A 14-Year-Old Asked a CEO the Question Everyone's Afraid To Ask - with Tim Miller CEO Sepor

Stop overthinking — just start. After 40+ years building mines on 3 continents, that's Tim Miller's #1 leadership lesson. At PDAC 2026, 14-year-old Alexander sits down with Tim Miller — President & CEO of Sepor Inc. — to talk about AI in mining, the careers your generation should be building right now, and the investing advice he gives his own daughters.Tim has spent four decades turning mining projects from blueprints into operations across Honduras, Guatemala, and Africa. As CEO of Sepor, he now manufactures the laboratory and pilot-scale equipment that keeps the global mineral processing industry running.In this conversation, we cover: ▶ Why AI is already replacing hours of engineering work with minutes ▶ What Grade 9 & 10 students should study NOW for future-proof careers ▶ EQ vs IQ — which actually matters more in today's world ▶ The leadership lesson from a CEO that changed how Tim runs every project ▶ How young people should think about investing — from money market funds to rare earths ▶ The real story of mining's impact on communities and entrepreneurs ▶ His one piece of advice to a 14-year-old: stop following the crowdHosted by Alexander — a 14-year-old interviewing the global Titans shaping mining, metals, finance, and sustainability.🔔 Subscribe for full conversations with global leaders — Blazing New Trails. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:07 — Tim's #1 leadership lesson ("Just get started") 01:04 — What Sepor does & Tim's 40-year background 02:07 — Careers of the future: STEM + AI 04:17 — EQ vs IQ — which matters more 05:04 — How AI is already transforming mining 07:38 — How golf became Tim's secret networking tool 10:26 — The real impact of mining on communities 13:02 — Tim's favourite mines: Honduras, Guatemala, Africa 15:03 — The Cerro Blanco geothermal gold mine story 17:07 — How teachers became Tim's mentors at age 14 20:41 — "Just get started" — the full leadership lesson 22:56 — Investing advice for young people 27:09 — Competing with Chinese equipment 29:43 — Resilience: never make decisions when angry 31:17 — Final advice: follow your heart, not the crowd ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 Subscribe to TrailHeads & Titans for more conversations with global leaders — hosted by 14-year-old Alexander. New episodes from the world's top executives in mining, finance, sustainability, and leadership. #MiningMatters #PDAC2026 #LeadershipLessons #CareerAdvice #MiningCareers #YoungLeaders #PatriciaDillon #TrailHeadsAndTitans #StudentSuccess #CriticalMinerals #CEOInterview #Leadership #MiningIndustry #BusinessLeadership #TrailheadsAndTitans #shorts #motivationalquotes #business #leadership #entrepreneur #youth #success #career #mindsetmatters #goviral #viralreels #inspiration #motivation #dream #interview #lifelessons #investing #fyp #viral #viralreels #successmindset #personaldevelopment #selfimprovement #leadershipcoach #leadershipdevelopment #mindset #personalgrowth · #lifelessons · #successhabits #entrepreneurmindset