What do you do when everything is going right and suddenly life pulls the rug out from under you?
In November 2024, Matt Preschern was a successful global C-suite marketing executive who had built a career driving multibillion-dollar growth for some of the world's leading technology companies. Then, without warning, a severe inner ear injury left him with permanent hearing loss, debilitating vertigo, and a forced pause on the life he thought he would continue living.
This is not a story about defeat. It is a story about rediscovery.
In Storytime with Uncle Matt, Matt shares raw, honest, and often humorous reflections on resilience, reinvention, giving back, and choosing perspective over self-pity. From public family scandal in Austria to immigrating to the United States with little money, from corporate boardrooms to personal health crises, Matt shows how setbacks can become springboards.
Through deeply personal stories, he explores:
- How to bounce forward instead of simply bouncing back
- Why walking away sometimes takes more courage than pushing through
- How crisis can become the catalyst for reinvention
- The unexpected power of giving back
- What it means to live intentionally
This book is for anyone facing change, loss, uncertainty, or transition. It is for leaders, entrepreneurs, athletes, parents, immigrants, and anyone who has ever asked, Why now? Why me?
Because life happens.
And when it does, you have a choice.
You can give up!
Or you can RISE.
