Amy Leigh Mercree on Unlock the Power of Your Energy Field | EP 676

In this live episode of Passion Struck, John R. Miles sits down with bestselling author and medical intuitive Amy Leigh Mercree to explore the profound connection between energy, awareness, and intentional living. They discuss how tuning into your personal energy field can enhance emotional regulation, deepen intuition, and improve how you show up in the world. Amy shares practical techniques for sensing and aligning energy, blending spiritual insight with grounded, actionable tools. Amy a bestselling author of more than fifteen books, including Aura Alchemy, A Little Bit of Chakras, and A Little Bit of MindfulnessAmy discusses how to turn your passion for healing into a thriving career of impact, purpose, and abundance, as a Certified Atomic Healing™ Method Medical Intuitive. Learn more: https://amyleighmercree.com/atomic-healing-method-certification/. Click here for the full shownotes! Go Deeper: The Ignited Life SubstackIf this episode stirred something in you, The Ignited Life is where the transformation continues. Each week, I share behind-the-scenes insights, science-backed tools, and personal reflections to help you turn intention into action. Subscribe🔗 and get the companion resources delivered straight to your inbox. If you liked the show, please leave us a review—it only takes a moment and helps us reach more people! Don’t forget to include your Twitter or Instagram handle so we can thank you personally. Get the full companion workbook at TheIgnitedLife.netFull episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JohnRMilesListen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcastsEveryone deserves to feel valued and important. Show it by wearing it: https://startmattering.com/Connect with John Pre-Order The Mattering Effect: https://matteringeffect.com/Book John to Speak: https://johnrmiles.com/speaking/Keynotes, books, podcast, and resources: https://linktr.ee/John_R_MilesChildren’s Book — You Matter, Luma: https://youmatterluma.com/Substack: https://www.theignitedlife.net/Support the Movement: https://startmattering.com/. Every human deserves to feel seen, valued, and like they matter. Wear it. Live it. Show it. DisclaimerThe Passion Struck podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only. The views and opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of Passion Struck or its affiliates. This podcast is not a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice.

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• 0:00John R. Miles?

  Coming up next on Passion Struck.

• 0:02Speaker 01

  People talk about the law of attraction, which is absolutely fantastic and totally something that I work with in my life. But it's also about our thinking, our feeling, the state we're creating within us, and then the way that we're interacting with the external world as human projectors. So our thoughts, our feelings, the energetic movement in our body, all of that is going out through this lens of our aura and then projecting out into our external world.

• 0:33John R. Miles?

  Welcome to Passion Struck. 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. 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.

• 1:21John R. Miles?

  Welcome back, friends, to Passion Struck. I'm so glad you're here. Whether this is your first time joining us, or you've been with us week after week, welcome. Over a third of you return every week, and that loyalty fuels this global movement. If this show has ever inspired you, shifted your perspective, or helped you take a step toward growth, here's how you can help it grow. First, share this episode with someone who needs to hear it. Second, leave a five-star rating on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It's the single best way to help new listeners discover these conversations. Last week was a powerful doubleheader. We explored the gravity effect with Dr. Brennan Spiegel,

• 2:02John R. Miles?

  uncovering how the invisible force of gravity impacts everything from our gut health to our resilience. Then, we dove into Radical Doubt with Dr. Bobby Parmar, an episode that challenged us to question our own doubts and to use uncertainty as a force for wiser leadership and deeper meaning. If you missed either one, I highly recommend you go back and listen. They set the stage beautifully for today's conversation. A quick note, this Friday, I'll be making a very special announcement about a new project I've been working on for over a year. It's something I'm incredibly excited to finally share with you, so stay tuned. Today

• 2:41John R. Miles?

  for episode 676, we're going live to explore another invisible force that shapes how we experience the world: energy. My guest is Amy Lee Mercree, a bestselling author of more than 15 books, including Aura Alchemy: A Little Bit of Chakras and a Little Bit of Mindfulness. She's a globally recognized medical intuitive, spiritual teacher, and Hay House author, whose work blends science and spirituality, from subatomic physics to shamanic practices. In this live conversation, recorded at the Oxford Exchange, we explore what auras actually are and the fascinating science behind them, how energy fields shape

• 3:23John R. Miles?

  our perceptions, emotions, and interactions, practical techniques to sense, cleanse, and strengthen your own energy, and how perspective and intention alter not just how we see the world, but the reality we project into it. Before we dive in, a quick reminder, our new store, startmattering.com, is live. It's built on a simple truth: you matter. Live like it. Every hoodie, tee, and hat fuels the ripple of the Mattering Revolution. Check it out at startmattering.com. Now, let's step into this fascinating world of aura science, energy fields, and intuitive intelligence with Amy Lee Mercree. Thank you for choosing Passion Struck and choosing me to be your host and guide on your journey to creating intentional life. Now, let that journey begin.

• 4:14John R. Miles?

  Amy, thank you for driving up from up south. Amy was in the car for about three hours coming up here today. I really appreciate her making the drive. And for those of you who are perhaps not familiar with my podcast, I had Amy on an episode 475, which I just hit 660. So that was probably 18 months ago. And we actually discussed this book. So we're going to expand on that today. I first kind of wanted to ask the room, when you come into a room like this and you see each other and the vibe of the room, do you all feel any energy presence amongst yourselves? Amy, when you come into a room like this,

• 4:58John R. Miles?

  given this is what you study and practice, what kind of energy do you feel?

• 5:04Speaker 01

  So when I come into any space with a lot of people, I tend to seal up my energy field, which I can teach you all how to do, only because there's crowds. Now, all of you, of course, have fantastic energy. You're here to talk to us. You've come in because you may have listened to Passion Struck, the podcast, which is fantastic. But when I come into a space with a lot of people, the first thing I like to do is just have a little bubble around me and then make sure I'm coming in with the spirit of joy. So I'm raising frequency. And as somebody who's been intuitive for a lot of my life,

• 5:48Speaker 01

  I tend to turn down the volume on the crowds. But when we're in a room like this, I get to relax and open up and talk to all of you who are here to talk to us about common things that we're interested in.

• 6:03John R. Miles?

  Yeah, so what really interested me to Amy's work is I am fortunate enough that I get to see the early releases from all the major publications or publishers, what's coming out. And Hay House happens to be one of my favorite, who now publishes your books. And I happened to see your book coming out, but what really caught my eye was that you, Mac, you combined physics with spiritual practices. And I wanted to kind of understand, what got you interested in that diverse mix?

• 6:42Speaker 01

  I've always been a science nerd. I've always been very into science, physics, all of that, even as a child. So as a child, I was a member of the astronomy book club and all kinds of things like that. So I was always interested in that. And then in sixth grade, we did a unit called Matter, Matter Everywhere, that was about atoms and what they're made of, protons, neutrons, electrons. And I was hooked. So even from a young age, I looked at things in this way. Over time, I trained with my late medicine teacher. I steeped myself in a lot of different traditions while I was in college. And then as I got

• 7:23Speaker 01

  the opportunity to be a writer, I got to combine that with scientific knowledge. Like as later, when we talk about auras, we'll get to talk about the actual science of auras. But it's been an interest almost lifelong of mine.

• 7:39John R. Miles?

  Yeah. And what led you to writing this book now? I mean, as the introduction just covered, I mean, you've studied and written about mindfulness, you've talked about crystals, you've talked about chakras. Why auras now?

• 7:57Speaker 01

  So Aura Alchemy is my 18th book. And it was a study in the work that I do as a medical intuitive, where I do combine the science of particle physics, quantum mechanics with spirituality, clairvoyance, the systems of the body. So the aura is an extension of the body's energy system. So to write a book about that is kind of a gateway into how do we clean it, clear it, fill it with high vibrational energy? What do all these colors mean that people discuss? It was a really great entry point to get into the medical intuitive energetic side of things.

• 8:39John R. Miles?

  And you start out the book by telling a story about your brother.

• 8:44Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 8:44John R. Miles?

  And you talk about natural sparkles.

• 8:48Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 8:48John R. Miles?

  I was hoping, because I think that sets up the whole book, you could talk about that experience.

• 8:53Speaker 01

  I love it. And it'll be fun to tell my brother I got to talk about it too. So when we were little, we had this area next to our house that we called the stream. And my brother was younger. So for those of you who have younger siblings, in the early years, if you're the older sibling, you maybe get to direct the little brother. As they get older, they can pick you up, and it's a different story. But when we were kids, we would make this thing called the stream. And we happened to just have a yard that was sloping in a pretty suburban area. And it was dirt because my dad hadn't filled the grass in for a long time, it was kind of on the side. This was back before the days of water conservation.

• 9:38Speaker 01

  It was up north, so it wasn't an issue. And we would turn on the hose, except there was just a faucet, and water would come out. And so we would manicure it into all these different tributaries and streams. We put the G.I. Joes and the Star Wars figures there. And through all of that time, it was a multi-year process. Our cousins did that with us. Our neighborhood friends were... Everybody came over and made the stream, like fall.

• 10:09Speaker 01

  Summer, spring, always. The winter, the spring, the stream was closed down. But during all of that time, I was looking at what I thought of as nature sparkles. And so I would see, you know, sparkles and, and they would be moving, they would be moving with the stream, they would be around the stream, and then as it got closer to dusk, I would see more. And then I would even see, um, what now we would call the aura or electromagnetic field of the tree line as we got closer to dusk, which is a great time to see all of that. Uh, usually I would know to start looking for my friends, the trees, uh,

• 10:49Speaker 01

  I would just think it was their glow, close to the time when my mom would tell us to come in for dinner. So it was kind of an early introduction and for a long time, I just assumed everybody saw that. And I actually think a lot of people do. I've now, over the years, shown many friends, family members, you know, anybody I'm out in nature with, especially when you're hiking and you're in a less urban area, you can often see those sparkles if you kind of know how to unfocus your eyes and look for them. So it was something that I kind of thought everybody saw. It took me a while to realize they didn't. Uh, but that was again, another point that was illustrative of

• 11:33Speaker 01

  me wondering, what were things made of? What were these? So that's what was very exciting when I started to learn about science. And, and then of course, as I was an adult, you know, really a voracious reader, being able to sort of create ideas around what these things might be. And then what a privilege, as John knows, when we get to write books and share our ideas.

• 11:59John R. Miles?

  No, it's awesome and uh-

• 12:00Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 12:01John R. Miles?

  Well, I'm not sure, for those who haven't listened to the podcast, I have a lot of different guests on and I've been fortunate to have a number of astronauts. I think I'm up to eight or nine now and I have two or three astronauts who are very close friends of mine, including a Naval Academy classmate of mine and another who was my physics instructor.

• 12:24Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 12:25John R. Miles?

  But you have an astronaut story, I understand.

• 12:28Speaker 01

  I do.

• 12:29John R. Miles?

  So, you took this concept of sparkles to outer space.

• 12:34Speaker 01

  I did.

• 12:35John R. Miles?

  And not just with any astronaut, but with John Glenn. I understand when you were like fifth or sixth grade, you actually reached out to him because you had heard he had seen sparkles in space?

• 12:47Speaker 01

  I saw the movie The Right Stuff. If any of you have seen it, it's a great movie. And they showed, when he was in Friendship Seven, you know, he was in space, they depicted his account of all of these sparkles around the capsule. He was, you know, in the early space program. For those who, you know, didn't see the movie or read, there's a book too. I think I read the book as well. So, I think it was, yeah, fifth or sixth grade and I was like, wait a minute. Sparkles in outer space, because I see these sparkles in the stream. What are these? And plus, I was starting to learn about, you know, matter and energy

• 13:28Speaker 01

  and thinking about what I used to anyways think of as the tiny universe. So, I wrote a letter to John Glenn. So, fifth, sixth grader, writing a handwritten letter, which I had, I grew up with many learning disabilities, so my writing was not easy to read. So, I really had to sit down and take the time to make the letter legible, first of all. Wrote the letter to John Glenn saying, "I'm really wondering, what do you think the sparkles around Friendship Seven were made of?" And it was so exciting, you know, for somebody especially who was into science. And I wanted to be an astronaut, astronaut too at the time.

• 14:09Speaker 01

  Um, I got this huge manila envelope back with signed pictures, all these like different things about the space program, a letter I'm sure from his staff that appeared to be signed by him. It was like my prized possession for years. It was such a fun thing to again, keep igniting that excitement for science, which I did actually go to school for education. I was a teacher as well for years. And I really felt that was so important to keep the, the joy and the spirit and the excitement alive in all of these topics. Science was an easy one for me, obviously.

• 14:47John R. Miles?

  So I, I want to talk about auras. So this is something that honestly, I didn't necessarily believe too much in when, when I was younger. I thought it was a bunch of foo-foo stuff. And when I was in the military, I unfortunately was hit from behind by a rocket propelled grenade, which caused me to have a traumatic brain injury. And I was in a coma for a couple of weeks and coming out of that, I had weird senses

• 15:30John R. Miles?

  that I had never experienced before suddenly come alive. And it was very much freaking me out because I started to see energy fields and colors and things like that and had no idea what I was experiencing. And I was in my mid twenties when this happened. And I eventually started to do some research on it and found out that what I was seeing was, was auras. But it was weird and you and I talked about this the last time because sometimes I can see them and sometimes I'm unable to see them. And, and, and when I'm kind of in the zone of seeing them, and I think it's when I'm most in tune with myself, they're really vivid and.

• 16:14John R. Miles?

  For part of my professional career, it was when, when I did have the capability, it was a blessing because I was able to, to very much read people

• 16:24Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 16:24John R. Miles?

  And their emotional state when I was in meetings. But one of the things you talk about is that auras are dynamic.

• 16:31Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 16:32John R. Miles?

  And so that experience I had of them kind of coming and going, sometimes being able to see, because I don't think it's just my energy, it's the other person's energy as well.

• 16:42Speaker 01

  Absolutely.

• 16:43John R. Miles?

  Can you talk about that a little bit, the science behind it?

• 16:45Speaker 01

  Yeah, I mean, so the way I define an aura is a biologically generated electromagnetic field. It's made of subatomic particles known as photons, which comprise light, electricity, and electromagnetic force. So, we're always emanating this. Even now, I'm gesturing, you know, I'm Mediterranean, so I'm gesturing all over the place. I'm speaking. All of this is happening due to the movement of electricity in the body, these photons. And they do have their own electromagnetic field. They're made of force. So in aura alchemy, you get a, hopefully, really fun science lesson in the beginning.

• 17:27Speaker 01

  But the reason for that is so you understand that photons are force and charge. They don't have any mass, but they are always there. So, when we are talking, John and I are talking, we're interacting with you guys, we're all exchanging, emanating these photons. The photons that are moving through our brains are actually what are triggering and potentially even comprise our thought process. So, when we're interacting, we're moving in a different way. But either way, photons never stop moving. Electromagnetic force and charge never stops moving.

• 18:08Speaker 01

  So our auras are so mutable and changeable because we're sitting here, but at the same time, I could be thinking, I'm not, in this case, I'm very comfortable. But I could be thinking, wow, this light is really bright. It's cold. I'm feeling this, I'm feeling that. So there's This other charge around somebody. So say in a meeting, what a gift, right? To be able to sense in a meeting like that. And definitely story of my life too. Sometimes it's too much. And that's when we have to turn the volume down. But in a meeting, you know, it may give you insight into the state of the other person. And say you're negotiating or something. So yeah, they're always moving, changing.

• 18:52Speaker 01

  And I'd love to hear, John, is that still common for you all the, you know, years after your TBI to see that?

• 18:59John R. Miles?

  Like I said, it kind of comes and goes. I hope you've been enjoying today's conversation with Amy Lee McCree. We'll be right back after a quick word from our sponsors. Thank you for supporting the brands that help make the show possible.

• 19:15John R. Miles?

  You're listening to Passion Struck on the Passion Struck Network. Now, back to my conversation with Amy Lee McCree. Before I was at Dell, I was at Lowe's Home Improvement. And I remember I had been working on this huge project. And the way we would get these projects approved is ultimately, we would have to brief the CEO and his staff. And the CEO and the CFO would ultimately make the decision. And so I came into this meeting so eager to have this. And then I could just see that the CEO was inflamed in just bright red.

• 19:59Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 20:00John R. Miles?

  And for me, alarm bells started coming up that

• 20:04Speaker 01

  Right.

• 20:05John R. Miles?

  That for me to give the presentation in that moment.

• 20:09Speaker 01

  It wasn't gonna land.

• 20:10John R. Miles?

  It wasn't gonna land at all. And so it was discouraging because I knew I was gonna have to punt. But it helped me realize that if I went through, it would have ended up in not the result that I wanted.

• 20:24Speaker 01

  Right. So did you not pitch? What did you do?

• 20:29John R. Miles?

  Well, I still had to pitch, but I pitched it differently. I mean, because my boss was expecting me to pitch.

• 20:34Speaker 01

  Sure.

• 20:35John R. Miles?

  So...

• 20:35Speaker 01

  You couldn't be like, "Hey, look at his aura."

• 20:37John R. Miles?

  So, yeah. So I pitched it more, instead of trying to get approval, as instead using it as an opportunity to educate him more about what we were trying to do and lay the groundwork for when we came back.

• 20:51Speaker 01

  Perfect.

• 20:51John R. Miles?

  We would have a better chance of getting it approved. Because it was, it was not a tiny project. This, this was like a seventy-five, eighty-million-dollar initiative.

• 21:02Speaker 01

  Yes. So the perfect case of reading the room.

• 21:07John R. Miles?

  Yes, and, and for those who shop at, at Lowe's, what I was pitching him is what Lowe's now calls My Lowe's.

• 21:16Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 21:17John R. Miles?

  The whole loyalty management program. And at the time, the reason this was so controversial is Lowe's during that era had said, "We will never have a loyalty program." And so, bringing a loyalty program to them, under those circumstances, was rough as it, as it was. But it, it turned out, we got it launched in a different way from a loyalty program. This, the person who's the CEO now has turned it into a loyalty program.

• 21:50Speaker 01

  Uh-huh. But a great opportunity to read the room since the energy of the person or people you're interacting with, absolutely.

• 22:01John R. Miles?

  Do you want to know how we ended up selling it?

• 22:02Speaker 01

  How?

• 22:03John R. Miles?

  So at that, at that time, for any fans of NASCAR, Jimmy Johnson was the driver for Lowe's. And we got more information on our customers by Jimmy Johnson's fan club, because there, there were like fifteen, twenty million people in it, and we had access to all that information. So we sold this as an extension of the Jimmy Johnson Fan Club. That My Lowe's was a natural extension, and it would feed the bigger NASCAR beast.

• 22:37Speaker 01

  Perfect. Get around the no loyalty program idea, which I'm sure later, everyone said, "Wow, that's a great idea to have a loyalty program."

• 22:47John R. Miles?

  It was. They just didn't want it to be, to be like going into a grocery store.

• 22:52Speaker 01

  Salesy.

• 22:53John R. Miles?

  Yes, they wanted it to be more customer-centric.

• 22:57Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 22:58John R. Miles?

  But interesting story.

• 22:59Speaker 01

  What a fun story, where an aura was able to help you ultimately close a business deal.

• 23:08John R. Miles?

  So I want to get back to science just one second. You say that matter and energy kind of coexist or intertwine?

• 23:18Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 23:18John R. Miles?

  How does that matter, since we're using the word matter, to talking about auras?

• 23:25Speaker 01

  Great question. So we'll do a quick but really fun science lesson. So in the land of existence, we have matter, energy, force, and charge. Matter and energy are called, the particles that comprise matter and energy are called fermions. So that means they have mass. So that's, you've heard of protons, neutrons, electrons. Protons and neutrons are also made up of smaller elementary particles, which means the absolute smallest particles, called quarks. But so those quarks, those electrons, the protons and neutrons, all that matter and energy, those are fermions. They all have some mass, even if it's a little bit.

• 24:10Speaker 01

  You may have also heard of a particle called the neutrino. That is also a fermion, which means it has a little bit of mass. Now on the other side of things, we have bosons. Bosons have no mass. All they are is force or charge. So photons, which are light, are under that category of bosons. Not photons, bosons. So are a bunch of other particles called gluons, something called the Higgs boson, which is the result of something called the Higgs field, which was postulated to have come into existence seconds after the Big Bang, pervades everything and actually helps through something called the Pauli principle,

• 24:53Speaker 01

  give matter and energy its mass and its heftiness. But those are even bosons. So, quick, fun, hopefully not too confusing, science lesson. But to go back to auras, our body is made from the Mass perspective of matter and energy. So, protons, neutrons, electrons. But then these photons, this light and electricity is running through our body. It's our thoughts. It's causing all of our functions, the involuntary functions like breathing, the way that our heart is pumping blood. That is an electrical charge pumping the heart muscle. Everything is the result of the movement of photons in the body.

• 25:37Speaker 01

  So, because photons are electromagnetic force, they're an electromagnetic field, they emanate out and around our body. A really great example to describe that is if we were to take like the light that's coming through a lamp or the lights above us. If it were to move, that electrical energy and electricity would move through an uninsulated copper wire. It's comprised of electrons, which as we know have a little bit of mass, and photons, which are just force and charge. So if we were to use a copper wire to power that light and have it not have any insulation around it, the photons, which are an electromagnetic force,

• 26:20Speaker 01

  would travel on the outside of the copper wire. So, that's why they're prone to emanating. They're prone to creating a field because they actually are a field. So, we're just a walking charge. We are a field of energy woven through, moving through the matter and the actual energy in our body. Body, we're actually force and charge as far as the aura goes. So hopefully that was a decent explanation. When I try to explain science, I like to keep it easy to understand, but there's a lot of particles involved.

• 26:57John R. Miles?

  So, I understand that you have some cleansing techniques.

• 27:02Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 27:02John R. Miles?

  Is there a cleansing technique that we could have the audience try?

• 27:06Speaker 01

  Sure, we can do lots of cleansing techniques. So, we can actually do a cleansing technique and then we could like fill up the empty space too with whatever frequency we want, if we want to try that. There's, we'll see if these are in the book. You'll have to check because there's a lot of, there's, gosh, I think there's like 20 or 30 techniques in the book. I'm gonna have you use one that... We'll actually get to benefit the space here too. So, one of the things we do talk about in our alchemy is, do buildings, spaces, hills, oceans have auras? Do, are there, is there energy around areas, geographic areas? And a lot of times, there is.

• 27:49Speaker 01

  So, we'll also get to maybe benefit the space we're in just by filling it with good energy after. So, should we, should we do this?

• 27:58John R. Miles?

  Yeah.

• 27:59Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 28:00John R. Miles?

  I'm up for it, if the audience is.

• 28:01Speaker 01

  Yeah, why don't we do this interactively? So, we're going to use an invocation first to make sure everything that happens is for the highest good. So, I'll say it aloud, and you could repeat it, call and response, or if you'd like to repeat it in your head, you can, but we may as well say it aloud. So, we'll go ahead and do that, and then I'll just take you through the process. So, I ask that all that transpires

• 28:28John R. Miles?

  That all that transpires.

• 28:29Speaker 01

  In the entirety

• 28:31John R. Miles?

  In the entirety.

• 28:32Speaker 01

  Of this aura cleansing

• 28:34John R. Miles?

  Of this aura cleansing.

• 28:35Speaker 01

  Be for the very highest good

• 28:37John R. Miles?

  Be for the highest good.

• 28:39Speaker 01

  Of all life

• 28:41John R. Miles?

  Of all life.

• 28:42Speaker 01

  And in accordance

• 28:43John R. Miles?

  And in accordance.

• 28:44Speaker 01

  With the universal

• 28:46John R. Miles?

  Universal.

• 28:46Speaker 01

  Natural law.

• 28:48John R. Miles?

  Natural law.

• 28:49Speaker 01

  Helping all and harming none.

• 28:51John R. Miles?

  Helping all and harming none.

• 28:53Speaker 01

  I ask

• 28:54John R. Miles?

  I ask.

• 28:54Speaker 01

  That I be protected fully during this process?

• 28:57John R. Miles?

  That I be protected fully during this process.

• 29:00Speaker 01

  And I welcome the presence

• 29:02John R. Miles?

  And welcome the presence.

• 29:04Speaker 01

  Of my highest vibrational

• 29:06John R. Miles?

  Of my highest vibrational

• 29:08Speaker 01

  Guides.

• 29:08John R. Miles?

  Guides.

• 29:09Speaker 01

  Okay, for now, we have a nice intention. So, if you'd like to close your eyes, I can take you through this aura cleansing process. So, picture beneath this room, about three feet, a sheet of white light. And you can picture it extending out around the edges of the room up to 10 feet. It's a huge sheet of beautiful white light. Picture it there, and it's sort of just gently floating and undulating on a cosmic breeze.

• 29:41Speaker 01

  This sheet of white light will now begin to raise up. And you can just watch it raise up through the aura area, the charge underneath you, which is your connection to the earth. Watch it raise up through where your feet are, and then up through your legs, through your knees. Watch this sheet of white light moving up through your torso, up through your upper torso, up through your head. And then watch it go up above you, moving up through the space above you, all the way up, up, up, up, up, till it goes up above the ceiling of this room.

• 30:24Speaker 01

  And then we'll just watch that bundle into a little ball and go into the sun. We can just watch it go straight into the sun and be transmuted back into pure white light. And so now bring your awareness back into your body and notice how that feels. And if you would like to just popcorn style, say a word about how that feels, we'd love to hear that.

• 30:57Speaker 02

  It's light.

• 30:58Speaker 01

  Light, light and bright?

• 31:02Speaker 02

  Free.

• 31:03Speaker 01

  Free?

• 31:05Speaker 01

  Clean?

• 31:06Speaker 02

  Clear.

• 31:07Speaker 01

  Clear?

• 31:11Speaker 01

  Peaceful and calm?

• 31:13Speaker 02

  Fulfilled.

• 31:14Speaker 01

  Fulfilled?

• 31:16Speaker 02

  Like an exhale.

• 31:17Speaker 01

  Like an exhale.

• 31:20Speaker 01

  Anything else? How did that feel, John?

• 31:23John R. Miles?

  Kind of, uh, um, I took a weight off.

• 31:27Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 31:28John R. Miles?

  Lighter.

• 31:29Speaker 01

  Lighter. It's a real easy way to just... Clear things out. And then we'll refill now. So a great principle after we clear energy is we may as well fill it with high vibrational energy. And my work as a medical intuitive and just a human, I think of joy as the highest vibration in the known universe. And it's really helpful in medical intuitive work for raising vibration. So again, you can close your eyes and just visualize up above your head about five, six feet, your own individual beautifully gleaming golden faucet. And this is a joy faucet.

• 32:09Speaker 01

  And then see yourself turn the faucet on and watch pure white light, maybe it has golden sparkles in it, cascading down through your body, through the top of your head, all around you, in a really wonderful stream. Watch it move through your body, feel it move down through your body and out into the earth, out your feet. So you're just being rinsed out, filled up with pure joy. And you can say the word joy aloud after me to heighten that energy. Joy.

• 32:41John R. Miles?

  Joy.

• 32:42Speaker 01

  Joy.

• 32:43John R. Miles?

  Joy.

• 32:44Speaker 01

  Joy.

• 32:45John R. Miles?

  Joy.

• 32:46Speaker 01

  Joy.

• 32:47John R. Miles?

  Joy.

• 32:47Speaker 01

  Joy.

• 32:48John R. Miles?

  Joy.

• 32:49Speaker 01

  Good. So, how did that feel? You can tell us popcorn style if you'd like.

• 32:56Speaker 02

  Warm, cleansing.

• 32:58Speaker 01

  Cleansing, warm?

• 33:00Speaker 02

  Relaxing.

• 33:01Speaker 01

  Relaxing?

• 33:04Speaker 01

  Say that one again?

• 33:04Speaker 02

  Fulfilling.

• 33:05Speaker 01

  Fulfilling?

• 33:09Speaker 01

  How did that feel for you, John?

• 33:12John R. Miles?

  Joyful.

• 33:13Speaker 01

  Joyful, yeah. A great way to uplift the energy of your room is just to repeat the word joy over and over together. And I always feel it like it's kind of coming up through the room. Like it is like, you know, raising vibration, but it sort of feels like an upward energy typically. So, there's a little aura cleansing filling up and hopefully we're all feeling very joyful.

• 33:38John R. Miles?

  So I'm a good football fan.

• 33:41Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 33:41John R. Miles?

  We got a big game here in town going on right now.

• 33:44Speaker 01

  Oh, do we?

• 33:45John R. Miles?

  Jets and Bucks.

• 33:46Speaker 01

  Aha.

• 33:47John R. Miles?

  But I'm an Eagles fan and like many people who watch the Eagles, they saw on the sidelines A.J. Brown, the wide receiver, reading a book called Inner Excellence by this author called Jim Murphy.

• 33:59Speaker 01

  Ah.

• 33:59John R. Miles?

  And I happened to interview Jim last week and we were talking a lot about perspective, which is something that I study a lot.

• 34:09Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 34:09John R. Miles?

  But as I was reading the book, you also go into perspective and how energy can kind of turn it on or turn it off.

• 34:18Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 34:18John R. Miles?

  And I thought that was really interesting and I was hoping you could talk a little bit more about that.

• 34:23Speaker 01

  Sure. Well, you know, perspective in so many ways. So some of us may be what sometimes we call empaths, highly sensitive people, things like that. So from that perspective, say we go into, I, for example, go into a space, I could feel bombarded. But I also can take 100% responsibility for my energy, seal it up, fill it with joy, and go in and feel really enlivened. Now, on the other hand, some people have like a personality or a disposition where being in crowds really makes them thrive. And so in those cases, their perspective is, "This is awesome and it's filling me up."

• 35:08Speaker 01

  So a lot of it is belief, right? It's how we're thinking. And to go back to this idea of auras and electromagnetic fields, it's the way that the photons, which are light and electricity, are moving through our brains and creating our thoughts. And so we're charging our thoughts with whatever our emotions are, whatever our feelings are, whatever our perceptions are and our perspective. And then that's shaping our experience of reality.

• 35:39John R. Miles?

  Well, thank you for that. And one of my favorite stories of perspective came from an astronaut, actually.

• 35:50Speaker 01

  Exciting.

• 35:51John R. Miles?

  Prior to him being an astronaut, he was a Navy SEAL and he was at BUDS. And he was talking about Hell Week. And he was just saying that when you're in something like that, there is so much pressure on you that it's so easy to fall into the perspective of, "I'm never going to be able to make this."

• 36:14Speaker 01

  Sure.

• 36:15John R. Miles?

  And he told me this story that there was, the commanding officer asked them to clean his office prior to Hell Week. And so him and his squad go into it, and on the desk, right in front of them, was the entire manual for what was going to happen for Hell Week.

• 36:37Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 36:38John R. Miles?

  And his first thought was, "We should take it. We should understand it."

• 36:45Speaker 01

  Should we look at this?

• 36:46John R. Miles?

  Everything. But then his perspective shifted, and he said, "You know, we're probably being set up here in one way or another." And so he said, "We should not touch it. I don't want to have anything to do with it." But two of his people in his squad ended up taking the book, spending the whole night studying it, copying it. And does anyone have a guess what happened the next morning? It was a completely different day, right? Well, those two who looked at the book, their perspective shifted so much because they saw what was going to transpire over the next five days, that they completely psyched

• 37:26John R. Miles?

  themselves out and rang the bell, which means they quit before they even started Hell Week. And Chris just told me that it was this great example of...

• 37:40John R. Miles?

  You know, sometimes knowing

• 37:43Speaker 01

  What's coming?

• 37:44John R. Miles?

  is a worse perspective than being able to handle it moment by moment and being able to deal with the adversity that comes.

• 37:53Speaker 01

  Absolutely.

• 37:54John R. Miles?

  One angle at a time. Or one... And my reason for asking all this is, part of the book is really going into mastering success. Which, to me, when you're faced with a situation like that, like any trying time, it's how do you get yourself in the mental state to realize that trying times are going to end, and no matter how much adversity you might find yourself in,

• 38:22John R. Miles?

  it's a finite

• 38:23Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 38:24John R. Miles?

  stage. And so for me, this intuitive capability has always allowed me somehow to realize that no matter how bad the moment I'm in, there's another side of it that I'm gonna get through.

• 38:39Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 38:40John R. Miles?

  How... I was hoping you could might be able to expand on that, using the science.

• 38:45Speaker 01

  Absolutely. You know, it's belief and it's thought, and I would also say too with your story, I would imagine for those two people that did look at the manual, they also may have additional perception around, should we have done that? Were we in integrity with ourselves? With our, you know, commanding officer, with the job we were supposed to do? So imagine also how that's affecting their thoughts, another way of psyching themselves out. So in terms of adversity, it's a great question, and when we're thinking about success, if we begin to understand that through our thoughts, through shaping that movement of photons in our brain and throughout our body,

• 39:31Speaker 01

  we can create a state, whether it's an emotional state, a mental state, an energetic state. If we're going into something, or we're experiencing adversity...

• 39:43Speaker 01

  And of course, we're not in, let's say, like, immediate danger, or something like that, because then, of course, we have to deal with the situation. But if we're working through something, or we're trying to have a certain outcome, we have the power to take charge of our thoughts, and even maybe use them to shape our feelings and our emotions, which then shapes our energy, it shapes the way that we interact with the world. You know, we, people talk about the law of attraction, which is absolutely fantastic, and I mean, totally something that I work with in my life. But it's also about our thinking, our feeling, the state we're creating within us, and then the way that we're interacting with the external world as human projectors.

• 40:28Speaker 01

  So our thoughts, our feelings, the energetic movement in our body, all of that is going out through this lens of our aura, and then projecting out into our external world. So if we've cleaned the lens, we've infused the lens with joy, then we're amplifying. And then if we're, for example, looking for a successful result, something we want to create, we could even infuse our thoughts, our feelings, internal, then our auric area, and then let that lens magnify whatever we want. Now, if we're dealing with an obstacle too, we could say, okay, I'm gonna take a hundred percent responsibility for myself, because I can,

• 41:09Speaker 01

  and how will I shape my thoughts, my feelings, my external reality, from the inside out? And that affects our choices, it affects everything we do. So I think it's also empowering to see and sense and feel that, A, we have these fields, and B, we have some ability to affect them, and then that can extend out into our world.

• 41:40John R. Miles?

  So if...

• 41:43John R. Miles?

  One of the audience members here has never experienced an aura, but is wondering if they have the ability.

• 41:50Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 41:52John R. Miles?

  What are some of the initial signs?

• 41:54Speaker 01

  It's a great question. So, like I mentioned, dawn and dusk are great times to see that. A really easy way to do that is, especially at dawn and dusk, to even hold your hand up and so have it where, you know, you have a dusky sky and not a lot of artificial light. And then if you do hold it up, sometimes that's a time when you can sort of unfocus your eyes. And especially to see around the fingers, around the hand, it's an easy way to see. It's a way to start that process. And it's not just about seeing auras, it's about sensing auras. Maybe some people are clear audience and they hear auras.

• 42:34Speaker 01

  I tend to have a psychic smell sense. I will smell things before they happen to. All the senses can be involved, the knowing, even a taste might come to you. Those of us who have synesthesia, which, I think, John, do you have elements of synesthesia at times from your TBI?

• 42:54John R. Miles?

  At times.

• 42:55Speaker 01

  It sounds like, maybe.

• 42:56John R. Miles?

  Maybe you should explain to them.

• 42:57Speaker 01

  Yeah, so synesthesia, you know, there's lots of different explanations, but I just think of it as like, sometimes my senses mix. So, you know, some people might experience synesthesia, like, they look at a, for me, like, I look at a number, but then I get like, different metallic tastes and maybe feelings or different things like that. For me, it's especially present with plants. So, that's why it's fun for me to use herbal medicine and things like that, because I'll get a lot of input from plants. That's like the medical intuitive side of it. But in terms of seeing, sensing, it doesn't have to just be visual.

• 43:42Speaker 01

  It can be a color comes to mind. Something comes to mind that reminds you of a feeling, a scent, a flower, if you're a botanical person. But you can start by looking at the hand in dusk. You can start by noticing, like I mentioned, as a child, the aura around plants, especially big trees at dusk are easy to see. And it's also opening up to that sense. It's also taking like a snapshot. And a crowd passively is a great place to do that, where maybe you're like sitting in the bookstore later and you're just having a tea. And you could just like look at a crowd of people, close your eyes, relax.

• 44:26Speaker 01

  Gently open your eyes, but with an unfocused stare. That's a time where a lot of times it might not be colors. Sometimes it's more like movement of energy or like heat off pavement. When you see that thermal energy moving, that's a way that sometimes an aura will show you it's moving, even though it looks a little bit clear. That's a common way I think people perceive auras. Because it can be a little bit distracting to walk into. If you weren't prepared for that, say you walked into your meeting and everybody's auras are going nuts. It can be kind of a lot to manage that sensory input.

• 45:08Speaker 01

  So it can be nice to ease into it and use these techniques. And then the sense begins to grow, the more that we notice it and trust it.

• 45:20John R. Miles?

  So I understand you have something coming up in October.

• 45:24Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 45:25John R. Miles?

  That has to do with atomics.

• 45:26Speaker 01

  Yes. So I teach the Atomic Healing Method. I have another Hay House product too, called the Atomic Element Healing Oracle. So in that, every card is an element of the periodic table and has a healing property and a spirit guide associated. And then I also teach the Atomic Healing Method Medical Intuitive Certification, which is a nine-month deep dive into learning how to do what I do. So I used to only teach this to private apprentices. Now this is the third year where I'm certifying people in this method that I've used for 25 years as a medical intuitive. It's a lot of subatomic particles. It's traditional Chinese medicine woven through that.

• 46:11Speaker 01

  Lots of shamanic work. It's just like the biggest joy of my life to get to teach that to my students.

• 46:19John R. Miles?

  And what's the outcome?

• 46:20Speaker 01

  The outcome is you're certified in the Atomic Healing Method, so you can use that from a career standpoint. And you do a lot of medical intuitive work. You go through beginning, intermediate, advanced, expert level work. In this training, you trade a lot with your partners. And then when you graduate, you can use that on yourself, your family, your friends, or some people use that for a career change as well. I have lots of wonderful practitioners. Some of them are brand, you know, came in brand new and now they're doing these sessions like I would do. And then some of them are adding it to things like they're holistic veterinarians,

• 47:01Speaker 01

  cranial sacral therapists, massage therapists, distance, you know, Reiki healers. So it's another layer to learn from me on the medical intuitive side.

• 47:11John R. Miles?

  Awesome. Well, I thought I would open up questions to the audience in case any of you had any. And I'm gonna just repeat it so we can get it on the podcast if you have one. So if anyone has one, if you want to raise your hand.

• 47:29John R. Miles?

  Eric, do you have a question?

• 47:32Speaker 01

  Can I ask a question?

• 47:33John R. Miles?

  Sure.

• 47:34Speaker 01

  John, would you tell us what inspired you to write Passion Struck?

• 47:38John R. Miles?

  Well, you wanna hear?

• 47:39Speaker 01

  I wanna hear the origin story of Passion Struck, the book, and the podcast.

• 47:45John R. Miles?

  Well, I can tell you, I never in a million years thought I was gonna be doing any of this. I...

• 47:53John R. Miles?

  I guess I found myself like a lot of people do in life where you're you've been doing something for a while, but you feel like the universe is calling you to do something different.

• 48:06Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 48:06John R. Miles?

  And I had been given this vision that I was supposed to help a group of people. The words I were given was the lonely, the helpless, the bored, the broken. And I I had no idea who they were. And so I was really struggling with how do you identify who that group of people

• 48:25Speaker 01

  Right.

• 48:26John R. Miles?

  are. And eventually I realized I was one of those people. And so once I figured this out and this all ties to my work around the science of mattering, I realized that I had become really invisible in my own life. And when I say invisible, my priorities were way out of whack. And so I started to really do this inner work where I started to to try to analyze the people that have it or seem to have it all together.

• 49:06Speaker 01

  Right.

• 49:07John R. Miles?

  And they are able to change course or to live a, what I now call a passion-struck life.

• 49:13Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 49:14John R. Miles?

  How are they doing it? And so I started to study anyone I could get my hands on. It started with, you know, because I came from the business space, looking at business executives. But then I started looking at performers and athletes and then eventually doctors, nurses, just everyday people. And I came up with this set of principles that I started to see come up and up again. And so I went through a period of two years of trying these things out on myself.

• 49:50Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 49:51John R. Miles?

  And that became the basis of what's in the book are the 12 principles. And so so all that research happened before I started the podcast. And so I was thinking of writing this book. And you know what it's like to try to find an agent. So I started to reach out to agents and All of them said, "Great concept, but you don't have a platform."

• 50:14Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 50:15John R. Miles?

  And so, how do you know that all this stuff that you're talking about is even gonna work? And so, I decided to start the podcast as a way to test the ideas.

• 50:26Speaker 01

  Yes, and thusly create a platform too, because for anyone who's aspiring to write a book, that's always like the big thing.

• 50:36John R. Miles?

  Yes, well, I think half the time, they care more about your platform than they do the quality of your writing.

• 50:42Speaker 01

  I think so. But in your case, the writing's great, and then the podcast has just reached so many listeners, and because we're all asking those questions about meaning. You know, it's a universal thing, I think.

• 50:56John R. Miles?

  Well, it kind of started, I was looking at more like peak performance, and then I did a shift after the first year of the podcast, more to, how do I look at human flourishing in every single possible way that I can? From the aspect of people's personal stories, from talking to health practitioners, to neuroscientists, to behavioral scientists. So I could cover every angle that I possibly can. So if you're not familiar with the podcast, we attack it from pretty much every lens you can think of. I've now gone to doing more of a series-based approach, almost like you would see going

• 51:36John R. Miles?

  to a contemporary type of church where they'll cover a series. So the series that we're in right now is kind of deconstructing humanity, and so I've been looking at different aspects of the human experience through my solo episodes and through the people I bring on. So next week, for instance, I have two, we're talking about two people's personal stories. I have this gentleman, Joel Beasley, who's coming on, who's actually from Sarasota, moved to...

• 52:09John R. Miles?

  Tennessee, but he's, he's gonna talk about this major shift in his life that he is pursuing becoming a world-class comedian in improv.

• 52:20Speaker 01

  Fun.

• 52:21John R. Miles?

  So his goal is, how do I sell out, how do I sell out Madison Square Garden someday? So he's kind of in the first year of this journey, but he's already selling out venues. So we kind of go through his and then I'm also talking to this woman, Sandy Yaza Vokic, and she is going to talk about overcoming cancer and some other things and how she was able to beat the odds, so.

• 52:51Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 52:52John R. Miles?

  So just a couple of examples. Thank you for asking.

• 52:55Speaker 01

  I love the podcast. I love listening to it. I'm excited to listen to both of those too. And in the land of all this wonderful research you've done, if you were gonna share with all of us a couple of principles around how to live this passion-struck life, what would you say? I'm just turning the questions on you.

• 53:19John R. Miles?

  So it's interesting, since I just brought up that book, Interexcellence, has anyone here read it?

• 53:25Speaker 02

  I heard that the story that you told about-

• 53:28John R. Miles?

  A.J. Brown, yes.

• 53:31John R. Miles?

  So, so almost the whole thing he talks about in the book, like his big thing is fear, is how do you confront fear? And it's, it's one of the core principles in my book as well. But he, he ties fear to self-centeredness. And, and I think that there's an aspect of it, but, but in his, the way he lays it out is it kind of starts with our inner world, and then it goes to mindset, and then it goes to your relationships. So your inner world is your beliefs, your values, your mindset you can think of as, as the pathway to- To how you architect your life and then your relationships are how you connect with others.

• 54:14Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 54:15John R. Miles?

  I thought he had a missing, which I talk about him, I thought he had a missing element and that is our behaviors because I thought you can have all the mindset and inner beliefs that you have, but if you're not intentional, which is what my book is about, about how you deploy them, it kind of goes.

• 54:32Speaker 01

  Absolutely.

• 54:32John R. Miles?

  I had the same discussion with Angela Duckworth, like you can have all the grit in the world, but if you're not intentional about how you're deploying it, you can be pointing it at the wrong thing.

• 54:41Speaker 01

  Absolutely.

• 54:42John R. Miles?

  So in the behavior science world, they don't call it intention, they call it self-control. But it's really kind of the same thing.

• 54:49Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 54:50John R. Miles?

  Being intentional is, I mean, you can say an intention, but in order to make that intention come to life, it really does take self-control.

• 54:58Speaker 01

  Absolutely.

• 55:00John R. Miles?

  So I would say that and then another thing he and I talked about that I like to talk about as well is your environment. So your environment plays a huge role in your outcomes. And so in the book, I talk about this whole idea of the mosquito auditor and I really talk about it in the lens of the people who infiltrate your life and I call them, I came up with this concept mosquito auditor because I was trying to think of, how do you talk about those things in your life that really deter you from going to where you want to take it and I came up and to me a mosquito is like that because they're so, they're so small, you don't really feel a mosquito before it bites you.

• 55:46John R. Miles?

  And so I came up with the invisible suffocator, the blood sucker and the pain in the ass are the three mosquitoes I talked about. But those three mosquitoes are also the environments that we put ourselves in because those environments can suck the blood out of us.

• 56:03Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 56:03John R. Miles?

  They can look, make us look at the world like the invisible suffocator does from a half, half, you know, glass half full.

• 56:11Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 56:11John R. Miles?

  Or they can become the pain in the asses that are the weights that hold us from what we're achieving.

• 56:16Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 56:17John R. Miles?

  And he was really talking about this in the lens of Jim's a professional, former, he played for the Phillies organization, he was talking about it. In terms of a lot of professional athletes,

• 56:30John R. Miles?

  they let the environment that they're in dictate their outcomes instead of them controlling it. So I would say that that environmental aspect plays a huge role in

• 56:39Speaker 01

  Absolutely.

• 56:40John R. Miles?

  in shaping the life you want to achieve.

• 56:42Speaker 01

  And the intentional living and the intentional behavior, I think sometimes can overcome an environment that you're finding yourself in as well.

• 56:52John R. Miles?

  Absolutely.

• 56:53Speaker 01

  Yeah, I'm big in my own world on conscious and intentional living. That's kind of like a north star for me is being clear. So like the clearest one wins. So being clear on what do we want? And that could be physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, anything.

• 57:14John R. Miles?

  Yeah, it was actually one of your first books.

• 57:16Speaker 01

  That's right.

• 57:19Speaker 01

  I love how you do your research, John.

• 57:23John R. Miles?

  So Amy, if people want to learn more about you, where is the best place for them to go other than going downstairs and signing?

• 57:30Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 57:30John R. Miles?

  Buying your books?

• 57:31Speaker 01

  Come get a book. We have copies here of Aura Alchemy, A Little Bit of Mindfulness, A Little Bit of Goddess. My website is my name, amylee mercreed dot com. You can find everything there. That's also my Instagram handle. If you want to say hi to me on Instagram, I'd love to see you there.

• 57:50John R. Miles?

  And I can tell you, she's one of the rare influencers who's on Instagram. You're actually talking to her if you send her a message.

• 57:59Speaker 01

  It's usually me, yes.

• 58:01John R. Miles?

  Well, Amy, thank you so much for coming. And Oxford Exchange, thank you so much for having us. That's a wrap on today's live conversation with Amy Lee Mercree. What I loved about this episode is how it bridges the scientific and the spiritual, reminding us that energy isn't just an abstract concept. It's something that's measurable, malleable, and deeply personal. Here are a few reflections to carry with you. First, your energy field influences how others experience you, often before a single word is spoken. Second, intention, awareness, and simply daily practices can help you sense And recalibrate your energy, whether you approach it from physics, psychology, or spirituality, energy is an invisible force that shapes our inner and outer worlds.

• 58:46John R. Miles?

  If this conversation sparks something in you and you want to listen to the full episode, including questions that we got from the audience that aren't a part of today's podcast, you can go to our YouTube channels at John R. Miles and Passion Start Clips. Second, share this episode with someone who could use a little energetic alignment. And third, leave a five star rating on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. And don't forget, this Friday, I'll be making a very special announcement about a project I've been working on for the past year. I can't wait to share it with you. On Thursday, we continue our Forces We Cannot See series with an extraordinary conversation with Judd Kessler, author of Lucky by Design. We'll explore the hidden role luck plays in shaping

• 59:28John R. Miles?

  our success, why we often misunderstand it, and how we can design our lives to invite more of it in. You won't want to miss this one.

• 59:37Speaker 03

  The way that I think about the hidden markets that I talk about in the book is indeed about scarcity and about when there's more people who want something than we have slots to give. And that's true for French Laundry reservations. It's true for Taylor Swift tickets. It's true for the seats in the best elementary schools in New York City, but it's also true in getting into the elite colleges and the admissions rates at the Ivy Leagues and at many of the universities that are the best in the country are very small. The chance of getting in is vanishingly small.

• 1:00:08John R. Miles?

  For more reflections and behind the scenes insights, join me each week on our Substack at theignitedlife.net, where I share episode workbooks, frameworks, and tools for living more intentionally. Until next time, tune into the forces you can't always see, lead with intention, and as always, live life passion struck.