When it comes to discovering your passion, the ingredients needed are a combination of experience, lessons learned, and just a dash of luck.

After finishing his master’s degree in journalism at BU, Eric Stange (COM’79) honed in on his talent and soon paved his own path to success.

In this episode, award-winning documentary filmmaker Eric Stange shares his journey, creative process and lessons learned from personal and professional hardship as founder and executive producer of Spy Pond Productions. His work has been broadcast on PBS, National Geographic, The Discovery Channel, and the BBC. Prior to his career in filmmaking, Eric wrote about art and culture for The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic Monthly and many other publications.

A transcript of this episode is also available. Please note, transcripts may be edited for clarity and do not represent a verbatim record of dialogue.

About the podcast:

The Proud to BU podcast series highlights some of our most interesting and accomplished alumni and how their path to success began at Boston University.

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