Passion Struck with John R. Miles
When AI Runs the World, What’s Your Competitive Edge? w/John R. Miles | EP 693
21 Nov 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Coming up next on PassionStruck. What if I told you the thing that will define your success and your significance in the next decade isn't your skills, it's not your resume, it's not even your intelligence, it's your humanity. Not the polished version you post on LinkedIn, but the raw, messy, unautomatable parts
Chapter 2: What defines success and significance in an AI-driven world?
how you imagine when no one's watching, how you empathize when it costs you something, how you create meaning out of chaos no algorithm will ever understand. In a world addicted to efficiency, the ultimate competitive advantage is being courageously, stubbornly, beautifully human. Welcome to Passion Struck. I'm your host, John Myles.
This is the show where we explore the art of human flourishing and what it truly means to live like it matters. Each week, I sit down with changemakers, creators, scientists, and everyday heroes to decode the human experience and uncover the tools that help us lead with meaning, heal what hurts, and pursue the fullest expression of who we're capable of becoming.
Whether you're designing your future, developing as a leader, or seeking deeper alignment in your life, this show is your invitation to grow with purpose and act with intention. Because the secret to a life of deep purpose, connection, and impact is choosing to live like you matter. Welcome back, friends, to Passion Struck episode 693.
I'm your host, John Myles, and today is truly a special moment. This is episode 200 of our solo series. 200 times you and I have sat here together, just us, a microphone, and the conviction that a life of intention is still worth fighting for. That number still takes my breath away. Thank you for showing up. Thank you for growing with this show.
And thank you for being part of a community that still believes humanity isn't a weakness. It's the point. It's the single best way to help new listeners discover these conversations.
Now, we're deep into November and deep into our series, The Irreplaceables, a month-long reminder that as the world accelerates faster than our nervous system were designed for, the things that make us human have never been more valuable.
or more rare being irreplaceable isn't about your title or your output it's about the way you love your people the courage to rewrite a story that no longer fits the quiet strength to keep showing up when life gets harder than you planned and if you've been listening the past few weeks you've already felt what I mean.
Elias Wise Friedman, or as millions know him on social media as The Doggist, showed us that a single moment of eye contact with a stranger's dog can crack us open in ways productivity apps never will. Amina Altai reminded us that abandoning yourself is the fastest path to burnout. and reclaiming your worth is the foundation of sustainable ambition.
Earlier this week, Scott D'Anthony proved that creativity isn't a flash of genius, it's the courage to fall in love with the problem no one else is willing to hold long enough. And Lynn Smith, after 15 years on national TV, Let us see behind the curtain the brain bowl, the perfectionism, and the slow, brave rebuilding of self-belief.
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Chapter 3: How can creativity serve as a competitive advantage?
It's about belonging. empathy, courage, the same themes we explore here every week. When you pre-order, you help bring the message of mattering to families, classrooms, and communities everywhere. Just visit YouMatterLuma.com to learn more. Now, a quick word from our sponsors. Thank you for supporting those who support the show. It truly helps us keep bringing you conversations that matter.
You're listening to Passion Struck on the Passion Struck Network. Let's pick up where we left off. We've been conditioned to treat emotional death like the soft stuff, the bonus, the thing you get to after the real work. But emotional death is not soft. It's the hardest currency in the modern world. Empathy builds trust faster than any KPI dashboard could.
I've seen billion dollar deals close, not because someone had the best valuation model, but because one founder looked the other in the eye and said, hey, you know what? I know how terrifying this is. I almost lost everything in 2008. In that moment, Humanity did what spreadsheets couldn't. Integrity builds a reputation that outlives every title and every exit.
People forget metrics, but they remember the time you honored a promise when no one would have known if you walked away. Compassion creates loyalty. No compensation package can buy. For instance, I know the owner of a restaurant in St. Petersburg, Florida, who spent the pandemic paying his employees not to work. Not HR, not a script.
Three years later, his turnover is almost zero because people don't leave leaders who showed up in the dark. And presence, real undistracted presence, creates connection, no filter, no camera angle, no perfectly polished persona. can fake. We all know what it feels like when someone is truly with us. No slack, no side-eyeing their phone, just two humans breathing the same air.
It's rarer than an Ivy League resume and infinitely more valuable. People don't follow perfection. They follow someone who feels like home. Think about the leaders who shaped your life. Were they flawless or Were they the ones who sat beside you in the mess and made you believe you could survive it? People don't pay for information anymore. We're drowning in information.
They pay sometimes desperately to feel seen, to feel understood, to feel less alone. A therapist isn't paid for memorizing diagnoses. They're paid for the strength to sit in someone else's pain without flinching. A coach doesn't earn $50,000 because they have the best systems.
They earn it because when you whisper, I'm terrified I'm going to fail, they say, tell me about the last time you survived something you thought would break you. A creator doesn't build a million person audience.
because their edits are perfect they build it because one day they cried on camera about the divorce or the addiction or the night they almost didn't make it and strangers whispered back me too that's emotional depth in action it's not a liability It's the performance advantage that compounds over time. The deeper you're willing to go, the higher everyone around you rises.
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