Matt Joseph Diaz

We met Matt a year ago when he showed us his post weight-loss body.

Do you remember that incredibly awkward feeling you’d get during childhood when you went over to a friend’s house for dinner and their parents started arguing? This was like that — only your dick is out and you got caught having sex with one of the parents.

"The universe is a big, dark, cold empty space — but you're not any of that. You're a light."

It's time for #MondayMotivation with Matt Joseph Diaz. Today Matt is talking about vulnerability. 

Welcome to Monday Motivation with Matt Joseph Diaz! Every Monday (obviously) I'll be serving up some motivation to get you through the week.

For a long time, passing privilege made me feel like I didn’t deserve to call myself latino.

Whether it’s your ethnicity, your religion, your sexuality, you do not deserve to be loved in spite of who you are — you deserve to be loved for who you are. Those things are a part of you, and they shouldn’t be swept under the rug or pushed to the side so someone can pick and choose the things they like about you.

This week on Mondays With Matt: Wearing a crop-top. And I have a NEW BELLYBUTTON.

While every generation has its triumphs (Barack Obama, gay marriage, legalized marijuana) and missteps (Ed Hardy Shirts, Lost, making Gerard Butler famous,) millennials are actually a lot better than we get credit for. Need proof?

How embarrassing is this story, and is the value in it (be it entertainment, educational, or both) enough that the benefit in sharing it outweighs how mortifying it is?