August After Dark

What does it actually take to build a life with someone? Not the Instagram version. The real one, with near-death accidents, broken bones, a brain bleed, fertility struggles, and the kind of storms that either break a couple apart or make them unbreakable. In this episode, Matthew sits down with his wife Adria for one of the most honest conversations we've put on record. They go back to the b...

Donate: augustafterdark.com Ronald McDonald House BC & Yukon: rmhbc.ca Register for the Okanagan Dream Rally: okanagandreamrally.com What happens to a family when their child is airlifted to BC Children's Hospital with nothing but the clothes on their back? In this episode of August After Dark, Matt sits down with Richard Pass — CEO of Ronald McDonald House BC & Yukon for nearly 20 ye...

August Motorcars: https://www.augustmotorcars.com/ You hear "AI" 50 times a day. Nobody actually tells you what to do with it. This week, Cory Silva sat down with Host, Matt August to fix that. Cory's the co-founder of Six Summit, an AI software agency building real tools for real businesses. He went from a failed tech startup and 10 years in corporate retail to founding an AI compa...

Learn more about Custom Health: customhealth.com August Motorcars: augustmotorcars.com What if a device on your kitchen counter could track every pill you take, alert your doctor in real time, and flag opioid addiction before it takes hold? That's exactly what Shane built. In this episode of August After Dark, we sit down with the founder of Custom Health — a UBC pharmacist who rewrote Canadi...

This podcast episode lives at the intersection of hope, community, and the quiet heroism of parenthood .  It is not a cancer story — it is a story about what human beings are capable of when everything is stripped away.  On Canada Day 2019, Janelle Stanley's 2.5 year-old son Finley was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. His platelet count was 9. He could have bled out internally wit...

Matt August and Mike Hall have been the guys behind August Motor Cars from the beginning — and in this episode, they're finally telling the whole story.  From bidding on a foreclosed building their families thought was a terrible idea, to sneaking into the Indy 500 pits, getting dressed as pirates at a supercar rally, crashing a Radical at track, and eventually taking a McLaren 765LT across A...

What does it actually mean to be successful — and what if everything you've been chasing has been keeping you from the peace you already have? In this episode of August After Dark , host Matt sits down with entrepreneur, digital marketing pioneer, and consciousness explorer Nicholas for one of the most honest, wide-ranging conversations the show has ever had. Nicholas's story starts befo...

Casey Clarke will tell you his voice wasn't good enough. He'll say it before you get the chance to ask. He left broadcast school without a diploma. Took a job in a town called Westlock, Alberta. Figured getting paid to learn beat paying someone to teach him. Thirty years later — one of 3 Canadians to win the CMA Broadcaster of the Year. In this episode, Matt sits down with Casey to go th...

Adam and Lindsay Relvas opened their restaurant on October 6th, 2016. Six weeks later, their three-year-old son was diagnosed with stage four cancer. Adam flew back and forth to Vancouver for eight months. Lindsay stayed at the hospital. Friends kept the restaurant alive. Anthony is doing well now. The Relvas family has spent the last ten years giving back to everyone who showed up for them — and...

Some conversations only happen after the lights go down. August After Dark is  hosted by Matt August. Each episode he sits down with operators, athletes, builders, and creators and asks the questions nobody bothered to ask them on the main stage — how they built it, what it cost them, and what they actually do with it now. Here's what Matt keeps seeing: the people who build the most are almos...