Passion Mashin´: Combining Travel With Your Other Interests, Embracing Limitations, Lessons From 13 Years of Travel With Adrian “Ady” Parzentny

Zero To Travel Podcast

How can you transform your passions into a business that lets you work from anywhere? How can you take a traditionally location-dependent business on the road?

Adrian "Ady" Parzentny has been a traveling musician for 20+ years and a mixing engineer/music producer since 2017. He works with world-class artists through his mobile recording business, Hit The Road Music Studio. He has been living on the road for 13 years, spending time in Albania, Georgia, Turkey, Armenia, and Greece, among other countries.

Adrian shares his journey and best lessons on how he combined his passion for music with his love for travel to create a business around his lifestyle. You'll hear about the positives and negatives of passion mashin' and how he balances traveling the world, supporting local artists with free records, and paid client projects to make his lifestyle sustainable. You'll gain insights into carving your own unique path and deviating from the norm, embracing limitations and finding creative solutions, leveraging your business to connect with local cultures, and valuing your worth as a creative.

What passions do you want to build a business around? I'd love to hear about them, and I hope you'll share them by sending me an audio message.

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Tune In To Learn:

• What he learned from years of busking on the streets
• How his mobile recording studio was born
• The mindset shifts he needed to gain confidence and charge for his work
• The importance of leaning into your strengths and understanding your customers to find success (and stand out from competitors)
• How he approaches running his business and traveling with limitations
• How his art allows him to connect with locals and how he's giving back in Morocco
• The music Adrian is most proud of producing
• Why creating the right space is crucial for deeper connections (in business and life)
• Insights on putting yourself out there, valuing your worth, and balancing that with doing things from the heart
• How the exposure to different music from around the world impacts his songwriting
• And so much more

Resources:

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• Visit Adrian's website
• Follow him on Instagram, Facebook
• Adrian's YouTube playlist
• Watch his documentaries on Morocco, Armenia, Albania
• Check out his courses on production
• Adrian's business coach for artists

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