On this episode of Self Helpful, host Kevin Miller engages in a thought-provoking conversation with Dr. Bradley Nelson, acclaimed author of "The Emotion Code" and "The Body Code." Driven by a deep belief in divine purpose, Dr. Nelson shares his personal experiences and insights, delving into the profound concepts of unconditional love, transformative consciousness, and the healing power of emotional release. Drawing from his own journey and the wisdom of ancient writings, Dr. Nelson sheds light ...
Oct 26, 2023•58 min
We kick off a series on Healing. Your body's ability to heal itself. Physically and psychologically. Every day we are exposed to things that compromise our very beings. Just going through the day, taxes us and at the end, we sleep, and while we sleep, we expect to, hope to, recharge so we can do it again. This is an aspect of healing. But now we are going to go deeper into the acute issues of our lives and why we are or are not, healing sufficiently. And of course what we can do to greatly incre...
Oct 25, 2023•1 hr 15 min
This is our Peak Wellness show where we give specific focus to our health and wellness. The vehicle that drives all we do. In this episode we’re talking about trauma. Which is at the core a distressing or disturbing experience. The reality is our past traumas, especially in our early upbringing, latch on and often negatively affect our health. Tana Amen is a New York Times bestselling author, a neurosurgical ICU trauma nurse, a world-renowned health and fitness expert, and she and her husband Da...
Oct 23, 2023•1 hr
We continue a special, short series on What Drives You with some interesting people. People who got clear on what they wanted, and why, which is what creates authentic drive, knowing what you want and why. This is the focus of my book, What Drives You. Here I bring you Jordan Harbinger. Jordan is podcasting royalty. He wasn’t a celebrity. He didn’t have a NY Time bestselling book. He didn’t grow a multimillion dollar business. He had a lonely childhood and ended up going to law school because hi...
Oct 20, 2023•1 hr 6 min
We continue a special, short series on What Drives You with some interesting people. People who got clear on what they wanted, and why, which is what creates authentic drive, knowing what you want and why. This is the focus of my book, What Drives You. Here I bring you Kara Goldin. Kara is well known as the founder and CEO of Hint, Inc. Hint is the unsweetened, flavored water that’s become one of the most successful beverage businesses of our time. Kara’s book is called Undaunted: Overcoming Dou...
Oct 19, 2023•1 hr 12 min
I’m kicking off a series of What Drives You episodes with some incredibly interesting people. People who got clear on what they wanted, and why. That’s what creates authentic drive, knowing what you want and why. Here I bring you Shawn Askinosie, founder of Askinosie Chocolate. If you are a Seth Godin follower you have likely heard of Shawn and Askinosie Chocolate, as Seth is a big fan of Shawn, the company, and the chocolate! As you’re about to hear, Shawn's dad died at 14 and tore his world ap...
Oct 18, 2023•1 hr 6 min
This is our Peak Wellness show where we give specific focus to our health and wellness. The foundation for all we do. In this episode…we talk about breathing. How to breathe. Isn’t that odd. I, like you, figured I knew how. For over 52 years I’ve been breathing air in and continuing to live. I was a pro cyclist and seemed to breathe pretty proficiently. What more do I need to know? Turns out there is a lot to know if we want to be fully functioning. In this show, my great friend and Peak Wellnes...
Oct 16, 2023•1 hr 7 min
I wrap up our series on Strong Body Strong Mind and I’m going to give you a paradigm shifting analogy that I believe will forever change how you view your brain’s ability in regards to the overall health of your body. I kicked off the series with Dr. Gabrielle Lyon whose focus is Muscle Centric Medicine. Her new book is called Forever Strong: A New, Science-Based Strategy for Aging Well. The focus was on how muscle, built by protein and resistance training, is key for our brain health and long t...
Oct 13, 2023•39 min
We continue our series on Strong Body Strong Mind and How To Remain Fully Capable As You Age. My catalyst for this series is Dr Gabrielle Lyon whose expertise is Muscle-Centric Medicine, and that is our muse, how in our search for long term health often misses the vital role of skeletal muscle. Gabrielle’s new book is Forever Strong: A New, Science-Based Strategy for Aging Well and her podcast is The Dr Gabrielle Lyon Show. Here, I’m with my great friend, Randy James, Medical Doctor and Function...
Oct 12, 2023•1 hr 15 min
I’m back with Dr Gabrielle Lyon to find out what drives her, to dig into her values and how she walks them out in her life. We start off talking about spirituality and Gabrielle shares the gravity she faces as she deals with actual life and death with patients. We talk about her navy seal husband who never complains. We of course talk at length about health and wellness and her own habits and get into how and why she is so driven. Dr. Lyon again, is board certified in family medicine and is a su...
Oct 11, 2023•54 min
We are talking about aging well. Specifically, maintaining our mental and physical strength and capacity, as long as possible. The media talks about lifespan, but what I care about is health span. I want to be healthy and able to the end, whether my end is 60 years old or 100. As opposed to lingering for the last 5 or 20 years as is getting to be the norm. A tragic norm. My expert on the topic is Dr Gabrielle Lyon. I’ve known of Dr Lyons for a long, long time through Functional Medicine circles....
Oct 09, 2023•1 hr 31 min
Food is like money. We can’t do without it. Food is not good or bad. So we either have a good and healthy relationship with it and invest wisely, or we have a poor relationship with it and it’s a thorn in our side. We are losing the war with food in America and in this show we highlight a reality of our true and real addiction with food. All of us are on the spectrum. But again, we can’t stop eating forever, so what do we do? First we get aware of our individual issues around food, then work to ...
Oct 06, 2023•59 min
Our catalyst for this series is Dr Benjamin Hardy and the concept of his new book with renowned business coach, Dan Sullivan, 10x is easier than 2x: How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More By Doing Less. While I’ll testify that the entrepreneurial mindset is key for embracing this 10x concept, you don’t have to be that actual entrepreneur. You can harness other methodologies, which we covered some in part two and I’ll review again here. If you’ve ever heard the concept of 10x, you haven’t hea...
Oct 05, 2023•29 min
We continue our talk on Thinking Big. Part 1 and 2 was with Dr Benjamin Hardy who recently co-authored a book with famed business coach, Dan Sullivan, called 10x Is Easier Than 2x. Ben sent me an early copy of the book and I didn’t pick it up until my Dad texted me saying he’d read the book and it was revolutionizing his business. So fittingly I brought on my Dad to discuss this 10x concept further. My Dad of course is…Dan Miller, author of 48 Days To The Work – and Life – You Love, host of the ...
Oct 04, 2023•1 hr 9 min
I’m back with Dr Benjamin Hardy to discuss what drives him. I just had Ben on the show for the 5th time to talk about his latest book, 10x Is Easier Than 2x, which is a psychological paradigm shifter for how we look at making progress. But this is a special episode. I had Ben on a show with me in 2019 where he made a reference to his childhood where he was 19 years old, barely made it out of high school, his very religious parents had divorced and walked away from their faith, his dad became a m...
Oct 03, 2023•1 hr 8 min
We’re talking about how the impossible goal is actually easily and more attainable than the possible goal. Why doubling your income in a year, for instance, can be easier than increasing it by 5 or 10%. This is not some motivational hype, and to prove the point I have with me, Dr Benjamin Hardy. This is the fourth time I’ve had Ben on the show, first with his book Willpower Doesn’t Work which is one of my top shelf go to books you’ve heard me reference many times. Then his book, Personality Isn’...
Sep 29, 2023•1 hr 41 min
We look at a key way to give your body a break. If you’ve ever driven a car that was overheating, you know the only way to give it a break is to turn it off and let it cool down. Our bodies in today’s culture, are almost always overheated as they try to digest food. Constant food, too much food, and food our bodies don’t like and struggle with. Even in our sleep our bodies are generally toiling away trying to deal with the foods we’ve put in them. We never give them a break. The term for this th...
Sep 28, 2023•1 hr 5 min
I wrap up our series on Emotional Power with the Big Idea, The Big Takeaway & The Big Action, after incredible discussions with Dr Julia Digangi, author of Energy Rising - The Neuroscience of Leading With Emotional Power and Britt Frank, author of The Science of Stuck: Breaking Through Inertia To Find Your Path Forward. Here I’m taking the opportunity to pull out some of the primary issues I see us blind to as a culture regarding emotions. For context, I’m now focused on a goal of emotional ...
Sep 27, 2023•40 min
We continue our series on Emotional Power. In the last episode my guest expert was Dr. Julia DiGangi, a neuropsychologist who completed her residency at Harvard Medical School. Dr DiGangi is author of the new book, Energy Rising: The Neuroscience of Leading with Emotional Power, and we discussed How To Discover & Correct Your Self-Limiting Patterns. Today I brought Britt Frank back onto the show to go deeper with the discussion. I did a series on anxiety with Britt you can find starting back...
Sep 25, 2023•1 hr 5 min
We begin a series on Emotional Power. Everyday life happens around us. We judge it all by how we feel about it, and we naturally trust and believe our experience. My guest today however says it’s our emotions that are the final judge of all our experiences. Not fact. Not our logic. But our emotions. To take it further she cites, “The very meaning in your life is determined by the emotions you have about it.” And what you’re about to learn is you have perceptions and resulting patterns programmed...
Sep 22, 2023•1 hr 24 min
In this episode we’re talking specifically in regards to glucose. You don’t care a bit about glucose, in and of itself. What you care about is your body's reaction to your food and lifestyle choices and resulting energy levels and clarity. And that’s the point, your body does react to what you eat and how you live, but it’s incredibly complex to understand the correlations. Unless, you are wearing a CGM…continual glucose monitor. This is new technology. If you’re aware of them, you probably asso...
Sep 21, 2023•1 hr 11 min
I wrap up our series on…men. Manhood. I called it “The Place Of Man” because that seems to be the question these days…what is…the place of men? How should we view ourselves? We grew up with expectations that seem to have changed. Maybe for better. Maybe for worse. I think both. But I find more and more men who feel numb, ashamed, or just dissatisfied. And I could say floundering with who they are, but it may be just as much, who they feel they should be. I talked in depth with Connor Beaton, fou...
Sep 20, 2023•37 min
We continue our talk on A Man’s Place and I titled the show, Are We Having Fun Yet? How To Enjoy Life & Not Merely Survive It. My catalyst was Connor Beaton, founder of ManTalks, an international organization focused on men’s wellness, success, and fulfillment, author of Mens Work: A Practical Guide To Face Your Darkness, End Self-Sabotage, And Find Freedom and host of the Man Talks podcast. Now I’m with Dr Randy James. Randy is truly my best friend and we’ve walked through life together for...
Sep 18, 2023•1 hr 10 min
I’m back with Connor Beaton. In the previous episode we talked about How To Embrace Manhood & Also Be Human, and in this episode we talk about what drives Connor personally. I start off with something he disclosed in his book, where he shared that an overall driving force for him is the reality that he has been abused, and he has abused. He has been hurt, and he has hurt and from this he discusses dark motivation and light motivation. So we dive deep quickly. Connor is founder of ManTalks, a...
Sep 15, 2023•1 hr 7 min
We are talking about men. For those who grew up as boys and now live as men, you were raised in a social construct that had certain expectations. Times have changed and evolved, and some of those expectations have changed, but our programming never did. The result is we find ourselves in a culture where men are often confused, frustrated, ashamed, and dissatisfied. And that’s not helping men, or anyone who comes into contact with them. This is not a call to masculinity. This is also not a call t...
Sep 14, 2023•1 hr 39 min
The fight against cancer began around 1970, the year I was born. Culturally we’ve treated cancer like an insidious evil that is hunting us as a predator and we are its prey. It gets you or it doesn’t, you catch it or you don’t. Yet the science does not back this up. Do genetics contribute? 5-10% possibly. The main issue is what we are doing to our cells that is much the causation and reason for the continued growth. Now I realize that even the hint at us having any responsibility regarding cance...
Sep 13, 2023•56 min
I was offered the opportunity to do a back to school special for Apple Podcasts. I’ve already been asked about creating a version of my book, What Drives You, for a high school and college perspective. Which is fitting, as the impetus to write my book came from my desires for my adult kids. I realized what I most wanted for them was to know…what they want. To understand what they value and why, for themselves. And to commit to it. I want them to spend their days working at something they care ab...
Sep 11, 2023•50 min
I wrap up our series on Confidence and have 7 key takeaways after my discussion with Heather Monahan, host of the Creating Confidence podcast, and author of Confidence Creator, and her brand new book Overcome Your Villains. Tom Ziglar, CEO of Ziglar Inc. also brought me to great insight on confidence. Walk with me as we discuss the knowledge given and the learning we have ahead of us You can watch these full episodes on YouTube - just search for “Self Helpful with Kevin Miller” The Self Helpful ...
Sep 08, 2023•26 min
In this episode we continue our series on confidence, continuing from my talks with Heather Monahan, host of Creating Confidence, ranked top 200 overall in Apple Podcast. Here I bring on my great friend, Tom Ziglar. Tom is CEO of Ziglar Inc. Ziglar, founded by one of the greatest self help influencers of all time, Zig Ziglar, is renowned for building confidence in people. The right kind of confidence, which is confidence paired with humility. In our culture, we aren’t taught how to have true, he...
Sep 07, 2023•1 hr 9 min
What Drives Heather Monahan. Heather is my resident expert in this series on Confidence, and her story is one of a long journey to understand and embrace confidence. In this episode I walk with Heather through the 7 key areas of life to see what drives her, and we dig further into her journey of confidence. Heather is a two times best-selling author, she was a Top 50 Keynote Speaker in the World in 2022, her podcast, Creating Confidence, is in the top 200 overall in Apple Podcast. Heather succes...
Sep 06, 2023•54 min
