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2 Be Better

2 Be Better Interviews Matt Bell

2 Be Better

Chris Burkett

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Education, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

Today we sit down with Matt Bell host of Addiction After Dark.

Disclaimer: We are not professionals. This podcast is opinioned based and from life experience. This is for entertainment purposes only.

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0:00.0

You're going to see. Oh, she did the

0:39.9

I did. It's funny. That's very true. So we are here with Matt Bell not to be confused with the Bell brothers to do powerlifting because when I first told our producer that who you were he was like no way you're interviewing that guy and I was like not that guy bro. He's not a powerlifter

0:56.4

I'm pretty excited about this. Me too man. Thank you. Real shit like when I read who you were and what you were about I was like

1:01.5

Yo, we had a lot in common and he's covered in

1:03.2

tattoos like we gotta get this gone the year yeah it's amazing brothers brothers

1:06.7

from another so who are you what do you do and then we can bullshit yeah man I well like you said, Matt Bell from Toledo, Ohio,

1:15.2

which is weird because I think, you know,

1:17.3

yeah, where we're at.

1:19.8

I don't know if that's a good thing to say or not.

1:22.0

We had to bleep that too. But that, you know, born and raised in Toledo, Ohio. And chaos, addiction, recovery, all kinds of stuff. We can go into the details but I got sober in

1:35.8

2015 after a lot of really bad shit and in that process decided to say what am I going to do with my life at this point.

1:45.0

And I really did not know.

1:48.0

I, all my cards are at zero, you know, convicted felon in three states.

1:52.0

I had a, I think 400 credit score I couldn't bank with

1:56.2

anybody like I had I had put myself in a very difficult position and so I had a crazy thought to say let me just use these like liabilities

2:05.6

that I've stacked up for myself into a position where I can possibly turn

2:09.4

them into assets and turn something negative into positive.

2:13.0

And so my journey through addiction and all those terrible things that happen and going through bad treatment centers and things like that.

2:19.0

Some of them in Florida, I learned a lot about what not to do.

2:23.0

And I've always had like an entrepreneurial mind.

2:25.0

I studied international business in college

2:28.0

and just decided to like put it all together.

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