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 pastor a church at 17, build a $100M+ digital advertising empire, and eventually walk away from it all to ask the questions that actually matter.

They cover it all:

• How Nick went from church pastor to Facebook ads pioneer — generating close to a billion dollars in client sales
• The dark side of social media algorithms and how platforms are engineered to keep you anxious, scrolling, and never enough
• Why your identity might not actually be yours — and how to start questioning the stories you've inherited
• The McLaren obsession — from a six-supercar test drive to hunting down a 765LT and why toys are just toys when you know who you are
• Dream Rally — and the unexpected ripple effect it has not just on the kids in the cars, but on every single person watching from the sidewalk
• Nick's new documentary "Unbecoming" — a two-year, seven-country journey through monasteries, neuroscience labs, and psychedelic research centers asking one question: What if fulfillment isn't about becoming more, but unbecoming everything you're not?
• The 5MEO DMT protocol Nick and his team have developed — combining clinical therapy, neurofeedback, Buddhist coaching, and psychedelic medicine to collapse the patterns that cause suffering
• Why presence, not performance, is the new definition of success

This episode will challenge the way you think about ambition, identity, social media, philanthropy, and what it means to truly know yourself.

Key Themes: Inner clarity · Entrepreneurship · Social media & mental health · Psychedelics & consciousness · Philanthropy · Dream Rally · Identity & suffering · The Unbecoming documentary

Good things happen to good people. Throw the ladder back down.

Subscribe, share, and if this episode moved you — visit augustafterdark.com to support the kids and families behind Dream Rally.

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. Coming home to Kelowna. And the part Casey doesn't lead with: the anger he carried through his twenties. The years where the most upbeat voice on the radio wasn't doing so well privately.

He talks about what cracked it. A sidewalk in Toronto. His wife stopped to talk to a stranger for ten minutes — warm, easy, like they'd known each other for years. Casey asked who she was. His wife had no idea.

That stayed with him.

Each month, August After Dark supports a family close to Matt's heart. This month: the Relvas family — two years at Ronald McDonald House

GUEST: Casey Clarke

HOST: Matt August

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 Ronald McDonald House BC Yukon build.

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