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Path to Warren Podcast | A podcast by Matt Warren, age 38, in Columbia, South Carolina. Enjoy/Share! This is a podcast about my journey to finding true happiness. I believe today that happiness is found in the small things of life. My happiness comes from working, gardening, raising a young daughter, being a loving and supporting husband, learning to become a private pilot, being a good employee, what works and doesn't work as sales techniques, what I'm learning in recovery, and a how to grow a business. I'll share how I'm growing stronger physically, mentally and spiritually every day.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Matt connects recovery, financial clarity, and consultative sales through unusually specific recordings of change being practiced in real time.
Path to Warren Podcast follows Matt into recovery meetings and HVAC sales conversations, keeping the practical language of each room intact. Discussions of sobriety and fear sit beside candid accounts of debt, household finances, facility assessments, maintenance costs, and…
A fear inventory and six dead compressors: Matt has more than one kind of reckoning for you.
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A blunt recovery conversation about debt, sobriety, and the slower work of getting solvent.
Matt's talk keeps coming back to sobriety's second problem: once the drinking and drugs are gone, debt and solvency are still there. He speaks plainly about $330,000 in business debt, a prudent reserve, and staying with the program.
A practical maintenance discussion that turns limited facts into a clear recommendation.
This is a practical maintenance discussion about a building, and it stays focused on how a recommendation gets built from limited information.
Sobriety here means fear stays, and the work is showing up anyway.
An AA meeting becomes a blunt lesson in what sobriety leaves behind when the old chemical armor is gone. The speaker keeps circling back to fear as a steady fact, not something that clears on cue, and the point stays simple: do the work, show up, and let the feeling catch up…
A blunt sales debrief that turns equipment problems into a clearer customer conversation.
This episode follows a sales conversation that keeps circling the same practical question: how to stay useful without sounding like a pitch. The strongest stretch comes in the risk assessment, where a scattered equipment list is turned into something the customer can actually…
Practical sales training without motivational fog.
Technical sales beyond the offer.
Sales coaching with crown-level momentum.
The team talks through a bid, a verification meeting, and how to present the work without sounding pushy.
Chris explains why Aon units use compressor waste gas to reheat dehumidified grow-room air instead of relying entirely on electric-strip heat.
Matt opens with the blunt facts.
The speaker opens by recapping the earlier visit to Arnberg and the meeting with Amber and Mike.
The meeting opens with the AA preamble and the serenity prayer.