Forging Your Own Creative Path, Overcoming Depression, And Escaping The American Scheme | With Scotty Russell

Brian Hood (0:00)

This is the 6 Figure Creative Podcast, Episode 154 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 back to another episode of the 6 Figure Creative Podcast. I am your host, Brian Hood, and I'm here with my beautiful co-host, Christopher J.

Christopher Graham (0:34)

Graham.

Brian Hood (0:35)

How are you doing today, buddy?

Christopher Graham (0:36)

Fantastic, brother.

Brian Hood (0:37)

Did you notice I only said positive thing there? I only said beautiful.

Christopher Graham (0:40)

Yeah, I was like, okay, right on. I can deal with that.

Brian Hood (0:42)

It doesn't sound very good, though. Like, here's the thing. If this is your first time you've ever heard of this episode, for like 200 episodes or however long we've done, Christopher Graham is always the big, bald, beautiful co-host.

Christopher Graham (0:52)

No, purple-shirted.

Brian Hood (0:54)

Purple-shirted co-host.

So, there's a whole intro I do with him. But yeah, so that's that. So, Christopher J. Graham, you're here with me today. I'm excited to have you on today. We got an awesome episode today. But how have you been, my friend?

Christopher Graham (1:05)

I've been good, but Brian, I have a confession to make.

Brian Hood (1:08)

No, is it? I already know, before you even tell me, I already know what it is. Because if it's a confession, just say it. I'll tell you if I know what it is.

Christopher Graham (1:15)

So, while we had some time off from the podcast, I developed, I refell in love with photography, and I fell into a rabbit hole that is vintage lenses.

And I bought them, Brian, I bought all of them. I got so many.

Brian Hood (1:31)

Okay, so let's talk about this for a second. So again, if we have any new listeners, our whole platform of our podcast has been anti-gear. We do not talk about gear. It is not what's going to make or break your career. We do not think that. We don't talk about it.

Chris has always been the one that's fought this battle. It's been a constant battle and struggle for Chris Graham, his entire career in life. And I've been there to help him and get him through this, but he's had a relapse.

And as our listener, we have to support Chris through his gear relapses.

And I'm just going to be here and say this. You are, as of today, you're one day clean from Gear Talk, and we're not going to look back. And that's just the way this is going to be. So I'm not going to support what you just told me, but I'm going to support you moving forward in this journey together as getting you clean of this gear obsession. Is that OK?

Christopher Graham (2:16)

I'm working on it, man. It's funny because I procrastinate with gear. I'm like, oh, I should make a course. I should make more videos. I should record more episodes. I should actually try to get interviews for episodes so we can launch the second show.

And then I end up being like, oh, I'm just going to learn everything there is to know about vintage SLR lenses adapted to mirrorless cameras.

Brian Hood (2:36)

Stop, stop. You're doing it right now. Stop it.

Everyone has some sort of procrastination technique. Mine is booking travel right now. It's June 2021 for anyone listening in the future. And you're like, where in time are they?

And I just got my Johnson & Johnson shot last week prepping for travel so I can go out of the country. And so I've been looking for cheap flights everywhere. I'm probably going to go to Spain in October or Eastern Europe. So that's my procrastinator. And so I understand it, but the problem with this is it's not a temporary thing. As soon as I book that trip, I'll stop looking this stuff up. I'll stop procrastinating by looking up trips. This is a constant battle for you. So let's just table this discussion for later, because I know this is not the last time we're going to come up. And let's talk about our interview that we have today, because I don't want to hold our audience back from what we've got today. Today we have a... I'd call this interview a kick in the ass for anyone who needs some motivation. Our interview is with Scotty Russell of The Perspective Podcast.

And for those who don't listen to this podcast, it is an excellent companion to the 6 Figure Creative podcast. He is... We'll give you some very specific tactics, and he'll kick your ass into gear, so you'll actually go do those tactics.