A Growth-Minded Guide To Raising Superhuman Kids - Sevan Matossian - #243

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hi, friends. Welcome back. My guest today is Sevan Matossian. I have been a massive fan of him for years and years. He's made umpteen award-winning documentaries. He was the guy behind so much that was great about CrossFit's media team for basically all of history. And he has recently started making a name for himself, being a parent. It sounds a little bit weird making a name for yourself, doing something that 90% of people do, but there is a very unique, very growth-minded, very forward-thinking approach which him and his wife have taken toward raising their children, the way that they diet, the way that they train, the way that he deals with discipline and boundaries and structure. And I just wanted to get him on to have a discussion about what it is that makes his parenting style so unique. As someone who doesn't have kids, but one day wants to, hearing the language of bringing up children spoken in a way that resonates with the personal development and the progress that I'm used to in other areas of my life, really it struck a chord in a way that I haven't heard any sort of parenting advice done before. So if you are a parent or just considering becoming one at some point in the not too distant future, I think that there is so much to take away from today. And I would love to hear your feedback. Head to the Modern Wisdom YouTube. I want to hit 100,000 subscribers. Before Christmas, please. Thank you. So go to the Modern Wisdom YouTube, hit subscribe and then fire a comment on the video. Let us know what you think. There will be an interesting discussion down there. Certainly a non-typical approach to parenting children, but I failed to see why this would be a bad idea. So whether you think it's good, bad or something else, I want to know what you think. Modern Wisdom YouTube, head there and tell me in the comments. But for now, it's time for the wise and wonderful Sevan Matossian.
What do you think we're gonna talk about today? We got a lot of different avenues that we can go down. What do you reckon we're gonna talk about?

**Sevan Matossian** (2:25)
I am a very simple man with not a lot to talk about, so you better nail it right on the button, or else it's gonna be a real dull podcast.

**Chris Williamson** (2:35)
I disagree massively. So okay, first question is, how come you have made a name for yourself doing a thing that 90% of humans do, which is raising kids?

**Sevan Matossian** (2:50)
I love publishing. I love creating stuff. I use social media as a cheap publishing platform. It is not something that I use to really scroll around on, even though they're always tempting me in the reels with those girls doing all those fancy dances and barely clothed. I bought a computer. I got a computer in the editing software that Apple released the day it released it, in 2000 whatever. I was living in my car. I plugged the computer into my cigarette lighter. From that day forward, I've used Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, some video. I've been creating video for over 20 years, TV shows, movies, commercials, YouTube, Instagram. Basically, what happened is I have my three... Now, I know what happened. I've been preparing all these years because now I have my three favorite subjects of all time, my three sons, Avi who's six, Ari and Joseph who are twins who are three. They are not only my Sistine Chapel, they're going to be my greatest work ever, but I'm going to record it because that's what I enjoy to do. And so, they do some stuff on Instagram that's got them some attention.
And so that's how I think our paths have crossed and we both cross fit. I think we're both sort of in that ecosystem.

**Chris Williamson** (4:16)
Lots of people take videos of their kids though. You know, like it's every mum that I know is so trigger happy with the camera. So how come, what makes you worthy of people caring what you do with them?

**Sevan Matossian** (4:30)
So, in, so one, I have 20 years of experience of creating videos. So maybe in my previous life, I created more than probably in 2007, 8, 9, I created, I don't know, I want to say a piece of content every single day for CrossFit Inc. And there was even a joke at CrossFit Inc. that it should be called sevan.com and not crossfit.com. I think there was a day where they published my stuff 42 days in a row in 2010 And so, I've had a ton of practice, right? So I know on some level how to intuitively, I guess, to present my kids in a manner that would be intriguing, but not only intriguing, educational. My point, my main goal of publishing is, I just want to add value to people's lives, right?