Passion Struck with John R. Miles

Don't Know Your Purpose? Do These 3 Things to Find It | John R. Miles - EP 843

What if you don't have a passion, a special talent, or an obvious calling? What if you're simply trying to figure out what matters to you and how you can make a meaningfu

The Hidden Reason We Fail to Eat Healthy and How to Fix It | Carleigh Bodrug - EP 842

What if you don't have a motivation problem but a time problem? Most of us know we should eat healthier. But between work, family, responsibilities, and the demands of e

Your Relationship With Food Is Really a Relationship With Yourself | Lee Cotton - EP 841

What if the way you eat has less to do with food than with how you feel about yourself? For registered dietitian and author Lee Cotton, the path to understanding nutriti

The Tapes You’re Still Playing: How to Rewrite the Stories That Hold You Back | John R. Miles - EP 840

What if the story you've been telling yourself about who you are was never really yours? In 1979, a collection of interviews with college students disappeared into the a

Procrastination Expert: The Real Reason You Keep Getting in Your Own Way | Jon Acuff - EP 839

What if procrastination isn't a problem with your time, but a problem with what you believe you're capable of doing? You know what you want to change. You have ideas, am

Harvard Psychologist: College Students Have Always Struggled. So What Has Changed? | Alexis Redding – EP 838

What if today's young people aren't as different from previous generations as we think? When Alexis Redding and her colleagues uncovered interviews with college students

3 Questions to Stop Letting Other People Define Your Worth | John R. Miles - EP 837

What happens when the next achievement matters more than the one you just reached? Even after The Mattering Effect landed on the USA Today bestseller list, John caught h

Why You Keep Doubting Yourself and How to Rebuild Your Confidence | Heather Monahan - EP 836

What happens when you spend years proving yourself, only to find that the people around you make you question your worth? Heather Monahan knows firsthand how that experi

Why Your Workplace Turns Colleagues Into Competitors | Dr. Nir Halevy – EP 835

Why do some teams bring out the best in people while others turn colleagues into competitors? The answer may lie in the way we structure power, status, and success. On t

Why Success Can Leave You Feeling Like You Don't Matter | John R. Miles & Linda Hurtado – EP 834

What happens when you achieve the life you thought you wanted, only to realize you no longer feel connected to it? For John R. Miles, that question became impossible to

Stop Being So Hard on Yourself. It’s Not Helping You | Dr. Kristin Neff - EP 833

What if the voice you use to motivate yourself is the very voice keeping you stuck? You push harder after a mistake. You judge yourself for falling short. You tell yours

Why You Keep Repeating the Same Patterns | Terri Cole – EP 832

What if the behaviors that made you successful are the same ones keeping you from feeling fulfilled? You learned to be dependable. You became the overachiever, the caret

How Your Beliefs Shape Your Happiness, Success, and Future | Shawn Achor – EP 831

What if the beliefs you hold about yourself, your future, and the world around you are shaping what happens next more than you realize? Shawn Achor, bestselling author a

You Can Be Successful and Still Feel Like You Don't Matter | Mick Hunt & John R. Miles – EP 830

What if you can be successful, needed, productive, and admired, and still feel like you don't matter? That's the paradox at the heart of John R. Miles' new book, The Mat

Do You Matter? The Question Behind Burnout, Loneliness, and Disconnection | John R. Miles - EP 829

What if the biggest problem in your life isn't what's wrong with you—but what's happening to you?Burnout. Loneliness. Disconnection. Exhaustion. The feeling that you're c

You’re Not Failing to Adapt. You’re Being Erased. | John R. Miles - EP 828

What if the way you’ve been taught to adapt is actually making you lose yourself?For weeks, The Adaptive Human has explored what it takes to navigate a world that keeps c

You’re Not Stuck. You’re Swimming in the Wrong Direction | Alec Litowitz - EP 827

What if you're working harder and harder—but you're still moving in the wrong direction?Alec Litowitz learned this lesson during a mountain bike race in the Pyrenees, whe

Your Kids Don’t Need More Achievement. They Need More Freedom | Dr. Peter Gray - EP 826

What if the things we think are helping our children succeed are actually making it harder for them to become independent? Dr. Peter Gray has spent decades studying chil

Why What Matters Most Is Almost Never the Loudest | John R. Miles - EP 825

Why What Matters Most Is Rarely the Loudest What if the things getting the most attention in your life aren't actually the things that matter most? We live in a world t

The One Question You’re Avoiding Could Change Your Life | Scott Simon & Gregory Stock – EP 824

What if the question you’re avoiding is the one you most need to answer? We often think courage means doing something difficult or frightening. But Scott Simon says the