The Grateful Podcast with Jack Wagoner
Your ambition is costing you something. This show is about getting it back.
The Grateful Podcast is a top 2.5% global podcast hosted by Jack Wagoner, entrepreneur, TEDx speaker, and creator of The Duality of Gratitude and Ambition framework.
Every week, Jack sits down with bestselling authors, founders, psychologists, and world-class performers to answer one question: how do you pursue everything you want without losing yourself in the process?
Guests include David Meltzer (Chairman, Napoleon Hill Institute), Dan Millman (author, Way of the Peaceful Warrior), Hala Taha (CEO, YAP Media), Trey Tucker (licensed therapist, author of Tough Enough), Dr. Anne-Laure Le Cunff (neuroscientist, King's College London), Rabbi Manis Friedman, and 120+ more.
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139 episodes
The Science Of Setting Goals You Actually Achieve with Emily Balcetis | 141
In the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Michael Phelps dove into the pool for his eighth gold medal race, the race that would make him the greatest Olympian in history. Then his goggles started leaking. He couldn't see the wall. He couldn't see the finis...
Three Words That Change How You're Remembered with Gratitude Expert Chester Elton | 140
Chester Elton has spent 40 years teaching gratitude to executives. He's sold 1.6 million books. He's coached leaders at American Express, AT&T, the World Bank. But when his designer friend Ayse Birsel asked him "how have you designed time w...
TV Mentalist: The Best Hypnotist You Know Is Yourself | The Grateful Podcast Ep. 139
Savio Joseph, Canada's Got Talent finalist, has built his entire career around one idea. The best hypnotist you know is already in your head. The words you say to yourself, the limits you accept before you ever try, the patterns you run without...
Hollywood Legend: The Real Reason Men Don't Feel with Barnet Bain | The Grateful Podcast Ep. 138
Barnet Bain produced What Dreams May Come with Robin Williams. He wrote Jesus. He directed the Eckhart Tolle film Milton's Secret. He co-wrote The Celestine Prophecy.I asked him what was really driving forty years of m...
Navy SEAL Commander: What's Making You Better Probably Isn't
The Grateful Podcast with Jack Wagoner episode 137What if most of what you're doing to grow yourself isn't actually growing you?Rich Diviney spent 20 years as a Navy SEAL commander. 13 deployments, 11 of them to Iraq and Afghani...
The Art of Asking Great Questions...(solo episode) | The Grateful Podcast Ep. 136
The Grateful Podcast with Jack WagonerMost people think the person asking questions is the dumbest in the room. In this solo episode, Jack breaks down why the opposite is true, how he developed the skill of asking great questions throug...
Hormozi's 20-Year-Old: How to Engineer What You Want with Jay Yang | The Grateful Podcast Ep. 135
The Grateful Podcast with Jack Wagoner guesting Jay YangEpisode 135Jay Yang is 20 years old. He cold-emailed his way into Beehiiv at 16. Sent a 19-page deck to Noah Kagan at 17 and became Head of Content at AppSumo. Wrote a bestsell...
If You Think You're Self-Aware You're NOT with Allison Brenner | The Grateful Podcast Ep. 134
The Grateful Podcast with Jack Wagoner episode 134Guesting Allison BrennerShe left therapy after a patient on the child unit took their own life. That moment sent her on a 25-year journey into the science of why people can't see the...
Why the Most Productive People Work Less (Not More) with Joe O'Connor | 133
Joe O'Connor pioneered the global 4-day work week movement. He's coached governments, Fortune 500s, and pilot programs across three continents. But in this conversation, he says something every founder, employee, and student needs to hear: the ...
NYT Bestselling Coach: Why "Winning" Is Destroying You - Jim Murphy | 132
Michael Phelps won 23 Olympic gold medals. According to Jim Murphy, he only deserves 2% of the credit. In this episode, the mental coach behind world #1s, Olympic gold medalists, and Super Bowl champions, the author whose book AJ Brown was read...
You Know How to Change. That's Why You Haven't | Ep. 131
You know exactly what to do. You have the reels, the podcasts, the frameworks, the morning routines. And you're still in the same place you were six months ago.In this solo episode, I break down the knowing-doing gap, why the information...
He Sat on a Bucket and Cried. Then Got an Offer - Jim Britt | 130
The Grateful Podcast with Jack WagonerEpisode 130 with Jim BrittMost people think motivation creates change. The man who coached Tony Robbins in his first years as a speaker says it doesn't. Jim Britt picked cotton at six years ol...
He Made Everyone Proud Except Himself - Sol Hyde | The Grateful Podcast Ep. 129
The Grateful Podcast with Jack Wagoner episode 129Guesting @solhyde He made everyone proud. His parents. His friends. Everyone who told him that...
Billion Dollar Founder: The Happiness Data They Don't Want You to See with Jess Mah | The Grateful Podcast Ep. 128
She's built companies worth over a billion dollars. She's been on the cover of Inc. Magazine. She was the youngest woman ever accepted into Y Combinator. And what she told me in this conversation is something she says most founders at her level...
Asking 'How' is Killing Your Dreams with Blaine Bartlett | The Grateful Podcast Ep. 127
The Grateful Podcast with Jack Wagoner episode 127Guesting Blaine BartlettHe wrote a bucket list at 18 with 20 goals he had no idea how to achieve. By 24, every single one was done — without ever asking "how." Blaine Ba...
Neuroscientist: These 3 Scripts are Silently Running Your Life - Dr. Anne Laure | Ep. 126
She was about to die and her first instinct was to check her calendar. Dr. Anne-Laure Le Cunff is a neuroscientist at King's College London, former Google executive, founder of Ness Labs, and bestselling author of Tiny Experiments. In this conv...
Leadership Expert: Why Great Leaders Think in Pictures, Not Words with Todd Cherches | 125
If a picture is worth a thousand words, why do most leaders still rely on words alone to get their most important ideas across?Todd Cherches is a TEDx speaker, three-time award-winning professor at NYU and Columbia, a member of Marshall...
Viral Therapist Exposes The Actual Problem With Young Men - Trey Tucker | 124
In a world where the masculinity crisis is top of mind, this conversation couldn't be more important.Trey Tucker is a licensed therapist with over a million followers known as Rugged Counseling. He works with men who look successful on ...
He Lost $35 Million, Went Bankrupt, Then Rebuilt Everything | Stefan Whitwell | 123
He went to Wharton. He worked at Goldman Sachs. He was worth $35 million.Then the 2008 crash took everything, and his bank told him to intentionally destroy his own credit before they'd even talk to him.In this episode of The Gr...
I Finally Solved The "Being Lost" Problem | 122
You're not lazy. You're not broken. You're lost.And the reason you're lost is simpler than you think.In this solo episode of The Grateful Podcast, Jack breaks down why so many young people — and even millionaire CEOs — still fee...
Why the Kindest People are the Most Depressed with Leah Marone | The Grateful Podcast Ep. 121
The people everyone trustsare often the ones burning out the fastest.In episode 121 of The Grateful Podcast, Jack sits down with Leah Marone, psychotherapist, TEDx speaker, and author of The Serial Fixer, to explore why the most car...
The SECRET Reason Self-Improvement Doesn't Work
The Grateful Podcast with Jack WagonerEpisode 120Every piece of self-improvement content you consume promises results.Money. Health. Relationships.But here’s the uncomfortable truth: most of it is keeping you stuck.<...
Why You Don't Know What You Want with Taz Higgs | 119
The Grateful Podcast with Jack WagonerEpisode 119Guesting Taz HiggsMost people never stop to ask what they actually want.They chase what they were told to want.In this episode of The Grateful Podcast, Jack sits down ...
Why Your Intuition Knows Before You Do and how to profit on LinkedIn - Paige Goldstein | 118
Most people don’t fail because they lack discipline.They fail because they ignore themselves.In this episode of The Grateful Podcast, Jack sits down with Paige Goldstein, founder of The Ripple Effect, to e...