6 Client Boundaries to Keep You Healthy, Happy, Stress-free, and Profitable | The Infinite Clients Series

Brian Hood (0:00)

This is the 6 Figure Creative Podcast, episode 298

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Hello, and welcome to the 6 Figure Creative Podcast. I am your host, Brian Hood. If this is your first time ever listening to the show, first of all, hi. So glad to have you here. This podcast is for you if you are a creative who offers freelance services, and you want to make more money from those creative skills without selling yourself. That sounds like you. You're in the right spot for my returning listeners or viewers on YouTube. This is a continuation of a series. We've probably the longest series we've ever had on the show. That series is the Infinite Client Series.

Side note and fun fact, I just noticed we're like six episodes into this series. We've been calling it the Infinite Client Series. Clients, not plural.

I imagine like the Groundhog Day. Have you ever seen the movie Groundhog Day, where it's just like the same damn thing over and over again? It's just that one individual client infinitely. That's not what the series is about. So I think hopefully we've gone back and corrected that to be the Infinite Clients Series. But the whole concept of the series, if you're new, is this. Each client that we work with, we should give such a great experience, amazing experience, that they will always refer at least one new client to us and will always come back to us. If every single client you get comes back to you again and again and again, or never cancels if it's a recurring retainer, and every client refers at least one new client to you, you have infinite clients. Now, that's an impossible goal, but it's one that we're striving towards in this series. And in this episode, we are obviously, if you couldn't tell by the episode title, we were talking about boundaries. And the reason this topic ties into the Infinite Client Series is because we have to be happy, healthy, sane, in order to do the best work possible as creatives. And when we let our clients do anything that affects us mentally or affects us emotionally, it hurts our ability, if not make it impossible, to do what we do at the highest level. So in this episode, we're going to talk through 6 client boundaries that you should absolutely implement with your clients. And you can and should absolutely use these boundaries. As long as these boundaries are fair, which they are, your clients will respect them. Your clients will value them. Your clients will not feel like it's a bad experience, again, if they're fair. But the point of this is to make sure that you, the solo freelancer who's trying to make money right now, can stay sane, happy, healthy, and creative for long enough so that you can actually continue to build and grow your creative business. So side note about this episode, this is actually a replay I'm doing. I'm just pulling you into the series because it's so perfect with the series. I could either redo it all. Why would I do that when I already did the topic before? But this is recorded when I was in Thailand back in 2022 Different cam, different mic, it'll sound different and look different if you're watching on YouTube. But the content is spot on perfect for exactly, I still feel the same way today, about what I thought in 2022 And if you've already watched or listened to this episode before, just look at this as a reminder for you. If you listened before, did you implement some of those boundaries? Which ones did you need to go back and redo? Which ones did you not implement well enough? Which ones did you fall off the wagon in the last year and a half since this episode came out? Listen from a new perspective because, you know, it's been about a year and a half since this episode came out. You're probably a bit of a different person now. So it's still worth re-listening to because sometimes we need to be reminded more than we need to be taught new things. So this is your reminder for you existing listeners who've been listening for a while. And if you're new, this is being taught probably a couple of things that you're not doing right now. So here's the episode on 6 Client Boundaries to keep you happy, healthy, and stress-free.