Breaking Boundaries Podcast Matt Collamer

We partnered with Following Boston and Industrious Boston to do a live podcast featuring Boston creatives and their approach to their craft and spreading their knowledge through social media and live events.

Hanson Gobron is an activist and model who has transitioned from a woman to a man. In this episode, Hanson discusses the challenges of becoming a transman in today's society and the reason for sharing this unique journey on social media.

Videographer Joel Irizarry became a successful entrepreneur after pursuing a videography full time. Previous to his path in entrepreneurship, Joel was scrubbing toilets for 8 hours a day at the Newark Airport in New Jersey. He credits his success to dedication and overcoming mental barriers.

Once Instagram was solidified as a social media giant, it became a running joke that its users were actual “photographers.” The term “social photographer” grew from this skepticism, and used to identify those who were incredibly talented and possessed the ability to tell stories with their images. This was the major catalyst for Producer Michael Kalish, in creating the “Following Boston” documentary film series that launched summer 2015, and is now live in 9 US cities with more to come.Leveraging Instagram as the pulse and distribution channel for the series, @FollowingBoston has become the hottest hub in Boston quickly approaching 25k followers, and more than 250k images tagged by the community looking to have their photos featured… or perhaps to be selected to host an upcoming episode.

Your hosts Matt Collamer and Rafael Avcioglu discuss committing to the creative path, defining success, diversifying income streams and much more on Episode 9 of Breaking Boundaries Podcast

Designer and entrepreneur Nick Iby started Adfectu because of a hard time in his life and used drawing as therapy. He hopes he can inspire those of you who are going through something tough and can be an example in that things do get better. He aims to remind us that we are never given anything we cannot handle.