Most people think improv is about being funny on stage. Anne Libera has spent 30+ years proving the opposite: the deepest life lessons from improv have almost nothing to do with jokes and everything to do with how you show up in real life. In this conversation with the legendary Second City director (teacher to […]
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Most of us move through life sensing that something deeper is trying to reach us, yet we rarely stop long enough to notice the signs you are ignoring your intuition is one of them. We feel subtle nudges we cannot explain, moments of knowing that we brush aside, and quiet signals from within that we
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The Science of Revenge reveals a truth most of us never learned. Our brains are wired to crave payback. What feels like anger, justice, or righteous indignation is often something deeper. A biological loop that pulls us toward retaliation even when we know it will not make us whole. In this episode, Yale psychiatry professor
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We are connected all the time with phones, apps, social media, and streaming. But still, many of us wake up feeling alone, empty, and tired inside. This is the loneliness crisis. In this talk, I meet with Don Martin. He is an author, a fantasy writer, a poet, and the host of the Head On
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Why humanity is your competitive edge has become one of the most urgent truths of our era. For decades, we were taught that success meant perfect credentials, flawless output, and unbroken productivity. But that story collapsed the moment artificial intelligence started doing the very things we were told to master. In a world of acceleration
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We all have a story running in the background.A whisper that shows up at the worst possible moment.A voice that tells us we are not enough, not ready, not worthy. Lynn Smith calls that voice the Brain Bully. And during her fifteen years as an anchor for NBC, MSNBC, and CNN, she learned that even
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Amina AlTai is an executive coach, leadership trainer, chronic illness advocate, and the bestselling author of The Ambition Trap. She has guided founders, Fortune 500 leaders, and some of the most driven people in the world toward healthier, more aligned success. In this episode, she joins me to explore why ambition often turns painful, how
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In this episode, John R. Miles sits down with Dr. Zac Seidler, clinical psychologist and Global Director of Men’s Health Research at Movember, to explore the hidden crisis in men’s mental health. Together, they examine the rise of loneliness, emotional isolation, and identity strain among men, and why these challenges are emerging as one of
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What if your words are not just communication tools but leadership tools that define trust, culture, and character? That is the quiet truth about leadership. The most powerful leaders are not remembered for their titles or strategies but for the words they choose and the worlds those words create. In this special episode of The
What if the reason we drift apart isn’t love fading, but language unspoken? In this episode of Passion Struck, host John R. Miles sits down with Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author Charles Duhigg to explore how we can reconnect when distance has crept into our relationships, and how to rediscover what he calls the
