The Matt Show

On this episode Matt interviews Bryan Arriaga founder of Global WSDM and Esteban Escobar founder of Mayan Jade. Both heavily influenced by the city of Chicago and culturally aware, the three discuss Chicago’s beauties and flaws. Escobar gives you the scoop behind his latest work with Mayan Jade and his brand’s roots with Mayan designers in Guatemala + working on new furniture. Savybah talks about...

Kevin P. Davenport is the founder of Ideal Digital Chicago where they churn out youth by training them in digital marketing, working for Ideal Digital, and then getting them employed at a larger company. Author of the Ideal Candidate, Kevin knows that many disadvantaged youth grow up without basic life skills for living on their own and wrote a book plus created many workshops and events to help f...

Talking with Daniel Polostky, the founder and CEO of CoinFlipATM a crypto ATM for converting your cash into Bitcoin or other crypto currencies. Based in Chicago.

A really interesting conversation on how to leverage, include, and empower black and brown business owners in America and how that ultimately benefits us all and is in the interest of everyone to be involved. Learn more about Gray Matter at: graymatterexperience.com Listen to the full thing with links at: DoGoodCollab. Com

Matt Smith chats with NikosOnTheRun, Jared Avaloss, and RoarJMckay… Talking about their creatives process, where they draw inspiration from, advice for multimedia creatives, how we can do better business together and much more. Follow them on Instagram: Nikos: @NikosOnTheRun Jared: @JaredAvaloss John: @RoarJMckay

Matt Smith talks with 3 artistic and musical masterminds on the come up in Chicago about work and life. Follow them on Instagram: Rob Baco: @rob.baco NoCapSawbuck: @nocapsawbuckk Dutcho: @dutcho6700

Matt Smith & Kevin Davenport talk entrepreneurship, taking care of yourself so that you can do better work, spirituality, and much more. Kevin is a Chicago-based serial entrepreneur & social impact leader. He supports and uplifts other budding businesses and business founders. He is the author of The Ideal Candidate. His mission and vision is to build self-sufficient life and professional...

One of the Do Good Podcast’s best interviews so far as of this recording with one 19 year old legend and one 18 year old legend. That’s all I have to say. Learn more about Kim Products: http://kim-products.com/ Follow her on personal Instagram: kimaponi Follow Kim Products: @kimproducts Twitter: @exhalx Learn more about Mak by following him on… Personal Instagram: @makafuisearcy Main Brand Instagr...

Dashiell Bark-Huss is an all around bio-hacker, meaning she is always conducting life tests and experiments on herself to see how we can optimize our day-to-day human performance. She is an avid practitioner of lucid dreaming where in college and beyond she was able (through rigorous months of training) to get herself to having 3 lucid dreams PER NIGHT. Meaning 3 times a night she was able to catc...

Spencer Gordon-Sand is a 22 year old entrepreneur and technologist, former pro-league fencer (now pro-league fencing photographer), built and solid his last company Best as an aqua-hire to the company he is now the Chief Strategy Officer at… Vintro. Vintro is essentially disrupting our ability to network with the best and right people "creating opportunity by allowing you to purchase time and atte...

Jeffrey Dirrenberger has 10+ years of experience in creating consumer applications, B2B software products, and launching startups. He’s the Founder&CEO of VALUT Innovation a venture studio in Chicago where over the past decade he’s seen the launch of 100s of digital products including applications for the Chicago Tribune, Kate Somerville, and the National Restaurant Association. He’s also a pa...

Sitting down with Ken Retro & DJ Royal… Two of the arguably (I’d say factually!) best DJs in the city of Chicago. Retro and Matt go way back to when Matt used to rap & make music. Retro’s first live DJ show was at Matt’s first live performance when he was a part of Exit The Premises. This was his first time getting to know Royal. Retro and Royal are both so real and so genuine. Tune in to...

Aadeel Akhtar is an entrepreneur on the frontier of bionics. He’s the founder of Psyonic, and alongside his team they've created the Ability Hand: an accessible and affordable robotic arm that nearly turns you into a super hero. From charging your phone, to 360 degree hand rotation, to touch feedback sensitive enough that you can easily pick up a hollow egg shell without cracking it… Aadeel’s miss...

Rentervention is a joint project of the Lawyers' Committee for Better Housing, Illinois Legal Aid Online, and the Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois. It is a natural language processing chatbot that helps people who normally would have had to go through a confusing FAQ page or search for legal assistance online “in the dark”. Renny (the chat bot) helps people find the specific legal help they need jus...

Matt talks with StevensJpeg, Trevor Parker, and Trip CP… Three 19-21 year old Chicago photographers absolutely killing the game. From connecting your work with mindfulness for an increased feeling of purpose, how to work with other and find the best genuine people to work with, how to think about yourself on social media, how to take better photos, and how we can all improve the world along side e...

Illia Pashkov coined himself a Chief Hustle Officer because he couldn’t find a better way to describe the breadth of work he’s involved in… For the past 14 years working as a creative strategic technology consultant Illia has started & grown products and services in an array of different industries. From high-level strategic planning to in-the-weeds execution he’s done it all — graphic and pro...

Steph Belsky, founder of Love Of Good & I talked about changing the narrative on non-profit and for-profit companies. Showing how when you create win-wins for everyone involved, for-profit may be an even more empowering way to create social impact and do good for each other. Steph through Love Of Good creates amazing relationships between influencers who genuinely want to have a positive impac...

Troy Sandidge, your “friendly social media expert” and founder of FindTroy helps business of all kinds improve their marketing by strengthening their brand image and authentically connecting with their audience. Troy drops knowledge on how you can better market your personal or business brand using social media. Learn more about Troy’s work: https://findtroy.com/ Learn more about Do Good a Dogoodo...

Ryan Jeffery is the founder of Experience Ignite, a brand new leadership training community like no other focused on connecting leaders from all different types of industries to learn from each other & to cultivate purpose driven leaders who infuse purpose into their work environments. Ignite’s goal is to build up leaders who go back out into the world and make a positive impact for us all. We...

Meg McKeen has been in the insurance game for over 20 years — founder of her practice, Adjunct Advisors. Meg stands strong against the status quo & we talked in depth about how to transform the insurance industry as a whole, and where there’s big room for innovation to improve on all the archaic, inefficient, and anti-consumer aspects of many insurance practices toady. Changing the narrative o...

Fernando DeLeon is one of the co-founders of Innovare, an education technology company that 1) does state of the art data-analytics on out-come insights & strategies to help school leadership make better decisions. And 2) has created an eco-system to connect schools with other schools, ed-tech resources, non-profits, and funding opportunities in a trusted and growing network. We talked about b...

Kathleen Brown is the founder of Buddhi, a soon-to-launch support system + community for cancer fighters and their loved ones. Kathleen is on a mission to change our relationship with cancer from something soul-crushing to an awakening to help us learn how to take better care of our loved ones. We talked all about where she’s at in building the platform and what she’s excited about for the future...

Caitlin McAllister is the executive director at Catapult Chicago - one of the very first 3 co-working spaces/incubator spaces in the city. We talked about her experience running Catapult & what she’s excited/nervous about for the future of co-working. Learn more at Catapultchicago.com Wanna be on the podcast? Reach out at DoGoodCollab.com

Des Money is an outstanding Chicago creative with a focus on visual arts and streetwear. He’s a core team member at FatTiger & owner of We All We Got. Wether it’s once pursuing a biology major psychology minor but “feeling like a robot in school”, recently becoming a father and trying to raise an amazing daughter, or taking great amounts of time and effort to serve others and give back… Des ha...

In conversation with Matt Woodburn and Sarah Neukom. Founder of ESP Presents, an event production company & Exchange312, a personalized venue to exchange new ideas, inspire conversations, unique experiences and unforgettable memories. We talked about best practices for making events go as best as possible & what it means to have great event spaces for entrepreneurs to push their ideas forw...