Storytime with Uncle Matt

On November 12th, 2024, Matt Preschern boarded a routine flight and stepped off it a different man. What felt like an ice pick in his right ear turned into a diagnosis: 75% cochlear damage, permanent hearing loss, and ongoing balance challenges he never saw coming. He stepped onto that plane healthy. He stepped off it with a condition that had no clear path forward. A few weeks later, a T-bone car accident in Austria. A toxic relationship finally breaking apart. A man who had spent thirty years running global marketing for IBM, HCL Technologies, and NTT Ltd. suddenly standing still.

He could have retreated. Instead, he started writing.

Storytime with Uncle Matt is the book that came out of that stillness. It draws on five decades of lived experience: immigrating from Austria as a teenager after his father’s public fall from grace, rebuilding his athletic identity after career-ending injuries, quitting alcohol cold turkey, and finding unexpected community in Roatan, Puerto Rico, and the tennis courts of New York. Every lesson in this book was earned the hard way.

This is not a book about having all the answers. It is a book about what happens when life hands you the biggest, most unexpected lemon and you decide to make something worth sharing. Five principles. Dozens of stories. One honest voice. Storytime starts now. To connect or learn more, contact Matt Preschern.