Miles Ahead: Strength for The Inner Life

This episode drops into the conversation about mental health and why it is on everyone's mind. What's it about: What is the cause of overdiagnosis, over analyzation, and under-happiness of the US population? How to stop yourself from getting pulled into armchair experts or even your friend's labeling of themselves in medical-speak? How can we empathize with ourselves, our traumatic exp...

This episode is about learning how to change your own health, your own relationships, or your own life. What's it about: The 5 types of students there are in any situation and why it sucks to be most of them. How can you empower yourself as a student to learn and grow the most readily? Why it is SO hard to change ourselves, or other people, based on our unique talents and circumstances? How wi...

This episode is about a friend of the Pod, Phil Horning, and his work building himself as a man and serving others in the capacity of a coach What's it about: Why is it so challenging to grow up as a man today? What is missing from our family lives that we need to learn, develop, and grow on our own? How family tragedy strikes and yet motivates the work of the coach and the warrior alike. How...

Miles and Josh talk about what intimacy is and why it is so critically important to a happy life. What's it about: What keeps people from having the positive, intimate relationships that they desire? How people confront their past in order to heal the trauma that keeps them from connecting. What trauma looks and sounds in the life of a child whether it's physical abuse, neglect, abandonmen...

Coach Josh solves the food issue once and for all What's it about: How Your Body Works, How Your Central Nervous System uses food to regulate hormones, heal tissues and build muscle What Protein, Fats, and Carbs do for your body How we go wrong with the food conversation How will the listener benefit: Learn why certain foods are labeled "healthy" and other foods are not Learn what to...

Miles goes through the experiences that people have seeking therapy What's it about: Why people are motivated to seek therapy and what their problem REALLY is (hint, it's not always your mom). What mistakes do people make including "working harder" at a job or relationship that they don't want? What must shift inside a person to access emotions and their own authentic hopes a...

Episode- Why do I have no friends? Josh and Miles talk about the barriers to authentic relationships  What's it about:  How do we create toxic relationships?  Attachment Theory and Styles Having strong connections, why they are important, and how we get in the way of real, authentic connections. How will the listener benefit:  Learn the most common mistakes that we unconsciously make which kee...

Talking points: How to survive "life ambushes". The meaning of "New Levels, New Devils". Adversity, and how to work with it. How karma, as action, or repeated patterns in life keep you stuck until you learn the life lesson, how it plays a role, and how to "exhaust it". How to "let go" and Launch what you desire in life. Why Las Vegas sucks Josh's humding...

What it is about: Discarding what health "appears" to be and adopting a definition of health that makes sense for you and the vision of your life. How will the listener benefit:  Unlearn superficial health markers and learn more about-  DEEP Health and its 3 primary aspects.  How to set health and fitness goals that are more fun and rewarding to pursue.  Core principles that will govern...

Fall down 9, get up 10. Episode- How to write your own story and confront your past. Josh and Miles talk about how to deal with a crisis of identity when you don't like who you think you are. What it is about: Dealing with an existential crisis, confronting the difficult and painful past, and using it to make something beautiful How will the listener benefit: Learn how to take trauma from the...

Episode- Warriors Defined Josh and Miles go deep on what it means to be a warrior in the modern world. What's it about? Separating warrior from war-fighter and teasing out masculine and feminine aspects of the warrior while highlighting some common misconceptions and tropes. How the listener benefits: Gain a broader understanding of what it means to be a warrior today, with some examples.  Get...

Return of the (Archetypal) King: After Action Review of a Healing Journey, Part 2 What's it about: Miles calls nicotine a vasodilator when it is a vasoconstrictor (dyslexia is real). The dangers of becoming a seminar junkie, the integration process after a healing experience, and how we can take control of our own stories.  How will the listener benefit: Learn how Miles confronts the lonelines...

Return of the (Archetypal) King: After Action Report of a Healing Journey  Miles returns from Connor Beaton's retreat in a daze, a haze, and a maze.  Learn how to connect powerfully with other men.  Learn the barriers to connection and how we punish each other for vulnerability.  Learn a technique for making peace with ourselves to become more whole, more powerful, and more present.  Helpful l...

WTF is the RAS? Tony Robbins often talks about it, and Dr Hubermann has discussed it briefly.  We'll give a brief neurobiological explanation and then dive into how the RAS works psychologically in your life. This episode trails nicely after the previous episode on Positive Mental attitude. You'll learn how the RAS influences the wallpaper in your life, why driving in Germany could be the...

What's the ep about? Positive Mental Attitude & its Benefits and the Dangers of Placing Whipped Cream on Garbage. How will the listener benefit: Bad affirmations and chanting will make you more depressed Self Healing should be a part of your PMA journey How do you cultivate Positivity rather than being born into it What is the right amount of delusion to hold onto How to Know When you are lying to...

What is that emptiness feeling we sometimes experience? What is the Shadow Side? Is it all bad? What does pain have to tell us? Why do we avoid pain? Why do we do the things we do and what motivates us? In this episode, we get deep into the unconscious, the shadow, and pain. We get open and vulnerable and use personal examples that will help the listener to find their way.  https://milessalisburyl...

The Obstacle Is The Way (It's all Grist for The Mill, or whatever that means).  You'll learn about this classic concept from Buddhism and Stoicism and we borrow heavily from Ryan Holiday's amazing book titled as thus. Josh and I give personal examples of where we have applied this concept and where we are still endeavoring to do so. We give tools you can use to help apply this concept...

In this episode, Josh reveals a little about his recent experience with losing a relative and being confronted with past behavior loops including co-dependency, cognitive distortions, and numbing/avoiding strategies. Miles holds space and shares some literature and strategies and both of them talk about anger and the quality of having high standards and also high self-compassion.

This was a sort of accidental episode. Before our last recording, Josh and I were talking and I'd mentioned a surge of anger that was new to me and Josh hit record! He wanted to catch an unscripted and raw moment and run with it for a podcast episode. Josh has done a lot of work around anger and brought a lot of self-knowledge and personal work to the episode and asked me a lot of questions ab...

It's STILL the season for seasonal affective disorder, aka, the damn gloomy weather makes me feel like junk! While this may not affect you where you live, out here in the PNW it's the real deal. For some, the fall and winter here are their preferred months (bit strange to us that experience SAD), and for others, it's the time of year we all threaten to move (until spring and summer woo...

What the heck is my purpose in life? What gives me meaning? Where do I "find it"? In this one we dig into these questions, what the first half of life's purpose and meaning is vs the second half, and what the heck the Japanese word Ikigai means. We get into some personal backstories of each other's upbringings and what purpose and meaning (s) have been uncovered and explored. Exp...

In this episode, we follow up on some of the previous discussions on trauma and adverse childhood experiences, then move into how these may have shaped our views of what masculinity is and how we "should" enact it. We discuss what masculinity is as defined by culture, personally, and we even consult the dictionary to find out what this mysterious word means in today's climate.

In this episode, we share a bit about our backgrounds; our upbringings, our struggles, and triumphs, and where we are trying to go. As you listen, you might recognize a bit of yourself in our stories. This was recorded early on and since then we have learned a few audio tricks which we are still perfecting but we hope that you will listen in to learn and grow with us.

Objectives, strategies, and tactics for setting goals and not hating your life.

In this first episode join us as we delve into the deep waters of depression. You’ll learn a bit about its physiological and neurobiological roots, it’s relationship with trauma and grief, the ways in which it can manifest and how you can best navigate its challenges.