2ndWind Academy

Matthew Hodgson spent his entire career knowing he had the ability and never quite trusting it. The moment basketball was gone, so was everything he thought he knew about himself.

He made the Boomers. Had a stint with the Dallas Mavericks. Won championships.

And still felt like a loser.

When the phone stopped ringing, he was sitting on a beach in Hawaii with an 18-month-old daughter and no plan.

What came next was messy.

In this episode, Ryan sits down with Matthew Hodgson, former NBL pro and founder of People Performance Advisors, to talk about what it actually looks like to rebuild an identity from scratch.

What We Get Into:

• —Why making the Boomers and having a stint with the Dallas Mavericks still wasn't enough to make him feel good enough
• —The injury that ended his career and the free agency that confirmed it was over
• —Sitting on a beach in Hawaii and realising the phone wasn't going to ring
• —Turning down a masters degree the day after getting accepted and why it was the right call
• —The job he took that he knew he'd hate and what it taught him anyway
• —The $100,000 he spent trying to fix his own head while he was still playing
• —Why he was punishing himself and calling it discipline
• —How a kid who wanted basketball coaching accidentally opened the door to his entire career
• —What he actually does now and why it finally feels like using his strengths
• —Why he threw out the AI content and started recording straight after training when the feeling hit