Made to Matter
🎙️ Welcome to the Made to Matter Podcast with Adam Landrum
You’ve checked every box. Built the career. Raised the family. Collected the titles and toys. From the outside, you’ve made it. But when the meetings end and the house quiets, there’s a question echoing louder than ever: Is this it?
Welcome to Made to Matter—a podcast for high-achieving men in the second half of life who are ready to stop drifting and start living. Hosted by Adam Landrum, executive coach, entrepreneur, and author of The Life That Matters Manifesto, this show is a bold call to reclaim your purpose, realign your work with your values, and design a life that truly matters.
Each episode dives deep into the heart of midlife reinvention. Whether you’re contemplating a second career, launching a meaningful business, or simply hungry to make your next chapter your best one yet, Made to Matter offers real talk, practical tools, and life-tested strategies to help you move from success to significance.
We don’t chase mediocrity. We reject the status quo. This podcast is for men who are no longer willing to settle for just existing—and who are ready to matter again.
🔍 What You’ll Hear:
- How to uncover your true purpose (yes, it’s still there)
- The mindset shifts required to leave corporate without losing your identity
- Tools for designing an “Encore Career” that aligns with your values, passions, and calling
- Conversations on fatherhood, legacy, faith, friendship, and fulfillment
- Courageous interviews with men who’ve walked away from comfort to build something that matters
- Straight talk about fear, failure, golden handcuffs, and the myths of midlife
- Faith-driven reflections on what it means to be called to more
🔑 Who This Is For: You’re 45–60, successful on paper, yet deeply restless. You’ve been feeling stuck, questioning if the ladder you climbed was leaning against the wrong wall. You’ve thought, “I don’t know what I want, but I know it’s not this.” You want more meaning, deeper impact, renewed energy—and a life of legacy, not just longevity.
You’re not alone. And you’re not too late.
📌 About Your Host: Adam Landrum is not just another coach—he’s lived the transition you’re facing. From Fortune 500 auditor to founder and CEO of a nationally recognized agency, Adam eventually walked away from a successful business to answer a deeper calling. Today, he helps men discover their God-given purpose and build businesses, careers, and lives that matter. Through his Made to Matter coaching programs, mastermind groups, and best-selling book, he’s helped hundreds of men get unstuck and live fully aligned with who they are and why they’re here.
🎯 Popular Episodes Include:
- “Why High-Achieving Men Feel Stuck (And What To Do About It)”
- “How to Reinvent Your Career After 50—Without Starting Over”
- “The 3-Step Framework for Leaving Corporate and Living Your Purpose”
- “Success vs. Fulfillment: The Real Midlife Crisis”
- “How I Built a 6-Figure Coaching Business at 53”
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Made to Matter
How to Know When It’s Time for Your Next Mission — with Former Secret Service Agent Darin Kinder
https://www.madetomatter.coach/
At some point in a man’s life, the mission he’s been on—career, identity, achievements—stops fitting. Something deeper begins stirring. A holy dissatisfaction. A call toward the next mission God has been preparing him for all along.
Today’s episode is with a man who has lived multiple missions with courage: Darin Kinder.
Teacher. Military. Secret Service agent. And now, author and faith-driven speaker helping men rediscover meaning in their work and their lives.
Darin shares:
How to recognize when you’re no longer in your “sweet spot”
— that unmistakable internal sense that you’re doing good work, but not the work you were made for.
Why your purpose never changes — but your missions do
— and why men in midlife often stay stuck because they believe they can’t make a change.
How God uses decades of preparation before calling you into the next season
— including how Darin spent 10–15 years “writing a book in his head.”
The danger of settling into the status quo in your 40s and 50s
— straight from The Life That Matters Manifesto: the status quo steals your potential.
Why “If you’re not dead, you’re not done” is the anthem for every second-half man
How Darin launched Fierce Faith, his speaking and ministry organization helping men find mission and meaning in both corporate and faith-driven environments.
This conversation is for the man who feels restless.
The man who’s successful—but not fulfilled.
The man who knows there’s more inside him than the life he’s currently living.
If you’re in your second half and you're ready to step boldly into the life God made you for, this episode will speak directly to you.
📚 Guest Links
Book: Bury Me in a Dirty Suit
(Amazon, Barnes & Noble)
Faith-Based Website: https://fierce-faith.com
Corporate Speaking Website: https://darinkinder.com
Instagram: @darinkinder
LinkedIn: Darin Kinder
Chapters
00:00 — Purpose vs. Missions
01:09 — Meet Darin Kinder
02:00 — From Teacher → Military → Secret Service
08:20 — Midlife crises & course corrections
09:53 — What the “Sweet Spot” Really Means
13:00 — When God Prepares You for Decades
14:10 — Leaving the Secret Service for Your Next Mission
19:00 — Why Purpose Never Stops Calling
33:20 — Launching Fierce Faith
35:24 — “If You’re Not Dead, You’re Not Done”
39:55 — Where to Find Darin’s Book
41:00 — Closing Thoughts
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