“From Avocation To Vocation: How I Turned My Hobby Into A Career” With…Matt Secrist, cofounder and COO of BKA Content

An interview with Phil La Duke

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As a part of our series about entrepreneurs who transformed something they did for fun into a full-time career, I had the pleasure of interviewing…Matt Secrist is the cofounder and COO of BKA Content, an online content writing service. Matt has years of experience working directly with marketing agencies, enterprise companies and small and medium-sized businesses in helping with their content marketing efforts. Matt is a dedicated husband and father, an avid NBA basketball fan and an outdoor enthusiast.

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Thank you so much for doing this with us! Can you tell us a bit about your “childhood backstory”?

As a kid, I was decently smart, somewhat creative and a sports fan. Groundbreaking backstory, right?! I was like most kids — I had great potential and big dreams. My early aspirations included being a cartoonist, running the 100-meter dash in the Olympics, and making it to the NBA. Here’s the thing, though: I was surprisingly committed. I drew hundreds of pictures of my own cartoon characters (mostly during class), ran laps around the block in the mornings while still in elementary school, and spent countless hours after school shooting hoops in my driveway.