Episode 017 – Juraj Breezy

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Richard Matthews  

Hello and welcome back to the hero show. My name is Richard Matthews and on the line today I have Juraj Breezy. Juraj are you there?

 

Juraj Breezy  

Yes, I am indeed.

 

Richard Matthews  

Awesome. Glad to have you, Juraj. All the way from you said Switzerland is where you’re at right now.

 

Juraj Breezy  

Yes. I live in Switzerland at the moment. Yes.

 

Richard Matthews  

And he was just telling me you guys, you guys are getting snow and like it’s May here in the US. So

 

Juraj Breezy  

Yeah, it was tsnowing. Yes, it was snowing a couple of days ago, like literally, like Sunday. It was sunny and all of a sudden–big change. But it’s gonna get better next week.

 

Richard Matthews  

Awesome. Anyways, I think it’s so cool that we can hop on to do things like this with people all over the world. So, you know, it’s like we’re right next to each other, which

 

Juraj Breezy  

Yeah, thanks to technology, because this is how business is run these days. You know, it’s technology. Everything’s digital at the moment, you know, so I’m really happy that you have me on on board, you know that I could share my story maybe? Help others?

 

Richard Matthews  

Yeah, maybe help someone else. So, I’m going to give a little introduction to who you are. So people know. So, Juraj, you are an ex-bartender. You were a bartender for 15 years, which is a long time to do something. Came to Switzerland From where did you say you came from?

 

Juraj Breezy  

I’m from Slovakia, actually.

 

Richard Matthews  

Yes, so… from Slovakia. You had no job. You didn’t know French, you had to learn everything from basically nothing. Right? So you started fresh in a new country, no friends, no visibility, no plan B, just hoping on fate that your plan was going to work. And today you are a videographer, editor and founder of Now or Never VDO, which is a cool company. So what I want to do is start off with where you are now. So what is it that Juraj is known for? That clients come to you for? What do you do? What is it that you help them with?

 

Juraj Breezy  

People come up to me with the with the moving images that I create for businesses, small businesses. I did a couple of music videos, but people come on to me because they know what they get. They know, what I can create for them. One of my values that I have is quality, creativity, storytelling, and they coming because they know what to expect from me, they see my videos, and they know, “Ah! This is the guy.” It did happen to me a couple of times that people look at my portfolio, there was no connection, personal connection, nothing and the people already knew, “Okay, I want to work with this guy, because I know he’s the perfect fit for my business.”

 

Richard Matthews  

Awesome. So you you work with Do you work with business clients and like consumer clients? Or do you do this for just business clients?

 

Juraj Breezy  

I have some business – mostly business clients, cooperate because the main problem that I found out here in Switzerland, is the visibility for the businesses. Like it’s huge. I was very shocked when I came to this country. And I was surprised how everything is behind. Like after living in America five years in London five years. And I came here and I feel like the time has stopped here. Completely.

 

Richard Matthews  

Yeah, so like, it’s behind, and you’re helping bring them up to where they want to go.

 

Juraj Breezy  

Exactly. It’s 2019. Some people just…”No take your time.” But you need to hurry up.” Like I’ve met some people, some business owners, and they don’t have social media. Like no Facebook, on Instagram. I’m like, well, this is how you get visibility. Okay, 10 years ago.

 

Richard Matthews  

In Switzerland are the Generation X, Generation Y, the Millennials, that kind of stuff? Are they using social media the same way here in the States and in London to find businesses and all that. So they’re actually losing business there?

 

Juraj Breezy  

Yes, pretty much. To me, the social media is just about style. It’s like literally– Okay, I’m not talking about a big company, like international company. They have some offices here in Switzerland. A small businesses, like people have 150 followers. I’m like, come on. Okay. I know, it’s a small country, but you’re in Switzerland. And when you say “Switzerland” it’s is a high quality of life, you know. But when I came here, and I stopped working my previous jobs that I’m so happy that I don’t do this anymore. But I still have to, a couple of times a week. But I was shocked, like so many… such a small amount of attention from the audience, like, literally like, what are you doing? Like where are you going with your business? People just are happy because they have some businessa and that is all they want? You know, like, I want more from my life, not just this.

 

Richard Matthews  

Yeah. So you’ve been helping businesses really get up onto the new trends with social media and everything…

 

Juraj Breezy  

Exactly.

 

Richard Matthews  

Using image and videography, to help tell their stories. That’s really cool.

 

Juraj Breezy  

Absolutely.

 

Richard Matthews  

That’s where you are now. What I want to start with… or what I want to go to next is your origin story. Where do you start, right? So we talk all the time on the show, every hero has an origin story, where you started to realize that maybe you were different? Maybe you had superpowers, right? That maybe you can use them to help other people? So tell us your story. Where did you start? And how does that bring you to where you are now?

 

Juraj Breezy  

When did I start it? Okay, when it comes to the videography, I always liked it. I always knew that I had a good eye for it. I always watched lots of videos, when I went to the music festivals or any other places. I’ve seen the video guys making videos, I was like, “Wow, what a job”. but I didn’t really pay attention to it. But when I came to Switzerland, and we’ve been living here for about three months, I knew that it’s something different, I felt it. It’s like maybe a sign from the universe. So the way I started, I started shooting with the iPhone, just a short little videos put things together. And then things got so big, that I invest more money, not all at once. But individually, you know, month after month that I bought a drone camera. And then

 

I just woke up and I found the purpose of my life. And I knew it will be the right decision. There are like you said before, there is no plan B, there was no plan B. There was just a vision and a hope and belief. Nothing else. I knew it was going to work, I knew it. I felt I knew it’s gonna work. I know it’s gonna be hard. The first thing I was thinking was the money in a film straightaway. So stopped thinking about the money. It’s one of my five priorities, but it’s on the last place. So I just

 

Yeah, and then I just went out and create. In my portfolio, I have about 50 videos, and about 45 of these just for myself. Just to have…to build a portfolio because I had to start from zero. Plus the language I had to learn and where I am now. I’m not that far. But I am closer to my achievement to my goal. But I said to myself when I reach this goal… I see the bigger goal.

 

Richard Matthews  

So what’s your what’s your first goal that you’re looking to hit?

 

Juraj Breezy  

Well definitely create a bigger visibility that I have now. And definitely work with a great companies, not just the money but to create good videos for them.

 

Richard Matthews  

Awesome. So basically started you had to come into the country. After doing bartending for 15 years, and you started picking up the gear so you could do the the story start helping to tell people’s stories, you built your portfolio, so you could get in front of people and learn the language, which is you know, a lot of people who are starting a business don’t have to… like, they already speak the language in their culture. So like you said, you gave yourself extra challenges.

 

Juraj Breezy  

I had no choice. Like where we live in the French part of Switserland. So everybody speaks French, but also like another common language is English. But I have to say 80% of my clients are Swiss people, which I have to use English and French, which I’m very happy that I have a Swiss client, which makes me feel kind of proud. Like, you know, like Swiss people goes to the expanse of foreign person who can create maybe better images than the person who was actually from Switzerland. But I don’t feel like okay, this is what people want, you know, if they happy with what they receive as a result, the services and product that I’ve given them, I’m happy, you know?

 

Richard Matthews  

Yeah,

 

So just random side note question. How many languages do you speak?

 

Juraj Breezy  

Well, I learned English when I was 20. So Swiss, Slovak, English, French. Little bit of German. That’s it.

 

Richard Matthews  

So from all three languages, maybe four if you can a little bit of German.

 

Juraj Breezy  

Yes, exactly. A little French now like, my fiance is French. We, at home, still speaking English. But the TV that we watch is all French. Oh, I pretty…I will say about 70% I can understand now a lot.

 

Richard Matthews  

So do you find that learning how to speak a sales language–being able to close sales in French, is more difficult because it’s not your first language?

 

Juraj Breezy  

Yes, it’s still difficult, because I still when I’m talking about and I’m talking about the video, I still can express myself better and English. But when I speak in French, even my fiance she says to me like you can’t talk like that. I’m like, I want to talk like that. Because it’s the truth. You know, like, I’m very honest person, like, but you can’t talk like that to the client. Like, I can say whatever I want. It’s my business, you know, if the people doesn’t like it, okay, you know, go ahead.

 

Richard Matthews  

They’re not your clients.

 

Juraj Breezy  

Exactly. Yeah, exactly.

 

Richard Matthews  

Yeah, it’s interesting. Like, that’s not something that I’ve run into much. Not a lot of people who are running and starting their business are also having to learn the language of the people they’re transacting with and having to learn how to communicate their, you know…for customer sales, you have to get into dreams and desires. And you have to get into some persuasive psychology and like, a lot of those are more advanced language concepts that you being a beginner in the language, it can be hard to express some of those things.

 

Juraj Breezy  

Yeah, like, I do want to learn and I do want to learn French because I’m in a French speaking country, – French speaking area. But I do want to learn French, like, I know some people that live here for many years doesn’t speak French. So why you’re here. Like, I do want to learn another language, it makes me feel proud that I’m still capable to learn a language. Like, I love learning other languages, I think it’s awesome, you know, the more languages you know, the more opportunities you have.

 

If I will have a kid, I want him to learn all the languages. Like, especially in Switzerland, they speak – they have four official languages plus English, so I will say five.

 

Richard Matthews  

Wow, that’s amazing.

 

So here where we’re at, in Las Vegas…because we’re I mentioned earlier we travel. It’s mostly English and a little bit of Spanish are the two languages that you’ll see frequently here. If you get up into like the north-eastern parts of the US, you’ll get a little bit of French. It’s mostly English and Spanish.

 

Juraj Breezy  

I used to live in Baltimore. I lived in Naples. I’ve been to LA, San Diego, New York, Boston, Martha’s Vineyard. So especially in the Baltimore, Florida like there was just like, I hear I can hear more Spanish than English.

 

Richard Matthews  

Yeah.

 

I think Spanish is a good one to pick up if you’re if you’re traveling around the US.

 

Juraj Breezy  

Oh, yeah, absolutely. Of course you you have to, like especially when you go to San Diego, like the second official language is Spanish, you know? Yeah.

 

Richard Matthews  

And all the cities and streets everything is all Spanish.

 

Juraj Breezy  

Exactly. Yeah.

 

Richard Matthews  

Yeah. It always always like my favorite is there’s a place called Buena Vista. Which sounds really cool “Buena Vista” sounds like really cool. But it just means like “pretty view”. Like they named the city “pretty view”.

 

It was cracking me up how simple some of… like, they sound really cool. Like, there’s a there’s another city called Mariposa. And Mariposa, that sounds really cool but it just means butterfly. Like they just named the city butterfly.

 

Juraj Breezy  

Oh wow. Okay, awesome.

 

Richard Matthews  

Okay, so next on The interview is your superpowers, right? So what is it that you do or build, or offer the world that helps solve people’s problems? It’s the things you use to sort of slay your clients, villains. And I know, we’ve talked a little bit about this already. It’s your videography. And so what I want you to talk about is…Was that something… a talent or skill superpower that you were born with? Or is it something that you had to develop and fight for?

 

Juraj Breezy  

Maybe I was born with it. Because since I was a little kid, I was like, videos always like, when I was about 1415, I did a little editing. When I was 20. I did another little editing. So I did but didn’t really pay attention to it. And I think it was a talent that I was born with to be honest with you. Because otherwise I wouldn’t create what I will create, you know. It’s just, you have to be created for this. Like, sometimes I have a client that they just amazed what I do. It’s this like they tell me “You’re talented.” Like, you have to be when you create videos, you have to use imagination, creativity, you have to get started. Yeah, I think is the superpower. The superpower that I have that I’m a very honest person, too. Sometimes it’s way too much. But yeah, but this is like I tell people the truth to the face, you know, like I’m not gonna lie to you know, it’s like, nice to everyone. And yeah, the talent, I definitely have to develop my skills, for sure. Because two years ago, I didn’t know how to edit one video with a new technology that we have now like Adobe Premier, like, literally, I learned everything from the internet. It was four months, like four months, I didn’t work at all, like no income for four months, especially in Switzerland, zero money coming in, only coming out. So I spend all my hours I wasn’t working… but I can see the difference. Now I know – before and now huge difference.

 

Richard Matthews  

So I want to talk real quick about sort of the translation of having a skill and a talent, you know, as valuable to people and turning that into a business. Right? So how did you go from, I’ve got this skill, I’ve got this talent in videography, and I have to turn that into a business, which means I have to find clients, I have to be able to produce product for them. I have to learn the business management marketing for your own business. How has that gone for you?

 

Juraj Breezy  

How did I get into the clients will definitely use the social media.

 

Instagram, and I worked for free. Yes, I was. I worked many projects for free. And it was hard…it was… because it fulfilled my happiness but I didn’t. At the end of the month, I didn’t get any money, you know, but I knew I learned from any other video makers and people that are doing YouTube videos… you have to go and do it for free. So how I decided to do it.

 

Because like I told you before, here, it’s really bad visibility for small businesses. So I was like, I approached small businesses…

 

Also sharing on Facebook, lots of sharing on Instagram. And I have some people contact me from Ireland to create the advertisement for the tea. So people send me stuff like today I did the video in my dining table for optical lenses for the for the cell phone. So I did it and how did I turn my passion into the paycheck? Because I know it could be a full time job. It’s still not a full time job yet. Not yet. But I’m working on it.

 

Richard Matthews  

So what I think is interesting is I think a lot of people miss that part of the beginning of the entrepreneurship journey, right? I know–even a lot of times on this show–we’re talking to people who have been in the entrepreneur journey like for tens of years–you know, 10 or 20… several decades, or they’ve been doing it for a long time. So to come all the way back to the beginning, at the beginning of the entrepreneurship journey. A lot of times you do have to work for free, right? You have to put your paycheck and other things you have to build a repertoire, get some case studies under your belt. And it’s interesting, I still do that occasionally with clients were like, Okay, this is a new service. I don’t know what’s going on. Do you mind if I test it with you and see how it’s going? And realize that sometimes the beginning of the entrepreneurship journey is work with no pay. And you’re building yourself up to be the kind of person who is worthy of you know, getting paid for your skills and your services?

 

Juraj Breezy  

Yeah. Like, I got my next week, I’m shooting kind of like a street food festival. And this is one of my biggest project yet there is state that I am very, really shocked with the budget when the client approached me like, “Oh, this is the budget that I have for you for the video.” was like, “Wow.” It’s not the money that I have that I like, the clients that I finally can get it. And I know if I do a good job, I can get a next job, you know. And then as I do a good job, he’s going to spread the word. The word of mouth is here. It’s a small country. So you know, people know… everybody knows everyone and if there are any competitors – with other videographers, I don’t really pay attention to it because it will only distract me. I just keep focusing on myself. I watch other videos. Yes, I do. Of course, to see how people do things. But not to  copy anyone, no. I do my own creativity.

 

Richard Matthews  

Yeah, I know videography is actually really difficult. Because I’ve been a photographer for 20 years, and learning a little bit about videography, for just my own hobby purposes. And like trying to translate the idea of like how you tell a story with moving images and shooting B roll and learning how to frame things and how you light things in video. And like storyboarding, and that kind of stuff so you know what to do. And like, then you have to edit it all together. And you have to know how to like, do transitions to music, and like, there’s just so much to it like, Well, you know, we’ll watch a 30-second video on YouTube or a 30-second advertisement and not realize how much effort went into that 30 seconds.

 

Juraj Breezy  

Today, when I did the video for the client, it was 45 seconds, it took me seven hours.

 

Richard Matthews  

Yeah, seven hours for 45 seconds of footage. And for those of us who are not, in that game, you don’t realize how much creativity goes into that 45 seconds and how much you have to know, right? You have to know how to do lighting, you know how to do you know, a camera roll, b camera roll, you have to know how to do sound, you have to know how to editing, how to do color grading, how to do to transitions, and keep the music to get the mood that you want. I mean, there’s just so much creative talent that goes into that. So, yeah, it’ll be really exciting to see how your career progresses, as people start to realize the work that you’re putting together and that the quality of it.

 

Juraj Breezy  

I believe in my dream and I believe it’s going to work. And it’s working already. Because I do have some clients. But it still doesn’t work the way I wanted to like I’m having income coming from the video. Last month, it was the first income that I make just just videos. I still have a part time job on the side for Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. So Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday at the video. And then Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday evening, I work at the bar.

 

Richard Matthews  

So you’re, you’re transitioning, right, you’re transitioning from one to the other. And that first part of that entrepreneur journey where you’re getting getting your business off the ground and seeing how it goes. So the next thing I want to I want to get to you, right, so the other side of your superpower, right? If your superpower is the video and the creativity and the stuff that goes into creating those for your clients, what do you say the fatal flaw is that you have in your business, right either for yourself or something you’ve been working on. And more importantly than the fatal flaw is what do you do to actively fix that and work on it, so that it doesn’t stop you from growing your business?

 

Juraj Breezy  

It’s a dream that I have, because it’s so big, that the vision that I have for videography, and the videos I wanted to create is so big. Let’s say for example, if I feel down, oh, there were days, there were days when I felt down like I’m giving up you know and but the only thing I will disappoint is – first thing I’ll disappoint myself and the rest of my family. No. And then I would have to go back to the old school and I don’t want to go back to the old days. I want to build my new future, new days, you know, for a better future better career. And if I regret a couple of things. Oh, yeah, that I didn’t start early. If I knew it earlier, I thought about maybe it wasn’t the right country. Maybe it wasn’t the right place, rah rah, maybe it wasn’t the right surrounding of people. I definitely… I posed myself a little bit to staying at home and working quite a lot. Like till I stay awake slightly between four o’clock in the morning, wake up at eight, nine.

 

Richard Matthews  

Yeah.

 

That’s where a lot of us start. I know when when I started my business. 10 years ago, I was working 18 hour days. So I had a regular job. And then I was working my business on the side. And like, I had a family and kids – I had one kid anyways. And it was it’s a lot of work, right? And you get to the point in your business where you start getting to the point where you’re hiring team members and doing other things and you get some of your time back. But like at the beginning, you front-load a lot of time in your business to build systems and build processes.

 

Juraj Breezy  

So you have to go through this path. There’s no shortcut, you have to go through it. There’s no other choice. You have to you.

 

Richard Matthews  

I sit with my business partner … and we have been talking about this a lot that sometimes you just have to get beaten up a little bit. It’s just part of the process.

 

Juraj Breezy  

Exactly. I wanted –today, for example,– I wanted to take a nap and I was like “No, I cannot take a nap. Like I have to keep going.” It’s just some people achieve success and they believe anything. Like, okay, I succeed, it doesn’t mean that he cannot fail like, I just want to keep going and keep growing and I don’t want to be rich I know the amount of money that I would like to make every month and this is what makes me happy and I don’t like luxury. I tried it if I liked it… it was okay. But I don’t need to have fancy cars, fancy shoes, watches, bling bling, I don’t need that stuff I just want to live a happy life. That’s why I just want happiness in my life, nothing else, I don’t want money. But the money is…

 

a Go ahead.

 

Richard Matthews  

I say my my wife and I sort of discovered the same thing like for a number of years we were starting our business to a certain income level. And we realized along that path that we hit an income level where we were just happy. Where we had all the things we wanted and we had all the things that we want. The things that we wanted next were not more money it was more time freedom and more location freedom to travel with our family and to spend more time with our kids and stuff like that so we hit an income level that allowed us to have those freedoms and then growing the income was no longer a… it wasn’t a driving goal. Now, that’s not to say that’s the same for everyone some people really have high income goals and luxuries. It’s there for them if they want it but yeah, you know, it’s just understanding… if you understand early on what it is that you’re building for. It’s easier to build for that thing.

 

Juraj Breezy  

I’m building a building for legacy. I want to leave something behind and I’m building for my parents to be proud because I never went to any cinematographic school. I actually… I never finished school I dropped when I was 19 because I knew it was not for me like, I was just wasting time but I’m doing it because I like the entrepreneurship. I like being entrepreneur because I like the process not just the success and the money. I love the process, the hustle the change, and the state, the staying awake late night and work and then next thing wake up. I’m not afraid to work hard. I love to work hard because I know that hard work pays off.

 

Richard Matthews  

Yeah, so next question is your common enemy so this may or may not be hard to answer since you’re at the beginning – at the start of your your relationship with clients. But when you work with clients if you could help them remove one thing from their mindset that would help you do your job better and help them get better results that’s holding your clients back what would that be?

 

Juraj Breezy  

what would I removed from my clients back…

 

Richard Matthews  

…from their mindset that’s holding them back … keeping them from getting the results they want in their business.

 

Juraj Breezy  

I think is the other people’s opinion. What other people thinks. it was the same I was in the same situation. What I will remove is definitely think about yourself. Focus on yourself, not others. And just keep going, doesn’t matter what other people say you just have to keep going forward. Like I know people that just I know a guy who has an agency he’s making money and he goes on holiday… making money goes holiday. I’m like, this is not how you run business because I think this is kind of fairly okay you make money by what I’m removing… Like, don’t think of money yet. The money will come once you have the success and you put in hard work the money will come automatically I can see it I can see it also.

 

Richard Matthews  

Yeah, absolutely. So getting it in and just helping your clients remove that like other what other people are thinking about them so they can just move forward with their dream and their success.

 

Juraj Breezy  

Exactly. You not just think of money because money is good for life; it is good for life, they belong to life of course but it’s not a priority at all. For some people, I see some people just want money money money money money. What are you gonna do eat all these money you can’t take it to the coffin when we die one day, you know.

 

Richard Matthews  

Yeah, so I think this ties in really well with what we’re talking about. What is your driving force? As a hero, what’s the thing that is your mission? What is it that you’re helping your clients do? What’s the legacy that you want to leave behind?

 

Juraj Breezy  

Definitely, I want to leave good reputation with the clients that I have. I have one client that have already hired me three times and I’m very happy. What I want to leave behind, definitely people to know my name, create good videos and just keep continue growing every single day because I don’t know where I’m going to be in 10 years but I know that I will be completely in a higher level than I am now. Maybe different cameras maybe I will shoot a movie, I don’t know. I just want to keep moving forward. I cannot stop going forward. I don’t look back anymore. Okay, there are some bad days but the happiness that I have because of the purpose of my life is I just have to keep moving forward. I’ll give an example. There is a place that I want to go to and shoot I have the music. I have the location I know how I’m going to edit I know what to say. I just had to go and shoot already have the videos in my head. I already looked at the Google Maps how where to fly with the drone? What to shoot with the camera I just have to go there. It’s like a vision I know it doesn’t make sense for some people but like I see things. Like I see it.

 

Richard Matthews  

Yeah so you have like the vision of where you want to go and take everything in your business which is cool.

 

Juraj Breezy  

Exactly.

 

Richard Matthews  

Yeah, so it’s interesting because you’re in a very creative space, right? And you’re helping people tell stories – tell the businesses stories so they can bring clients and help those people solve their problems. It is very cool. So last couple of questions here is your heroes tool belt. Thor has his magic hammer. And you know your neighborhood police officer has this bulletproof vest. What are some of the tools that Juraj… that you use in your business to help you create what you create for your clients? And maybe it’s Evernote maybe it’s Adobe Premiere? What are some of the things that you use every day to create what you create for your clients?

 

Juraj Breezy  

Adobe Premiere like every day. Everything I love from YouTube and start digging into the After Effects those are the two tools that I’m using everyday, non stop, every day.

 

Richard Matthews  

Premiere and After Effects?

 

Juraj Breezy  

Yes. Exactly. like After Effects I wanted to After Effects because I like the tracking and create a text while the drone is flying and stuff with a couple of effects but if I tell you that one year ago I didn’t know anything about Adobe Premiere and now I know so much I’m like I’m still learning you know but I can create videos… If I have to do like a presentation for something… if I had to do like a video like a cut cut cut… I can do it in one hour to an hour and a half it’s so quick now. Last year I was like “Oh my god what is the key? What is this? What is this? What is mass? What is the opacity.” And like, I didn’t know anything about it. So yeah, Adobe Premiere enoughAnd After Effects pretty much every day.

 

Richard Matthews  

Yeah, so I’m gonna get into some of the gear kind of stuff just because I’m interested in this what type of camera Do you shoot with for your video and what type of drone Do you shoot with?

 

Juraj Breezy  

Okay, when it comes to the camera and the drone. It’s my first camera and my first drone that I have for about one year. So I have a DJI Spark this is one of my…

 

Richard Matthews  

Okay, yeah.

 

Juraj Breezy  

I love it like don’t get me wrong this little boy it’s…

 

Richard Matthews  

…that’s the little one right? The one that’s … the little tiny one that they make? I like that thing.

 

Juraj Breezy  

Exactly like it does an absolutely fantastic job. Okay, sometimes you lose it you lose the signal but look I don’t fly the drone that is gonna fly to two or three kilometres away. I don’t need that you know… I don’t want to lose the drone because I invested the money. I don’t want to spend the money again. If I make the money I will buy a better drone but no definitely DJI Spark is what I’m using and the camera that I use it’s a Sony Alpha a6300 is my first camera

 

Richard Matthews  

Right yeah, I’m actually the this camera here… the one that you’re looking at me through his Sony A 6500.

 

Juraj Breezy  

Ah really?! And then lenses I have a stigma. 60 millimeters that I’m in love. Oh my god.

 

Richard Matthews  

I want that lens so bad. It’s on my list. I have the the 30 millimeter.

 

Juraj Breezy  

Okay,

 

Richard Matthews  

The 30 millimeter 1.4 … I love this lens. But I want that 60 millimeter. I think that’d be super, super awesome.

 

Juraj Breezy  

You’ll be very happy … especially in the low light, if you want to do some astrophotography. And then the second lens that I have is the 18-105mm F4.

 

Richard Matthews  

I was looking at that one. I don’t use that lens but that’s the one with the power zoom. Right?

 

Juraj Breezy  

Exactly. It’s got it built-in….Yeah, I have my my little office finally. So I have a crane tool that I’m using for big projects. But I like to be more creative and create my transition with a camera, especially when you shoot B roll… So I want to be very creative, you know, and I also still don’t know how to shoot on SLOG as I haven’t learned… Because I cannot calibrate SLOG at all.

 

Richard Matthews  

Yeah, I have avoided SLOG at this point. So for those of you who don’t know, SLOG is a video version of a raw file. So it’s like undeveloped video, and you have to go and you have to learn how to develop the colors and the contrast and all that stuff and it is a whole other level of complexity. But you can get more, you know, more color and more dynamic range, which is how much light the camera can see into a file. But it’s really difficult. Haven’t experimented with it yet either. Maybe in the future. So other couple of things. Do you use anything for artificial lighting? Or do you have any of your own sound equipment? Are you still doing it all natural light…

 

Juraj Breezy  

… like LED lights, where you can adjust contrast and stuff … The mic that I use, I have a Zoom H2N. I have the Pin Rode Mic. And if I do blogging, I just have the mic that I attach to the camera. So

 

Richard Matthews  

I’m using a Giant Squid Lavalier mic for the interview here.

 

Juraj Breezy  

For example, I always say… It is not about the camera that you have, like I’ve seen using a Sony camera. And they recreated some unbelievable video. And I know some people they’re like, Oh, this camera is amazing, you know, … you don’t need to buy $40,000 camera to create something amazing. All you need

 

Richard Matthews  

… like I’ve seen amazing stuff created with your phone.

 

Juraj Breezy  

Just Just maybe just people buying it, because they just made me want to show off or look at me have a Red Camera and you don’t need that stuff. You just need an idea. That’s all, and a little bit of creativity and ideas. And you’re all set…

 

Richard Matthews  

Yeah, what I’ve discovered is especially in photography and videography, and this is true across the board and in every space that I’ve been in. The more expensive tools don’t generally allow you to create better product. A lot of times, what they allow you to do is they allow you to have more flexibility when creating the product. Right. So like when you have, you know, you mentioned that a 16 millimeter Sony lens you have it’s a 1.4 aperture. The standard 16 to 15 lens that comes with the camera only goes to like 3.5, you can still create a great, great image with that standard, cheap lens that comes with the phone or with the camera. But when you get a nicer lens, you have the option to have more options when you’re creating, right. And that’s what the nicer tools do. They give you more options, and it makes certain things quicker or faster. And I think a lot of times entrepreneurs especially will get stuck into “I need to get the best gear possible or the best software possible or the best thing possible before I start.” And that’s just not true. Sometimes you just need to use what you’ve got create what you can create.

 

And learning to work with the limitations you have at the beginning makes you more creative and makes you be able to use those better tools and then you get around to having access to them in the future.

 

Juraj Breezy  

People are asking when I worked at the hotel, and this is impossible to say like what’s the best cocktail, it doesn’t exist? was the best cocktail that doesn’t exist. There’s one who’s like, what’s the best camera? It doesn’t exist? What’s the best? What’s the best light? I don’t know? Like?

 

Richard Matthews  

Yeah, it’s up here, right? It’s the creativity that you’re gonna bring to it.

 

Like I said, I’ve been in photography for 20 years, and I’ll show people pictures that I’ve taken from my phone and they’re like, Man, you must have a really nice camera and I’m like, “I do but this picture came from my phone.” It’s when you learn the craft, whatever your craft is…a tool doesn’t usually make the difference. Right? It’s the creator, that makes the difference.

 

Juraj Breezy  

Exactly. I also so started doing little workshops, with videography on the smartphone. How you can shoot, and how to shoot and edit on an iPhone. So you don’t need any gimbals… how to use a license to the image. And literally everything through your phone. No, accessories.

 

Richard Matthews  

Yeah.

 

Okay, so before we get too far into the weeds and in gear, your head stuff. Let’s talk about your own personal heroes, right. So Frodo had Gandalf. Luke had Obi-Wan. Robert Kiyosaki had his rich dad, who were some of your heroes? Were they real-life mentors? Were they authors in books? Were they YouTube stars, right? Or were they peers who were just a few years ahead of you? And how important were they to how far you’ve gotten in your business today?

 

Juraj Breezy  

Well, when it comes to mentors, I will start with the Les Brown. He’s one of my mentors that when I started listening, motivational videos, he’s the one also that he said like

 

he says, the dreams that are holding the mind is possible. And then one of my favorite is Gary Vaynerchuck. Like, I love that guy to pieces. I know he’s working in different fields doing different things. But whatever he’s saying, to help people, other businesses is actually true. And I’m following his steps. And it really does really work. And the youtubers, I will say Peter McKinnon. He’s one of my favorites. This guy is just absolutely… I love watching his YouTube videos. Definitely.

 

Richard Matthews  

Cool. So let’s bring it home for our listeners. Last question here is your guiding principles. Right? So what are the top one or two things… actions that you take every day, that contribute to the success is of your business, right to have gotten you to where you’re going. And ones that maybe you wish you knew when you first got started trying to attract clients and get your videography service off the ground.

 

One or two actions that you do everyday that help you get your business, you know, that help you get where you’re going

 

Juraj Breezy  

One or two things… that I’m happy that I’m here that I’m alive, that we are living in this world. And the second is … I’m looking forward to wake up in the morning every day. And I’m so excited to do what I love

 

…if you love what you do, it’s just the best thing. You come into happiness. And I’m just …hopefully I can help with someone, like, go do your thing, like do what you love and stop doing the job that you hate, I wake up every morning with happiness. And I’m happy that I can do what I love and get paid for it.

 

Richard Matthews  

Yeah, so So you’d say one of the things that’s really been helping drive you is just just doing what you love on a daily basis. Exactly,

 

Juraj Breezy  

exactly. Like, I’ve seen people. I’ve been a couple of friends and they said, the only thing I can hear was they complain about work. How much they hate going to work, and I was just quiet, you know, the last thing to do, and I’m like, I’m always good. I’m good. It’s not like I’m pretending that I I still have a part time job. Like I told you before, I still have a part time job on the side. But look, I have to go with it. You know, I have to go through you know, if I but I’m still working on video graphics will be hundred percent of my income every month no matter what.

 

Richard Matthews  

Absolutely. And I’m sure you’ll get there before too long. So last thing we do on the show every time is we always ask hero challenge questions. So the hero challenge is really simple. Do you have someone in your business network? An entrepreneur that you think has a cool story that you think we should tell? Who are they and why do you think they should come on the show and share their story?

 

Juraj Breezy  

If I have someone? Oh, yes, I have a friend from Iran. We actually work together. I was hired by him. And I was hired by him because this guy is very I.T. and needs guys who are very creative. And he creates a new gadget and hopefully comes in the market. And why he should come because he also have very good interesting stories to share because he’s from Iran. And he was born about seven days after the wars finished. And the guy came from Yes, exactly. He came from he came from zero completely. And he studied in Switzerland for about five years. He’s got a PhD. He also teaching a university and he doesn’t come from the rich nat all…

 

Richard Matthews  

so he really had to build himself up.

 

Juraj Breezy  

Exactly. Yeah.

 

Richard Matthews  

Yeah, what’s his What’s his name?

 

His name is Mohsen Falahi

 

Mohsen? Cool.

 

Mohsen Falahi Yeah.

 

Well. We’ll hit you up after the show and see if we can get contact details for him and invite him onto the show. That’d be really cool. So last thing thank you so much for coming on the show Juraj. Where can people go if they want to hire you for videography services? I assume it’s probably location restricted. So if they’re in Switzerland and they want to hire you, where should they go?

 

Juraj Breezy  

Well, I also do internationally. I’ve done a couple of international work.

 

Richard Matthews  

So if you’re doing international work so actually let’s do two questions then if they want to see your portfolio and see the type of work that you do and see if they might be interested in hiring you for that where should they go for that and then how should they How do they find you to hire you if they do they aren’t interested?

 

Juraj Breezy  

Simply going Instagram. Just #nowornevervdo – as a three letters – vdo; not the whole word. #nowornevervdo. And then, they can see all my work. Everything that everything that I can see the also like I scroll down through my Instagram couple days ago and I can see the progress with the photography also I do photography just for myself. I have a kind of like you need the photos I’m like no I don’t the photos I just the videos you know, but I can see the I can see the progress of work every like month after month I see the big progress I also build my followers from zero to almost thousands like truly followers. I never bought followers. I don’t do follow and unfollow I don’t do stuff like that. Every time somebody Stop following me I send a message. Hi, thank you for having me. You know, I can see who’s who was the person that will follow and I follow back, I see it now. I know how the social media works now.

 

Richard Matthews  

So they can find you on Instagram and it’s #nowornevervdo the letters V D O. And if they’re interested, they can just direct messaged you there on Instagram.

 

Juraj Breezy  

Exactly, yeah.

 

Richard Matthews  

Awesome. Well, thank you so much for coming on the show. Juraj it’s been? It’s been it’s been a pleasure!

 

Juraj Breezy  

The pleasure is mine! Thank you for having me!

 

Richard Matthews  

Yeah.