You share a life with someone you love deeply. Yet a quiet distance lingers. Conversations skim the surface. Stories remain untold. An unspoken question hangs: “Do I still truly matter to them?” This subtle loneliness affects countless relationships today. It arises not from absent love, but from a lack of relational mattering: the profound sense […]
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In this special live episode of Passion Struck, John R. Miles joins psychologist Rick Hanson and Harvard’s Joshua Greene to unpack us vs them psychology, why our brains are hardwired for tribal division in a connected world, and how neuroscience offers a path to broader belonging and compassion. At a time of rising polarization, this
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What happens when leadership stops being something you manage and starts being something you live. In this powerful episode of Passion Struck, John R. Miles explores leadership in the wild with Oli Raison and Boris Maguire, the founders of Safarini Leadership. Through immersive experiences in the Kenyan wilderness, they challenge the way modern leaders think
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What if the fundamental gap between who you are today and who you are meant to become has nothing to do with talent or timing, and everything to do with one uncomfortable moment you keep avoiding? In Passion Struck (702), John R. Miles explores why courage is a daily choice and not a personality trait
Sometimes the moments we wish we could rewind or delete end up becoming the moments that define who we are becoming. In this episode, Henna Pryor reveals why Good Awkward is not something to hide or fix but a powerful advantage we all carry without realizing it. We explore how awkwardness can help you show
If you’ve ever wondered how to go all in on the life that keeps calling you, Episode 700 of Passion Struck might be the wake-up moment you didn’t know you needed. In this milestone conversation, I sit down with Navy SEAL veteran and bestselling author Brent Gleeson, whose latest book All In reveals the painful,
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I recorded this episode because I realized how often we tell ourselves we are fine while quietly drifting further away from who we really are. At some point, you have to stop abandoning yourself. I had to face that truth in my own life. I was showing up for everyone else with clarity and purpose,
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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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Becoming your true self is something most of us are never taught. We learn early in life how to perform, how to achieve, how to please, how to earn our worth by proving something. What almost no one teaches us is how to let go. How to slow down. How to become who we actually
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