Blaze Your Own Trail - Building a Home Studio: Tips from Junaid Ahmed

Episode Date: June 3, 2025

SummaryIn this episode of the Blaze Your Own Trail podcast, host Jordan Mendoza interviews Junaid Ahmed, a technology enthusiast and home studio expert. Junaid shares his journey from growing up in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to becoming a successful podcaster and entrepreneur in the U.S. He discusses his early experiences with technology, the importance of customer service, and how he transitioned into web design and videography. Junaid emphasizes the value of problem-solving and the lessons learned throughout his career, culminating in the establishment of Home Studio Mastery, where he helps others create high-quality content. He also provides practical tips for content creation using existing resources.TakeawaysJunaid's journey began in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia before moving to the U.S.He developed a passion for technology and photography at a young age.Customer experience is crucial in understanding client needs.Problem-solving skills are essential in technology and entrepreneurship.Freelancing allowed Junaid to build his own business.Home Studio Mastery was born from Junaid's expertise in video production.Quality content can be created with existing resources.Lighting and audio are more important than expensive equipment.Looking directly at the camera creates a connection with the audience.Every experience contributes to personal and professional growth.Chapters00:00 Introduction to Junaid Ahmed01:43 Junaid's Early Life and Passion for Technology09:02 Career Beginnings and Customer Experience13:07 Transitioning to Freelance and Entrepreneurship19:16 Building a Home Studio24:25 Practical Tips for Content Creation29:14 Connecting with Junaid and Final ThoughtsConnect with Junaid:Website: https://homestudiomastery.com/Listen to Junaid's Podcast: https://www.hacksandhobbies.com/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/superjunaid/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superjunaidConnect with Jordan:LinkedInInstagramTikTokJoin Jordan's weekly Group Coaching Community Risk FreePre order a signed copy of Jordan's new book The Life-Changing Power of AdversityThe Blaze Your Own Trail Podcast is now exclusively sponsored by CityGate StudiosWhat does that mean for our listeners?It means you'll be getter more consistent content with better visuals state of the art post production.What does that mean for our future guests?It means we now not only have virtual podcast options but have an option to record in studio and get Hollywood level content to help elevate your business faster!Here is more information about our amazing sponsor below:Welcome to the future of post-audio production. Our state-of-the-art facility, strategically located in the Atlanta-metro area, is setting a new standard in sound design, mixing, and immersive audio experiences.Designed by the world-renowned Wes Lachot, our studio features patented acoustic architecture that delivers unparalleled sonic precision. With two Dolby Atmos-enabled control rooms and a spacious live room accommodating up to 20 instruments in a single session, we provide the ultimate environment for music and film professionals.Situated in the heart of New Hollywood in Atlanta, we are just minutes from the country’s largest film production studios—offering seamless integration for filmmakers, content creators, and musicians. Our commitment to a drug- and alcohol-free environment fosters a professional, focused atmosphere, ensuring every project reaches its full potential.Beyond cutting-edge technology and expert craftsmanship, we offer highly competitive pricing and a business-friendly climate, making us the premier choice for audio post-production in the region.Experience a new era of sound. Welcome to Atlanta’s leading post-audio facility.Want to get involved in CityGates misson?Donate to the Go Fund me HERE Are you an entrepreneur?Join my FREE Group Coaching Community where we have live calls, Q&A and more! Our Trailblazer Ecosystem also enables you to network with other entrepreneurs and creator hub eliminates multiple subscriptions and logins creating a one stop shop to take action!Use code: FOUNDING100 for 12 months access FREE and Founding pricing for life! (While Supplies Last)Join now! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Blaze Your Own Trail podcast. My name is Jordan Mendoza. I'm your host, and I've got a very special guest today. His name is Junaid Ahmed. And I'm going to have him tell you a little bit about who he is and what he does today. Hey, Jordan, super excited to be here on the podcast, Blaze Your Trail. What an amazing name for the podcast. I mean, come on, kudos to you for that.

And again, you know, thank you so much for bringing me on to the show. I'm Jenaid, like Lemonade. I'd like to say that just for people. reading the name like, how do you say this name? Is it Honade? I'm a father of four kids and I'm a huge enthusiast behind technology and photography and filmmaking and all things, parenthood and personal development. I don't know. There's so many different things, but I hail from, I don't know what I say, I hail from California, but I live in Virginia and I've been a podcaster for about seven years. I've been a huge technology enthusiast for over 30 photographer

filmmaker for about the same time. In fact, I bought my very first camera when I was 11 years old. And what I do is I help people, entrepreneurs, podcasters, professionals set up their home studios so that they can show up their best foot forward because the first impressions is what really matter. And when you show up with that confidence, people just want to listen. Awesome. Appreciate that intro. And I'm excited to really dive into your story and your journey, you know, the early days of Jinnade. So if you can share, I know you alluded to it a little bit that you grew up, you know, from California. So if you can share, you know, where were you born and raised?

And what kind of kid were you outside of, you know, photography and cameras? What other things did you get into? And we're going to really focus on the adolescent years, so elementary middle to high school years. All right. So I was actually born in Pakistan. And then I grew up in Saudi Arabia. So my elementary school was really in. Saudi Arabia and then middle school and high school as well. And I came to the U.S. to California

when I was about 19 years old. So growing up, I spent all my time outside, outside on a bike, playing with friends, sports, not that much into sports, but I just wanted to be around my friends. So we'd played soccer, we'd play cricket, we played badminton, basketball, you name it. We played all sorts of sports outdoors all the time because when I was growing up, we didn't have that much technology. And then growing up in Saudi Arabia, we only had two television channels. One was in English and the other one was in Arabic and they both started at 5 p.m. Like there was no television showing in the mornings, right? Because most people are at work or at school. So I spent most of my times outside and then my neighbor got a combo. He had a Commodore

64 which I borrowed, started playing with it. And then around 92 my dad bought a PC which was like mind blowing to me and then that's how my journey into technology got started you see this um you see this first computer and obviously you're when your dad probably got this computer i'm sure this was like the holy grail right like this is like hey don't touch this thing don't mess with it like you're gonna break it or he maybe he said hey here's how you use it let me show you what this thing can do so like how quickly was it for you to actually pick up what was happening like what the actual machine did, how to actually use it. And then what transpired after that? I'd love just to kind of find out. Yeah. So my dad, he's been a systems analyst for many, many years. And, you know, he worked out

the computer. So when I saw him sitting in front of that computer, typing away on that keyboard, without even looking at the keyboard, that just blew my mind. I was like, whoa, that is pretty cool. I want to learn how to do that. So because I was already in my teens around the time my dad got the computer, we were, you know, allowed to use it. And, you know, I was also using computers at school in my computer science. What do you say? Computer science was my major, essentially, when I was going to high school.

And so, you know, I was using the computer. And we were using DOS. We were using WordPress. Not WordPress. Was it WordPress? No, it was Word. I can't remember the word processing software that had back then. Anyway, so I'm using DOS and I'm learning all the things that I can

just by trial and error. Just trying different things, right? And then I remember when Windows 3.1 came out and it was on the 13 floppy disks and I would do insert one after the other as it installed the operating system. And I just learned by trying different things on the computer. It was a lot of fun. There's a lot of. Yeah.

And so did that keep you inside versus outside at that point? Or did you still make sure you found time to stay active? Still, yeah, I still would go outside with my friends. because they didn't have computers or, you know, we all found common things to do. And then we would do those, you know, riding our bicycles or listening to music or, you know, just hanging outside. So those are some of the things that we did. But because that early introduction to computers, when I came to the U.S., I had heard something about America Online and these CDs would come up now. In our computer, we didn't have CDs, we didn't have a mouse, we didn't have any speakers.

It was as plain as it can get. So when I came to the U.S., I was like, okay, I want to get a computer. I want to figure out with this America Online businesses. And my desire and curiosity to learn about computers kept growing and growing. In fact, to the point that I was actually working at a computer store where I would assemble and build these computers. Went into that. I guess at that point you really knew that, hey, always had a passion for photography, I've had a passion for like understanding these systems.

And now you come to a new world essentially, right, where you have access to different technology. And now you're working at a place where you're learning all the things. So how long did you work there? And would you, it is the most valuable things you learn there that help you in all the things that you help your clients with today. Man, that's such a powerful question.

Because as I was working at this computer store, all I knew was how to build these machines and I would read articles and I would understand, hey, how these things go together. Of course, I also had mentors around me that was like, hey, no, this thing goes with this and this thing goes with this. But what I really learned at that job, I was there for about a year and a half was talking to the customers, understanding what their needs were. Because this is a physical store that people would walk into. Like, hey, I'm looking for a CD-ROM. I'm looking for a video card. So they would walk in and they would say, hey, this is the problem. that I'm facing, what should I be getting?

Right? So I'm asking them and I'm learning from them what solutions, what problems they're facing, what kind of issue they're trying to solve. And then based on that feedback, I would then put together a plan. I'm like, hey, this is what I'm thinking. That's going to work for you best. And it's price conscious. You know, it's going to do all the things.

And it's going to last you a good number of years of it as well. So that first customer experience kind of thing was what really pulled me into, you know, you got to know what the problem is before you even suggest a product. People say, oh, Android is better than Apple or Canon is better than Icon. Like, well, yes and no, right? It all comes down to what problem are you trying to solve and which one's going to help you solve that fast as way. So you got to do problem solving. You got to understand customer service.

hopefully customer experience, you know, like what experience should a customer have when we see them. You know, a lot of the things that I know are missing in today's society. I'm sure you learned about how to look people in the eyes, you know, how to smile, you know, how to read people, you know, all those soft skills, you know, that now it's like, I wish. Yeah. Rain could fall from the sky and people could just get hit with soft skills, you know. That would be pretty cool because you walk. talking to department stores or really any store and half the people working there are on their phone.

They're not even like, they're definitely not giving you eye contact and they're not willing and open to help you. Right. They're not. Not that people in society are willing and open to receive help, but that's a whole other podcast. But so what happened a year and a half? Exactly.

So you're a year and a half here. You're learning. You're really understanding like, wow, like this is really cool. I get to help people solve problems. They get to help them find the best potential. solution and so you're doing customer service customer experience what is it engineering essentially taking things apart you're doing sales right there is a transaction that's happening so what did you do a year and a half in did you go to another place did you say hey i want to maybe do something on my own like what

what was the next step on the path absolutely so i'm just going to backtrack just a teeny bit to so when i came to the u.s right i assembled a computer i put two computers together into one i got introduced to you know, some computer management shops and, you know, I'm like, yeah, I need this part, this part, put those things together. But when I got America online and AOLN's the Messenger, I was talking to people online. Like I'm working on my skills of typing, working on my skills of using the different software. So that transitioned really well into now telling people what they should be buying based on the problems that they're solving. As I move along and got a better handle of technology and software, I was now asked by my uncle, like, hey, I'm starting

this business, I need a flyer. So I started designing these flyers in Microsoft Word, which then took its own journey into designing software, designing websites. So the next job that I had after that was working for a company. There were a local website host company based out of California, Corona, called Island Breeze. Right. So we again help small businesses launch their websites and If you had the hosting platform, we were using WordPress, we were using HTML pages, you know, back in the days. I got better and better at it. I was then moving on to other positions where I can help on a higher level of experience, a higher level of problem solving and solution. So you were getting essentially internal training.

I've talked about this before on a podcast where I said, our employers are our first investors. You know, they invest time, energy, resources, training, coaching. to us. And as long as we're willing to learn those things and actually go apply it, that usually ends up being the thing that we can do in entrepreneurship world, right? Because we've done it. We've, we've had the testing. We essentially got paid training, really, to learn these skill sets. And then we said, all right, well, man, if I can do it here, then I can definitely do it out there in the real world or out on my own. And so how long did you end up staying for the web design company? And what was that next transition like? Yeah. So the web design company,

was about probably about a year and a half as well. And the town lines, you know, again, this is more than 20 years ago. So I'm trying to piece together where it came from. And as I was working here, a friend of mine who I'd known through the computer shop, I knew that he was into video, videography and he would film these wedding videos and, you know, edit them. And I even spent some time at his house, you know, figuring out and watching him behind the scenes as he's editing these videos in non-linear editors, right? Using Adobe Premiere, using, you know, we got recorded tape video coming back into it. So he connected me with another gentleman who ran a business where they provided video on

demand for hotels. So I was like, hey, I can easily help you with the server side, with you managing of the content, like all of those things. And this is like 2001 where I started working for this company. and I was there for about four years. We would set up these systems. We'd contact the customers. We would contact the hotels.

We would travel out to them. And we would make sure that all the systems are working in function. We have back and access to these servers so that we can update the content remotely. It was really fascinating just to see all of these things come together. And I'm just on my path of getting better and better. How can I provide the solution better to the customers that are working? So it's really fascinating how. it all came together and the growth was just yeah i mean coming from hey like now there's the internet right

like i can get online to now i'm learning how to build websites you know the back end process now i'm actually going and traveling to go on site to actually build these for massive organizations yeah so there's definitely an evolution there yeah and what did you end up doing next i know that obviously wasn't the last stop on your on your journey to trailblazing so Of course. After you got this now newfound knowledge, you know, you're adding more to your toolbox, essentially, of things that you can help people with in the future. Where did you take your talents next?

So as I was working for this company, I was also learning. I was also continuing to build websites for other people. And I had built relationships through these companies with other individuals and company owners. And there was this one individual that I was talking to back and forth. His name was Cliff Hall. He's probably around in Arizona. But anyways, I was, and as that company that I was working for was downsizing because the technology was moving faster than we could keep up. I was like, you know, I can't work in this environment anymore.

I've grown as much as I could. I'm no longer going to be here. So I started doing more freelance work. And as I'm going for different job interviews to work for companies, I am on the phone. I call up Cliff Hall. I'm like, hey, Cliff, I'm going to be in Irvine later today. do you mind if I stop by so we can talk about the website that we're building for you? And he's like, absolutely, come on by.

I actually wanted to invite you. Like, oh, sweet. So I go there and there's this massive, they have an entire floor on the first floor in Irvine, this building. And he's like, oh, my God, this is so cool. I can't want to show you what we've been working on. And they had, you know, done some research and development. They went to Korea. They brought these really high-end video on-demand boxes.

Again, it's nothing like streaming services that we have. now, but it was still, you know, you still need a dummy box in the room that's then contacting the server room to, you know, feed, send a video over. I'm like, all right, let me, so he shows me. And I was like, this is so cool. So, you know, I got to meet some more people. And then, and then I was talking to the CEO of the company, his name is Herbert. And I was like, hey, I wonder if I can spend, since I'm working on your website, do you mind if I come here in your office and, you know, work from here on your website. And then there's like row of empty cubicles, right? Nobody's sitting there, nobody working. He's like, I don't know if you have space. I mean,

we're pretty packed here, right? He's just joking. And then the next day I started working there. You know, it was just my intrigue and my willingness to provide the service for them and, you know, being passionate about technology as well. So they saw me and they signed me up as the founder, the founder, I can't remember the exactly. But like, the founder. contract is what they signed me up. So I was there for about two and a half years. And as I was there, but the company kept evolving, they brought in a new CEO. And the CEO, so it was really funny story because what happened is that CEO ended up firing me for keeping in contact with a prior CEO. How did he know that? Well, I had printed the directions to the company on, you know,

we used MapQuest back then because we didn't have GPS. And I had printed directions on the printer and the current CEO saw it and it's like, are you going to go see Tom? I'm like, yeah. Like, all right, cool. And the next day, he basically fires me. He's like, sorry, we can't have you here because you're still in contact with prior CEOs. That is very interesting.

You see that a lot, though, in companies where you stay in contact or a lot of times you leave and then, yeah. Yeah. They feel threatened, right? They feel some kind of threatened. Like, why would you think that? So you get can there, right? Do a bunch of good work and then the new guy comes in.

You know, that happens when there's a change in ship sometimes. You know, you get let go. So now you're kind of back to the drawing board here. Does this make you think about your next plan very carefully? Like what do you decide to jump into next? It does. 100%. So the funny thing, like you remember I said when the Herbert had me signed the founder's contract,

which means that if somebody fires you, you get 60 days. of severance. So that contract held up, you know, it's like, hey, you've got to pay me for 60 days. And in the meantime, I was working for a company that's downstairs. So there's two floors. The top floor was the company that I was working for. The bottom floor was another company, and they helped people launch their LLCs, launched their, and, you know, so there was basically an education company, and they would educate people how to set up their businesses. And, you know, They had a huge aspect of teaching people and doing webinars and whatnot. So I started working for that company for two months before moving on to other experiences

of helping, you know, continuing to help the software development and software design aspect of customers. Yeah, that's great. So at what point do you look around and say, you know what? I've been doing a lot of work for other people. I've been building a lot of people's dreams and businesses and having them achieve their goals. Maybe it's time that I blaze my own trail.

and start doing this for yourself. And I know you've done, did some freelancing up into this point, but when does that, when does that timeline click for you? What does that happen? So we're still, we're still about 10.

So lots more reps. Any of the reps? Any of the reps? Lots more reps. So much more reps because. Industry and, yep. Related, right?

Yeah. Yeah. So I worked for another company that was also, again, based out of California. I worked here for about three years. built. They were the number one ads, Google Ads providers. So they had, they built campaigns, they built systems. And this is around the iPhone version two came out. And iPhone, you know, Apple was like,

you can now design your own apps. And so I took the, our main app that we provided a campaign builder for companies and I built a mobile version of it. Not usable, but it was just a design and layout. And so they were like really impressed. Again, crazy story happened in this company as well. they brought in a new CEO. The company started doing really well. They went public. The stock was chiroxic rocketing. And then, wow. All of a sudden, everything just crashed. And then it started doing massive layouts. And then, you know, I got laid off. And I was like, hey, that's cool. We'll, we'll go from here. And they're like, hey, you know, we got you the Mac. If you want to take the Mac Pro, you know, I'd be happy to, you know, gift that to you as a parting gift. I'm like, well, I would actually

would like a MacBook Pro instead. And then you another person had a MacBook Pro. So the next day, like, come by and tomorrow and we'll get you to the MacBook Pro. Like, all right, that works. So from then on, I was just doing freelance work with my partners and friends in San Ana. And then my wife's like, okay, that's enough freelance. So you need to go find a job again. And then I started looking for work again.

Went to work for DISH Network in Colorado. I had interviewed for like 15 minutes. And this guy knew that he wanted me to come work on Dish Network. I get a call next day and like, hey, can you come on Monday? And this was Thursday. I'm like, yes, I can come on Monday. So I go there for two weeks without telling anybody what I'm doing. Because, you know, there is a thing about an evil lie. Right. If you tell somebody you're doing something good, you know, you might get what's that? What's that word? Jinks? Right. So I was like, okay, let me let me go see if this is the real deal. I go there, you know, work for two weeks, come back, bring my family over. It was my wife. It was my wife. wife and my almost two-year-old son. So we moved to Colorado in 2011. And I worked at Dish Nover for about four years, had so much fun. We created a lot of mobile apps. Again, I'm just putting in the reps to understand, hey, what does it take to take feedback and then build these systems out? Fast forward. At 2014, we ended up moving to Virginia. My wife is like, my wife's from here,

so she's like, hey, I want to move back. Let's do that. So I moved back here, work for DOJ, then worked for FINRA and then worked for the World Bank. And around the time I was working for World Bank, it was December 2019, right? And we're hearing about COVID breakout and all these things that are happening. I'm like, oh, that's pretty cool. It's in China. And of course, in March, we all started working from home. But luckily for me, prior colleague that I had worked for at DOJ contacted me.

It's like, hey, JNAID, are you open to working full-time remotely? at a company? I'm like, yes, please, that's the dream. Oh, just to give you a little backstory, this is 2019 towards the end of it and had already been podcasting for two years, right? So I'd already been creating content. I'd already been using the cameras,

building videos and whatnot, not really as a full-time profession, but as a hobby. So I'd be doing that for about 10 years. So when I got the opportunity to come work from home, it was February of 2020, 2020, I'm working from home and as I am spending time in front of the camera, spending time recording these videos, I started putting my knowledge of video production into play. And as I'm doing this,

people started noticing. They're like, wow, why is your video so clean? And it takes me about a year and a half before I realized that there's a service aspect to it. Of course, it took me a while to get my place, you know, really dialed in because of, uh, COVID restriction and COVID slowing down the shipment of products. But when that set was ready and go, people started asking, what's going on? What are you doing, Janade? And that's when I formed a home studio mastery and started helping as a consultant and building courses.

And, you know, it's been, it's been four years. And it's love it. And so my guess is that you're leveraging all the things you learn in the multiple decades in tech, right, in computers, in videos, in. web development, in ads, and using all of that knowledge to help your clients. And what's great for those of you listening, not only can he help you build a home studio that is awesome, but with the other skill set, he may look at something that you have and say, I'd probably recommend that you do this because I've helped thousands of people with these types of things at scale from the

startup to big organizations. So that's one thing that I always encourage, like my coaching clients, don't ever discount a stop on the trail. Don't ever discount it because there's value. We just haven't identified where it is yet or we just have not extracted, haven't taken an introspective look back at the past to reflect and say, wow, that's what got me here.

It was the reps. It was the grinding. It was the, hey, yep, this one didn't work, but let me just go to the next one and try to learn how to solve some more problems, you know? And as a business owner, folks, you're going to have problems. early and often. And your job is to figure out how to solve them. You know, for yourself,

for your clients, it doesn't matter whether you're in home studios, whether you're in real estate, whether you're in PR, you're a coach, you're an author. It doesn't matter. You're going to have problems. You're going to face adversity. We got to figure out how do we overcome it? How do we get to the other side? And so for the people that see the content that comes as a result of this episode, you will see JNAID's setup. And so I want to set him up by giving him, an opportunity to share maybe two or three things that the average person, right? Any listener that maybe doesn't have, you know, a thousand dollars where they can just go buy a new computer, they can go buy a new camera.

But I'm pretty confident that Janade, in his plethora of experience, can give us a few hacks or tips to help us with what we have, right? So what can people do with what they have today when they hear this episode? to make their visual experience better for their audience. Thank you for that question, Jordan. I love answering that question because I've been on the other side of that question. I ask myself, what do I need? Why do I need all of these things?

What can I do with the stuff that I already have to actually create some good content? I've bought multiple gimbals over the years that I didn't use because I thought I was going to use them. Like, hey, it's going to be so cool. It's going to give me the cinematic. But what really matters is what? how you use a gear that you already have. Because if you can get really good at using the gear that you have, then it makes sense for you to go invest into the next level,

into the next stage. So I started with, hey, you already have $8,000 camera in your pocket, right? It's the one that you use to browse the internet, you know, scroll through the different social media apps, you know,

scroll through web pages. It is also a powerful creation device. Did you know, we are right now in 2025, but when iPhone came out in 20, iPhone 15 Pro came out in 2023, Apple stopped spending money on cameras. They're like, hey, we already have iPhone 15 Pro. They used iPhone 15 Pro on $10,000, $30,000 rigs to shoot all of their gear. They're mounting that iPhone on a drone to capture footage. They've got this iPhone mounted on a 40-foot arm that can,

go back and forth to capture content. Where did they spend the money on lighting, on audio, but they already have a really powerful camera. So if you already have these cameras, smartphone devices, it doesn't have to be iPhone, right? It could be any smartphone. They have really good cameras built into it. I think Samsung can do 8K video recording on those phones, which is massive. What you want to focus on is three important things. Number one, make sure that when you're speaking, you're speaking clearly and elegantly so that people can actually hear what you're saying. Number two, focus on where the lights are. Where are the light sources, right? It could be window. It could be something in your background. So make sure you don't have any

lights shining back into that camera because we don't like looking at the sun. Why would the camera want to look at the sun? So make sure you're focusing on those two things. And then number three thing is to always make sure to look at the camera lens when you're talking because that's how you're creating that connection with the person on the other side. Love it, my friend. Thank you so much for those tips. One tool that I got and I'd love your feedback on if this is something that you use or you've had folks use. So they have the ability where you can get a separate monitor. So I have this. It's a monitor and you can put it on the back of your phone. Right. So now I can basically see exactly what my back camera sees.

Because it is a little awkward. I know you probably coach a lot of people on this, but holding your phone from the back camera and trying to look and make that show up clearly, it is pretty awkward. But grab one of these devices. They're pretty cool. They can connect to your phone,

and it enables you to see what your back camera sees. And so you can not only have clear content, but you can have more confidence that you are looking directly in the camera, because that piece of advice is so powerful, especially when you're recording content that educates people, when you're recording something motivational. You want to be looking so that people feel like you're talking directly to them.

So love that. 100%. That's an amazing tool. It's basically mirroring your screen or, you know, showing what the camera sees. It's perfect. And if you can't afford that, even though it's, you know, 60, 70, it's pretty cheap.

If you can't afford that, use your camera. as a webcam for your computer. We talked about that recently on a separate call. I still haven't set that up yet, but I think I'm going to go the camera route. You've mentioned a couple cameras that, you know, mirrorless cameras that can do an even way better job. But I'm going to need a guy to help set that up. And folks, if you've been listening to this episode, you also might need a guy. And Janade transitioning into where can people get a hold of you?

You know, if we're going to have people listen to this, they're going to, look at your story and journey and see a trailblazing journey because it was all about the reps. I mean, you didn't even come to this country until you were 19 years old, right? And then found out about, you know, AOL, right? The only thing I used AOL for, and the first time I think I got it was I was 15. And I remember putting M15, like male 15 because I was like trying to message, you know, message people that were my age. That's right. ASL, right.

ASL. We had no clue what we were doing. And you'd just wait to see if something. somebody replied back. It was like the craziest thing, the mind blowing back then. So where can people get a hold of you if they want to build their own home studio? And I know you help people with everything as small as a closet, right? You can make a closet look sexy and look like a full cinema studio. And I know you help with people with massive projects up to the, you know, 100,000 square footmark if they needed that. So where can people go to find you? So to find me and learn more about the home

studio biz, head on over to home studio mastery.com. If you want to connect with me on all of social medias, I am at Supergenade, or that's where you can find me. And if you're interested in learning more about the different stage that you might be in, I have a really cool tool that cool wrote. There's a really cool book that I wrote called Seven Stages of Home Studio Evolution. So you can help figure out, hey, what state am I on? What do I need to work on? Because you can go step into a thousand dollar or a hundred thousand dollar studio but if you don't know how to talk to the camera if you don't know how to speak to the audience if you don't know how to tell your message if you don't know any of those things none of that stuff matters so make sure that you're working

on your story you're working on your reps you're working on yourself because that's something nobody else can install on you unless we're in the matrix where neo just looks over to like hey i want to learn kung fu and he just loads the disc i'm like i know kum Fu and then Morvius comes over. It doesn't work like that. It would be nice, folks, if it work like that. None. Yeah, so take.

It would be so nice. It is all about the reps. And if you're one of my clients listening to this, you are tired of me telling you that. Because at the end of the day, that's where the rubber meets the road. You know, we can complain, we can whine, or we can go and put in the reps and we can learn. Because every stop on Janate's trail added value. Every single thing that he learned is helping him. execute the way that he executes today because of the trials, the lessons, whether it's being

fired, whether it's, you know, having to start a whole new vertical, just being open and willing to change, being open and willing to pivot when you need to, it's so helpful on the trail. And it's, again, change is inevitable folks. It's going to come early and often. Adversity is going to happen. We just have to be willing to be flexible, to be open, and to learn along the way. So, Janade, thank you so much for coming on the podcast. I hope you have an amazing rest of day. Thanks, Jordan. This is fun.