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The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

1KHO 771: The Happiest People Set Hard Goals | Caroline Adams Miller, Big Goals

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Caroline Miller joins The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast with host Ginny Yurich for a really grounded conversation about something most of us think we understand—goals—and why we actually don’t. She explains the difference between goals that work and goals that fall apart, why so many people lose momentum, and why feeling okay first isn’t optional if you want to follow through on anything meaningful. The conversation moves into things that don’t get talked about enough—how women are often treated when they aim high, what kids are missing when everything comes too easily, and how grit can either help you or quietly wreck you if it’s pointed the wrong way. It’s thoughtful without being complicated, practical without being formulaic, and full of ideas you’ll keep turning over after it ends. Learn more about Caroline and all she has to offer here Get your copy of Big Goals here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We have had a lot of conversations on this show about how every child is different and how especially

0:04.2

for kids with ADHD or other learning differences, the world can feel a little overwhelming

0:08.7

sometimes. And if you're parenting a child like that, I want to point you to a podcast called

0:13.3

Everyone Gets a Juice Box. It's a space where parents are just being really honest with each other

0:17.7

about what this journey actually looks like, the questions, the doubts, the small wins, all of it. One part of a recent episode that really stuck with me was this

0:24.9

mom who was talking about how she started noticing things early on. Little signals that

0:28.9

something might be different, but at the same time everyone around her was saying she's fine,

0:33.1

and she described that feeling so well that back and forth between I know something's going on

0:37.2

and what if I'm overreacting. I think so many parents have felt that tension. And then when she shared this moment where her daughter said, I can feel it, talking about her body not giving her the signals she needed. And it opened up this whole understanding about how some kids experience the world so differently on a sensory level. It was such a powerful reminder that often our kids are having a hard time and the more we understand what's going on beneath the surface, the better we can show up for them. I really appreciated how thoughtful and honest the whole conversation was. So if that sounds like something you need right now, go give it a listen. To listen, search for Everyone Gets a Juice Box in your podcast app. That everyone gets a juice box welcome to the 1000 hours outside

1:13.6

my name is jenny urge and the founder of 1,000 hours outside and an author today of nine

1:18.1

best selling books we're talking about actually a breadth of topics goal setting you talk about you talk about

1:24.3

the difference between like men and women especially in the work in the workforce and like how do we deal with that you were able to recover

1:31.7

from bulinia we can talk about that you talk about grit getting outside in nature

1:36.5

for nine or ten best-selling bugs the one i have here is called big goals caroline adams

1:42.2

miller welcome thank you and thank you for having me. I really

1:45.9

appreciate it. Okay, so you have got quite the story here of all sorts of different parts of your

1:51.5

life, but you worked with Dr. Martin Seligman, which that is, I think, a household, I think

2:00.0

it's a household name.

2:01.5

I do too.

2:03.1

I'm biased.

2:04.4

Yeah.

2:04.7

Can you talk about your history there with all of that?

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