John R. Miles

Boris has worked in more than two dozen countries and has lived in five.

He's led teams across 10 African nations, served as a CEO and managing director in fast-growth companies, and now leads global operations for one of Africa's fastest-growing HR fintech firms.

He brings a systems-level understanding of leadership shaped by real complexity.

Together, they don't just teach leadership, they recontextualize it.

They take leaders out of the environments that condition speed, ego, and certainty and place them alongside some borough elders where leadership is practiced as listening, patience, stewardship, and responsibility to the whole.

In today's conversation, we explore why immersion in nature increases creativity, focus, and learning, why cultural humility is a prerequisite for modern leadership, and why becoming a better leader

may require stepping far outside the world that made you successful in the first place.

This episode is not about adding another tool to your leadership toolkit.

It's about asking a deeper question.

Who are you becoming?

And what kind of leader does the world actually need now?

Take a breath, open your perspective and come with me.

This is my conversation with Ollie Raisin and Boris McGuire.

Thank you for choosing PassionStruck and choosing me to be your host and guide on your journey to creating an intentional life.

Now, let that journey begin.

I still remember the moment I realized something was off.

I was drinking more water, trying to be healthier, but I kept feeling off.

Low energy, brain fog, strange skin flare-ups.

First, I blamed stress until I dug deeper.

Turns out three in four U.S.