Author: Kenn Bell

And so it begins… I say that because what I’m about to do is a giant undertaking. And believe me, I am not blowing it out of proportion. The last one I did stretched out over four years. While I wasn’t working on it the whole time, I was for about half of that. You may have seen what I’m talking about. It’s called Second Chance Dogs. It’s a documentary and you can watch right now in the USA on Netflix. I learned a great deal while making Second Chance Dogs. You really do learn more by doing and my mantra, “ask forgiveness, not permission” came into play constantly during the making of it. Seems humans love to say no. Just pick up a camera and start filming. Someone will always be sure to tell you no. The solution, I learned, is to ignore them as long as possible, get what you can and move on. Over the years, while filming or doing most anything else in business, I learned to first go do it, instead of setting myself up for the “always on its way” no that comes when asking permission. You see, humans alway err on the side of the least amount of conflict. It’s ingrained into us from the days of the Stone Age when staying put in your cave led to you living another day....