About
Matthew J. McGinnis
Matthew J. McGinnis
Matthew J. McGinnis
I’m Matthew J. McGinnis—entrepreneur, builder, husband, father, and a human who’s done a lot of things the hard way.
This podcast exists because I got tired of the noise.
The fake certainty.
The polished personas.
The success stories that skip the cost.
Here, we talk about what’s actually real: leadership under pressure, identity beyond titles
I’m Matthew J. McGinnis—entrepreneur, builder, husband, father, and a human who’s done a lot of things the hard way.
This podcast exists because I got tired of the noise.
The fake certainty.
The polished personas.
The success stories that skip the cost.
Here, we talk about what’s actually real: leadership under pressure, identity beyond titles, rebuilding after loss, navigating ambition without losing your soul, and learning how to tell the truth—to yourself first.
I’ve built companies, sat at negotiating tables, made mistakes that cost real money and real relationships, and learned that growth doesn’t come from pretending you’ve got it all figured out. It comes from facing what’s uncomfortable, unfinished, and unresolved.
This isn’t a show about having the answers.
It’s a show about asking better questions.
If you’re in a season of transition, reckoning, rebuilding, or refinement—this space is for you.
No masks.
No performance.
Just truth.
History
Matthew J. McGinnis
Matthew J. McGinnis
Matthew J. McGinnis is an entrepreneur and operator with a background in building and leading industrial, energy, and service-based businesses. Carolina boy to the core, born in Shelby, NC and has lived the last 20 years in Fort Mill, SC. Over the past two decades, he has navigated high-stakes growth, complex partnerships, and hard-earne
Matthew J. McGinnis is an entrepreneur and operator with a background in building and leading industrial, energy, and service-based businesses. Carolina boy to the core, born in Shelby, NC and has lived the last 20 years in Fort Mill, SC. Over the past two decades, he has navigated high-stakes growth, complex partnerships, and hard-earned exits—learning as much from failure, pressure, and conflict as from success. Along the way, he’s balanced leadership with fatherhood, marriage, and personal reckoning, using those experiences to question traditional definitions of success and to pursue a more honest, aligned way of living and leading.
Why MJM Podcast?
Matthew J. McGinnis
Why MJM Podcast?
This podcast started as a conversation I needed to have with myself.
I’m Matthew J. McGinnis, and I created this space to explore what happens when you stop running from the hard questions—about who you are, what you believe, and why you keep pushing so hard.
We talk about ambition and exhaustion, faith and doubt, success and shame, family,
This podcast started as a conversation I needed to have with myself.
I’m Matthew J. McGinnis, and I created this space to explore what happens when you stop running from the hard questions—about who you are, what you believe, and why you keep pushing so hard.
We talk about ambition and exhaustion, faith and doubt, success and shame, family, identity, and the quiet work of becoming honest. Not polished. Not perfect. Just real.
If you’re searching for clarity, permission to slow down, or language for what you’re feeling but haven’t said yet—you’re not alone here.