#108. Talksport Star on my Gambling Addiction - Matt Smith
Eventful Lives Podcast
Dodge Woodall
5 • 857 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Matt Smith had a dream job at Talksport, traveling the globe and witnessing every major sporting event.
He had a nice car, a good wage, and a promising future.
But he lost it all as a crippling gambling addiction took hold, consuming his life, and leaving him penniless.
It’s Safer Gambling Week, and now that he’s on a better path, Matt wanted to come in to share his cautionary tale of begging, borrowing and stealing to feed his addiction.
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| 0:00.0 | Inside internally, I didn't feel at that time I had anybody to speak to. |
| 0:09.0 | So I carried on gambling. |
| 0:11.0 | And that was my escape. |
| 0:13.0 | I'd go out at lunchtime and I'd go down to the bookmakers. |
| 0:18.0 | I could do 500,000 pound just on a lunchtime and I was taking out loans. |
| 0:23.6 | I was borrowing money off everybody who could. |
| 0:26.6 | I was phoning my mum up saying, I know I've got a problem with the car. |
| 0:29.6 | All the lies started coming out, the manipulation. |
| 0:33.6 | How do I move on from this? |
| 0:36.6 | Welcome. How do I move on from this? |
| 0:42.7 | Welcome to the eventful entrepreneur. |
| 0:47.4 | I'm your host Dodge and I'm the CEO and founder of the Bournemouth Sevens Festival and the revolutionary event crowd, our new online events course. |
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| 1:08.7 | Matt Smith literally had the dream job at TalkSport, |
| 1:11.6 | travelling the globe and witnessing every single major sporting event there is. |
| 1:15.6 | He had a nice car, a good wage and a promising future. |
| 1:19.6 | But he lost it all as a crippling gambling addiction took hold, |
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