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John Miles on the Science of Mattering and Why Performance Isn't Enough

Professor Anika Jackson sat down with John Miles—former Fortune 50 executive, four-time CEO, and host of the Passion Struck podcast with over 85 million downloads—to explore his new book, The Mattering Effect. The conversation uncovers a counterintuitive truth: outward success, titles, and accolades do not protect people from feeling invisible. Whether looking at mid-career professionals, university students, or high-performing executives, the root cause of burnout, loneliness, and rising despair is an upstream wound sitting underneath them all: the fundamental human question, "Do I matter?"…

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