Matt Joseph Diaz

The “you” who opens their eyes in the morning isn’t the same “you” lays down their head in that bed that night. In those few hours of consciousness you have more exposure to life, you experience a world of compassion and cruelty that has the potential to change the trajectory of your entire life.

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

This is literally the cutest, happiest thing you will see all day.

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It's Monday — Boo! But, it's also time for another installment of #MondaysWithMatt — Yeah! 

Even on the days you've made a mistake, or hurt someone, or otherwise messed up and caused yourself to doubt whether or not you like you, it's sti

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

From a young age, people (especially women) are constantly taught that we’re in competition with one another. Whether it’s our grades, our social status, our economic status, or those creepy beauty pageants for 6 year olds, we’re immediately thrust into a world where we’re taught to view everyone as adversarial to a certain degree.

This week, Matt talks about fear. What happens when the worst thing you can imagine happening, actually happens?

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.