DREAM RALLY
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DAN MARTELL
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Dan Martell built and sold three companies, became a multimillionaire
before 30 — and then realized he wasn't happy.

In this episode of Area 27, we sit down with entrepreneur, investor,
author of Buy Back Your Time, and one of the most impactful voices in
the business world — Dan Martell — for one of the most honest
conversations we've ever had on this show.

We're not talking about business tactics or AI hacks today.

We're talking about what actually matters. What money will never be
able to buy you. And why Dan Martell — a man who has coached
thousands of founders and built a $100M+ empire — believes that
sitting in a supercar next to a struggling kid is the greatest thing
he's ever done.

Dan opens up about growing up in a broken environment, the days he
didn't feel like he deserved to be alive, and how one caring adult
changed the entire trajectory of his life. That experience is exactly
why he's been running youth programs for nearly 20 years — and why
he's the title sponsor of this year's Dream Rally.

Dream Rally is the Okanagan's most powerful charitable event — 250
of the world's most incredible supercars drive with children who need a
special day through a full police-escorted route, lined with thousands
of fans waving checkered flags. What looks like a car show on the
outside is something far deeper.

We've had parents tell us this event gave their child — who had
attempted suicide multiple times — something to look forward to every
two years. Something to live for.

Dan gets it. Because he was that kid.
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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 – Welcome to the Race Track & Introducing Dream Rally
01:26 – What Is the Dream Rally?
02:05 – Why Dan Martell Joined As Title Sponsor
03:28 – A deep-rooted story of a Kid Who Chose To Live
04:44 – What The Kids Experience Beyond Just The Cars
05:32 – "Every Kid Is One Caring Adult Away From A Success Story"
07:36 – What Would A 12-Year-Old Dan Martell Have Felt At Dream Rally?
08:09 – Growing Up Broken: Dan's Darkest Days
09:00 – Selling His Company At 28 & Feeling Completely Empty
10:43 – The Mentor Who Changed Dan's Entire Philosophy
12:31 – "The Ultimate Flex Is Not The Cars"
13:50 – Why Dan Has Run Youth Programs For 20 Years
14:28 – How To Give Back Before You Feel Ready
15:01 – "Start With Your World Before You Try To Change The World"
15:45 – Why Time & Presence Matter More Than Money
16:05 – See You On The Start Line

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 Dream Rally, and what it actually felt like to choose each other.

Then they get into the hard stuff.
Ryder's snowboard accident, which left him with a broken neck, bruised organs, and a lost kidney, and the moment Adria stood at the bottom of the ski hill wondering if her son was still alive. Months later, within the same year, Adria's own near-fatal horse accident: 14 crushed bones, a brain bleed, a punctured lung, and being dragged through the forest. Matthew flying through a lightning storm in a helicopter to reach her.
The long road back, and the small wins that rebuilt her, from passing her real estate exam when everyone said she'd fail, to the day she swam across the lake and sold her first home.

Through all of it, they talk about what they learned about love, vulnerability, community, and what it really means to choose the right person to walk through life with.
This one will stay with you.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 – The accidents that tested everything
3:19 – The Dream Rally that changed how she saw him
8:56 – The test begins: Ryder's snowboard accident
11:05 – "Is he dead?" — the moment at the ski hill
18:58 – Adria's horse accident: 14 crushed bones and a brain bleed
20:40 – Flying through a lightning storm to reach her
31:40 – Passing the exam everyone said she'd fail
35:12 – One day: the swim and her first home sale
44:57 – Full circle: 23 weeks pregnant
59:00 – What it all comes down to: Community

1:00:53 – The most important decision I ever made

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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 House in the world.

But tonight, Richard isn't just here to celebrate what's been built. He's here because there's a fight happening — and it might be the most important conversation we've had on this stage.

Right now, 700 families a year are being turned away from Ronald McDonald House BC & Yukon. Families who have left their jobs, their homes, and their communities to be beside a critically ill child. Families who have slept in cars. Families who have lost everything.

A new 12-story, $100 million timber house is ready to be built — one that would serve 150 families at a time, with private suites, a healing centre, a rooftop space, and the kind of dignity every family in crisis deserves.

The federal government is in. The Yukon is in. The City of Vancouver is in.

BC still hasn't committed.

This one matters. Share it.

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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 business should be doing with AI this week, the conversation you need to have with your kids, what your job actually looks like two years from now, and the one habit that puts you ahead of almost everyone still typing into ChatGPT like it's Google.

If AI feels like it's moving too fast and nobody's slowing down to explain it, this is the one to watch.

Subscribe so you don't miss the next one. New episodes of August After Dark every week.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Intro
02:15 - The AI Founder Who Wants a '67 Mustang (Meet Cory Silva)
05:45 - He Was Down to His Last Dollar — Then This Happened
13:30 - What Is AI? The Answer Nobody Explains This Simply
18:30 - The Scary Question Everyone's Afraid to Ask About AI
26:30 - The 20-Minute AI Hack That Changed How Everyone Works
33:00 - 41% of Code Is Now AI — Here's Why That Should Wake You Up
42:00 - What Your Sunday Looks Like in 5 Years (It's Wild)
48:00 - The Hidden Cost of AI Nobody's Talking About
56:00 - These Jobs Are Gone by 2030 — And the Ones Replacing Them
68:00 - The AI Talk You NEED to Have With Your Kids
76:00 - AI Is Lying to You — Here's How to Make It Stop
81:00 - You're Using AI Wrong: What an "Agent" Really Does
86:00 - Should You Give AI Access to Your Email? The Honest Answer
93:00 - The Daily AI Setup That Saves Him Hours Every Morning
99:00 - Do This ONE Thing This Week to Beat 99% of AI Users

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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 and is now taking his company public on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Shane shares the story behind Spencer, Custom Health's smart medication dispenser that replaces a cabinet full of pill bottles with a single daily pouch — connected to a 24/7 clinical team that actually monitors whether your medication is working.

We talk about the opioid crisis in a way you haven't heard before — the full-image tracking of a tablet from pharmacy shelf to patient hand, and the AI that flags opioid use disorder before a doctor's appointment ever happens.

If you want to understand where healthcare is actually going — this episode is for you.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Intro
01:44 - Dream Cars, What's in the Garage
05:43 - From UBC Pharmacy Grad to Healthcare Disruptor
07:44 - Building Western Canada's First Central Fill Pharmacy
10:29 - Why Guessing your Medication has to STOP
13:14 - The Parkinson's Story That Changed Everything
16:04 - How the Dispenser Works
19:04 - Tracking Every Opioid From Pharmacy to Patient
22:58 - The Hidden Danger of Opioids After Surgery
25:35 - How AI Catches Addiction Early
30:22 - The Future of Pharmacy in the Next 5 Years
33:08 - How to the Dispenser in your home
35:52 - The Growth Plan & Going Public on the TSX
38:28 - What Keeps a Founder Going When It Gets Hard
40:48 - Why Disconnecting Outdoors Keeps You Sane
47:46 - What Patient Care Looks Like 3 Years From Now

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 — no wallet, no change of clothes, no plan. Just her son, and the terrifying unknown.

What she didn't know yet was that the place waiting for them — Ronald McDonald House BC and Yukon — was a place she had helped design.

In this episode of August After Dark, Janelle shares the raw, real, and deeply moving story of what it means to let go of control, lean on community, and watch your child not just survive — but thrive.

Today, Finley is in remission, approaching five years cancer free. He describes his time during treatment as the best time of his life.

This conversation is for every parent who has ever felt helpless. Every family who has sat in a waiting room not knowing what comes next. And everyone who wants to understand what Ronald McDonald House truly means to the families inside its walls.

🔗 Donate and support Finley's 5-year cancer-free milestone: augustafterdark.com

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 exotic car brands.

But more than the cars, this episode is about what it actually takes to build something real: the doubt, the roadblocks, the police pullover that wasn't their fault, and the guy who traded two Clydesdale horses for a supercar. If you've ever had a dream that people told you was too crazy, this one's for you.

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.