Whiffy Washrooms, Global Gestures, and More with Matt Gilhooly

11/28/24 • 39 min

On this week's Five Random Questions, Matt Gilhooly, host of The Life Shift podcast as well as author and artist, joins Danny and talks about 30 seconds to change the world, why public bathrooms have to go, why there's no such thing as the perfect fit for people, and more. Let's jump in!

Answering the questions this week: Matt Gilhooly

Matt Gilhooly is the host/creator/producer of The Life Shift Podcast and a marketing communications writer and in-house podcast producer at an industry-leading mortgage technology company.

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Answering the questions this week: Matt Gilhooly

Matt Gilhooly is the host/creator/producer of The Life Shift Podcast and a marketing communications writer and in-house podcast producer at an industry-leading mortgage technology company.

Matt's Website

@thelifeshiftpod on X

@thelifeshiftpodcast on Instagram

Matt on YouTube

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If you'd like to be a guest, please fill out this quick form and I'll be in touch!

Please let your friends know they can listen for free on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, as well as their preferred podcast app, or online at 5 Random Questions.

All questions provided by University of Washington Random Question Generator.

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Check Out the Bad Movies Worse Opinions Podcast

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5 Random Questions - Whiffy Washrooms, Global Gestures, and More with Matt Gilhooly

Transcript

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I've been going through this season of like the last couple weeks where things feel not great and kind of like I lost my dog in the summer and I didn't expect the journey of grief to be quite as hard. I lost my mom when I was a kid. I lost my grandmother when I was in my thirties. But losing this dog was like losing a shadow. And so I'm kind of in this moment of where things feel heavier. And so I know that it's really important for me to sit with that and feel it and