You do well in any career and especially in the film world when you can kind of step outside the matrix or realize that everyone's kind of playing a game.

There's rules to learn and there's rules to break and that success kind of comes from learning when to keep the rules and when to realize that they're complete bullshit.

Adam Schoberg is a documentary and commercial filmmaker that's traveled to over

60 countries working on both independent and full-scale productions. His first documentary, Shake the

Dust, executive produced by the legendary rapper Nas. Chronicle is the influence of breakdancing

and its ties to the slums and ghettos around the world.

We talk about breaking free from The Matrix on this week's podcast and how to define your own

path.

He gives some of the most practical and actionable advice I've heard for aspiring storytellers.

And we also discuss the importance of learning the business side of your creative path.

So that's something that I try to cover on as many of these podcasts as possible,

because if you're not getting the business side down,

if you're not figuring out how to make money from your art,

then you are likely not going to be able to keep creating it. Do you have a question for me or my guest? If so, you can send

it in to hello at matdiavella.com, record a short audio or video, keep it under two minutes,

and ask me whatever is on your mind can be

personal to you, to me, to my guests. Just want to try to help you guys get to the bottom of

the drudgery that you're going through. So again, send those into hello at matdiavella.com. I truly love hearing from you

guys. I also love hearing from you in the form of an iTunes review. These iTunes review have

been hugely helpful. I can't under, I can't under, I can't think of the word right now because

I've been working all day and I'm tired.

I have been getting a lot of these reviews and ratings in through iTunes and it's been like

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