Self Helpful with Kevin Miller

By Kevin Miller

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What's Self Helpful with Kevin Miller about?

Former pro athlete, respected peak performance and self-help guide, and published author, Kevin Miller invites today's most important influencers and changemakers to grapple with their own wisdom and stories in an authentic, relatable conversation about self-help and what drives them. Each conversation is a three-part journey that distills the guests' greatest wisdom and methodologies into practical, transformative steps that anyone can use to create their own path to a life of freedom, growth, and fulfillment.

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11.28.2022 Step Up Into Challenge To Meet Who You Really Are \| Lynne Twist Part 3 with Jared Angaza As you listen right now, you are likely thinking of hearing or learning something of interest, and something that will help equip or direct you toward more of what you want from life. We are all here striving to grow ...
11.25.2022 Know When Prescription Drugs and Surgeries Are Actually Needed \| Functional Friday We’re in an age when prescription drugs and surgeries are prescribed with little hesitation, especially in the American “healthcare” system. Yet most health minded people, like you who listen to this Self-Helpful podcast, are not so eager to just accept ...
11.23.2022 Purpose: How To Fall Into Your Best Self By Having A Purpose \| Lynne Twist Part 2 How often do we see a movie depict someone bumbling along, not doing so well, lacking in a lot of personal areas…then a big incident happens, and they quickly rise to the occasion, going from hero to zero. I wonder ...
11.21.2022 Commiting To Something Bigger Than Yourself Makes You Bigger Than Yourself \| humanitarian Lynne Twist Part 1 We as people tend to think of learning and training and preparing, so that…we can commit to something truly big and worthy. A grand purpose. My guest today argues, in the most compassionate way possible, we have it backwards, and ...
11.18.2022 How To Parent Wellness \| Functional Friday Here we are striving to motivate and instigate our own good health, and then we have our kids. The cultural norm is to just let them eat, and what they want to eat is what the food industry pumps out ...
11.16.2022 Devoting To Relationships Without Depending On Them For Our Self-Worth \| with Dr Randy James - Melodie Beattie Part 3 Going without close relationships is like going without water. It dehydrates our life and ultimately we’ll die. A slow death of the soul. Yet when we rely on those relationships for our self worth we endure a similar death of ...
11.14.2022 Living An Interested Life Instead Of An Entertained Life \| Melodie Beattie Part 2 If you could choose right now what tomorrow would look like, if you had complete freedom, would you rather be consumed with something you are interested in, or be entertained? Really think about it. And you can take it further ...
11.11.2022 How To Elevate & Imbibe Your Appetites \| Functional Friday We as humans are driven by our appetites. Yet much of the health and wellness culture is around curbing and suppressing our appetites, and for the most part, it’s just a recipe for failure. Today my cohost Randy James, Medical ...
11.09.2022 How To Be Codependent No More - \| Melody Beattie, legendary self-help pioneer You are codependent. So am I. So is everyone, to a degree. We are humans and we innately look for the A’s from other people; approval, affirmation, attention, and acceptance. How codependent we are relates to how much we need ...
11.07.2022 Discover Your Working Genius & Stop Doing What You Are Merely Good At \| with Tom Ziglar - Patrick Lencioni Part 3 When we look at jobs and businesses our natural inclination is to look to something we’ve learned to do, that people will pay us for. Generally it’s something we’ve done enough to get good at, and we work to get ...
11.04.2022 These Are The Motives That Keep Us Pursuing Our Health & Wellness \| Functional Friday I asked the Self-Helpful audience this question, “For all my health, wellness, and fitness minded friends, what is the primary motive (reason) that drives you to stick with your healthy lifestyle plan?” This is my Functional Friday episode where we ...
11.02.2022 How To Strive For Success But Be Peacefully Detached From The Outcome \| Patrick Lencioni Part 2 In this episode…I’m back with heralded business leader, best selling author, renowned speaker and top podcast host, Patrick Lencioni, who I find to be masterfully insightful regarding human behavior and performance, which is what he’s famous for and why he’s ...
10.31.2022 How To Discover Exactly What Work You Should Be Doing \| Patrick Lencioni Part 1 To be your best self, you need to be doing your best work. The great news is, the product or service of your work focus is not what makes your work great, but the specific tasks and roles you are ...
10.28.2022 Overcome Your Greatest Health Threat - Cultural Pressure \| Functional Friday If you were on your own, you’d likely make all the positive health changes you desire. Eat cleaner. Exercise. Meditate. Go to sleep earlier. Do less screens. But you’re not alone. You may have a spouse. Kids. Co-workers. Friends and ...
10.26.2022 Productively Process Negativity By Sharing Your Feelings Instead Of Blaming, Accusing & Criticizing \| with Dr Randy James - Whitney Goodman Part 3 We generally talk about negative things in our life in a way that brings us and those listening to us, further down. When something hard happens to you and you blame, accuse, and criticize, this is what we call venting. ...
10.24.2022 The Mental Health Benefit Of Connecting With Individual People Instead Of Merely Identifying With Groups \| Whitney Goodman Part 2 I’m back for Part 2 with Whitney Goodman, author of Toxic Positivity, to walk through her personal values, motives, and habits in the key areas of life fulfillment so we can hear what has driven and does drive her to ...
10.21.2022 Find Out What Is Going On Under Your Hood With Advanced Diagnostics \| Functional Friday This show is about figuring out root issues to your health, especially when you are doing so many of the right things. So I have a daughter who eats clean. Cleaner than I do. She works out pretty vigorously near ...
10.19.2022 Don’t Miss Wisdom & Growth By Simply Trying To Be Positive \| Whitney Goodman Part 1 In this episode we challenge the cultural concept of positivity. Meaning our propensity to take a hard circumstance, event, and feeling, and simply spray painting positivity over it. We aren’t making a case for being negative at all, but rather, ...
10.17.2022 Make Every Task Serve Your Life Goals \| with Tom Ziglar - Richie Norton Part 3 We continue our talk spawned by Richie Norton and his new book, Anti-Time management, but digging more into clarifying what our values are and how we craft our day to day activities and tasks to support them. It can get ...
10.14.2022 How To Create Your Best Defense Against Illness & Disease \| Functional Friday This is my Functional Friday episode where we focus on our health and wellness so we have the physical and mental capacity to help ourselves and others…and we are talking about how to best guard yourself against illness and disease. ...
10.12.2022 How To Avoid Burnout & Still Work A Lot \| Richie Norton Part 2 In this episode I’m back with Richie Norton, author of Anti-Time Management, to walk through his personal values, motives, and habits in the key areas of life fulfillment so we can hear what has driven and does drive him to ...
10.10.2022 Stop Trying To Manage Time & Tip It In Your Favor \| Richie Norton Part 1 In this episode we’re charged to stop attempting time management and my guest takes the very concept to task as something never intended to benefit us at all. Instead he masterfully guides us in how to tip time to our ...
10.07.2022 How To Accelerate Your Wellness By Clarifying The End Result \| Functional Friday This is my Functional Friday episode where we focus on our health and wellness so we have the physical and mental capacity to help ourselves and others, and today we discuss How To Accelerate Your Wellness By Clarifying The End ...
10.05.2022 With Important Decisions You Can Be Efficient Or Wise \| with Randy James MD - Wendy Smith Part 3 I continue the discussion brought forth by Wendy Smith and the message in her book with Marianne Lewis, "Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems.” Here I bring in my frequent co-host, Randy James, medical doctor and ...
10.03.2022 Finding Wisdom Without Conclusive Answers \| Wendy K Smith Part 2 I’m back with Wendy K Smith, expert on organizational paradoxes and co-author of Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems, and we are walking through her personal values, motives, and habits in the key areas of life ...
09.30.2022 What You Track You Improve Even If You Are Not Trying \| Functional Friday We are talking about possibly the number one, easiest way to make an immediate positive impact in your health and wellness, whether it’s losing weight or getting more energy. You ready? Track it. What you track, you just can’t help ...
09.28.2022 Evolve Above Right & Wrong To Hold The Wisdom of Both/And \| Wendy Smith Part 1 We can better solve tough problems and make decisions we feel confident about, by not taking an either-or, black and white, or right and wrong approach to them. We are in a culture and media that is radically doing just ...
09.26.2022 Don’t Fall In Love With Success - Fall In Love With The Habits That Create Success \| with Tom Ziglar - Dr Benjamin Hardy Part 3 Wrapping up my series on Dr Benjamin Hardy and the message from his latest book, Be Your Future Self Now. Tom Ziglar joins me today and the conversation veers into Tom calling us to not fall in love with success, ...
09.23.2022 The Nutritional Supplements You Need - Or Not \| Functional Friday This is my Functional Friday episode and I’m of course with my dear friend and frequent co-host, Randy James, Medical Doctor and Functional Medicine expert. We’re going to talk about nutritional supplements. Are they really necessary for you to spend ...
09.21.2022 Human Being vs Human Doing & Slowing Down To Do More Valuable Work & Life \| Dr Benjamin Hardy Part 2 I’m back with Dr Benjamin Hardy to walk through his personal values, motives, and habits in the key areas of life fulfillment. His books have sold hundreds of thousands of copies, and his blogs have been read by hundreds of ...
09.19.2022 Connecting With & Emulating Your Future Self \| Dr Benjamin Hardy Part 1 We are talking about your future self. Who are you becoming? Who do you want to become? And the question is, can you conceptualize and connect with that person right now, and from this connection, drastically accelerate your personal growth ...
09.16.2022 Having The Courage To Live Better \| Functional Friday This is my Functional Friday episode where we focus on our health and wellness so we have the ability and capacity to pursue all we desire, and the topic of this episodes is Having The Courage To Live Better. People ...
09.14.2022 Our Responsibility To Keep Striving & Aspiring \| with Randy James - Kindra Hall Part 3 Wrapping up my series on Kindra Hall and the message from her new book, Choose Your Story, Change Your Life. In this episode I’m joined by my co-host, Randy James, Medical Doctor, Functional Medicine expert, and my dear friend to ...
09.12.2022 My Purpose Is Easy When I Understand It & Hard When I Don’t \| Kindra Hall Part 2 I’m back with best-selling author and the former Chief Storytelling Officer of SUCCESS Magazine, Kindra Hall, to walk through her personal values, motives, and habits in the key areas of life fulfillment so we can hear what has driven and ...
09.09.2022 How To Afford Healthy Lifestyle Choices & Experience Well Being \| Functional Friday Cost is one of the primary deterrents many people cite for healthy living. Buying whole foods, nutritional supplements, exercising, and seeking alternative health care simply costs more money and can often lead us to minimizing or abandoning the effort altogether. ...
09.07.2022 Every Day You Are Agreeing To The Story You Are Living & You Can Make Rewrites Today \| Kindra Hall Part 1 We all wake up every day and participate in what we feel is simply our reality. Yet it’s truly a storyline we’ve created, or accepted, or feel we are forced to live and in that case, agreed with and submitted ...
09.06.2022 The Evidence Showing You Might Be Suited For Entrepreneurship \| with Dan Miller - Elliott Bisnow Part 3 Wrapping up my series on Elliott Bisnow, co-founder of the Summit Series events, part festival, part personal development conference. His book, Make No Small Plans, gives focus to the entrepreneurial journey, and the power of hosting and attending events. One ...
09.02.2022 Your Health Is Your Mainly Your Fault And That Is Great News \| Functional Friday This is my Functional Friday episode where we focus on our health and wellness so we have the ability and capacity to pursue all we desire, and today we discuss the sensitive and actually volatile topic of your health being ...
08.31.2022 How We Do Business Is More Important Than What We Do In Our Business \| Elliott Bisnow Part 2 I’m back with Elliott Bisnow to walk through his personal values, motives, and habits in the key areas of life fulfillment so we can hear what has driven and does drive him to produce the massive Summit Series personal development ...
08.29.2022 How To Overcome Poor Social Calibration & Host Epic Events \| Elliott Bisnow Part 1 We take a bit of a detour from pure self-help in this episode. I started off with the story of a guy who wanted to be an entrepreneur, yet had no idea how to be, and was as he said, ...
08.26.2022 How To Feast On Fasting \| Functional Friday The title “How To Feast On Fasting” is meant to help us change our paradigm. Look, I adore food and eating. I’m generally always looking toward my next meal. I enjoy it so much I won’t waste the effort or ...
08.24.2022 Why Your Relationships Must Come Before Your Beliefs \| with Tom Ziglar - Andy Norman Part 3 Series wrap up on Andy Norman and his book, Mental Immunity. Here I bring on my frequent co-host, Tom Ziglar, CEO of Ziglar and son to Zig Ziglar, to talk about this concept of how we view our beliefs. What ...
08.22.2022 How To Discern An Idea’s Value By Asking If It’s Useful And/Or True \| Andy Norman Part 2 I’m back with Andy Norman to walk through his personal values, motives, and habits in the key areas of life fulfillment so we can hear what has driven and does drive him to help us create mental immunity and consider ...
08.19.2022 Case Study: A New Lease On Life \| Functional Friday - Dan Miller I have a story for you. A case study of health turnaround and success for you. Dan Miller is the bestselling author of “48 Days To The Work You Love” and a prolific writer, speaker and coach. However at the ...
08.17.2022 Strengthen Your Beliefs By Considering Other's \| Andy Norman Part 1 I grew up with very strong beliefs and I viewed being resolute and concrete in them as a strength. In our culture today we see this played out every moment of every day as the media pits one side against ...
08.15.2022 Being We Without Losing Me \| Randy James: Terry Real Part 3 Wrapping up my series on Terry Real and the message of his book, US: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship. I’m with my co-host Randy James, Medical Doctor and Functional Medicine expert and you’re about ...
08.12.2022 Improve Your Health By Improving Your Relationships With Others \| Functional Friday Your personal relationships are likely to make or break you. This is our Functional Friday episode and we are finishing out the four foundational pillars of Functional Medicine with the third episode on Relationships. In episode 1025 we talked about ...
08.10.2022 Hold Yourself Tenderly \| Part 1 I’m back with internationally renowned family therapist Terry Real to walk through his personal values, motives, and habits in the key areas of life fulfillment so we can hear what has driven and does drive him to devote his life ...
08.08.2022 How To Be You & Belong To Another \| Part 1: Terry Real I’ve been fairly candid about my own, ongoing work with counselors, historically, and today. My current counselor really got deep with me into my relationship with myself and recommended a book called “I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming ...
08.05.2022 Take Strong Doses Of Hope For Your Best Physical & Mental Health \| Functional Friday The fourth pillar of Functional Medicine - The Mind/Body connection. Which we view as a relationship, and as such, are covering different aspects of relationships. I’m joined by my Functional Friday co host, Randy James, Medical Doctor and Functional Medicine ...

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