Stories

I quit.I was set to inherit a book of business producing $1,500,000 in revenue. Unlimited earning potential. I was already good enough to take over.→ I was convinced you were AI.I cold-called a speaker with more stage experience than I had life experience. Hoped he wouldn't answer.→ Why didn't anyone tell him.3 weeks after I spent 45 minutes calming down a $5 million client who was pissed off at the bank, I get a transfer out notice.→ He had 10,000x my net worth.Our 53-year-old $100M+ client gives me a ring. For the first time, he's asking 23-year-old me for advice.→ Semmelweis died right.In 1847, a doctor cut childbed-fever deaths in his ward from 18% to 2%.→ Do you know where you're going?"Matt, I deliver these long, rambling answers. I can feel people tuning out. I keep losing my point. I just kind of... end. And hope it made sense."→ Have you ever been wrong before?She rang her company's CEO 3 years ago and pitched him on why he should create her role.→ Seven stopped.Joshua Bell made $32 playing a $3.5 million violin in a subway station.→ The 99-cent horse head sold for $62.95.$128 of thrift store junk sold for $3,612 on eBay.→ It was flawless. The audience hated it.I once practiced a 27-minute speech 89 times.→ Nobody wants to bomb at the Stress Factory.Before every tour, Chris Rock bombs 50 times on purpose.→ Effortless requires a lot of effort.Taylor Swift spent 6 months singing her 40-song setlist on a treadmill every day. Before rehearsals even started.→ Mumbling to myself like a lunatic.The Wednesday before Future Proof, I startled myself awake at 2:45 AM – editing my talk in my sleep.→ Matt, sometimes I just want to talk.My wife gets home from her shift in the Cardiac ICU and the look on her face says "I've had a day."→ No one remembers my name.Every week I walk 7 minutes to a coffee shop to write. $5.50 for a drip I call writing rent.→ Maybe just an investment property.My wife and I have secret dreams of moving the fam to Costa Rica.→ I am a walking contradiction.I am a 200lb bearded man who watches Spongebob (seasons 1-3, ofc).→

One call.

Tell me where it keeps going sideways. I'll tell you what I'd work on first, and if that's not me, I'll tell you that too.