The Struggle Of Running A Successful Studio At Home With Your Family

Chris Graham (0:00)

The Six Figure Home Studio, episode 73

Brian Hood (0:10)

The number one resource for running a profitable home recording studio.

Welcome back to another episode of the Six Figure Home Studio podcast. I am your host, Brian Hood, and I'm here with my amazing co-host, who has managed to keep the ship afloat while I've been on my honeymoon, Chris, amazing Superman Graham. How are you doing today, Chris? Dude, I miss being on this podcast so much.

Chris Graham (0:38)

So let's catch everybody up. You got married.

Brian Hood (0:41)

I did. I got married March 2nd.

Chris Graham (0:43)

You bought a one-way ticket to Europe. You guys have been doing all the things.

Tell us about that.

Brian Hood (0:49)

Yeah. So we got married March 2nd, and we are still currently on our honeymoon right now. We bought a one-way ticket to Paris, actually. Right now, we are in Florence, Italy. So, the romance of Italy. And we've been to Paris, we've been to Barcelona, we've been to Nice in southern France, Monaco, Genoa, Italy, to the hillsides of Tuscany for like a little romantic weekend thing. We're in Florence right now, and I think we'll be in Rome next week.

So I am recording from the hotel room. I'm currently lying in my bed, on my back with my laptop on my lap, and recording into an SM58. We're going to get the gear sled alert here. Recording into an SM58 into my Zoom H5.

And, or H5, sorry, Zoom H5.

And if my audio sucks, I apologize, but you know what? This is the only thing I could travel with. I didn't want to bring my whole SM7B and my interface and everything. That would have been overkill. But man, this has been a fun trip, and I'm extremely happy to be back on the podcast, though, because I've missed it.

Chris Graham (1:49)

It's been super cool to watch your guys' Instagram stories.

And just to see, like, you guys having so much fun traveling. And I keep thinking, as I watch all these Instagram stories, what a perfect example of why you should have business skills, because it's your business skills that have allowed you guys to have such an amazing, extravagant beginning to your marriage as you're building that foundation of a relationship between you and your now wife.

Brian Hood (2:17)

I tend to agree. There are certain perks to getting married later in life. I'm 32 now.

If I would have been married at 22, we would have gone to Pensacola, Florida, or Destin, Florida, or something on the beach for the weekend or something, because I was broke at 21 or 22

Chris Graham (2:33)

Oh, same.

Brian Hood (2:35)

Well, what do we have on the books today, Chris? What are we going to talk about today? This first episode back, there's a lot of pressure, man. I've been gone for a couple weeks as far as the podcast. I've been gone for, actually, it's almost been a month now since I got married. We had a couple episodes in the bank, and now we're finally back on the grid. But I only missed two weeks, right? Two weeks?

Chris Graham (2:51)

Two episodes, yeah, that's true.

Brian Hood (2:53)

So what are we talking about today, Chris?

Chris Graham (2:54)

Well, I think it would be fun to kind of explore a conversation about life transitions.

You are now married, and your life is going to look a lot different now. Your priorities have totally changed, and it's really complicated when you're trying to run a home studio, when you're trying to run a business, and you have a life change like getting married, getting engaged, having a kid, having another kid, having yet another kid.

And there's all sorts of stuff that's weird about how your priorities shift, but as your priorities shift, you also have to be more disciplined to figure out how to not waste time. You know, this whole Pareto's principle and Parkinson's law that we talk about, the 80-20 principle, Pareto's principle, and Parkinson's law is this idea that however much time you have to do something is as much time as it's going to take. If you've got a day to finish a project, you'll finish it in a day. If you've got 10 days, you're going to finish it in 10 days. This idea that work expands to the time that you have available. And for you now as a married man, and hopefully someday for you as a father of 17...

There's a lot of transition that happens there, and I know for a lot of us in our little 6 Figure Home Studio podcast community, there is a lot of us that have kids. There's a lot of us that are engaged. There's a lot of us that just got married. There's a lot of us that just got a dog. There's just a lot of life stages. So I think it'd be really great to explore. This is something you guys have asked us for over and over and over that we haven't done yet. But just to do an episode on this sort of stuff, what it's like having kids and running a home studio, what it's like with that sort of transition into marriage, kind of the whole nine yards of how do you adult and continue to run a home studio business?