September 28, 2025 • 18 mins
On this episode Matt gets personal and discusses events of the last year, where the podcast stands, and the future. Due to some topics, listener discretion is advised.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Shut up and.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Welcome to the Bricks King Podcast, where I'm gonna bend
your year about Legos, review those amazing bricks of plastic,
and discuss what is new. And I've been coming around
the Lego world. I'm your minifig host, Matt Well. Let's
bell it on it. Welcome in, everybody. How are you
doing today? It's been a minute, hasn't it. I know
some of you are saying, wait a minute, this is
(00:38):
this can't be real, this is this a rerun? No,
of course it's It's most definitely not.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
So I wanted to.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I felt like I owed it to everyone that has
been a listener, a follower from day one, or day yesterday,
day today, whatever. So I first want to say the
podcast is not going anywhere. Okay, this is not goodbye
at all. I just want to clear the air for myself,
for you guys. I've gotten a number of messages from
(01:10):
quite a few of you on social media. I've gotten emails,
and it never felt like the right moment to really
say what was going on in my life. And it's
been really tough this entire last calendar year, this last year,
(01:30):
starting in about last August and even before then, Honestly,
the last few years have been really challenging. Last year especially,
so over the last year, there has been a lot
of change in my life. My relationship with my spouse
has never been stronger now as some things have been
(01:51):
figured out. My career has never been stronger than what
it is right now. Up until probably ever since I
was about maybe eighteen, there have been a lot of things.
So I just kind of want to walk you through
just a little bit. And you know, maybe part of
this is for me to be able to get this
(02:12):
out and clear the air for myself. So the podcast
itself has been a godsend for me from from twenty
eighteen up until currently today. I still love it. I
still enjoy it. There were many days where it was
really kind of a grind. It was kind of a
struggle to bring myself into the studio, you know, especially
once I moved into this new house. You know, I
(02:33):
had this purpose built room with all of my electronics
and all the all the equipment that I need everything,
A working desk for building lego, a recording desk for
you know, I have an editing studio. I have everything
that I could possibly need and or want. But it
was still it was still hard. It was becoming more
difficult for me to find my way into the studio. Now.
(02:55):
I know some people are going to say, oh, yeah, burnout.
You know, burnout is a.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Thing I maybe a certain degree.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
And it's interesting because there was a topic back a
while ago in the Lego Ambassador Network forum about burnout
and how you deal with it and stuff, and I
vividly remember replying to it and say, yeah, I really
don't feel it.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
That may have been just due to the sheer fact
that well, you know, it's been a while ago, and
obviously things change, so I kind of took a step
back for a few different reasons. Obviously the podcast. I
was having my own challenging things and it was just
there was no energy for me to really push into it,
(03:37):
especially over the summer. So as you well know, it's
been a number of months, it's been the better part
of half a year nearly, and I've finally gotten some
resolution in my life. I've finally gotten some energy to
really set forth with the podcast and make it what
it is, always what I wanted it to be, as
(03:59):
I had it in the past, but really get back
to that love I now have that ability to be
able to do that. So let me walk you back
just a little bit and to what the last year.
And I'm not going to get into specific details. There's
a few of you out there that are listeners and
close friends of mine that know the intimate details, and
(04:23):
I appreciate you being through this journey with me from
you know, day one, really And so about a year ago,
last September, I had lost my job as a teacher.
Well I should I shouldn't say I lost my job.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I resigned.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I was dealing with a lot of mental health problems,
a lot of mental health issues, substance abuse issues. I
for the better part of four years, I was using
alcohol as as a numbing agent to kind of keep
(05:00):
the things in my head from really coming out. And
anybody that has ever struggled with mental health, there's a
variety of reasons.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Why you have these issues.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Obviously, the older you get, the more problems that persist
in your adult life and stuff like that. And if
you don't have the tools to help and deal with that,
you start trying to find tools, and sometimes it's not
the best way. So there's nothing in my life in
my immediate life right now, especially that was something that
(05:31):
I was like, I just I really cannot I really
cannot handle this. I was having more and more difficulty
with things from my past prior to the military, and
things military trauma PTSD that had reared their head, reared
their really ugly head, and they were just something that
(05:53):
was It was a constant voice in the back of
my head that just would not go away. And at
the end of the day, you know, I would use
alcohol to quiet that. And I know a lot of
veterans you know, around especially in the United States, I
don't know about the rest of the world, but you
just you use that as a way to numb yourself,
(06:14):
to just kind of ice everything over and kind of
glaze over. My relationship really struggled from it. With my
with my with my wife, my work. No one, no
one in my circle as a teacher knew anything because
I was I was functional, right, I didn't I didn't
smell of anything. I didn't And I know this is
(06:35):
a heavy topic for some of you, because it is
for a lot of people, believe it or not. And
so I would show up to work every day, and
the teaching profession is one While I absolutely loved it,
there were days there were. There were sixty six percent
of the days were good days. Thirty three percent of.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Those days were really bad days.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
And it could be, you know, three good days and
a really bad day, and there's a variety of reasons
why they.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Were bad days.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
It was from leadership that at the time I didn't
feel was very good leadership. It was, you know, the
inmates of the asylum were running things, and you know,
the administrators, the Wharton was gone, just you know, not around,
didn't care, and things just weren't functional. I came from
(07:31):
a very rigid structure military wise, and I know what
good leadership looks like. I've had employers, I know what
really good leadership looks like. And I struggled with that
same individual for ten years. And then there were a
few underneath of that person as well that just had
no business being in that position. And then there was
(07:53):
also the side of things of from parents. I was
getting inundated with emails. You know, as a PE teacher,
I taught in the classroom and I taught PE. So
when I was teaching PE, I would get emails from
parents that were saying, hey, you know, I my son,
my daughter, my kid. They were injured doing this instead
(08:15):
of again, instead of really trying to take a second
and try and understand the situation, it was that immediate.
I'm going to send an email right now with very
angry tone and use language that I probably shouldn't be
very accusatory. And showing up at seven o'clock in the
morning and opening your laptop and getting smacked in the
(08:36):
face with that is really a difficult thing to start
the day with because as much of a person that
you might be, as strong as you think you might be,
getting hit with that more times than not is tough,
and it's and very rarely was that, hey, you did
a great job, my kid loved this game or this
activity that y'all did.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
It was always the negative.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
And as a parent in the past, I think there
were times where I, you know, were quick to judge
or quick to jump to a conclusion versus taking things
in or having the conversation. It was immediately accusatory. And
you got to remember, I'm dealing with five six hundred
students every week, and every kid their day is going
(09:18):
to be different. Their kids every day is going to
be different from the minute that they get dropped off
to the minute they go home what happens in their
home life, So their behavior is going to be completely
different whether I disciplined a child or I didn't discipline
a child, depending on what the situation was, if a
kid got injured.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
When I say injured, i'm talking about you know.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Everybody is that has played basketball has been hit in
the face with a stray ball that has bounced and
popped you in the nose or something like that. Or
in the lip throwing games where you throw something somebody
can't catch or doesn't catch at that time and it
makes it to their mouth or to something else. These
things happen, right, And it was one of those things
that I could never whatever I did, I would always
(10:02):
have a detractor there. So those things became really really
loud pit that on top of all of my mental
health struggles that I was dealing with, and I suffered
in silence. I thought, you know, it's fine, I'm gonna
push it down, push it down, push it down. And
it did not do anything. It eventually erupted. So I
(10:22):
last September I resigned from my position. I could no
longer do it. I was out of work for about
a month or so, about three weeks and I decided
I needed a change.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I didn't know what else to do. Right.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
When you have a teaching degree, you're very specialized. It's
there are positions and jobs out there. I didn't want
to sit in the cubicle.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
That's not for me.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I didn't want to sit behind a desk. I didn't,
you know, I didn't want any of that. So I
spoke with my wife and I decided to go get
my CDL. If you don't know what that is, it's
commercial drivers. So I went and I got a great
program that I went through for four weeks, incredible instructors.
You're thinking, oh, he's driving a truck now, Yes, and no.
(11:11):
About a month after that, so mid November, I changed
careers completely. And I am in a field where I
do work long hours. I don't drive a truck every day.
Some days I do, some days I don't, but that
having that license is just to be able to help
with part of the job. I'm in a position where
(11:32):
I am I am in charge. I it's the owner
and then it's myself and you know, I've got my
other coworkers and stuff like that. It's a smaller company
and I've never been happier. I've not been this happy
in a job since I was probably seventeen or eighteen,
and back then it was a job where I was
(11:52):
working outdoors. I work outdoors now. I get to deal
with different clients just about every day. I get to
use things, equipment that is extraordinarily expensive and can crush cars.
I get to use my brain and problem solve and
critically think and troubleshoot and fix things, which is where
(12:15):
my wheelhouse has always been. Never had that in education.
I couldn't fix things. I couldn't really critically think. There
was not any of that. Everything was kind of mapped
out for you. This is your roadmap, follow it. Well,
what if we know, don't do that, do this? What
do you want to teach the class for me? Because
that's what you're telling me essentially what you want done.
So all that is to say, I'm in this career
(12:38):
now and there are days I show up to work
at seven o'clock and there are days where I don't
get home till eight. There are days most days of
work at ten hour day, which I'm okay with. There
are some days where I work thirteen fourteen hours. They're
a little less rare, but I love it. I just
I'm still energized. It doesn't matter. Every single day I
(12:59):
get up, I'm ready to go to work. And like
I said, I haven't felt like that since I was
seventeen or eighteen. And I know a lot of people
out there every single day they're kind of like, oh God,
I really I have to go to work today. I
really don't want to do this job today. I really
don't want to go here. I really don't want to
do that. And those of you that are in that position,
I know what it's like. I've been there for a
long time and it sucks. And if you have that opportunity,
(13:21):
seize it to go elsewhere. Those of you that are
in positions like myself right now, it's amazing to feel
that way every single day. Like I just I enjoy
my job. I don't enjoy my job. I absolutely love
my job and I love every aspect.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Of my job. So that's where things stand with me personally.
New career. I work a lot.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I just work a lot, and then on weekends, not
every weekend, but just about every other weekend I'm on
call or every third weekend, which is great.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I have no.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Problem going into work being paid handsomely. I'm enjoying my career.
That's all that matters to me. So the podcast, what changed?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Why now? Why?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Why are things kicking off? And I've got two episodes
already recorded. They were done on Friday and Saturday, while
earlier today, today is at the time of this recording
is Saturday.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
You'll hear it probably on Monday. But what changed? What changed?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Some finality has come about in my life about a
week ago, and I now have the energy back and
I've finally good things have happened, and it's it's like
a complete reawakening of my mind, body and soul. And
I've made complete drastic changes in my life. You know,
(14:48):
my sobriety has been a huge sticking point for me,
for my family, for my relationship with my spouse, with
my with everybody. I'm back to that that person that
doesn't have to struggle to get through the day and
then use a substance to get through the hours where
(15:12):
I'm not there, where the demons in the head slowly
start to awaken. I don't have that. I shouldn't say
I don't have that anymore. I've just taken a different
approach to get them taken care of, and choose a
happier life. And that's what I've done, And that pretty
much sums up everything for the last year. I'm gonna
(15:34):
be You're gonna be hearing some episodes and you're like,
well that was out back in like March. I I've
had a backlog. I've had things sitting, some things that
have been built for six months that I just I
had no energy to be able to get to it.
I looked at it, and the Lego sets themselves had
(15:55):
a mental stigma in my in my head, I couldn't
get around that block.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
And then thinking of well.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I've got to build it, I've got to record, I've
got to edit it, and then I got to post it,
and then.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
That mental hurdle.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I was already working it up to such a big
thing in my head that I could not get anywhere
with it. I just couldn't go. I just could not
get myself to go and go do it. So when
you hear some of these sets come about, that's what
I'm referring to. And then there's some that I wasn't
fortunate enough to be able to purchase at a time
(16:31):
in the past or receive a review copy of so
I was able to pick those up over time and
then they've just been added to the collection of things
to be able to eventually get to. So the podcast
is here to stay and it's about to get really,
really strong. We're going to go full something every week,
(16:55):
potentially bring back news on a tues I know that
has been a thing I've heard from a number of
you in the past, and just be able to get
myself back out there because the product of Lego does.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Make me happy.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
The things that were weighing it down have been cleared out,
so I have that unfettered joy back in my life.
So episodes are coming regularly and I just I really
hope that you guys enjoy it. I hope that you
know you can understand where things have been for me
(17:30):
for the last year, and you know, hopefully anybody else
that is dealing with something you know, maybe you listen
to this and it gives you that energy to push
and be able to go and say, you know what,
today I'm going to make a change. And you have
to be intentional about every single day. That is one
thing that I've learned in the therapy that I've done
(17:51):
in the help that I've gotten from the team at
the Veterans Affairs here in Dallas.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
The team there, you got it.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
You have to be purposeful with every day and you
have to take it one day at a time. If
you have to take it one hour at a time,
take it one hour at a time. But I don't
really focus way down the road. I focus here. I
focus on being present, being present for me, being present
for my family, being present for y'all.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
So hopefully, hopefully this.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Episode finds you well finds uh it, you find it
in your heart to love me back.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
We never really broke up. But with that said, I.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Appreciate everyone that has been here, that is here, and
hopefully you come back. But here's to the rest of
twenty twenty five and the future. So until we meet again,
I'm your Minifi ghost, Matt, let's build on it.
Shut up and.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Welcome to the Bricks King Podcast, where I'm gonna bend
your year about Legos, review those amazing bricks of plastic,
and discuss what is new. And I've been coming around
the Lego world. I'm your minifig host, Matt Well. Let's
bell it on it. Welcome in, everybody. How are you
doing today? It's been a minute, hasn't it. I know
some of you are saying, wait a minute, this is
(00:38):
this can't be real, this is this a rerun? No,
of course it's It's most definitely not.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
So I wanted to.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I felt like I owed it to everyone that has
been a listener, a follower from day one, or day yesterday,
day today, whatever. So I first want to say the
podcast is not going anywhere. Okay, this is not goodbye
at all. I just want to clear the air for myself,
for you guys. I've gotten a number of messages from
(01:10):
quite a few of you on social media. I've gotten emails,
and it never felt like the right moment to really
say what was going on in my life. And it's
been really tough this entire last calendar year, this last year,
(01:30):
starting in about last August and even before then, Honestly,
the last few years have been really challenging. Last year especially,
so over the last year, there has been a lot
of change in my life. My relationship with my spouse
has never been stronger now as some things have been
(01:51):
figured out. My career has never been stronger than what
it is right now. Up until probably ever since I
was about maybe eighteen, there have been a lot of things.
So I just kind of want to walk you through
just a little bit. And you know, maybe part of
this is for me to be able to get this
(02:12):
out and clear the air for myself. So the podcast
itself has been a godsend for me from from twenty
eighteen up until currently today. I still love it. I
still enjoy it. There were many days where it was
really kind of a grind. It was kind of a
struggle to bring myself into the studio, you know, especially
once I moved into this new house. You know, I
(02:33):
had this purpose built room with all of my electronics
and all the all the equipment that I need everything,
A working desk for building lego, a recording desk for
you know, I have an editing studio. I have everything
that I could possibly need and or want. But it
was still it was still hard. It was becoming more
difficult for me to find my way into the studio. Now.
(02:55):
I know some people are going to say, oh, yeah, burnout.
You know, burnout is a.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Thing I maybe a certain degree.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
And it's interesting because there was a topic back a
while ago in the Lego Ambassador Network forum about burnout
and how you deal with it and stuff, and I
vividly remember replying to it and say, yeah, I really
don't feel it.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
That may have been just due to the sheer fact
that well, you know, it's been a while ago, and
obviously things change, so I kind of took a step
back for a few different reasons. Obviously the podcast. I
was having my own challenging things and it was just
there was no energy for me to really push into it,
(03:37):
especially over the summer. So as you well know, it's
been a number of months, it's been the better part
of half a year nearly, and I've finally gotten some
resolution in my life. I've finally gotten some energy to
really set forth with the podcast and make it what
it is, always what I wanted it to be, as
(03:59):
I had it in the past, but really get back
to that love I now have that ability to be
able to do that. So let me walk you back
just a little bit and to what the last year.
And I'm not going to get into specific details. There's
a few of you out there that are listeners and
close friends of mine that know the intimate details, and
(04:23):
I appreciate you being through this journey with me from
you know, day one, really And so about a year ago,
last September, I had lost my job as a teacher.
Well I should I shouldn't say I lost my job.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I resigned.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I was dealing with a lot of mental health problems,
a lot of mental health issues, substance abuse issues. I
for the better part of four years, I was using
alcohol as as a numbing agent to kind of keep
(05:00):
the things in my head from really coming out. And
anybody that has ever struggled with mental health, there's a
variety of reasons.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Why you have these issues.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Obviously, the older you get, the more problems that persist
in your adult life and stuff like that. And if
you don't have the tools to help and deal with that,
you start trying to find tools, and sometimes it's not
the best way. So there's nothing in my life in
my immediate life right now, especially that was something that
(05:31):
I was like, I just I really cannot I really
cannot handle this. I was having more and more difficulty
with things from my past prior to the military, and
things military trauma PTSD that had reared their head, reared
their really ugly head, and they were just something that
(05:53):
was It was a constant voice in the back of
my head that just would not go away. And at
the end of the day, you know, I would use
alcohol to quiet that. And I know a lot of
veterans you know, around especially in the United States, I
don't know about the rest of the world, but you
just you use that as a way to numb yourself,
(06:14):
to just kind of ice everything over and kind of
glaze over. My relationship really struggled from it. With my
with my with my wife, my work. No one, no
one in my circle as a teacher knew anything because
I was I was functional, right, I didn't I didn't
smell of anything. I didn't And I know this is
(06:35):
a heavy topic for some of you, because it is
for a lot of people, believe it or not. And
so I would show up to work every day, and
the teaching profession is one While I absolutely loved it,
there were days there were. There were sixty six percent
of the days were good days. Thirty three percent of.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Those days were really bad days.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
And it could be, you know, three good days and
a really bad day, and there's a variety of reasons
why they.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Were bad days.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
It was from leadership that at the time I didn't
feel was very good leadership. It was, you know, the
inmates of the asylum were running things, and you know,
the administrators, the Wharton was gone, just you know, not around,
didn't care, and things just weren't functional. I came from
(07:31):
a very rigid structure military wise, and I know what
good leadership looks like. I've had employers, I know what
really good leadership looks like. And I struggled with that
same individual for ten years. And then there were a
few underneath of that person as well that just had
no business being in that position. And then there was
(07:53):
also the side of things of from parents. I was
getting inundated with emails. You know, as a PE teacher,
I taught in the classroom and I taught PE. So
when I was teaching PE, I would get emails from
parents that were saying, hey, you know, I my son,
my daughter, my kid. They were injured doing this instead
(08:15):
of again, instead of really trying to take a second
and try and understand the situation, it was that immediate.
I'm going to send an email right now with very
angry tone and use language that I probably shouldn't be
very accusatory. And showing up at seven o'clock in the
morning and opening your laptop and getting smacked in the
(08:36):
face with that is really a difficult thing to start
the day with because as much of a person that
you might be, as strong as you think you might be,
getting hit with that more times than not is tough,
and it's and very rarely was that, hey, you did
a great job, my kid loved this game or this
activity that y'all did.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
It was always the negative.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
And as a parent in the past, I think there
were times where I, you know, were quick to judge
or quick to jump to a conclusion versus taking things
in or having the conversation. It was immediately accusatory. And
you got to remember, I'm dealing with five six hundred
students every week, and every kid their day is going
(09:18):
to be different. Their kids every day is going to
be different from the minute that they get dropped off
to the minute they go home what happens in their
home life, So their behavior is going to be completely
different whether I disciplined a child or I didn't discipline
a child, depending on what the situation was, if a
kid got injured.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
When I say injured, i'm talking about you know.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Everybody is that has played basketball has been hit in
the face with a stray ball that has bounced and
popped you in the nose or something like that. Or
in the lip throwing games where you throw something somebody
can't catch or doesn't catch at that time and it
makes it to their mouth or to something else. These
things happen, right, And it was one of those things
that I could never whatever I did, I would always
(10:02):
have a detractor there. So those things became really really
loud pit that on top of all of my mental
health struggles that I was dealing with, and I suffered
in silence. I thought, you know, it's fine, I'm gonna
push it down, push it down, push it down. And
it did not do anything. It eventually erupted. So I
(10:22):
last September I resigned from my position. I could no
longer do it. I was out of work for about
a month or so, about three weeks and I decided
I needed a change.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I didn't know what else to do. Right.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
When you have a teaching degree, you're very specialized. It's
there are positions and jobs out there. I didn't want
to sit in the cubicle.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
That's not for me.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I didn't want to sit behind a desk. I didn't,
you know, I didn't want any of that. So I
spoke with my wife and I decided to go get
my CDL. If you don't know what that is, it's
commercial drivers. So I went and I got a great
program that I went through for four weeks, incredible instructors.
You're thinking, oh, he's driving a truck now, Yes, and no.
(11:11):
About a month after that, so mid November, I changed
careers completely. And I am in a field where I
do work long hours. I don't drive a truck every day.
Some days I do, some days I don't, but that
having that license is just to be able to help
with part of the job. I'm in a position where
(11:32):
I am I am in charge. I it's the owner
and then it's myself and you know, I've got my
other coworkers and stuff like that. It's a smaller company
and I've never been happier. I've not been this happy
in a job since I was probably seventeen or eighteen,
and back then it was a job where I was
(11:52):
working outdoors. I work outdoors now. I get to deal
with different clients just about every day. I get to
use things, equipment that is extraordinarily expensive and can crush cars.
I get to use my brain and problem solve and
critically think and troubleshoot and fix things, which is where
(12:15):
my wheelhouse has always been. Never had that in education.
I couldn't fix things. I couldn't really critically think. There
was not any of that. Everything was kind of mapped
out for you. This is your roadmap, follow it. Well,
what if we know, don't do that, do this? What
do you want to teach the class for me? Because
that's what you're telling me essentially what you want done.
So all that is to say, I'm in this career
(12:38):
now and there are days I show up to work
at seven o'clock and there are days where I don't
get home till eight. There are days most days of
work at ten hour day, which I'm okay with. There
are some days where I work thirteen fourteen hours. They're
a little less rare, but I love it. I just
I'm still energized. It doesn't matter. Every single day I
(12:59):
get up, I'm ready to go to work. And like
I said, I haven't felt like that since I was
seventeen or eighteen. And I know a lot of people
out there every single day they're kind of like, oh God,
I really I have to go to work today. I
really don't want to do this job today. I really
don't want to go here. I really don't want to
do that. And those of you that are in that position,
I know what it's like. I've been there for a
long time and it sucks. And if you have that opportunity,
(13:21):
seize it to go elsewhere. Those of you that are
in positions like myself right now, it's amazing to feel
that way every single day. Like I just I enjoy
my job. I don't enjoy my job. I absolutely love
my job and I love every aspect.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Of my job. So that's where things stand with me personally.
New career. I work a lot.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I just work a lot, and then on weekends, not
every weekend, but just about every other weekend I'm on
call or every third weekend, which is great.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I have no.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Problem going into work being paid handsomely. I'm enjoying my career.
That's all that matters to me. So the podcast, what changed?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Why now? Why?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Why are things kicking off? And I've got two episodes
already recorded. They were done on Friday and Saturday, while
earlier today, today is at the time of this recording
is Saturday.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
You'll hear it probably on Monday. But what changed? What changed?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Some finality has come about in my life about a
week ago, and I now have the energy back and
I've finally good things have happened, and it's it's like
a complete reawakening of my mind, body and soul. And
I've made complete drastic changes in my life. You know,
(14:48):
my sobriety has been a huge sticking point for me,
for my family, for my relationship with my spouse, with
my with everybody. I'm back to that that person that
doesn't have to struggle to get through the day and
then use a substance to get through the hours where
(15:12):
I'm not there, where the demons in the head slowly
start to awaken. I don't have that. I shouldn't say
I don't have that anymore. I've just taken a different
approach to get them taken care of, and choose a
happier life. And that's what I've done, And that pretty
much sums up everything for the last year. I'm gonna
(15:34):
be You're gonna be hearing some episodes and you're like,
well that was out back in like March. I I've
had a backlog. I've had things sitting, some things that
have been built for six months that I just I
had no energy to be able to get to it.
I looked at it, and the Lego sets themselves had
(15:55):
a mental stigma in my in my head, I couldn't
get around that block.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
And then thinking of well.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I've got to build it, I've got to record, I've
got to edit it, and then I got to post it,
and then.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
That mental hurdle.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I was already working it up to such a big
thing in my head that I could not get anywhere
with it. I just couldn't go. I just could not
get myself to go and go do it. So when
you hear some of these sets come about, that's what
I'm referring to. And then there's some that I wasn't
fortunate enough to be able to purchase at a time
(16:31):
in the past or receive a review copy of so
I was able to pick those up over time and
then they've just been added to the collection of things
to be able to eventually get to. So the podcast
is here to stay and it's about to get really,
really strong. We're going to go full something every week,
(16:55):
potentially bring back news on a tues I know that
has been a thing I've heard from a number of
you in the past, and just be able to get
myself back out there because the product of Lego does.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Make me happy.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
The things that were weighing it down have been cleared out,
so I have that unfettered joy back in my life.
So episodes are coming regularly and I just I really
hope that you guys enjoy it. I hope that you
know you can understand where things have been for me
(17:30):
for the last year, and you know, hopefully anybody else
that is dealing with something you know, maybe you listen
to this and it gives you that energy to push
and be able to go and say, you know what,
today I'm going to make a change. And you have
to be intentional about every single day. That is one
thing that I've learned in the therapy that I've done
(17:51):
in the help that I've gotten from the team at
the Veterans Affairs here in Dallas.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
The team there, you got it.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
You have to be purposeful with every day and you
have to take it one day at a time. If
you have to take it one hour at a time,
take it one hour at a time. But I don't
really focus way down the road. I focus here. I
focus on being present, being present for me, being present
for my family, being present for y'all.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
So hopefully, hopefully this.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Episode finds you well finds uh it, you find it
in your heart to love me back.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
We never really broke up. But with that said, I.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Appreciate everyone that has been here, that is here, and
hopefully you come back. But here's to the rest of
twenty twenty five and the future. So until we meet again,
I'm your Minifi ghost, Matt, let's build on it.
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