Episodes

  • How Overscheduling Can Ruin The Magic

    How Overscheduling Can Ruin The Magic
    Oct 12 2022
    We all fall victim to overscheduling. Whether it's our work calendar or scheduling every facet of our personal lives (and our kids!), it's all too common to look up after a few weeks and wonder where the time went. In this episode, we talk about how some of the greatest magic happens when schedules go awry and how less planning and scheduling can often be the best medicine.
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    11 mins
  • When Everything Is Going Wrong and What To Do About It

    When Everything Is Going Wrong and What To Do About It
    Sep 27 2022
    In this episode, we explore a world where all your well-laid plans don't go according to plan. You know, like real life?! I share a recent story in both our vanlife and as a motivational speaker where everything went wrong, including my worst fear as a speaker coming true. I also address how to approach those situations in the moment and how to get things back on track.
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    13 mins
  • Quiet Quitting and Finding What Makes You Tick

    Quiet Quitting and Finding What Makes You Tick
    Sep 21 2022
    What really makes you happy? What makes you tick? And are you getting enough of it in your personal and professional life? In this episode, we talk what's happening with the Great Resignation, "Quiet Quitting" and how we find (and become) the people who bring value to others when they need it the most.
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    11 mins
  • Perspective

    Perspective
    Sep 2 2022
    You’ll certainly see a lot of sights doing #vanlife, but you’ll also have opportunities gain a different perspective. In this episode, you’ll hear how an encounter at Big Bend National Park helped remind us to keep seeing the good even when the odds are stacked.
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    17 mins
  • No Excuses

    No Excuses
    Aug 24 2022
    Time is short, so stop letting excuses get in your way of your goals, priorities, or desires. In the first episode of Down By The River, you’ll hear how we made the decision to travel full-time a reality by removing the excuses in our way.
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    13 mins
  • Squirrels Wombats and Trading on Delivery with Jeff Havens

    Squirrels Wombats and Trading on Delivery with Jeff Havens
    Nov 18 2021
    Jeff Havens is an internationally-known keynote speaker on topics ranging from change management to innovation. He’s also my brother – hence the brotherly jabs at each other throughout the episode. In our conversation, Jeff shares his journey from the high school classroom to some of the world’s biggest stages, why companies need to pay attention to the Great Resignation, and why we are all experts at change management and we just don’t realize it yet.
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    32 mins
  • 14 Minutes and the Mercy Project

    14 Minutes and the Mercy Project
    Oct 4 2021
    14 minutes. That’s 1% of your day. What if just that 1% was dedicated to doing “good?” That’s exactly what Chris Field has done and is trying to encourage others to join him. In this episode, I spoke with Chris about his journey to start the Mercy Project, a non-profit aimed at eradicating child slavery in Ghana and how he tries to focus on the compassion, courage, and creativity we all have in us to do good in the world.
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    46 mins
  • Ordinary and Making a Career Change

    Ordinary and Making a Career Change
    Sep 9 2021
    You have the rest of your life to be ordinary. If you knew you could always go back to life as normal, what would you do differently today? In this solocast, Matt shares his journey stepping out on his own, leaving behind an established, comfortable, and safe corporate career for the world of public speaking. He shares his thoughts on how to find what’s important to you – in work and in life – to help guide those decisions and ultimately find happiness.
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    37 mins