The Matty McCurdy Program

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We paid to watch a Beach Boys cover band. And the whole crowd turned their backs on it to stare at a fire on a distant hillside. I was at a county fair, standing in the middle of a concert, when a brush fire broke out miles away. Within minutes, every head in the crowd — including mine — was watchi…

He survived melanoma at 21. Then he ran across Arizona to prove something to himself. This is the founder of The Lean and Lethal Project — a man who built an entire philosophy around one uncomfortable truth: no one will respect you if you don't respect yourself first. We talk a lot about discipline…

He flew 8,000 miles from Australia to knock on doors in Arizona. And what he told me about God changed how I think about comfort. He left his family, his country, and the life he knew to spend two years in a shirt and tie, talking to strangers about faith. But this conversation wasn't about convert…

I watched Conor McGregor's last fight. Not as a fan — as a student. And I realized something most people never figure out: the difference between doing the work and refining the work. Everyone talks about grinding harder. Putting in the hours. The 10,000-hour rule. But if you look at McGregor — the…

He told me something most Mormon missionaries would never say out loud: "I don't know if I believe any of this."And then he dedicated two years of his life to serving a mission anyway.In this episode, I sit down with a young missionary from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who was ho…

She was told a career meant giving up motherhood. She proved everyone wrong. Faith Calhoun grew up inside the political machine — door-knocking as a kid, working the U.S. Capitol, running social media for gubernatorial campaigns. She's seen how the system really works. But the most important thing …

The right says "man up." The left says masculinity itself is the problem. They're both describing symptoms and calling it the fire.Here are the numbers nobody wants to sit with: Men account for 79% of all suicides in the United States. Suicide is the leading cause of death for men under 45. 57% of …

I asked a business litigator one simple question. His answer changed how I'll use AI forever.Everything you type into ChatGPT, Claude, or any AI tool is discoverable in court. Your chats aren't private. They aren't privileged. And if you're ever in a lawsuit, the other side can access every single …

Half commitment doesn't produce growth. It produces the illusion of growth. I learned this the hard way by spending years "dipping my toe in" and calling it progress. Baby steps. Gradual changes. Comfortable growth. None of it actually changed me. Here's what nobody tells you: that fear and anxiety…