JCIP #357 - Miles Spencer

In episode 357 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Miles Spencer. Miles is a business leader and entrepreneur with over 30 years’ experience in the industry. He has started, built, and led three unique companies and ‘exited’ from them, which means a founder, owner, or investor has sold their stake in a company, effectively cashing out their investment.Today, he is the Co-Founder and CEO of an AI company called Reflekta.Reflekta is an AI-powered ‘digital legacy platform’ in the company’s words, and their goal is to help families preserve voices, stories, and wisdom for generations.So far, Reflekta have enabled over 20,000 stories with their customers, and their goal is to reach 1m of these by the end of 2026. In this episode, we chart Miles' journey in business, the achievement of exiting from three different businesses, his business failures and what he learned from them, and how the art of storytelling has shaped his career, life and values. We then do a deep dive into the work he does with Reflekta, why they employ grief counsellors and hospice workers as advisors at the business to shape their work, why they aren’t therapy, and why he views it as important to state that, in his words, ‘we are not reincarnating people’.For Miles’ mental health journey, we discuss some mental health challenges he had in 2025 when several people close to him came close to death, the life and death of his father, who died 8 years ago and his own personal use of Reflekta too.As always, #itsokaytoventYou can find out more about Reflekta here: https://reflekta.ai/Support Us:PatreonPayPalMerchandise