Annihilating Fear So You Can Step Into Your True Power As A Creative | With James Victore

Brian Hood (0:00)

This is the 6 Figure Creative Podcast, Episode 210

Welcome to the 6 Figure Creative Podcast, where our mission is to help you turn your creative passions into a stable, reliable income. If you're in audio, video, design, photography, or really any other creative field, and you just want to learn from other successful creatives, you're in the right place.

Welcome to the 6 Figure Creative Podcast. I am your host, Brian Hood. And if this is your first time joining us today, welcome. Thank you for listening. This show is all about how to take your creativity and how to turn it into an actual business, typically through freelancing. If you're joining us again after listening to us before, thank you for coming back again. Today's episode is what I would consider a rare treat. And the reason I say that is because our guest today, James Victore, is someone that... I've never had a chance to talk with someone like this before. He is a designer, he is an artist, he is a coach, he is a keynote speaker that's spoken to some very large corporations. And some of the design clients are Adobe, Melchimp, Time Magazine, Esquire Magazine, The New York Times, the City of New York, you may have heard of that before. But the cool thing is, he's had his work actually exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City twice. And even cooler than that, at least to me, maybe I'm impressed by stuff that shouldn't be impressed by, but this sounds incredibly impressive to me, is he has permanent collections in the Louvre in Paris. And I don't know about you, but I've never gotten the chance to speak to someone before today that has their work displayed in the Louvre, which I've been to twice now.

And I thoroughly enjoyed my experiences there. So today's episode, we got to talk about something that I think is rampant in our community as creatives, especially creatives who are trying to monetize our creativity. And this is something that I think is James' superpower. And the reason he was able to accomplish all these things, working with these big name clients, having his work displayed in places like the Louvre, he was able to accomplish this because he overcame the thing that holds us back more than anything. And that is fear. Before we turn this podcast off, before you run away, I promise you, this is something you need to hear. Even myself, listening to James talk today, I'm thinking through the things that I'm letting get in my own way. Because no matter how successful you get, you're still going to be always dealing with the fear element, no matter where you are in your career. Even James talks about, even today, working on a new book that he has, he is dealing with the fear grimoire on his shoulder, trying to tell him what to write and what not to write. So this is something that we never solve, we only resolve for the time being. And this episode, we talk about fear of self-worth, which again, this is pretty much every freelancer, every creative has some sort of fear around self-worth, which leads to bad pricing, it leads to taking on clients you shouldn't take on, all sorts of things. We talk about self-doubt, we talk about perfectionism, which is my personal demon. We talk about procrastination.

We also talk about a lot of other things, but these are the core of, I think, the things that ruin so many creatives, especially those who are trying to monetize their creativity. And James has done a wonderful job of helping, not just us, but a lot of people through his book called, stick with me here, the book is called Feck Perfuction, which is a wonderful title. The entire book is about addressing these core issues that we have as creatives and how to be a brave, courageous creative. So without any more delay here, here is my interview with James Victore. Thank you for.

James, thank you so much for coming on the show, man.

James Victore (3:15)

It's a pleasure to be here, Brian. I am happy to be here, and thank you for asking.

Brian Hood (3:18)

The reason we want to have it on the show is because I know our audience well after 209 episodes, you're our 210th. One of our biggest, I don't know what you would call it, it's our own version of a pandemic, our own plague going through our community as creatives, and that is this pandemic of fear. We have as creatives so much fear coursing through our veins, and it is absolutely wrecking our businesses, because we're a business-focused podcast. I say it all the time in this podcast, there's no difference between us as human beings and all the baggage we have along with that, and the things that we create in our businesses. So if you can't get your personal life right and deal with all the fear and the baggage that's surrounding with that, there's no way to have a successful business as a freelancer or as any kind of creative. So you have on your website and through your books we'll talk about, or your main book that we'll talk about in upcoming books, you say that your mission in life is to help creatives on teaching them how to overcome creative challenges and gain creative courage.