Podcast · 328 episodes
Passion Struck with John R. Miles, page 2
by Passion Struck Network · English
You built the life you were supposed to want. So why doesn't it feel like enough? Passion Struck is the #1 Health and Fitness podcast — and it exists to answer exactly that question. I'm John R. Miles — Navy veteran, former Fortune 50 executive, bestselling author — and I built this show because I lived the "successful but empty" version of life myself, and I wanted to find a better way. Each week, I sit down with the world's top voices in neuroscience, psychology, medicine, and elite performance — including Angela Duckworth, Susan Cain, Robert Waldinger, Daniel Amen, and Ryan Holiday — to unpack what the research tells us about purpose, connection, and resilience, and how to apply it to your own life. Fridays, I share what I'm learning directly, in solo episodes built around the same ideas. New interviews every Tuesday and Thursday. Solo episodes every Friday.
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How to Protect Your Brain Before It's Too Late | Dr. Daniel Amen – EP 802Dr. Daniel Amen warns that modern culture is harming brain health—especially for children and teens—through chronic stress, loneliness/disconnection, trauma, poor sleep, unhealthy food, substance…4 Aug 2026 · 54 min · 17 chapters
The Person You Become Is the Person You Practice | John R. Miles - EP 801Flourishing isn’t a finish line or a single breakthrough; it’s a daily practice.31 Jul 2026 · 26 min · 13 chapters
How to Stop Being So Hard on Yourself | Dr. D. Ivan Young - EP 800Self-compassion as resilience; how harsh self-talk, trauma, and “fight-or-flight” physiology keep high achievers in survival mode; how empathy can be weaponized or used precisely; and how to shift…30 Jul 2026 · 56 min · 19 chapters
#1 Running Coach on the Daily Habits That Create Elite Performers | Sean Brosnan - EP 799How belief, individualized coaching, and daily habits build elite endurance performance; plus specific tactics Sean Brosnan used with Newbury Park High School (culture, “purposeful” runs,…28 Jul 2026 · 1 h 2 min · 26 chapters
How to Become the Person the People You Love Need Most | John R. Miles - EP 798Personal growth isn’t private; your inner state becomes the “weather” others live in.24 Jul 2026 · 24 min · 8 chapters
How to Protect Your Identity in a World Trying to Change You | Guy Kawasaki - EP 797Identity, dignity, and autonomy in a surveillance-heavy digital world; why privacy is not “having something to hide,” how data/metadata can predict and manipulate behavior and attention, and…23 Jul 2026 · 56 min · 17 chapters
Stop Waiting to Feel Happy: The Mindset Shift Every Ambitious Person Needs | Jess Ekstrom - EP 796The episode argues that ambitious people often get trapped in “arrival” thinking—delaying joy and fulfillment until a future milestone—yet dopamine is felt in anticipation, not the result.21 Jul 2026 · 55 min · 20 chapters
Why You Keep Falling Back Into Old Habits (It's Not About Willpower) | John R. Miles - EP 795Why people fall back into old habits isn’t mainly willpower; it’s how environments shape attention, decisions, and behavior—often invisibly and long after adulthood.17 Jul 2026 · 23 min · 7 chapters
How Your Environment Shapes Your Life (And What to Change Today) | Leidy Klotz - EP 794How places shape human flourishing—through memory, belonging, agency/competence/connection, and values—plus practical changes like “space before screen.”16 Jul 2026 · 57 min · 24 chapters
How to Raise Resilient Kids in the Age of AI: The Parenting Skills AI Can Never Replace | Dr. Dana Suskind - EP 793How to raise resilient, “human-edge” children in the age of AI, arguing that AI can simulate care but can’t provide the attachment, repair, and human connection that shape early brain development and…14 Jul 2026 · 1 h · 32 chapters
Why You Keep Repeating the Same Patterns (And How Real Change Finally Happens) | John R. Miles - EP 792Why people repeat the same harmful patterns despite wanting change; real change happens when the nervous system learns a healthier way of living is safe, through ordinary repetitions that build trust.10 Jul 2026 · 20 min · 11 chapters
The Power of Positive Habits: Simple Changes That Transform Your Life | Jon Gordon - EP 791Rewiring life through positive habits and mindset—choosing “the second thought” over negative thoughts, pursuing “the great” instead of settling for “the good,” focusing on process, and building…9 Jul 2026 · 53 min · 16 chapters
How to Rewire Your Brain, Let Go of Old Wounds, and Become Who You Were Meant to Be | Nick Ortner - EP 790How EFT/tapping can “rewire” the nervous system by using neuroplasticity and memory reconsolidation to reduce long-held emotional intensity, limiting beliefs, and fear-based patterns.7 Jul 2026 · 1 h 17 min · 25 chapters
Three Conversations That Changed How I Think About Being Alive | John R. Miles EP 789Flourishing as “fully inhabited” presence, not postponed life; three conversations and questions: (1) Dan Knosson—what are you waiting to begin that has already begun?3 Jul 2026 · 31 min · 13 chapters
How to Stay Always Connected to Spirit – Even When Life Feels Hard or Overwhelming | Suzanne Giesemann - EP 788How to stay “always connected to Spirit” during hard seasons, by grounding awareness in the hara (belly energy center), using short stillness practices (3-minute “sip of the divine”), and…2 Jul 2026 · 1 h 7 min · 27 chapters
Healing Your Body Image From the Inside Out | Whitney Otto - EP 787Healing body image “from the inside out” by shifting from self-criticism and “fixing” to curiosity, compassion, and understanding the emotions and relational patterns behind negative body image.30 Jun 2026 · 55 min · 16 chapters
The Courage to Become Yourself: Remembering Who You Are | John R. Miles - EP 786The episode argues that the deepest disconnection is between who you truly are and who you’ve learned to become through roles and expectations.26 Jun 2026 · 20 min · 8 chapters
Why Great Leaders Make People Feel Like They Matter | Adrian Gostick - EP 785How leaders close the “gratitude gap” by making employees feel seen, and how fear-based cultures drive workplace anxiety.25 Jun 2026 · 57 min · 22 chapters
How to Stop Living for Everyone Else and Finally Become Yourself | Spencer West - EP 784Identity distortion and authenticity—how people end up living “inherited definitions” of success, hide parts of themselves, and feel empty; how to break free by trusting yourself, finding your…23 Jun 2026 · 55 min · 24 chapters
What Are The Hidden Attachments Running Your Life | John R. Miles - EP 783Hidden “attachments” (protective identities and coping strategies) from childhood that run adult life, blocking intimacy and self-connection.19 Jun 2026 · 20 min · 10 chapters
Why You Keep Repeating the Same Relationship Patterns | Adam Lane Smith - EP 782Attachment style as “programming” from family of origin that drives relationship patterns, mental health outcomes, and workplace loyalty; how to rewire toward secure attachment using nervous-system…18 Jun 2026 · 59 min · 24 chapters
Why You Keep Repeating the Same Patterns (And How to Finally Break Free) | Kati Morton - EP 781Why people repeat self-sabotaging patterns (perfectionism, burnout, people-pleasing, self-abandonment) and how to unlearn them by identifying fear-based “emotional adaptations” rooted in childhood…16 Jun 2026 · 1 h 1 min · 27 chapters
Why We Feel So Disconnected (And How to Find Our Way Back) | John R. Miles - EP 780Modern disconnection is less about being online and more about feeling unseen.12 Jun 2026 · 26 min · 5 chapters
Why Great Leaders Make People Love Their Work | Marcus Buckingham - EP 779Marcus Buckingham argues that love is a measurable, strategic business force that drives extreme positive outcomes (productivity, resilience, well-being, customer advocacy) and that leaders should…11 Jun 2026 · 54 min · 19 chapters