How are you guys? I hope this month is treating you well. Well, I am really excited to bring on this week's guest, Matthew Downnegro.

If you've ever watched some TV shows like The Sopranos, Scandal, The West Wing, United States of Tarotine Wolf, Goliath, and an upcoming show, which we'll be talking about in this episode, then you've seen this guy's face on the screen. His name is Matthew Downnegro.

He's been in tons of the top shows, but his dream of really being that star hadn't yet come true. He was tired of waiting and waiting to be chosen, which is the case in a lot of entertainment-based businesses.

You can have everything set up, but it's this almost element of not knowing, you know, and that's really hard, and we talk a lot about that in this conversation.

He also has an incredible podcast called 10,000 Nose, which is really just based on his career of being told no for a living, and he really gets up close and personal with a lot of people to discuss how all of us have been told no many, many times.

And we still have to pave our own path to eventually get those yeses or more over create those yeses inside ourselves. And I was recently on his podcast as well, so I really recommend checking it out.

So really this conversation is all about overcoming the nose. What happens when your dream is on the other end of this person who's telling you that you're not going to get there?

So he has a really brave story about how he went from an athlete to becoming an actor and the path that it has taken him to get to where he is and his upcoming show, which I'm really excited to share with you and he'll be sharing with us more detail on, which is a Netflix comedy series called Huge in France.

And that is an eight episode show available for streaming April 12th. So I'm really excited to bring on Matthew Delnegger and I hope this conversation inspires you to never take no for an answer.

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Welcome, Matthew, to the highest self-fotcats. It's so good to have you here. So nice to be here.

So the first question that I would love to ask you is what makes you your highest self?

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