Rewriting Your Script in Life With Matt Horspool
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Matt’s story starts when he was born in south Korea, 6 months later matt was adopted and was raised in a place called orange 4 hours inland from Sydney. Growing up matt felt different and found some racial bullying from other kids in his neighbourhood, he found he was restless at school and felt he wanted to be apart of a tougher crowd which led him to school yard fights and finding himself battling his own environment to belong. Fast forward past the school days to now Trekking the Peruvian Andes for 21 days with world mountaineer Simone rates from the well known documentary touching the void. Matt's passion for taking photos then took him to Brazil to volunteer at a local school where he took some photos, soon after he returned he saved for a mirrorless camera which then was the start of a 3 and a half year travel journey around the world we talked about his first photos to when he decided to make a career out of his passion in 2014. He started with a volunteer charity event then starting building momentum with more jobs and aoon after applied for a grant for a project through Olympus in 2016, for funding for a project he wanted to do with another friend which he got, that then took him to Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan for a month to document those remote places and since then everything snowballed with professional work and in 2019 he decided to quit his role as a teacher to go full time, which has recently lead him to heading to Antartica at the beginning of 2020, just before COVID hit. Matt also talks about why Australia is lacking real connection and the influence of social media in society and learning lessons from strangers. We talk about putting the camera down and being fully present in each destination and the overwhelming feeling he had in a valley where he sat down and really reflected on his life, which really lead him to being grateful of the life he has created. we also touch on understanding your own identity, rewritting your own script, how to start your own journey to success, creating a tribe of your own and what books you need to read to help fast track your personal growth.
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