Podcast Guides
Practical, searchable guides from conversations on The Inner Frontier. Each guide turns a long-form conversation into field notes for nervous system training, emotional regulation, and inner work.
Digital Distraction: Reclaim Attention Without Quitting Technology
A practical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Jay Vidyarthi on digital distraction, the attention economy, mindful technology use, positive boundaries, and reclaiming agency without shame.
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Belief and Behavior Change: Test Identity Without Forcing Yourself
A practical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Nir Eyal on belief change, identity, curiosity, mental health skills, prayer as agency, and nervous-system compatible behavior change.
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Nervous System Mastery: State, Choice, Capacity, and Real-Life Practice
A practical guide from Ocean Kiani's conversation with Jonny Miller and Ben Ward on what nervous system mastery actually means, how to build capacity, and why small experiments beat one-size-fits-all tools.
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Male Fertility and Preconception Health with Josh Paigen
A practical Nervous System Mastery guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Josh Paigen on male preconception health, sperm quality, blood sugar, environmental exposures, circadian rhythm, recovery, and how to work with the five pillars of fertility without turning the process into another stress spiral.
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Tackling the Mental Health Crisis using Ketamine-Assisted Therapy with Dylan Beynon
A cautious tactical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Dylan Beynon on ketamine-assisted therapy, clinical screening, set and setting, intention, integration, and turning psychedelic insights into nervous-system change without treating ketamine as a cure or magic pill.
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Inner Transformation Pitfalls: How to Stop Turning Inner Work Into Another Performance
A practical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Joe Hudson on joy, emotional avoidance, real safety, enjoyment, teacher traps, and why relational work can accelerate inner transformation.
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Embodied Leadership: Build Relational Capacity Without Living in Performance Mode
A practical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Franziska Gonder on embodied leadership, interoception, performative boundaries, chronic performance mode, and the daily check-ins that help leadership feel more human.
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Focus on What Matters Most: Build Ambition Without Nervous-System Burnout
A practical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Nat Eliason on focus, meaningful work, creative endurance, money anxiety, active recovery, and choosing what matters most without burning out.
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OCD and Self-Exploration: Stay Curious Without Feeding Rumination
A practical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Dan Shipper on OCD, rumination, ERP, medication, self-exploration, and finding a personal metaphor that makes inner work less forceful.
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Question-Led Life: Use Better Questions to Shift State, Focus, and Action
A practical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Marc Champagne on asking better questions, using journaling as mental fitness, interrupting stress loops, creating spaciousness, and turning reflection into action.
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Trusting Curiosity Through a Dark Night: A Practical Guide with Tom Morgan
A tactical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Tom Morgan on minimum viable woo, dark-night transitions, curiosity as a signal, embodied discernment, intellectual recapture, and designing small experiments without abandoning critical thinking.
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Reimagining Trauma and Neuroscience: Michael Edward Johnson’s 'Latch' Hypothesis
A grounded guide to Jonny Miller’s conversation with Michael Edward Johnson on trauma, agency, meditation, and his proposed 'latch' / vasocomputation theory—what rests on established physiology, what remains speculative, and what would make the model genuinely testable.
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Somatic Intuition: Quiet the Inner Critic by Moving Attention Into the Body
A practical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with River Kenna on inner criticism, somatic resonance, body awareness, emotional processing, and rebuilding aliveness from the body up.
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Public Speaking Anxiety: Build Confidence Without Memorising a Script
A practical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Tristan de Montebello on public speaking anxiety, impromptu confidence, nervous-system safety, and learning to speak before overthinking.
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Optimizing Your Life for Enjoyment with Ali Abdaal
A practical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Ali Abdaal on feel-good productivity, de-optimizing work, leaving money on the table, interoception, goals, and building an enjoyable life without turning productivity into pressure.
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Leadership and Belonging: Lead Without Projecting Your Unfinished Work
A practical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Jerry Colonna on radical self-inquiry, belonging, psychological safety, ancestral stories, power, and the nervous-system work of humane leadership.
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Hero's Journey to Wholeness: A Practical Guide with Ben Katt
A tactical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Ben Katt on using the hero's journey as a map for midlife transition, burnout, inner work, wandering, journaling, integration, and returning to your life with more wholeness.
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MDMA-Assisted Therapy for Trauma: A Practical Guide with Marcela Ot'alora
A tactical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with MAPS therapist Marcela Ot'alora on MDMA-assisted therapy research, PTSD, preparation, integration, therapeutic alliance, trauma, curiosity, and why the clinical container matters.
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Self-Development Is Flawed: A Practical Guide to Self-Unfoldment with Steve March
A tactical guide from Jonny Miller’s conversation with Steve March on why self-development can reinforce deficiency, how self-unfoldment works, how to meet parts without a change agenda, and how to use the four depths as practical nervous-system moves.
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Aliveness, Self-Doubt, and the Game of Life with Khe Hy
A tactical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Khe Hy on self-doubt, validation, money, leadership stress, success metrics, reactivity, presence, and using aliveness as a practical scoreboard without bypassing responsibility.
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How to Increase Your Nervous System Capacity
A practical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Ryan Duey on cold exposure, emotional regulation, entrepreneurship, partnership, and capacity-building.
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Wilderness Rites of Passage for Leadership: A Practical Guide with Brooks Barron
A tactical guide from Jonny Miller’s conversation with Brooks Barron on wilderness-based rites of passage, conscious leadership, psychological adulthood, nature connection, impact without burnout, and integrating transformation back into ordinary life.
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Light, Circadian Rhythm, and Nervous System Regulation: A Practical Guide with Matt Maruca
A tactical Nervous System Mastery guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Matt Maruca on using morning light, evening darkness, circadian meal timing, inner-state practice, and nervous-system discernment without turning light optimization into another source of stress.
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Psychedelic Therapy for Lasting Transformation with Dr Michael Yang
A careful guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Dr Michael Yang on ketamine, psychedelic therapy, neuroplasticity, awe, suffering, and why lasting transformation depends on screening, support, and daily integration rather than a single breakthrough experience.
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Full Aliveness and Conscious Leadership: Practice Radical Responsibility with Jim Dethmer
A tactical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Jim Dethmer on full aliveness, conscious leadership, radical responsibility, internal safety, emotional presence, and honest revealing without using candor as control.
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Belief Flexibility, Negotiation, and Nervous-System Rigidity with Derek Sivers
A tactical Nervous System Mastery guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Derek Sivers on belief flexibility, useful-not-true reframes, negotiation as agency, identity after freedom, parenthood as values practice, and reducing nervous-system rigidity without abandoning discernment.
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Growth Loops, Fertile Uncertainty, and Ayahuasca with Anne-Laure Le Cunff
A practical Nervous System Mastery guide from Jonny Miller's second conversation with Anne-Laure Le Cunff on growth loops, fertile uncertainty, metacognition, ADHD, ambition after depression, ayahuasca, liminal space, and how to replace brittle goals with experiments that keep the nervous system in the learning zone.
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How to Transform Fear Into Excitement and Work With the Stress Response with Brett Kistler
A practical Nervous System Mastery guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Brett Kistler on transforming fear into excitement, working with the stress response, separating real danger from identity pressure, and using honest self-inquiry to make cleaner decisions under pressure.
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Solitude, Sanity, and the Inner Adventure with Daniel Thorson
A practical Nervous System Mastery guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Daniel Thorson on 73 days of solitude and silence, Monastic Academy practice, brushes with insanity, retreat integration, meaning-making, and how to approach deep inner work without romanticizing destabilization.
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Ancient Healing Wisdom: Grounded Practice with Dr. John Churchill
A tactical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Dr. John Churchill on trauma-informed meditation, grounded awareness, shadow work, teacher fit, psychedelics, and building safer practice communities without bypassing the body.
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Somatics, Breathwork & Emotional Fluidity with Jonny Miller & Christofer Lövgren
A tactical guide from Christofer Lövgren’s Do Explain interview with Jonny Miller on somatics, breathwork, emotional fluidity, nervous-system safety, integration, and using the body as a practical path to aliveness.
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Hakomi, Ayahuasca, and Addiction Recovery with Alex Olshonsky
A practical Nervous System Mastery guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Alex Olshonsky on addiction, false urgency, socially acceptable compulsions, Hakomi, ayahuasca, psychedelic risk, startup culture, nervous-system narrowing, and how recovery becomes a return to sensation, relationship, and choice.
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Nervous System Protocols: Morning Light, Magnesium, Movement, and Breath
A practical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Grimhood on low-friction nervous-system protocols: sunrise light, magnesium, movement, nasal breathing, circadian rhythm, and reducing allostatic load without turning self-care into a full-time job.
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Breath-Hold Training, CO2 Tolerance, and Embodied Resilience with Erwan Le Corre
A practical Nervous System Mastery guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Erwan Le Corre on breath-hold training, embodied resilience, CO2 tolerance, natural movement, and human zoo counter-measures — including safer ways to build calmer breathing without turning apnea into a stunt.
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Mental Resilience, Cognitive Canaries & High-Stakes Decision Making with Retired Poker Pro Chris Sparks
A tactical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Chris Sparks on pre-performance routines, Murphy Jitsu, cognitive canaries, if-then policies, and making better decisions when the stakes are high.
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Leverage Your Physiology: Posture, Breath, and Movement for Nervous System Regulation
A practical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Aaron Alexander on posture, breath, movement, gaze, play, and using embodied physiology to shift your nervous system state.
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Achieve More by Grinding Less: Increase Aliveness with Michael Ashcroft
A tactical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Michael Ashcroft on over-efforting, expanded awareness, non-doing, aliveness, and building healthy ambition without nervous-system grind.
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New Frontiers of Breathwork: Translating the Language of the Breath & Cultivating Nervous System Resilience with Ed Dangerfield
A practical guide from Jonny Miller’s conversation with Ed Dangerfield on reading breath patterns, building nervous-system capacity, practicing breathwork safely, and using the question “how am I breathing?” as a real-time regulation cue.
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Lasting Transformation: Behavior Change That Sticks with Eric Zimmer
A tactical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Eric Zimmer on lasting transformation, recovery-support lessons, spiritual habits, emotional capacity, still points, and building behavior change that survives real life.
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The Pathless Path & The Magic of Non-Doing with Paul Millerd
A tactical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Paul Millerd on leaving the default path without recreating it, using non-doing as a nervous-system reset, testing aliveness through small experiments, and designing work around autonomy, spaciousness, and play.
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Grief, Service, and Being Fully Here with Charles Eisenstein
A tactical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Charles Eisenstein on letting grief restore contact with what is sacred, discerning real service from usefulness-performing, asking what you truly want, and bringing big ideas back into embodied life.
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Meditation for Alignment: Stop Over-Efforting with Michael King
A tactical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Michael King on meditation myths, alignment, over-efforting, emotional resistance, breath, sensory awareness, and living with more ease without overclaiming outcomes.
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Post-Traumatic Growth and Human Development: A Practical Guide with Dr. Zachary Stein
A tactical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Dr. Zachary Stein on post-traumatic growth, human development, nervous-system capacity, Nu's Ark, global intimacy disorder, and educating for an uncertain future.
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Emotional Freedom and Healthy Ambition: A Practical Guide with Joe Hudson
A tactical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Joe Hudson on emotional freedom, healthy ambition, emotional fluidity, shame, anger, joy, VIEW, and making inner work practical without overclaiming outcomes.
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Ask Better Questions and Follow Negative Effort with Malcolm Ocean
A tactical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Malcolm Ocean on holding questions, aliveness-based productivity, perceptual control theory, internal conflict, dream mashups, and finding the work that takes more effort not to do.
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Functional Breathwork: Use Interoception to Regulate Your Nervous System
A practical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Conni Biesalski on functional breathing, interoception, CO2 tolerance, HRV, and choosing breathwork practices that actually match your nervous-system state.
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Reclaim Attention and Work with Imposter Syndrome with Max Stossel
A tactical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Max Stossel on reclaiming attention, reducing digital distraction, working with imposter syndrome, feeling what you avoid, and creating without making your worth depend on the outcome.
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Meaning Crisis, Post-Traumatic Growth, and Homegrown Humans with Jamie Wheal
A tactical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Jamie Wheal on the meaning crisis, hedonic engineering, post-traumatic growth, grief, peak states, local resilience, and asking what is yours alone to do.
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Soul Initiation, Mythopoetic Identity, and Becoming Fully Human with Bill Plotkin
A practical Nervous System Mastery guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Bill Plotkin on soul initiation, mythopoetic identity, true adulthood, the descent to soul, sacred wound work, and how to approach the spiritual adventure of becoming fully human without bypassing ordinary developmental tasks.
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Mindfulness and Procrastination: Diagnose the Real Block with Arthur Worsley
A tactical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Arthur Worsley on mindfulness, language learning, meta-learning, and the four causes of procrastination: clarity, courage, motive, and energy.
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Navigate Challenging Emotions: Build an Emotional GPS with Cris Beasley
A practical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Cris Beasley on using body signals, curiosity walks, shadow-emotion inquiry, and integration practices to navigate difficult emotions without bypassing or outsourcing your authority.
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Rituals for Nervous System Regulation: A Practical Guide with Casper Ter Kuile
A tactical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Casper Ter Kuile on turning everyday routines into rituals for attention, rest, belonging, embodiment, Sabbath, and grounded spiritual practice without overclaiming clinical outcomes.
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Shadow Work and Self-Authorship: A Practical Guide with Erick Godsey
A tactical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Erick Godsey on shadow work, self-authorship, internal family systems, myth, dreamwork, grief, truth-telling, and building a life guided by the nervous system's deeper signals.
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Emotional Intelligence and Perfectionism: Build Acceptance with Emile Steenveld
A tactical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Emile Steenveld on emotional intelligence, perfectionism, duck syndrome, acceptance, breath awareness, feedback, and self-expression without overclaiming outcomes.
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Making Mischief, Navigating Self-Doubt & Cultivating Leadership with Andy Sparks
A tactical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Andy Sparks on self-doubt, founder loneliness, support networks, journaling, emotional regulation, and leading with more trust, mischief, and steadiness.
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Breathwork for Anxiety: How Breathing Changes Thinking
A practical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Edward Dangerfield on anxiety, breath patterns, nervous system regulation, and why changing the breath can change the mind.
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Life Beyond Total Work with Andrew Taggart
A tactical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Andrew Taggart on diagnosing total work, loosening worker-identity, using loss and wonderment well, choosing practices with a clear telos, and re-entering work without making it your self.
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Productive Disagreement with Buster Benson
A tactical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Buster Benson on turning conflict avoidance into productive disagreement, using head-heart-hands questions, mapping another person's perspective, and regulating enough fear to let curiosity return.
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Curiosity, Self-Authorship, and Mindframing with Anne-Laure Le Cunff
A tactical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Anne-Laure Le Cunff on cultivating curiosity, loosening fixed identities, using mindframing, learning through writing, and building a personal mental gym for steadier creative work.
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Joyful Absurdity, Meditation, and Impermanence with Cory Allen
A practical Nervous System Mastery guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Cory Allen on meditation, humour, impermanence, creative attention, binaural beats, becoming more human, and using playful absurdity as a doorway into nervous-system steadiness.
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Intuition, Breathwork, and Building a Second Brain: A Practical Guide with Tiago Forte
A tactical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Tiago Forte on using a Second Brain to reduce mental noise, hear intuition, work with breath and emotion safely, and turn big visions into grounded experiments.
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Mindfulness, Resilience & Leadership: Courage Training with Joel Levey
A tactical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Joel Levey on mindfulness, resilience, inner courage, silent retreat, leadership, and using contemplative practice without overclaiming outcomes.
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Embracing Uncertainty and Radical Curiosity with Leo Babauta
A tactical guide from Jonny Miller's conversation with Leo Babauta on turning toward fear, training uncertainty, practicing radical curiosity, loosening rigid goals, and replacing optimization with devotion to what matters.
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