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Matt is the Founder of Hello Stranger and has a wealth of experience developing products to improve people’s lives and help them change their behaviour.
He currently provides workshops and coaching to help lead teams, foster positive professional relationships and network effectively. These are structured to encourage attendees to try out strategies and proudly "fail" to accelerate the learning process.
He’s also someone who embodies a balanced approach to his endeavours, well-equipped with tools and strategies after battling burnout and mounting self-imposed stress.
Top 3 quotes from the episode
Top 3 quotes from the episode
"A quote I love is ‘you can’t learn to swim by reading a book’ and I think you can’t learn to communicate by watching someone online"
"The biggest determinant of my success, in my eyes, is being able to say ‘no’ to things that don’t align with my purpose"
"For me when I make a change, I make it embarrassingly small so that I can’t talk about it immediately and by the time it’s got big enough, its got engrained in my life so I don’t really want to talk about it"
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Show Notes
Show Notes
Why Matt started Hello Stranger (0:52)
How he refined the structure of his workshops (3:52)
The importance of social facilitation (5:46)
Taking fears from abstract to “known” (7:17)
Why he thinks things will work out in the end (11:16)
The importance of failure (15:20)
Key learnings while creating Hello Stranger (16:25)
The importance of identity (20:02)
The value of community (23:04)
The role of the environment (22:22)
Rapid-fire questions (27:40)
How Matt has sustained himself while being an entrepreneur (29:00)
The role of meditation in Matt’s life (34:05)
The importance of saying “no” (35:30)
The value of goal-setting (39:20)
The power of gratitude (42:30)
What does communication look like in my life (43:37)
More quotes from the episode
More quotes from the episode
"This is just my own personal philosophy, but the bad times never last and the good times will eventually end"
"Especially trying to be a founder and an entrepreneur, it can be very very easy to get wrapped up in the frustrations, the anxieties, the Linkedin jealousies, all of these things that you get so tangled in this moment. You don’t don’t realise, it’s going to be over at some point”
"Defining failure as a positive component of my life has been massively impactful in how I approach challenge"
"There’s a quote I love from Einstein … “'experience is learning, everything else is just information'”
"The first time you try something it’s probably not going to work, but the thing with an experimenter mindset is, cool now I get to move onto number two and find out if that works and try add infimum until you find the one that works for you"
"When I started, I had this very immature belief that if I was spending time behind my laptop, even if I wasn’t working, I was doing the right thing”
"It’s very easy, when I’m in social interactions, to end up almost bragging… it takes away from my work ethic because I’m getting the dopamine of satisfaction away from my work"
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