Conversations with Rich Bennett Matt Paradise on Whole-Health Wealth & Lasting Recovery
Rich sits down with award-winning author and nationally recognized financial educator Matt Paradise to explore “whole-health wealth”—the blend of practical money skills, mindset, and healing. Matt shares his path from homelessness and addiction to 20 years in nonprofit credit counseling, his battle with cholangiocarcinoma, and the tools anyone can use to lower anxiety, get out of debt, and build a purposeful life. Listeners walk away with real-world frameworks for budgeting, credit repair, and changing the money stories that keep them stuck.
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Guest Bio:
Matt Paradise is the award-winning author of Financially Capable and a nationally recognized financial educator and keynote speaker. After overcoming addiction and years of instability, he spent two decades with American Consumer Credit Counseling creating education programs from prisons and shelters to corporations and later founded his own speaking and consulting practice. A survivor of cholangiocarcinoma and a liver transplant, Matt champions a “whole-health wealth” approach that marries money management with mental and emotional wellbeing.
Main Topics:
· Money as a mental-health conversation, not just math
· Early life, addiction, homelessness, and the turning point to sobriety (July 1999)
· Nonprofit credit counseling: budgeting, debt management, and credit reports/security clearances
· “Process addictions” (spending, gambling, digital) and financial psychology
· Building education outreach across prisons, shelters, and companies
· Cancer diagnosis (cholangiocarcinoma), treatment path, and transplant; choosing hope
· Writing Financially Capable: the “dirty B-word” (budget), practical tools, and mindset
· Nonprofits as businesses: sustainability, staffing, and fundraising realities
· Gratitude, community, and purpose as engines for lasting financial change
Resources mentioned:
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