Meet Justin Ingram

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Justin Ingram. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Justin below.

Justin , thank you so much for joining us and offering your lessons and wisdom for our readers. One of the things we most admire about you is your generosity and so we’d love if you could talk to us about where you think your generosity comes from.

From my mother who had very little but gave a whole lot! Being from Oakcliff was very humble beginnings in our neighborhood so my mother would always have food clothing and even provided shelter for those in need! My generosity has been implanted by my mothers heart for people and I’m just the continuation of her legacy!

Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?

I’m the owner of Jtracks House Studios in Dallas Tx. My journey as a studio owner started in 2004 when I received my first refund check while attending Cedar Valley College! I was a freshman studying audio engineering under the late great Kirby Stewart. With my refund cash at hand I headed directly to Guitar Center to purchase what I needed to get started. I builded my first home studio in my bedroom at my mothers house charging 10 bucks an hour for recording mixing and mastering! I would often have lines of cars parked down the street of artist coming to record. As a thank you to my mother for allowing this, she’d often wake up to a few extra dollars on her night stand every morning! I continued my studies at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff under Dr. Richard Bailey. During my time at UAPB I extended and duplicated everything I did while in Dallas just with College students! I found myself being a big brother and mentor to many artist musician producers and engineers! By then my prices had matured to 20 bucks an hour as my portfolio began to increase. I came back to Dallas in 2014 on the hunt to do what I’ve always done but with more knowledge and resources. Today I’m far from where I stated over 20 years ago and happy to say that I’m still doing it with the same heart and zeal to help creatives to be successful. I’m moving into making Jtracks House into a non-profit as well to help the community therapeutically through the Arts! I’m a product of someone taking the time to invest in me when no one else had a clue on what I was trying to accomplish. Being able to have that one investor keep me out of a lot of trouble and helped me to be the man I’am today. Where I come from I see where a place like Jtracks House can help the youth and community just by having a positive outlet in such a negative environment. I’m looking to teach everything I do at Jtracks House from engineering to producing and my wife will be tag teaming along side of me with pour painting and creative writing sessions! We look forward to serving the community of Dallas and making duplicates of our program world wide.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

Relationships over Money
Ideas over Money
Using other peoples Money

The relationships you build in your industry will take you further than money will ever go. Relationship capital is most important because a person in relationship with you will always keep your business in mind which creates capital down the line. Relationship flows where money can not!

Ideas should be the conversation because its the foundation to everything we see! Most times if were money driven we mis the heart beat of the consumer. So discuss ideas and execute a plan to bring ideas to life.

My biggest mistake is not utilizing OMP more often then funding everything myself. You will run yourself dry trying to fund everything on your own! People are willing to invest in small business owners but most times its not heavily advertised. The funding is available and I’m looking forward to more OPM for the expansion of Jtracks House

What was the most impactful thing your parents did for you?

My mother would see kids in our neighborhood with holes in there shoes and clothes and many times without food to eat. With very little her self she made sure that kids in our neighborhood had the essentials they needed everyday. It taught me that when you see a need you answer the call. Though you may not have much to give always answer the call because the picking up literally saves life’s. So with my late mothers example I plan to give back as well by starting the nonprofit Jtracks House with my wife. Will take any help we can get!
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