Rob Dial takes viewers inside Soundcrafter Studios in Austin, Texas, as he records the audiobook for his upcoming book Level Up: How to Get Focused, Stop Procrastinating, and Upgrade Your Life. Over four days of sessions, Rob and his long‑time friend and business partner Dean DeVries capture the main narration and a special interview‑after‑each‑chapter segment that adds extra stories, context, and implementation strategies. The video shows the physical and mental fatigue of long recording stretches, interruptions from construction noise, and the technical prep required to achieve clean audio. A heartfelt dedication to Rob’s mother is shared, revealing his personal backstory of an alcoholic father and a supportive mother that shaped his mindset. The segment ends with a promotional call‑to‑action, directing viewers to purchase the book or audiobook and promising additional value in the audio version.
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What's up, everybody? I am in Soundcrafter studios in Austin, Texas. We are here to record the audiobook for my book that's coming out in October 3rd, which is level up how to get focused, stop procrastinating, and upgrade your life.
We wanted to give you guys a.
Little bit behind the scenes to see what it looks like to record an audiobook. So come on along.
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Okay. We all experience similar moments of choice throughout the day. What are the areas of life where you're choosing what are the areas of your life where you're choosing things to be easy now? How will those choices make life harder in the future?
So we just finished about eight hours of recording and don't know if you've ever spoken for eight hours straight and stared at an iPad for eight hours straight. But it is tiring on the eyes, on the mind, on the voice as well. So we just wrapped day two. We also have day three, which I'm.
Gonna be recording here.
And then on day four, we're gonna bring you guys along. Dean, my best friend, is actually going to be interviewing me for a special edition interview that's going to come in the audiobook only. So we'll take you guys along that process and we'll see you on day four.
Good morning, everybody.
Yesterday was a long day.
People have prepped me. Actually, the guy who was in there recording the audiobook, the tech that was in there actually prepped me and said some Navy seals have come in here, recorded audiobooks, and then at the end been like, damn. I was not expecting it to be that hard. I was brain dead when I got done yesterday. So today is another day.
Today is day four. We are on the home stretch. We have just arrived to the studio, and this is my best friend and business partner, Dean Devries. What we're going to be doing is a very special thing for The Audiobook. Only Dean has read the entire book, and he and I are actually going to sit down in the studio and he's going to interview me after every single chapter so that we can give more stories and more context and more strategies of how to take the book and actually implement it into your life. So you excited about it?
Yeah, I'm excited. It's a pleasure and honor to just serve the world. You know, I ended up reading the book over the last, like, three days, just cover to cover, just to really prepare for today. And the book is amazing, so if you haven't gotten a copy of the book yet, definitely go get it. But today's gonna be exciting, and this is just a opportunity to leave the world better than we found it, and I'm always down for that. So, yeah. Yeah, looking forward to having some fun.
Hopefully you guys come along the journey, watch us record a little bit behind the scenes of the interview part of the audiobook for level up. You're gonna be on this side.
All right, Check, check, check. Is this mic on?
Welcome, everybody, to the Audiobook. This is Rob Dial, the author, and I'm with my best friend and business partner of 16 years, Dean DeVries. We're in the studio right now and wanted to do a special edition of the audiobook.
It's awesome to be here.
Great to be here with you.
Let's go ahead and dive in. So this book, you started off with dedicating it to your mom, and I just wanted to. I don't know if your mom knows about that.
She doesn't. She will find out.
Oh, wow. Okay. So, yeah, just share a little bit more about that.
Yeah.
So let's start off with me tearing up in the very beginning. So the reason why I think it's important to dedicate this to her is because this book wouldn't exist, and I wouldn't exist as the mindset, mentor, podcasts and 1300 episodes and everything that I've done had I not gone through everything that I went through as a child, with having an alcoholic father, with viewing a mother who helped me overcome all of those things. And so for me, dedicating it to her was important for that reason, specifically because this book would not exist had I not gone through everything that I went through in my life. I.
All right, everybody, we're done. There was four hours of recording, and we had a little bit of a struggle. There was construction that literally was happening on the building. They were installing something while we were trying to record. So we would record. Then we'd have to stop. We recorded we have to stop just so that the sound didn't come in through the audiobook.
And the reason why we came to this location, by the way, is to avoid the construction.
Yeah, there's construction at the other location. Well, now there's actually construction at this location too. But I mean, how do you feel like today went?
Today went awesome. Yeah, it was. It was definitely a. Yeah, it was a great experience to. For us to be able to flow about the book because we haven't really talked about the book since I read it and so. So that was awesome today. It also just feels great to serve people and so had a lot of fun. Love the place here that. That we're recording at. They're super accommodating and yeah, felt great. Had a lot of fun. Thanks for bringing me on for the ride.
Thanks for being here.
I was saying Dean recorded his first audiobook before he recorded his first book. So Dean was along in the process. And Dean's known me for 16 years, so we were able to go deeper into some of the stories of how this book came about, what my life has been, what we've learned of going through these processes and stuff. So there's a lot of extra value that's in the audiobook. The book itself, amazing if you want to buy that. But if you prefer audiobooks, you're definitely going to get a lot of extra value in that as well. So thank you guys for coming along in the process of putting this together and hopefully you guys have enjoyed watching a little bit of behind the Scenes. And if you want to buy the book, you can go ahead. We'll put a link down below in the description. You can buy the book there or you can go to however you purchase books and just type in Level up by Rob Dial and it should pop up there. Thanks for coming along in the process, everybody.
