If you are exhausted, anxious, frustrated, or quietly angry and you cannot fully explain why, this episode is for you. What if the issue is not weakness or lack of discipline, but unhealed wounds that are shaping your decisions, leadership, and faith?

If this resonates, take one step today. Join the FREE Men of Greatness Community and stop trying to carry this alone - https://coach.ryanjamesmiller.com/mog

In this episode, Ryan James Miller shares the personal story that changed everything for him and explains why strong, high-performing men often struggle in silence. From a defining anxiety attack in 2019 to years of buried pain, Ryan unpacks how emotional and spiritual wounds do not disappear when ignored. They compound.

This conversation reframes pain not as a liability, but as a tool God uses to refine, realign, and unlock purpose.

Key topics covered in this episode

1. Why most men are not broken, they are wounded
2. How high achievers learn to bury pain instead of healing it
3. The danger of using hustle, achievement, or faith language to avoid real work
4. Why self-medication and self-preservation always come at a cost
5. How God uses wounds to draw men back into dependence and calling
6. The Wound-Analysis Framework as a practical path forward

The Wound-Analysis Framework

1. Acknowledge the hurt: Naming what happened without minimizing or justifying it
2. Realize the effect: Understanding how that wound shaped beliefs, behaviors, and relationships
3. Unlock the greatness: Identifying how God is using that pain to form leadership, empathy, and purpose

Core takeaways

1. Pain does not disqualify you. Avoiding it does.
2. Scripture is not meant to cover wounds, it is meant to heal them.
3. Strong men do not pretend they are fine. They do the work.
4. Greatness is not created by ignoring the past, but by redeeming it.
5. You cannot outrun what God is inviting you to confront.

This episode is a call to step out of silent struggle and into alignment. Faith-driven men are not called to suffer alone. They are called to heal, grow, and lead from a place of wholeness.

And check out the links below to learn more about how we can help you achieve greatness. 👇

Become a Man of Greatness by joining our FREE Community

https://coach.ryanjamesmiller.com/mog

Take the Five Pillars of Greatess Assessment Today

You can know whats wrong, admit it, and even feel bad about it, and still never change. Awareness feels productive, but it often becomes the excuse that keeps good men stuck.

Join the Free Men of Greatness Brotherhood here - https://coach.ryanjamesmiller.com/mog

In this episode, Ryan James Miller confronts one of the most dangerous lies high-performing, faith-driven men believe. The idea that trying harder, knowing better, or waiting it out will eventually lead to transformation. It wont.

This conversation cuts straight to the heart of integrity, obedience, and identity. Using real coaching conversations and hard-earned wisdom, Ryan exposes how partial obedience quietly erodes marriages, leadership, faith, and influence. Not through one big failure, but through small compromises we justify every day.

Key topics covered

• Why most marriages and lives fall apart through erosion, not explosion
• The difference between awareness, ownership, and obedience
• Why remorse is not the same as repentance
• How negotiating with sin keeps it alive
• The cost of reduction instead of elimination
• Why identity must come before outcomes
• How real change restores clarity, peace, and leadership weight

Core takeaways

• Awareness identifies the problem, but obedience changes direction
• Partial obedience is still disobedience
• Managing sin keeps it alive; eliminating it puts it to death
• Time does not heal wounds. Obedient action does
• You do not change to save something. You change to become someone
• Integrity does not guarantee outcomes, but it guarantees clarity

Key insights and quotes

• "Awareness isnt enough. It cant be enough."
• "What you manage, you keep. What you eliminate, you leave."
• "God does not call men to try harder. He calls men to walk different."
• "Greatness isnt built through intention. Its built through obedience."

This episode challenges men to stop negotiating with their integrity and start living in alignment with who God created them to be. Whether the outcome changes or not, the man must.

And check out the links below to learn more about how we can help you achieve greatness. 👇

Become a Man of Greatness by joining our FREE Community

https://coach.ryanjamesmiller.com/mog

Take the Five Pillars of Greatess Assessment Today

https://coach.ryanjamesmiller.com/the-five-pillars-assessment

Become a Man of Greatness by downloading our workbook

https://coach.ryanjamesmiller.com/men-of-greatness-workbook

Subscribe for more episodes on faith-driven leadership, personal integrity, and becoming the man God created you to be.

Dont forget to leave a comment, what can you add to this topic?

Podcast recording and editing with Riverside

https://riverside.sjv.io/ryanjamesmiller

Simple AI Recoding Tool

https://plaudus.sjv.io/ryanjamesmiller

Lets connect!

X - https://twitter.com/theryanjamesmil

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rjmsalespro

Instagram -

Christian men are losing credibility minute by minute.

Not because they lack strength or conviction, but because too many are swallowing misinformation, reposting unverified claims, and calling it discernment. This episode is a direct call to men who want to lead with clarity, integrity, and biblical truth in a culture drowning in chaos.

CALL TO ACTION: If this message matters to you, share this episode with one man whose influence is too valuable to waste on confusion.

In this episode of Unlocking Greatness, Ryan James Miller confronts the growing crisis of credibility among Christian men. Using recent cultural events and the explosion of conspiracy thinking as a backdrop, Ryan challenges high-performing, faith-driven men to reclaim their authority by grounding themselves in truth, wisdom, and Scripture.

Ryan explains why distrust of institutions can be understandable, but how unfiltered distrust quickly turns into paranoia and pride. He draws a clear distinction between biblical discernment and flesh-driven suspicion, reminding listeners that God is not a God of confusion, but of peace.

Key topics discussed:

• Why Christian men are losing influence by reposting unverified narratives.
• How emotion, ego, and fear masquerade as discernment.
• The difference between being anti-establishment and being biblically wise.
• How misinformation damages your witness at home, at work, and in the Kingdom.
• Why truth must be anchored in both Scripture and evidence.
• How to evaluate sources by motive, not volume or popularity.
• What it looks like to lead with integrity in a world addicted to outrage.

Three Core Moves for Men of God

Discernment over distrust

• "The simple believe every word, but the prudent gives thought to his steps." Proverbs 14:15

Fact + faith = firepower

• "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." John 8:32

Influence with integrity

• "The tongue of the wise makes knowledge appealing, but the mouth of fools spews folly." Proverbs 15:2

He also shares a composite real-world scenario many men will recognize. A solid Christian leader slowly loses credibility, peace, and influence by consuming and sharing noise instead of truth. The turning point comes when he resets his inputs, anchors himself in the Word, and chooses clarity over chaos.

Transformation path:

• Confusion to clarity
• Emotion to evidence
• Reacting to leading
• Noise to wisdom

Are you more informed by the algorithm than by the Word?

This episode challenges men to slow down, verify what they believe and share, and remember that credibility is one of the greatest stewardship responsibilities God has entrusted to them.

This conversation is not just about one cultural moment. It is about the opportunity Christian men have to model wisdom, stability, and truth in a world desperate for it.

And check out the links below to learn more about how we can help you achieve greatness. 👇

Become a Man of Greatness by joining our FREE Community: https://coach.ryanjamesmiller.com/mog

Take the Five Pillars of Greatess Assessment Today: https://coach.ryanjamesmiller.com/the-five-pillars-assessment

Become a Man of Greatness by downloading our workbook: