The Life Shift with Matt Gilhooly

This week we are so fortunate to have Matt Gilhooly on the show. Matt is a fellow podcaster who created the powerful, motivating, and incredibly moving podcast, The Life Shift. The show features candid, real and free-flowing conversations that Matt has with his guests around pivotal moments in their life that changed everything for them. Matt has quickly become a friend of the show and the team, and we cannot wait for you to hear his chat with Michelle, and when you are finished listening, head on over to The Life Shift podcast and check out Matts show. He is a natural listener, an expert at connecting with people, and the podcast therapist you did not know you needed, but you will not be sorry you found him.

In This Episode, Michelle Talks About

Matt’s ‘why’ and the message behind his podcast
Matt shares his story and how the podcast came to be
The truth behind creating and maintaining a successful podcast

Matt’s ‘why’ and the message behind his podcast

Matt shares with us what the meaning is behind his podcast and what he hopes it sets out to achieve. He talks about how the podcast is a place where people can have those hard or difficult conversations about key moments in their life that we sometimes struggle with and that change your life or trajectory. It’s about sharing a personal story or conversation that may make someone else out there feel less alone. Even if it only reaches one person, and that one person hears it and feels like there is someone else out there that understands, then Matt will have accomplished what he set out to do.

Matt shares his story and how the podcast came to be

Matt talks openly with Michelle about how the passing of his mother changed his own life and he started to wonder if other people had experienced similar moments that triggered something, that changed something, and set them on a new path. This was the inspiration for the podcast that he accidentally fell into while working on his master’s degree. While taking a class on podcasting, Matt was required to do all the research and planning for a show as part of the work and in the end, he fell in love with it so much, that it continued way beyond the class and thrived into what it is today.

The truth behind creating and maintaining a successful podcast

If you have ever wondered what it’s like to run your own podcast, then listen up! Matt talks about all the prep and work that he put into the show creation, the skills he taught himself such as audio and video editing, social media asset creation, promotion, and all the ways in which he maintains its success. Also, he does this all himself and he is absolutely killing it.