Matice was born in Killeen, Texas, but has spent much of her life in St. Louis, Mo. She attended the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where she received her Bachelor of Science degree in accounting. She then earned a Master of Science degree in Accounting at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She also received her Qualified 401(k) Administrator (QKA) and Qualified Pension Administrator (QPA) credentials through the American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries. The Product of My Selfishness: The Stutter and the Story is the first book written by Matice. As someone who stutters, she wanted to encourage and educate stutterers and non-stutterers alike about the challenges people who stutter face. Keeping with that same mission, she started a YouTube channel in July 2017 that focuses on how she and others can live their best life with a stutter. Through YouTube, she has a platform that spans six of the seven continents. (She is determined to find someone who stutters in Antarctica!) Outside of touching hearts and lives with her openness about her stutter, Matice loves adventure and travel. When she is not physically traveling, she likes to "travel" vicariously through the characters in the books she reads. Her favorite authors are Paulo Coelho and Terry McMillan, and her favorite book at the moment is Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. No matter what she is doing or where she is going, Matice lives by two mottos: "Progress, not perfection," and "Onward and upward." Always, in all ways.