Matt Kepnes

Sure am, man.

Well, I mean, it's huge.

I worked in healthcare administration, uh, right after college.

So for three years, I was basically behind a desk doing administrative work first for inpatients and then for,

The director of their surgical programs.

I started the blog in 2008 after a 14 month trip around the world.

I had come back to healthcare and was incredibly bored and was like, screw this.

I need to go away again.

And so doing what all people in our age brackets tend to do is I thought, well, I need a job.

What's the best way to get seen?

I should build a website as an online resume.

So I did that as a way to get people,

Yeah, basically just be an online resume where editors and potential, you know, websites and see the body of my writing.

Um, but over the years it just sort of grew.

And then in about 2010 I made it, I made it go as its own platform.

And what do you mean by that?

Well, I was getting more and more visitors going, how did you do a trip around the world?

And you know, it wasn't very common in 2010 and there wasn't a lot of resources online.

Uh, so I just turned, I wanted to write guidebooks and, but then I just turned the website into its own guidebook.

Um, I do a lot of grinder, uh, you know, that really helps a lot.