matthew mccartney
FATHER, COACH, & COMMUNITY LEADER
DRIVEN BY CURIOSITY. BUILT ON PURPOSE.
I’m a father of 2, a former police detective turned coach and men's group facilitator. Several years ago, my passion shifted from policing to providing emotional, physical and spiritual support to men in my community. I reclaimed my relationship with nature and discovered how vital supportive genuine connection is for our wellbeing.
The long and short of it: I spent years living misaligned knowing my true path was just out of reach. Through decades of trial and error, I learned to use discomfort as an ally in my evolution and began honestly refining my sense of Self. Today I work with individuals and groups with the aim to create meaningful lives built on purpose.
what’s ahead
Spring 2026, I’ll cross the Atlantic by sail and complete a long-form pilgrimage across Europe, including an extended walking journey and a final passage to Ireland. It’s the most challenging thing I can imagine within reason documented every step of the way.
GREAT PEOPLE, Real Impact.
Every event we host is designed to cultivate more connection, meaning, and evolutionary influence among impactful, open-hearted, people in our communities.
follow along…
[MY PHILOSOPHY]
The people who are the most alive aren't the ones who've eliminated discomfort from their lives. They're the ones who've learned to be curious about it.
They treat discomfort like information instead of a problem to solve. What’s also common is that they don’t go at it alone.
In a world where progress attempts to create more ease, we paradoxically find ourselves experiencing more disease. We have created an environment of:
Conflict avoidance
Physical, emotional, spiritual neglect,
Dreams unrealized
We seem to lean into building lives that optically appear good. Yet, so many still experience stuckness, apathy, and a lack of purpose and meaning in their lives.
So whats missing?
I, and others before you and me, have come to find that the things that we’ve side-stepped are actually the things we want to get curious about. In reality, they are trying to direct us deeper into Self to unveil something important about our path.
I do not believe in a practice of seeking out pain and suffering without a cause.
I do believe in earnestly stepping in the direction of our intuitive selves to noticing — noticing the patterns of when we choose ease over growth.