With Gratitude, Matt
Gratitude—the profound sense of thankfulness—often emerges from recognizing the blessings, privileges, or serendipities life bestows. While a diagnosis like cancer is rarely seen as a cause for gratitude, Matt Moran felt otherwise. His battle with kidney cancer inspired him to launch this podcast in 2020, a platform where life lessons, faith, and resilience shine through adversity. Every episode shares stories of hope and determination, revealing how gratitude can guide us through life’s toughest challenges. Following Matt’s passing in 2023, his older brother, Bill, stepped in to continue the mission, ensuring the podcast remains a beacon of inspiration. Together, the Moran brothers’ legacy encourages us all to embrace life’s journey with faith, hope, and a grateful heart.
Episodes
84 episodes
Choosing Faith, Hope, and Love with Pastor Ken Nash
Rev. Dr. Ken Nash, Lead Pastor at Cornerstone Church in the Grand Rapids area, joins Bill for a meaningful conversation on what it looks like to choose faith, hope, and love—especially in life’s most challenging moments. Known for his practical...
Overcoming Obstacles by Listening to God’s Plan, with Tracie Burress
Tracie Burress is an entrepreneur, sales executive, and author whose life story is a powerful testament to resilience, faith, and reinvention. Rising from humble beginnings on Chicago’s South Side to become a top-performing pharmaceutical sales...
Time to Stop and Think, with Tom Cody and Kevin Brennan
Tom Cody and Kevin Brennan are both authors, national speakers, and former educators helping lead their company, Top 20 Training. They provide programs, resources and strategies to help you live better, think better, and work better. Their cont...
The Courage of a Mother, with Cindy Parseghian
The Courage of a Mother, with Cindy ParseghianCindy Parseghian is actively shaping the future. In 1994, she and her husband Mike founded a foundation dedicated to finding a cure for Niemann-Pick disease type C (NP-C), a genetic, choleste...
Making Gratitude a Way of Life, with Patrick Garry
The topic of gratitude will always be embedded in the mission of this podcast so it is fitting that in this episode it’s true power is explored with the award-winning author and speaker, Patrick Garry. Patrick is a professor of law at the...
A Foundation for the Future, with Moira Veech
The Moran Family is excited to announce the launch of the With Gratitude Matt Foundation. This special episode is again hosted by Matt's brother Bill and he is joined by sister Moira to discuss the foundation's goals and background along with a...
Running Marathons to Make a Difference, with Mike Kloepfer
For many, running just one marathon is a life goal and puts you in a category with only .01% of the global population who even attempt this feat each year. But imagine running 111 marathons? Now we are talking about a very select group that has...
Cancer is Not an Excuse, it is Motivation, with Bryce Steele
Some life lessons we are forced to learn earlier than others. For Bryce Steele, he learned at age 17 that suffering is part of the journey and that bad things can happen to good people. In September of 2019, Bryce was diagnosed with a rare form...
Every Day is Hard and Every Day is Beautiful, with Ellen Duncan
Ellen Duncan strives to live a life of joy alongside grief. Every day she models strength, love, and faith for her daughters and all who know her. In July 2022, life took a shocking turn and she lost her husband Paul of 10 years while he was ou...
Making Daily Choices and Knocking Out Anxiety, with Dr. John Delony
Dr. John Delony is a highly sought after best-selling author, mental health expert and show host covering relationships, mental health, anxiety, healthy leadership and emotional wellness. In other words, this episode is relatable to just about ...
Finding Meaning in Life's Final Days, with Dr. Christopher Kerr
Dr. Christopher Kerr is an end life researcher, a hospice physician, CEO and Chief Medical Officer for Hospice and Palliative Care in Buffalo, NY, and the acclaimed author of Death is But a Dream. He provided hospice care for Matt Mora...
Celebrating Matt's Life, with Bill Moran and Dr. Roy Vongtama
SHOW NOTES: The world lost a positive force of nature, a friend, brother, a husband, and a father of two amazing girls on August 20, 2023, when Matt passed. Over the past 3 years while Matt lived with his cancer, he created 71 episodes of W...
Caring for Haiti's Children, with Danita Estrella-Watts
Danita Estrella-Watts is the founder and President of Danita’s Children in Haiti which cares for orphaned children. Her vision began at the young age of 11 after a mission trip opened her eyes to all the suffering. Twenty-five years later...
Honoring Their Son and His Tragic Loss, With Tom and Stephanie Quehl
Stephanie and Tom Quehl are the proud parents of four boys. In September of 2021, they faced the worst tragedy when they lost their son, Jack, to a lethal dose of fentanyl-laced cocaine at the young age of 24. Jack was not an addict or a habitu...
From Domestic Violence and Homelessness to Strength and Faith, with Jennifer
Jennifer’s story is heartbreaking yet also powerful as it provides a unique lens into domestic violence, homelessness, and the remarkable resilience of the human spirit. 10 years into her marriage, she reached a breaking point after barely surv...
Faith and Work Coming Together, with Brett Smith.
Brett R. Smith, Ph. D. is the Founding Research Director of the the L.I.F.E Research Lab at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio (L.I.F.E =Leading the Integration of Faith & Entrepreneurship). His program explores how spirituality and business ...
Finding Purpose Everyday with Starbucks Former President, Howard Behar
In this insightful episode, we dive deep into the life of Howard Behar, the former president of Starbucks Coffee. As one of the founding leaders, he participated in expanding Starbucks from just 28 stores after joining in 1989 to over 15,000 st...
Cultivating a Life of Listening and Paying Attention, with Jen Pollock Michel
Author Jen Pollock Michel has found that one of the keys to being a good writer is just paying attention and being curious about the world and your own questions. Many of her books are a reflection of her own human experience of faith and her j...
Learning to Live and Thrive with Disease, with Jon Dannemiller
In 1984, Jon’s life took an unexpected turn when the first symptoms of ulcerative colitis started to appear. In addition to the health hurdles, the disease brought with it various other social, athletic and just practical life challenges. Treat...
Inspiring Lives and Winning Races at Age 91, with John Hurd
In the long list of published inspiring sport stories are great feats by well-known athletes from well-known teams from around the world. While John Hurd’s may not be as famous, his story is as uplifting as any and his achievements are beyond r...
A Mother’s Love and Helping Others with Loss, with Barbara Legere
Author Barbara Legere lost her 29 year old son Kevin to suicide in 2020. Kevin had been fighting a drug addition and his mental health for 13 years and Barbara did everything she knew how to do to help him recover and just love him. His life an...
Lessons from a Rekindled Relationship, with Andy Hill
Most any high school basketball player in the 1970s dreamed of the opportunity to play for Coach John Wooden, one of the most respected and successful coaches of all time. Andy Hill earned that chance on a UCLA team that won 3 straight National...
On Call for the Bengals, Damar Hamlin, and his Family, with Dr. Bret Betz
Bret Betz MD is a physician at the University of Cincinnati Health specializing in orthopaedics, sports medicine, and emergency medicine. It was his interest in sports medicine that led him to become the team physician for the Cincinnati Bengal...
Doing Work That Will Last Beyond My Lifetime, with Brother Andrew Torrey
The work to become a priest is not easy but it is full of joy as you will see with this conversation with Brother Andrew. Brother Andrew Torrey is in his last year of 14 years of formation with the Legionaries of Christ in Rome. In the spring o...
Being Single and Finding Joy Exactly Where You Are, with Hannah Schermerhorn
Newly published author Hannah Schermerhorn was two months away from her wedding day in 2014 when she ended the engagement. She was embarrassed, felt shame and was let down because she wanted all the richness and joy that comes from married life...
