A conversation podcast with Matt August, founder of August Luxury Motor Cars. exploring the stories, strategies, and mindsets behind building a life and business worth talking about.
Stop Sweeping Grief Under the Rug: A Country Star's Advice
Country stars Jenna and Stuart of The Reklaws share their raw experiences with grief and fame with host Matt August, offering insights on processing loss.
1 Oct 2026
The Brutal Truth About Why Canada's Forests Keep Burning
Host Matt August interviews retired forester and filmmaker Murray Wilson about the systemic failures contributing to Canada's escalating forest fires.
25 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
87 Year Old Reveals Everything He Knows About Success
Host Matt August interviews author and entrepreneur Peter Thomas about the secrets to building a successful and fulfilling life.
8 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Why You Feel Hopeless (And How To Fix It Today)
Host Tyler Hall shares his framework for overcoming hopelessness, discussing profound stories and personal trauma in this interview.
2 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Crypto Millionaire: The Habits That Built A Kraken Buyout
Dylan Loomer shares his journey from a humble first car to a Kraken buyout, revealing the solitary habits that fueled his crypto success in this interview with Matt.
22 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Failure That Ended My Olympic Dream || Justin Pasutto
Former Team Canada boardercross racer Justin Pasutto shares his unfiltered story of the crash that ended his Olympic dream and his journey through recovery.
15 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Dan Martell: Give Me 16 Minutes And I'll Change How You Think About Success
Host Alex Riley interviews entrepreneur and author Dan Martell about redefining success beyond wealth and achieving genuine fulfillment.
7 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
How to Survive A Marriage in 2026 (conversation with my wife)
What does it actually take to build a life with someone? Not the Instagram version. The real one, with near-death accidents, broken bones, a brain bleed, fertility struggles, and the kind of storms that either break a couple apart or make them unbreakable. In this episode, Matthew sits down with his wife Adria for one of the most honest conversations we've put on record. They go back to the beginning: six years of friendship before anything romantic, the moment everything shifted at the Dre...
1 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ronald McDonald House CEO: It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Help a Sick Child
Donate: augustafterdark.com Ronald McDonald House BC & Yukon: rmhbc.ca Register for the Okanagan Dream Rally: okanagandreamrally.com What happens to a family when their child is airlifted to BC Children's Hospital with nothing but the clothes on their back? In this episode of August After Dark, Matt sits down with Richard Pass — CEO of Ronald McDonald House BC & Yukon for nearly 20 years — the man who transformed a small charity serving 13 families into the largest Ronald McDonald Hou...
23 Jun 2026
Dan Martell's Claude Strategist Exposes How to Replace yourself with AI
August Motorcars: https://www.augustmotorcars.com/ You hear "AI" 50 times a day. Nobody actually tells you what to do with it. This week, Cory Silva sat down with Host, Matt August to fix that. Cory's the co-founder of Six Summit, an AI software agency building real tools for real businesses. He went from a failed tech startup and 10 years in corporate retail to founding an AI company — all in the last three years, while becoming a dad and nearly running out of money. We get into what your...
16 Jun 2026
He Lowered Drug Use by 27% Across Thousands of Patients || Shane Bishop
What if a device on your kitchen counter could track every pill you take, alert your doctor in real time, and flag opioid addiction before it takes hold? That's exactly what Shane built. In this episode of August After Dark, we sit down with the founder of Custom Health — a UBC pharmacist who rewrote Canadian legislation, built the first central fill pharmacy in Western Canada, and is now taking his company public on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Shane shares the story behind Spen...
29 May 2026
He Almost Didn't Survive. Now He Calls It the Best Time of His Life.
This podcast episode lives at the intersection of hope, community, and the quiet heroism of parenthood. It is not a cancer story — it is a story about what human beings are capable of when everything is stripped away. On Canada Day 2019, Janelle Stanley's 2.5 year-old son Finley was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. His platelet count was 9. He could have bled out internally without a single warning sign. Within hours, Janelle was on a Learjet to BC Children's Hospital ...
22 May 2026
What It Really Takes to Build a Dream Business (Supercar Edition)
Matt August and Mike Hall have been the guys behind August Motor Cars from the beginning — and in this episode, they're finally telling the whole story. From bidding on a foreclosed building their families thought was a terrible idea, to sneaking into the Indy 500 pits, getting dressed as pirates at a supercar rally, crashing a Radical at track, and eventually taking a McLaren 765LT across America on the Gumball 3000 — this is the unfiltered origin of one of Canada's most recognized exo...
15 May 2026
The Algorithm Was Designed to Keep You Miserable — Here's How to Fight Back
What does it actually mean to be successful — and what if everything you've been chasing has been keeping you from the peace you already have? In this episode of August After Dark, host Matt sits down with entrepreneur, digital marketing pioneer, and consciousness explorer Nicholas for one of the most honest, wide-ranging conversations the show has ever had. Nicholas's story starts before he was even born — a miracle pregnancy, a prophecy spoken over his mother, and a path that led him to pas...
8 May 2026
30 Years. One Voice. The Truth About Lasting in Country Music Radio | Casey Clarke
Casey Clarke will tell you his voice wasn't good enough. He'll say it before you get the chance to ask. He left broadcast school without a diploma. Took a job in a town called Westlock, Alberta. Figured getting paid to learn beat paying someone to teach him. Thirty years later — one of 3 Canadians to win the CMA Broadcaster of the Year. In this episode, Matt sits down with Casey to go through all of it. The small-town Alberta start. Overnight shifts on satellite radio. Sixteen years at CMT. C...
1 May 2026
What Happens When Your Child’s Life Depends On You
Adam and Lindsay Relvas opened their restaurant on October 6th, 2016. Six weeks later, their three-year-old son was diagnosed with stage four cancer. Adam flew back and forth to Vancouver for eight months. Lindsay stayed at the hospital. Friends kept the restaurant alive. Anthony is doing well now. The Relvas family has spent the last ten years giving back to everyone who showed up for them — and tonight they're sharing the story for the first time. This episode is raising money for the new R...
22 Apr 2026
August After Dark Trailer
Some conversations only happen after the lights go down. August After Dark is hosted by Matt August. Each episode he sits down with operators, athletes, builders, and creators and asks the questions nobody bothered to ask them on the main stage — how they built it, what it cost them, and what they actually do with it now. Here's what Matt keeps seeing: the people who build the most are almost always the ones giving the most away. That's what this show is really about. A portion of every...
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Stop Sweeping Grief Under the Rug: A Country Star's Advice
Published 13 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Yeah. But to lose a parent to suicide was like. I can't connect with you. I don't know how to connect with you. Um, and like you said, you like, it's something you hear about happening to people in the world, but never to you, never would you think it would be us. Like you never assume it's going to be you. Right. So, um, and I don't know, like to someone who's been through something like this, I'd say talk about it to the point that it's like talking about the weather. Like don't, don't sweep it under the rug. Cause the more you can talk about, whatever that is that you don't want to talk about, you're acknowledging the trauma and you're taking the power away from it. […]
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