giving myself permission
What this episode is about
a little bit of SUNshine is a show about the moments that quietly reshape how someone sees their life, told in their own words. In this episode, Matt, known online as Doodlifts, talks about the call that changed everything: on vacation in Paris with his wife and parents, an offer to leave a decade as a substance abuse counselor behind for a full time role in the web3 space he had only meant to help with storytelling.
His dad was not so sure, a decade of counseling work traded for a contract role in crypto is a hard sell to a parent. His wife looked at him and asked if he was really doing this. He was. He talks about what he calls a vein of gold, the thing you keep chasing because it gives you energy instead of draining it, and about a saying he leans on when things swing too far in either direction, this too shall pass.
It runs 20 minutes, so it fits a coffee break or a short commute. No advice, no framework, just one person's account of trading the safe thing for the thing that actually felt like his.