How To Build An Audio Career 100% Online From Anywhere In The World: With Austin Hull

Brian Hood (0:00)

This is The Six Figure Home Studio Podcast, episode 59

Austin Hull (0:06)

I went from only making $800 in my biggest month as a hobbyist, to my first month full time, I made like $3,500.

Chris Graham (0:13)

So let me see if I can sum up your story here. Full time student, recently married, dabbling in music, launch Facebook group, Facebook group explodes, all the Facebook people hire you, you are full time and growing like crazy.

Austin Hull (0:28)

Honestly, that's the whole story.

SPEAKER_4 (0:31)

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

Brian Hood (0:44)

Welcome back to another episode of The Six Figure Home Studio Podcast. I am your host, Brian Hood, and I'm here with my fiercely handsome, rugged caveman co-host, Chris Graham. How are you doing today, Chris?

Chris Graham (0:55)

I'm great, man. How the heck are you?

Brian Hood (0:58)

I'm doing awesome, man. It's the day after Christmas here, and I couldn't be more excited to have an episode that comes out the day after Christmas. We actually had to push this back because usually episodes come out on Tuesdays. Christmas is on a Tuesday today, so we said, and also New Year's is on a Tuesday.

So we said we're pushing back the podcast one day for Wednesday for two weeks. So the 26th and then next week will come out the day after New Year's. That way people can get over their hangovers or whatever they have from New Year's and then get over their sugar highs from their Christmas vacations.

Chris Graham (1:24)

Sugar.

SPEAKER_4 (1:26)

Sugar.

Brian Hood (1:27)

Speaking of which, I'm going to have eight cakes at my wedding.

Ooh.

Anyways, today's episode is an interesting one. This is something that we found in our Facebook community, our very own Six Figure Home Studio Facebook community. I made a post on there about a month and a half ago asking the community if anyone had gotten their career started and was making a full time living strictly online. No local work, no starting their careers out locally and then going online. And for anyone who doesn't really know my story and Chris' story, I started all my work out in North Alabama. I did all local and regional work, then I did national work, then I did international work, and then I started just only doing national and international work when I moved to mixing and mastering. And Chris started local, and then he pivoted to doing national and international work with his work. But we both started locally, and I was really, I still am, under the impression that to give yourself the best shot, you need to start local, then go regional, then go national, then go international in that order. If you try to skip, it's going to make things more difficult. But our guest today, Austin, has found a way to make it work. He is more than full time now. He's worked with, I want to say, 300 clients in the last year or so.

And these are all stemming from leads that he found online through one resource.

Chris Graham (2:39)

And let's clarify here, not just one resource, but an unpaid resource. He's not paying for advertising.

Brian Hood (2:46)

Oh yeah, that's true. And so I think that this interview is going to be an eye opener for a lot of our community.

And for those of you who are in maybe a city that doesn't really lend itself well to local and regional work, maybe you are in just a terrible city or a terrible country or somewhere that's just too far off the beaten path to get local clients, this is the episode for you.

Chris Graham (3:05)

I want to pitch this about Austin. This is going to be a really rad episode. And the thing that you guys need to keep in mind is that Austin could have lived in Antarctica with a satellite internet connection and could still be full time and could have built his career from nothing up to full time with nothing but an internet connection in the middle of freaking nowhere. So yeah, this episode is going to be awesome. You guys are going to love this. Austin is a force of nature and very impressive.

We hope you guys enjoy it.

Brian Hood (3:39)

So Austin, welcome to the podcast. So glad to have you on here, man.

I think the best place to start is you kind of give us a background on your story. Just give us how you got started, what you do and all that fun stuff.