Beyond Adversity with Dr. Brad Miller

Neil is a meditation teacher and mentor, a survivor, and a recovered. He's bringing meditation alive in our lives with Embodied Meditation. In this episode, Neil shared his struggle with the dissonance between what was going on and what he thought was going on. He talks about the point of his drama and trauma experience and a situation in which he found he had to leave.  Instead of becoming t...

Martin engages in shamanic journeys that promote spiritual awakening. He also started a business and a coaching practice to help his clients live fulfilled, peaceful, and joyful lives. In this episode, Martin shared how he overcame his greatest pain point, the suffering he had from depression, and how the shamanic journey works. He talks about why his business is called Light Trails because after...

A company that helps individuals to discover themselves and step into leadership. They aim to guide people to become the leader they know they are, conscious, competent, and caring. And ultimately enjoy the life they have. In this episode, Maureen shared how she overcame and recover from her miserable life with different addictions such as drugs and alcohol In her childhood, Maureen grew up in a l...

Michaell is an Austrian-California multimedia Artist, awareness and creativity educator, speaker and author. Artists who are aware of themselves as artists bring a fresh awareness to their work. To do so, we must first free the boundless art system, whose only desire is to be created and shown to the world, from the ever-dependent economic system, which determines our values.  In this episode...

Online to Offline seeks to provide service in creating sustainable and scalable business development teams. They could help scale their business and increase their revenues and profits. However, their primary mission is to create jobs for vulnerable youth and women. In this episode, Mat shared how he uses his business to drive his passion for helping other people, especially youth and women who ar...

Liam is a researcher, author, speaker, and educator.  He teaches Neuro-State Rebalancing (NSR), a technique for readjusting the four areas of your brain in order to solve issues and gain control over your life. In addition, Liam offers a number of well-respected programs for individuals and couples to help them mend their marriages or relationships. He doesn’t believe that everyday problems a...

Ken is an entrepreneur, author, speaker, new media host, and wealth advisor. He believes that by learning the tools and strategies that you need to shift your focus into overdrive, you can realize your true calling, set your targets, and achieve your goals.  In this episode, Ken talks about his defining moment. How he had his great awakening from his deep slumber and how he got himself out of...

Corbie is the author of the book entitled “Clean Out Your Life Closet.” Clean Out Your Life Closet encourages you as you search for your answers, create your toolbox, and realize that mending the old and making the new can be cheerful, joyous, and soul-satisfying. In this episode, Corbie shared how she overcame all her adversities from her childhood to the time she had breast cancer, as well as sk...

Johnny Sirpilla is Dr. Brad Miller's guest on Episode 221 of "The Beyond Adversity Podcast." He is an author, speaker, and entrepreneur that aims to help businesses, communities, and universities in encouraging growth, development, and inspire others. He also wrote the book entitled, “Life is Hard but I'll Be OK: The Power of Hope Emerging through Pain and Learning to Live with Gratitude.” Johnny...

Sylvia is a Turning Point Coach and author of the book entitled “Journey To Me: Trust The Wisdom Of Change.” She helps female entrepreneurs go from a turning point to the acceptance of new habits that result in a breakthrough. In this episode, Sylvia shared how she nearly died which shifted her lens toward the life she lives right now. She talks about how the fear of not being good enough and the...

He is a life coach, music producer, and podcaster that aims to help people in changing their circumstances in life using the power of the imagination framework.  As a music producer, he uses the stage name GAKO, where he releases various music that aims to help uplift the mood of its listeners. Growing up, Patrick was raised in a messy and abusive environment. He was born to a college dropout...

She is an author, an inspirational speaker, and a coach with a focus on self-healing and self-improvement. It aims to help people with their lives and overcome the adversity they may encounter.  Look, Lush is a book by Sara Webb that is a collection of poems. The book focuses on two meanings. For the first one, look refers to how Sara stood up and overcame her challenges in life. Meanwhile, l...

He is a veteran of the US Army, as well as an author, mental health advocate, speaker, and survivor. He has survived various adverse life events in his life and is now trying to help people overcome their own adversity. Dylan wrote a book entitled "Defy the Darkness: A Story of Suicide, Mental Health, and Overcoming Your Hardest Battles," which mainly tackles the things he had to go through in lif...

He is a teaching pastor, author, and conference speaker. Katie, his wife, is the love of his life, together with their children. The eldest child is fourteen years old, and their youngest was born in September. Scott has written various books about marriage, parenting, and family. As a senior pastor, author, and father, he has been balancing things in their lives, all of which can add to a lot of...

Michael T. Brown is Dr. Brad Miller's guest on Episode 215 of "The Beyond Adversity Podcast." He is a professional counselor, a leader, and a speaker who has the goal to support, motivate, educate, and mobilize people. He has worked for over 17 years as a school counselor on all levels: elementary, middle school, high school, and college. He has a belief that everyone will go through challenges. N...

Dr. Donna Chacko is Dr. Brad Miller's guest on Episode 214 of "The Beyond Adversity Podcast." She is a medical doctor and an author who overcame several obstacles in her life, both professionally and personally. She focuses on strengthening health in these three aspects – the mind, body, and spirit. She also established the Serenity and Health Ministry, which focuses on the pursuit of attaining an...

Aaron Walker was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, and he identifies himself as a native Nashvillian. He is a businessman, life coach, and author that helps others. He has written the book “View from the Top: Living a Life of Significance” and established a program called “Iron Sharpens Iron Mastermind.” He had dedicated to helping others and motivated people via his leadership, mentoring,...

D. Neil Elliott was a well-educated man who ran a thriving consulting firm and had a wonderful wife and family. But things were not as they looked. Neil was confronted with numerous difficulties. In a phrase, he was in a dark place. Neil discovered the Higher Road just by chance. Along the way, he found the key to changing his life. In this episode, Neil shared how we can open our minds and look a...

He is an advocate for the liberal arts and a philosopher who aids aspirants in their self-taught education by providing them with the necessary guidance. Besides his bachelor's degree in Philosophy, he also has a minor in Biology. Dr. Travis had a realization of how hard it is to teach and help someone due to the fact that people are often emotionally involved with everything in their lives. ...

Jared Easley is a genuine entrepreneur. He is a noticer, motivator, friend, and power content creator. He has found a way to do all this and still keep his family first. He is also the co-founder of Podcast Movement, and from The Starve the doubts podcast. For the past 8 years, the goal of the Podcast Movement has been to bring together and educate active and aspiring podcasters and industry profe...

Melissa talks about the struggles and difficult circumstances that she went through during the real, adverse event that impacted all of us, the COVID crisis, and how she was able to work through all of it and eventually turned her life around through the power of social media. Dr. Miller and Melissa will also talk about many other things such as family, faith, and about being a mother. Melissa los...

Aaron talks about his unique life experiences and how it has all led him to a place of wisdom that is far and wide. He is all about communicating and exploring the human condition and sharing it with everyone. He does this all through Catalyst Coaching Australia, his Business and Life Coaching program. Aaron grew up in a very chaotic, dysfunctional, and terrifying environment. His mother was an ad...

Danielle Bernock is Dr. Brad Miller’s guest on Episode 207 of “The Beyond Adversity Podcast.” Danielle talks about childhood trauma and how you can get through it. In her personal experience, she is a survivor of multiple childhood traumas. She dismissed these traumas because she thought they were not bad enough because she was not sexually molested, hadn’t been through a natural disaster, or had...

Chris Odegard is Dr. Brad Miller’s guest on Episode 206 of “The Beyond Adversity Podcast.” Chris grew up in a family of employees like most people. All he knew was that you went to school, you go to college, you get a job and then work and hopefully you get a pension by the end. That’s all he did in his life until he went through a divorce with a 19-year marriage and lost 55% of his assets because...

Stephanie is the CEO of Heart and Sole Fitness & Wellness. She is also a speaker, personal trainer, fitness nutrition specialist, and the author of Break Free to Health and Vitality. Heart and Sole Fitness aims to empower you to break down barriers in achieving fitness, wellness, and accountability goals, no matter the starting point. Because every single person on earth is unique, and a healt...