A year ago, Matt Cox, founder of COVE & KEY Real Estate, was preparing for a life-changing milestone.
Already the father of Chloe and Graham, he and his wife Brittany were counting down the days until the arrival of twin girls—a surprise that would instantly double the size of their family.
While family and friends congratulated them and joked about the adventure ahead, Matt couldn't stop wondering how they were going to make it all work. “My biggest worry leading up to the babies being born was just how to provide and how to also be a good father and husband while trying to provide,” he recalled.
At the time, his concerns felt justified. The first half of 2025 had been one of the slowest stretches of business he'd experienced since entering real estate. With twins on the way, the uncertainty felt overwhelming.
The twins arrived on July 5, and something unexpected happened. Business picked up. What had once been his greatest source of anxiety became one of his greatest sources of gratitude. “To just feel through lots of prayers and kind of anxiety and stress about how are we going to do this?” he said. “That piece of the puzzle has felt overwhelmingly just grateful.”
But as much as Matt talks about gratitude, he talks even more about Brittany.
Throughout the conversation, his admiration for his wife shines through—not through grand declarations but rather through everyday moments. The way she continues working part-time. The way she creates meaningful family memories during one of the busiest seasons of their lives. The way she spends her days caring for four children and still finds patience when everyone else's has run out. “She’s 10 times more patient than I am,” Matt said.
Even when life feels completely full, Brittany remains committed to making the people around her feel loved and celebrated. “She goes above and beyond to make things special,” he said. “She's so committed to making things special even if it adds more stress.”
For Matt, the last year has been a front-row seat to watching what Brittany is capable of. As the twins' birth approached and one baby was breech, doctors prepared Matt and Brittany for multiple scenarios. Instead, what unfolded felt miraculous. “The birth was literally perfect in every way,” Matt said. “The way that it went was mind-blowing—the doctors and nurses were hooping and hollering. It was just a party. We didn’t even know how great it went, but they made it very obvious that this was the best case scenario.” The moment landed as something extraordinary even among seasoned medical staff. “Seeing Brittany do that set a new level of respect for what she's capable of,” he said.
Today, their home is exactly what you might expect from four children under six. “Chaos, fun, and loud,” Matt laughed. “Somebody's always screaming, that's for sure.”
The laughter comes easily but so does the honesty. There are exhausting days. Days when work demands compete with family needs. Days when nothing feels balanced. Yet somewhere in the middle of that chaos, Matt has discovered something unexpected: balance isn't about getting everything done. It's about knowing what matters most.
Real estate can easily be a 24-hour job. Clients call. Deals shift. Opportunities appear. There is always one more thing to do. A younger version of himself believed success meant saying yes to all of it.
Now, he is learning a different lesson. “I've learned to have boundaries with work,” he said. If he is having dinner with his family, he may return a client call later. If he finds himself with an unexpected hour in the middle of the day, sometimes he heads home instead of tackling another work task.
That lesson came during one of the most stressful seasons of his life. Just weeks before the twins were born, he was pushing harder and harder, trying to control outcomes that would not cooperate. It was Brittany who finally stopped him. “Why don't you take a breath?” she told him. “Because you're going to burn out.”
Today, he believes that conversation changed him. “I'm always going to work as hard as I can,” he said. “But I'm not going to let it define me.”
Asked what he hopes his children remember about this chapter of life, he doesn't mention this year’s record-breaking sales or other professional accomplishments. Instead, he says, “When they look back, think that dad was here for it all. Yeah, he had to work, but [he] didn't miss a thing, did his best, and loved us even when he was not perfect at it.“
One year after becoming a father of four, Matt Cox seems to have learned what some people spend a lifetime trying to figure out: the richest life isn't built by controlling every outcome. It's built by showing up.
When he and Brittany learned they were having twins, Matt remembers telling her, “I've never felt lucky in my life, but I feel so lucky we're having twins.” Today, Brittany has a favorite response. On the loudest days, when the kids are melting down and chaos has completely taken over, she'll look at him and ask: “Still feel lucky?” Matt laughs every time.
Because despite the chaos, the exhaustion, and the uncertainty that once kept him awake at night, his answer remains the same. “We are really lucky.”
“We didn’t even know how great it went, but they made it very obvious that this was the best-case scenario. The doctors and nurses were hooping and hollering—it was just a party.”