This conversation is CANDY for the mind! I'm so fortunate! Matthew Ferrara is my MENTOR and more importantly my FRIEND! He's an extraordinary, unique and deeply interesting man! On his website at Matthew Ferrara and Company, you'll see his bio that reads "Speaker. Writer. Capitalist. Survivor. Photographer. Teacher. Listener. Find out why organizations worldwide ask Matthew Ferrara to engage their leadership, train their management, inspire their sales teams and energize customers." 

Already you should be good and intrigued, and rightly so. We delve into all of these traits and interests. He's far smarter than your average guy.  A deeply value driven, artist and a very talented speaker and world traveler! He's home based in Las Vegas ~ nice and central, and for someone who's in an airport about 3 days a week makes it the ideal location! He's already been to Italy this year for a creative writing course AND just back from China! He took some AMAZING photography!

"Life is a philosophy course every day." ~ Matthew Ferrara (Click to TWEET!)

We have a lot of fun playing with philosophy, science fiction, and business and then we dive deep into some life challenges.  (And here is the quote that Matthew references: "We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters." which is the Founder's Fund Manifesto subtitle for their Manifesto called "What Happened To The Future?")

Top take away : LIVE A LITTLE MORE! :)

I'm TRULY looking forward to seeing Matthew close the Hawaii Life Worthshop Conference in Maui this December!

Teri: So welcome to Conversations that Matter. This is for people who are living on purpose. We're having very purposeful conversations. This is literally one of our very first recorded conversations that matter, and I really want to welcome Matthew Ferrara who is a multitude of things, and I'm going to go over almost every single one of them. First and foremost, you are a very good friend of mine. You are my mentor. I continually learn from you, and one of the big reasons that I've asked you to be my guest today is because of the respect that I have for you, everything that I've learned, and for many, many other things.

One of the things I want to do is go to your website because I think this is really fun. It says, “Meet the philosopher, Matthew.” So one of the ways that I know you is as a philosopher, of course, and a speaker, and a writer, and a capitalist, and a survivor, and a photographer, and a teacher, and a listener. You have all these great things that describe you, and I really want to take the time to go through why each one of those things have been very strategically placed right there under your picture on your home page.

Matthew: Sure, that's certainly not your typical resume, you would think. Yeah, I did have to put a lot of thought – actually, I had to decide on a few of them, whether I would even put them out there in some ways because some of them are really personal. I think that is something, for me at least, every time I hear my resume, in a sense, or my profile spoken back to me, it's always kind of like hearing it the first time even though I'm a little bit used to it now.

Teri: Right, so let's touch on a couple. First of all, I met you because you were doing some sales training down at Caldwell Banker Bank in Seattle. You are well-versed. You've been in the real estate industry speaking and doing training, particularly in the sales and technology and marketing side of the business and well-revered,