Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens. And I'm Jan Black. Are you struggling to find meaning and purpose in your life? Could you use some help? If so, you'll want to hear what our guest on this episode, Matthew Emersion, has to say.

Matthew is the founder and CEO of Every Monday Matters, a not-for-profit organization committed to helping people and organizations understand how much and why they matter. He's also the author of the new book,

You Matter, Learning to Love Who You Really Are. Matthew, thank you so much for joining us.

We are so excited to talk with you. Thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here.

Your own incredible story inspired You Matter. Talk to us a little bit about that. Yeah, it's an interesting

story, but I don't know that it's so, you know, atypical, that's for sure. I think that, you know,

I went to college, I went to grad school. I checked on the boxes. I thought I was supposed to check

and life was just supposed to kind of roll out in front of me.

And I ended up getting into the music industry after grad school.

And I got a job, started in artist management.

And then I got a job working for Robert Kardashian.

And he owned a music marketing company.

I was a senior vice president.

And I was just kind of living this life of, it was fast-paced.

It was, you know, I was working in the biz, and it was, you know, working all day during the day,

celebrities all over the place and dinners at night, parties after dinners after parties.

And the next thing you knew it, I found myself on this, you know, slippery slope of to be

successful as I defined it back then was make as much money as you can, be on all the red

carpets, own nice things, stay single and have fun, and it was just all of that kind of entourage

television show life.

And on the Monday morning, when I went to Skin Ready to go to work, I thought I was having

a heart attack, but it turned out to be a very severe panic attack,

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