Alden Mills Featured on Scott Danner Podcast - The High Performance Life
Former Navy SEAL platoon commander, entrepreneur, and bestselling author Alden Mills shares powerful lessons on leadership, resilience, fatherhood, and[...]
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Sacred Work: Find and Share Your God-Given Talent
Discover what Sacred Work means, how to find your purpose, and why sharing your time, talent, and energy to help others leads to a more meaningful life.
Lead Now: Do the Work
Leadership starts with you. Before you can lead others, you have to lead yourself to take action. In this post, I share why belief, committed action, and[...]
Aug27, 2026
Goal Setting for 2027: A Journey to Building Your Best Year Yet
Every new year gives you a choice. You can repeat the year you just lived, or you can intentionally build the year you actually want. Most people want[...]
Jul16, 2026
How to Become an Unstoppable Public Speaker
People often ask me if I still get nervous before giving a keynote. My answer is always the same. "Absolutely." I've delivered hundreds of keynote[...]
Jun24, 2026
"Who are You?" - The Most Important Question
I ask my boys the same question every day: "Who are you?" Their responses are based on knowing the answer to another question: "Who do you want to be?" In[...]
Jun8, 2026
How to Use Fear as Fuel for Change
I have given 20 keynote speeches in the last 10 weeks, and I have heard the same theme in every single one of them: Change. The fear of it. How to deal[...]
Jun8, 2026
The First Leadership Decision: Leading Yourself
I love Pixar and DreamWorks movies. They are wildly creative, yet they tackle some of our greatest leadership challenges. Think about it for a moment.[...]
Apr27, 2026
The Power of Belief to Achieve Greatness
Most people think success comes down to skill. As a keynote speaker and business professional, I’ve learned something different. More often than not, it’s[...]
Apr21, 2026
The Hardest Part of Navy SEAL Teams - That No One Talks About
I can remember certain moments of SEAL training like it was yesterday. One of those moments was listening to an instructor we would call “Instructor[...]