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Who's ready to rock today Fire Nation?

John Lee, Doomus here and I'm fired up to bring you our featured guest today Matthew,

you Helderman, Matthew, are you prepared to ignite?

I am John. Thanks for having me on.

Matthew is a media entrepreneur and Sundance awarded film producer based in Beverly Hills, California.

In 2013, he founded the media debt financing firm Bondit,

which has completed over 150 media financing transactions to date.

Matthew, take a minute, fill in some gaps in that intro and give us a little glimpse of your personal life.

Yeah, I appreciate it. Thank you again for having me on the big fan of the show big fan of the community and you certainly love the audience and what you've done to sort of transition and inspire lots and lots of young.

You are buttering Fire Nation right up, aren't you my friends?

I am indeed.

So your intro was really accurate.

I started as a film producer in physical production, which actually means the folks who are literally on a film set putting the pieces together, overseeing the scheduling, the budgeting, the management of the actual personnel.

I was born and raised back east with a family not sort of deeply embedded in the media space, which is worth noting because it is a fairly nepotistic industry in general.

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