Having Your Best Year Ever, Despite The Worldwide Pandemic | With Jake Rye

Brian Hood (0:00)

This is the Six Figure Home Studio Podcast, episode 146

SPEAKER_2 (0:07)

You're listening to the Six Figure Home Studio Podcast. The number one resource for running a profitable home recording studio.

Brian Hood (0:19)

Welcome back to another episode of the 6 Figure Home Studio Podcast. I am your host, Brian Hood, and I'm here with my bald, beautiful, amazing, purple-shirted, four-eyed co-host, Christopher J.

Graham. Chris, how you doing, man?

Christopher J. Graham (0:33)

That was probably the best intro you've ever given me. I like that. That made me feel really good about myself.

Brian Hood (0:39)

I also want to point out that you took that intro better than you ever have. Usually, you have the hype man voice after I do that, and it's super obnoxious, and I want to punch you in the...

Christopher J. Graham (0:47)

Yeah, I should cut that out.

I'm doing good, man. How are you doing?

Brian Hood (0:51)

I'm doing awesome. Other than the fact that my life looks the same every single day, months of quarantine has felt like years at this point. And we were chatting before this episode, like, hey, what can you talk about at the intro today? And I was just thinking through, my life has nothing interesting happening at this point.

There is nothing worth talking about. And I feel like there's some truth to that for everybody right now.

Christopher J. Graham (1:13)

You know, okay, this is going to be kind of honorable of me, but there is something going on right now. Well, everyone that's listening to the podcast with any irregularity knows I've mentioned PTSD like a million times.

Brian Hood (1:24)

Yeah, if anyone listens at all, they know what you're talking about there.

Christopher J. Graham (1:26)

So I got diagnosed with PTSD right when COVID hit.

Lots of revelations and learning new things about myself. And I started a new type of therapy called EDMR.

Brian Hood (1:39)

Is that where they electrocute you?

Christopher J. Graham (1:40)

That's what it sounds like, sort of.

But so the problem, and this is fascinating, this is like the gold standard in PTSD treatments. And this past week was the first like intense EDMR that I did. So with EDMR, it's based on this idea that when you have trauma in your history, that it has something to do with how your right and left brain don't interface well, and the trauma memories are stored differently. And EDMR is kind of dope. It's basically like a stereo treatment. And the idea is as your eyes move from left to right, or your awareness moves from left to right, either because you've got headphones on or because you're holding like little vibrating thingies in each hand, that as you rehash your trauma from years past, that it starts to move those memories into long-term storage instead of in your trauma centers.

And it was, I'm not gonna get into too much detail, but it was insane going through this therapy this week. So I'm pumped about that. It was a shocking amount of like self-understanding walking out of there.

Brian Hood (2:43)

You're not the first person I've heard that's gone through this.

And the person I know that's gone through this has had very similar things to say about it. I don't know the science behind it, but it's interesting.

Christopher J. Graham (2:51)

It's crazy. I'm fascinated by it. So I'm like fully excited about slash not excited because it sucks. Like it is, it's grueling.

Brian Hood (2:59)

But it's good that you're sharing this stuff because I feel like most people would not share this part of their life, especially to a podcast full of thousands of strangers.

But this is important. Like mental health is a huge part of having successful business. If you're not willing to put in the work with mental health, it's going to show up in other areas of your life and or your business. So this stuff is crucial as an entrepreneur because our mental health is closely tied to our business, which is closely tied to our families, which is closely tied to all other aspects of our lives. So we have to take this stuff seriously.

Christopher J. Graham (3:28)

Well, and here's the mind blowing piece is we kind of start to bring this banter to a close.

Brian Hood (3:33)

Banter, is that what this is banter? This is a hardcore conversation.

Christopher J. Graham (3:36)

It's a hardcore conversation. Yeah, we're past banter.

Brian Hood (3:38)

For early in the episode.

Christopher J. Graham (3:39)

But what I am learning about trauma, mental health, et cetera, is I've been in conversations with a bunch of people. Mark Eckert, a podcast alum, is one of those guys.