The Kevin Miller Podcast

Matthew Del Negro is a celebrated actor credited for roles in some of TV's most-renowned and award-winning shows such as SOPRANOS, SCANDAL, Goliath & WEST WING, and films HOT PURSUIT and WIND RIVER. He appears in all three seasons of Showtime's City on a Hill opposite Kevin Bacon as Detective Caysen. In this episode with me he referenced talking with Kevin Bacon on set the day before, and I was ad...

I bring you Silicon Valley legend and all around wise guy, Guy Kawasaki. I’ve read Guys books, had him on my shows twice before, hung out with him face to face in San Diego and I think our relationship was solidified after he butt dialed my cell phone one afternoon and we talked a while about him starting a podcast, which he did...called Guy Kawasaki’s Remarkable People which has now become a top...

Everything in our lives is speeding up. Technology and artificial intelligence and deliveries and...boom. We can fill every second with something new and interesting and the marketplace is focused on delivering us instantaneous gratification in any way possible. Compared to our grandparents and especially great-grandparents, the speed and convenience of life and survival is supersonic. We can do i...

I wrap up our series on perfectionism and how it is hurting our drive. This is the Big Idea, The Big Takeaway & The Big Action episode to distill it all down. Being a perfectionist is not something to be proud of, and it in fact points toward our inability to be authentic and a propensity to people please and perform. It points to our insecurity, not strength. My catalyst and expert for the series...

We continue our talk on perfectionism and how we’re letting it diminish our success and joy. We kicked off the series with Thomas Curran who is a professor in the Department of Psychological and Behavioral Science at the London School of Economics where he studies the personality characteristic of perfectionism, how it develops, and how it impacts our mental health. Check out his TED talk on our d...

In this episode I'm back with Thomas Curran in our series on Perfectionism and how we don’t understand what it actually says about us and how it is sabotaging our drive…for the purpose of…getting out of the Perfection Trap. This is part 2 in our series and it’s the What Drives You episode where we go behind the scenes to hear what drives the expert on perfection, in the key areas of life. Thomas a...

I'm with Thomas Curran to begin a series on Perfectionism and how we don’t understand what it actually says about us and how it is sabotaging our drive…for the purpose of…getting out of the Perfection Trap. Thomas Curran has a PhD in psychology and is a professor in the Department of Psychological and Behavioral Science at the London School of Economics. Thomas studies the personality characterist...

I ask, What Drives Christmas, and give Ideas On How To Actually Enjoy The Holiday Season & Fuel Your New Year. Sometimes we have an extraordinary experience from a spontaneous event. But for the most part the epic and fulfilling moments in our lives come from intentionality. While there is often much planning around the time from Thanksgiving to Christmas and the holiday season overall, there is s...

This is our What Drives Your Health show where we give specific focus to our health and wellness. The vehicle that drives all we do. In this episode we continue talking through stories of people who made big health changes, and why. In this episode we cover breast implant illness, having the consummate dad bod, weight loss after a child called her fat, aching knees and hips from being heavy, quitt...

In this episode I wrap up our series on Physical Transformation with my Big ideas, Big Takeaways and Big Actions. I began our series with a conversation with celebrity trainer Don Saladino who regularly trains the likes of Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, and Hugh Jackman. Instead of mere tips and tricks and hacks he gave the hardcore lesson on mindset and how it’s more about how we think than merely...

We continue our series on Physical Transformation. I kicked us off with celebrity coach Don Saladino who is well known as trainer of the biggest names in Hollywood such as Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Emily Blunt, Jake Gyllenhaal, Hugh Jackman and more. I appreciate he gets paid big bucks for results. Period. So he can’t sugarcoat or minimize what it takes to transform a body. Which is…hard, and i...

I’m back with fitness trainer and leader Don Saladino for this series on physical transformation. In our previous episode we dove deep into the myriad of complexities and information overload on diet and nutrition and exercise and what it really takes to transform our physical selves, whether you’re Ryan Reynolds getting shredded to play Deadpool or a civilian like me striving to simply look and f...

We’re talking about physical transformation, and my intent is to sift through the dramatic amount of information and gimmicks and one-size-fits-all information and take it all to task to help us each get some clarity on what it takes to get our physical selves to the place we desire. Most of us come to a time of desiring to transform our bodies. We want to lose weight, gain muscle, trim and firm,...

This is our What Drives Your Health show where we give specific focus to our health and wellness. The vehicle that drives all we do. In this episode I wanted to hear from people who have made significant health improvements and what their catalyst was. I asked listeners to share their health accomplishments. I asked to hear from people who were out of shape and possibly ill...and got fit and healt...

I wrap up our series on self-coaching with - The Big Idea, The Big Takeaway & The Big Action episode to distill it all down. Following are the highlights I got from my initial talk with Ajit Nawalkha, co-founder of Mindvalley and founder of Evercoach and the Dharma Coaching Institute, and author of Live Big The Entrepreneurs Guide To Passion, Practicality & Purpose. Then in part three I talked wit...

We continue our series on self coaching, which I started with Ajit Nawalkha, co-founder of Mindvalley and founder of Evercoach and the Dharma Coaching Institute, and author of Live Big The Entrepreneurs Guide To Passion, Practicality & Purpose. A primary platform of Ajit’s is our need to self coach, and we unpacked this in part 1. This is part 3 where I bring another expert in the field to discuss...

I’m back with super coach Ajit Nawalkha in this series on self-coaching. In our first show together we dug deep into what self coaching is, and some of the major issues around personal transformation. This is part two, my What Drives You episode where I get behind the scenes with Ajit on what truly drives him in the key areas of life, which is where the real self coaching comes in. You can watch t...

We kick off a series on self coaching. Self coaching will ultimately drive you more than anything else. My expert guest is Ajit Nawalkha. Ajit founded or co-founded several companies that focus on human transformation, including Mindvalley, Evercoach, and the Dharma Coaching Institute. Ajit leads more than a million people in personal transformation via emails, videos, and podcasts. I learned of A...

There is a culprit draining your energy. Anxiety. And here’s the deal, you do have anxiety. You are on the spectrum. We all are. Our effort is to help you understand this so you can work to mitigate it. In our culture today we know pesticides have gotten into all our foods. We can’t escape it, it permeates our entire country at this point. Same with anxiety. We live amongst it and can’t avoid it,...

I'm wrapping up our series on avoiding burnout, which happens when we are driving and out of alignment. My catalyst for the series was Dr Neha Sangwan who was juggling 18 critically ill patients per day and barely surviving 36-hour shifts fueled by sugar and caffeine in her early 30s. She did it…till she couldn’t. And she realized something had to give. She used her scientific background to climb...

We continue our series on Avoiding Burnout and my catalyst for the series was Dr Neha Sangwan, a doctor who did just that, burnt out. Her new book is called Powered by Me: From Burned out to Fully Charged at Work and in Life I just saw Neha on the Today show alongside Mel Robbins and saw she’s going to be on Mel’s show, she was just on Gabby Reece’s show as well as Dr Mark Hyman and she’s hit a ne...

I’m back with Dr Neha Sangwan, our expert for this series on Burnout, and now we’re digging into what drives her in the 7 key areas of life. Neha is an MD, engineer, CEO, communication specialist, and author of POWERED BY ME: From Burned out to Fully Charged at Work and in Life and connect with her as intuitiveintelligenceinc.com. I’m eager to hear how Neha has crafted her life to avoid…burnout. Y...

We are taking on the very real and present danger of…burnout. Something that happens when your drive is out of alignment. What you want and why is not resonating. My expert is Dr Neha Sangwan who comes from her own story as a doctor juggling 18 critically ill patients per day and barely surviving 36-hour shifts fueled by sugar and caffeine in her early 30s. She did it…till she couldn’t. And she re...

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 snacking at night. Specifically with ice cream. I have on the show, Sean Folkson, the founder of Nightfood, a better, healthier, and more sleep friendly ice cream. I’m not advocating eating ice cream late at night, but as you’ll hear in the...

I’m joined by another self-help guide and curator and I bring him to you because I wanted to dig into his interest in personal development and why he’s making such a huge effort to influence the culture with it, and doing it in a big way, I might add. And I want you to hear another angle on helping you take all the info and actually applying it to your life. My guest is Lee Rankinen, who is the Co...