The Matt Show

Kim Aponi is a fashion designer, event curator, painter, and all around artist. She is the founder of Chi Products, a clothing and design brand representing Chicago and the world. Her team is based out of New York. She’s worked with Adidas, Pyer Moss, and collaborated with Urban Outfitters. She’s on the Vic Mensa team and is tapped in with a lot of music talent in Chicago. From throwing several hu...

NoCapSawBuck is a recording artist, designer, and culture curator based out of Chicago. Follow SawBuck on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nocapsawbuckk/ ____________________________________ Follow Matt: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nonstop.matt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/nonstopmatt

Maddie Wang is the founder of Founders Cafe, an online support network made up of founders from Y-Combinator, Harvard, Stanford and more. She has a bunch of cool accolades including making $60,000 as a 13 year old off of a MineCraft server she ran, or making $120,000+ as a 19 year old off of her own Amazon store. Maddie worked on many startup projects through college and ended dropping out Stanfor...

Paige Finn Doherty is the Founding Partner at Behind Genius Ventures where they invest in the future of work and the future of play. She has a background in mechanical engineering, computer science, and building dope sh*t! She’s based out of San Deigo. Behind Genius Venture’s Website: https://www.behindgeniusventures.com/ Follow Paige on Twitter: https://twitter.com/paigefinnn   _____ Follow...

Nait Jones is an expert on the intersection of technology and culture. Nait was a partner at Andreessen Horowitz for 8 years where he led TxO, the Talent Opportunity Initiative. TxO is A fund that invests in and searches for cultural geniuses and founders with unconventional backgrounds. Nait Jones also helped create Royal, partnering with Nas and various other musicians to use NFTs to invest in m...

SoloCelo is a recording artist from Chicago now based in LA and very close friend of Matt’s since elementary school. Within the past year Solo has gone from a few 1000 to over 190,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. He’s built a small but growing loyal fanbase at the intersection of hip-hop, rock, pop, and rnb sound. He’s been featured in Gary Vee’s Monday to Monday playlist of upcoming artists to w...

Sonny is a recording artist and creative based in Chicago. He holds over 15 million streams on Spotify, been named an artist to watch by Lyrical Lemonade, featured in Vogue, opened up for Pusha T at Radius in Chicago and more. He's a part of a creative collective called High Life and is generally very tapped into the network of underground creatives and artists in Chicago. ____ Follow Sonny Spotif...

Jeff Osuji is the founder of Eventnoire. The company has been the ticketing platform for Hyde Park Fest, Chance The Rapper Night At The Museum, Techrise, NBA Allstar Weekend Events and more.  Jeff has a background in advertising, marketing, and hosting many events. Jeff & Eventnoire have been recognized and won pitch competitions with Google for Startups, Mountain Dew, P33, and more. &nbs...

Claude Cimeus is an an entrepreneur, Director of Platform At P33, and has lead a new wave of tech events in Chicago post-covid. Most noteablely, Claude led Tech Week Chicago, a 3 day long series of panels, networking, after-parties, and even brought Pusha-T to the club! Claude only eats out so we talked restaurants in Chicago, sports, growing up in Haiti, working with political figures in Illinois...

Senite is a singer and song-writer based out of Chicago, IL. Within a year and a half she went from a very modest audience & performing in backyard stages to filling concert venue halls and pulling in over a million streams. She’s very connected to the hive-mind of super talented rising Chicago creatives and artists of all kinds. Learn more about Senite  Senite's Website: https://www.seni...

Andy and I both share Bi-Polar disorder and being an entrepreneur in the midst of struggling with episodes. Andy and I explore the complexities of Bi-Polar disorder and describe the shared experiences someone with Bi-Polar ends up going through. We talk improve the cost of support for mental health, selling his company for $300M, his book Burn Rate: “Launching A Startup and Loosing My Mind.” And h...

Jewel Ifeguni is an associate producer at Decoy Games, a black-owned video game studio where only 2% of the gaming industry is made up of black people. She's the founder of You Matter Studios, a media studio with a focus on improving representation in media. And she has worked at Minecraft at Mojang at Microsoft as a Technical Project manager.   Follow Jewel here: https://www.instagram.com/je...

Baco is a multi-disciplinary artist from Chicago, mainly focused on music. Follow Baco on Instagram: @lovebaco —— Reach out to Matt on Instagram: @nonstop.matt Twitter: @nonstopmatt

Landon Campbell is an early stage investor at Drive Capital, a podcast host where he has interviewed the likes of Steve Wozniak, he’s a frequent event host in Chicago for technology and venture capital, and he’s a TedX speaker! Reach out to Landon on Instagram, Twitter or LinkedIn (Landon W. Campbell) Follow Landon on Twitter: https://twitter.com/landon20s Follow Landon on Instagram: https://www.i...

Makafui Searcy is the owner of Fourtune House, a creative empowerment workshop and event space on the South Side of Chicago in Bronzeville. At 22 years old, Makafui has lead a way for empowering the creative development of young artists to access reassures and opportunities. Makafui’s inner circle consists of some of Chicagos most talented rising artist from musicians, to film makers, to visual ar...

Aaqib Usman is the founder of Light Pong, the world's first 1-Dimensional game console or you could say the world's first connected toy company. As of this recording, I happen to work for Light Pong! Aaqib is an entrepreneur with an extensive background in bringing together the physical and digital worlds. He's previously the founder of Midwest Immersive, a tech installation and tech-based experie...

Gabe Tavas is the founder of Symmetry Wood. At Symmetry Gabe has developed Pyrus, a material made from bacteria that closely mimics wood to prevent deforestation.  Gabe and Symmetry won the national James Dyson award and have been featured in the World Economic Form.    Gabe is a long time friend of mine and we worked as co-founders for 3 years on and off on different projects.&nbsp...

Mirza Baig is a software engineer and entrepreneur. He's the creator of an app called Monk Mode to help you stay on track of your desired habits, he created an event discovery tool for Muslim events at mosques around your area, and is building a coaching/therapy platform. He's also a founding engineer at Cash Drop.  Follow The Intersection on Instagram: The. Intersection. Pod

Ruben Flores is the founder and CEO of CashDrop. He’s on a mission to create as much generational wealth for Latinos world wide as possible. He’s a serial entrepreneur and I’ve actually had the pleasure of interviewing him two other times in the past. @the.intersection.pod / all socials @cashdrop.biz to follow CashDrop DM me on Instagram for podcast inquiries @nonstop.matt

Jonah is an amazing artist in graphic design, film, fashion, modeling, and music who has done work with large molding agencies including Photogenics LA and Anti-Agency as a model and media creator. Jonah has worked along side Tyler The Creator for GOLF (but didn’t wanna talk about it cause he’s tired of being recognized for that). Jonah has made various short films on his own and for large brands....

Matt finally interviews a couple of his best friends after years and years of working along side them and watching them grow… Ra Gordon and Emmanuel Isreal (GoldenBoyMnny) are two underground Chicago hip-hop legends in-the-making. Ra is an 18 year old producer who went from making beats in his family’s basement to working in professional studios all around Chicago and has managed to create songs w...

Sir Trevor James is a producer, creative director, and entrepreneur and AM (Amin Mashadi) is a music artist, both part of the “Collected” collective. We sat down and discussed their most recent fully self-product event “Collected As One.” We talked about their experience going to music-focused colleges in Chicago such as Columbia and SAE. We discussed best practices in the music industry, Trevor a...

Matt Interviews Jaylen who goes by Trip and @rips.chicago on social media. Growing up on the South Side of Chicago in Chatham one block away from Cottage Grove. Trip talks about the trials and tribulations that he went through growing up and being a truly loving person while still standing your ground. Choosing to be interested in stuff that may have been considered “weird” by his peers but still...

Matt talks with Graeme Phillips founder of Chicago Socrates, an artist collective and artist support network in Chicago. Graeme is a big advocate for mental health with his own stories of struggles and learning to work with the craziness of his own mind. Matt and Graeme discuss their own mental health stories in an open dialogue around working through the dark places that our minds can end up even...

Matt interviews Hayden Humphrey a life coach and career coach. Hayden helps people break out of the “script” of how life is “supposed” to go and helps people live life by their own design. Matt and Hayden talk about how to live a life that is an authentic reflection of you and how businesses can be more human, as Hayden calls it: “leading with love”. Follow Hayden: Instagram: @haydenashimself Link...