Jonny Miller
Jonny Miller is the founder of Nervous System Mastery, a course that has helped hundreds of founders and tech leaders cultivate calm, reduce nervousness, enhance resilience, and elevate their sense of aliveness. Having personally benefited from Jonny’s teachings, I’m especially excited to have him on the show.
Communication Skills
Physiological 'bottom-up' breathing techniques are more effective than mental reframing for managing pre-presentation anxiety.
"I gave a TEDx talk a few years ago and I was like my entire body, I was just terrified. And I did in 15 minutes of this breathing practice before and walked on stage almost cool as a cucumber. It's ve..."
Grounding techniques like expanding awareness or focusing on physical contact points can be used discreetly to maintain composure during meetings.
"If you are about to jump on a zoom or something, you can totally do it with your eyes closed. Things like expanding your awareness or bringing your awareness down to your feet and your hands, which cr..."
Hiring & Teams Skills
A leader's internal nervous system state sets the tone for the entire organization's culture through emotional contagion.
"There's also this idea of emotional contagion... the leader or the CEO has a disproportionate impact or their emotional state has a disproportionate impact on the people in their team. So something I'..."
Leadership Skills
Effective decision-making requires the ability to process emotional data rather than suppressing it to avoid discomfort.
"The best decision-making is emotional... if you are on the other hand able to just welcome and be with whatever emotions would arise on the other side of a decision, you're able to decide clearly inst..."