Miles Ahead: Strength for The Inner Life
Episodes
Connor Beaton: Facing Pain-A Journey into Men's Work
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Can we truly find strength in the parts of ourselves we’ve spent a lifetime trying to hide?Welcome back to the show. Today, I’...
Phil Horning: How To Create a Code to Live By
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Grounded Warrior is back! Miles and Phil Horning explore the significance of living by a personal code, emphasizing the import...
Navigating ADHD & Neurodiversity: A Journey with Roxanne Turner
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Miles Ahead Podcast, host Miles speaks with Roxanne Turner, a neurodiversity specialist and equine coach. T...
Josh and Dave go to Israel and Palestine
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Josh is back on the podcast again, and we bring on our friend, Dave Smith, who is a well traveled and well read historian, and all around renaissance ...
Unlocking the Mind: Healing Through Psilocybin. A New Approach to Therapy
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation, my guest, Mike Ljubsa, shares his transformative journey from Canada to Jamaica, where he now runs Mycomeditations, a psilocybin...
Traver Boehm: Exploring the Depths of Darkness
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation, Traver Boehm discusses the importance of creating dedicated spaces for men to engage in open conversations about their experienc...
Frank Grun: US Air Force Medic, Rescue Operator and Weapons Specialist
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Miles, Josh, and Frank discuss the complexities of military life, focusing on the challenges of burnout, mental health, and the transition to civilian...
Karden Rabin: Author of The Secret Language of the Body
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation, Miles and Karden explore the intricate relationship between the body, nervous system, and emotional health, awareness and agency...
Zac Miller: Transformative Healing with Ibogaine
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation, Miles and Zac Miller delve into the transformative experience of Ibogaine treatment, exploring its potential benefits for mental...
Duey Freeman: Healing Through Connection
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The legend himself joins me this episode to talk about some of the body of his works. I talk about being MIA and going through a difficult time.In thi...
Lindsay Dettwiler: From Trauma and Recovery to Elite Personal Trainer
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Lindsay Dettwiler. She has an amazing back story and thousands of amazing stories of survival, perseverance, and the best dating "wa...
Josh Returns! The Synergy of Mental and Physical Fitness
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Sabraw is back and drops in to let us know what he has been up to. We get off and go like he never left. Early adopter...
Zac Miller: Man Uncivilized Team Member and Coach
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Zac Miller. He is a former civil servant of Public Safety, having been in Law Enforcement, Dispatch, and the Fire Service, a rare fe...
Michael Read, LMT and Men's Coach
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Returns to the podcast. We get an update from him moving from New York to Georgia and the contrast between the two. Then we get into all thing...
Marlin Bernabe: Certified Fitness Trainer and Brand, "Move That Body"
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Marlin Bernabe who is one of the most impressive fitness trainers I have seen work live. I have the fortune to watch him work at my ...
Davy: From Classified Government Agent to Psychotherapist in Training and Men's Work Facilitator.
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Davy . We were connected through Dave Boyd and the Man Uncivilized Nation. We hit it off immediately and knew we needed to plant the...
After Action Review: Traver Boehm's, The Uncivilized Men's Initiation
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Phil Horning and I are freshly returned to the relative and "civilized world". We give a brief synopsis of what we learned and went through ...
Martin Scott, LMT, AKA, "The Surgeon"
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wondered how massage can heal men? Wonder no more.Martin and I get into a lot of interesting topics:Plant-based medicine.Martin's Origin Stor...
Todd Leuch. Voice Actor and Men's Work Leader
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In today's chat, I have Todd Leuch who is a Voice Actor and also does Men's Work With Connor Beaton. We get into a lot of interesting topics:Men's Wor...
Dr Grant Headley, PT, DPT, The Body Listener
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My Guest today is Dr Grant Headley, who is a Dr of Physical Therapy.We cover how to be active and avoid injury, what to do about it if you are injured...
Michael Read: From Licensed Massage Therapist to Men's Work Coach
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This was my first-ever crossover podcast. Michael has a podcast called The Adaptive Men. We decided to get together and talk about a variety of topics...
Fork in the Road Episode. How to handle life transitions and Josh say's bye for now.
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fork in the Road EpisodeIn this episode, Miles and Josh discuss the struggles of the sandwich generation. How each of us copes with family, career, a...
Cedric Bertelli-Emotional Resolution (EmRes) and Visero-Somatic Quieting Expert.
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This was a super fascinating and engaging conversation. Cedric's work is very powerful (as you will witness as Josh offers for me to be in the hot...
VICTORY MONDAY! Also, how sports connects men and how to go deeper.
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a spur of the (big moment) minisode brought about by the Eagle's HUGE win last night. I thought I'd take some time to relish in this b...
How emotional/spiritual bypassing can show you exactly what is holding you back
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Miles and Josh discuss the butterfly effect question, and how that may or may not reveal your unacknowledged regret or even areas of y...
The Pain of Being Human
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How to use the pain of being human to your advantage. In this episode, Miles and Josh go deeper into how developmental trauma influences the creation ...
Dr Aziz Gazipura: Author of Not Nice
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Aziz, who we have mentioned multiple times on the podcast is here! We begin the podcast fresh from an hour of sauna together, so if we sound drunk,...
How to Move From Thinking about Emotions to Experiencing them
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This was a BIG episode. We get into our personal stories of pain and growth and the people who helped us get there. This one is very much worth the li...
Now Years Resolutions Redux: Goal Setting
01 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How to set goals, make them fun, and what to do about inevitable resistance. We get tactical and psychological. Anytime is a good time to set goals. I...
Stacy Ramakers: Pain, passion, pursuit, purpose, and presence.
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What this episode is about: Josh and Miles interview one of Josh's clients/students about her "overnight success" body fat percentage loss and muscle ...
What your social media feed says about you
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode, Miles and Josh go deep on social media and the "for you" feed, how psychographics trumps demographics and how tik tok changed the ...
After Action Review: How Best To Work With Men
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Phil and Miles give an After Action Review for Josh about their recent seminar with Duey Freeman and Traver Boehm (from the ManUncivilized Podcast, bo...
Pain and Perspective
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How to work with physical and psychological pain. The first Noble Truth of Buddhism has many translations, the one we like is "life involves suffering...
What is a "Nice Guy" or "Good Girl"?
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today we discuss the dynamic of co-dependency under the oft used terms, "Nice Guy" or "Good Girl" and what this means, where it comes from, how it pre...
The Warrior Ethos
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s episode, we discuss the essentials of warrior-hood. Resilience. Service. Teamwork. To find out how masculinity and manhood intersect wi...
How to Be Self-Led
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode, we discuss one of the most important topics in mental health right now: Sovereignty, and How To be Self-Led. We'll talk about how...
How to Motivate Yourself Forever
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Miles and Josh address the saying of "pressure creates diamonds" by finishing the often-used idiom with, "pressure ofte...
Part 3: The problem of delusion and dissonance
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
PDF Download In our final discussion of the plight of men and health outcomes, we end on the problem of delusions, misinformation, and distracted atte...
Hormones and Aging (What's wrong with men? Part II)
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode Dr Miles and Josh delve a bit deeper into the obstacles that men face when tackling their own mental and physical health and to...
What's Wrong with Men and Why Can't they Change? Part I
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we discuss men's struggles in terms of health and economic outcomes, as well as social struggles like lack of dating participati...
Dr. Ray Doktor, Author of All it Takes is One
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Ray Doktor helps Josh cope with relationship issues. What's it about: Do you have the ability to check in with yourself as to how you show up,...
Phil Horning-Is this getting in the way of your relationships?
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Phil Horning returns. In this episode, we discuss how we get wounded in relationships and how we heal in relationships. The relief that we feel being ...
Evan Transue-Overcoming Mental and Physical Health Challenges
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Evan Transue, who is a public speaker and podcaster and is spreading his message about mental health and functional health care t...
Fitness Over 40 (or any age) Pitfalls and Problems
05 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we cover the most common issues that people run into when tackling their health and fitness. What's it about: Staying in shape and the o...
Hope Series: Agency-Do you suffer from learned helplessness?
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What's it about: How to control your own life, from the inside, and out. How we lose our felt sense of being able to affect our own world and ...
Hope Part 3: Pathway Problems
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Pathway, the "HOW" episodes The biggest problem that arises to interfere with hope is the lack of a "pathway" to the goal, be it...
How To Set Inevitable Goals
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What's it about: A continuation on the theme of Hope. What mistakes do people make when it comes to setting goals? How to set goals, even if you f...
Hopelessness. What it is, and how to define hope in an empowering way.
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hopelessness, What it is, and how to define hope in an empowering way. What's the episode about? Zooming out for a moment and examining the sta...
Why are we having a mental health epidemic? (PT 2)
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode deepens the conversation about mental health and what our medical system is doing to make it worse. What's it about: How our Medical ...
Why are we having a mental health epidemic?
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode drops into the conversation about mental health and why it is on everyone's mind. What's it about: What is the cause of overdia...
What type of student are YOU?
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is about learning how to change your own health, your own relationships, or your own life. What's it about: The 5 types of students...
Phil Horning-Journey of a Maturing Man
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is about a friend of the Pod, Phil Horning, and his work building himself as a man and serving others in the capacity of a coach What...
Intimacy and Barriers to Intimacy
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Miles and Josh talk about what intimacy is and why it is so critically important to a happy life. What's it about: What keeps people from having...
What to Eat and How Much
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Coach Josh solves the food issue once and for all What's it about: How Your Body Works, How Your Central Nervous System uses food to regulate ho...
Why do we go to therapy?
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Miles goes through the experiences that people have seeking therapy What's it about: Why people are motivated to seek therapy and what their probl...
Barriers to Authentic Relationships
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode- Why do I have no friends? Josh and Miles talk about the barriers to authentic relationships What's it about: How do we create toxic r...
Learning to Launch
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Talking points: How to survive "life ambushes". The meaning of "New Levels, New Devils". Adversity, and how to work with it. How k...
The Health Episode
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What it is about: Discarding what health "appears" to be and adopting a definition of health that makes sense for you and the vision of your...
Crafting Your Own Personal Narrative
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Fall down 9, get up 10. Episode- How to write your own story and confront your past. Josh and Miles talk about how to deal with a crisis of identity ...
What is a Warrior?
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode- Warriors Defined Josh and Miles go deep on what it means to be a warrior in the modern world. What's it about? Separating warrior from w...
AAR2: Connor Beaton's Man Talks, Men's Weekend Retreat
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Return of the (Archetypal) King: After Action Review of a Healing Journey, Part 2 What's it about: Miles calls nicotine a vasodilator when it is ...
AAR: Connor Beaton's Man Talks, Men's Weekend Retreat
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Return of the (Archetypal) King: After Action Report of a Healing Journey Miles returns from Connor Beaton's retreat in a daze, a haze, and a ma...
The RAS! Or Reticular Activating System. How you filter what becomes part of your life.
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
WTF is the RAS? Tony Robbins often talks about it, and Dr Hubermann has discussed it briefly. We'll give a brief neurobiological explanation and...
PMA or NMA? How to be positive without being a douche
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What's the ep about? Positive Mental Attitude & its Benefits and the Dangers of Placing Whipped Cream on Garbage. How will the listener benefit: B...
The Dark Side of The Force or How to Use the Hole in You as a Force For Good
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What is that emptiness feeling we sometimes experience? What is the Shadow Side? Is it all bad? What does pain have to tell us? Why do we avoid pain? ...
The Obstacle Is The Way
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Obstacle Is The Way (It's all Grist for The Mill, or whatever that means). You'll learn about this classic concept from Buddhism and Sto...
Grief, Grace and the quality of being cool
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Josh reveals a little about his recent experience with losing a relative and being confronted with past behavior loops including co-d...
Anger! Where did you come from and what do you want?
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This was a sort of accidental episode. Before our last recording, Josh and I were talking and I'd mentioned a surge of anger that was new to me an...
SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder)
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's STILL the season for seasonal affective disorder, aka, the damn gloomy weather makes me feel like junk! While this may not affect you where y...
Purpose & Meaning: What does this Mean?
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What the heck is my purpose in life? What gives me meaning? Where do I "find it"? In this one we dig into these questions, what the first ha...
Masculinity, What is a Healthy Expression?
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we follow up on some of the previous discussions on trauma and adverse childhood experiences, then move into how these may have shape...
Origin Stories
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we share a bit about our backgrounds; our upbringings, our struggles, and triumphs, and where we are trying to go. As you listen, you...
Now Years Resolutions
31 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Objectives, strategies, and tactics for setting goals and not hating your life.
Breaking the Silence: Navigating Depression, Understanding the Science within.
17 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this first episode join us as we delve into the deep waters of depression. You’ll learn a bit about its physiological and neurobiological roots, ...