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Are you genuinely living, or just managing the life in front of you?
Success without physical vitality, emotional resilience, and authentic purpose is an empty pursuit. Passion Struck explores the science, psychology, and daily choices behind what it means to live fully alive.
Host John R. Miles spent decades at the highest levels of corporate leadership before walking away from the executive treadmill to discover what truly creates a meaningful, fulfilling life. Today, the bestselling author and former Fortune 50 executive brings together world-leading neuroscientists, physicians, psychologists, and behavioral experts alongside Olympic champions, professional athletes, celebrated actors, military veterans, and contemplative teachers.
Through candid, research-backed conversations and powerful solo masterclasses, Passion Struck explores how to strengthen your mental and physical health, build meaningful relationships, overcome limiting beliefs, discover your purpose, and create a life that reflects what matters most.
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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 nutrition began with her own struggles with food and body image. In this conve
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 archives. Decades later, Harvard developmental psychologist Alexis Reddi
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, ambitions, and goals. Yet somehow, you keep waiting for the right moment,
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 (https://www.gse.harvard.edu/directory/faculty/alexis-redding) and her colleagues uncovered interviews with college students from th
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 (https://matteringeffect.com/) landed on the USA Today bestseller list, John caught himself immediately checking where it mig
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 (https://www.heathermonahan.com/) knows firsthand how that experience can change you. After rising to
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 this episode of Passion Struck, I sit down with Dr. Nir Halevy, a Stanfo
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 ignore. After years of executive success, demanding workweeks, and resp
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 yourself that if you were more disciplined, more successful, or simply bette
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 caretaker, the person who never asks for help. People praised your strength,
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 and one of the leading voices in positive psychology, joins John R. Mile
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 Mattering Effect. (https://matteringeffect.com/) In this special conversat
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 constantly working, producing, improving, and performing, yet somehow
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 changing. Angela Duckworth showed us that our environments shape who w
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, when hesitating before a blind downhill jump nearly sent him over the ha
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 childhood, play, education, and human development. In his new book, Restori
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 that rewards visibility. The viral headline. The impressive title. The dr
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 place people struggle most isn't physical courage—it’s having the coura
The Psychology Behind Why Smart People Make Terrible Decisions | Alex Edmans – EP 823
You're smart. You're informed. So why do you still make terrible decisions? We like to believe that intelligence and information protect us from bad decisions. They don't. Professor Alex Edmans, Professor of Finance at London Business Schoo
What If the Proof You're Waiting For Never Comes? | John R. Miles - EP 822
What if the proof you're waiting for never comes? The apology. The promotion. The recognition. Someone finally admitting they were wrong about you. Someone finally telling you that you belong. What if you're waiting for proof that you don't
Why Nothing You Achieve Will Ever Make You Feel Worthy | Marisa G. Franco – EP 821
Why do you still feel like you're not enough—even when your life looks successful from the outside? You can have a successful career, loving relationships, and people who genuinely care about you—and still struggle to believe you're worthy
How to Believe in Yourself When Everyone Tells You “You Can’t” | Cole Brauer - EP 820
What happens when someone tells you that you're too small to do the thing you've been working toward your entire life? For Cole Brauer, that moment could have been the end of the story. Instead, it became part of the beginning. Cole was tol
The Agency Paradox: Why Real Adaptability Starts Inside the Box | John R. Miles - EP 819
What if having more freedom doesn't always make you more free? We tend to believe that adaptability means having more options, more resources, more independence, and more control. But after conversations with Martin Seligman and David Epste
You Don't Need More Freedom. You Need Better Constraints | David Epstein - EP 818
Have you ever felt like you need more options, more time, more freedom, or a bigger opportunity before you can finally make progress? What if the opposite is true? Today, John R. Miles sits down with New York Times bestselling author David
World’s Most Influential Psychologist: The Hidden Force That Drives Human Progress | Dr. Martin Seligman – EP 817
Have you ever reached a point where you stopped believing that what you do could actually make a difference? Maybe you tried harder. Maybe you kept showing up. But after enough setbacks, rejection, or disappointment, something inside you st
You Are Not the Only Variable: When to Change Yourself and When to Change Your Environment | John R. Miles - EP 816
Have you ever worked harder and harder at something, only to wonder why nothing seems to change? You may assume the answer is that you need more discipline, more motivation, or more grit. But what if the problem isn't you? Today, John R. Mi
World-Renowned Historian: When Leaders Actually Change History | Jared Diamond - EP 815
What makes someone a great leader? Is it talent? Timing? Character? Circumstance? Or simply being the right person in the right place at the right moment? Today, John R. Miles sits down with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and bestselling
World-Leading Psychologist: How to Change Your Life by Changing What’s Around You | Angela Duckworth - EP 814
If you’ve been trying to change your life but keep falling back into the same habits, this episode is for you. Today, John R. Miles sits down with Angela Duckworth, one of the world’s leading psychologists and the bestselling author of Grit
How to Stop Feeling Like You’re Never Doing Enough | Caleb Campbell - EP 813
If you constantly feel like you should be doing more, achieving more, or becoming more, this episode is for you. Today, John R. Miles sits down with Caleb Campbell, a former NFL player and author of the new book Unstriving. For much of his
30 Years of Research Reveals Why Midlife Isn’t a Crisis | Margie Lachman - EP 812
What if everything you’ve been told about midlife is wrong? If you’ve ever worried that your best years are behind you, that it’s too late to change, or that getting older automatically means losing your energy, purpose, or sense of possibi
