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Passion Struck with John R. Miles

Passion Struck with John R. Miles

You built the life you were supposed to want. So why doesn"t it feel like enough? Passion Struck is the #1 Health and Fitness podcast — and it exists to answer exactly that question. I"m John R. Miles — Navy veteran, former Fortune 50 executive, bestselling author — and I built this show because I lived the "successful but empty" version of life myself, and I wanted to find a better way. Each week, I sit down with the world"s top voices in neuroscience, psychology, medicine, and elite performance —

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00:23:18

Do You Matter? The Question Behind Burnout,...

Passion Struck with John R. Miles ·

2026/10/06

What if the biggest problem in your life isn't what's wrong with you—but what's happening to you?Burnout. Loneliness. Disconnection. Exhaustion. The feeling that you're constantly working, producing, improving, and performing, yet somehow becoming less visible to yourself. What if these aren't separate problems? What if they're different expressions of the same unanswered human question:Do I matter?On the launch day of The Mattering Effect, John R. Miles shares five foundational insights from the

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00:17:30

You’re Not Failing to Adapt. You’re Being Erased. |...

Passion Struck with John R. Miles ·

2026/10/02

What if the way you’ve been taught to adapt is actually making you lose yourself?For weeks, The Adaptive Human has explored what it takes to navigate a world that keeps changing.Angela Duckworth showed us that our environments shape who we become. Martin Seligman showed us the power of agency. David Epstein revealed how constraints can unlock better thinking. Cole Brauer showed us what happens when you keep moving forward after the world tells you that you can't. Alec Litowitz challenged us to lift

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01:11:38

You’re Not Stuck. You’re Swimming in the Wrong...

Passion Struck with John R. Miles ·

2026/10/01

What if you're working harder and harder—but you're still moving in the wrong direction?Alec Litowitz learned this lesson during a mountain bike race in the Pyrenees, when hesitating before a blind downhill jump nearly sent him over the handlebars.Years later, that same lesson became a framework for how he thinks about investing, leadership, AI, and life: You can't stay stuck between decisions when the environment is moving fast.Alec is an investor, entrepreneur, and founder of Magnetar Capital who

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01:17:25

Your Kids Don’t Need More Achievement. They Need More...

Passion Struck with John R. Miles ·

2026/09/29

What if the things we think are helping our children succeed are actually making it harder for them to become independent?Dr. Peter Gray has spent decades studying childhood, play, education, and human development. In his new book, Restoring Childhood, he argues that childhood has a fundamental biological purpose: gradually learning to take charge of your own life.But modern childhood looks increasingly different. More supervision. More structured activities. More academic pressure. More résumé

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00:22:24

Why What Matters Most Is Almost Never the Loudest |...

Passion Struck with John R. Miles ·

2026/09/25

Why What Matters Most Is Rarely the LoudestWhat if the things getting the most attention in your life aren't actually the things that matter most?We live in a world that rewards visibility. The viral headline. The impressive title. The dramatic turnaround. The big announcement. The person who creates the most noise in the room. But some of the most valuable things in life work differently.They compound quietly.In this episode of Passion Struck, John R. Miles explores why human beings are so easily

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00:57:31

The One Question You’re Avoiding Could Change Your...

Passion Struck with John R. Miles ·

2026/09/24

What if the question you’re avoiding is the one you most need to answer?We often think courage means doing something difficult or frightening. But Scott Simon says the place people struggle most isn't physical courage—it’s having the courage to ask and answer hard questions.In this episode, Scott Simon and Gregory Stock bring together two decades-long bodies of work: Scott’s exploration of courage and Gregory’s groundbreaking Book of Questions, which became a New York Times bestseller and sold

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01:02:12

The Psychology Behind Why Smart People Make Terrible...

Passion Struck with John R. Miles ·

2026/09/22

You're smart. You're informed. So why do you still make terrible decisions?We like to believe that intelligence and information protect us from bad decisions. They don't.Professor Alex Edmans, Professor of Finance at London Business School and Fellow of the British Academy, returns to Passion Struck to reveal the psychological forces that can distort our judgment—from confirmation bias and anchoring to herd behavior, emotional decision-making, and our tendency to follow whatever information is most

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00:22:34

What If the Proof You're Waiting For Never Comes? |...

Passion Struck with John R. Miles ·

2026/09/18

What if the proof you're waiting for never comes?The apology. The promotion. The recognition.Someone finally admitting they were wrong about you. Someone finally telling you that you belong.What if you're waiting for proof that you don't actually need?After conversations with Cole Brauer and psychologist Marisa Franco, John R. Miles noticed a powerful connection between their work.Cole was told she was too small to survive the Southern Ocean. A year later, she sailed solo, nonstop, and unassisted

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00:55:10

Why Nothing You Achieve Will Ever Make You Feel...

Passion Struck with John R. Miles ·

2026/09/17

Why do you still feel like you're not enough—even when your life looks successful from the outside?You can have a successful career, loving relationships, and people who genuinely care about you—and still struggle to believe you're worthy of love, connection, or belonging.Marisa G. Franco, psychologist and author of the New York Times bestseller Platonic, returns to Passion Struck to explore the deeper science behind self-worth in her new book, Worth: The New Science of Self-Esteem and Secure

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01:08:38

How to Believe in Yourself When Everyone Tells You...

Passion Struck with John R. Miles ·

2026/09/15

What happens when someone tells you that you're too small to do the thing you've been working toward your entire life?For Cole Brauer, that moment could have been the end of the story. Instead, it became part of the beginning. Cole was told she was too short to compete in the Southern Ocean. She was cut from a major team after traveling across the Atlantic and giving up paid opportunities to pursue the dream. A year later, she was sailing solo around the world.But what makes Cole's story so

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00:22:50

The Agency Paradox: Why Real Adaptability Starts...

Passion Struck with John R. Miles ·

2026/09/11

What if having more freedom doesn't always make you more free?We tend to believe that adaptability means having more options, more resources, more independence, and more control. But after conversations with Martin Seligman and David Epstein, I began to see a different pattern.Sometimes unlimited freedom creates paralysis. Sometimes individual willpower becomes isolation. And sometimes our greatest breakthroughs happen not when we escape our constraints, but when we learn how to work intelligently

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01:00:23

You Don't Need More Freedom. You Need Better...

Passion Struck with John R. Miles ·

2026/09/10

Have you ever felt like you need more options, more time, more freedom, or a bigger opportunity before you can finally make progress?What if the opposite is true?Today, John R. Miles sits down with New York Times bestselling author David Epstein, author of Range and The Sports Gene, to explore why constraints can sometimes unlock the creativity and focus that unlimited freedom cannot.David's new book, "Inside the Box," challenges one of our most deeply held assumptions: that more freedom is always

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01:01:34

World’s Most Influential Psychologist: The Hidden...

Passion Struck with John R. Miles ·

2026/09/08

Have you ever reached a point where you stopped believing that what you do could actually make a difference?Maybe you tried harder. Maybe you kept showing up. But after enough setbacks, rejection, or disappointment, something inside you started asking, "Why bother?"Today, John R. Miles sits down with Dr. Martin Seligman, one of the most influential psychologists of our time and a pioneer of positive psychology.For more than six decades, Seligman has studied learned helplessness, optimism,

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00:23:27

You Are Not the Only Variable: When to Change...

Passion Struck with John R. Miles ·

2026/09/04

Have you ever worked harder and harder at something, only to wonder why nothing seems to change?You may assume the answer is that you need more discipline, more motivation, or more grit. But what if the problem isn't you?Today, John R. Miles explores that question through two very different lenses: Angela Duckworth's research on how situations shape our behavior and Jared Diamond's work on when individual leaders actually make a difference.John also puts both ideas to the test in his own life after

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01:11:03

World-Renowned Historian: When Leaders Actually...

Passion Struck with John R. Miles ·

2026/09/03

What makes someone a great leader?Is it talent? Timing? Character? Circumstance? Or simply being the right person in the right place at the right moment? Today, John R. Miles sits down with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and bestselling author Jared Diamond to explore one of the biggest questions in his new book, Profits, Profits, Profits, Coaches and Kings: When Do Leaders Matter? After spending decades studying civilizations, geography, human societies, and why nations succeed or collapse,

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00:54:22

World-Leading Psychologist: How to Change Your Life...

Passion Struck with John R. Miles ·

2026/09/01

If you’ve been trying to change your life but keep falling back into the same habits, this episode is for you. Today, John R. Miles sits down with Angela Duckworth, one of the world’s leading psychologists and the bestselling author of Grit. Angela has spent her career studying why some people are able to achieve their goals and reach their potential. But in her new book, Situated, she shares a powerful idea that changes the way we think about personal growth. We tend to believe that change comes

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01:08:02

How to Stop Feeling Like You’re Never Doing Enough |...

Passion Struck with John R. Miles ·

2026/08/28

If you constantly feel like you should be doing more, achieving more, or becoming more, this episode is for you.Today, John R. Miles sits down with Caleb Campbell, a former NFL player and author of the new book Unstriving. For much of his life, Caleb believed that success would finally make him feel like he was enough. But after spending years pursuing achievement and reaching goals he once dreamed about, he discovered something many high achievers eventually learn: You can get what you wanted and

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00:56:50

30 Years of Research Reveals Why Midlife Isn’t a...

Passion Struck with John R. Miles ·

2026/08/27

What if everything you’ve been told about midlife is wrong? If you’ve ever worried that your best years are behind you, that it’s too late to change, or that getting older automatically means losing your energy, purpose, or sense of possibility, this episode is for you. Today, John R. Miles sits down with Dr. Margie Lachman, a leading lifespan psychologist and author of Primetime: A New Vision for Midlife, who has spent more than 30 years studying what actually happens to us during the middle years

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00:53:06

Duke Behavioral Economist: Why You’ll Regret the...

Passion Struck with John R. Miles ·

2026/08/25

What if the thing you regret most someday isn't what you did—but what you never tried? In this episode of Passion Struck, John R. Miles sits down with behavioral economist and bestselling author Dan Ariely to explore why we make decisions that don't always serve our long-term well-being. Dan's research reveals a surprising pattern: in the moment, we tend to regret the risks we take. But when we look back over our lives, we often regret the risks we didn't take. The conversation goes far beyond

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00:51:19

How to Stop Caring What Everyone Thinks of You & Find...

Passion Struck with John R. Miles ·

2026/08/21

What would change if you stopped worrying so much about what everyone else thinks of you?Actor, entrepreneur, and father Josh Duhamel has spent decades in the spotlight, but he says one of the biggest things he has learned with age is that he no longer needs to pretend for anyone—and that caring too much about other people's opinions once kept him from living his “full version” of himself. In this deeply personal conversation, John R. Miles sits down with the actor, entrepreneur, and father to talk

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