I thought I knew about reality. This isn't your typical "think positive" motivational talk - this is a deep dive into the actual structure of existence itself. Billy reveals that what we think is solid matter (like the table you're sitting at) is actually just light frequency slowed down to create the illusion of solidity. We're not even really touching anything - it's all electromagnetic repulsion between atoms. And here's the kicker: we're only perceiving less than 1% of what's actually happening around us.

The conversation gets even more mind-bending when Billy explains how there are 11 dimensions stacked right on top of each other, separated only by frequency. From any dimension higher than our third dimension, you can see the past, present, and future all at once - exactly like that scene in Interstellar when McConaughey falls into the tesseract. This isn't science fiction; this is cutting-edge physics that completely reframes how we understand our place in the universe. If you've ever wondered what reality actually is beyond what your eyes can see, this conversation will expand your consciousness in ways you never imagined.

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We Are ONLY Seeing 1% of Reality Around Us | Billy Carson

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