Matty Stein | I Was a Homeless Teen… Now I’m Living With Hashem
Meaningful People
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🗓️ 30 August 2025
⏱️ 105 minutes
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In this episode of Meaningful People, we sit down with Matty Stein as she shares her remarkable journey of growing up in a non-religious home, moving from place to place, and suddenly facing financial collapse that left her family homeless and living in dangerous neighborhoods. Through pain, confusion, and loss, Maddie discovered Judaism, community, and ultimately herself. Her story is raw, emotional, and deeply inspiring — a powerful reminder that even in the darkest moments, there is a path to strength, faith, and hope.
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| 0:00.0 | My upbringing was just very regular. |
| 0:03.0 | I wasn't religious. |
| 0:04.0 | My family was kind of traditional. |
| 0:06.0 | So I was just kind of a regular kid, summer of 10th grade. |
| 0:10.0 | We moved to San Diego and packed up our stuff, and our stuff didn't show up. |
| 0:15.0 | Like, it just never came. |
| 0:17.0 | The moving truck stole everything we had. |
| 0:20.0 | We went bankrupt that year. So we didn't have a house. We didn't have stuff anymore. We didn't have anything to sell. |
| 0:26.7 | Wow. You guys were like thrust into poverty. We were homeless. We had nothing. Like literally nothing. I remember my sister and I would fight over who had to sleep on the blowup mattress. |
| 0:37.1 | My parents decided to enroll me in an all-girls Orthodox school, |
| 0:41.3 | which to me was like the most awful thing you could do. |
| 0:43.3 | I put on this like strong front, I guess. |
| 0:46.3 | I was like, everything's gonna work out. |
| 0:48.3 | Partially I think I was in denial, but partially I was just trying so hard to be strong. |
| 0:53.3 | How long can you keep going for? |
| 0:56.7 | Like there's a certain point where you'll collapse. And I learned that the hard way. It did collapse. |
| 1:02.2 | Welcome everyone to this week's episode of Meaningful People. I sat down with Maddie Stein. And this is an |
| 1:08.1 | incredible story of resilience, perseverance. |
| 1:12.1 | It's a story that you may really, really, to in your life in so many different ways. |
| 1:15.9 | So listen to the very end, because it just gets better and better and better with each unfolding turn. |
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