The Kevin Miller Podcast

Join Purpose Coach Kevin Miller as he conducts deep discussions on personal evolution from his own, curious journey toward greater purpose and deeper fulfillment. Kevin researches and curates the best teachers and guides you may never find, as they are busy teaching in classes, counseling in therapy rooms, researching in labs, and coaching in offices. 


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*Over 70 million downloads, 300 expert guests, 1,500 episodes...and the journey continues on the podcast evolution from 'The Ziglar Show' to 'The Self-Helpful Podcast' to 'What Drives You' to 'The Kevin Miller Podcast'...

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424: Do you respond or react to life?
Zig asks us if we respond to life, or if we react to life? He explains the difference. Then he asks who or what do we allow to control our attitude, and therefore our actions? Who do we bequeath power to, or do we retain it for ourselves? Zig cites, “Y
30 min
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423: Why am I not changing?!
We as humans often skip over the foundational step. The step of “being”. It comes before “doing” and from that, the end result…having. Zig makes two big points in this show, 1) We must first be (become) the right person, and 2) We must have visi
30 min
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422: Zig’s primary lessons to his son
Tom Ziglar answers a question in this Q&A with host Kevin Miller, about the most important lesson’s his Dad, Zig Ziglar, gave him as a child and adult. His answer uncovers possibly four of the most important lesson’s Zig has for us all. Thank you to A
59 min
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421: Friendship, partnership or romance? Which ...
The 2nd installment of our recent focus on Zig’s favorite topic…marriage. Host Kevin Miller and his wife Teri tackle the 3rd question from Show #418, what percentage of a marriage should be friendship, partnership or romance? Then they cover a number
46 min
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420: What agreements have you made with yourself?
Zig asks, “What do you believe about yourself?!” This dictates everything you do in your life. Your decisions, your actions, your successes and failures. For the most part, you get to choose what you will and won’t believe about yourself. That’s t
39 min
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419: How to love going home – Mark Timm
Mark made millions in his business, but could hardly get himself to pull up the driveway to home. Why? He felt like a failure at home and would rather just stay at work where he experienced success and fulfillment. Until…he tried applying his successfu
68 min
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418: Your marriage needs stress
If it’s strong it will bolster your entire life. If it’s weak, it will cripple your world. Host Kevin Miller is joined by his wife Teri to discuss a message from Zig. They cover 1) What is the value of a good marriage and 2) What is the foundation of
77 min
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417: Anything worth doing, is worth doing poorly…
…until you can do it well. You need to hear the breakdown of that statement, as you can’t take it at face value. It is the launching point of this powerful message from Zig. We took it from “Strategies for Success – Blueprint of Achievement. Zig
36 min
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416: Get a Career Do Over with Jon Acuff
You WILL hit a Career Ceiling. You WILL experience a Career Bump. You WILL make a Career Jump. You WILL get a surprise Career Opportunity. The question is, will you handle these invariable transitions victoriously? Of course, because you’re going to lis
79 min
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415: Quit praying and start listening – Bob Bea...
Bob Beaudine says this is THE secret that changes everything. We ask…how. Really. How? In real life, how do you tangibly ask God and hear anything specific? It sounds great, but in reality seems about as realistically tangible as levitating. I guarantee
65 min
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414: Withstanding the liquor of Success with St...
We all want success in life, business, finances, relationships, health and more. But success can often have a high cost, namely in our peace, contentment and happiness. Steve Smith has his own story as a rising megachurch pastor and the toll it took on hi
83 min
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413: Hostile takeover of your mind
This is the absolute crux of your entire life and existence regarding success and failure. You control it by what you speak and think. Practice the exercise in this show and declare war, rebellion and anarchy on yourself.
44 min
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412: Success programming for your brain
Zig is helping us to actually achieve our goals, and it comes down to…us. What we do and don’t do. But don’t rely on shear will. And definitely don’t rely on happenstance. What are you doing, and not doing, every day…that is leading you? We list
38 min
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411: Creating peace to withstand stress and cha...
Life and the world is filled with stress and chaos. We can’t change that. But we can equip ourselves to deal with it, and a foundational necessity is having a place of peace and renewal. Our home. Our closest relationships. How do we go about creating t
71 min
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410: Your next, radical, great decision
Zig talks to us about the number one way to make your goals actually happen. It’s not an action, it’s a…being. Which is good and bad news, depending on…you. We like step-by-step things to do, because doing seems easy. To “be” different feels h
27 min
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409: Don Yaeger – Lessons from the greatest spo...
Don calls many of the greatest sport figures on the planet…friends. He’s privy to their personal lives and who they really are, and he’s studied them and the greatest sports teams on earth. From it…he found the primary ingredients that led to thei
65 min
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408: Your responsibility to be the hero
Zig says to share your goals for accountability and encouragement, but be discerning who you share with. The root of goals…commitment. Why? It helps you overcome the obstacles that WILL come. You’ve got to be hard on yourself, and be the hero. These a
34 min
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407: Dan Harris – Train your brain and don’t be...
Meditation from a scientific perspective, stripping it of candles, incense, outfits and overall hoodoo spirituality. Dan Harris of ABC News’ Nightline says it’s simply about being mindful and taking captive what is going on in your head. Being unaware
76 min
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406: Get halfway to your goal in one hour
Why is it that we put so much effort and time and use tools and resources to run our lives, but we ignore planning our lives? In this show we look at a one hour exercise to decide the destinations we are going to direct our efforts towards. We listen to Z
34 min
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405: John O’Leary says we all have trials. Now ...
Nearly burned to death, John should have died, but decided not to. He thought he was a victim, then decided he was radically blessed. This is one of those stories you just can’t deny and it will further strip away the anchors we all have that keep us fr
73 min
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404: Want radical hope? Then you need faith.
Your hope is built on…faith. No faith, no hope. But faith in what? We take a 14 minute commentary from Zig Ziglar on faith, and break it down into bite size pieces. This truly is a root to our personal success, or lack thereof. Thanks so Design Crowd an
38 min
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403: You need peer pressure
We cover a lot of ground in this Q&A session. But the power of finding the right peer pressure trumps it all. You want to succeed? Find people and groups where succeeding in your area of desire, is the goal and the norm. It’s the primary ingredient for
54 min
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402: Dina Dwyer Owens proves values make more m...
Leading your life and business with high values is a great ideal, right? Dina Dwyer Owens has 2 billion to prove it also makes more cash. Which only begs the question of…why don’t we all lead our lives and businesses putting values first and foremost?
62 min
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401: Our future is as big as our hope
“Men and women are only limited by the size of their hope,” Zig cites in this show. We also discuss what Jesus said in Matthew 18:1-4: “I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of h
41 min
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400: Brian Buffini says we are drowning in info...
The Mindsets, Motivation and Methodologies of Success from a true, rags to riches story. Brian immigrated to the U.S. from Dublin, Ireland and moved to San Diego in 1986. He became a millionaire at age 26 and today has a worldwide coaching organization. H
76 min