Matt D’Avella graduated from college with enormous student debt, and spent the next five years freelance filming and trying to connect with other creatives. In 2014, Matt found his ‘break’ directing the incredible Netflix documentary Minimalism.

Beginning his YouTube channel in 2016, Matt began to put in organised effort in 2017, before gaining huge momentum in 2018, amassing over 1 million subscribers.

His most popular videos include his “30 days” series, which documented Matt trialling a different self-improvement habit for 30 days.

Matt created a podcast called The Ground Up Show, a short-form podcast and video series called Three Rules, as well as an online course called Slow Growth Academy.