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The School of Greatness

I Spent Years Hating Myself Until I Started This Practice

The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes

Inspiration, Education, Greatness, Celebrity, Money, Relationships, Mindset, Health, Business, Self-improvement, Self Care, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Success, Celebrity Interview

4.822K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Melissa Wood-Tepperberg reveals the years she spent destroying herself behind a perfect mask, battling bulimia, addiction, and profound self-hatred before finding the practice that changed everything. You'll discover why consistency with simple daily habits creates more transformation than any amount of motivation ever will.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back, everyone in the School of Greatness.

0:01.7

Very excited about our guests.

0:03.0

We have the inspiring Melissa Wood, Teperberg in the house.

0:22.1

So good to see you. I'm so happy to be here. Very excited. We connected months ago. Super Bowl? Is it what? Super Bowl party? Was it Super Bowl or F-1? It was Super Bowl. Super Bowl. Gary Vaynerchuk was hosting a little gathering. We met there. but I'd obviously seen your work online for the last few years if you've continued to just soar with your content, with your

0:25.3

message, and how you're inspiring and impacting millions of people around the world.

0:30.3

Mostly, assuming mostly women who kind of follow your content and who are really inspired

0:35.5

by you. A lot of the women on my team are just like,

0:37.9

oh, Melissa, she's so amazing and what she's doing. And so it's been cool to watch your rise,

0:43.4

but I know that, you know, you grew up very dysfunctional, similar to me. You struggled in school

0:48.7

and kind of cheated your way through school similar to me and just didn't feel like you were

0:54.1

enough. And so therefore, you know school similar to me and just didn't feel like you were enough

0:54.5

and so therefore you know similar to me you wore masks you projected like a sense of everything's

1:01.5

got everything put together and everything looks got to look perfect and can't show people the real

1:06.1

traumas underneath you and you wore those masks for a long time to protect yourself, to fit in,

1:12.3

to belong, to get ahead, whatever it might be, to survive. But when do those masks start

1:19.3

falling off for you? When did you really start to feel like, oh, I'm in a dark place the longer

1:25.0

and longer I hold on to this perfect image,

1:27.9

when underneath I don't feel perfect at all.

1:31.9

Well, interestingly enough, I feel like I'm in this place in my life where I'm, like,

1:38.3

ripping off a new mask.

1:40.5

Right now.

1:41.1

Right now.

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