The Wake-Up Call That Changed Everything

From the outside, Matt Cock had it all. Plumbing business turning over good money. Trucks, employees, the lot. Underneath, he was running on alcohol, drugs, ego, and 16-hour days, and he knew it.

In this episode, Matt sits down with Sam and walks through the years of slow erosion that led to his rock bottom, the family intervention that put him on a plane to rehab, and the five weeks that started a rebuild that's still going three and a half years on. He talks about what real accountability looks like, why "surviving to thriving" is a trap nobody warns you about, and what it actually takes to come back from 300k in debt with your relationships in pieces.

This conversation is for anyone running on empty and hoping it'll sort itself out. It won't. Matt's story is the proof, and the way back.

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