302. Fueled By His Fathers Words. Matt Drinkhahn

Published: March 22, 2023, 9:08 p.m.

b'You never know when the next person you connect with could change the course of your life. \\xa0Matt Drinkhahn is an explorer, a business coach, and strategist to growth-minded leaders and a proud FrontRowDad.\\nYou have to be innovative as an entrepreneur, father, husband and coach\\u2026\\xa0\\nIn order to improve and stay fresh today\\u2019s guest journals and gets feedback!\\nToday we talk about what makes a good coach, a good dad, a trustworthy husband, psychedelics, and doing things on our own terms! \\xa0\\nBetter Call Daddy: The Safe Space For Controversy.\\nMatt collects chicken soup books, holds family board meetings, and is an eternal optimist even through many surgeries!\\n\\u201cMy Mission is to push people to be the best they can be and to OWN that we were all made with limitless potential.\\u201d\\nMatt\\u2019s career has been highlighted by his passion for his customers and people. \\xa0 His career sales totals exceed $130Million. \\xa0He\\u2019s coached and given talks within organizations such as Equitable, Vector Marketing, Red Hat, CoreNet, EO(Entrepreneur\\u2019s Organization), Oracle, Bank of America, Tarkett, Rheem, Google, and Front Row Dads. \\xa0He has grown his reputation on the platforms of integrity for doing the right thing the right way and his highly energetic and enthusiastic personality. \\xa0 Matt lives in Charlotte, NC with his wife Julie and their 3 young daughters where he enjoys being a scratch golfer, avid sports fan, real estate investor, and a VERY active family man \\U0001f60a. \\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nOne of the recent defining moments in Matt\\u2019s career came as a result of a freak zipline accident in 2015. \\xa0As he was speedingdown a zipline, the attachment to the line broke and sent him falling to the ground where he crash-landed directly on his spine. \\xa0Over the next 9 months his physical health deteriorated to the point where he ultimately wasn\\u2019t able to walk anymore and was in constant excruciating pain. \\xa0Using his strategy of \\u201clet your adversities guide your growth\\u201d, he turned this great challenge into a\\xa0great teacher and coached and spoke to teams and companies as he was literally lying flat on his back in his home office. \\xa0Ultimately 2016 was his best year in business up to that date and Matt credits the support of his family and the preparation of his mindset through \\u201ceternal optimism\\u201d for his success. Listen to The Eternal Optimist Podcast on all major podcast platforms! \\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nMatt is a successful entrepreneur and veteran in the corporate world where he has specialized in sales, coaching, recruiting, leadership, and sales management throughout his career. \\xa0He acquired his formal education at Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC with a double major in Psychology and Business Economics. \\xa0Before his graduation in 1999, he opened his first business in Winston-Salem and over his first 5 years out of school he recruited over 2000 sales representatives for Vector Marketing/Cutco Cutlery throughout the Carolinas. \\xa0 \\xa0He then moved on to pursue his dream as a professional golfer. \\xa0He played the professional golf mini-tour circuit for three years before moving into corporate America to work for Clearwire. \\xa0After building one of the most successful direct sales teams in the company\\u2019s history in Atlanta, he was promoted to General Manager and moved with the company to Nashville, Boston, and then Providence. \\xa0 \\xa0After a great deal of success Matt was heavily recruited and moved to Charlotte, NC to recruit and train the field sales team for Time Warner Cable Business Class. \\xa0He spent nearly 3 years there achieving great results when he decided it was time to follow his passion to help individuals and teams perform at high levels through business coaching and consulting with ProAdvisor Coach. \\xa0 \\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nHe has been coaching high performance individuals and Teams for 9 years with ProAdvisorCoach with a special emphasis in financial services, real estate, banking, technology, and retail organizations. \\xa0He\\u2019s led dozens of offsite retreats and conferences while maintaining the core of coaching in 1-1 and Team'