The 3 Roads To 6 Figures (Choose Wisely)

Brian Hood (0:00)

This is the Six Figure Home Studio Podcast, Episode 58

SPEAKER_2 (0:03)

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 amazing, beautiful, he's got a little scruffy, almost a little 5 o'clock shadow going on right now, Chris Graham. Chris, how are you doing today, man?

Chris Graham (0:33)

I'm pretty good, man. How about yourself?

Brian Hood (0:38)

Sorry, I just got a sip of my tea from my penguin cup.

Chris Graham (0:40)

James, don't edit that tea sip out.

Brian Hood (0:44)

That's like got to sound awful, because I put a ton of compression on my vocals during this, and you're going to hear like a gulp of tea.

Chris Graham (0:50)

With headphones?

Brian Hood (0:51)

A gulp of tea at like 20 decibels of gain reduction is not the way most people want to start their day. That actually reminds me, back in the day, I was recording a band called Gideon, and I'm kind of throwing them under the bus right now, and they still exist, so sorry, Dan.

But their vocalist actually threw up in his mouth in my vocal booth and then swallowed it at 30 decibels of gain reduction, which like I had headphones on at the time, and it's one of the most scarring experiences I've ever had in my life.

Chris Graham (1:18)

James, can you edit that sound bit in right now? Thanks for the unsubscribes, guys.

Brian Hood (1:24)

A grown man swallowing his own vomit at 30 decibels gain reduction. Okay.

Chris Graham (1:28)

Hey, I have a question for you.

Brian Hood (1:30)

Yeah.

Chris Graham (1:31)

How has PowerNap been treating you?

Brian Hood (1:33)

I've done like three in the past week. I didn't do one today because I just got so excited about work stuff. It's a struggle for me because you do years, like if you go back to episode number 52, why every home studio owner should have a do not do list. If you go back to that episode, Chris talks about his do not do list is no work, no email, nothing after lunch before he's had his PowerNap.

And that's something that he lives by. I don't have that on my do not do list, so I need to start working on that. But after lunch, it's like the perfect time to do it.

Chris Graham (2:03)

Oh, it is, it's great.

Brian Hood (2:04)

I've just not been consistent with it. I do want to touch on one thing real quick. This is another thing that people listening to the podcast don't get experience, but this won't even be on a video anywhere, probably. It's not worth putting on Facebook. But I got this in the mail, Chris. And for those of you who can't see this, Oh, yeah. For my birthday, my old assistant, Sean, sent me a mouse pad.

It's the logo for the 6 Figure Home Studio podcast, which is our faces in orange that were drawn up by my artist.

And he's got a bunch of quotes from the podcast, like poop.

Poop on there because Chris and I, beginning of every episode, in order to sync up our audio, we say one, two, three, poop.

We have shut your whore mouth. We have no bitch picking. That's another one of my quotes. It's just a whole bunch of our quotes, so it cuts out. Anyways, I'm not gonna try to say this for our audience. I'll have a picture of it in our show notes though at thesixfigurehomestudio.com/58.

Chris Graham (2:56)

My love for Sean has increased at least 17% from seeing that.

Brian Hood (3:00)

Sean's a swell guy.

Chris Graham (3:01)

That's adorable.

Brian Hood (3:02)

If you guys don't remember Sean, Sean was the guy who edited the first 50 episodes of our podcast or the first 40 episodes, and he was my assistant for a year.

Chris Graham (3:08)

Good people.

Brian Hood (3:09)

And now his studio's gotten busy, and he left to go do his own thing, which is cool. But he gave me this birthday present, and it was super nice of him, so thank you, Sean. I miss you, buddy.

All right, so today's episode is one that I think we're all gonna-

Chris Graham (3:21)

Let me say something.

Brian Hood (3:22)

Go ahead.

Chris Graham (3:23)

I just wanted to follow up on the power-napping thing because of how addicting that massive productivity and mental health increase is.

Man, once I got going down that road, and again, 12 minutes after lunch, I set my alarm for 12 minutes, I take a 12-minute power nap. It is my number one productivity hack.