The Kevin Miller Podcast

Let us go behind the scenes with Lee Cockerell, our guest in show 525. Lee spent 10 years as executive vice president of Disney where he was in charge of the entire magical kingdom, many resort properties, and 40,000 employees! He gave us a great message, don’t miss that interview. But today we walk through his habits for success, going over the 7 spokes in the Ziglar Wheel of Life. Some highlight...

Imagine running Disney, numerous resorts, and 40,000 employees. Imagine barely making it out of high school, not having a college degree, having a hard upbringing with a mom who married and divorced five times. Being adopted twice. Having the only solid figure in your life being a grandmother who you were taken away from as a child. This is Lee Cockerell. In this candid interview he shares what he...

Managing, controlling and changing your attitude; one of Zig Ziglar’s favorite and foundational topics! We play a 3.5 minute, classic clip from Zig Ziglar on changing your attitude, and from it I asked on my agentkmiller Facebook, page, “What are your primary tactics for changing your attitude when you get down, negative, angry, sad, fearful, etc.“ We received nearly 50 comments in less than 24 ho...

Lewis Howes gives us a behind-the-scenes look at his daily habits for personal success! Make sure you catch our previous show, #522, where Lewis takes us through his book and message, “The Mask of Masculinity”. Today we walk through the 7 spokes of The Ziglar Wheel of Life. Some highlights: Lewis is a fan of high-intensity interval training, thinks nutrition is everything, he meditates every morni...

Lewis Howes is the Best selling author of “the school of greatness” and his podcast of the same name is a top 100 on planet earth. Today we are talking with him about Masculinity. Why? Lewis claims the majority of stress, anxiety, and pressure men feel is due to the masks they wear. Think of it as certain personas we fall or buy into, and get trapped in. Then live from in a limited fashion. I feel...

What is our potential? I think we’d all agree we have more in us. How much more? 5%? 30%? 70%? That answer is not as important as the reality that whatever potential we have, it will not add up to much if we don’t work hard at it. But in our natural skills, talents, and abilities, we find the potential for mastery. In areas we do not have many inherent giftings, it will be hard, if not impossible,...

Round two with Carrie Wilkerson, our esteemed guest in show 519 right before this one. We are walking through the 7 spokes of the Ziglar Wheel of Life with her and getting a behind the scenes glimpse at her personal, daily habits for success. Is she just wonder woman incarnate? Well, as you heard in show 519, she digs wonder woman. But no, she is not. She had no leg up more than you or me, but she...

Carrie Wilkerson, back for our second interview (first show was 394 - The labels that bind and free us - downloaded over 52k times). What is the topic of our conversation today? The point? By the fact that you are here listening, we know you are an aspiring person. Carrie exists to take aspiring people to be achieving people. Literally. We all aspire, but do we always do what we aspire to? The act...

Zig talks to us about the big picture purpose of goals, and it’s not to simply complete a task. It is to give us a meaningful life. We listen to a short message from Zig himself, and from it we asked on Facebook, ““Do you have a specific goal you are currently working towards and are you using any specific strategy to make progress?” Michelle Prince and I talk through the great goals people shared...

Here we bring you the successful habits of Michael Hyatt, our guest in the previous show #516 where we talked about making goals actually happen. My favorite line from Michael was about, “truly living the next 12 months, and not merely reliving the same year over again!” Don’t miss that show. But here we go behind the scenes to find out what Michael Hyatt’s daily habits are. One I was intrigued by...

In this episode, we bring you a productivity master, Michael Hyatt. We'll cover his latest book, why your goals aren't working, how to complete your past, and how you can design your future. If you're thinking about setting some New Year's resolutions, and you actually want to see those lived out, this episode offers a ton of insightful information and will help ensure you are creating resolutions...

Today we are talking about marriage, and specifically, the intentional investments for the success we make in our marriages. We will listen to a short clip from Zig Ziglar on stage, talking about marriage. From his message we asked folks at my agentkmiller Facebook page, “If you’re Married, would you share - What intentional investments do you routinely make into your marriage that help strengthen...

You may know him from his bestselling classic book, ‘Boundaries.’ In this show, we walk through the seven spokes of the Ziglar Wheel of Life to see what Dr. Clouds personal habits are to keep him strong and succeeding in each area. Some highlights - He needs outside help when it comes to exercise, he and his wife have been in a committed couples group for 12 years, he believes high performers make...

Dr. Cloud is a New York Times bestselling author, and his books have sold over 14 million copies. His groundbreaking book “Boundaries -  When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life”, Has become a personal development classic, often sitting in the top 300 of overall books in Amazon, even after 25 years! In this show we give attention to Boundaries, then dig into his new gigantic eff...

A significant discussion for anyone desiring of, or contemplating a different job, career or business. My co host Michelle Prince and I asked this question on Facebook, “Is there a challenging area in your life where you are struggling to understand how you can change things for the better”. The responses were almost all around one issue, choosing and going after jobs, careers or businesses that a...

Find out top comedian Michael Jr’s daily habits of success. Catch his main interview out in the episode right before this one, #510, where he charged us to “Be the Punchline”. In this short interview, the habit that most stood out to me about Michael, and has stuck with me, is his morning routine that includes hitting his knees before his feet to say thanks and be grateful. I think about it nearly...

A world class comedian who is not out to get laughs. He is out to “give people the opportunity to laugh” and help set the stage for meaningful, purposeful content of the heart and soul. His personal mission is to “comedically inspire people to walk in purpose”. He is accomplishing this in massive numbers while on stage with The Tonight Show, Jimmy Kimmel, BET, Comedy Central, Oprah’s Super Soul Su...

We asked this question, “What caused you to finally start? You were going along, maybe had a wish or desire or need, but time went on and you did not act. Then finally, ___X___ happened and you started forward, took a step, leapt. What was the cause? Why did you finally go forward?” Of course we got a slew of great responses that my co-host Michelle Prince and I are about to share with you. Why? T...

The original Shark Tank member himself, Kevin Harrington, is back with us. Inventor of the infomercial. His net worth of half a billion dollars he credits to creating relationships with his audience, that was the focus of our main interview in the previous show, #507. Today we find out what the shark does in his personal life. His daily habits. Some points we found out; he’s the same weight at 60...

Kevin Harrington literally invented the infomercial, and was one of the original Shark Tank members on the hit ABC show. Kevin has launched over 20 businesses that have grown to over $100 million in sales each, has been involved in more than a dozen public companies, and has launched over 500 products generating more than $5 billion in sales worldwide   The guy knows business folks. In this show y...

The Ziglar audience grapples with this question we posted on Facebook, “Have you ever had a belief that you could NOT achieve something you desired, that you ultimately overcame and did achieve?” We received some vulnerable testimonials from people regarding work, military endeavors, athletic feats and the biggie, massive weight loss and life change. The topic came from one of Zig Ziglar’s famous...

Today we go behind the scenes with Erik Winemayer, our featured guest in the previous show #504. Erik is one of the most celebrated and accomplished athletes in the world and in 2001 e became the only blind person in history to climb Mount Everest, then all of the Seven Summits-the tallest peak on each of the seven continents. His latest book, No Barriers: A Blind Man’s Journey to Kayak the Grand...

Imagine climbing mount everest and the Seven Summits, earth’s greatest peaks. Then imagine kayaking the Grand Canyon, all 277 miles of it, in one of the most challenging rivers on earth. Sound impressive? Now close your eyes and imagine doing all that - blind. That is what Erik Weihenmayer did. The dynamics involved in doing such a thing equate to someone with a profound experience and ability in...

We have a word from Zig Ziglar then a Q&A session with myself and Michelle Prince regarding this question we posted on Facebook, “Do you ever speak positivity to yourself in an effort to increase your morale? If so, share? If you do not, why?” The question came from Zig himself from a short clip we play right at the head of the show. Zig sets us up and then we dive into some significant responses...

Join us as we walk through the personal success habits of Tim Sanders, our guest in the previous show, episode 501. Tim is the renowned bestselling author of a passel of books, but most notably the business classic, ‘Love Is The Killer App’. He comes from business fame with Yahoo and Mark Cuban’s Broadcast.com. Do yourself a favor and listen to show 501 to get his full message. Today we go behind...