He didn't come to this work because it sounded good. He came because he needed it.

Matthew Missimer spent 18 years in financial services — building a practice, managing over 150 client relationships, leading teams, and mentoring young advisors finding their footing in the industry. By every professional measure, things were going well.

But in 2018, he watched something shift in Shannon. The practices she was building, the work she was doing — he could see it changing how she moved through her days. So he started implementing the tools himself. The results were significant enough that he made a decision that surprised even him: he let go of his business coach and started bringing these practices directly to his own teams instead.

Then 2020 arrived.

When the world went virtual overnight, Matthew felt something he hadn't anticipated — the slow erosion of the human connection that had made his work meaningful. The relationships, the presence, the real conversations across a table. All of it reduced to a screen. What had once felt like a calling started to feel like a series of transactions. He found himself going through the motions in a way he now had language for — and he knew what it meant.

He went on his own deliberate journey to reconnect with his why. What he found on the other side wasn't a return to financial planning. It was a clear sense that he wanted to spend his time helping organizations do what he had done personally — get back to the mission underneath everything, and build cultures where people could actually feel the impact of their work.

In 2023, he came into The Motion of Gratitude full time. Today he leads the corporate relationships and co-facilitates the organizational work alongside Shannon — bringing the lens of someone who has led teams, navigated burnout, and found his way back to purpose through exactly the practices he now brings to others.

He doesn't teach this work from a textbook. He teaches it from the inside out.