Human School
Human School is a podcast that explores the inner human experience, focusing on emotional growth, presence, and purpose. It reframes pain as instruction and productivity as presence, offering stories, tools, and raw conversations to help listeners stop performing and start participating in their lives. The podcast was born from a personal breakdown and aims to provide the education we never received about being human.
Episodes
How to Stop Self-Sabotaging and Finally Finish What You Start with Jon Acuff
What is procrastination actually costing you? Turns out, almost everything.In this episode, Miles Adcox welcomes author and speaker Jon Acuff to Human School for an honest, practical, and deeply encouraging conversation about procrastination, overthinking, and the strange ways our minds block the lives we want to live. Jon opens up about his own struggles with anxiety, the danger of old "sou
Ashley McBryde on Sobriety, Generational Trauma, and Unlearning Survival
"They said, 'We need you to stop.' And I said, 'I need me to stop, too.'" Grammy-winning country artist Ashley McBryde joins Miles for a deeply moving, unfiltered conversation as she reflects on her roots in the Ozarks, the complexities of generational trauma, and what it truly means to be seen. Ashley opens up about her long relationship with alcohol, the terrifying nig
How to Find Peace When a Relationship Can't Be Fixed with Matthias Barker (Live from the Transform Trauma Conference)
What happens when the mental health expert becomes the one navigating a family crisis? In this deep and deeply personal conversation, therapist and author Matthias Barker sits down with Miles at the Transform Trauma Conference –– Europe’s largest mental health and wellness conference in Oxford, England –– to open up about his own journey through family estrangement, grief, and reconciliation. Tog
The Selfish Reason to Be Generous with Philanthropy Expert Rondal Richardson
What if the secret to improving your own life, health, and happiness had nothing to do with self-care and everything to do with giving back? In this episode of Human School, host Miles sits down with long-time music industry veteran and philanthropist Rondal Richardson to flip the script on how we think about generosity. Because you don't need millions of dollars or a massive platform to make
What My Daughter Knows About Stress That I Forgot
We spend an enormous amount of energy trying to learn how to be healthier, less stressed adults – but what if the answer isn't learning something new, but remembering what we knew before we got so complicated? In this special solo episode of The Human School Podcast, host Miles Adcox hands the microphone to his seven-year-old daughter, Birdie Rose. With zero media training and absolute honesty, Bi
How to Rewire Your Brain for Peace, Creativity, and Purpose with Dr. Martha Beck
Are you living the life you actually want, or are you just trying to please everyone around you? In this episode of Human School, Miles sits down with world-renowned author, sociologist, and life coach Dr. Martha Beck for an exceptionally honest and deep conversation on human nature, breaking free from anxiety, and finding your true path. Martha shares her personal journey — from her time writing
"I Had to Learn to Live Again" — Amy Grant on Starting Over at 65
What happens when life completely rewires your timeline overnight? Six-time Grammy winner Amy Grant joins the show for an exceptionally raw and vulnerable conversation about navigating back-to-back life-altering health crises — from emergency open-heart surgery to a traumatic brain injury that forced her to pause everything. Amy candidly opens up about the physical reality of memory loss, the emot
Overcoming Self-Judgment and Walking Through Grief with Judah & the Lion
When life throws loss, grief, and change your way, how do you allow the pain to transform you rather than destroy you? In this episode of Human School, host Miles Adcox sits down with Judah Akers and Brian Macdonald of the alt-folk band Judah & the Lion on the release day of their album, Process. Together, they walk through a raw and vulnerable conversation about what it truly takes to heal.
Stress Is Trying to Protect You — Here's How to Listen
It seems like everyone is talking about stress. How to manage it. How to get rid of it. How to avoid it at all costs. But maybe in our journey to eradicate stress from our lives, we’re losing something far more valuable. In this solo conversation, Miles Adcox reframes our entire relationship with stress. Instead of treating stress like an opponent to beat, what if we treated it like a system tryin
Finding Success Without Losing Yourself: Larry Fleet on Fame, Fatherhood, and Staying Grounded
What do you do when you go from singing at local bars to millions of video views, playing at Madison Square Garden with Morgan Wallen, and hearing 20,000 people sing your lyrics back to you? If you’re Larry Fleet, you still shop at Ace Hardware. Larry Fleet writes the kind of country songs that feel like your own memories — jumping railroad tracks in a truck bed, learning how to tell stories in a
Is Certainty Making Us Lonely? with Miles Adcox
Why does being right feel so much better than being curious? And is our obsession with certainty the cause of our greatest divides?This episode breaks down the psychology behind certainty — why our brains default to it, what it costs us in our relationships, and why curiosity might be the more reliable path to actually feeling connected to other people.What you'll learnHow confirmation bias shapes
Is Your Gut Connected to Your Mental Health? with Funcitonal Medicine Practitioner, Dr. Chris Motley
Have you ever gotten a clean bill of health and still felt like something was wrong? What if the anxiety, the brain fog, the thing you can't explain isn't in your head, but a story your body inherited?Dr. Chris Motley is a functional medicine practitioner and acupuncturist based in Nashville, and the host of the Ancient Health Podcast. For over 22 years, he's blended Chinese medicine, kinesiology,
Building Self Worth Without Approval with Tori Kelly
Have you ever believed you're only worthy of attention when you're performing and perfect?What if the thing you fear your kid will inherit is the exact thing you've never worked through yourself? Tori Kelly, a Grammy-winning vocalist who's been sharing her voice with the world since she was a kid, sits down with Miles for a conversation about identity, motherhood, and what happens when the perform
Raising Capable Kids in the Anxious Generation with Sissy Goff & David Thomas
How do you help an anxious child build real confidence instead of just managing their fear?What if the very thing keeping your kid unsafe is how hard you're working to protect them? Sissy Goff and David Thomas are two of the most trusted voices in child and adolescent mental health today, counselors at Daystar Counseling Ministries and hosts of the popular Raising Boys and Girls podcast. With more
How to Talk to Anyone with Bobby Bones
What's the real difference between showing up for someone and rescuing them?Can a single pair of socks undo years of not letting yourself feel anything?Bobby Bones went from a campus radio station in Arkansas to the National Radio Hall of Fame, two #1 New York Times bestsellers, and a syndicated morning show heard by millions, turning his own story into a reason other people feel less alone in the
When One Dream Ends with Reece Weaver
Have you ever lived a dream so fully that you felt the quiettug to walk away? Not because it failed you, but because something new was calling.What does it look like to anchor your identity in somethingthat can never be taken from you, even when everything you've built your life around closes a chapter? Reece Weaver spent her entire third season as a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader (DCC) carrying a de
Refusing to Waste Pain with Clea Shearer (The Home Edit)
Have you ever fought the hardest battle of your life and then not known what to do once it was over?What if the story you thought defined you was actually the prologue to something even bigger? Clea Shearer is co-founder of The Home Edit — the brand, the Netflix show, the New York Times bestselling books. But the Clea in this conversation has spent four years navigating a cancer journey her own do
Keeping a Soft Heart After Hard Things with Connor Smith
What does it actually look like to rebuild from the insideout — before the world even knows you needed to?What happens to a person when tragedy arrives not as a slowunraveling, but all at once — and the only thing left standing is who you actually are? What does it look like to grieve something you can't talkabout, for a family you can't reach, while the world keeps watching? Country singer-songwr
Learning You Don't Have to Earn Love with Alana Springsteen
What if the songs you've been writing were actually thetherapy you desperately needed? What if the version of you that felt like the black sheep your whole life was the one who would help the rest of us feel less alone? Alana Springsteen has been performing since before she knewwhat performing cost her. She signed her first publishing deal at 14, earned a gold record before she turned 25, CMT's Ne
The Courage to Be Yourself with Skylar Gray
Have you ever felt like becoming quieter was the only way to survive being too much?What if the chaos you chased and the life you almost missed were both pointing you home? Skylar Grey is a five-time Grammy-nominated artist, SpotifyBillions Club member, and one of the most distinctive voices of the last two decades. Known for her work with Eminem and Dr. Dre, she sits down with Miles Adcox to talk
Hugging the World Back Together with Tim Harris
What if the most powerful thing you could offer the world wasn't your résumé or achievements, but simply your presence and a hug? Tim Harris is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, Special Olympics athlete, author of The Book of Hugs, host of the Big Heart Talks with Tim podcast, and founder of Tim's Big Heart Foundation. Raised in Albuquerque, Tim built a life around one belief: love, kindness, and c
How to Make People Feel Truly Seen with Mary Bellofatto
Have you ever met someone who spent 50 years healing others and somehow became more human with every one of those years? What would it mean to stop hiding behind your busyness, your title, or your phone, and let someone actually see you? Mary Bellofatto is a pioneer in mental health who has spent five decades walking the hardest terrain human experience offers — trauma, disordered eating, addictio
The Pressure to Get It "Right" with Thomas Rhett
Have you ever stood in the middle of a life that looks great on paper and still felt like you were failing the people right in front of you?What if being hard on yourself isn't humility? It's just the long way around to never believing you're enough? And what happens when the same obsessive drive that makes you world-class at your craft is the exact thing that makes it hard to just sit down and w
How To Navigate Hard Conversations with Jefferson Fisher
Stuck in the same emotional patterns? Onsite's LivingCentered Program is a five-day intensive that helps you slow down, go deeper, and do the inner work that changes things. Learn more at https://hubs.la/Q04dV_Xl0 Have you ever taught others how to communicate, but still lost it in your own kitchen? What if the best communicators in the world are still works in progress, and that's exactly the po
"I Quit Something Every Thursday" with Bob Goff
Stuck in the same emotional patterns? Onsite's Living Centered Program is a five-day intensive that helps you slow down, go deeper, and do the inner work that changes things. Learn more at experienceonsite.com What if the most meaningful thing you ever did wasn't whatmade you famous, but who you showed up for when nobody was watching? What if the key to getting unstuck isn't adding more to yourlif
Building A Career Without Losing Yourself with Nicolle Galyon
Nicolle mentions her time at Onsite's Living Centered Group Intensive in this conversation and the transformation thathappened for her during that program. If you want to know more about that experience, visit experienceonsite.com or give our team a call at 1(800)341-7432.Have you ever built a life that looks like everything you wanted and realized you left the most important version of yourself b
Hardy: Life, Fatherhood, and Figuring It Out as You Go
Real healing for real people. Onsite offers personal growth workshops and intensive therapeutic experiences just outside Nashville and San Diego. Learn more at experienceonsite.com. What does it actually take to stay human when the worldturns you into a commodity? And what happens when the panic attacks you've been outrunning finally catch up with you? HARDY is one of the most respected names
Dr. Jeffrey Balser: How Great Leaders Handle Hard Things
If this conversation moves you, Onsite might be the nextstep. Their immersive workshops are where people go to stop performing and start doing the real work. Visit experienceonsite.com or call 1(800) 341-7432 to find the experience best for you. What if the grief you buried as a teenager becomes the force that makes you human enough to lead thousands? What if the greatest leadership lessons come n
Bear Rinehart: The Long Surrender to Freedom
Spend a few days getting honest, going deeper, and walking out lighter at Onsite. Visit experienceonsite.com to learn more or call 1-800-341-7432 to find the best experience for your story. Have you ever carried shame so long it started to weigh more than the life you were living?What if surrender isn't giving up, but the one move that sets everything free? Bear Rinehart is the frontman and
Kathleen Murphy: What It Means to Come Home to Yourself
If something in this episode resonated, it might be worth a conversation. Onsite offers intensive workshops near Nashville and San Diego for people navigating burnout, trauma, relationships, and addiction. One free call with their team can help you find the right fit. Visit experienceonsite.com or call 1-800-341-7432. Have you ever been so buried in survival that you couldn't feel your own w
Chandler Moore: You Can't Heal What You Won't Let Anyone See
With campuses near Nashville and San Diego, Onsite supportspeople navigating burnout, relationship strain, addiction, trauma, or the sense that life feels off. Learn more at experienceonsite.com or call 1-800-341-7432. A simple conversation can be the first step toward living more fully.Have you ever carried a secret so heavy it started to collapse everything around you?What if the most honest thi
Hunter Hayes: Chasing My Version of The Dream
With campuses near Nashville and San Diego,Onsite supports people navigating burnout, relationship strain, addiction, trauma, or the sense that life feels off. Learn more at experienceonsite.com or call 1-800-341-7432. A simple conversation can be the first step toward livingmore fully.What if the music you've been making your whole life was actually the therapy you never knew you needed?What
Dr. Neil Bomar: Why Small "Paper Cuts" Do More Damage Than Big Injuries
Learn more about Onsite and Milestones at experienceonsite.com or call 1-800-341-7432. A simple conversation can be the first step toward living more fully.What if the wounds you can't name are doing more damage than the ones you can? What if healing doesn't happen in a sterile office, but around a campfire, in a community, or on a paddleboard?Dr. Neil Bomar, Vice President of Medical Serv
Shawn & Andrew East: Managing High-Stakes Pressure in Every Season of Life
With campuses near Nashville and San Diego, Onsite supports people navigating burnout, relationship strain, addiction, trauma, or the sense that life feels off. Learn more at experienceonsite.com or call 1-800-341-7432. A simple conversation can be the first step toward living more fully. What if the discipline that made you a champion is the same thing quietly destroying your most important relat
Meghan Riordan Jarvis: Falling Apart as a Grief Expert & Creating What Grief Was Missing
If this conversation resonated, Onsite & Milestones are safe places to land and process grief. Learn more at experienceonsite.com or call 1-800-341-7432. A simple conversation can be the first step toward living more fully.Have you ever been hit by grief so hard that it knocked you off every foundation you thought you had? What if grief isn't a problem to be solved, but an energy inside yo
Mallory Ervin: What I Had to Lose to Find Myself
If this conversation resonated, Onsite offers immersive therapeutic experiences to help you slow down, reconnect, and get honest about what matters most. With campuses near Nashville and San Diego, Onsite supports people navigating burnout, relationship strain, addiction, trauma, or the sense that life feels off. Learn more at experienceonsite.com or call 1-800-341-7432. A simple conversation can
Drake White: Finding Out Rock Bottom Has A Basement
Transform your trauma at Onsite. Visit onsiteworkshops.com to explore life-changing programs designed to help you heal, grow, and rediscover hope.What if the worst moment of your life became the foundation for everything that came after?Country music artist Drake White collapsed on stage in 2019 during a performance in Roanoke, Virginia. He was diagnosed with an AVM (arteriovenous malformation), a
Donald Miller: Why the Villain’s Journey Shapes Who You Become
Ready to do deeper work? If this conversation resonates and you’re feeling stirred to look more honestly at your own story, visit experienceonsite.com or call 1-800-341-7432. Onsite offers immersive therapeutic experiences just outside Nashville and San Diego—spaces designed to help you slow down, look under the hood, and reimagine what’s possible in your relationships and life.Have you ever wonde
Joshua Bassett: Vulnerability Isn't Weakness, It's the Pathway to Freedom
What happens when you stop hiding from the hardest parts of your story? What if the moments that nearly broke you are actually the ones that wake you up? Joshua Bassett—Emmy-winning actor, musician, and creator of the deeply honest album The Golden Years—opens up about navigating heart failure at a young age, surviving public heartbreak, wrestling with suicidal ideation, and discovering that vulne
Janet McDonald: You Become a Better Leader by Becoming a Better Human
What if the loneliest position you'll ever hold is the one you worked your whole life to achieve?What if everything you learned about leadership left out the most important part?Janet McDonald, CEO of Onsite, didn't start her career planning to lead with vulnerability. She started at 14, running a ladies boutique in downtown Franklin, TN while her friends worked as her employees. At nine y
Tyler Hubbard: Becoming Yourself When the World Knows You as Half of Florida Georgia Line
What if the person you became after tragedy is exactly who you were meant to be?Can you rebuild a friendship after the world watched it fall apart? Tyler Hubbard built one of the biggest acts in country music history with Florida Georgia Line: breaking records, selling out stadiums, and changing the genre forever. But before the charts and the spotlight, he was a kid from small-town Georgia washin
Ashley Gorley: Staying Human When Everyone Expects You to Be a Machine
What does it mean to have more number one songs than anyone in country music history and still struggle with sleepless nights, wondering if any of it matters?What if the machine everyone thinks you are is actually just a person trying to figure out why they're here? Ashley Gorley has written more number-one songs than anyone in country music history. His work has shaped the sound of modern cou
Victor The Good Boss: A Story About Second Chances For the People Who Need Them Most
What if the person society gave up on is one conversation away from changing their entire life? What if the best leaders don't wait for people to ask for help, but they go find them? Victor Oliveira, known to millions as "The Good Boss," doesn't just talk about second chances. He drives the streets looking for people who need one. From buying coffee for his employees to pulling over on highways to
Moments with Miles: When the Life You Built Starts to Stretch You
What if the thing that's exhausting you is actually the life you once begged the universe for? What if your tiredness isn't evidence of failure, but proof that you're living a life that asks something of you? In this solo episode, Miles Adcox shares a message that unexpectedly resonated with millions. But before unpacking why this landed so deeply, he tells a story that changed his entire perspect
Dax: What Happens When You Finally Take the Shot You've Been Too Afraid to Take
What if the anger you've been running from is actually the fuel you need? What happens when an 11-year-old discovers manifestation, commits a decade to basketball, then rewrites his entire life story with a poem on a bus? Dax has built a career on saying what most people are afraid to say out loud. He is blending hip hop, gospel and country influences into music speaking from a place of raw vulner
Will Guidara: The Night He Came in Last Changed Everything
What does it cost to be exceptional at something? And is that price worth paying? How do you know when competitiveness becomes calling—or when it just becomes noise? Will Guidara grew up in restaurants, watching his father balance being a Hall of Fame dad while caring for Will's mother, who developed quadriplegia after a brain cancer diagnosis. At 12 years old, a single dinner at The Four Seasons
Annie F. Downs: The Cost of Being Everyone’s Bridge to Something Better
What if the person who always makes things sound fun is actually doing the hardest work of all? What does it cost to be the bridge that connects people to their next true thing—knowing you might get walked on, knowing they might never come back, knowing you have to keep showing up anyway?Annie F. Downs has built a New York Times bestselling writing career, launched an award-winning podcast, and cr
Judah Smith: How to Stay Human When Everyone’s Watching
Have you ever felt like you're performing your life instead of actually living it? Today, Miles Adcox sits down with pastor, author, and communicator Judah Smith for a conversation about confidence, criticism, and the courage it takes to lead with gentleness in a world that rewards strength. Judah grew up as a seventh-generation pastor, watching his father build a church from 20 people in a Courty
Jelly Roll: How to Break Free From Your Past and Build the Life You're Meant to Live
Have you ever been so stuck in your past that you couldn't see your future? What if the person you used to be is the exact reason you can help someone else become who they're meant to be? Today, Miles Adcox sits down with Grammy-nominated artist and advocate Jelly Roll for a raw, unfiltered conversation about redemption, rage, and the messy road from rock bottom to purpose. From stealing TVs from
Welcome to the Human School Podcast
Welcome to The Human School — a place to learn what we were never taught about being human.
Hosted by Miles Adcox, emotional wellness expert and CEO of Onsite, this podcast explores the lessons that shape our relationships, purpose, and growth. Through honest conversations and real-life stories, Miles invites guests and listeners alike to slow down, look inward, and discover how to live, love, and
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