The Kevin Miller Podcast

We continue to hear it and we can’t hear it enough - we are the sum of our daily habits and rituals. In this episode we talk with Dr. Randy James whose main interview with us was show #695 titled, “Do you want to be well(er)? Here is how”, where we discussed how to get optimal performance out of ourselves so our bodies and minds are fully functioning. This is our habits show and you’ll hear how some core routines for Randy and with his family are as he says, “the anchors for his life.” Much of his family time is centered around meals and sports, good sleep is his primary focal point for his personal health and his personal time is often made up of sports,  reading (often on a treadmill), and a good meal, movie and wine. Connect with him here: Clinic - TrueLifeMedicine.com, new podcast - truelifeshow.com and the alternative health insurance - TrueLifeProtect.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“No fear!” Said the psychopath. The rest of us are human and have fear. The question is, do we recognize it so we can “Do It Scared” as Ruth Soukup’s book is titled? Our main show with Ruth is #691 and was flat out profound. From it I did more than just ask a question, I asked people this, “Will you do this quick fear assessment and report what you find doitscared.com/assessment.” Well...you guys did. Over 30k people have taken Ruth’s fear assessment. We added 50 more. People took the assessment and commented on Facebook about their results. What a conversation! I’m here to say it’s the most valuable and eye-opening assessment or profile I’ve taken in...as long as I can remember. We categorized all the results and I asked Ruth to come back and read through everyone’s comments with me. The big value, the takeaway, is understanding where you have fear and where it’s manifesting in your life. Overall we found people saying the assessment nailed them, and how they are working to deal with their fear. But the discussion with Ruth added dramatic insight into how we are all unique and even amidst the categories of fear Ruth outlines, we can still be very different people. Again, the point is understanding your fear propensity and learning how to...do it scared. And achieve what you desire in the face of it, maybe until you don’t even recognize it anymore! So, get ready for a free, master coaching session with Ruth, on fear.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your greatest desire is the ability to do what you want and need to do. At the end of the day, nothing really matters if you are not well, in mind, body and soul. Those you desire to serve are not getting your best. Would you accept a million dollars in cash today but give 50% of your wellness away? Of course not. Yet we often find ourselves pursuing careers, businesses, family and all progress in our lives at the sake of our overall wellness. The hard charging business exec or business owner or parent often doesn’t take time for personal wellness, they are busy making millions and raising families! They’ll deal with themselves later. That is until they find themselves in enough pain or lacking in their performance to an unacceptable degree. However, when we finally DO try to address our wellness, getting results from any effort seems to be more complex and elusive than ever. Those who attempt it so often just give up at some point. More and more in our culture we are accepting minimized body, mind and soul as normal. This is tragic and it’s robbing our lives and the world from our full glory. God’s full glory in us. Well friends, there actually is a strategy I can offer you that will help. Dramatically. A framework.  I’ve been involved with it for over four years now. It’s not a black and white, cookie cutter, specific answer. But a framework. Let me put it this way, no matter what type of house you want to build and live in, you must have a solid foundation that will support the structure, right. The makeup of foundations for homes are basically the same no matter what type of home you want to build. So what is the primary foundation for your...wellness? Our guest today is Dr. Randy James. Randy is a medical doctor, but far from the norm. His father, also an MD, was one of the early pioneers of what today we call Functional Medicine. Randy served as a doctor in the Air Force before starting in family practice in the states. From there he ultimately founded a new type of medical practice that focuses on the whole person, and their goals. This is not a promotion for his practice, True Life Medicine, up in Colorado. It’s a relatively small practice that acts as his personal lab as he works with a finite amount of people. His bigger goal is to bring the framework to as many people as he can, and this is what we are doing today.Let me stress again here, our point is to equip you to get the most out of yourself. To be running on all cylinders. So that...you can achieve the things you desire in life. This is a special show folks, and I’ll start with three disclosures: 1. Randy is the doctor for people you know like Dan Miller and Tom Ziglar (and some other celebrities I can’t divulge). 2. He and I are business partners and best friends, and 3. In this show we are officially launching our new show, the True Life Show podcast, and a new business that is a massively, revolutionary alternative to health insurance. We’ll talk about it briefly during the end of the show, but...you’ll hear ads as well. The clinic you’ll hear us reference is at TrueLifeMedicine.com. The show is at truelifeshow.com and the alternative health insurance is at TrueLifeProtect.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wouldn’t you like to know, really know, how to build a healthy self-image? We have a seven and a half minute message from Zig Ziglar, an excerpt from an on stage presentation, where he runs through some of his top advice. Then, we posted this question to the Ziglar audience, "If someone asked your advice on how to build a healthy self image, what are three things you would offer?" This may be our most significant compilation of real-world insight and counsel...to date. Truly astounding and heartfelt. Zig’s son and CEO of Ziglar, Tom Ziglar, joined me to talk through your comments. For those who hear Zig’s message and wish they could hear more of it, it was taken from the CD and DVD set, Strategies For Success - Blueprint for Achievement. Go to Ziglar.com and visit the online store. I just went on a 2,000 mile road trip with my family and along with great discussions and music, we took time every leg of the trip to listen to one of the CDs in the set. I grew up on this stuff and having my family do so as well is one of the best investments I can make. Plus, I can’t hear it enough. You need more than a reminder here...this is training. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stepping back to see the big picture is a significant habit of success for all our lives and in this Habits show, fear expert Ruth Soukup cited how she specifically uses it in her life. Ruth is the best selling author of Do It Scared and in show 691 our topic was Discovering your fear type and mastering it. Walking through Ruth’s habits in this show, what struck me was the area of career where her methodology to keep things on track is to consistently step back to look at the big picture. This is something few of us take the time to truly do. Other aspects of interest...she hates exercise and physical activity, though she does it. She'd rather watch Netflix and travel! She works to prioritize marriage over kids and invest in close friendships. She goes on personal retreats to rejuvenate herself. She's a spender and her husband is the saver and took a good bit to get debt free. I strongly urge you to invest in Ruth’s profound insight into fear and take her fear assessment at doitscared.com/assessment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It continues to be one of the most important questions to ask oneself, “Does my work align with who I am?” Yet in our culture today it is a question many never ask or expect. Work is seen as a necessary evil to provide a paycheck that affords us our lives. While many view working at something they actually enjoy and care about and believe in as a luxury, having those attributes in your work has proven to not only provide personal fulfillment, but greater earning potential. In show 687 I talked with Laura Gassner Otting about her concept of consonance and the power of alignment in all we do. From that show I posted this question to the Ziglar audience, “Does your work align with who you are?” The responses of course varied from “absolutely!” and how, to “not at all” and the frustrations from that. To talk through the comments I brought Laura back on the show to give her expert insight and counsel. These are Real stories giving real value and Laura’s insight was just incredible. Don’t miss what Laura has to offer Ziglar listeners, go to lauragassnerotting.com/ziglar/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get ready to blow fear wide open. Until now we have tried to label ourselves and others as fearful or not, when the research now shows fear has multiple archetypes and we all fit into something. Someone with no fear is mentally ill. Outside of that you can find out which types of fears you have, which are most predominant, and how to manage them, not eradicate them! But rather to manage them and “Do It Scared.” Thus is the title of our guest Ruth Soukup’s new book, Do It Scared®: Finding the Courage to Face Your Fears, Overcome Obstacles, and Create a Life You LoveRuth dealt with debilitating fear that landed her in severe depression and into psychiatric hospitals, so she is an expert in the results of unharnessed fear. But from this critical, personal experience, Ruth made fear her muse and dove deep. This resulted in hiring teams of researchers to uncover the truth about and breadth of fear. The results have led her to a blog with over 1 million subscribers, multiple best selling books, and a top ranked podcast. What she discovered are seven Fear Archetypes, which include the Procrastinator, the Rule Follower, the People Pleaser, the Outcast, the Self-Doubter, the Excuse Maker and the Pessimist. While the Fear Archetypes themselves are incredibly fascinating, Soukup explains that it is actually how we use them that makes all the difference. She says, "fear is a little bit different for everyone, but once you can identify the unique way that fear is holding you back, you can also create solutions to overcome that unique fear." I did Ruth’s ground breaking fear assessment and mine...blew me away. Literally folks, I haven’t had such a revelation about my personal make up that I was unaware of, since...honestly I can’t remember. I’ve now had all of my family members over the age of 16 do the assessment, not only so they can hone in on their fear type, but I can know it and better understand them. To everyone...significant revelation. I can’t recommend this enough folks. And I’ll give you a gift, actually it’s from Ruth. Go to https://doitscared.com/assessment/ and take your own. What you get for free is profound, and you can upgrade to the premium results. I can’t recommend it more. 30,000 people have completed it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How do you rate your personal performance and what you think would most help it right now? We hear a message from Zig Ziglar where he discusses the roots of a bonsai tree vs a giant sequoia named General Sherman. And the reality of how we grow according to the room and resources we give our roots. From this I asked the Ziglar audience a question. I invite you to join us in these weekly Q&A shows, just find and friend me on Facebook at agentkmiller. The question I asked was, "On a scale from 1 to 10, how would you rate your current personal performance? And what do you feel would most help it right now?" We got a load of comments from listeners who rated themselves from 9 to...zero. Some who were inspired and amped, some who were contemplating just throwing in the towel. I had Tom Ziglar join me to not only talk through the comments, but offer guidance to those striving and struggling. This is a really value packed show. We’ll kick off with a two minute message from Zig, then dig into your comments with Tom Ziglar! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In your career, business and life, what should you say “Yes” to? Don’t you wish you had an easy formula? Well, thank me later, I have one for you. This is our Habits show and we’re back with Laura Gassner Otting, our guest in show 687 where our topic was aligning what we do with who you we are. In this show we of course walk through spokes on the Ziglar Wheel of Life. You’ll hear Laura share she found her inner athlete at 38 and can now deadlift 225 pounds. She has a family meeting with her husband and kids every week to go over values, what they are grateful for and weekly logistics. She speaks to toxic vampires, focusing on value over price, saying yes to adventure and more. Her career guiding light as to what she does or does not do is what I got the most value from. I actually just shared it with my family. Here is her decision making process: 1. Will this thing help me, 2) Will it help someone else, 3) Does it cause me joy, 4) Is there someone better that should be doing this? What a brilliant structure. I’m adopting it myself as I realize I often say yes to things that violate one or more of those aspects. And since you can’t possibly say yes to everything, what a great goal guideline! Don’t miss show 687 with Laura and I highly encourage you to get her new book, Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life and take her Limitless Assessment and more at lauragassnerotting.com/ziglar/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The age old pursuit of wellness. Of losing weight, gaining muscle, being fit and trim, having energy and not having aches and pains. We have more knowledge on the issue than ever, but America and many other countries are getting fatter and sicker. “Eating less and exercising more” are no longer getting the expected results. If you feel you are doing so many of the supposed “right” things and not getting good results, you are not alone and there is more at work. The topic comes on the heels of our talk with internationally recognized fitness and nutrition expert, Angelo Poli. Angelos is founder of MetPro, the world’s first algorithm based transformation engine. Catch episode 683 with Angelo, titled, “Winning the war over your body.” This is our Q&A show and I asked the Ziglar audience a question on my Facebook page. I invite you to join us, just find and friend me at agentkmiller. The question I asked for this episode was, "Who has gotten results with a diet and/or exercise program? Who has gotten frustrated by one??" I then had the expert himself, Angelo Poli, join me to talk through your many comments. I’m confident you will resonate with many of the comments of failure and success here, but mostly you will get further schooled in how you can finally get results, from Angelo. Ziglar Show listeners can receive their own, complementary Metabolic Evaluation and a 30-minute one on one consultation with a Metabolic Expert by going to  metpro.co/ziglar and click “Get Started.” Metpro will review your answers, respond to any questions you may have, and discuss ways MetPro can support your weight loss and performance goals. To claim this offer just go to metpro.co/ziglar. And for disclosure, yes, I’m a client with them! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices