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Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan ChatterjeeHow To Become Less Reactive & Cultivate A Deep Sense Of Calm with Jonny Miller #569Many of us are living with chronically dysregulated nervous systems, yet we mistake this reactive state for normal. Research suggests that our nervous system acts as a lens through which we experience reality. But when that lens is out of balance, we start to see threats where none exist – and respond in an exaggerated way to everyday situations.
Today’s guest believes that by learning to work with our body’s innate wisdom, we can transform not just how we respond to stress, but how we experience life itself.
Jonny Miller is the founder of Nervou...2025-07-021h 51
The Embodiment Coaching PodcastThe Nervous System Survival Guide You've Always Needed – With Jonny MillerWhy is everyone wired, tired, and teetering on the edge lately? I sat down with nervous system specialist and host of the Curious Humans podcast Jonny Miller to unpack the physiological chaos so many of us are feeling. Jonny breaks down why our systems are overstimulated, how hyper/hypo arousal plays out in daily life, and what we were never taught about calming the hell down. We talk about phone addiction, loneliness, co-regulation, and what resilience really means in an AI-speed world. It’s a conversation that’s both calming and confronting—for coaches, leaders, and anyone trying...2025-07-0144 min
Creator ScienceJonny Miller – $800,000+ from six cohorts of his signature course [Greatest Hits]Jonny Miller is the creator of Nervous System Mastery. It teaches evidence-backed protocols to cultivate calm, build resilience, and increase aliveness in 45 days. It’s a five-week, cohort-based course that is just wrapping up its sixth cohort in the last three years. In those six cohorts, Jonny has served nearly 1,000 students and earned more than $800,000.Here’s the best part – Jonny doesn’t have a massive audience. When he launched Nervous System Mastery, he had a couple thousand followers on Twitter and a small email list. This is the magic of a well-designed Signature Product – and Jonny is the per...2025-04-1557 min
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerUnlocking Embodied Leadership with Franziska GonderFranzi is someone whose work sits at the powerful intersection of nervous system health, emotional resilience, and embodied leadership. What I admire most about her is the way she weaves personal integrity, deep inquiry, and relational intelligence into every facet of her life — from parenting her three sons to working with founders navigating burnout and stuck emotions. We explore what it truly means to lead from a place of wholeness — and why she believes leadership should be a force for healing, not just productivity. Franzi shares how curiosity became her greatest ally through grief and trauma, and how...2025-04-071h 08
AI & IHe’s Using AI to Optimize His Life - Ep. 53 with Jonny MillerJonny Miller uploaded his entire life to ChatGPT to use it as the ultimate AI coach. He created what he calls a Codex Vitae—with core personality traits, values, goals, burnout signals and more to load into ChatGPT. It hyper-customizes his responses, to help him access deep meditation states, create custom supplementation plans, and do deep research on areas of brain and body that he finds interesting. Jonny runs a course on nervous system mastery, hosts a podcast, coaches founders and CEOs, and is building a wellness app—all using...2025-03-261h 03
AI and IHe’s Using AI to Optimize His Life - Ep. 53 with Jonny MillerJonny Miller uploaded his entire life to ChatGPT to use it as the ultimate AI coach. He created what he calls a Codex Vitae—with core personality traits, values, goals, burnout signals and more to load into ChatGPT. It hyper-customizes his responses, to help him access deep meditation states, create custom supplementation plans, and do deep research on areas of brain and body that he finds interesting. Jonny runs a course on nervous system mastery, hosts a podcast, coaches founders and CEOs, and is building a wellness app—all using A...2025-03-261h 03
Soulful Impact with Brooks BarronTouching God Through Grief w/ Jonny MillerWatch this episode on YouTube.Today’s episode features my good friend and nervous system specialist, Jonny Miller.Jonny is the host of the Curious Humans Podcast and founder of Nervous System Mastery, Jonny is the host of the Curious Humans Podcast and the founder of Nervous System Mastery — a 5-week bootcamp to cultivate calm, boost resilience, and increase aliveness.I often talk about how one way to conceive of the soul journey is alchemizing our pain into purpose.Especially in the modern world, where most of us don’t have villag...2025-03-211h 18
"Modern Relationships"What Wellness Coaches Know About Staying Married | Jonny Miller and Kelly Wilde MillerCurious Humans podcast host Jonny Miller and creative coach Kelly Wilde Miller sit down with Erik Torenberg and share their framework for "shortening the half-life of reactivity" of conflicts, their sacred Sunday check-in practice, and why they view marriage as "an arena for surfacing our own stuff."Modern Relationships is a podcast from Turpentine. Learn more: www.turpentine.co -- SPONSOR: Relationship Hero It’s an open secret in Silicon Valley that people are using relationship coaches. Sign up for 1-on-1 relationship coaching (from anywhere) at RelationshipHero.com/mo...2025-03-081h 14
Strategic Advisor BoardEpisode 1052 "Pivot Perspectives": Why Jonny Hates Marketing—And Why You Shouldn’t EitherWhy does Jonny hate marketing, and why should you care? Jonny Cooper challenges traditional marketing, arguing that it often fails coaches and therapists. Instead, he advocates for "hard helping"—a strategy focused on genuine client attraction through value-driven engagement rather than paid ads. Drawing from his experience as a top salesperson and founder of an eight-figure financial firm, Jonny shares how to craft irresistible offers, build authentic connections, and create a thriving business by aligning passion with profit. If you're looking to simplify your approach while achieving real success, this episode is a must-listen.📘 Downl...2025-02-271h 06
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerFocusing on What Matters Most with Nat EliasonIn this episode, I’m speaking with a friend, author, entrepreneur & prolific writer Nat Eliason.The timing of this conversation was interesting as we recorded it shortly before the US elections, after which the crypto markets shot back into the mainstream. You’ll hear about the intense emotional rollercoaster he went through, losing millions of dollars in a very short period of time — how it felt to write about this — what he’s learned about cultivating creative endurance with his writing, as well as his perspective on relaxation versus numbing and how our relationship with work pushes us towards...2025-02-201h 29
Talking Billions with Bogumil BaranowskiJonny Miller: Nervous System Mastery - Cultivating Calm, Reducing Nervousness, Enhancing Resilience & More[SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: If you are interested in meeting me, the host of Talking Billions, please fill out the form here, both in-person and virtual meetings are available until my calendar fills up: FORM available HERE]Jonny Miller is the founder of Nervous System Mastery, a course that has helped 1000+ high-performing humans from all walks of life, cultivate calm, reduce nervousness, enhance resilience, and elevate their sense of aliveness. He is the host of a terrific podcast, Curious Humans with Jonny Miller.SummaryIn this conversation, Johnny Miller, shares insights on...2025-02-171h 12
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerEmbracing Twilight Zones, Self-Exploration & Living with OCD with Dan ShipperIn this episode, I'm speaking with Dan Shipper — Dan is a friend, the founder of Every, and someone who I consider to be a philosopher founder.This conversation didn’t go the direction that I thought it would, I had prepared questions exploring the future of AI and technology, but I’m glad we listened to the thread that was most alive — which ended up being exploring Dan’s personal journey with OCD and recent deep dive into Jungian archetypal perspectives — and living on the borders of things — the Twilight Zone that he poetically described. Dan did manage to save m...2025-02-111h 12
Elevated ThoughtsThe Ukraine War Cover-Up: Jonny Miller Exposes the Truth Western Media Won’t Show | Ep. 46The Ukraine War isn’t what you’ve been told. Western media has crafted a one-sided narrative, but UK journalist Jonny Miller, who has spent years in Russia and Russian-controlled Ukraine, reveals a starkly different reality.
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From the failures of Ukraine’s counter-offensive to the hidden suffering in Donbass, Miller exposes what mainstream outlets refuse to cover. Could peace talks have ended this war...2025-02-0552 min
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerYou Are One Question Away From a Completely Different Life with Marc ChampagneIn this episode, I'm speaking with Marc Champagne — who after building a journaling app that reached nearly 90 million users and then having to shut it down, emerged with profound insights about the power of transformative questions and the Socratic Method.In this conversation, we explored:❓ What it means to ask better quality questions, some of the specific questions that have altered the trajectory of Marc’s life — like “How can I be the most curious person in the room?” or “Whom haven't I thanked lately?”🧠 And how his research led him to explore practices of Mental...2025-02-051h 22
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerMinimum Viable Woo, Trusting Curiosity & Navigating a Dark Night of the Soul with Tom MorganIn this episode, I'm speaking with Tom Morgan — who after 15 years on Wall Street and experiencing what he describes as a "hellish midlife transition" (which is putting it mildly) has emerged with profound insights about human development and — especially relevant for this podcast – the nature of curiosity itself.In this conversation, we explored:🧠 How we might navigate the delicate balance between intellectual understanding and embodied wisdom, especially for high-achieving individuals seeking deeper meaning in their lives🏔️ An insight about what he calls "intellectual recapture" — which is the tendency, especially among highly educated or successful peopl...2025-01-061h 09
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerMeet the Man Reimagining Neuroscience: Michael Edward JohnsonI’m speaking with theoretical neuroscientist Michael Edward Johnson — who, after spending seven years researching consciousness and writing the book Principia Qualia, has developed a revolutionary theory that could fundamentally change how we understand trauma, meditation, and human wellbeing. Mike’s theory of ‘latches’ — what he calls vasocumputation — may provide a testable and concrete biological mechanism for how trauma gets stored in the body, and how to release it effectively.This sounds nerdy and abstract, but it’s my belief that if his claims can be tested and validated — it would revolutionize the medical system and allow somatic...2024-12-171h 56
The Accrescent: Bioenergetic Healing168. Jonny Miller - Finding Balance: The Art of Emotional and Nervous System RegulationIn this episode of The Accrescent Podcast, host Leigh Ann welcomes Jonny Miller to discuss foundational and advanced concepts of the nervous system. Jonny shares his personal journey, which began with a tragedy that led him to explore meditation, breathwork, and the common thread of the human nervous system in various healing practices. The conversation covers the basics of the nervous system, the difference between hyperarousal and hypoarousal states, and practical examples of these states in daily life. Leigh Ann and Jonny also explore the importance of self-experimentation, the role of emotions in nervous system regulation, and preventive measures...2024-11-251h 13
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Creator ScienceJonny Miller – $800,000+ from six cohorts of his signature courseJonny Miller is the creator of Nervous System Mastery. It teaches evidence-backed protocols to cultivate calm, build resilience, and increase aliveness in 45 days. It’s a five-week, cohort-based course that is just wrapping up its sixth cohort in the last three years. In those six cohorts, Jonny has served nearly 1,000 students and earned more than $800,000.Here’s the best part – Jonny doesn’t have a massive audience. When he launched Nervous System Mastery, he had a couple thousand followers on Twitter and a small email list. This is the magic of a well-designed Signature Product – and Jonny is the per...2024-11-1257 min
50 Fires: Money and Meaning with Carl RichardsHow To Avoid Burnout with Former Tech Entrepreneur and Founder of Nervous System Mastery Jonny MillerWhat job have you given money, and is it realistic? Jonny Miller and Carl explore this question in a discussion that digs deeper into the meanings of wealth, ambition, and fulfillment. Jonny is the founder of the Nervous System Mastery program, providing high-performers - from the CEO of a rocket ship company to startup founders recovering from burnout to busy parents attempting to stay afloat amidst the chaos of raising a family- with evidence-backed protocols to cultivate calm, build resilience & increase aliveness. A former tech entrepreneur, Jonny and Carl explore the pitfalls of hustle culture, the importance of self-unfoldment ov...2024-10-3059 min
Real Relationships Real Revenue - Video Edition | Invest in Relationships to Build Your Business and Your CareerNervous System Mastery: Science-Backed Secrets to Energy Management with Nervous System Expert Jonny MillerHave you ever wished you could control your energy levels as easily as adjusting the temperature on your thermostat? In this episode, I dive into the fascinating world of nervous system mastery with Jonny Miller, who's revolutionizing how we approach energy management and self-regulation. Jonny shares incredibly practical techniques that can help you shift your energy state in as little as 30-60 seconds, whether you need to calm down after a stressful meeting or amp up before an important presentation. We explore the science behind these techniques, including the groundbreaking finding that there are four ti...2024-10-2234 min
Real Relationships Real Revenue - Audio Edition | Invest in Relationships to Build Your Business and Your CareerNervous System Mastery: Science-Backed Secrets to Energy Management with Nervous System Expert Jonny MillerHave you ever wished you could control your energy levels as easily as adjusting the temperature on your thermostat? In this episode, I dive into the fascinating world of nervous system mastery with Jonny Miller, who's revolutionizing how we approach energy management and self-regulation. Jonny shares incredibly practical techniques that can help you shift your energy state in as little as 30-60 seconds, whether you need to calm down after a stressful meeting or amp up before an important presentation. We explore the science behind these techniques, including the groundbreaking finding that there are four ti...2024-10-2234 minReal Relationships Real Revenue - Video Edition | Invest in Relationships to Build Your Business and Your CareerNervous System Mastery: Science-Backed Secrets to Energy Management with Nervous System Expert Jonny MillerHave you ever wished you could control your energy levels as easily as adjusting the temperature on your thermostat? In this episode, I dive into the fascinating world of nervous system mastery with Jonny Miller, who's revolutionizing how we approach energy management and self-regulation. Jonny shares incredibly practical techniques that can help you shift your energy state in as little as 30-60 seconds, whether you need to calm down after a stressful meeting or amp up before an important presentation. We explore the science behind these techniques, including the groundbreaking finding that there are four ti...2024-10-2234 min
What's the Big Idea with Andrew HornJonny Miller: Unlocking Peak Performance through Nervous System MasteryToday's guest is Jonny Miller, a nervous system specialist, transformational coach and host of the Curious Humans podcast. In this episode, Jonny dives into the science and practice of nervous system regulation, sharing how this foundational skill can help individuals manage stress, increase emotional balance, and perform at their best.
Drawing from his personal experiences and journey of growth, Jonny highlights how mastering the nervous system has been pivotal in overcoming emotional challenges and achieving mental clarity.
Jonny explains how understanding the body’s stress response - along with tools to regulate it - can hav...2024-10-211h 03
Produced By with TommenHealing Through Curiosity: Mastering Your Nervous System | #74: Jonny MillerJonny Miller is the host of the Curious Humans podcast and the creator of Nervous System Mastery, a five-week bootcamp designed to help founders and tech leaders cultivate calm, resilience, and emotional self-regulation. He’s known for his TEDx talk, “The Gifts of Grief,” and has spent years researching emotional resilience in leadership. As a coach, Jonny has worked with ambitious founders to help them scale themselves, drawing on his extensive experience in the tech industry. His passion for exploring the nervous system and emotional mastery has drawn students from top tech companies like Google, Apple, and Meta. Listen to thi...2024-10-2157 min
Produced By with TommenHealing Through Curiosity: Mastering Your Nervous System | #74: Jonny MillerJonny Miller is the host of the Curious Humans podcast and the creator of Nervous System Mastery, a five-week bootcamp designed to help founders and tech leaders cultivate calm, resilience, and emotional self-regulation. He’s known for his TEDx talk, “The Gifts of Grief,” and has spent years researching emotional resilience in leadership. As a coach, Jonny has worked with ambitious founders to help them scale themselves, drawing on his extensive experience in the tech industry. His passion for exploring the nervous system and emotional mastery has drawn students from top tech companies like Google, Apple, and Meta. 2024-10-2157 min
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerOvercoming the Inner-Critic, Reclaiming Aliveness & Learning Somatic Intuition with River KennaI’ve been following River’s substack essays for a few years now and I feel a real kinship with his irreverent and genuinely unique perspectives — as well as his talent for self-experimentation and weaving together esoteric yet incredibly practical concepts which he uses for self-exploration.In this conversation, you can expect to learn:💬 How River was able to use somatic-based practices to go from experiencing an incessant inner-critic and suicidal ideation, to almost no inner-dialogue and opening up access to his emotions.🧠 We explore the dynamic between what he calls Systems Mode that dominate...2024-09-121h 31
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerHow to Conquer Public Speaking Anxiety with Tristan de MontebelloIn this conversation, I’m speaking with my good friend and cofounder of Ultraspeaking Tristan de Montebello. Tristan has an incredible story of training to become a finalist in the World Championship of Public Speaking in just seven months.In this conversation, you can expect to learn:📣 Tristan's radical approach of focusing on impromptu speaking rather than scripted speeches 💬 Unlocking capacity for self-expression & why the key starts with learning to speak before you think🎴 How they developed games for practicing more authentic self-expression🧠 The magic of what Tristan calls ‘The Butler in your subconscious’ 2024-09-051h 13
The Decision-Making Studio PodcastEp. 227: Jonny Miller - On Nervous System Mastery and Decision-Making Today, we delve into the role of our nervous system in decision-making, and we explore whether the best decision-making is emotional. This one will perhaps make you think differently about that. That does not mean that we ought to decide impulsively or like a toddler, but it does mean that we should integrate our emotional states into our decision-making. And doing that is a skill that involves knowing how to work with our nervous system. My guest is Jonny Miller, who makes his second appearance on the show. Jonny works with leaders and founders on...2024-09-041h 36
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerOptimizing Your Life for Enjoyment with Ali AbdaalA few years back Ali decided to quit his job as a junior doctor in the UK to become a full time YouTuber. Since then his career and life has skyrocketed — he’s built a channel with over 5.5 million youtube subscribers and recently published a New York Times Bestselling book called ‘Feel Good Productivity’In this conversation Ali shares:😨 His experience with imposter syndrome whilst writing his book🧠 Recent insights around 'leaving mental health on the table' ⚖️ How he’s been intentionally de-optimising his life❓ The radical question of what would life and business look like if...2024-08-261h 11
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerLeadership and the Longing to Belong with Jerry ColonnaI’m speaking with co-founder of Reboot Jerry Colonna. Jerry is one of the most infamous executive coaches in the world — with a reputation for making CEOs cry and asking devastatingly poignant self-reflection questions.In this conversation, we explore:🕷️ Jerry's inner journey discovering his mythopoetic identity and how that has informed the coaching work he is so known for🙇♂️ The idea that one measure of a leader is the numerous of people who feel safe enough to belong🌍 The root causes of the global intimacy disorder that our culture is experiencing ❤️ The very human tension between lon...2024-08-2156 min
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerDiscovering the Hero's Journey to Wholeness with Ben KattBen is the author of the phenomenal new book: The Way Home: Discovering the Hero's Journey to Wholeness at Midlife. I was really excited to talk to Ben because the hero’s journey has been a framework that I still use myself as a way of orienting and meaning making. Ben shares how his own life has been a series of spiraling journeys, embodying the hero’s path.In this conversation, you can expect to learn: 📚 Challenges of refusing the call to adventure🤷♂️ The transition between evasion and embracing the unknown.🧘 The work of Bill Plotkin, and ho...2024-08-171h 03
Rageheart#13: Jonny Miller – How To Heal A Broken HeartIn 2017, Jonny Miller’s fiancée took her own life.
This podcast episode is about what happened next.
How did Jonny deal with the gut-wrenching pain of this loss?
How did he open to love again?
And what were some of the most powerful lessons along the way?
He describes this journey beautifully in one of his emails:
"One of my more profound realizations –– and gifts of grief –– was that I had unknowingly spent the vast majority of my life living in my head and emotionally numb from the ne...2024-08-091h 02
Deal by Deal: A Private Equity PodcastThe Challenges of Independent Sponsorship with Jonny Miller and Mario Burstein of Platt Park Capital PartnersOn this episode of Deal by Deal, co-hosts Jason Griffith and Trey Andrews welcome Jonny Miller and Mario Burstein of Platt Park Capital Partners to discuss their emergence into independent sponsorship.Tune in as Jonny and Mario discuss how Platt Park came to be, how they secured their first deal, and how they can apply what they learned in their first deal to future deals. Jonny and Mario talk about managing seller expectations, focusing on the process instead of aiming for perfection, and how to make the transition from an acquisition to running the day-to-day operations of...2024-06-2423 min
Midlife Mastery - with Daniel WagnerJonny Miller on Nervous System Literacy: Harness the Power of Somatic IntelligenceMore about Jonny Miller here: His course Nervous System Mastery: nsmastery.com (also the code MIDLIFE will give a $250 discount to listeners)Your Nervous System Assessment: assessment.nsmastery.com (free self-Assessment)Jonny Podcast Curious Humans: sptfy.com/curioushumans (link to the Curious Humans podcast)Explore the benefits of understanding your body's signals in this episode of Midlife Mastery featuring Johnny Miller from Nervous System Mastery. Johnny discusses the importance of somatic awareness and interoception in managing emotional instability and anxiety, especially useful in midlife transitions. He shares how being attuned to your nervous system can improve decision-making an...2024-04-3048 min
Lifeselfmastery's podcast I Startups I Venture CapitalMastering Your Nervous System with Jonny MillerIn this podcast episode, Jonny Miller, founder of Nervous System Mastery, talks about his journey from studying at Durham University to becoming an entrepreneur and eventually creating a course to help others manage stress and enhance resilience. He discusses his startup experiences, including his travel magazine and MapTier, and the lessons learned from those ventures. Jonny shares insights on emotional resilience, the importance of learning and curiosity, and the development of his course. He also covers the impact of technology on well-being, the benefits of meditation and yoga, and strategies for handling emotions and stress in professional settings. Jonny...2024-02-2940 min
Grief & PizzaNervous System Mastery with Jonny MillerIn this episode, we spoke with Jonny Miller, the mind behind Nervous System Mastery, about the critical role of understanding our nervous system. Jonny shared insights from his personal journey through grief, leading him to delve into the connections between emotions, physicality, breathwork, and the nervous system. He introduced the concept of interoception and its importance in building emotional resilience, alongside the complexities involved in teaching and sharing the nuances of mastering our nervous systems. Our conversation also ventured into the realms of psychedelics and their potential to deepen our connection with our nervous systems, the impact o...2024-02-1448 min
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerInsights from Groundbreaking MDMA Research with MAPS Therapist Marcela Ot’aloraMarcela Ot’alora worked as the lead co-therapist and principal investigator for all of the MAPS — which stands for Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies — MDMA-assisted psychotherapy studies. She has also been designing curriculum and training therapists associated with MAPS.In this conversation, which we recorded together in our home here in Boulder Colorado, we explored how she found her way into this work over three decades ago, possible tension I perceived between the clinical aspect of these studies and the sacredness of the work, how she trains therapists in the rare art of being able to hold space f...2024-01-291h 08
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | GrowthManaging nerves, anxiety, and burnout | Jonny Miller (Nervous System Mastery)Jonny Miller is the founder of Nervous System Mastery, a course that has helped hundreds of founders and tech leaders cultivate calm, reduce nervousness, enhance resilience, and elevate their sense of aliveness. Having personally benefited from Jonny’s teachings, I’m especially excited to have him on the show. In this episode, we discuss:• How shifting your focus from the mind to the body can help ease nervousness• The power of breath in changing states• The importance of “interoception”• Specific breathing exercises to both calm and excite your nervous system• The A.P.E...2024-01-281h 14
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerCourage as a Measure of Our Heartfelt Participation with Life with David WhyteI'm choosing to republish this episode that I had with David Whyte four years ago, because I had found myself revisiting his timeless book Consolations’ and rediscovering wisdom that felt appropriate for these times — which has remained within an arm's reach of my bedside ever since I first discovered it. It ratcheted open my mind to a new perspective on the definitions of words like Ambition, Courage and Heartbreak, that I thought I previously understood.I’m not sure how to even begin to describe exactly what David does. On paper, he's an acclaimed poet, a writer, and a...2024-01-0138 min
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerThe Reason Self Development is Fundamentally Flawed with Steve MarchIn this episode, I am speaking with Steve March — who is, although maybe lesser known in the public sphere, what he has created with Aletheia, which we will get into — is, to my mind, a revolutionary innovation in the realm of human development and how we orient to personal growth.Expect to have your paradigm of personal growth turned upside down as we cover:⚖️ Self-development vs. Self-unfoldment, which points to why so much of the personal development industry and individual efforts to self-improve are doomed to fail from the outset. And how might we make a New Ye...2023-12-181h 43
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerHow to Win the Game of Life with Khe HyKhe Hy is a dear friend, creator and philosopher in residence at Rad Reads, which is a business he started after leaving a 7-figure salary on Wall Street. He is a dedicated Father, host of the superb Examined Life podcast and makes time to get in the ocean and surf every single day. In this conversation, you can expect to hear:- How Khe has worked through his feelings of self-doubt - Exploring his insights from wrestling with desires for fame and validation. - The question of 'Winning the Game of Life' has...2023-12-061h 14
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerIncrease Your Nervous System Capacity with Ryan DueyRyan Duey is an entrepreneur, podcaster, the founder + CEO of Plunge.com and as you'll hear in this episode, a remarkably self-aware and courageous human.Over a decade ago, Ryan had what he calls his “greatest gift” — a head-on motorcycle accident in Thailand. This near-death experience catapulted Ryan into a journey of self-inquiry, leading him to the jungles of the Amazon, the inside of a float tank.In this conversation, you can expect to learn:⚖️ How to balance of selfishness and selflessness❄️ His relationship with surrendering into the cold🏫 The Importance of Reth...2023-11-081h 05
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerThe Value of Wilderness-Based Rites of Passage with Brooks BarronBrooks Barron is an experienced leadership coach specializing in nature-based initiations and rites of passage — to help the leaders he works with explore their vulnerability, find their inner wisdom, and surrender to the flow of what wants to come through them.In this conversation, you can expect to learn:- Brooks' definition of wholeness as a human being - The difference between the desire to make an impact in the world from above the line vs. below the line.- How he shifted out of victim consciousness and took 100% responsibility for his life.2023-10-261h 16
CindePodcastJustin Zuckerman and Festival Recap with TJ Peloquin and Bretton MillerJonny is joined by Cindependent curator, TJ Peloquin, and Cindependent 2023 award nominated director, Bretton Miller, to reflect on the beautiful 2023 Cindependent Film Festival.
Then Jonny chats with Justin Zuckerman (46:40), director of the indie gem, Yelling Fire in an Empty Theater - screening Monday, October 2nd at the Woodward Theater in downtown Cincinnati. Justin tells Jonny about shooting the film on Mini DV format, Yelling Fire's place in the mumblecore pantheon, the film's festival journey, and more!2023-10-021h 38
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerHow to Find Your Inner Light with Matt MarucaShow NotesMatt Maruca is the founder of RaOptics, who make, I think it's fair to say objectively, the world's best blue-blocking glasses — but more importantly, he is in my view a radical citizen scientist, self-experimenter, and articulate communicator — and what's more he's only 24 years old. Which, given his depth of knowledge and wisdom, is somewhat mind-blowing for someone of his age.This conversation didn't go the way that I had expected. I'd been reading journal papers and studies on photobiology, mitochondrial health, and how to optimize our light environment... but fairly quickly it became clear...2023-10-011h 19
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerHave We Solved Mental Healthcare? Exploring Psychedelic Therapy for Lasting Transformation with Dr Michael YangDr Michael Yang is an integrative medicine specialist based in Los Angeles who specializes in Ketamine treatment. I had an absolute blast with Michael and honestly feel a renewed sense of optimism for the medical system knowing that there are doctors like him treating patients.In this conversation, you can expect to learn:💊 Ketamine's clinical use and its role as a psychedelic in his clinical practice🧠 How to increase the squishiness of your brain😬 Why suffering might make us uniquely human🤔 A primer on Aztec existentialist philosophy😲 The incredible benefits of inducing awe in p...2023-09-211h 17
Stamina LabNervous System Mastery with Jonny MillerThe Nervous System Mastery course created by Jonny Miller offers so much information about co-regulating, using the nervous system for better sleep and recovery, and more. Today on the Stamina Lab podcast, Jonny joins the show to talk about the course, share more on his work and research in this area, and how he uses what he’s learned personally in his day-to-day. You’ll walk away with a better understanding of how our nervous system really is at the center of how we move through the world. Jonny believes it’s one of the most complex operating systems out th...2023-09-1952 min
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerA Radical Playbook for Full Aliveness with Jim DethmerJim Dethmer is co-author of the bestselling book 'The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership' and is one of the most sought-after executive coaches in the world. It was an honor to speak with Jim, and I had the sense that I was sitting in the presence of someone who really had spent a lifetime embodying and living what he teaches.In this wide-ranging conversation, you can expect to learn:🙋♂️ How to use the Sedona method for yourself👐 What it means to live an undefended life👊 How to take radical responsibility for your emotions💚 What it means to 'SAFE...2023-09-081h 20
The Explorer Poet PodcastE43: Jonny MillerMy guest today is Jonny Miller, a curious Somanaut, writer, podcaster, and nervous system specialist. Jonny is the host of the Curious Humans podcast and author of the Curious Human’s newsletter. He also leads a five-week bootcamp on nervous system mastery. I truly enjoyed my conversation with Jonny and hope you do as well.
In our conversation we discussed breath work, emotions, depression, anxiety, joy, the nervous system, living intentionally, following dreams, psychedelics, how events and environment in life influence our minds, differences between the eastern and western world, cognition, perception, awe, wonder, ex...2023-09-051h 04
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerDerek Sivers on How to Negotiate Anything, The Joys of Parenthood & Why Nothing You Believe is TrueWhen I first started this podcast, I had Derek Sivers in mind as the archetypal curious human — and to this day, I think of him as one of the most interesting and provocative philosophers of life. His career path involved joining the circus as a ringleader, then becoming a professional musician and touring, building a company and selling it for $22 million dollars, then giving most of the money away to charity, then becoming a TED speaker and author... to now where he's a minimalist living in New Zealand as a full-time dad.In this conversation, you can ex...2023-08-231h 49
Frederik JournalsNervous System Mastery with Jonny MillerI recently had the pleasure of speaking with Jonny Miller, writer, podcaster, and breathwork facilitator. Jonny wrote some of my favorite recent pieces, including the amazing operating manual for the nervous system and How to Pay Off Your Emotional Debt. Jonny also puts together terrific small wikis like this one on emotional resilience, the ‘spiritual MBA’ and Somalist (‘a global directory of somatic practitioners + trauma-aware bodyworkers’).We talked about breathwork and its benefits and risks (including Wim Hof), ‘state over story’ and the ability to change the state of your own nervous system, Jonny’s own journey, the $...2023-08-1544 min
Higher Love with Megan#35. Mastering Your Nervous System with Jonny MillerUp on the podcast this week we have Jonny Miller. Jonny is an emotional resilience researcher, host of the Curious Humans podcast and Founder of 'Nervous System Mastery' — a cohort based course for cultivating calm & agency over your internal state. This course seeks to rewire your neurobiology with evidence-backed protocols and equip you with a personal toolkit to increase calm, upgrade resilience and increase aliveness.
I met Jonny many years ago whilst we were both living in Canggu, Bali and have since followed his journey with intrigue, partaking too in his September 2022 cohort of Nervous System Mastery. My p...2023-08-041h 13
Be Marvelus (the mental fitness podcast)Ep. 22 - Interoception with Jonny MillerGrief is an overwhelming emotion that most of us wish to avoid (and often unconsciously resist). But Jonny Miller believes that grief is a portal to liberation; to a greater sense of aliveness and connection to ourselves, the world, and life itself. In today's episode, he'll share his personal experience with grief after his fiance's suicide as well as his journey from a 'logical, rational' startup founder to an embodied, curious human dedicated to teaching others how to cultivate calm, upgrade resilience & increase aliveness through his Nervous System Mastery bootcamp. Hear Jonny explain why breathwork is powerful...2023-07-2648 min
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerBecoming Fully Yourself, What AI Wants, Family Rituals & Rites of Passage with Kevin KellyShow NotesA large part of my personal motivation for creating this podcast — is the privilege of speaking with those who I consider to be elders, those who have lived their lives to the absolute fullest and have stories and insights to share with younger generations about what it means to truly live well.And this conversation with Kevin Kelly turned out to be exactly that. You'll probably want to have a pen and paper handy to take notes, and it was so rich with practical wisdom — in part because that was the subject of Kevi...2023-05-1658 min
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerIs Kyle Kowalski the World's Most Curious Human?Today I'm speaking with Kyle Kowalski — who might be one of the most well-read humans and certainly most relentlessly curious humans that I've ever met — in fact as he shares in this episode, he believes that his purpose or Ikigai in life is to synthesize lifelong learning that catalyzes human development.As the title of this episode suggests, we nerded out on so many fascinating topics — we discuss how Kyle's crisis and burnout transformed him, discovering the Concept of Intentional Living, how he created Ikigai 2.0, Navigating the Four Stages of Ego Development Theory and how they act like f...2023-05-021h 29
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerGrowth Loops, Fertile Uncertainty & Ayahuasca Revelations with Anne-Laure Le CunffThis is my second conversation with Anne Laure — I reached back out after I read a powerful account of her transformative experience drinking Ayahuasca 9 months ago and how following this experience, in her words, she is 'not depressed anymore, I quit drinking… And, for the first time ever and truly happy to be alive'.So we do a deep dive into her plant medicine experience she had, her reflections since that experience — as well as why linear goals are inherently fragile as compared to what she calls growth loops, how her relationship to ambition shifted after Ayahuasca, her fa...2023-04-251h 19
Do Explain with Christofer Lövgren#51 - Everything Everywhere All at Once, with Jonny MillerChristofer and nervous system specialist Jonny Miller speak about the path to authenticity in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss a recent Sacred Sons-retreat, the role of emotions in decision making, being vulnerable, circling, working with inner 'darkness', effective altruism, ethics, how emotional fluidity is a superpower, meaning, Christopher Bache's LSD-insights, reason, whether healing requires other people, and other related topics.Jonny Miller is an emotional resilience researcher, host of the Curious Humans podcast and founder of Nervous System Mastery — a cohort based course for cultivating calm and agency over your internal state.2023-03-312h 01
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerTransforming Fear into Excitement with Extreme Sports Athlete & Executive Coach Brett KistlerThis is a powerful conversation with executive coach Brett Kistler — entrepreneur and executive coach who spent much of his life traveling the world full-time as an extreme sports athlete while building a remote software company. Brett also co-hosts the Art of Accomplishment podcast with Joe Hudson, who was a previous guest on this podcast. We unpack many things, including how BASE jumping acted as a hard reboot on his mind and how he uses his emotional inquiry practice to stay alive in extremely risky situations.~~🫁 Last Call for Nervous System Mastery ApplicationsThi...2023-03-301h 35
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerBrushes with Insanity, Insights from Solitude & The Inner Adventure with Daniel ThorsonThis is a special episode with Daniel Thorson — who I initially came across through his super podcast called 'Emerge' and later learned that he was living as a full-time monastic at the Monastic Academy in Vermont — where after a series of conversations, he persuaded me to come and sit for a 10-day retreat — which I just returned from myself recently.I found this was an immensely rich conversation, and I'm grateful to Daniel for opening up about some of the experiences he had recently during 73 days of solitude and silence (which he described as the most profound experie...2023-03-221h 18
The Jim Rutt ShowCurrents 085: Jonny Miller on Self-UnfoldmentJim has a wide-ranging conversation with Jonny Miller about self-development and emotional resilience. They discuss being a natural human, self-help as deconditioning, self-unfoldment, ecologies of practices, giving power back to the individual, Jamie Wheal's hedonic engineering, pushing outside the window of tolerance, emotional anti-fragility, facilitated breath repatterning, affirming anger, principles of decision-making, decision paralysis, self-destructive patterns in relationships, common barriers to communication, surrendering to grief, conditions of play, preserving unscheduled time, critiquing "mental health," the importance & decline of friendship, sparring in schools, the resistance to unproductive activity, video games & disembodiment, the Nervous System Mastery course, and much more.
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Soul Kitchen with Jasper Mutsaerts39 // Jonny Miller on Following your curiosity and the descent to soulWelcome to the Soul Kitchen!The place where Visions come alive. We offer podcast, events, retreats and co-living.Feel welcome to follow our Instagram page and to become a Member of the Soul Kitchen Familia :)Pura vida,JasperWhat will you learn:// What was the process of becoming a podcast host?// What is the descent to the soul?// What are some practices to deal with anxiety in life?// Why is paying it forward so relevant?// What is...2023-03-1056 min
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerThe Orchestra of Ancient Healing Wisdom & Practices with Dr. John ChurchillDr. John Churchill spent 15 years training and teaching “Great Seal” meditation in an Indo-Tibetan lineage and is a founding member of the Integral Institute led by the well-known philosopher, Ken Wilber. Over the last 25 years, John has developed his style of practice — an integrated Fourth Turning path — that weaves together somatically based contemplative practices that integrate psychodynamic healing, adult development, and meditation. This was an incredible conversation that touched on how 'trauma fuses our awareness to our attentional system', his views on how to integrate plant medicines and psychedelics into this work and what he calls the...2023-03-081h 22
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerExploring Somatics, Breathwork & Emotional Fluidity with Jonny Miller & Christofer LövgrenThis is a slightly different type of episode — in which my friend Christofer interviewed me for his superb DO EXPLAIN Podcast. I enjoyed the conversation so much that I decided it was worth releasing here as well. This is one of the deepest dives I've done on all things related to emotional fluidity, and various modalities for working with somatics and finding wholeness. Christofer was such a superb conversational partner and I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.🔗 Official Links🎙️ Subscribe to Christofer's awesome podcast Do Explain🫁 Learn more about Nervous System...2023-02-151h 51Do Explain with Christofer Lövgren#49 - Nervous System Mastery, with Jonny MillerChristofer and nervous system specialist Jonny Miller speak about breath and bodywork in this episode of Do Explain. They discuss Jonny's journey through grief and loss, emotional fluidity, why feeling deeply isn’t irrational, embracing anger, holotropic breathwork, polyvagal theory, breath repatterning, trauma as incomplete reflexes, somatic experiencing, TRE, IFS, and other related topics.Jonny Miller is an emotional resilience researcher, host of the Curious Humans podcast and founder of Nervous System Mastery — a cohort based course for cultivating calm and agency over your internal state. Nervous System Mastery: nsmastery.com Curious Huma...2023-02-131h 52
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerDeep Fix: Exploring Hakomi & Ayahuasca as Antidotes to Addiction with Alex OlshonskyMy brother Alex Olshonsky ~ aka. "Olo" ~ is a dear friend. We've spent time together in Guatemala, and he is fast becoming one of the most prominent voices on addiction and the psychedelic renaissance. We dive into Olo's personal story of breaking free from his proclivity to taking a cocktail of narcotics whilst working in high-growth tech startups ~ and his powerful journey navigating his addiction.We discuss concerns, risks & hopes for the rise of entheogens ~ what he learned from spending time with the Shipibo indigenous lineages, how we both got a little 'messed up' from studying p...2023-01-261h 22
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerIn-Depth Protocols for Nervous System Thriving with GrimhoodToday's guest is Daniel—who goes by the name of 'Grimhood' on Twitter. I've been a subscriber to his Patreon account for a while and was so impressed with his immensely well-researched and in-depth that blended his knowledge of pharmacology with indigenous systems of medicine.In this conversation, we unpack a handful of these protocols that he shares, including a deep dive on all things Magnesium, why so many of us are deficient in it, why you're almost certainly not getting enough and how to dose correctly. Then we dive into his protocol for dealing with OCD an...2022-11-251h 10
Wild on Purpose01. Jonny Miller ~ The Alchemy of Grief, Wisdom of the Breath & Nervous System MasteryMy very first guest is Jonny Miller, my life partner and fellow curious researcher.Jonny is many things, including the creator of Nervous System Mastery ~ a 5-week online bootcamp for cultivating inner resilience ~ which combines his expertise in the nervous system, fascination with the breath and passion for creating embodied learning experiences. Jonny is a clinically trained Facilitated Breath Re-Patterning facilitator and nervous system specialist, as well as an avid surfer, meditator, biohacker and freediver. In this conversation, we put our partnership roles to the side and dive into Jonny's professional and personal u...2022-11-162h 04
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerHuman Zoo Counter-Measures & Breaking Breath-Hold Records with Erwan Le CorreToday's guest is Erwan Le Corre. Erwan is many things, including the founder of MovNat ~ which is a synthesis of his passion for physical competency with his love of movement in nature. More recently, Erwan also became a US national static breath hold record holder.In this conversation, we talk about what he describes as the challenges of 'Hamster fitness' & movement poverty predicament and some of his ideas for what he describes quite brilliantly as Human Zoo counter-measures. We also dive into (pun not intended) some of the benefits of practising breath-holding, increasing your CO2...2022-11-011h 40
The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd#119 Goosebump-inducing Waves of Knowingness - Jonny Miller on grief, friendship, living abroad, founding a company, remote work, Rolf Potts, David Whyte, poetry, and finding work that matters.Enroll In The 5th Cohort of Nervous System Mastery: You can get $250 OFF using the code PATHLESS => nsmastery.comJonny Miller is a dear friend and I've had the privilege to get to know him closely over the past four years on our own journeys. We've lived in Japan, Indonesia, and Mexico together. When we met we were both single but now are both married in cross-country relationships and have navigated finding work that matters, getting married, and living in foreign countries together.🍿Watch on YouTubeThis conversation was really special.Lin...2022-10-281h 57
VoicecraftE68| Becoming Embodied, w/ Jonny Miller & Tim AdalinWelcoming Jonny Miller, this conversation threads themes of curiousity and grief with consideration for practices of nervous system regulation, embodiment, healing and transformation.
Jonny is the host of the Curious Humans podcast and the founder of Nervous System Mastery, which runs courses designed to increase agency individuals have over their physical, mental, and emotional state. He is also a faculty member for the upcoming Voicecraft course in Transformative Philosophy, which begins on October 10.
Find out more about the course here https://voicecraft.io/academy and access the show notes + links to Jonny's work @ https://voicecraft.io/becoming-embodied-w-jonny-miller-tim-adalin/2022-09-201h 13
The Mama Retreat13. Sound Mind Interview with Jonny TannerJonny Tanner is an artist that focuses on color, intuition, and creating spiritual alignment through his work. Many call him the “Spirit Painter” after the process he has created, “Spirit Painting”.
Jonny currently lives in Ogden, Ut with his wife, daughter, and puppy. They are expecting their second child, a son, any day know!
Jonny has an in-home studio where he creates Spirit Paintings full time. He also focuses his energy (with TONS of help from his amazing wife Lu 😉) on creating retreats, events, and other experiences to further help others with their own spiritual alignment.2022-09-1931 min
On RenewalCultivating Resilience and Rising Out of Reactivity with Jonny MillerJonny Miller joins the podcast to take us on a sensory adventure and explore the nervous system. He shares stories from his own life as a start-up founder, meditation teacher, and breathwork facilitator including his experience spending 10 days in total darkness. We discuss the impact of breathwork, the power of our environment, how nervous systems co-regulate, preventing burnout, habit formation, and so much more. Jonny provides practical tips on how we can create conditions to cultivate resilience and rise out of reactivity in our own lives. You can read more about Sam's experience taking Jonny's course on N...2022-08-171h 03
The Danny Miranda Podcast#224: Jonny Miller – Secrets of Breathwork & Inner WorkJonny Miller is an internal explorer. He's a former meditation teacher turned breathwork evangelist. In this conversation, we dive deep into his story. How has he changed? Is he surprised at how his life has unfolded? What is the future for breathwork? What's it like to go into a dark room for days on end? Topics: (0:00) Thank you Jonny (0:36) Freediving (5:53) Guiding in breathwork sessions (10:10) Why does Jonny focus so strongly on breathwork? (16:12) Bottom-up (20:01) Is the person who Jonny is today surprising to him? (21:36...2022-04-291h 23
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerThe Pathless Path & The Magic of Non-Doing with Paul MillerdPaul and I first met 3 years ago at an event in Portland—he had recently left his job in corporate consulting and we bonded over how lost we'd both felt at times.Later that week I gave him a copy of 'The Three Marriages' a book by David Whyte where he talks about the Pathless Path that is required for anyone looking to do or create something original.Fast-forward to today and Paul has just published his first book — Called the Pathless Path — which is his roadmap of sorts for those of us who might have h...2022-03-291h 32
The One You FeedJonny Miller on Nervous System MasteryJonny Miller is best known for hosting the Curious Humans Podcast and for his TEDx talk on “The Gifts of Grief” Jonny coaches ambitious founders to scale themselves and runs an online cohort-based training called Nervous System Mastery. He is also the co-founder of Maptia, a global visual storytelling platform. In this episode, Eric and Jonny discuss his important work with Nervous System MasteryBut wait – there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. Head over to our Patreon page...2022-03-1153 minThe One You FeedJonny Miller on Nervous System MasteryJonny Miller is best known for hosting the Curious Humans Podcast and for his TEDx talk on “The Gifts of Grief” Jonny coaches ambitious founders to scale themselves and runs an online cohort-based training called Nervous System Mastery. He is also the co-founder of Maptia, a global visual storytelling platform. In this episode, Eric and Jonny discuss his important work with Nervous System MasteryBut wait – there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. Head over to our Patreon page...2022-03-1153 min
The HighExistence PodcastJonny Miller – The Gifts of Grief, Transformational Breathwork and Emotional Resilience (#51)"It has to start first and foremost with a real desire and fascination… I think that the best conversations are born from that burning desire." - Jonny Miller, HEx Podcast #51 If you want to see an example of what happens to those who single-mindedly follow that sense of burning curiosity, then check out Jonny Miller. Jonny, creator of the Curious Humans podcast, is someone who clearly leads by example. His mind is a treasure trove of embodied wisdom, covering a wide range of topics that have the power to make our lives more jo...2021-08-301h 16
The Myths That Make UsJonny Miller's MythWelcome to another episode of The Myths That Make Us.
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The Decision-Making Studio PodcastEp. 150: Jonny Miller - Emotional Resilience in Leadership How are you? This is a question we all regularly ask and answer on a daily basis. And in doing so, we rarely, if ever, expect or deliver a genuine response. As we are finding out – this is a huge problem, particularly amongst so-called high achievers – leaders in organisations, entrepreneurs, and others. The coronavirus pandemic seems to have only exacerbated that. This is something that frustrated my guest and his collaborator so much that he decided to look deeply into it. Jonny Miller – who you will get to know in this episode – and Jan Chipchase were bot...2020-12-121h 04
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerCreating Smart Luck & Engineering Serendipity with Dr. Christian BuschDr. Christian Busch directs the CGA Global Economy Program at (NYU) and teaches on purpose-driven business, entrepreneurship, emerging markets, and (social) innovation at NYU and at the London School of Economics (LSE). Christian is also the co-founder of Sandbox Network, a leading community of young innovators, as well as of Leaders on Purpose—an organization convening leading CEOs. He has a host of impressive accolades to his name, one of the Davos 50, an RSA fellow and frequently speaks at the World Economic Forum. He's also the author of a fascinating new book called 'The Serendipity Mindset' that we really di...2020-11-091h 26
The Breath CircleExploring Breath Flavors and Recipes + Envisioning the Future of Breathwork w/ Jonny MillerJonny Miller is the co-founder of Maptia, a Techstars backed startup and living archive of inspiring and impactful stories from around the world. He has mentored 250+ early-stage founders, and has also written for Forbes, The Mission, and Huffington Post. Jonny is disproportionately proud of once crossing the English Channel on an inflatable standup paddleboard. Currently, he’s based in Mexico and focusing on building an online academy for Curious Leaders while also studying Neurodynamic Online Breathwork (with us!).
In this virtual fireside chat with our friend Jonny, we went back to where breathwork began for him, which was through learning to...2020-07-071h 15
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerThe Everyday Wizardry of Ritual with Casper Ter KuileCasper Ter Kuile is one of the most genuinely joy-filled humans that I have had the pleasure of knowing.In this conversation we do a deep dive into his new book 'The Power of Ritual' which is out the day this episode airs, it’s honestly a perspective-shifting and heart-warmingly beautiful book on discovering the sacred amidst everyday life and seeing the world through the eyes of ritual. It's a real corker of a conversation! A few of the stories + questions we dive into are:⛪ Some of his early experiences as a climate activist that unexp...2020-06-231h 18
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerMake Your Myth, Face Your Shadow & Own Your Truth with Erick GodseyAll I can say is that you're in for a treat with this conversation. Erick Godsey studies the myths that make us—he uses cognitive, evolutionary, and Jungian psychology to help people discover, articulate, and change the stories that rule their lives.Here is a mere smidge of the ground that we covered:💊 Erick's view on the broken system of Western medicine and why SSRIs and psychiatric drugs are no better than a placebo.🎭 His perspective on a psychological model called 'Internal Family Systems' that articulates the multitudes of characters within us all.🧙♂️ Th...2020-06-081h 22
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerThe Subtle Art of Facilitation with Andi CuddingtonThis conversation is with a close friend of mine, Andi Cuddington—I think of her as a modern-day renaissance woman and I’ll typically turn to her for advice if I’m going through something challenging in my life. Andi is just endlessly curious and has a totally unique lens on the world as you’ll hear in our conversation. She has had a thousand side-hustles and jobs in her non-linear career but many of the dots have connected and she has found her calling designing and facilitating workshops—more than anyone else I've encountered, she has mastered of...2020-06-011h 33
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerExploring Emotional Intelligence + Perfectionism with Emile SteenveldThis was a wide-ranging conversation with emotional intelligence coach Emile Steenveld—previously an Australian model and actor traveling the globe for 12 years—he now works as a coach + facilitator, focusing on the inner workings of the relationship with the self and the mind.In this conversation we dive into:🇮🇳 Emile's travels in India, learning lessons of simplicity... defining joy as the happiness that doesn't depend on what happens.🦆 One of the most interesting tangents the topic of being a recovering perfectionist and what he calls duck syndrome💪 How to build the muscle of emotion...2020-03-101h 00
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerMaking Mischief, Navigating Self-Doubt & Cultivating Leadership with Andy SparksI talk with Andy Sparks, is the CEO at Holloway, they're building a new way to publish non-fiction books online (and it's gorgeous!) He's an incredibly genuine and self-aware human, it was a real pleasure spending time learning about his journey stepping into a position of leadership and forging his own path in life.Andy shares really dark moments early on in his career when he was trying to figure out where your sense of self comes from as a young person and figure out his place in the world.In this episode we also...2020-03-031h 25
THIS MOMENT MATTERS with Conni BiesalskiHow to Be a Curious + Whole Human w/ Jonny MillerAfter a long stretch of solo episodes, I have a guest for you today! Jonny Miller is a creative entrepreneur, startup co-founder (Maptia) and mindful curious human with lots of awesome ideas.We talk about so much good stuff, such as how to be human in the 21st century, emotional resiliency, his journey into doing the inner work, breathwork, and lots of juicy stuff. It just keeps getting better and better the longer we talk.Jonny's Website: http://www.jonnymiller.coJonny on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jonnym1llerJonny's Podcast "...2019-12-281h 34
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerImagining Life Beyond Total Work with Andrew TaggartI'm speaking with Andrew J Taggart, a practical philosopher, Zen Buddhist, and entrepreneur urging us to wake up to what we have so far taken for granted. In this conversation we discuss the thesis of his Total Work Manifesto and why we use our work and productivity to fuel our sense of self-worth and create meaning in our lives, as well as his compelling ideas for how we might break out of this Total Work prison that he calls Way of Loss and the Way of Wonderment.I should also mention that about one and...2019-12-081h 48
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerEating Knowledge & The Art of Productive Disagreement with Buster BensonIn this conversation we get into the meaty questions about his new book that's hitting the shelves this week called 'Why Are We Yelling', a whimsical and disarmingly powerful case and strategy guide for having what Buster calls productive disagreement.We cover three truths or misconceptions about arguments that you have uncovered, why he likes to eat knowledge, he coaches me through the process of engaging in a disagreement around climate change and we talk about some of the enemies of curiosity and what he calls the voice of possibility.Then towards the end we...2019-11-201h 08
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerCory Allen on The Joyful Absurdity of ExistenceI've been listening to Cory's podcast the Astral Hustle for years now so had so much fun being on the other end of the line and digging into his fascinating mind—he has an amazing gift for walking a line between being ridiculous and playful yet also filled with deep insights and practical tips on mindfulness.We didn't have time to cover it in this episode but Cory has a background in music and also produces Binaural Beats, which I've been using daily for the last few months to both meditate and focus at work – and you can...2019-09-231h 09
Curious Humans with Jonny MillerTiago Forte on Intuition, Breathwork & What it Feels like to Have a Second Brain🙌I’ve probably said this before, but this feels like my favourite conversation on the podcast so far.⏰ I woke up at 5am to take the call because of time-zone differences, but by the end I was practically bouncing off the walls with enthusiasm.📝 Tiago is one of the deepest thinkers of anyone that I follow online, he’s a prolific writer, productivity coach and as you’ll hear in this conversation has built his business to fuel his own relentless curiosity.🍄 You wouldn’t imagine that productivity systems and psychedelics usually pair well in a conversat...2019-09-1349 min