035 - Make An Impact

Three Rules

Matt D'Avella

Advice, Entrepreneurship, Education, Self-improvement, Business, Documentary, Selfhelp, Howto, Health & Fitness, Tv, Health, Self-help

4.9 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2017

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Chris Temple & Zach Ingrasci are the filmmakers behind the Netflix documentaries Living On One Dollar & Salam Neighbor. They’ve made their name by immersing themselves fully into their films to learn as much as they can about their subjects. Whether it’s living on one dollar a day for 2 months in Guatemala or spending 30 days with Syrian Refugees. These guys are the real deal.

In our conversation we talk about the mindset you need to have heading into big projects, can you be happy while living in poverty, and where the line between your creative field & entrepreneurship blur.

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0:00.0	We didn't even set out to create an impact. We really just set out to learn.
0:05.0	And that's been for us a philosophy that we've continued to apply to every film as we move forward from that first experience,
0:13.0	is going into it not with that preconceived notion of what the impact might be,
0:18.0	but going in and really learning and asking how can I help.
0:23.0	And making films is such a cool way of doing that because the whole process of documentary filmmaking for us is about asking these questions that we don't have answers to yet.
0:35.0	What's stopping you from pursuing your craziest, most ambitious idea?
0:40.0	Chris Temple and Zach and Grassley are the documentary filmmakers behind living on one,
0:45.0	and they had every excuse in the world not to pursue these ideas.
0:51.0	They had no money, little connections, and a summer between semesters to relax. But that's not what they did.
0:58.0	Instead, curiosity pushed them to pen your blanca guadamala to live on a dollar a day and experience firsthand what it's like to live below the poverty line.
1:08.0	They documented the whole experience and eventually turned it into the Netflix documentary living on one dollar.
1:14.0	Then they did it again with Salam neighbor. They were the first filmmakers to be given a tent in a Syrian refugee camp.
1:21.0	And what they witnessed and what they got to explore was really remarkable.
1:26.0	In our conversation, we talk about the mindset that you need heading into any of these big projects.
1:33.0	We also talk about the relationship between happiness and poverty, something that a lot of people, fans of minimalism have asked me about.
1:42.0	And we also explore the relationship between your creative field and entrepreneurship.
1:47.0	Where does that blur when do you put that entrepreneurship hat on and then when do you tap into your creative art and your creative field?
1:56.0	This one is really for anybody looking to start something big with little to no money at all.
2:03.0	But before we get into that, I got to say last week was a pretty big week.
2:08.0	We launched GetTheRockOnMatsPodcast.com.
2:12.0	If you've been following along, you know that I've been trying to get the rock on my podcast, Duane the Rock Johnson superstar.
2:21.0	I've been trying to get him to come on the podcast so I can talk about his ground up story.
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