Hi, I’m Matt. Entrepreneurship Saved My Life.

I started my career with a shiny Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering.

It didn’t take long to realize that life wasn’t for me. Long weeks in a high-stress environment doing work I didn’t care about. Every day felt like training for a future I didn’t want.

So I quit. I left the country. I didn’t really know what I was running toward, only what I was done running from.

Somewhere in that reset, I stumbled into online business and entrepreneurship. And for the first time, something clicked.

Here, effort mattered. Decisions mattered. You could build something, improve it, and actually own the outcome.

It felt like the real beginning of my life. For the first time, my future was in my hands.

To the Moon

Once I found the game, things moved fast.

It felt like a roller coaster in the best way. Fun. Surreal. At times, it honestly felt almost impossible to fail.

I learned from great mentors, built a huge network, and got very good at one specific thing: building and scaling digitally-powered businesses.

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Agencies

  • Authority Builders — SEO agency (exited, eight figures)
  • The Search Initiative — digital marketing agency
  • Diggity Media — paid media agency
  • Epic Video — video agency

Portfolio

  • LeadSpring — portfolio of website businesses and JV’s

Communities & Media

  • The Affiliate Lab — 4,000+ members
  • Chiang Mai SEO Conference — sold out every year since 2017
  • 250k+ social audience including 170k+ on YouTube

The Cost

At some point, I burned myself out.

When I finally scaled things back, there was space to notice what was actually going on inside.

My mind was loud. Mostly anxiety. I couldn’t really rest, because resting felt like wasting time. Even my sleep fell apart.

The irony was that if I had nothing to do, I felt restless and guilty. If I had too much to do, I felt overwhelmed and stressed.

My nervous system was shot.

And what made it even more frustrating was this: I had gotten everything I’d set out to get. The money. The family. The community. From the outside, all the boxes were checked.

But I wasn’t really enjoying any of it.

So I did the only thing that made sense.

I turned inward.

The Inner Work

I made my inner world my new full-time job. I went Bryan Johnson on my mind.

Two years. All in.

  • 47 psychedelic journeys
  • 4 different therapists and therapy styles
  • 5 of the woo-woo-est modalities you can imagine
  • 1,900 hours of meditation
  • 4,892 pages of journaling
  • 54 books
  • 842 hours of podcasts
  • 2 coaches who put up with my shit

And slowly, things changed.

The anxiety quieted down. My sleep came back. The negative mental chatter turned into a voice I actually liked hearing.

My confidence grew. In a way I didn’t expect, I even went from being a serial introvert to extrovert.

Most surprisingly of all, I learned how to be on my own side.

I can honestly say now: I like who I am. I trust myself.

And that changed everything.

A Different Game

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I still love building things.

I still love strategy, leverage, and turning good ideas into great businesses.

But I’m not playing the same game anymore.

Now my focus is on people.

Yes, I still build and run businesses. But today, most of my energy goes into working with founders and individuals. Through angel investing, mentoring, and one-on-one coaching. Helping people build better companies, better lives, and better relationships with themselves.

I’m interested in building things that actually make people’s lives better. In working with humans, not just operators. In creating companies, communities, and spaces that are built from the inside out.

That’s why I invest the way I do. That’s why I coach the way I do. And that’s why this site exists.

I’m still building.

Just for different reasons now.

If any of this resonates, here are a few ways we could work together:

Work With Me 1-on-1

Coaching for founders and individuals who want to do deeper work on how they live, lead, and build.

Angel Investment

Angel investment and strategic partnership for founders building meaningful, scalable businesses.

Digital Marketing Services

High-level digital marketing strategy and execution through my agencies.