Hi, I'm Matt.

I started The Life Shift Podcast in 2022 as a class assignment during my second graduate degree at the University of Florida. Mass Communications. I needed a topic, and I kept coming back to the same question: what is the moment that changed everything for you?

For me, it was the moment my father sat me down to tell me my mother had been killed in a motorcycle accident. I was young. And everything shifted.

I didn't expect a class assignment to still be going four years later. But the stories kept coming, and somewhere along the way, sitting with other people's most vulnerable moments quietly helped me understand my own.

Five seasons and 250+ episodes later, I'm still listening. Still finding that the most honest stories are the ones that connect us most.

That's what this site is about. Books, journals, and stories for anyone who has ever had to start over, or who is standing at the edge of something new and not quite sure what comes next.

I'm glad you found this place.