How Fear Holds Us Back From Being Better Audio Entrepreneurs

Brian Hood (0:00)

This is The Six Figure Home Studio Podcast, episode 61

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 Six Figure Home Studio Podcast. I am your host, Brian Hood, and I'm here with my co-host, Chris Graham. Hey, Chris, how you doing, buddy? Hey, buddy.

SPEAKER_3 (0:29)

Hey, hey. It's good to see you, buddy.

Chris Graham (0:31)

Hey.

Brian Hood (0:32)

Stop whatever that is. If this is someone's first time listening to our podcast, he just started a lot of people. Don't worry.

Chris Graham (0:38)

I'm a real man. I'm going to teach you about audio and business. Here we go. Let's do this.

Brian Hood (0:42)

Hi, my name is Chris Graham.

Chris Graham (0:44)

Yeah, you guys really need to have sound business principles.

Brian Hood (0:48)

Oh, my gosh.

Chris Graham (0:49)

So you can do what you're passionate about.

Brian Hood (0:50)

There's at least one person out there that played this for the first time. They heard your voice and immediately hit stop and will never listen to us again.

Chris Graham (0:58)

He'll be back.

Brian Hood (0:59)

He'll be back.

Chris Graham (1:00)

He'll be back.

Brian Hood (1:01)

OK, OK, OK. What's new with you, Chris Graham?

Chris Graham (1:03)

OK, let me nerd out with you real quick. So I got something new for myself this week that I'm so pumped about. We've talked about Parkinson's Law on the podcast in the past. It's this idea that however much time you have to complete a task is how much time it will take you. If you have to finish editing drums in five hours, you will.

If you have to finish editing drums in an hour, you will. Well, you'll figure it out.

And so I struggle with this a lot. And Amazon just came out with an Alexa wall clock.

Brian Hood (1:32)

I saw your Instagram video, which linked to Chris Graham's Instagram is inside of our show notes at thesixfigurehomestudio.com/61.

Chris Graham (1:40)

Indeed. I made them follows y'all. Chris underscore Graham, like the cracker, G-R-A-H-A-M. Anyways, so I got Alexa at the office and I can be like, Alexa, set a timer for 20 minutes, which I do every morning. I used to do it on my phone because first thing I do when I get to the studio is I read a self-help book that will fire me up.

I just finished reading the one thing that you recommended maybe five or six weeks ago.

Brian Hood (2:04)

Yep.

Chris Graham (2:05)

Rocked my face off, but this clock shows like a countdown timer when you tell it to. Unbelievable.

Brian Hood (2:12)

Yeah, I saw the video. It looks pretty cool. I also have an Alexa spy. I call them spies because they're all listening to us.

I also have an Alexa spy in my kitchen. And the only thing I use it for is I listen to music and I will set a timer for my coffee in the morning for four minutes because that's how long you told me to steep my coffee in my Aeropress.

Chris Graham (2:29)

Don't want to over extract. You really don't. So catching you guys up, Brian and I love two things, helping you guys run a business so that you can do what you love for a living and roasting our own coffee beans.

Brian Hood (2:40)

Those are our two passions in life, coffee and studios.

Chris Graham (2:44)

So we use Aeropresses and we use this little like attachment called a Prismo. And yeah, I stir the whole time.

Brian Hood (2:51)

That one thing you just said, the little attachment, the Prismo, A, that's the game changer.

Chris Graham (2:55)

Yeah.

Brian Hood (2:56)

B, that's the gear slutt alert because that is gear.

Chris Graham (2:59)

We are coffee gear slutting.

Brian Hood (3:01)

And C, that's the most coffee nerdy thing you could possibly ever mention is a third party attachment for an obscure coffee creation thing called an Aeropress. So continue on.

Chris Graham (3:12)

For those of you that are annoyed, let me just real quick. The game that Brian and I both play is, can I make the best cup of coffee I've ever had every morning?

And we have all these gadgets that are all relatively inexpensive. I did the math. I spend $12 a month on coffee, but I roast my own beans. I grind it by hand. I have all sorts of Aeropressy doohickeys and scales and stuff. All of this stuff is fun. And let's bring it back home for you guys in the podcast. It's amazing because if somebody comes over and you make them the best cup of coffee they've ever had in your life, a client, they're going to come back.