I Choose … Compassion, Gratitude and Acceptance with Cameron Mathison
90210MG
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In this powerful episode, Jennie sits down with General Hospital actor and TV host, Cameron Mathison to reflect on the life-altering challenges he’s faced this year. Cameron shares how grief and faith have reshaped his journey. He opens up with real vulnerability about finding compassion through the loss of his home in the Eaton fire and the courage to begin again... but not without humor! Whether it’s soap fans gone wild or chasing his foster Doberman in flip-flops (you won’t want to miss THIS story!) Cameron reminds us that joy coexists with struggle.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi. |
| 0:08.5 | Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why? |
| 0:15.1 | Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies. |
| 0:18.5 | From prologue projects and Pushkin Industries, this is Fiasco, Benghazi. |
| 0:23.6 | What difference at this point does it make? |
| 0:26.6 | Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, in the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:33.6 | You're listening to I Choose Me with Jenny Garland. |
| 0:42.5 | Hi everyone. |
| 0:43.8 | Welcome back to I Choose Me. |
| 0:46.0 | This podcast is all about the choices we make in good times and in bad. |
| 0:50.8 | Today's episode feels less like an interview and more like catching up with an old friend. |
| 0:56.6 | You know Cameron Matheson as the dastardly Drew Kane on General Hospital. He is a favorite |
| 1:04.6 | in all those holiday movies and the guy who somehow manages to stay grounded while juggling work, family, and a whole |
| 1:13.8 | lot of life's curveballs. We're going to talk about everything from nutty fan encounters to the |
| 1:21.2 | ups and downs of social media, empty nesting, and rebuilding a life, both literally and figuratively. |
| 1:28.6 | Okay. I can't believe you chases that dog down Hyperion. No, no. Full sprint, flip-flops. It was, did you see the George Clooney movie? What was that movie where he's in Hawaii? And he ran down the street because his wife was having an affair. Do you remember that scene? And he was in the flip-flops. and it was such a painful moment because it was like... |
| 1:45.9 | Wait, were you in flip-flops? |
| 1:47.1 | I was in flip-flops. And he was, it was such a painful moment because it was like, Wait, were you in flip-flops? I was in flip-flops sprinting down Hyperion after this dog. Wow. For, I think probably, it probably felt like a three-quarters of a mile was probably like half a mile. Oh, now. And he just, and it's probably the wrong response. |
| 2:01.0 | Maybe I should have stopped running because maybe he was only running because I was running. |
| 2:05.3 | But I was afraid to stop because then he maybe would just keep, I don't know. |
| 2:10.2 | So eventually he came up to a woman and her dog and I happened to know the woman. |
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