It wasn't easy at times, but we became stronger through. We used to spit us at sometimes. They used to have, do you remember, there used to be those laser pens. They used to, like, shine and was in our eyes and put us off. You know, we'd come to gigs. They'd be hanging off the van as you're driving away. And once I'm down on the floor performing, and someone one of the kids gets up, it kicks me.

And yeah, week and week out, just can't wait to get to work because I loved it.

Welcome, everybody. This is Simon Gilbo with Inspired.

Great to you back with you.

Got another fantastic guest this week.

Basically, if you're new to inspired, it's all about amidst so much negativity and being bombarded with bad news. We want to tell stories of great news from people from all sorts of different walks of life who've got a story that does inspire because it's real, it's authentic, they've gone through tough times, they've bounced back. I have no doubt this week you're going to be inspired afresh. We've got with us,

Matt Britain. Welcome Matt. Hey, good for me. A with you, Simon. Yeah, fantastic. Matt is from

Manchester. You can tell from his accent. We've had lots of previous people from his crew,

Andy Hawthorne, Lynn's West, Amy Woodfield, Deborah Green, those fantastic gang from up with a message.

We've over the years at proximity conferences, at new wine, at prayer days from up there.

He was part of the Eden Project. Matt is an actor. He teaches currently also at Manchester

University's married to Louise. They've got four kids. We're going to talk about bouncing back

from seven years of ME. So there's loads to get. They've got four kids. We're going to talk about bouncing back from seven years of ME.

So there's loads to get into. And Matt, it's just great to have your buddy. So listen, let's get into it. What's your background? How did you come to faith? Go for it.

Yeah. So I've been brought up in a really supportive, loving family, but we weren't a church-going family. So there was no kind of like,

we weren't part of a regular church. We didn't say grace around the table. There wasn't like a

Bible in the house, anything like that. But it wasn't that we were atheists or agnostic. In fact,

the opposite, I think there was respect for faith and religion and God.

And actually, my first exposure to church was I didn't understand it because I went to a church.

Every Christmas and every Easter of it was conducted in Ukrainian.

Because a bit about my family background is that, you know, if it wasn't for

Adolf Hitler, I wouldn't be here because my dad's mom was, her family was Egyptian and Maltese,

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