The saying "do what you love and you'll never work another day in your life" is an accurate one, but there are a whole lot of cold, hard truths that need to be carefully considered before turning your passion into a career.

To shed some much-needed light on the subject, this week we invited Reid Lunde of Kaizen Speed to sit down with Andre and talk shop — both in the literal and figurative senses.

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Reid has been in the tuning and performance aftermarket business a long time, and has learnt plenty of lessons the hard way over the years when it comes to customers, staff, projects, services, and much more.

In this episode, Reid and Andre spend some time discussing these lessons and talk about the strategies and systems that can be used to avoid the many pitfalls that people so often find themselves walking right into when starting out.

You might be working on friends of friends' cars in your garage, or you might be walking into a two-year lease on a brand new shop space with a big bank loan in your pocket — either way, listening to what veterans like Reid and Andre have to say might just make the difference between boom or bust.

The guys also get nerdy discussing dyno system pros and cons, standalone vs reflashing, direct injection vs port injection, and why no tuner needs to blow up an engine — let alone ten engines – to become proficient. The conversation lastly makes its way over to the hows, whys, whats, and whens of Reid's award-winning product, the Kaizen Relay.

That all means that this episode is an excellent reality check for anyone that's interested in taking their passion to the next level and diving into the automotive performance industry.

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HPA's appearances on Reid's 'Do It For a Living' podcast can be found here and here.

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