The human-dog bond began 14,000 years ago in a gravel pit near Bonn, Germany. A seven-month-old puppy, milk teeth intact, was buried beside two humans, bones dusted with red ochre, antler tools tucked like heirlooms. This wasn’t disposal. It was the first human-dog bond: a pact sealed in ochre and eternity. Archaeologists call it the […]
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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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When Elias Weiss Friedman left his job in brand strategy during a New York layoff, he dusted off his camera, wandered the streets, and started asking strangers a question no one else was asking: Can I photograph your dog? That simple act became The Dogist, a storytelling movement with over 11 million followers and more
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We’re racing to make machines cry, laugh, and love, while millions of us forgot how to do it first. That’s the quiet emergency behind episode 687 of Passion Struck on What AI Can’t Teach, part of my new series The Irreplaceables: Rediscovering Human Worth in an Age of Acceleration. Everywhere we look, algorithms are simulating
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We live in a time when our attention has become the world’s most valuable currency — and the most stolen. In this week’s Passion Struck conversation, I sat down with Dr. Zelana Montminy, behavioral scientist and author of Finding Focus: Own Your Attention in an Age of Distraction, to uncover why our ability to pay
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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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A few weeks ago, while recording Episode 678 of Passion Struck on The Hidden Rules of Luck, I asked a question that stopped me mid-sentence and has stayed with me ever since: Whose story am I living? This profound inquiry has lingered in my thoughts ever since. For many of us, the response isn’t straightforward—we
The miles that make us who we are are rarely the easy ones. They are the miles that ask something of us: patience, presence, courage, or simply the willingness to take one more step when we are unsure we can. These miles shape identity in ways that time alone cannot. In this Passion Struck conversation,
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In every organization, there are two invisible forces shaping how people show up: fear and belonging. For decades, fear has driven how we lead, motivate, and measure success. But a quiet revolution is underway—one that replaces control with connection, and compliance with compassion. Few leaders embody this shift more fully than Claude Silver, Chief Heart
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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
