The Matt Show

The Matt Show

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  • Social Good, Non-profits, And The Business of Influencers: Steph Belsky

    Steph Belsky, founder of Love Of Good & I talked about changing the narrative on non-profit and for-profit companies. Showing how when you create win-wins for everyone involved, for-profit may be an even more empowering way to create social impact and do good for each other. Steph through Love Of Good creates amazing relationships between influencers who genuinely want to have a positive impact and no-BS social causes. Aligning the best influencers and social cause organizations to make big social change.

    Learn more about Steph’s work: LoveOfGood.com

    Learn more about Do Good at:

    Dogoodocollab.com

    19 min
  • Freestyle Conversation: Krist Vinotai & FearTheFunk

    Featuring Krist Vinotai & Julius Irving AKA FearTheFunk.

    First freestyle podcast! This episode had no specific aim & the conversation took us where it took us… It was amazing!!!

    Krist is an upcoming 19 year old musician & FearTheFunk is an amazing 19 year old visual artist.

    Learn more about Fear The Funk at FearTheFunk.net

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    44 min
  • Your Friendly Social Media Expert: Troy Sandidge

    Troy Sandidge, your “friendly social media expert” and founder of FindTroy helps business of all kinds improve their marketing by strengthening their brand image and authentically connecting with their audience. Troy drops knowledge on how you can better market your personal or business brand using social media.

    Learn more about Troy’s work: https://findtroy.com/

    Learn more about Do Good a

    Dogoodocollab.com

    21 min
  • A New Kind Of Leadership Training: Experience Ignite

    Ryan Jeffery is the founder of Experience Ignite, a brand new leadership training community like no other focused on connecting leaders from all different types of industries to learn from each other & to cultivate purpose driven leaders who infuse purpose into their work environments. Ignite’s goal is to build up leaders who go back out into the world and make a positive impact for us all. We talked about what it means to be a truly great leader as ideas of leadership shift in the decades to come.

    Learn more about Ryan: https://www.experienceignite.com/

    Learn more about Do Good at:

    Dogoodocollab.com

    24 min
  • Transforming The Insurance Industry For Positive Impact: Meg McKeen

    Meg McKeen has been in the insurance game for over 20 years — founder of her practice, Adjunct Advisors. Meg stands strong against the status quo & we talked in depth about how to transform the insurance industry as a whole, and where there’s big room for innovation to improve on all the archaic, inefficient, and anti-consumer aspects of many insurance practices toady.

    Changing the narrative of insurance from something associated with fear, paranoia, and inconvenience to something we can count on to support us and positively impact our lives.

    Learn more at adjunctadvisors.com

    If you want to be on the podcast, reach out at dogoodcollab.com

    23 min
  • Tech To Improve Education & Help Schools Collaborate: Fernando DeLeon

    Fernando DeLeon is one of the co-founders of Innovare, an education technology company that 1) does state of the art data-analytics on out-come insights & strategies to help school leadership make better decisions. And 2) has created an eco-system to connect schools with other schools, ed-tech resources, non-profits, and funding opportunities in a trusted and growing network. We talked about building great education-based communities, how school leadership can improve their processes, and the future of education technology.

    Learn more at innovaresip.com

    If you want to be on the podcast, reach out at dogoodcollab.com

    29 min
  • Cancer As An Awakening To Learn How To Love: Kathleen Brown

    Kathleen Brown is the founder of Buddhi, a soon-to-launch support system + community for cancer fighters and their loved ones. Kathleen is on a mission to change our relationship with cancer from something soul-crushing to an awakening to help us learn how to take better care of our loved ones. We talked all about where she’s at in building the platform and what she’s excited about for the future of similar support systems.

    Learn more at hibuddhi.com

    If you want to be on the podcast, reach out at dogoodcollab.com

    21 min
  • On Being A Chicago Streetwear Creative: Des Money

    Des Money is an outstanding Chicago creative with a focus on visual arts and streetwear. He’s a core team member at FatTiger & owner of We All We Got. Wether it’s once pursuing a biology major psychology minor but “feeling like a robot in school”, recently becoming a father and trying to raise an amazing daughter, or taking great amounts of time and effort to serve others and give back… Des has a rich experience of life. We talked about making a living as a creative in street wear, using your work to take care of others, staying focused, and being grateful to be alive.

    See Des’s work…

    His own brands:

    Werealcool.us

    Weallwegot.co

    Who he works for:

    http://www.fattigerworkshop.com

    If you want to be on the podcast, reach out at dogoodcollab.com

    29 min
  • Staying True To Yourself As An Artist w/ Zion Townsend

    Amazing conversation with my long time brother Zion who I met straight into high school 6 years ago & is now head of editorials at Iridium Clothing in Chicago — we talked about a huge mindset shift going on especially with younger generations on how to live an authentic life & then taking our best steps towards making that authentic life a reality.

    Learn more, ask to be a next-guest, or see about our soon-to-launch co-working space at dogoodcollab.com 

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    24 min

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Personal interviews where creatives tell me everything. The Matt Show explores what moves our shared culture and the people behind it. Each episode takes you inside a creative's life to hear their story, understand their process, and better understand your own.