So I just want to ask you your first name, last name, and the business.
Yeah, so my name is Junaid, like lemonade, last name Ahmed, and my business is Humble
Zone and I'm a home studio architect.
Tell me what that means.
Home studio architect is somebody who helps figure out the space and all the things that
you need so that you can show up professionally on video camera.
For example, I am in my own home studio and it kind of, you know, so this is what I teach
people where to set the lighting, where to set the microphone.
So every time you're creating content, it's usable, it's repurposable, and it looks professional.
Oh wow, that's why it looks so good behind you, huh?
Yes, yes, yes.
Wow, how did you get into that?
How did you start this?
So I've been a podcaster for about seven years, but I've been a photographer and filmmaker
for even longer.
I got my first camera when I was 11 years old and I've been behind camera ever since.
So when the pandemic hit, I was already podcasting, I was already filmmaking for several years,
and when the pandemic hit, we were all stuck at home and I was like, well, got to figure
this thing out.
So I brought all my experience in technology and video and camera into play, put it all
together here for my own space so that I can show up professionally in my setup.
Wow, how did you find out that that was a need?
Well, I don't know if it was a need, but it was a need that I solved for myself.
I needed to show up on camera because I was creating a course on iPhone video production
and I set up the cameras in my basement just how I would for other people when I'm shooting
for other people's content.
But when I stepped in front of the camera, I was like, okay, how do I start?
What's the first thing that I say?
And I think the pandemic kind of helped because this was end of 2018, I was trying to create
this course and in 2019, I just worked on my own self, worked on, hey, how do I even
tell stories?
So I started bringing people, guests on my own podcast and like, hey, come talk to me.
How did you take your passion to profit?
So my podcast Hacks and Hobbies, that's what I interviewed people on.
And it just made sense.
So as I'm going through this myself, I was like, oh my God, this is amazing.
I need to do this.
I need to fix this.
And I was watching Pat Flynn create daily content on YouTube.
He's live streaming and he's like, hey, here's the gear that I'm using.
And I'm looking at the gear list on his blog post.
And I'm like, wait, I have all the gear that he's talking about.
So that inspired me to say, okay, let me start putting this together.
And I spent a lot of time in front of the camera hanging out in Zoom rooms, talking
to other people, talking to, you know, going deeper into my own story, getting comfortable
in front of the camera, doing 30 day video challenges.
So all of those things, as I'm putting these together, people started asking me, hey, can
you help us?
Can you help me?
Why does your video look so good?
Why does your image quality so high?
So I started teaching, I started consulting in that space.
And that's basically how we got started.
I keep saying, wow, because I'm like, I didn't even know stuff like this existed.
But I still look at you, right?
And I know that this can go unsaid, but your face and the lighting and everything.
And so now I'm looking at my lighting, a mirror reflection going on here.
And, you know, it's interesting because I just fell into the business of podcasting,
right?
Yeah.
See it all the time.
There is no one, Junet, that tells you how to set that up.
You know, you go on Amazon, you just start buying stuff.
You never really know what it truly is you need.
You never know what you look like.
The video is done.
And then you're like, well, I could have done something different.
So when you do the home zone or you're the architect at home and try to help other people,
is that just something you do through Zoom as well?
Yes, I do through Zoom.
I also have tutorials and videos.
And I even wrote a book called Seven Stages of Home Studio Evolution.
It walks you through, hey, what kind of gear do you already have?
How can you utilize and maximize that gear to really bring out the true you on camera?
So with our Zoom consults, I have them send pictures of their room.
I have them send dimensions of their room to me so that I can plug it into a software
that I use similar to software that HGTV people use.
I'm like, hey, this is how your home would run away to.
This is what it's going to look like.
So that's something that I also do to help my clients, to help my family set up their
rooms, maximizing the gear that they already have so that they can show up professionally.
They can show off the things that they have in their rooms as well.
And so I look past my laptop and I'm looking at my room.
And I tell you, being a podcaster, you learn so much.
A lot of people think, and I'm sure for yourself, that we're the know-it-alls or we're the
professionals in it.
I don't think that I've ever had a show where I did not learn.
So I'm just going to say in advance, thank you, Janaye, for teaching me so much.
Absolutely.
So in this book, The Seven Stages of Home Studio Evolution, am I correct?
Yes.
Is it pretty much based off of your experience as well?
Do you tell your story in there and how you get to where you are now?
There's a little bit of my story in there.
In the book, it talks about the seven different stages.
There's a little questionnaire in the beginning of it as well to self-select, okay, which
stage am I falling in, what gear am I already using?
And based on that, what gear or what do I need to do to get to that next stage?
So again, as human beings, as people who've gone through schooling and gotten our degrees,
blah, blah, blah, we go through different stages and we continually add on the information
that we acquire.
So I was like, how about you start with what we all have in our hands, our smartphones?
These are thousand dollar cameras.
People are already using them.
Like, Apple is using this camera to shoot their full-on production level stuff.
So why not us?
So there's a lot of things that go around and I hear my son woke up.
It's okay.
No worries.
How old?
So I have a few kids, about four kids, but two of them, nine and two-year-old, are by
my door right now because it's nine o'clock, he woke up early.
But it's the thing that we do as parents, right, to make sure that they're all settled
as well.
And I'm sure definitely the place that you're in in your life right now and the things that
you've created for yourself, I say kudos to you because it allows you to be present.
Yes, you're on camera with me, but there's a big, big, big part of being present.
I too have four children.
I have some super old ones, I say they're super old, 29 and 24.
And then I have a 14 and a 10-year-old.
So I'm with you there.
They're sound asleep.
I bet they probably didn't go to bed until about 1 a.m.
Probably not.
But the two-year-old, you know, doesn't matter what time they go to sleep, they're always
up early.
Yes, yes.
It's like they have their own time clock or something.
That is awesome.
But no, it's definitely okay.
And as you continue the work that you do, tell me the vision that you had in all of
this.
What was the vision and where are you going with that vision?
You know, the vision for Home Studio Mastery is to provide the tools, provide the resources
that any entrepreneur can pick up and utilize so that they can show up more authentically
because here's the cool part.
A lot of people grew up going to school or going to work in person.
But we are in a place now, post-2024, that everybody who is looking to do business, they
have to appear on camera.
And when you appear on camera, you might not have all the utilities, all the tools.
Now, there are some cool resources available and education being provided or, you know,
tools being added to our systems or to our devices.
For example, Apple keeps making the phones better and better with camera.
So does the other technologies.
But then they've also integrated into the software, the Mac OS, that you can connect
your camera with your phone.
So my vision is to teach people, like, hey, these things are already available for you.
But if you want to go a level up, here's what you need to do.
Here's where you need to go.
So when everyone's educated, then we all can show up more authentically, more confident
because that's what it's right.
When you mentioned earlier, I wish I did something better with my video post production.
And that's the thing, right?
The more you practice, the more you are educated about it, the better you're going to show
up.
And it's a step-by-step process.
So we take baby steps.
We take the little pieces that we know to continue to grow and move forward.
So that's my vision to teach people, like, hey, this is possible.
You can show up with more powerful images.
Absolutely.
And I love it.
No, no, no worries.
Here's the little boy.
Hello.
Hi.
Can you please take him?
I'm done recording.
Okay.
Can you check mama?
She's already awake.
No, she's sleeping.
She's in the bathroom.
Sorry, you might have to edit this.
Oh, yeah.
It's going to take care of it.
All right.
Cool, cool.
So my goal and my vision when I come on here to speak with people is I truly don't dive
into your social media or anything.
My goal is to come on here and get to know the person, right?
And you said it perfectly.
And I get goosebumps.
It's to show up confidently and authentically, right?
And so because I don't have the perfect lighting or the perfect anything, I have to use what's
innate in me, right?
Which is to show up and being authentic and going with the flow.
And I love the fact that you were my first guest today because that's what authentic
and genuine is.
And when we look into people's businesses and we look on their website and read all
this about me, those are words until you meet the person.
I definitely want to meet the person first and then dive into that.
So I'm meeting you and I appreciate this definitely because I know the person behind what I'm
going to read once I get done.
But your vision is what a lot of people want to do is be more confident.
And since we are on video, I have this thought, though.
I think that they hide behind a lot of filters and utilizing a lot of other people's things.
Do you believe that that has something to do with their confidence as well?
We're not used to looking at our faces all the time, right?
When we're in person, we're looking at other people's faces, right?
We barely ever see our own faces.
So when you're in front of a camera and you're in front of a software like StreamYard and
Zoom and whatnot, you're looking at yourself more times than not.
You're looking at yourself, how you're reacting, what you're saying.
And that's what people are scared of.
Like, I didn't know I looked like this, right?
So it's a big alarm.
It's a big thing that you just have to get past that.
And that takes practice.
And what's important for us to get past that is to find the right community that's going to help us elevate.
When I wanted to become a beekeeper, I had to go find a beekeeping community.
When I wanted to really go into cycling, I had to find a community of cyclists that would encourage me,
that would motivate me, that would bring me on.
Like, hey, Junaid, today we're going, tomorrow we're going, the day after we're going.
Like, every day they're reminding you, like, hey, let's go, let's do this.
So when you find communities that are helping you elevate your messaging, helping you elevate how you show up on camera,
those are the places when you're given a chance to flourish and grow.
And that reminds me of when you're planting a garden, you're going to make sure that the plants have enough space
and they tell you if you're putting a tomato plant in, you need about 18 to 20 inches of space around them between the two plants
because they know how much growth they're going to have.
And sometimes you might have plants showing up from nowhere, like weeds,
and they might stint the growth of the plant that you really want to focus on.
So again, those are the things that sometimes we need to eliminate things
and then give the resources to the plant, to the talent that we want to grow.
So again, we just have to look at all the different aspects.
Hey, where, what's my vision, where am I trying to go?
And then based on that, how do I reverse engineer it? Which community do I need to find?
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