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Your kids don't need a perfect dad. They need a regulated one.

In this episode, I break down the 11-Step Hope Framework and tackle the three problems I hear from men more than any others: no sense of direction, struggling to show up as the parent they want to be, and losing touch with purpose. If you feel stuck or like you're failing even while trying your hardest — this one's for you.

Identity. Purpose. Restoration.

Keywords: hope, direction, fatherhood, purpose, men's coaching, resilience, parenting, identity, faith

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 Your wife doesn't need a better husband. She needs a different man. Read that again. Here are the Facts:  there's a difference between performing better husband behaviors — the date nights, the chores, the compliments — and actually becoming someone new at the identity level. And she can feel the difference even when she can't put words to it. In this episode I break down: → Why "doing harder" almost always fails long-term → The exhausted-wife pattern nobody talks about — she's not asking for more, she's asking to stop managing you → Why most men were trained for task work, never identity work → Two moves you can make this week to start becoming instead of performing If you've been doing all the "right things" and still feel the distance in your marriage — this episode is going to name exactly why. This isn't about being a better husband. It's about becoming a different man. 🎙️ Subscribe for weekly conversations on identity, purpose, and restoration. 

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I almost died. I cheated. I got divorced. I got baptized as an adult in the wreckage of all of it.

For 200 episodes I've been telling you to lead your home, get aligned, become the CEO of your own life — however I've never actually walked you through how I got here.

So this time, Amber sat me down and asked. No script I could hide behind. Just the 10 actual moments that built the man in front of you right now.

The near-death experience that changed how I see everything.
 The affair I don't usually talk about.
 The daughter who showed me what I actually needed to fix.
 The day I finally stopped being the center of my own life.

This is the most honest 45 minutes I've ever put my name on.

If you're a man who feels like you're failing at home more than you're winning — start here. Link in bio 🎙️

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You've got a scorecard for your job. You've never had one for your home — until now.

In this episode, I'm handing you the CEO Audit: 7-pointed questions across Identity, Purpose, and Restoration that show you exactly where you're leading well, and exactly where you're just getting by.

→ Why provision without presence isn't leadership
→ The silent gap between "peaceful" and "checked out"
→ 7 questions to score yourself on Identity, Purpose, and Restoration
→ What your score actually means — and what to do about it
→ Why this episode sets up something big for Episode 200

This isn't about shame. It's about data. You can't lead what you don't measure — and most men have never measured this. Grab a pen, take the audit, and find out where you really stand.

🎧 New episodes every week. Subscribe so you don't miss Episode 200.

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She took her ex to court after financial abuse — and won. That courtroom moment became the turning point where Anu Verma reclaimed her voice, her boundaries, and her sense of self-worth.

In this episode, Michael Hicks sits down with Anu Verma — author, speaker, trauma coach, entrepreneur, and life sciences commercial professional — to talk about what happens when your past shapes you but doesn't define you. Anu opens up about the childhood trauma and toxic relationships that fueled years of people-pleasing and overachievement, why she functioned at a high level externally while carrying unresolved trauma internally, and why healing was never about perfection — it was about integration and self-trust.

This conversation is for anyone who looks successful on the outside but feels exhausted, disconnected, or stuck in survival patterns underneath.

Topics covered:

• Awareness as the first step to changing self-destructive patterns
• Why self-worth can't be outsourced to achievement, relationships, or validation
• The courtroom fight that became a reclamation of identity
• The myth that healing is linear
• What choosing yourself looks like in small, daily moments
• How boundaries and identity reshape every area of life

Connect with Anu Verma: [insert her website/social links]
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Liv2Thrive: Identity. Purpose. Restoration.

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3 science-backed moves to break decision paralysis for good. (Decision Debt, Part 3 of 3) You need Episode 196 before this one — that's where the diagnostic tools live. This episode delivers the mechanism: why your brain actually freezes on big decisions, and three specific strategies to override it, rooted in psychology and built for how a man leads his home.

➡️ The neuroscience of why emotionally loaded decisions hijack your best thinking (the amygdala hijack, explained plainly) ➡️ The 24-Hour Ultimatum — how a hard deadline changes your brain's threat response ➡️ The Elder in the Room — the prospective-hindsight technique that shrinks present fear ➡️ The One Percent Move — the behavioral-activation principle for decisions too big to face at once ➡️ How to stack all three for the decisions that matter most

Start here if you're new to the series: Episode 195, "Decision Debt: The Interest You're Paying," then Episode 196, "The Bill Always Comes Due."

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The bill on decision debt always comes due — the only question is whether you pay it on your terms or life's terms. In this episode, Michael Hicks delivers the exact framework for breaking chronic indecision: three tests to expose real discernment vs. fear, and the four-step process CEOs — and men leading their homes — use to decide with confidence, without ever needing a guarantee.

You'll learn:

• The 3 tests that reveal whether you're truly discerning or just stalling
• The 4-step CEO decision framework: define the cost of inaction, set a deadline, decide and adjust, lead your household through it out loud
• Why prayer was never designed to replace your decision
• The parable that reframes what "playing it safe" is really costing you

Ready to stop paying interest on a decision you already know you need to make? Email - Michael - [email protected] work with Michael 1-on-1.

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What if the very thing you've prayed for is the thing that's quietly destroying your life? So many men are chasing financial success while sacrificing their marriage, their faith, their health, and their peace — and calling it "winning."

In this episode, Michael Hicks unpacks the hidden cost of success without purpose, and why your family will remember your presence far longer than they'll remember your paycheck. God never called you to build a business and lose yourself in the process. The CEO who shows up at work has to be the same CEO who shows up at home — present, intentional, and leading well.

Michael walks through three practical shifts to help you reclaim your priorities before the success you worked so hard for costs you everything you actually wanted.

If you're crushing it professionally but feel like you're losing personally — this one's for you. Share it with a man who needs to hear it.

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You've been planning, preparing, and waiting for the "right time" — but the right time doesn't come from more planning, it comes from moving. In this final episode of "The Trap of the Perfect Plan," we tackle the moment overthinking has to end and action has to begin.

This is Part 3 of 3. If you're leading your home, your family, or your life and you're stuck in the planning phase, this episode is your push to move. Identity. Purpose. Restoration.

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You've been calling it patience. However, what if staying stuck is the most expensive decision you've ever made? In Part 2 of this series, Michael Hicks gets specific about what the pause has already cost you — your health, your relationships, your self-trust, your purpose — and introduces David, a husband and father of two who kept finding a reason not to move until the pain of staying finally outweighed the fear of going. One story. Five costs. One move to make this week. 🎧 Start with Episode 192 if you haven't yet. 

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