Matt Vincent is a strength athlete, two-time Highland Games World Champion, and founder of HVIII Brand Goods, now rebranded to Not Dead Yet. Through his travels, Matt was lucky enough to spend time with exceptional people chasing strength, fulfillment, and personal growth in every imaginable way. In Matt's first book, Training Lab, he spelled out the philosophy of “The HVIII,” and tried to capture the spirit of self-improvement through self-loathing. This idea would be the spark that led to HVIII Brand Goods and many adventures afterward. Matt chronicles his travels and conversations with people in the strength game and beyond on his podcast NDY.

In this episode, we are joined by Ed Latimore. Ed is a former professional heavyweight boxer, a competitive chess player, and a bestselling author. His writing focuses on self-development, realizing your potential, and sobriety—all of which he approaches from personal experience, overcoming poverty and addiction. We have a special guest on today's episode, Ed Latimore. Ed's an ex-professional heavyweight boxer and a competitive chess player. He's also a best-selling author who writes about personal development, achieving your goals, and sobriety. Ed speaks from experience, having overcome poverty and addiction.

My guest on the podcast today is my friend Ivy. For reasons you'll soon find out, she wanted to remain anonymous on this podcast so we could share it on her social platform by the same handle.

Ivy is based in LA and primarily works with paintings. Her style is heavily influenced by street art with themes of self-love and life struggle with different emotions, which she portrays by combining portraiture words and color elements. Her goal is to create art that connects with people on a deeper level by evoking emotions and developing a sense of vulnerability.

CT Kaupp helps service-based businesses create a powerful online presence to thrive in their marketplace. After five years honing his craft at his late father's advertising agency, he started his own website design business (CT Kaupp, LLC) to disrupt that industry - by providing an uncommon level of collaboration and personal 1:1 service. He has you covered from creating, updating, and maintaining your website.

CT has spent the last three years on a journey of self-discovery – figuring out what makes him tick, what brings him the most joy and fulfillment, and how to live it authentically. He approaches each day purposefully and hopes to inspire you to do the same.

In this conversation, we get pretty granular and talk about how he looks at his writing process, and why he is choosing to do screenwriting, As such a niche field, screenwriting can feel like a lost cause or something that is a pipe dream, for lack of a better term. And I even asked him what he would say to someone who says, why are you doing this? Screenwriting seems like a waste of time.

And beyond that, we have a great discussion around the film as an industry and loving critiques of it. What shows are good or great? What makes compelling stories?

We get into what is a fulfilling life, like what drives someone to do something and fully immerse yourself in it. For Jordan, it's not leaving anything on the table.

Dierdre is fascinating in what she provides to people her outlook on the world. Being able to push back on norms of how people assume you should be. And also the power of writing because she believes that what you tell yourself informs what you can do. When you say, Oh, I'm supposed to be this, or I should be that, that's another person's value. And she says, write your own story. Or that's what she would say after talking to her. And so with that, everyone.