ACTOR & EMMY WINNING TV HOST CAMERON MATHISON

Summary

Kat on the Loose

Episode: ACTOR & EMMY WINNING TV HOST CAMERON MATHISON

Host: Kat Zammuto
Guest: Cameron Mathison
Release Date: July 22, 2026

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Overview

This episode of Kat on the Loose features Emmy-winning TV host and actor Cameron Mathison in an intimate conversation about resilience, personal loss, staying healthy, the realities of a relentless entertainment career, and how to turn adversity into growth. Mathison and host Kat Zammuto candidly discuss personal tragedy, rebuilding after loss, the importance of mindset, wellness, and life in the high-pressure world of daytime TV.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Managing a Relentless Career

• Busy Schedule & Project Selection

  • Mathison describes his multi-faceted career (acting, hosting, movies, family, launching a functional health coaching company) and being constantly busy.
  • He shares how he plans his calendar not just by available days, but by considering burnout and what commitments surround a prospective project.
  • [02:12] “I try to be more mindful of what’s leading up to it… Even if the days are free, you could be coming off something where you just need to unwind and have a break. It can be very overwhelming.” — Cameron Mathison

• Juggling Multiple Roles

  • For his holiday movies, which are filmed in tight three-week windows, Mathison aligns shooting with “dark weeks” (when General Hospital isn’t filming), or negotiates absences with producers.
  • The expectation that every project “wants 100% of you” can be exhausting, and he’s learned to be more selective.

Day-to-Day Resilience: Fitness & Mindfulness

• Decompression & Inner Balance

  • The gym is his physical outlet and stress relief, but meditation is his mainstay for peace and perspective.
  • He regularly attends a Buddhist meditation center, volunteering and studying philosophies that foster “inner development.”
  • [05:33] “I’m a big meditator… I go to classes at least two nights a week…to help you just think in happier, more productive ways to try to transform difficulties and challenges in your life into more inner development.” — Cameron Mathison

• Perspective Through Adversity

  • Both Kat and Cameron note that immense challenges can foster gratitude, patience, compassion, and wisdom if one chooses to “reframe” hardships.
  • [07:20] “You can actually use your difficulties to help fuel those inner development opportunities. And when we do that, it changes everything… the more we can work on reframing and thinking about others going through worse, or being grateful for what we do have… It sounds fluffy, but it’s everything.” — Cameron Mathison

Catastrophic Loss & Rebuilding

• Losing His Home in the Altadena Fire

  • Mathison shares the emotional devastation of losing his home—where decades of memories and his children’s lives were rooted.
  • The fire, which was ultimately traced to a Con Edison hydro line, triggered massive legal disputes delaying rebuilding.
  • [11:16] “There’s no way to explain the very unique loss of wiping out every piece of evidence of your existence on the planet… and that was us.” — Cameron Mathison

• Navigating Divorce Amid Tragedy

  • He explains the added complexity of going through separation while dealing with the aftermath of the fire, which ironically brought him and his ex-wife closer, in a supportive (not romantic) way.
  • [13:31] “Going through the breakup was very, very hard for me… But at the same time, I think that massive loss and working through that with the kids…definitely brought us closer. Not closer in the sense of getting back together…but like, ‘don’t sweat the small stuff, let’s just move on. Stuff happens.’ We had a beautiful 23 years and two incredible kids.” — Cameron Mathison

• Fire Response & Aftermath

  • Mathison elaborates on frustrations with the local fire response, noting no firetrucks appeared during the Altadena fire, likely because crews were dispatched to the Palisades fire, which compounded the devastation in his neighborhood.
  • [19:00] “Not one of us saw any fire trucks…they were all in the Palisades…I’m just saying for me to be paying taxes all that time and to have your fire department helping out in a different area, it’s hard to wrap your head around that.” — Cameron Mathison

Stacked Life Challenges — and Resilience

• Compounded Tragedy

  • Mathison details a period of relentless adversity: kidney cancer, his mother’s brain cancer and death, Covid-19, job loss, dog dying, divorce, kids moving away, house burning down—“all in a short period of time.”
  • [21:12] “It’s a unique set of challenges in a very short period of time…You hopefully learn how to become much more resilient. And like I said, learn how to transform these outer problems as opportunities for inner development.” — Cameron Mathison

• Liberation Amid Loss

  • He describes moments of “liberation” after profound loss, realizing much of one’s identity is possible to rebuild, and that attachment to the external can be unlearned.
  • [28:03] “There were brief moments…of feeling like everything’s gone—now who are you going to be? There was a liberated, there’s freedom. You don’t need to lose everything to feel liberated…But I was forced to it.” — Cameron Mathison

Life as a Working Actor—Behind the Scenes

• General Hospital & Soap Opera Realities

  • Mathison recounts the switch from a “hero” to being “the most despicable, hated person in all of daytime,” which even leads to fans yelling at him in public or throwing apples at him in supermarkets.

  • He shares the fast-paced, high-volume nature of soap production: 100–110 pages of dialogue shot a day, compared to 1.5 for big films.

  • [35:53] “I started on General Hospital playing the hero…overnight, it seemed to a lot of people I changed from being the good guy to the most despicable, most hated person in all of daytime. I get apples thrown at me in the supermarket!” — Cameron Mathison

  • The soap’s demanding schedule occasionally allows extended “dark weeks” (i.e., production breaks), helping maintain balance.

  • [39:12] “People think it’s easy… it’s a ton of work. And they’ve been doing it for 60 years, five times 52 is how many episodes we do every year.” — Cameron Mathison

Advice for Entertainers & Actors

• Longevity & Professionalism

  • Mathison stresses humility, preparation, professionalism (“be on time, be respectful, be humble, be prepared”), and the value of diversifying (hosting as well as acting) as keys to a sustainable entertainment career.

  • [41:06] “Stay humble, work hard, be prepared, really take your craft seriously…Produce your own content, write your own content…Be prepared and then let go and be grateful.” — Cameron Mathison

  • “Don’t be attached to results”—do your best, then release attachment to outcomes.

  • [42:29] “Don’t try and tell the joke…just be in the moment, listen, react, and let it go. Be as real, as authentic, prepared and humble and respectful as possible.” — Cameron Mathison

Wellness, Aging, and Real Health

• True Wellness vs. Trends

  • Mathison admits that despite decades of “doing all the right things,” he didn’t experience real health until working with functional health coaches who focused on foundational healing: rest, stress, gut health, hormones.

  • [44:44] “I thought I was really healthy…listening to social media, trends and fads…Until you really learn how to heal your body…you’re not going to change anything.” — Cameron Mathison

  • Now at 56, he eats 4000 calories/day, maintains very low body fat, and feels better and more energized than in his 30s. He credits his transformation to functional medicine and balanced wellness, not fitness fads.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Cameron Mathison on selecting work:
  “I keep saying ‘a busy stretch’ which has gone on for like a decade…As long as you’re not jamming your schedule out of fear…if it’s things you love and you’re grateful to do them, then it’s not work.” [01:06–01:25]

• On gratitude and resilience:
  “You can actually use your difficulties to help fuel those inner development opportunities. And when we do that, it changes everything…” [07:20]

• On extreme adversity:
  “My life…in a three year period went from like a happy family in a beautiful home…to like, gone. It was like a death…But I’ve learned so much. I’ve become so much more resilient…It was a great lesson. It sucked. I’m not gonna lie…it was hard. But if it happens again, I know I’m gonna be okay.” [23:13 and 27:18]

• On the experience of playing a “villain”: “I get apples thrown at me at the supermarket…I get people not letting me into their restaurant…It’s really funny!” [35:53]

• On advice to actors:
  “Be humble. Be respectful. Be on time. In this business, those are obvious answers, but it’s a big, big deal…Don’t take yourself too seriously…you’re always replaceable.” [41:06–44:10]

• On health after cancer:
  “I thought I was really healthy…listening to social media, trends…You gotta be careful with that stuff…until you really get foundational with healing your body…now I’m 56, eating 4000 calories a day, and healthier than ever.” [44:44–47:52]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Introduction & Work-Life Juggle: [01:02 – 05:01]
• Decompression & Wellness Practices: [05:10 – 09:30]
• Losing His Home/Fire & Aftermath: [09:30 – 13:12]
• Divorce & Navigating Family After Crisis: [13:12 – 16:16]
• Fire Response, Lawsuits, Rebuilding: [16:43 – 20:33]
• Series of Catastrophes & Building Resilience: [20:45 – 28:03]
• Liberation After Loss: [28:03 – 30:44]
• General Hospital & Soap Opera World: [33:23 – 39:18]
• Advice for Entertainers/Actors: [40:49 – 44:31]
• Fitness, Health, and Wellness Approach: [44:44 – 48:02]

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Overall Tone & Takeaways

The conversation is deeply personal, candid, and empowering—with frequent moments of warmth, empathy, and humor, despite the seriousness of Mathison’s life challenges. Both host and guest frame adversity as an opportunity for transformation, resilience, and gratitude, emphasizing that anyone can survive and thrive with the right mindset, humility, and inner practices.

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Additional Resources

• Cameron Mathison’s Functional Health Coaching: [Health360, powered by Vital] (Linked in episode)
• Social Media: Both Mathison and Kat Zammuto are active on Instagram and YouTube for more inspiration and updates.

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Final Words

Cameron, you’re incredible. It’s such an honor having you on the show. What a fun conversation…Let’s do an entire episode about wellness soon! — Kat Zammuto [48:11]

Cameron: “Thank you so much…Love you guys.” [49:00]

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Transcript

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[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

Cameron, welcome to Cat on the Loose.

[Cameron Mathison]

Thank you for having me.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

It's such an honor because I know how busy you are. Oh my God.

[Cameron Mathison]

It's been a busy stretch for sure. I keep, I keep saying a busy stretch which has gone on for like a decade.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

It doesn't stop. Right.

[Cameron Mathison]

It doesn't. And of course, you know, we're, we're in charge of that. I got to learn to maybe be more selective with what I'm doing. But yeah, it's been a, it's been a nice busy stretch.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

Yeah. And I think if you love what you do, you don't mind being crazy busy.

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Right?

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

That's a good problem.

[Cameron Mathison]

That's very, very true. That's very, very true. As, yeah, that's, that's a good point. It's, it's as long as you're not kind of jamming your schedule out of like fear of not working or out of just wanting to be distracted or, you know, whatever it is. Like if it's things that you love to do and you're grateful to do them, then it's not work.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

Yeah. So that's a question that I, I, I hadn't thought about asking, but now I want to ask you. So how do, because you're so busy.

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Right.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

You do, we're going to talk about everything, but you do soap opera.

[Cameron Mathison]

Yeah.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

General Hospital.

[Cameron Mathison]

Correct.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

You do hosting gigs. You do movies.

[Cameron Mathison]

Yeah.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

The super, super cool holiday movies. You do so much. You just came back from Vegas. You're here. You're so kind. How do you. Do you have a process in your head, like to say yes or no? Yes or no when people come off for projects because you have so much on your plate.

[Cameron Mathison]

Yeah, I don't, I actually don't. You know, I look at my schedule. I, I really try to be more mindful of what's leading up to it. Where am I? What else do I have going on? Because even if the days are free in the calendar, you could be coming off something where you just need to kind of unwind and have a break or whatever. Like it's, it can be very, very overwhelming. And I was never, I never used to be great at looking at the bigger picture. Just looking at the sort of the, the dates. If I'm clear. Book it. Let's go. And then, and then realizing as time comes up, like so stressed and thing after another and after another. Top of the list that you mentioned. I'm now working again with Good Morning America and I've got a functional health coaching company that I'm launching and I've launched but now kind of relaunching and pushing. So there's all. And then I've also got my own lifestyle and health and fitness, things that I love to do and family.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

You're in the gym every day.

[Cameron Mathison]

It's, it's a lot of stuff. So, you know, I really try to think about it, zoom in to see if I'm available, but also zoom out what's before, what's after. Like the Christmas movies I do usually I do two movies a year with Great American Family. It's. I've got a really great relationship with them and they take really good care of me and others and. But in order to do those movies, those are usually shot in three weeks. So I've got to go to General Hospital and I've got to make sure I get three weeks off of the show somehow, either through storyline or whether the show is actually down in production. We call them dark weeks. So I try to arrange the movie during the dark weeks. If it's not during the dark weeks, I got to get permission from the writers and the executive producer really to see if I, I could shoot. So in order to do that, like I'll shoot 10 episodes leading up to my break. Then I'll go and shoot a movie which is 15 hour days for three weeks. Then I'll come back and I'll have, I'll have to catch up on all the days I missed on General House. So I'll Come back to another 10 episodes. So the more I do that, the more I'm like, it's a lot. It's a lot because it's not just the movie. And then when you're at the movie, and I'm super grateful, and I love all of it, and it's amazing that I've been able to do so many different things, but when you're at the movie, they obviously, they just care about their movie. And they're like, yeah, like, as if there's nothing else in your world.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

This is.

[Cameron Mathison]

This is everything. And then when you're on the TV show, they're like, listen, this is your main job. You've got to treat. And they're right. And so, you know, you're dealing with everybody like you've got nothing else. You know, everybody wants. Everybody wants 100% of you. And, you know, you're trying, like, I'm trying to, like, give 100% here, but 100% there and 100% here. And my kids and my. My functional health coach, like, and it's.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

It's a lot of busier than me. I don't think I ever met anybody busier than me.

[Cameron Mathison]

Listen, we're all really busy. Everybody watching, too. I'm sure we all got our stuff.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

And how do you do compress? How do you, like. Okay, is that, like, your gym time? Is that your alone time? Because I see you, like, and you're insanely inspirational, and I want to talk about that in more depth, but I see you on. You post on social media, like, you're always working out. You're in fantastic shape.

[Cameron Mathison]

Oh, thank you.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

Like, zero excuses. If anybody's like, oh, I'm aging. Like, you're. That. You can age insanely well, but we

[Cameron Mathison]

can talk about that. Yeah, that's. That's a good point, too. And I think it's something that I got to be a little bit more conscious and mindful of. And I would say my downtime is definitely the gym. Big time release in the gym. I push myself really hard in the gym, like, and it's a really good sort of dopamine boost and stress relief, for sure, but way more so. I'm a. I'm a big meditator and I. And I go to these classes at this beautiful center, this Buddhist meditation center in Los Feliz. But, you know, there's also ones in New York and et cetera. And I go to classes at least two nights a week, but hopefully three days a week. I volunteer there. I go to meditation there. I study, you know, really beautiful philosophies and psychologies to help you just think in happier, more productive ways to try to transform difficulties and challenges in your life into more, you know, inner development. And. And so that, to me, you know, is. Is everything. People that go to church will know what I'm talking about. And like, you know, it's a very big part of me staying peaceful, getting perspective and. And being able to. To stay happy and calm in the. In the face of stress and adversity.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

That's incredible because that's the vibe. Even before I met you. The vibe I get from looking at your videos and everything is that despite going through so much, and we're gonna talk about it, for those of you guys that don't know, but you've been through hell in high water, I relate, because I've been through hell and high water a few years ago when my husband died, and I see you, like, very peaceful. I think you're very chill. You have this very chill, great energy vibe, and I love that because I try to be the same. And now that you're saying it's. It's about meditating and. And working out, that's a huge help, right?

[Cameron Mathison]

Yeah, it definitely. It changes everything also. Yeah, I think big time. And, you know, and we all know if we've gone through difficulties and adversities and challenges and we've. We've been able to reframe it and use them to help improve our inner qualities and our development are, you know, in the sense of, like, patience and compassion for others and wisdom and generosity and gratitude and things like that. You can actually use your difficulties to help fuel those inner development opportunities. And when we do that, it changes everything. It changes everything because then, you know, you've got the outer problem, and then you've got the inner problem. And the outer problem is the challenge or the set of circumstances that can be either just a little bit of an inconvenience and an annoyance, or it can be something major like loss and in death and your house burning down or cancer or whatever, and. And that's the condition. But how we deal with it is the real problem. So that. Or the real issue. So the inner problem of fear, anxiety, depression, jealousy, anger, disbelief, attachment, all that inner. That's. If we can work on that, then we see the outer challenge as more of an opportunity and be like, all right, because guess what, everybody, they're gonna keep coming. The challenges, the difficulties, the problems, they don't stop. And maybe you've got an amazing life and they're very few and far between. Good for you. But for most of us, it just keeps coming and that's life and that's part of what we got to deal with. So the more we can work on reframing and thinking about others going through worse, or being grateful for what we do have, or being grateful for the opportunity to train our patience or our kindness or our wisdom or whatever it is. It sounds fluffy, but it's everything.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

Oh, my God, it's so true. I think gratitude is everything. And for those of you guys listening that don't know, you mentioned the fires. That's one of the things you've been through. You lost your home in the Palisades,

[Cameron Mathison]

The Altadena, but yes.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

In Aladina. I was going to say the Palisades fire, but yeah, was also Altadina fire.

[Cameron Mathison]

Yeah.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

You lost your family home.

[Cameron Mathison]

Yes.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

I don't think anybody. I mean, I was in la. I think that day was. It's impossible to describe. Right. Was like a day from hell. I don't think anybody can understand how horrible that was. And I don't know, the good news, the silver lining is that you're doing well. Your family, your kids, everybody's alive. I think that's the number one. And now it seems like you just gotta finally moved into your new home, like the past few days. I saw it on your social media. Can you share a little bit of that experience and how it's been trying to rebuild?

[Cameron Mathison]

Yeah, I'll first go talk about, like, when you were saying everybody's got a different relationship with their home. You know, like we all have. Some people rent, some people move around a lot. Some people, if you, you know, maybe you do own, but you have all your family and childhood stuff back with your parents in Kansas. Maybe, you know, you're not that, you know, and then other people have lived in their house and renovated every square inch and made it exactly. And beautiful. And their kids have been raised there and every single piece of existence proving that they've been on this planet is in that house. And. And that was us. So, you know, I think a lot of people are quick to be like, yeah, it's just stuff, you know, rebuild, Forget it. Why? And I get it. And no judgment on that.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

I understand memory, like you said, it's memory.

[Cameron Mathison]

It's so much life. Then there's no way to explain the very unique loss of wiping out every piece of evidence of your existence on the planet, as well as your home that you're going to, you know, live in for the rest of your life. And the daughter. My daughter, four days beforehand, said she wants to raise her kids in this house. And, you know, the kids have. So there's. There's a lot to it. And it depends. It depends on your relationship with how you do it.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

It's not just for you guys, like, for a lot of people as well. It wasn't like a house, it was a home. Right.

[WWE Announcer]

Yeah.

[Cameron Mathison]

So, yeah. Anyway, the point is, is it was. It was very. It was more challenging than I could probably explain and. And may maybe way more challenging that you can imagine unless you've been through it, and I hope you never do. But with that said, using the practices that I told you about, like gratitude and. And compassion for others going through this much worse and, or similar, those sort of practices, and also acceptance and patience, those things really helped us all get through it. And. Yeah. Now. So we're still. I'm still re. We have the land in Altadena.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

So you're going to rebuild in the same spot?

[Cameron Mathison]

In the same spot. There's. It's just. It's very, very tricky conditions, too, because I was, you know, going through a breakup with my ex, and she still owned half the house or still owns half the house and the property, and so half the insurance money was getting divided. And it's a very messy situation in. In general, but extra difficult because of our unique. And it's. It's. We get along and it's all smooth. It's not like it's. It's mean or, or, you know, but it's just delaying the process of me being able to rebuild there. And in the meantime, to your point, we have a new home that we moved into. The kids are really excited about it, and it was just like, I don't know, 10 days, two weeks ago that we finally moved into a place in Los Feliz. So.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

So wait.

[Cameron Mathison]

Excited?

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

Touched. Okay. Yeah. So you touched on this subject. You were married for a really long time, right? 20 years. You have two grown kids, beautiful kids. And so were you going through a divorce? When the fires happen or after the fires, things got more deep. I know this is very personal, so just go. I mean, as little, as much as you can.

[Cameron Mathison]

I try to talk about it in a way that I know that, you know, I just don't want to have a voice of like Vanessa because she doesn't get to be here. But, you know, and there's nothing to really talk about. Like, we get along great. We're very. We're very close. As close as People can be that are going through this, but yeah, no, we were already separated. We were living in different places at the time. I was still in the house in Altadena and Vanessa was at an apartment close by. And we were actually thinking of sort of flip flopping and going back and forth between. So we both got to experience the house and the apartment until we kind of figured stuff out. But I was in the house at the time of the fires and I stayed with Vanessa for two weeks after the fires in the kids room and while we were trying to figure everything out because it was both of our home and all of our possessions and it was, it was a challenging time. But yeah, we in, in many, many, many ways. And I, I again, I don't like to speak for Vanessa in this, but I think in many ways from my side, anyway, it brought us closer. Like obviously going through the breakup was very, very hard for me. I've talked about that. It wasn't my choice and, and you know, I, Things happen and. But at the same time, you know, I think that massive loss and working through that with the kids and our own experience of it, it definitely brought us closer. Not closer in the sense getting back together or romantic or anything like that. Just like, don't sweat the small stuff. Let's just move on. Stuff happens, People break up. And we had a beautiful 23 years and two incredible kids. And since then, and even before then, you know, we, we get along great and it's, it's been all going smoothly.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

So I think that's amazing because I

[Cameron Mathison]

hope it's okay that I'm, you know, talk about.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

No, please. We appreciate you being so candid and so open because of course a lot of people go through it. I, because of the show, I get hundreds and hundreds of mess. And people always ask me, in my case, in my tragedies, right? How did I deal with an alcoholic husband and losing a husband and losing my asses? And I think I'm, I kind of have the same mindset as you. I think whatever life throws your way, you have to find a silver lining and some kind of a transformation. Because if you let it affect like a lot of people, right, they crumble, whatever. Whether it's the fire or divorce or going through loss, they think, yeah, it could be the toughest problem on the planet. But if you let it affect your mindset, I think the problem just gets bigger. And I like the way you think because you gotta find the silver lining in everything you go through. And divorce is really, really tough. But if you can be friends and transform that relationship into something else. I think that's really, really beautiful.

[Cameron Mathison]

Yeah. Well, thank you. Yeah, it seems, it seems to be going as well as can be expected. Yeah, well said.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

Now you said you're building in the same place. Why is that? I know you said your house was a home and you had all your kids memories there. Is there like a deep, I don't know, some kind of a symbolism or important meaning for you? Like I'm going to rebuild my home here. And, and how do you feel, in your personal opinion, how was the fire handled? Because a lot of people in LA think it was chaotic. Right. How do you feel about that part?

[Cameron Mathison]

Well, first of all, I'm rebuilding, I guess I could say like we being me and the kids rebuilding in the same spot because we own the land and it's a great lot. It's a half an acre with views of the mountains and beautiful pool which still seems to be working okay. And lots of like it's a very, very great piece of property and, and has a lot of meaning to us. So. And like for me for sure, but especially for my kids. And we're just going to take our time and be patient with it because there's so the getting to the second part of your question. So the Eaton fire. So for people that may have forgotten, it was a long time ago, it was a year and a half ago, but there was the Palisades fire and then there was a second fire. The winds were very, very high and it happened all the way across town. The Eaton fire, Pasadena, Altadena. And that fire has been proven to be caused by a Con Edison fire. So a hydro line and there's a lot of. I, I'm assuming I can talk about this. It's. I think it's really well known. No, I'm just saying legally there's a lot of legal, there's a lot of lawsuits. So, so there's, there's. One of the reasons it's delayed too is because there's massive amounts of lawsuits with Con Edison and trying to settle and trying to figure out and, and that will determine a lot of people like ours ability to rebuild and what we can rebuild there. So we're just being patient with that and seeing how that all plays out. As far as how the fire was handled, it's a little bit of a tricky thing for me because I and many of my friends in Altadena were up there through the night and I had friends that stayed up there. My next door neighbor Saved his house by using our pool water and our ladder and taking bucket by bucket to put out fires on his house.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

Oh, really?

[Cameron Mathison]

So he was there all night. I went up three times at different points for different reasons. I had friends on the block trying to save their home also. Not one of us saw any fire trucks. Not one, not, not anybody that I know that I. That spent time there. They were all in the Palisades.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

Oh, my God.

[Cameron Mathison]

So there's a real. And I know they were doing their job and I know that's not their fault. Like, they were just following order. Like, I'm not. They're incredible human. I'm just saying for me to be paying taxes all that time and to have your fire department helping out in

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

a different area, it's hard to wrap your head around that.

[Cameron Mathison]

And there was no evidence even the three times I went up and I drove through the whole area to get to the house, because through streets blocked off. I probably shouldn't even really be talking about this, but there's. I saw one police car moving hydro lines off the street. That's literally the only emergency vehicle I saw. And that was all through the night. And then I had other friends, like I said, that stayed up there all night trying to save their home. Never saw any evidence of emergency vehicle in the Eaton fire. That's because the Pasadena fire was. Excuse me. The Palisades fire was first. I wonder if. I assume everybody was called to that fire, leaving nobody to fight the fire at Altadena. So if there were firefighters in Altadena, nobody saw them that I know of.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

But that's unbelievable.

[Cameron Mathison]

So it's a tough one to.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

Yeah.

[Cameron Mathison]

And I'm so grateful for the fire departments and the incredible work that these men do. And, and they only go where they're told to go. They're like, right.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

They're doing their job.

[Cameron Mathison]

They're doing their job. They've got somebody telling them to go to wherever they're going. It's not, it's not like they're putting their life on the line. It was just frustrating not to see any of them in Altadena.

[Grainger Announcer (alternate)]

So that.

[Cameron Mathison]

That's all.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

I have no idea. Well, I hope you know, that's all I can say is that the good news is you're. You're building a better, nicer, newer home and everything's going to get back to

[Cameron Mathison]

normal and lots, lots of good has come out of it.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

I love your, your, your mindset. You're always trying to find, like, the positive in everything and before the Fires also for people that don't know. You had a cancer scare, correct?

[Cameron Mathison]

I had cancer. Yeah, I had.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

You had cancer?

[Cameron Mathison]

I had kidney cancer a few years before that. I went through a stretch. This is, I think, what you alluded to. I had, I had life threatening cancer. During my cancer treatment, my mom and dad came to visit and. And during that treatment, my mom showed signs of, and then was diagnosed of having glioblastoma brain cancer.

[Guest or secondary speaker (brief interjections)]

Oh, wow.

[Cameron Mathison]

And. And she lost that battle during COVID Then Covid happened. I lost my job.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

Oh my God.

[Cameron Mathison]

My dog died, my wife left me, my kids went off to college and my house burned down. I lost everything I've ever owned. All in a short period of time. So there was lots of, lots of opportunities and I get made. People say that it's like, people say it's like trauma dumping. No, no, it's actually just factual. I'm just putting it out there. I'm not. It's like, it's a unique set of challenges in a very short period of time. And I don't, I'm not saying it like.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

And by the way, I'm like, I'm laughing, but I'll tell you, I'm not making fun of it because I have like a very similar experience. Experience in different ways, but I went through like boom, boom, boom, boom, like so many tragedies. My mom passed away, my husband. And when I tell people like, oh my God, how did you get through it? Yeah, I actually had a friend of mine when I was going through that, she told me, oh, you know, if I were you, I would just jump off of the, the balcony and kill myself.

[Cameron Mathison]

She literally, she said, that's not great advice.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

That's why I'm laughing because I'm like, when you get through all of that and you survive, I think it gives you a different perspective in life. Right. Is that how you feel?

[Cameron Mathison]

Yeah, it definite does you become, you know, I share it all the time and again I get different feedback about sharing, about sharing it, but it's just factual. And we all go through our challenges. Just mine, I think we're pretty big ones and they all happen very close together. But yeah, like going through it, you. You hopefully learn how to become much more resilient. And like I said, learn how to transform these outer problems as opportunities for inner development. Obviously it's not always going great. Like you're gonna. Like, there's many times where I'm like, how is this happen? Like my life in the, in, in a three year period went from like a happy family in a beautiful home, kids at home, beautiful relationship, dog, job to like, gone. Like, it was like a, it was like a death. It was like everything was gone. But at the same time, like, I, I've learned so much. I've become so much more resilient. I'm certainly not as afraid and grasping and attached to external stuff as much. I don't mean just possessions, I mean like, like relationships or jobs or, or possessions or like, like I've lost it all and I understand that I'm going to be okay and things will come and go in my life and it's, the nature of life has changed like this. And so it was, it was a great, it was really okay.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

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[Cameron Mathison]

A great lesson. It sucked. I'm not gonna lie. It was really hard. But I don't wanna. I don't want it again. But at the same time if it happens again, I know I'm gonna be okay.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

I think for me it completely changed my perspective in terms of like I'm not so much of a planner. I appro and I so I know it sounds very very cheesy but like I live every day like I only focus on today and I am so grateful for every single day. I'm literally the crazy woman that walks around with my dog, singing and talking to them. And everybody in Beverly Hills knows, like, that crazy that talks to a dog. And they're like, why are you laughing? I'm like, because look at the sun. And look at it. Made me so happy for just being here today. And I honestly don't care that people think I'm crazy. But in a way, it's very freeing.

[Cameron Mathison]

Yeah, it's very liberating.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

It's very liberating because you start thinking about your own mortality right in.

[Cameron Mathison]

In the moment. On that note, it's a really good point. And maybe people can, at home can relate to this, but in the moment where I'm. I sneak up early in the morning during the fires, and I'm driving through houses burning down all around me, and I'm racing through over hydro lines and I'm weaving through the feel like I'm in Armageddon, like in a war zone. And I'm coming down my street, and my street particularly was decimated. Like, decimated. Nothing. Like. Like House Line street gone. Like, almost like nothing had ever been built there. And I'm. I'm flooring it and I'm hyperventilating because I'm getting closer and closer to my house. And I get there and I get out of the car and there's nothing and it's still burning. And I'm. And I walk and I've got video of it. I walk down my path. And then. Coming back to your point, there was brief moments. Even in that incredibly painful disbelief experience, there were brief moments of feeling like everything's gone. Yeah, now it's all gone. My house, my possessions, my mom, my wife, my dog at the time, my job, it's gone. And now who are you going to be? Like, there was a liberated. There's liberation in that. There's freedom. And that's. You know, there was, like, moments of that somewhere in me. It was almost like, wow, that actually feels like a weight lifted. And now it's, like, up to me to decide who am I going to be in this new chapter. Like, here we go. Yeah, I don't wish that. You don't need to lose everything to feel liberated. You know, you can make that decision on your own in real time. But I was forced to it. It was like a forced sense of freedom. And I.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

And same.

[Cameron Mathison]

And again, it wasn't like. It was just little blips of it, to be honest, but I noticed it. I noticed it in those moments, like most of it was disbelief and shock and anger and pain.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

It's almost like your life looking at you like, what are you made of, right? Are you gonna rise or collapse? Because I know a lot of people collapse when they go through trauma. And I'm always saying to my audience, don't collapse. Like, you know, be a phoenix and rise and go after your desk. Because I think everything happens not for a reason, but I think everything happens to teach you a lesson. So when you're faced with so much adversity, like you said, your, your marriage collapses. Which job did you lose, by the way?

[Cameron Mathison]

Oh, Home and Family. It was my, the best job I ever had. I was a talk show host on Hallmark Channel and it was a two hour show all year long called Home and Family. And I co hosted with Debbie, Matt Nopoulos and a team of like incredible humans. And my kids were on that show. My mom came and cooked with me on that show. It was, it was the greatest show in the world. And it got canceled after, after my cancer journey and then after my mom died and then, then that show got canceled and then the string of others and then, and then the string continued. But yeah, so that was a. Sorry, I'm not trying to laugh financially. The best show, the best job I've ever had. I've had a million different jobs. Luckily it was the best. And then also just it happened to be my favorite job I could ever have asked for.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

Maybe somebody needs to bring back a similar show, right?

[Cameron Mathison]

I mean, maybe they've been trying, but it's, it's also a very expensive show

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

to bring back, I'm sure. But luckily in your case, you had, you. Were you still doing the, the soap, General Hospital?

[Cameron Mathison]

No. In fact, a lot of people don't know this, but when Home and Family, we got a call that it was a five day a week show. They were going to shoot five episodes in three days. So we got a call that we were going to try to jam five episodes in three days to save two days a week off to save some money. And I've been around long enough to know a little red flag there. Like, okay, so that's, that's like, okay, really? That's now. And so now I'm thinking to myself, I have two days a week, week off in la and I reached out to my dear friend Frank Valentini, who's the executive producer at General Hospital. And I just text him and I say, hey, Frank. Because I've had General Hospital guests on the show. So we've been seeing each other and talking and I said, frank, looks like I'm gonna have two days a week off in la. I'd love to come and do a little story arc with you guys.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

So you are not on the show.

[Cameron Mathison]

I was still on Home and Family. Oh, wow. I still had a contract with Home and Family. And then Frank texted back and said, listen, we'd love to have you, but we got to put you under contract. And I, and I. I was thinking to myself, but I'm already under contract with Home and Family. But I made the decision. I was like, sure. I just texted back yes. Thinking to myself, this could really come back to bite me. Like, I'm saying yes to like abc. And. And so he was working on that with the writers and the network and I was just kind of cruising, feeling at Home and Family. And two weeks later we get the call, Home and Families canceled. And then I get the call from ABC that they. They locked for General Hospital. So I just, you know, I just been around long enough to know how it works and to like, for you, I played the odds on that one and it worked out. But I'm very grateful.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

A little behind the scenes from General Hospital because it's such a beloved show. It's been around forever. How is it to. To do the show and, and interact with the fans? How is it to be like. Because I. I'm going to tell you why I'm asking this question.

[Cameron Mathison]

Okay. Okay, Sure.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

I come from Brazil, right?

[Cameron Mathison]

Yeah, sure.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

In Brazil, soap operas are the biggest show on television. They are on prime time.

[Cameron Mathison]

Yeah.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

They're like, if somebody invites you to dinner, they're like, what time do you want to meet? They don't tell you what time. They say after the soap.

[WWE Announcer]

Yeah.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

I'm not kidding you.

[Cameron Mathison]

Yeah, that's.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

Brazilians are obsessed so far. So growing up, you know, I'm watching the soap, but they end. They are. They.

[Cameron Mathison]

They're beginning in an end. Yeah.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

Like three months, six months. I don't remember exactly, honestly. And that's it. And. And then they start a new one and a new one and a new one.

[Cameron Mathison]

Yeah.

[WWE Announcer]

Yeah.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

So when I, I remember when I moved here, like I was a teen, la la la. Then when I was going to college, I became obsessed. I started watching soap opera and I became obsessed because somebody told me, doesn't end. I'm like, you mean I can watch for the rest of my life? So I became addicted. At the time was Days of Our Lives.

[Cameron Mathison]

Days of Our Lives because that was a storyline.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

There was A storyline that was. But it was affecting my life because I was hooked. I couldn't stop watching the freaking thing. I stopped whatever the hell.

[Cameron Mathison]

Awesome. I love it.

[Drew McIntyre]

So.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

I know. That's why I don't watch soap operas, by the way. Because if I start watching and you don't stop, I'm like, I'm.

[Cameron Mathison]

Well, that, that's really. That's really. I mean, that's good. We need more people like you. We want more people to get addicted and stuff. It. Can't stop watching. Go to tune in, everybody.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

You guys are gonna get hooked.

[Cameron Mathison]

The General Hospital has been on the air for over 60 years. Like crazy 60 some odd years. And I've been on there for five years now.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

Wow.

[Cameron Mathison]

And I was on all my children for 14 years, way back early in my career. And I. I love daytime. I love the fact that you can play the same character but have all these different storylines and opportunities and twists and turns, and your character, you know, can go dark and then be like. Like, right. My. I started on General Hospital playing the hero. I. I replaced somebody that, that had been on before me. And they, you know, they wrote me a little differently already. So already it was a different character. But then overnight, it seemed to a lot of people that I changed from being the good guy, the hero, to like the most despicable hated person in all of daytime. I get apples thrown at me at the supermarket. I get people yelling at me in cars. Oh, my gosh. I get people stuck. I get people not letting me into their restaurant if they're like, you know, are you serious? Like, it's. It's really funny. So I'm playing like a horrible human.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

You guys have to watch it. I watched like a few because, you know, I knew, you know, I've been trying to get you on my show for a long time.

[Drew McIntyre]

Yes, yes.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

You've been very patient and very persistent. Very annoying. Right. You're like, I gotta go to that show so that woman leaves me alone.

[Cameron Mathison]

Oh, no. I just. It turned out the timing was much better.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

No, I know. But I stopped watching because of that, because I. It literally affects my life, like if I start, if I jump on it. But you have an interesting storyline going.

[Cameron Mathison]

Yeah, it's been really fun. So right now, I mean, I'll say it's been fun lately. It was not fun for six months. So. So I'm like, not a great guy. Right. And there was big who shot Drew? I played Drew storyline. And it turns out it was my wife who tried to kill me and shot Me. And then, not only that, I got her acquitted because I couldn't believe that she was the one who shot me. But then I get home from that and she basically says, no, it was always me, Drew. And then she jabs me with poison.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

And that's it. Don't tell the.

[Cameron Mathison]

No, no, no. This you can know. You can know that it's kept me. It's kept me paralyzed for months and months, only communicating, blinking. But the big question is whether or not Drew is going to get his revenge and come out of that chair and get back. And. And I'm hopeful.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

But that's the incredible thing about daytime soaps, right? It keeps you so hooked that you gotta keep watching. Because how are you gonna miss this?

[Cameron Mathison]

Yeah.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

Like, you're desperate for this guy. Like, oh my God, how is he gonna get out of this?

[Cameron Mathison]

I was wondering myself. And I mean, yeah, it went on a long time. I'm not gonna lie to you. I was like, I thought this was gonna be like a three week storyline. Like, I think it was five and a half to six months.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

Oh, my God.

[Cameron Mathison]

In that chair.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

But, you know, so if you guys want to know what happens,

[Cameron Mathison]

I think. I think there's gonna be some big changes to the storyline by the end of this month. So. So tune in.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

So how is the filming schedule for that? Because it's a show that airs.

[Cameron Mathison]

Yeah.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

Five days a week.

[Cameron Mathison]

Yeah.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

It's a lot of episodes old, very fast paced.

[Cameron Mathison]

It's crazy. So, you know, we shoot 120, 100 to 110 pages of dialogue every day.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

Wow.

[Cameron Mathison]

To give you an idea, a big movie, a big budget movie shoots about a page and a half to two pages of dialogue a day. The TV movies that I make shoot anywhere between eight to 12 pages of dialogue a day. And again, the soaps shoot 100 to 110 pages a day. So there's a phenomenal amount of material that gets shot. Every character you can have individually, as little as a few pages of dialogue, all the way up to 80 pages of your own dialogue in one day. That's extreme. But it's happened to me a few times. So you've got to get really, really good at memorizing. There's the shoot days can be. You can shoot for a couple hours, be in and out, which is great, or you can be in all day for 12 hours, 13 hours. It just depends on how they're shooting the sets that day. And so the day before you find out how you're shooting, shooting General Hospital is excellent. About giving us weeks off. So it saves the money. But we go dark. We call going dark. Like right now, all of July is dark.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

Oh, nice. So we're nice, right?

[Cameron Mathison]

You don't come back to shooting until August.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

Okay.

[Cameron Mathison]

And that's one of the ways we do. But otherwise, we shoot an episode for every single day of the year. And you do.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

The people think it's easy. You see the final product, and yeah, it's a fun, fantastic job, but it's a ton of work.

[Cameron Mathison]

Ton of work. And they've been doing it for 60 years. Five times. 52 is how many episodes we do every year. And yeah, it's. It's. It's a lot, but it's a. A great, great job. It's a credible show and run by an amazing man, Frank, who I've talked about. But it feels very much like a fam. Like, it feels as close to a 9 to 5 regular gig that an actor can have because, you know, in theory, as long as they don't kill you off or, you know, make you horrible like me.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

And who would want to kill you?

[Cameron Mathison]

Yeah.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

Soap opera face. Face. By the way, guys, if you're listening to the audio episode, please don't forget to go watch YouTube so you can see his face. The video episodes is there on Canada.

[Cameron Mathison]

Oh, got you. Gotcha. Got the YouTube.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

So you can see we dropped the video episode on YouTube.

[Cameron Mathison]

Yes. That's good. That's the way to do it. You got to figure it out. I know. You got to figure it out.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

I'm trying. We'll try to figure it out. So I have two really important questions before I let you go very quickly, because I know you want to watch the world.

[Cameron Mathison]

No, I mean, yeah, it's fine.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

We're wondering who's winning for Portugal and Spain.

[Cameron Mathison]

Okay. While you're asking. I'm listening. I'm listening.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

You. You've been in this industry for a really long time, and you're lucky to be a working actor, because a lot of actors like me. Sometimes you work, sometimes you don't, and sometimes you work in your movie. Nobody watches, but it's a part of the game. What do you. Do you have any tips? Because I know a lot of younger actors. I know a lot of people in the entertainment industry. Listen to my show. All over the world, you have fans. I told you. We get messages for you from Germany, Australia.

[Cameron Mathison]

I love that.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

All over the world. I don't know. They find it, but they love it. You any tips or ideas or how did it work? For you to have longevity in this industry to, you know, be able to navigate the turbulent waters of entertainment.

[Cameron Mathison]

Yeah, that's a really, that's a really good question and it's sort of like a bit of an in depth answer, but I'll try and keep it short. And I'll just say that, you know, for me one of the big things is to stay humble, to work hard, to be prepared and to really take your craft seriously. Like, like study and, and go to classes and, and do other things. Produce your own content, write your own content. And then when you come to work, be very prepared. Be humble, be respectful, be on time. I mean, it sounds like a lot of simple stuff, but in this business, most people don't have that checklist. In this business, you're doing pretty good. And like, you know, and, and then also I think for your own mental health to not be attached to results. Like, you go in as prepared as you can, be as relaxed and spontaneous, and you do the best job you can under the circumstances. Because obviously whenever you're shooting it, you know, you could actually be in a real rush and the lighting breaks and you got to shoot. You get one chance at it and you, and you've been working on this for two weeks and everything's different. And the way they're saying they're lying is not the way that you rehearsed it in your head. And you just got to just be in the moment, listen, react, be prepared and then let go and be grateful and go like. And that way you're not, you know, super graspy. And nothing's precious.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

I love that.

[Cameron Mathison]

Like, nothing's precious in the sense that like, I heard actually Jonah Hill said that about a joke. Like, you know, when you see, you read the script, you know, this is a funny joke. He's like, nothing's precious. Don't try and tell the joke. Like, just be in the moment, listen, react, and let it go. And be as real and as authentic and prepared and humble and respectful as possible.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

I love that. Humble. I think that's such a key word because I know so many people like to go up to their heads.

[Cameron Mathison]

Yeah.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

And that's a bad idea, right? I see, like people that are, they do one little thing, you know, on reality TV and everything, and they think like the last Coca Cola 0 the desert. And the most successful people in entertainment, such as you, are super cool and humble. And that's always very interesting to me.

[Cameron Mathison]

I feel like, I feel like it's a really big, you know, respectful, humble, prepared, professional Those are, those are obvious, those are obvious answers. But it's, it's a, it's a big, big deal. Like, don't take your yourself too seriously. You're always replaceable. Like, I'm not even remotely close to being like an A list celebrity, you know, and I have. It was not a setup because I know the truth. You know the truth.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

But no, no, listen. Longevity. Good Morning America. I appreciate you running for 60s. Shut up. It's Marshall. I decided.

[WWE Announcer]

Yeah.

[Cameron Mathison]

But I'll say this however you want to word it. I'll say that I've been, you know, like, I'm not at the top of everybody's, you know, list of people that they're tuning into movies for or whatever. And yet I've been, I've been very steady and I've, I also diversified between acting and hosting. So having both has been very good for my career.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

It's been so much fun watching on Good Morning America.

[Cameron Mathison]

Thanks.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

So you're so good at it.

[Cameron Mathison]

Oh, I appreciate it. So like having both is very helpful. So that's another tip for people. Like, not that you have to be a host, but just try to diversify, try to keep different like irons in the fire and that helps stay busy. And, and yeah, those are some of

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

my secrets really quickly, before you run out of time. Regarding longevity, were you, before you got cancer, were you always into fitness, taking great care of your body, or did that increase after you, you got sick and recovered?

[Cameron Mathison]

I will say this, that I really tried like my, for decades and decades. I thought I was really healthy and I thought I was doing things well and right. Listening to social media, listening to trends and fads and I tell you right now, you gotta be careful with that stuff because it'll kill you. Like it could really not to be dramatic, it could really backfire all these trends and fad diets and extreme this and extreme that. I tried it for decades until you really learn how to heal your body. You know, learn the importance of rest and recovery, learn the importance of healing your gut and balancing hormones and chilling out stress and reducing inflammation. Start there. Then worry about training and nutrition modalities and things. Like for me, I was really trying to do all the right things, but just getting sicker and sicker and sicker and sicker. Inability to build muscle, inability to lose fat over decades. It's something that both things were, were easier when I was younger. Stop becoming easy. Looking at inflammation, puffy, no energy, high stress, hormones out of whack gut was a disaster. So I Have a functional health coaching company. It's called Health360. I only have it because I've been through the process. It's a link link in my.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

So I'm putting the link here on this episode guys so you can go check it out.

[Cameron Mathison]

But the, the key is, is that I'm working with a company that healed me and helped me and I've now partnered with them for Health360. So it' powered by vital these coaches that have changed my life. And I was going, I was like spinning my wheels for decades, going to doctors, going to trends, getting this and that and nothing. Ultimately things would work for a little while but then snap back even worse. And until you really get foundational with healing your body and understanding what your unique issues are and problems and challenges are, you're not going to change anything. Like you've got a real. And that's what a functional health coach did for me. And now I'm 56 years old. I'm eating 4000 calories a day. 4000 calories a day. When I was 30 I was eating 2500 and getting fat. So now I've revved up my metabolism. But I've revved up metabolism. I've built muscle, I'm staying lean, I'm taking a good supplement protocol. I'm emphasizing rest and recovery, drinking water, going on walks, keeping stress low. Like you know there's, there's things that now, and now I'm 100, I'm 206 pounds, nine and a half percent body fat.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

Body fat.

[Cameron Mathison]

And, and I, and I like, I literally it's a full time job just to eat enough food so I don't lose weight. And that's, and that's, I'm not, that's from like getting healthy and you rev up your metabolism and that way you're getting enough nutrients to feed your body and build your muscles. Yeah, I'm eating 500 grams of carbs. I used to be 00 carbs and have like high blood sugar. Now I'm eating 500 grams of carbs and my blood sugar is like 85.

[Guest or secondary speaker (brief interjections)]

Very.

[Cameron Mathison]

So it's, it's, you just got to heal your body and it's possible.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

So learn at any age like he said before you go listen to some crazy influencer or whatever. I think educate yourself.

[Grainger Announcer (alternate)]

Right?

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

Educate yourself. I'm putting all his links here on this episode, guys. Cameron, you're incredible. It's such an honor having you on the show. What a fun conversation.

[Cameron Mathison]

Thank you so much.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

No, I want to invite you back, we. We have to do an entire episode just about wellness.

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[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

Fitness. Let's do it. Let's do it. Because this is such important information and I'm a little bit younger than you, but not very, very much younger. We're the same age.

[Grainger Announcer (alternate)]

But.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

And I think it's so important to age well.

[Cameron Mathison]

Yes.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

Not just the way you look, but like you said, the inside. It's about feeling great. So I would love to do like an entire episode about that because I think this is such important information that I cannot give you guys because I' an expert. But you know so much. You're in fantastic shape and it's such an honor have you congratulations on incredible work you do. Let's figure out who.00000000.

[Cameron Mathison]

By the time you guys listen this, you'll know who won.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

Yes.

[Cameron Mathison]

We don't know yet.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

We don't know. Cameron, thank you so much. Safe out there. I love you.

[Cameron Mathison]

Okay. Love you guys.

[Host (possibly Brazilian female host)]

You're amazing.

[Cameron Mathison]

Yeah, you too. Thanks. Thanks so much.

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