Awaken The Awesome

I have no words to tell you guys how incredibly excited I am to share today's conversation with you. I did not know of my next guest until 48 hours preceding this recording. As The Universe, Energy and a little sprinkle of Instagram randomness would have it - sometimes, all you gotta do is try something out and see what you end up with. What started with a recently-released short film on Vimeo, quickly shifted to me ferociously tracking down the creator, and eventually, sooner rather than later, the both us were intensely texting back and forth about how we could collaborate and lo and behold, his grace and warmth ended up on this humble fan's podcast as a new guest. Originally from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, with a noticeably whimsical personality that is only matched by his incredible body of work, Steven Baboun is the kind of individual that, admittedly, will not be ignored. As a photographer, writer, visual artist...

© Dimitri Rousseau (IG: @zendimz) - All Rights Reserved When circumstances become rather consequential and the situation demands your rather immediate attention...what do you do? When you get hit with an idea, and the choice remains on you to pursue it or let it pass...what do you do? At some point or another, we've all come across this familiar fork in the road along our journey,  be it creative or otherwise, where we have an actionable and impactful choice to make. In this very candid conversation with my guest Benjamin Gardere , writer, director, production assistant, and very well-versed individual in all things film, these are some of the very truths that we address. This was indeed a wonderful and intimate recap on a particular and very recent chapter where he had that very choice in front of him :  To dream or To do. Simple. Not always easy, but simple. You can connect with Ben via his Vimeo page where you can check out some his great work and sh...