The Kevin Miller Podcast

What story matters most? What story is most relevant for you? For your family? For humanity. Could it be your own? Wait, did you know your life was a story? Do you realize the only way to make sense of and succeed in life is to understand, embrace and fully live out your story? And last, if this is new to you, what do you do today, to tangibly step into this story? Listen in as legendary author, counsel and teacher, John Eldredge, gives us a story, on story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Multiply your time and procrastinate on purpose. And as you’ll hear in a 20 second clip right after you hit play for the show, Rory says time management isn’t logical, it’s emotional. And there is the crux for why we seldom do it well! He lays out some heavy paradigm shifters that I vow, will help you finally…not manage your time (Rory stats that you can’t!), but multiply it, once and for all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Name the definition of success for you? The specific realities, circumstances, ingredients and outcomes. It can’t be 100% altruistic, it must contain some personal desires. Zig gives us 15-minutes on stage discussing what we all want, how much our work life impacts everything, and the power of…love. Then I, Kevin, dig into the two primary topics. NEW SHOW! > Remember as you listen…when a question, idea, or frustration comes up, let us know! Go to ask.ZigShow.com. You’ll hear an excerpt from a submitted question in this show. Much thanks to Amazon Kindle and Concur for sponsoring the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Systems. Routines. Habits. Proven steps. These are what franchises are made of, and they are foundational to our personal and business success. We discuss this with longtime Ziglar personality, and one of today's foremost experts on franchises, John Hayes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Doing a “good enough”job, just enough to get by, leads nowhere. While excellence andhigh standards pay off in massive ways. Zig takes us through somepersonal stories of how he was taught. We all need to tangiblywrite down our own…personal standards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some people swim upstream. Somefight against the flow. Some rebel. And some simply opt out andrather peacefully chart a different course. It may even lead toworld domination. Got your interest? Meet ChrisGuillebeau. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Healthy relationships come hand in hand with true success. Show me a successful person, and you’ll find someone with a bevy of deep, true, meaningful relationships. What is the common thread that is the binding clasp for all winning relationships? This is the topic of today’s show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What you immerse yourself in, will change your life. Kyle immersed himself in the lives and businesses of great leaders and influencers and captains of positive, personal development. It took its toll. Kyle has had massive success. He is the go-to guy for big name authors and speakers and helps others get immersed in those works, much to the detriment of their average lives. Get immersed in greatness and you can’t help but do great things! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Teri, my bride, is back to give commentary with me on a clip from Zig where he’s asking if it’s tougher today, to raise positive kids in a negative world. If you have kids…if you want them to succeed, I implore you to listen in. This is about the roots of their lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a “root issue” hack, not a shortcut. Brian Tracy is a legend in personal development. An icon. And he’s still at it hard. No sugar coating, no fluff. He dives right to the heart of personal success. Do yourself a favor and join him… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I don’t like that title, because it’s hard to believe. But when you hear the answer and hear Tom Ziglar and I, Kevin, break it down, I honestly think you’ll agree. I actually don’t know how you CAN’T agree. So…it’s a big deal. Try it on for size. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Ramesh Richard walks us through, “We each have an individual calling. It is our responsibility to pursue it. The pursuit will be a hard life, full of striving and some struggle. It will also be the most joyful, glorious and fulfilling life we can imagine.”​ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Zig expounds on one of his primary pillars of success…relationships. He shares studies showcasing the number one cause of physical and emotional unhealth, is relational unhealth. We have to audit our relationships, or they’ll undermine all our other efforts. Listen in as we unearth this vital issue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

He interviewed 7 Billionaires, 13 Olympic Athletes, 29 Straight-A Students, and 239 Entrepreneurs and wrote a book that is the culmination of what he found. It’s called “15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management.” We walked through all 15 points. “Time travel” is #4. Follow just a couple and you’ll change your life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The phrase “Fear not” occurs in the Bible 365 times. If you think you don’t fear, do you worry? Do you ever have anxiety? Those are forms of fear. Zig takes us through a very scriptural talk about faith. The power of it, and the necessity of faith for your overall success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You are not in need of more knowledge in order to go after your goal, destiny, calling, conviction or dream. You have enough and know enough to start. Times today are the same as they were eons ago in relation to progressing forward. Or not. So listen…maybe for the last time. This show is brought to you in part by PIPEDRIVE, the CRM for small teams with big ambitions. Ziglar uses Pipedrive to help coordinate our sales pipeline. Head over to Pipedrive.com/ziglar to start your exclusive 60-day free trial only available to listeners of this show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dan Miller joins host Kevin Miller in a father-son discussion, using a 5-minute talk from Gary Vaynerchuk as a launching point. The topic…are you to be exactly you? Or become something else in order to achieve success. Is it a balance? Is it adding, subtracting, refining? How is all the pursuit of personal development working for you? Listen in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mutual respect is the core of relational health and wealth. Kevin & Teri Miller break down Zig’s clip where he hits on true success. You can win all the trappings of life and not be happy. But build a successful marriage, and you have it all. This show is brought to you in part by PIPEDRIVE, the CRM for small teams with big ambitions. Ziglar uses Pipedrive to help coordinate our sales pipeline. Head over to Pipedrive.com/ziglar to start your exclusive 60-day free trial only available to listeners of this show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If that title intrigues you…good. It should. It hits to the heart of one of Zig’s foundational messages and foundations of true success. We listen to a seven minute clip from Zig, than my wife Teri joins me in the studio to dig in. If you are married, or ever plan to, please…listen in. This show is brought to you in part by PIPEDRIVE, the CRM for small teams with big ambitions. Ziglar uses Pipedrive to help coordinate our sales pipeline. Head over to Pipedrive.com/ziglar to start your exclusive 60-day free trial only available to listeners of this show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the worlds greatest wells of business wisdom, Roy H Williams, shares a theme I (Kevin) have been hearing a lot about lately. How those who come from hardship, generally outshine those we would normally deem “more fortunate”. But after hearing his testimony, I think you’ll begin to question what truly is a better fortune; trial or ease. But what if you have had it relatively easy? What do you do? Listen in… This show is brought to you in part by PIPEDRIVE, the CRM for small teams with big ambitions. Ziglar uses Pipedrive to help coordinate our sales pipeline. Head over to Pipedrive.com/ziglar to start your exclusive 60-day free trial only available to listeners of this show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“As a man thinketh, so is he.” “Whether you think you can, or you think you can't…you're right.” Pithy quotes that speak absolute truth. We live and die by what we tell ourselves. We literally write our story every day. Come along with us and write the story you are responsible to write. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are all speakers, whether the stage is in front of thousands, in front of 10, or in front of one. The best strategies for success? Know your material, stop your negative internal voices, and most of all…tell the truth. If you want to truly help anyone, in any way, you need to hear this message. The world truly is a stage. You must master it if you care to influence it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every day the world you live in is created by your attitude. Either you dictate it, someone else does, or your attitude does. This is the first focus of the show. Next we hit on motivation. Which is motive. Which is…your reason. If you aren’t clear on this, you are a race car with an empty fuel tank. But as you’ll hear in the show, we look at what you think you actually want, and find what to cut loose and free you from, in order to hone in what you really, truly want. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Seth gives immense honor to Zig’s dramatic impact in his life, and ends the interview with what he hopes his legacy to be…and how it can be YOU. He also shares how Zig’s message kept him from quitting and why Zig’s message stood out from the rest. Seth cites that the root of sales is removing fear, social network grooming is hiding, and everybody should blog daily. And more. Listen and learn. This show is brought to you in part by PIPEDRIVE, the CRM for small teams with big ambitions. Ziglar uses Pipedrive to help coordinate our sales pipeline. Head over to Pipedrive.com/ziglar to start your exclusive 60-day free trial only available to listeners of this show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What would we do if your daily habits and decisions had immediate consequences instead of slow, long term fruition? It would be the most life changing reality we ever encountered. Period. Zig sets the stage and Kevin poses the perspective. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Possibly the most concise, tangible, and relevant concept for literally have an overall direction for your life…ever. Michael Hyatt and co-author Daniel Harkavay will help you understand in six minutes flat, what most people can’t grasp a concept of in a lifetime. Listen and be…changed. This show is brought to you in part by PIPEDRIVE, the CRM for small teams with big ambitions. Ziglar uses Pipedrive to help coordinate our sales pipeline. Head over to Pipedrive.com/ziglar to start your exclusive 60-day free trial only available to listeners of this show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Zig is king of positive thinking. Few that listen to his message outwardly refute it. But in our personal lives, in our heads…we often do. We want to make a bad situation good, but it’s hard to deny the situation really IS bad. And it hurts. Flat out denying that is not healthy, and it is NOT what Zig is about. Feel it. But…we can’t let it overcome it. There are two types of people. Everyone is going to encounter negative, hurtful realities of life. Some feel it, let it shape, define and defeat them. Some feel it, acknowledge it, but then…decide to rise above it. Which are you? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Real people, real efforts, real stories, real trials and overcoming. We hear from 12 people who are working to “change their stars”. We get the good, the glorious…the bad and the ugly. This show is brought to you in part by PIPEDRIVE, the CRM for small teams with big ambitions. Ziglar uses Pipedrive to help coordinate our sales pipeline. Head over to Pipedrive.com/ziglar to start your exclusive 60-day free trial only available to listeners of this show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Zig charges us with doing the hard work of drilling for our potential, discovering it, bringing it to the surface then presenting it for use. We have greatness in us, but it’s useless and moot unless we commit to it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jahbari McLennan had a dream. He achieved it. Then realized he’d “lost his passion for the game”. So at the top of his game, he walked away. Today he just signed a deal for a new game that more aligns with his core calling. This is a real world story that will resonate with you! This show is brought to you in part by PIPEDRIVE, the CRM for small teams with big ambitions. Ziglar uses Pipedrive to help coordinate our sales pipeline. Head over to Pipedrive.com/ziglar to start your exclusive 60-day free trial only available to listeners of this show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Zig brings his absolute best to the root of it all, your self-image. And while he wants you to aspire to some big goals and have a game plan for your life, he also shares that at the age of 45, he was broke and in debt. He started small. A game plan for…the day. The week. And on from there. This we can all do. So…let’s do it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bob Tiede trains leaders and he's found the primary key to effective leadership, which turns conventional thinking, and habit, on it's head. If you've ever heard the wisdom to "shut up and listen",you'll get a similar paradigm shift with "quit telling and start asking". This will literally change your future interactions with...everyone. This show is brought to you in part by PIPEDRIVE, the CRM for small teams with big ambitions. Ziglar uses Pipedrive to help coordinate our sales pipeline. Head over to Pipedrive.com/ziglar to start your exclusive 60-day free trial only available to listeners of this show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Zig gives us 22 minutes from his life changing Success Strategies series, this is the 2nd of 3 parts on Self-Image, the bedrock of all success. We agree with all you've ever thought, simply changing your paradigm will NOT make you a superhero the next day. Maybe the next year...if you grow the "seeds of greatness" Zig claims you are endowed with. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mark Timm shares his journey and solutions for being ultra successful with his industry leading business, yet failing at home. He took the same principles that made him a rockstar CEO in business, and applied them at home. The results changed his home life, and the lives of his entire family. I, your host Kevin Miller, have been implementing them in my home with my large family. Folks, tune in to this show. It is truly significant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

21 minutes of Zig on his #1 success strategy. You can have everything; knowledge, skill, experience, ability, brilliance…everything. Without personal belief, it won’t benefit you or others. Change your perspective on yourself, change your life, other’s lives and this world. It’s not easy. It’s just…vital. Let’s do it. This show is brought to you in part by PIPEDRIVE, the CRM for small teams with big ambitions. Ziglar uses Pipedrive to help coordinate our sales pipeline. Head over to Pipedrive.com/ziglar to start your exclusive 60-day free trial only available to listeners of this show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sales pro Butch Bellah walks us through the 10 Essential Habits of Sales Superstars, and gives Ziglar listeners a free download of his book that gives even more. Zig famously said, “Everyone is in sales”, because sales is influence. We all want to influence others, and we try to daily. We all need to become more effective, for our sake and those we care about! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Lee Dumas gets real with us on what he learned from interviewing 1,200 entrepreneurs. What do they all have in common? What is the one common thread for their success? What led them out of the failures they all experienced? One thing. Listen in. Really. Listen in. This show is brought to you in part by PIPEDRIVE, the CRM for small teams with big ambitions. Ziglar uses Pipedrive to help coordinate our sales pipeline. Head over to Pipedrive.com/ziglar to start your exclusive 60-day free trial only available to listeners of this show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We read through scores of emails sent in by The Ziglar Show audience on their successes, challenges and failures in taking action for their self-improvement. These are real world stories that will undoubtedly resonate with you as you journey on your own path of Inspiring YOUR True Performance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tom Rath’s new book and movie has us fired up, and in this show we get behind the scenes on the research that led to Tom’s “Three Keys to Energizing Your Work and Life”, and of course, dig in deep the the challenges and opportunities in aspiring to be…fully charged. This is not a mere interview. It’s a revelation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Zig delivers 10 minutes of power that we break down with some significant points regarding, Hope, Belief, Taking Action, Encouragement, doing the Right Thing and Reaping what you Sow. You’ll find tangible, actionable opportunity from this show! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We all have standards by which we live. Some are very shallow and broad, some narrow and deep. Some intentional and clear, some just by happenstance. We also cover why Andy went from successful corporate speaking to include a big focus on parenting. And how in both, “standards” are a prominent root. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a special, one minute Christmas message from Zig. A blessing and a charge. Then Tom Ziglar shares what Christmas was like in the Ziglar home as a child. This is pure sweetness and…​​inspiration! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We all have hope, belief and desire for progress. But why is it so hard to change? Dave Ramsey, in this intimate interview, says the chief enemy is…FEAR. This didn’t start out as the focus for the interview, but we landed on it hard. This is true…inspiration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is it? Seriously? Can being grateful really change things or is it a pithy, naive platitude? Let’s listen to Zig and then talk about it in real-world terms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Zig brings us a talk from the stage on The Power of Words. How we have been pre-programmed by words our entire life, and are therefore not living free and true. How to live free and true? Listen in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Coleman, host of Dave Ramsey’s Entreleadership podcast, delivers a profound message on humanity’s One Question: ”What should I do with my life? Why am I here?” Then we delve down deeper to the foundation of his message, the calling on your life. And Godly aspiration and ambition. Watch out. You may very well find the permission you’ve needed to break out of your normal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nobody on the planet is immune to needing this message. It’s impossible. We all are victims of our own narrow views of ourselves and limitations. Some have drastic limitations, some have mild, albeit subversive, erosions that handicap their efforts. This show will be an effort to recognize that you invariably need to expand your view of yourself. We have 13 minutes of Zig, then Tom Ziglar and Kevin Miller break it down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Positive content is vital for a successful life. But...it's a means to an end. If you intake and intake and never take any action, then it's merely positive entertainment. Listen in to Zig and get challenged, then we'll take it deeper and get convicted for change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And if they don’t trust you, you are handicapping your progress and success and potential. Listen in and find out how to turn your trustworthiness into actually being trusted. And see all the doors you wish were opened to you…bust open. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just think positive? Really? Is that that easy? No. It’s not. Which is why we listen to a 22 minute clip of Zig, then spend about the same time digging into what being “Positive” is all about, and what’s really in it for us. It’s not just a perspective. It’s a tactic for getting more out of most anything and anytime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices