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.
Career (separate track) Skills
Prioritize physiological regulation over mental reframing to more effectively manage anxiety before high-pressure events.
"But in my experience, working with the physiology, using what's known as a bottom up approach, primarily using the breath, although there's also other approaches that you can use, it's just such a rap..."
Control your energy levels by adjusting the ratio and intensity of your inhalations relative to your exhalations.
"And when the inhale is either more intense or twice as long as the exhale, it has an activating effect. So you can kind of think of this as an up or down lever on the nervous system."
Intentionally extending your exhale serves as a physical lever to switch the body from a high-intensity state to recovery mode.
"And so when we breathe in a way with say the exhale twice as long as the inhale, that part of the brain, the insular cortex then sends signals to the parasympathetic nervous system, which then has the..."
Proactively respond to subtle physical warning signs of stress to prevent them from escalating into a full-blown burnout crisis.
"Ideally, you want to notice when it's the feather and then make adjustments or shift then and not have to wait until you experience the full-blown pain of the dump truck, which unfortunately is what h..."
Physical tension can cause the mind to create false narratives, making physiological regulation a prerequisite for clear thinking and effective problem-solving.
"So instead of trying to change the story or trying to fix something or trying to solve something, which is what most people do by default, myself included in the past, if you change your state first,..."