Wired to Thrive

Michael Adote
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Wired To Thrive is a podcast committed to the making and equipping of individuals so they experience continuous growth, live a prosperous life and lead with diligence. We do this by stirring up the imagination of people so that transformation occurs within and around them. Our focus is the Mind, Purpose, and Leadership.

  1. 4d ago

    #93. Hunger 5 — Embrace Deliberate Stretch

    Comfortable environments let hunger idle — even when it's real. In this episode, Michael Adote unpacks the third way to forge hunger: choosing environments where the standard is set above where you currently stand, so growth stops depending on willpower and starts being demanded by your surroundings. Michael shares an unfiltered look at a season that tested every love he has for structure and control — back-to-back events, a security scare on a sudden trip, and a week that stacked a corporate delivery, the maiden Poimen Mastery Connect program, a sponsorship push, and a speaking engagement at an orphanage, all within days of each other. You'll learn how to: Choose your stretch before life chooses it for you Let the standard of the room do the discipline willpower can't sustain Debrief pressure so it leaves growth behind instead of just wear and tear If you've been avoiding a room because it feels like too much — this episode is your nudge to lean in. 🎙️ Hosted by Michael Adote | Wired to Thrive — mastering your mind, living on purpose, leading diligently.

  2. Aug 11

    #92. Hunger 4 — Cultivate Productive Dissatisfaction

    Comfort has a way of disguising itself as contentment. In this episode, I introduce the second tool for forging hunger: cultivating productive dissatisfaction — the discipline of turning discontent into forward motion instead of letting it curdle into bitterness or resignation. We unpack three practical shifts: 1. Measure against your potential, not your past. Your past can only tell you where you've been — not what you're capable of. I share how to actually locate your ceiling and raise it incrementally. 2. Remember the cost of complacency. Borrowing from Myron Golden's wealth-mindset teaching, I walk through why the price of staying still is almost always higher than the price of moving — even when it doesn't feel that way. Includes the Complacency Letter exercise. 3. Refuse to settle. A simple weekly practice for catching the places you've settled for "good" instead of "possible," and turning that gap into your next actual step. This isn't about ingratitude — it's about refusing to mistake "enough for today" for "nothing left to grow." Tune in, and this week, measure yourself against your potential — see what it stirs up.

  3. Jul 28

    #91. Hunger 3 — A Compelling Vision

    Is hunger something you're born with, or something you build? In this episode, Michael Adote makes the case that it doesn't matter where it starts; what matters is that it can be forged. Using the picture of two farmers working identical soil: one dependent on rain, one who builds irrigation; Michael unpacks why so many of us stay dry while our purpose sits planted but unwatered. Then he turns to the first tool for forging hunger: a compelling vision. Drawing on the word origins of "compelling" and "vision," and unpacking Proverbs 29:18 through the Hebrew word chazon, Michael explains why mission alone isn't enough — mission is the skeleton, but vision is the eyes that tell it where to walk. He closes with three practical ways to uncover the vision that's actually yours, not one you've borrowed. This is Episode 3 in the Hunger series. If you haven't done your Current Reality Audit yet, start with Episode 1 before diving in here. Wired to Thrive helps you master your mind, live on purpose, and lead diligently — one episode at a time.

  4. Jul 21

    #90. Hunger — My Current Reality Reflections

    Last week we opened a new conversation on hunger; not hunger for food, but that intense inner drive that refuses to settle for where you are. We introduced the Current Reality Audit, walking through five areas: circumstantial, relational, internal, historical, and perceived versus actual. If you missed it, go back and start there. This week, I turn the mirror on myself. It's easy to assume that because someone is teaching on a subject, they've already got it figured out. Usually the opposite is true. Life coaches aren't immune to life. So rather than just tell you to do the audit, I did it myself, and I'm handing you my findings. I walk through what surfaced in each area: the shift I'm noticing from "finding purpose" to "building on what I've started," the quiet but constant place God holds in my corner even when my disciplines don't match that conviction, an old decision from right after university that still echoes in my internal narrative, and the honest, sometimes humbling feedback my wife gave me on where I overestimate and underestimate myself. I also walk through the hunger gauge: intensity, source, restlessness, and direction and what it looks like to keep pressing forward when a season gets genuinely strained. This isn't a highlight reel. It's an honest look at what it means to stay faithful with what's been entrusted to you, even mid-process. Haven't done your own audit yet? Go back to Episode 1 of the Hunger series and grab the Current Reality resource; walk through the five areas and the hunger gauge for yourself before diving into this one. Resource Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/152LHV54H6xbvRCn9ae1em1VSOkQpRSUh/view?usp=sharing Next week: Forging Hunger, where we respond to what the audit reveals.

  5. Jul 14

    #89. Hunger — Current Reality

    We just wrapped the 7-part Seasons of Life series; and this week, we're digging into something that shapes every season: hunger. Not hunger for food. Hunger as an intense inner drive that refuses to settle for your current reality. In this episode, Michael unpacks a phrase that came out of an ordinary walk with his brother: "I will choose hunger over being refined, any day"; and breaks down what real hunger actually looks like when you strip away performance and borrowed motivation. You'll learn: 🔥 The five layers that make up your "current reality" — circumstantial, relational, internal, historical, and perceived vs. actual 🔥 A simple Current Reality Audit you can do with pen and paper today 🔥 The four-part Hunger Gauge to test whether your drive is intense, intrinsic, relentless, and rightly aimed 🔥 Why hunger, unlike ambition, never retires; it recalibrates This is a self-examination episode. Come with a notebook, not just your ears. Next week: 5 ways to forge hunger for the future God has prepared for you. Download your Currently Reality document here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/152LHV54H6xbvRCn9ae1em1VSOkQpRSUh/view?usp=sharing 🎧 Catch Wired to Thrive on Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. 👉 And check out our new show, Work With Flair, exploring how the Poimen Flair Productivity Tool helps individuals, teams, and organizations get more out of their work. Work With Flair on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ywPeOuAa6Bc?si=-wm3fvuoVJXLEoQ5 Work With Flair on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep1-working-with-what-you-have-how-knowing-your-flair/id6787047408?i=1000776088733 Work With Flair on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033IYorDBFjtsRtsRu9QKm?si=XSTP4sdrTiuXzaxgl6icEQ

  6. Jul 1

    #88. Seasons of Life 7 — Restoration

    We've walked through Formation, Transition, Fruitfulness, and Pruning. Now we arrive at the season that completes the cycle — Restoration. If Pruning is the cutting back, Restoration is the breaking forth. In this final episode of the Seasons of Life series, Michael Adote unpacks what it means when God doesn't just heal what was broken, but rebuilds it into something greater than before. Through three anchor stories, we discover the true character of biblical restoration: 🌾 Joel — God doesn't just replace the harvest; He restores the years the locusts devoured. ✨ Job — Restoration rarely returns you to baseline; it often doubles what was lost, and it opens through forgiveness, not just time. 🔥 Peter — At a charcoal fire on the shore, Jesus doesn't just forgive a failure — He recommissions a future. You'll learn why Restoration often starts as a whisper before it becomes a harvest, why receiving is harder than it sounds, and why the greatest danger of this season is staying in the posture of the one before it. This episode closes the series with a challenge: the seasons aren't a ladder you climb once; they're a cycle you learn to recognize, again and again, as a master steward of your own story. 🎧 Tune in as we close this journey and discover that God never wastes a season; He redeems every one of them. #WiredToThrive #SeasonsOfLife #Restoration #MasterYourMind #LiveOnPurpose #LeadDiligently

  7. Jun 26

    #87. The Thrive Table || Season 2 Episode 3 || Pragmatic Optimism

    What does it take to build something real on a continent that has been told, in a hundred different ways, that it cannot? In this episode of The Thrive Table, Michael Adote sits down with Joshua Eyram Wordey⁠‬⁠ ; author of ⁠Pragmatic Optimism: Building the Africa We Need⁠ for a conversation that is part intellectual reckoning, part personal testimony, and part challenge to every leader and builder working on this continent.Joshua spent three years researching and writing a book that began as commentary and became confession. From the green Sahara to the Berlin Conference, from M-Pesa to Patrick Awuah, from the widow's jar of oil in 2 Kings 4 to the question of African unity as a strategic imperative; this conversation covers the full arc of a book that refuses to be naive and refuses to despair. In this episode: - What pragmatic optimism actually means and what it is not - Why Joshua spent an entire chapter making the strongest possible case against his own argument - The history lesson that dismantled a lie he had believed his whole life - The hard conversation about faith functioning as a political sedative - Why 1.5 billion people acting as 54 separate freelancers will always be at a disadvantage - The widow, Elisha, and what Africa's oil in the house actually looks like This is the kind of conversation The Thrive Table was built for. 📖 Pragmatic Optimism: Building the Africa We Need get the book at: ⁠pragrmaticoptimism.africa⁠ 🎙️ The Thrive Table is produced by Poimen Leadership. For more on leadership, purpose, and building a life that works — visit ⁠poimenleadership.org⁠.

  8. Jun 16

    #86. Seasons of Life 6 — Pruning

    What if the thing you lost wasn't punishment — but proof? In this episode, Michael Adote unpacks the fourth and most misread of all five seasons of life: Pruning. Anchored in John 15:2, he opens with a truth that reframes everything — "Every branch that bears fruit, He prunes." Not the dead branches. The fruitful ones. If you have ever had something good removed from your life — a relationship, a position, a source of income, a season of influence — and found yourself wondering what you did wrong, this episode offers a different lens entirely. Pruning is not God's response to failure. It is His response to fruitfulness He intends to multiply. Through the vinedresser's knife in John 15 and the sifting of Peter — a portrait of pruning that comes not from outside circumstances, but from our own failure — Michael traces what this season is actually designed to produce: the removal of what consumes capacity without bearing fruit, the exposure of what we are truly made of, and a depth of fruitfulness the unpruned life could never sustain. He also names the two dangers that quietly derail this season: bitterness, and the misidentification of the knife as abandonment rather than investment. The knife is not the end of your story. It is the making of the next chapter. Wired to Thrive — where you master your mind, live on purpose, and lead diligently. 🎙 Search Wired to Thrive on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

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Wired To Thrive is a podcast committed to the making and equipping of individuals so they experience continuous growth, live a prosperous life and lead with diligence. We do this by stirring up the imagination of people so that transformation occurs within and around them. Our focus is the Mind, Purpose, and Leadership.

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  • Creator
    Michael Adote
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    99
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © Michael Adote