Jun 1, 2026 · 1 hr 20 min · 12 segments
Matt and Shelby are joined by David Lebensfeld (founder, Ingenuity Studios) as they discuss facing major changes, professionally and personally. We cover everything from founding Ingenuity Studios to…
David LebensfeldGuest
Matt VojacekHost
Shelby HagerdonHost
Um, so I want to hear a little bit about the Emerson years and just getting started, you know, what you were majoring in, what you were working on during that time.
So and the experience of Emerson for, you know, most of you, I'm assuming out there that that didn't go to Emerson.
And it's not, I think, the only it's a liberal arts school, but it's not the only liberal arts school that's like this.
And that there's the people that tend to gravitate towards Emerson or that they let in or whatever the reason was, at least when I went there 20 plus years ago.
They're people that focus a lot on extracurricular stuff or making their own films or writing or plays.
But it's really kind of oriented around people that kind of do that stuff more than go to class, I guess.
And that's not to say people don't go to class, but it is really more about, I think, finding your people and making stuff with them there.
So it really sort of carried its way outside of Emerson to naturally – Start a company or kind of like get together with the people that you knew from Emerson to make things.
So for that, for me, it was it was an invaluable experience and just sort of like giving me the space outside of high school to go and do the stuff I wanted to do.
So at Emerson is technically where I started Ingenuity, or at least started calling myself that, working on other people's projects or my own projects in, you know, focusing mostly on the post-production stuff, editorial color, visual effects.
Yeah, I think just those beginning years is kind of what you were working on.
Um, so I want to hear a little bit about the Emerson years and just getting started, you know, what you were majoring in, what you were working on during that time.
So and the experience of Emerson for, you know, most of you, I'm assuming out there that that didn't go to Emerson.
And it's not, I think, the only it's a liberal arts school, but it's not the only liberal arts school that's like this.
And that there's the people that tend to gravitate towards Emerson or that they let in or whatever the reason was, at least when I went there 20 plus years ago.
They're people that focus a lot on extracurricular stuff or making their own films or writing or plays.
But it's really kind of oriented around people that kind of do that stuff more than go to class, I guess.
And that's not to say people don't go to class, but it is really more about, I think, finding your people and making stuff with them there.
So it really sort of carried its way outside of Emerson to naturally – Start a company or kind of like get together with the people that you knew from Emerson to make things.
So for that, for me, it was it was an invaluable experience and just sort of like giving me the space outside of high school to go and do the stuff I wanted to do.
So at Emerson is technically where I started Ingenuity, or at least started calling myself that, working on other people's projects or my own projects in, you know, focusing mostly on the post-production stuff, editorial color, visual effects.
Yeah, I think just those beginning years is kind of what you were working on.
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