I know your channel's big now Matt, but just watching this as I'm going through your older videos. I do appreciate your honesty with your failures, and how you got started.

so I am binge watching The Ground up Show

This has happened to me at least once when filming sports. You get into the habit of pressing that button when play starts or stops, that sometimes you forget to press it when play stops, so you press it when play starts which stops the recording, and from then on, you're recording during breaks and not recording during play. That was a very convoluted sentence but I think you get the point.

I decided to go back and start from the first one, I have been kind of letting youtube guide me through random episodes. I get a ton of value from your work. Also, just joined your email list. Good stuff.

Oh man, what a stressful day! I've recently listened to "How to Fail" podcast interview with Deborah Frances-White and there was a part where she talked about, us men, having always the balls to say yes to things and screwing up ;) - Since that interview, my view on failure has changed, as I think we need to work more on being responsible and take on things with balls when there's no other people to hurt or embarrass. Thanks for bringing such a quality to your vids and sharing them with us. Greetings from QLD

Watching this while planning the first episode of my podcast. You don't know how much you've inspired me Matt to start my own podcast. God bless greetings from the Philippines! 😊

I don't know why I forgot you had a podcast but know I remembered and I wanna watch everything.

Dope! Keep these up man, these are badass.

Hey Matt!!! GREAT WORK, have been watching all your stuff about minimalism!! literally everything. Much Love from Indonesia!!!! Now start to watch the ground up show from beginning, keep up the good work!!!

Well you did this sometime ago and I’m just discovering your channel man. This is pretty awesome stuff. I think the empathy and vulnerability that you show is just amazing. It’s encouraging and motivating at the same time. Thank you for starting this channel.

Alright! Let's start watching Matt's video history from the ground up!

thanks for sharing this Matt, you don't know how much this story helps me

1,000th Like!!! Thanks for the content Matt. I really appreciate your honesty and realness. I'm planning on starting a channel within the year and I love using your content as a compass for how I should start out.

Had to go back and see how you started. Dude.... it is amazing how much you have grown as a person and as a filmmaker

Great storytelling in this video! Loved it! 😊

Dude. Dude. I'm so glad you jumped with this concept of the podcast with the idea of helping. DOPE!

thanks for sharing with us, it is important to know that we all fail from time to time, it does release a pressure to know this.Shit happens and life kick ass sometimes but best part is when we do realise and we trying to be better.Thanks anyway

That was an awesome story! Thank you for being vulnerable and sharing your mistakes.

I love that you tell your mistakes so openly

This was crazy. I loved listening to your story. It was first episode I watched and 97 are coming up ahead!!!

I love how you deliver the "... and I wasn't recording" part of the story.... I totally felt that oh shit moment... goosebumps!

I listen to thos on Spotify while working. Thank u for this.🖤

Good job Matt. Great idea.

YAY. The amount of times I've forgotten to hit record... :( Matt, really enjoying your videos, learning lots. Keep it up. Peace Brother. P.S. - Tempted to start making videos again...

Im about to binge this entire series!

i love this. thanks matt!

Sorry for spamming you, that new stand thru me off! I found everything 😊 Can't wait to listen to it every week, love this!

Love your honesty...

Omg, I feel the pain, man. I felt embarrassed for you lol But hey, as you said, we've all been there or eventually will. I just feel like sharing my own story X) In my case, I was playing guitar casually for 2 or 3 years (I was not even that good) and had a band (like a high school band, we didn't even have a drummer!!). I was usually calling myself a guitarist even though I was still not able to play decently after all that time playing and since me and my fellow bandmate were proudly calling ourselves musicians and I was "serious" about going professionnal, we started talking about it to people and eventually landed a gig for a party in some remote village. We were told to prepare 2 songs (any), very simple, and we had 6 months to prepare. We "practiced" like once a week for a couple of hours, but eventually, we started not being that consistent and thought we would be able to wing it. 6 months later, we were still not prepared, that was ridiculous. The day comes, we get on stage, we have no idea of what's going on, the people doing the set-ups were asking us for sound tests and we didn't even know how to do it or what they were talking about. I was frightened cause now, I'd be exposed as a wannabe for the rest of my teenage life lol The show starts and it's just humiliating to breathe lol It's a completely fail, a more experienced guitarist climbs on stage and starts coaching me on what I'm doing wrong and the whole thing becomes the most embarrassing guitar lesson ever. I had a solo to play and messed it up hard. In the end, people were too drunk to even notice how bad it was and applaused anyway (probably felt bad for us lol). And we were not hired again. So yeah, at first, it was mortifying, but now, it's just a great laugh and I'll probably be telling that story to my nephew when he becomes a teenager.

Hey Matt - great work! Big fan of Minimalism and looking forward to more great stuff from this channel.

Such a funny Matt!. Lol. Thanks for sharing that.

💛 i learn a lot from your videos

I have been there. It's a cold sweat sinking feeling. Death is preferable. I know how this feels. Thank you for sharing. I love vulnerable stories like this. That's how you grow.

You’ve grown so much, my man

Great start, thanks for sharing. Looking forward to more stories :)

this new beautiful thing

Nice to start the first episode to be honest and vulnerable.

Brilliant. This is like inviting guests for dinner for first time. You cook and incredible vegetable lasagne with your partner and you ask your partner to rinse the veggies for you, but.... when you start eating with your guests, you realise that it's a bit crunchy because there is sand within the leek leafs. ups Great podcast, I look forward to watch more episodes

omg I was cracking up ☝while you were cracking up telling the story! thanks for sharing & love your videos! I like recording & being in front of the camera but the editing part I dred.. any tips to get past it or suggestions?

I am from Pakistan , I just discovered you and watching each and every video of you.. depressing story to start with.. But great advise..

yes it will get better, way better, you were sure from the beginning (2020)

Im so glad I watched this 🤣🤣🤣

SUPER engaging when you get into the story. Curious how much of your story was scripted (notes, outline, any, etc).

I so want the producer of that reality show to watch this video and Matt's success and regret cutting him from the credits.

EP. I of - Present

You screwed up Matt! 😂

That was a funny failure. I wonder what failures I will have in my life that will hurt inside.

ledgend born

You were definitely cut from the credits 😂

😂 😂

Like the eyes.😶

5 years later...

This is my third video of yours, I watched a recent social media vid you did. I assume you have stopped lying about skills, knowledge and experience since doing that to get the job?

Damn, I'm guessing how this got a dislike.

How can this guy call himself a filmmaker when his shot is 1 inch off-center?!