Leslie John drops a finding that stops most people cold: couples married an average of 12 years guessed what their partner was thinking and feeling correctly only 20% of the time. That gap between how well you think you know someone and how well you actually know them is where relationships quietly break down.

It's the same dynamic playing out in friendships, at work, and in families everywhere. You think you're saving people discomfort by holding back, but what you're actually doing is building a wall you can't see.

Leslie walks through the science of "disclosure decisions," the hundreds of small choices you make each day about what to say and what to swallow, and what it costs you over time when the scales tip too far toward silence.

Learning to share with the right people, at the right moments, with the right context isn't just good communication. It's how you build the kind of relationships that actually hold.

The Greatness Playbook: The Communication Mastery Edition

Leslie’s book Revealing: The Underrated Power of Oversharing

In this episode you will:

• Discover why undersharing, not oversharing, is quietly destroying your closest relationships and what the research says about the real cost of silence.
• Understand how "mind reading expectations" create a hidden trap in romantic relationships and learn the simple shift that breaks the cycle before resentment builds.
• Learn the one question that can open any conversation with a guarded partner and why leading with your own vulnerability is more powerful than finding the perfect words.
• Recognize how the things you leave unsaid pile up into a weight that erodes your self-respect over time and what it takes to start speaking your truth again.
• Apply the science of the feedback sandwich, including what the research actually found about which part matters most, so you can deliver hard truths in a way people can actually hear.

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Amy Purdy was a 19-year-old with big dreams when meningococcal meningitis put her in a coma within 24 hours of her first symptom, leaving her a double-leg amputee fighting her way back from 83 pounds and kidney failure.

Her story isn't just about survival; it's about a near-death experience that gave her a quiet certainty that everything would make sense in the end, and how that faith became the foundation for everything she built next.

Most people let obstacles define the outer edges of their lives, but Amy turned hers into a launchpad, spending 12 years innovating her own prosthetic feet to compete at the 2014 Sochi Paralympics. You'll hear how she stopped competing for medals and started competing for the girl in an Italian mountain village who drove four hours just to ask how it's done.

The real lesson here is that your limitations aren't walls, they're the very thing you push off of to go somewhere new.

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In this episode you will:

• Understand why setting a specific, audacious goal during your darkest moment creates the momentum to recover
• See how embracing limitation as creative fuel, rather than a ceiling, opens possibilities you couldn't have planned
• Find out what it really means to live an inspired life and why it's more contagious than you think
• Discover how a near-death experience at 19 can reframe everything you think you know about fear and purpose
• Learn how to shift from survival mode into a life that's bigger than what you lost

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If you keep attracting the wrong people or sabotaging good relationships, this masterclass reveals why.

Lewis brings together the most powerful insights from Esther Perel, Jillian Turecki, Matthew Hussey, Baya Voce, and Mel Robbins to show you how your unhealed wounds are running your love life.

You'll learn why you chase what hurts you, how your nervous system sabotages connection, and what it actually takes to stop repeating the same painful cycles. The path to lasting love starts with understanding yourself first, learning to regulate your emotions, and choosing partners who can help you heal rather than partners who keep you broken.

Make Money Easy: Create Financial Freedom and Live a Richer Life

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The School of Greatness: A Real-World Guide to Living Bigger, Loving Deeper, and Leaving a Legacy

In this episode you will:

• Identify what role you played in past relationship failures instead of only blaming your ex
• Recognize when your childhood wounds are triggering fights about cardboard boxes or daily frustrations
• Understand why depending on your partner for happiness creates catastrophic disappointment
• Discover how play and humor keep relationships alive when everything else feels dead
• Transform conflict into healing by learning to tolerate uncomfortable emotions in your body

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