Self Helpful with Kevin Miller
Former pro athlete, peak performance expert, published author, and personal development guide, Kevin Miller invites today's most important influencers and changemakers to grapple with their own wisdom and stories in an authentic, relatable conversation about self-improvement and what drives them. From personal fulfillment and work-life balance to spirituality, relationships, and motivation, each four-part series distills the guests' greatest wisdom and methodologies into practical, transformative steps that anyone can integrate into their life. Kevin curates and translates the most effective self-help wisdom to help us elevate our personal experience and improve the way we show up for others. Kevin has had the honor of hosting an all-star lineup of guests, such as Simon Sinek, Arthur Brooks, Dr. Will Cole, Dandapani, Rich Roll, Nedra Tawwab Glover, Susan Cain, Seth Godin, Tom Bilyeu, Steven Kotler, Dan Harris, Jordan Harbinger, Tom Bilyeu, Lewis Howes, and many more. Self Helpful guests aren’t just self-self help gurus, they are people living extraordinary lives from all walks of life. And they want to “pay-it-forward” by sharing insight from their journey. You’ll hear their wisdom on topics like Self-Help & Personal Development, Motivation, Drive, & Peak Performance, Behavioral & Organizational Psychology, Behavioral Economics, Health, Wellness, Functional Medicine, Entrepreneurship, Professional Athletics, Parenting & Adoption, and other important facets of life. Come join the conversation!
Episodes
September 25, 2023 • 61 mins
We continue our series on Emotional Power. In the last episode my guest expert was Dr. Julia DiGangi, a neuropsychologist who completed her residency at Harvard Medical School. Dr DiGangi is author of the new book, Energy Rising: The Neuroscience of Leading with Emotional Power, and we discussed How To Discover & Correct Your Self-Limiting Patterns. Today I brought Britt Frank back onto the show to go deeper with the discussion. I ...
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September 22, 2023 • 80 mins
We begin a series on Emotional Power. Everyday life happens around us. We judge it all by how we feel about it, and we naturally trust and believe our experience. My guest today however says it’s our emotions that are the final judge of all our experiences. Not fact. Not our logic. But our emotions. To take it further she cites, “The very meaning in your life is determined by the emotions you have about it.” And what you’re about t...
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September 21, 2023 • 67 mins
In this episode we’re talking specifically in regards to glucose. You don’t care a bit about glucose, in and of itself. What you care about is your body's reaction to your food and lifestyle choices and resulting energy levels and clarity. And that’s the point, your body does react to what you eat and how you live, but it’s incredibly complex to understand the correlations. Unless, you are wearing a CGM…continual glucose monitor. T...
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September 20, 2023 • 33 mins
I wrap up our series on…men. Manhood. I called it “The Place Of Man” because that seems to be the question these days…what is…the place of men? How should we view ourselves? We grew up with expectations that seem to have changed. Maybe for better. Maybe for worse. I think both. But I find more and more men who feel numb, ashamed, or just dissatisfied. And I could say floundering with who they are, but it may be just as much, who th...
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September 18, 2023 • 66 mins
We continue our talk on A Man’s Place and I titled the show, Are We Having Fun Yet? How To Enjoy Life & Not Merely Survive It. My catalyst was Connor Beaton, founder of ManTalks, an international organization focused on men’s wellness, success, and fulfillment, author of Mens Work: A Practical Guide To Face Your Darkness, End Self-Sabotage, And Find Freedom and host of the Man Talks podcast. Now I’m with Dr Randy James. Randy is tr...
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September 15, 2023 • 63 mins
I’m back with Connor Beaton. In the previous episode we talked about How To Embrace Manhood & Also Be Human, and in this episode we talk about what drives Connor personally. I start off with something he disclosed in his book, where he shared that an overall driving force for him is the reality that he has been abused, and he has abused. He has been hurt, and he has hurt and from this he discusses dark motivation and light motivati...
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September 14, 2023 • 95 mins
We are talking about men. For those who grew up as boys and now live as men, you were raised in a social construct that had certain expectations. Times have changed and evolved, and some of those expectations have changed, but our programming never did. The result is we find ourselves in a culture where men are often confused, frustrated, ashamed, and dissatisfied. And that’s not helping men, or anyone who comes into contact with t...
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September 13, 2023 • 52 mins
The fight against cancer began around 1970, the year I was born. Culturally we’ve treated cancer like an insidious evil that is hunting us as a predator and we are its prey. It gets you or it doesn’t, you catch it or you don’t. Yet the science does not back this up. Do genetics contribute? 5-10% possibly. The main issue is what we are doing to our cells that is much the causation and reason for the continued growth. Now I realize t...
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September 11, 2023 • 46 mins
I was offered the opportunity to do a back to school special for Apple Podcasts. I’ve already been asked about creating a version of my book, What Drives You, for a high school and college perspective. Which is fitting, as the impetus to write my book came from my desires for my adult kids. I realized what I most wanted for them was to know…what they want. To understand what they value and why, for themselves. And to commit to it. ...
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September 8, 2023 • 22 mins
I wrap up our series on Confidence and have 7 key takeaways after my discussion with Heather Monahan, host of the Creating Confidence podcast, and author of Confidence Creator, and her brand new book Overcome Your Villains. Tom Ziglar, CEO of Ziglar Inc. also brought me to great insight on confidence. Walk with me as we discuss the knowledge given and the learning we have ahead of us
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September 7, 2023 • 65 mins
In this episode we continue our series on confidence, continuing from my talks with Heather Monahan, host of Creating Confidence, ranked top 200 overall in Apple Podcast. Here I bring on my great friend, Tom Ziglar. Tom is CEO of Ziglar Inc. Ziglar, founded by one of the greatest self help influencers of all time, Zig Ziglar, is renowned for building confidence in people. The right kind of confidence, which is confidence paired wit...
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September 6, 2023 • 50 mins
What Drives Heather Monahan. Heather is my resident expert in this series on Confidence, and her story is one of a long journey to understand and embrace confidence. In this episode I walk with Heather through the 7 key areas of life to see what drives her, and we dig further into her journey of confidence. Heather is a two times best-selling author, she was a Top 50 Keynote Speaker in the World in 2022, her podcast, Creating Confi...
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September 4, 2023 • 79 mins
In this episode, we kick off a series on confidence. Confidence is something I feel has gone by the cultural wayside. If you’re confident, you are arrogant or narcissistic. Yet we only pay and follow people who are confident. My expert is Heather Monahan. Heather is a two times best-selling author, she was a Top 50 Keynote Speaker in the World in 2022, and she’s host of top ranked podcast, Creating Confidence. Her first book,Confid...
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September 1, 2023 • 82 mins
Dominate Your Day Before Breakfast. The point is looking at the immense power of starting your day intentionally, which I spent most of my life, especially with little kids, not doing. My daily domination expert is Jeff Sanders. Jeff has a popular and just really inspirational podcast called The 5am Miracle Podcast. His book is also titled, The 5am Miracle, and I’ve been studying it and am talking through the concepts with Jeff in ...
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August 31, 2023 • 31 mins
The Big Idea, The Big Takeaway & The Big Action. This is part four of my series on Boundaries, and this is my second series on boundaries in two years. Because it’s such a struggle for me, and according to the research, it is for you too. We don’t do boundaries because it rubs against our desire to serve and put other people first. Which is great. It really is. And the culmination of this series and concept of boundaries is, your h...
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August 30, 2023 • 59 mins
In this episode of Self Helpful, “Find Peace By First Creating Boundaries Within Yourself” - This is part three in my series on boundaries, instigated by psychotherapist Terri Cole and the message in her new book, Boundary Boss-The Essential Guide to Talk True, Be Seen and (Finally) Live Free. In this episode my chosen co-host is Broadway and screen star, Renée Marino. Renée is author of Becoming A Master Communicator and one of my...
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August 28, 2023 • 51 mins
What Drives Terri Cole. Terri is my expert on Boundaries from the previous episode and the message of her new book, Boundary Boss-The Essential Guide to Talk True, Be Seen and (Finally) Live Free, is our muse for this series. This is where I walk through the seven key areas of life and ask her about her values and motives and her daily habits around them. As you can imagine, we came back over and over to the topic of boundaries and...
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August 25, 2023 • 86 mins
This is part one on a series about boundaries. I’ve spent most of my life with zero boundaries, thinking I was doing the world and everyone in it a favor. Instead, I found myself serving others…with a bitter heart. Or just a worn out heart. To the point where some of those closest with me told me to just go take care of myself, so that…I could take care of them better. But I still grapple with the concept a lot and I need more help...
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August 24, 2023 • 58 mins
Along with every illness, disease, and malady in America, Parkinson’s Disease is on a drastic rise. It’s no longer just an old person’s issue but is being rapidly experienced in the 30-50 year old range of men and women. As we discuss in all our discussion of illness and disease, there are lifestyle issues at work. But different than most other issues we cover, my co host, Dr Randy James reveals that with Parkinsons there are some ...
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August 23, 2023 • 21 mins
This is part four and my wrap up on this series on Emotional Intelligence. It’s rocked my world because I, like so many others, considered myself fairly emotionally intelligent because I can read other people fairly well, sense their emotions, and perform. Think of “How To Win Friends & Influence People.” A great and valuable skill for getting along with people at a face value level. But in long term relationships with ourselves an...
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