Entering FatherHOOD

This episode of The HOOD introduces someone who usually stays behind the camera. Grant, owner of Optico Productions, sits down as a guest for the first time, and the conversation covers new fatherhood, building a business from scratch, and buying his first home as an agent himself.Grant opened his production company while still in college, choosing wedding videography over chasing the film industry in LA. That early bet on staying close to family in Columbus grew into a full team of shooters serving real estate agents across Central Ohio, and now he's navigating a new build and a home sale of his own.The conversation moves into the harder parts of the balance too, the guilt that comes with splitting time between work and a newborn, the boundaries he's had to set to protect family moments, and what has surprised him most about becoming a dad just weeks ago. He and Morgan also compare notes on which is harder, running a business or raising kids, and neither one gives a clean answer.Morgan opens with an update on a bonkers summer market, including a first-time homebuyer interest rate program that came and went in three days flat.