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Problem: Need to setup outside access to my Jellyfin server using HTTPS

Considerations:

1) Jellyfin is hosted on a home server on a windows 10 machine.

2) I have a static IP (let's call it 123.123.123.123) at my house

3) I want to be able to access Jellyfin over web browsers, Roku, a web app I wrote and use strictly for Jellyfin and audio apps like finamp. Not a problem over 8096.

4) I do have a custom domain name hosted on GoDaddy and would like to use the subdomain of jellyfin.mydomain.com if possible but if not the IP address is perfectly fine.

I have read all of the Reddit posts related to this and I still can not find a proper guide. Honestly, I've been running it on 8096 for over a year and it's been fine but I'm worried that something will happen so I am trying to shore it up.

Would anyone have a suggestion on how to tackle this step by step. Most guides I get just say "get a reverse proxy" without explaining anything at all. I assume that I need to get a SSL cert for my machine and install that in Jellyfin but again, not sure how to do that over port 8920 as something like certbot requires port 80 or 443.

My assumed steps are:

1) Enable SSL in Jellyfin

2) port forward 8920

3) create a subdomain forward at go daddy

4) create SSL certs for the IP and the subdomain

5) install the cert into Jellyfin

Am I even on the right track?