John R. Miles

The question at the center of it is this, what actually happens to a person when life breaks open?

Not the cleaned up, redemptive arc we present at dinner parties.

The real thing.

The inside of the moment.

The first conversation is with someone who has lived every word of that.

Kathy Gaiasti was diagnosed with terminal cancer at 37 and given three years to live.

What she built in the 30 years since is one of the most extraordinary examples of a human being refusing to let crisis be the last word.

But what she and I talk about isn't the organization she built.

It's the fear, the journal entries, the decision made quietly to stop waiting for someone else to solve the problem.

That conversation is next Tuesday, and it's going to change the way you think about whatever hard thing you're currently carrying.

If today's episode meant something to you, please share it with one person, not for the numbers, but because there's someone in your life who is exhausted by the version of themselves they've been performing.

They need to hear they're allowed to take the bow.

I'm John Miles, and this is PassionStruck.

Thank you for being in the passenger seat for this one.

Now, go take your bow.

I'll see you on the water.

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Welcome to PassionStruck.

I'm your host, John Miles.

This is the show where we explore the art of human flourishing and what it truly means to live like it matters.