From Money Demons to Spiritual Awakening | Mark Matson EP 829

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

"Are you ready to admit there's a God and it's not you?" - Mark Matson In a raw and powerful conversation, financial expert Mark Matson opens up about his transformative journey through personal and professional crisis. After facing a devastating divorce that threatened to strip away half his assets, including his company, Matson found himself at a crossroads. As a lifelong atheist who had intellectually rejected faith, he was forced to confront his deepest beliefs when everything he had built seemed to be crumbling. It was in this dark moment, alone in a hotel room, that a friend's simple question shattered his worldview and led to a profound spiritual awakening. Growing up witnessing his father's courageous stand against generational poverty mindsets, particularly during a confrontational visit from his grandfather, shaped Matson's early understanding of money and success. While this inspired his drive to achieve, it also fueled a perfectionist strategy of "winning at all costs" to prove his worth. Through his journey, Matson discovered that money isn't just about finances - it's intertwined with relationships, identity, and spiritual beliefs. His story reveals how facing our "money demons" often leads to confronting deeper truths about ourselves and our relationships with success, worth, and meaning.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:10.0	People like to try to compartmentalize things in their brain, like, oh, this is money, this is my relationships, This is my life. This is my whatever.
0:24.7	But money doesn't work like that. It's got tentacles.
0:28.5	And it's like a thread that goes through the carpet of your life.
0:33.8	It touches everything. So when I have a money demon, I also usually have a relationship team.
0:41.4	When I went through divorce, I thought, okay, you're going to lose half of all your stuff now, including your company that you built.
0:44.5	So that was less than ideal.
0:45.7	That was a money demon.
0:57.5	But I also had another money demon or relationship demon related to that is that I had grown up most of my life as an atheist and took classes in college about how there's no God and all this garbage. And so then when I went through
1:02.9	the divorce, I mean, I was I was gutted. I mean, I was I was like it was dark. I'm a bad father.
1:09.6	I wasn't seeing my kids. I'm going to lose my company.
1:11.6	It's going to be like, this is going to be the worst thing ever in my life.
1:14.6	I got depressed.
1:16.6	And then I was talking to a buddy on the phone.
1:19.6	So I lived in a world, a screen, because there is no God.
1:22.6	And I'm talking to a buddy mine, and he's like, I'm probably crying.
1:30.2	He's like, well, are you ready?
1:31.0	I said, ready for what?
1:34.7	He said, are you ready to admit there's a God and it's not you?
1:35.3	Oh.
1:38.0	And I'm like, yeah, man.
1:42.5	Or you could have said, see, there is no God because I'm divorced.
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