β†’ Unlocking Embodied Leadership


NOTE FROM JONNY β€”

Hello Curious Human πŸ‘‹

I have three things to share with you today:

πŸŽ™οΈ Exploring Embodied Leadership: a deep dive podcast conversation exploring the new paradigm of somatic-based leadership and the cost of chronic performance zones with Franzi Gonder.

πŸ‘¨β€πŸŽ¨ Creative Mastermind: My wife, Kelly, is launching a 6-month embodied mastermind to help bring creative projects to life.

πŸ•οΈ Foundations Retreat: I'll be co-hosting a retreat in June, teaching facilitated breath repatterning as a tool alongside somatic practices for unlocking nervous system capacity, resilience, and emotional freedom.

And as always, stay curious out there!

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Jonny Miller

Curious Human


β€” LEADERSHIP THAT HEALS β€”

[Podcast] Unlocking Embodied Leadership with Franziska Gonder

​Franzi Gonder is someone whose work sits at the powerful intersection of nervous system health, emotional resilience, and embodied leadership.
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What I admire most about her is the way she weaves personal integrity, deep inquiry, and relational intelligence into every facet of her life β€” from parenting her three sons to working with founders navigating burnout and stuck emotions.

We explore what it truly means to lead from a place of wholeness β€” and why she believes leadership should be a force for healing, not just productivity.

Franzi also shares how curiosity became her greatest ally through grief and trauma, and how movement became a portal into somatic healing.

"Obsessive pursuit of performance can eventually cost us our genius, and our wholeness."

– Franziska Gonder

Other topics we explore include:
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🌿 The cost of chronic performance zones & reclaiming peripheral vision

🧠 How somatics and neuroscience go hand-in-hand β€” and why embodiment is often mislabeled as β€œwoo”

πŸ§’ Her radical, nervous-system-based approach to parenting and education

πŸ’‘ The power of practicing self-inquiry through the simple questions: Who am I? Why am I here? Where am I going?

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β€” BRING YOUR CREATIVE AMBITIONS TO LIFE β€”

[mastermind] Step into the Arena of Project-Based Transformation

My wife, Kelly, has spent the past decade following the threads of her deepest curiositiesβ€”creativity, healing, and what it means to live an authentic life (it's been inspiring to have a front row seat!)

After years of exploring and integrating, she’s woven them into something beautiful β€” she's calling it 'Prismara': a 6-month embodied mastermind for project-based transformation.

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Prismara is where you bring your project to life while being held in a creative council of like-hearted humans.
β€” Kelly Wilde Miller

The mastermind blends nervous system and somatic work with creative expression and 1:1 coaching to help bring meaningful work into the world with confidence.

If you’ve been wanting to bring a creative project to life (book, business, podcast, etc.), I would highly recommend checking this out (there are only a few seats remaining)

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β€” LEARN BREATHWORK FOR YOURSELF β€”

[retreat] Learn FBR Breathwork & Parts Work to create a practical toolkit for lasting inner transformation.

This June, I'm teaming up with Kelly and somatic practitioner Ian Stratton to share powerful tools for inner work that have completely transformed my life β€” specifically FBR breathwork, parts work, and authentic relating β€” so that you can harness them for yourself when you return home.

  • Leaders: Jonny Miller, Ian Stratton & Kelly Wilde Miller
  • Dates: June 25-29, 2025
  • Location: Beautiful venue in Nevada City, California
  • Price: $1750-$2500 (application-only & limited to 22 seats)

🧰 The Foundations Toolkit

Our promise is that by the end of the 4 days, you'll be able to confidently use these tools & inner work practices when you return home and be able to integrate them into your daily life.

1. FBR Breathwork β€” Develop skill in self-guided Facilitated Breath Repatterning (FBR) to support deep emotional processing and nervous system regulation.

2. Parts Work β€” Use Internal Family Systems (IFS) to map, navigate, and compassionately lead the inner landscape of your psyche.

3. Authentic Relating β€” Strengthen your capacity for honest, embodied expression through powerful relational practices that expand your nervous system’s ability to hold truth and connection.

TL;DR: You'll walk away with deeper self-understanding, a rejuvenated body, and a soulful connection with a thoughtful group of inwardly curious humans.

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FUN STUFF TO CLICK ON β€”

Et. Cetera ​

How I Use AI: I had a wide-ranging conversation with Dan Shipper exploring why I chose to upload my life to chatGPT. Watch​

AI 2027: A thoroughly-researched, speculative yet fascinating scenario of how AI progress might unfold in the next five years. Read​

Inside Our Marriage: Kelly and I were interviewed on the Modern Relationships podcast about how we think about being less reactive in our marriage and practices for deepening connection. Listen​

Book of 2025: My favourite book of the year so far is Tiny Experiments by Anne-Laure Le Cunff. It's a thoughtfully crafted permission slip to step out of the comfort zone and into a more intentional life. Read​

High Agency: This is an important concept that (in my view) many of us who went through traditional education systems need to relearn. Read​

Glory of Time:​ Building a practical scale model of time: 13.8 billion years of cosmic evolution, and our place within it. Watch​

Sunken by Grief: an exquisite long read (or listen) about the world’s greatest female freediver and her emotional journey. Explore​

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FREE THINGS I'VE MADE β€”

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PARTING WORDS β€”

"Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man. You can feel it growing or preparing like a fuse burning toward dynamite. It is a feeling in the stomach, a delight of the nerves, at the forearms. The skin tastes the air, and every deep-drawn breath is sweet.”

Β· John Steinbeck Β·

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Jonny Miller

Championing adventures in radical inquiry & self-experimentation.

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