Being Interruptible with Matthew West
Dream Big Podcast with Bob Goff and Friends
Bob Goff
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast, Bob sits down with singer-songwriter Matthew West for a conversation about grace, identity, availability, and what it means to live a life that actually lasts. Together, they talk about everything from faith and family to baseball hats, prison phone calls, work ethic, and the quiet courage of taking small steps forward.
If this conversation resonated with you, Matthew’s latest music and newest book carry many of the same themes: learning to stop performing, receive grace, and stay faithful one step at a time. Be sure to check out his newest album, Don’t Stop Praying, recent songs like “Good” and “Jesus is King,” and his new book Don’t Stop Praying, available now.
Connect with Matthew: @matthewjwest
Connect with Bob: @bobgoff
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome to the Bob and Friends podcast. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm so glad you're with us. |
| 0:12.2 | And we have a really good friend, Matthew West on today. |
| 0:17.4 | Matthew, welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:19.3 | Awesome to be with you, Bob. |
| 0:20.6 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:21.8 | I can think of all the different times that we've interacted in touch faces in Nashville and |
| 0:27.4 | other places, but for people who haven't interacted with you, tell me a little bit about who you |
| 0:32.3 | are and you could be running a small country, but what you decided to do is, like, release a bunch of hope and joy into the world. |
| 0:40.7 | Absolutely. And I will say, though, that all of my songs, I'm in my studio here today in Nashville, |
| 0:45.6 | Tennessee, it's called The Story House, and this is where I write all my songs, and my songs are fueled by |
| 0:50.9 | the Bible and Bob Goff books. So I got your books in the back. And the whole |
| 0:55.5 | West family says hello. We love what you do. We love the bright light that you are in the world. |
| 1:01.6 | The only thing I don't love about you, if I can be honest, to start this interview is that |
| 1:05.8 | have the Boston Red Sox. Now, I'm a Chicago Cubs fan. And so, you know, I just, I just wanted to kind of |
| 1:12.0 | have an airing of grievances to start off our episode. You need to just get that out there. |
| 1:15.8 | Let me just dial in for a couple of friends. I have this Boston Red Sox chat because I lost a bet. |
| 1:23.1 | 17 years ago with my dying neighbor who is a Red Sox fan, and she asked me, she said it's her last |
| 1:30.9 | request that I wear her hat. And you got to be careful the deal you make with somebody who's |
| 1:35.8 | going to heaven. You can't renegotiate that deal. Well, that just tells me you're a man of your |
| 1:42.0 | word. And if somebody wearing a Boston hat can talk with the Cubs fan today, |
| 1:45.9 | what can't this world overcome, right? |
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