Welcome to Mooch. I'm Matty, founder, and an ex-serviceman on a mission to help others.

Let me tell you how we got here.

Before Mooch, I was a Royal Marines Commando, embedded in a Recce troop, working as a mountain leader. It was the one role that let me live in the mountains and get paid to do it. Every skill I had, every part of me that came alive, had a place there.

Life as a Marine brought me so much, but I knew I wanted more. In 2022, I volunteered for special forces training. Selection isn't something that's handed to you. It strips you down phase by phase, testing what's left when your body's spent and your mind wants to quit. I went through it. I was selected. Everything I'd worked toward was finally within reach.

Weeks before I was due to start my new role, I was on my jumps course, skydiving. This was supposed to be the "sexy" part of selection. What should have been a routine jump could have killed me. It wasn't the fall that nearly took me. It was what was happening inside me. For weeks, my body had been shutting down, I was losing weight drastically and starting to lose my eyesight.

A simple doctor's check-up turned into a rush to A&E. That's when I found out I was Type 1 diabetic. Five doctors stood around me, questioning how I was still operating, with a score ten times higher than a regular person.

That diagnosis ended the career I'd fought so hard for. Overnight, the future I'd built my identity around was gone.

I had to step into the "norms" of everyday life. I took a job in an office, and it nearly swallowed me a different way: laptops, phones, emails, screens, noise. My mind doesn't stop at the best of times (some call it ADHD, that's a conversation for another day), but in that world there was no off switch. The only place I could find quiet was in the mountains. The second I'm out there, everything else stops. Silence in the head.

Mooch was born in a coaching session with my ex-sergeant major. I sat in an office and dreamed of building an outdoor business, something that gave people what the mountains give me.

I realised I wasn't the only one carrying this. So many of us are stuck in the norms of life, disconnected from ourselves, waiting for permission to switch off and feel something real again.

That's what Mooch is. Packages built on the hardships of life: resilience, weather, challenge, designed to strip things back and remind you that you're alive.

Welcome to Mooch.