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The Kevin Miller Podcast

The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It w/ Professor Ethan Kross

The Kevin Miller Podcast

Kevin Miller

Education, Relationships, How To, Social Sciences, Nutrition, Life Sciences, Spirituality, Medicine, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Self-improvement

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

We all know we have an inner voice, whether it speaks out loud, you write letters in your head like I do, or it’s just the constant stream of thoughts and feelings running amok at all times. A frequent directive is to shut the voice up or ignore it. One this is impossible, and two, that voice is there for a reason and the opportunity we all have is to harness it for our personal success. Ethan Kross is a PhD and one of the world's leading experts on controlling the conscious mind. Ethan is an award-winning professor at the University of Michigan and its Ross School of Business and is the director of the Emotion & Self Control Laboratory. Ethan has participated in policy discussion at the White House and has been interviewed on CBS Evening News, Good Morning America, Anderson Cooper Full Circle, and NPR's Morning Edition. I brought him on the show after I got a hold of his new book, Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It. That tagline is the hook…why it matters and how to harness it. Not shut it up or out. Connect with Ethan at Ethankross.com Sign up for your $1/month trial period at shopify.com/kevin Go to shipstation.com and use code KEVIN to start your free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome. I'm Kevin Miller. This is a podcast for your personal evolution. In this episode,

0:06.9

the voice in your head, why it matters, and how to harness it. I mean, we all know we have an inner

0:12.8

voice, whether it speaks out loud, you write letters in your head like I do, or it's just

0:18.7

the constant stream of thoughts and feelings running amok pretty much all

0:21.8

the time. A frequent directive is to shut the voice up or ignore it. And one, this is pretty

0:28.0

impossible and two, that voice is there for a reason and the opportunity we all have is to harness

0:33.5

it for our personal benefit. So Ethan Cross is a PhD, is one of the world's leading experts

0:39.6

on controlling the conscious mind. Ethan is an award-winning professor at the University of

0:45.5

Michigan, and it's Ross School of Business, and is the director of the emotional and self-control

0:51.0

laboratory. Ethan has participated in policy discussion at the White House.

0:55.6

He's been interviewed on CBS Evening News, Good Morning America, Anderson Cooper, Full Circle, and NPR's

1:02.1

Morning Edition. So I brought him on the show after I got a hold of his book, Chatter, The Voice in

1:08.2

Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to how to harness it that tagline is the book why

1:12.8

that voice matters and or you can almost say but how to harness it which we likely are not

1:19.6

doing most of the time and shutting it up or shutting it out is not working for most of us it doesn't

1:26.1

for me you can connect with Ethan

1:28.5

anywhere. Just type in Ethan Cross's website is Ethancross.com. As you hear this info, if you got

1:35.9

questions for Ethan or how to implement it in your life, let me know. Just email me,

1:40.5

K Miller at Kevin Miller.co. All right, coming up next then, my discussion, conversation with Ethan Cross about what to do, how to better do with our mind, that thing, that voice in our head.

1:56.9

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