Shows
The Inner Frontier with Jonny MillerDefence Against the Dark Arts of Distraction with Jay VidyarthiIn this conversation with designer, mindfulness teacher, and friend Jay Vidyarthi — we explore how to reclaim agency in the age of the attention economy without rejecting the magic of technology. We discuss why mainstream narratives about digital distraction often leave out empowerment, how to build healthier relationships with technology, the nuanced role of AI, the sacred responsibility of attention and why awareness is the first “spell” in your own defense against the dark arts of distraction. Listen to this conversation and learn how to enjoy the best of tech while setting boundaries around the worst of it!C...
2025-09-301h 09
The Inner Frontier with Jonny MillerHarnessing the Power of Belief with Nir EyalNir Eyal is a New York Times bestselling author and behavioral design expert. We had a wide-ranging conversation on curiosity, identity, and the unexpected ways that beliefs that shape our lives. Nir shared why curiosity is a superpower for self-improvement, the role of community in mental well-being, why “pills don’t teach skills” when it comes to mental health, why testing and rewiring our beliefs is essential for personal growth, and how living with integrity aligns us with our deepest values. Show Notes: • Why curiosity is a superpower for self-improvement • How beliefs shape reality — and how to rew...
2025-09-2256 min
The Inner Frontier with Jonny MillerBehind the Scenes of Nervous System MasteryThis is a special one-off episode in which the tables are turned — Ocean Kiani interviews Jonny and leadership coach Ben Ward. We discuss how the training has evolved over time, including some of the teaching philosophies and experimental mindset that underpin everything we do, as well as explore the profound impact that nervous system work has had on our lives. ~~Explore More from Jonny👋 Follow on Twitter/X @jonnym1ller🫁 Learn more about Nervous System Mastery🎴 Order our deck of Calm Cards (these make great gifts)📱 Check out Stateshift — our b...
2025-09-161h 08
The Inner Frontier with Jonny MillerThe Five Pillars for Improving Male Fertility with Josh PaigenThis conversation is with men’s fertility expert Josh Paigen — whose path took him from a childhood fascination with the natural world to helping men and couples prepare for healthy conception. We explore the alarming global decline in sperm count, why preconception health is about far more than simply being able to conceive, and Josh’s five pillars of male fertility: sustenance, purity, exercise, rest, and mindset. Along the way, we dive into the roles of nutrition, environmental toxins, circadian rhythms, and even inherited trauma in shaping reproductive health — and how small, intentional lifestyle shifts can have a profou...
2025-09-101h 14
The Psychedelic PodcastJonny Miller - Nervous System Mastery: Preparing the Body for Psychedelic WorkIn this episode of The Psychedelic Podcast, Paul F. Austin speaks with Jonny Miller, founder of Nervous System Mastery and host of the Curious Humans podcast. Find full show notes and links here: https://thethirdwave.co/podcast/episode-320/?ref=278 Jonny shares how the loss of his fiancée led him into grief work, psychedelics, and the study of stress physiology. Their conversation explores the three pillars of nervous system mastery—interoception, capacity, and emotional fluidity—and how these skills can prepare and support deeper psychedelic experiences. Jonny also reflects on the risks of hypoarousal and dissoc...
2025-09-0855 min
The Inner Frontier with Jonny MillerTackling the Mental Health Crisis using Ketamine-Assisted Therapy with Dylan BeynonDylan is the founder of the ketamine-assisted therapy startup “Mindbloom” — He also shares what they’ve learned so far from running nearly 700 thousand guided ketamine sessions, his idea that "There’s no magic pill, but there is a magic program". and how he’s been dealing with a recent Wall Street Journal hit piece attempting to discredit his company. I also shared some of my own recent experiences with ketamine assisted somatic journeys and the impact that it’s had on my own life. Learn More About Dylan + Mindbloom⚡ See if you would qualify for Mindbloom's Psyc...
2025-09-011h 55
The Inner Frontier with Jonny MillerCommon Pitfalls on the Path of Inner Transformation with Joe HudsonJoe Hudson is an executive coach for tech CEOs like Sam Altman, and is a cofounder of the Art of Accomplishment. In this in-person interview, we sat down to talk about what I like to think of as the first principles of inner work as well as some of the common pitfalls that often get us stuck along the way.Time-stamps 00:04 Why does my wife trust Joe more after seeing how little tension he has in his belly?00:06 How 7 years of breathwork rewired his capacity for authenticity + emotional expression00:25 The reason self-trust + trust i...
2025-08-251h 12
The Inner Frontier 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
The Inner Frontier 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
The Inner Frontier 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
The Inner Frontier 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
The Inner Frontier 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
The Inner Frontier 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
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...
2024-10-3058 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
The Inner Frontier 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
The Inner Frontier 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
The Inner Frontier 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
The Inner Frontier 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
The Inner Frontier 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
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
The Inner Frontier 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
The Inner Frontier 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
The Inner Frontier 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
The Inner Frontier 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
The Inner Frontier 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
The Inner Frontier 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
The Inner Frontier 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
The Inner Frontier 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
The Inner Frontier 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 Inner Frontier 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
The Inner Frontier 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
The Inner Frontier 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
The Inner Frontier 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
The Inner Frontier 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.~~🔗 Official Links 🎙️ Listen to Brett and Joe on the...
2023-03-301h 35
The Inner Frontier 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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2023-03-141h 18
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
The Inner Frontier 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
The Inner Frontier 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💬 Follow Christofer on TwitterC...
2023-02-151h 51
The Inner Frontier 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
The Inner Frontier 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
The Inner Frontier 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
The Inner Frontier with Jonny MillerMental Resilience, Cognitive Canaries & High-Stakes Decision Making with Retired Poker Pro Chris SparksChris Sparks is a one-of-a-kind human; he's a retired professional poker pro who was once ranked one of the top 20 players in the world.But in recent years, he has applied himself to coaching and running workshops on decision-making, systems thinking, and peak performance. And as you'll hear in this conversation, he is not only brilliant but also wise. Before we hit record, I said to Chris let's record a masterclass in mindset for staying calm and making good decisions in high-stress environments ~ and he didn't really disappoint.Our conversation ranged from talking...
2022-10-071h 26
The Inner Frontier with Jonny MillerThe Art & Science of Leveraging Your Physiology with Aaron AlexanderAaron is a pioneering manual therapist and movement coach, founder and creator of the Align Method. I'm currently looking at Aaron's book (The Align Method) & it's one of the books that has most impacted my relationship with not just fitness and movement, but a new philosophy of seeing the world as a playground and the fact that I'm recording this whilst squatting ~ is in part thanks to the wisdom and research that he shares.This is one hell of a fun conversation packed with big ideas and super practical takeaways ~ we range from talking about...
2022-09-151h 09
The Inner Frontier with Jonny MillerAchieve More, Grind Less & Increase Your Aliveness with Michael AshcroftIt's always fun to have conversations with friends and this one, in particular, has been several years in the making. If you're interested in meditation, breathwork or getting more done with more joy then this episode is a must-listen. Some of the themes we unpack include: what it means to 'expand your awareness', exploring the space and freedom between stimulus + response, what it means practically to 'escape grind mode' and what we both mean when we talk about increasing our sense of 'aliveness'.~~~~~~🔗 Resources & Links👋 Follow Michael over on Twitter @m_ashcroft...
2022-09-021h 36
The Inner Frontier with Jonny MillerNew Frontiers of Breathwork: Translating the Language of the Breath & Cultivating Nervous System Resilience with Ed DangerfieldIn this episode, Edward Dangerfield and I do a deep dive on a new modality of breathwork, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Facilitated Breath Repatterning ~ or FBR for short ~ will be globally recognised in 4-5 years' time and that the research that is beginning here in Bali will go on to make some significant discoveries about the connection between breathing patterns + patterns of behaviour.As you'll hear in this conversation, what I believe is truly unique about this mode of breathwork ~ is that it is both scientific in its approach, involving...
2022-06-231h 43
The Inner Frontier with Jonny MillerWhat Creates Lasting Transformation? From Homeless Heroin Addict to Prolific Podcaster + Behaviour Change Coach with Eric Zimmer🎙️ Episode OverviewYou might have come across Eric through his award-winning podcast ‘The One You Feed’ where he has interviewed hundreds of the wisest and most inspiring humans on the planet.He's also a father, serial entrepreneur, behaviour coach, and author on a quest to understand how we might live more intentional lives.And we get into the impact that these conversations has had on his life and perspective over the last decade, but we begin with the chapters of his life before the podcast — at age 24 Eric was living out the back of a van, sp...
2022-04-101h 41
The Inner Frontier 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 Inner Frontier with Jonny MillerBeing in Service to Life with Charles Eisenstein🎙️ Episode OverviewI'm thrilled to bring you this conversation with philosopher, writer & activist Charles Eisenstein. For those of you who aren't familiar with Charles' work—it's no exaggeration to say that his ideas contained in his books and writing have shaped my personal worldview more than any other author I can think of.What I appreciated about this conversation was his deep presence and at times a refusal to answer my question because he felt like there was a deeper and more real question beneath the surface. You can feel the urgency in the tone of his v...
2022-03-181h 24
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 Inner Frontier with Jonny MillerMeditation Myth-Busting, Finding Alignment & Living an Effortless Life with Michael KingThis is a really unique episode—Michael King has been a mentor of mine and dear friend for nearly four years now. If it weren't for some of our conversations I'm not sure that The Inner Frontier would even exist, at least not in the form that it does today.I find some of his perspectives and approaches to meditation and life so refreshing and my goal for this conversation was really to tease out some of the ideas and radical concepts that he has shared with me privately over the years.Some of the que...
2022-01-101h 56
The Inner Frontier with Jonny MillerBlueprints for Civilisation, Post-traumatic Growth & Re-imagining the Role of the Human with Dr. Zachary SteinI'm really thrilled to be bringing you this philosophical deep dive with truly I think one of the most radical and thoughtful thinkers of our generation.Dr. Zachary Stein is a co-founder of The Consilience Project—which publishes novel research and explores questions surrounding global risk mitigation and existential threats facing humanity. He is the Academic Director Center for Integral Wisdom and the author of 'Education in a Time Between Worlds' – which I've personally gifted myself to many friends and shifted how I think about the future of schooling.In this conversation, we cover some trul...
2021-12-241h 42
The Inner Frontier with Jonny MillerThe Art of Asking Questions, Incentivising Negative Effort & Deconstructing Human Perception with Malcolm OceanIn this episode, I speak with my good Twitter friend Malcolm Ocean. Malcolm is many many things, but first and foremost I consider him to be not only relentlessly curious but also prolific in sharing his practical philosophy mostly through the medium of thoughtful Twitter threads.I predicted that the experience of listening to this conversation might be a little like the feeling of being trapped inside a pinball machine bouncing between unrelated topics... but in fact, what unfolded was a really satisfying dance around parallel threads which centred around our mutual interest of human attention and...
2021-11-052h 08
The Inner Frontier with Jonny MillerExploring the Three Marriages of Self, Work and Partnership with Kelly WildeKelly Wilde is an artist, podcaster, performer, meditation mentor and poet who has been exploring the intersections of soul explorations, creative work and rewilding. She also happens to be my wife, and this episode fell on our 18-month anniversary — it’s a particularly juicy conversation and easily the most personal conversation that I've aired to date.In this conversation, we dance around a range of personal topics including: 🪨 Reflections on the last couple of decades of her life—from existential reckonings, identity crises, multiple career paths and rock-bottom moments that she has been through—and how these ch...
2021-10-141h 48
The Inner Frontier with Jonny MillerThe Science of the Nervous System, Functional Breathwork Training and Our Sixth Sense of Interoception with Conni BiesalskiConni and I have collaborated on a number of projects over the years and we've both followed remarkably similar paths from the world of entrepreneurship into the world of breathwork & nervous system science. In this conversation, Conni starts off by sharing some of her personal journey, her various heartbreaks and compartmentalisation of her sexuality that led her from being a very successful travel writer into being a prolific creator in the world of personal development and ultimately to the work she's doing now as a breath coach. From there we pretty rapidly dive go into the nitty-gritty...
2021-09-171h 33
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 Inner Frontier with Jonny MillerEffing the Ineffable, Re-Imagining Love & Relieving Reality of Its Seriousness with Alice FrankIn one of the longest and most wide-ranging episodes to date, this conversation is with filmmaker, poet, relationship coach and utterly unique human being Alice Frank—who is here as she says to proudly "eff the ineffable".Her book 'My Real Name Is You' has been loved by Eckhart Tolle said 'My favourite poem I ever heard' and Jason Mraz who shared: 'Her words are alive the same way notation can fly off a page and become sweet music.'I'm slightly at a loss for words attempting to describe the ground that we covered bu...
2021-06-211h 56
The Inner Frontier with Jonny MillerOvercoming Imposter Syndrome & Re-Claiming Your Attention with Award Winning Poet Max StosselMax Stossel is an award-winning poet (whose short films have been seen over 40 million times) advisor to Tech for Humanity, successful filmmaker and all-around wise human who I'm grateful to call a brother.In this poetic + lyrical conversation we explore:🖋️ The journey that led him from designing notification systems at a social media company to exploring the art and science of attention.📱 The dangers of smartphone addiction + practical questions as users that we can be asking ourselves📝 How he describes his work as a blend of poetry, standup comedy and storytelling💔 How he's found the...
2021-06-061h 05
The Inner Frontier with Jonny MillerJamie Wheal on The Meaning Crisis, Hedonic Engineering & Forging a Culture of Post-Traumatic GrowthThis is one HELL of an episode with honestly one of the most interesting and radical thinkers of our generation.Jamie is a renaissance man. He's well known for his work writing Stealing Fire and creating the Flow Genome Project—and as you'll hear in our conversation the book he has just published is unlike anything else you'll ever read.I see Jamie as being a bridge between the spiritual and the scientific. He's pioneering studies with Johns Hopkins and MAPS whilst wading deep into questions of how to we evolve and mature as humans or...
2021-05-201h 49
The Inner Frontier with Jonny MillerHow to Human: Exploring Soul Initiation, Mythopoetic Identity & The Spiritual Adventure with Depth Psychologist & Wilderness Guide Dr. Bill PlotkinDr. Bill Plotkin is a depth psychologist, wilderness guide and visionary ecopsychologist—his work might well be the map that you didn't know you were looking for. It has been for me an immense treasure trove of practical wisdom and guidance for thinking about my own growth and maturity.At the end of our conversation, he shared that this was a book written for future generations—and I believe it may take decades before the importance of this body of work is fully understood.I hope that this conversation will play some role in s...
2021-05-051h 58
The Myths That Make UsJonny Miller's MythWelcome to another episode of The Myths That Make Us.
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2021-04-011h 07
The Inner Frontier with Jonny MillerDesigning a GPS for Navigating Challenging Emotions with Cris BeasleyThis seeds for this conversation were planted at the end of last year when I was listening to a podcast called ‘Hack Reality’ and Cris shared her phone number at the end of the episode—I sent her a voice memo about the Poet David Whyte... we since became good friends and when COVID hit she followed an intuitive hit to reach out and ended up living with us here in Oaxaca Mexico for a month.Cris has one of the most eclectic backgrounds you’ll come across. She went from founding a venture-backed AI fashion company, to hosti...
2020-11-191h 33
The Inner Frontier with Jonny MillerMindfulness, Language Learning & The Four Causes of Procrastination with Arthur WorsleyArthur Worsley is a close friend of mine that I met in Bali where over many dinners together he educated me in the tactics for learning Bhasa, memorising my TEDx talk and really opened my eyes to the world of meta-learning that he has specialised in. Back in the day, he studied neurophysiology at Oxford in the UK and since became conversationally fluent in 8 languages and also applies his learning superpowers to things like ultra-marathon running and collecting wisdom from the crazy number of books he reads.In this wide-ranging conversation, we dive into the...
2020-11-191h 01
The Inner Frontier 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 Inner Frontier 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
The Inner Frontier 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.🧙♂️ The Jungian book on matu...
2020-06-081h 22
The Inner Frontier 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
The Inner Frontier 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 emotional intelli...
2020-03-101h 00
The Inner Frontier 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
The Inner Frontier with Jonny MillerBreathwork, The Cure For Anxiety? with Edward DangerfieldIf you haven't already heard of Breathwork, I think it's fair to say that you that you likely will have by the end of the year. It's exploding in popularity, in the same way that yoga and meditation has over the last decade, and I think for good reason.On a basic level breathwork is the practice of changing your breathing pattern to shift your mental, emotional and physical state... but what I deeply appreciate about Edward is his clinical approach that is backed by years of training, endocrinology research and self-experimentation mapping out the human nervous s...
2020-01-081h 41
The Inner Frontier 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
The Inner Frontier 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
The Inner Frontier with Jonny MillerCuriosity, Grief, Wonder & The Privilege of Being Alive with Mike SlavinThis was a real honour, Mike is trained as a magician and also the CEO at 'High Existence' — a community and network of practical philosophy and for expanding human consciousness — and he's one of the most articulate and poetic people I've had the pleasure of meeting.If we can't fall in love with the privilege that we have to be alive, then anything that we try and do from this place of living, is is going to be limited." Mike and I riff on definitions of wonder, ambition, grief, the role of inviting in the...
2019-11-111h 35
The Inner Frontier with Jonny MillerCultivating Curiosity, Self-Authorship & Mindframing with Anne-Laure Le CunffAnne-Laure is an ex-Googler, a talented writer and part-time neuroscience student. We bounce around between topics that resonated with me personally including: time anxiety, why we don't tend to take curiosity seriously as adults, a powerful technique for personal growth she's developed called 'Mindframing' and her recent decision to leave Google in order to go back to study neuroscience at Kings in London.Find Anne-Laure on Twitter, read her articles on Ness Labs or sign-up for her Maker Mind newsletter.Connect + Explore More from Jonny🐦 Follow on Twitter/X @jonnym1ller🫁 Learn more about Ne...
2019-10-2539 min
The Inner Frontier 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
The Inner Frontier 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
The Inner Frontier with Jonny MillerAstronomy as a Lens to Understand Yourself with Kevin HainlineThis was one of those spontaneous conversations that made me feel grateful for having started a podcast... it was with NASA astronomer Kevin Hainline, recorded sitting next to a stream up in the Spanish pyrenees. We went completely off the deep end and I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that he changed the way I look up at the night sky and sent me into a rabbit hole of researching how different cultures around the world tell stories about the constellations they see. 🦖When Kevin was young he had to choose between dedicating his...
2019-09-0553 min
The Inner Frontier with Jonny MillerLife Lessons from 12 year Old Conscious Fashion Entrepreneur Hanalei SwanOur future is in good hands... it's the 'grown-ups' that have the catching up to do!📷 Follow Hanalei on Instagram @Hanaleiswan👚 Check out her conscious fashion designs at http://hanaleiswan.comConnect + Explore More from Jonny🐦 Follow on Twitter/X @jonnym1ller🫁 Learn more about Nervous System Mastery🪷 Order our deck of Calm Cards (these make great gifts)📱 Check out Stateshift — our brand new iOS + Android app📝 Take the Nervous System Quotient (NSQ) Self-Assessment (totally free)💌 Sign up to The Inner Frontier Newsletter
2019-08-2236 min
The Inner Frontier with Jonny MillerThe Big Wave Surfer Planting Seeds for Future Generations🏄♂️Fergal Smith is a big-wave surfer and pioneering farmer, two words that don't often go in the same sentence. 👨🌾He juggles his time between growing veg and paddling into 30ft slabs of Atlantic ocean swells! I spent a couple of days helping out at Moy Hill, getting my hands in the soil and helping the team fill their 90x veg boxes to be sent out that week.🌳 What I hope comes across in the conversation is Ferg's eloquent sincerity, the courage that it took and his vision to inspire a new generation of 'growers' and planting seeds for f...
2019-08-0726 min
The Inner Frontier with Jonny MillerInsights from a Year in Silence, Designing the 'Jedi Warrior Program' & Advice from the Dalai Lama with Joel LeveyJoel Levey was one of the first pioneers of mindfulness training back in the 70s, along with his partner Michelle, they worked with Google and NASA and co-designed a secret 'Jedi Warrior' program for the US elite special forces... in this conversation we touch on:🤔His thoughts on how to be curious in the face of suffering.👤 Why he chose to embark on a year of silence with his partner Michelle.🙏 Advice that received from the His Holiness the Dalai Lama.❓Listener Question >> “How could you bring more mindful moments into your daily routine?” ...
2019-07-231h 08
The Inner Frontier with Jonny MillerRewilding Ourselves on Spaceship Earth with Dan Burgess🌳 Dan has worked with some of the most innovative and inspiring brands, kickstarted a global movement to reconnect kids with nature, founded and built a global creative generosity network and guest lectures on Co-Creating the Emerging Future. 🎧 Oh and he’s also a former club DJ, as well as a trail running surf-loving dad! I was so grateful for the long walks and meandering conversations we shared in Portugal, Dan’s enthusiasm for life is contagious and he’s someone who believes in the extraordinary possibilities for the future 🌎 ❓ Listener Question: What are some of your favourite wa...
2019-07-101h 07