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This is the 6 Figure Creative Podcast, episode 291

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Hello, and welcome to the 6 Figure Creative Podcast. I'm your host, Brian Hood. If this is your first time ever listening to the show, first of all, hi, hey, hello, welcome. So glad to have you here. This podcast is for you.

If you are a freelancer who offers creative services and you want to make more money from your creative skills without selling your soul, that's you. You are in the right spot. For my returning listeners, kind of big deal here. We hit number two on the charts, on the podcast charts. I posted it on my Instagram stories.

There was one podcast that people have probably heard of because it's huge called 99% Invisible that just passed us barely, just barely passed. They're probably so far ahead of us, but they're number one, we're number two. And I thought that was cool. I think these are like weekly charts, so the update weekly, so maybe next week I'm not, but I like being the number two podcast. History lesson here, we used to be called the 6 Figure Home Studio podcast way back in the day. We actually almost have more episodes as the 6 Figure Creative than we do as the 6 Figure Home Studio, but the first 150 episodes, the 6 Figure Home Studio.

And we were by default the number one business podcast in the audio industry, and that was cool, but we were also the only business podcast in the audio industry.

So now it's a little more competitive in this space, so I'll take number two right now. So we are in the middle of January right now. For me personally, fitness is on my mind. After the absolute horror that happened through the holidays as far as eating and health and diet and all that stuff, I tend to make January the first quarter of the year like a big health initiative for me. This year's no different. So this year I joined a classes type gym because my workout partner that I've been working out for like five, six, seven, eight years moved. So now it's like just me. And if it's just me, I don't have a forcing function to make me show up at the gym. And I found out that if I don't have my gym partner at the gym, I just don't go. So I joined one of those gym classes, things that have classes. I'm not going to say the one right now, because I'm still trying to. I really love it right now. It's not CrossFit, by the way.

I did not go to the dark side. No hate to my CrossFitters out there. But I joined this class-based gym thing. Really awesome. It's like HIIT training with a mixture of cardio, weight training, really focused on hitting a certain heart rate zones and stuff. And then I hired a nutrition coach as well, because it's the first time I've ever done this.

As of right now, we're nine days into January for me. It's like 16 days in for you if you're listening to the day this came out. But I record this ahead of time. Nine days in for me, down six pounds. I'd say most of that is probably just like the impacted food in my body from the holiday eating, and then just purging that out over the last nine days. Good visual for you listeners.

I'm not gonna talk about any more of that today, but I just wanted to share kind of what's going on there. I'll kind of share the fitness journey as it goes on, just because it's top of mind for me right now. Public service announcement for all freelancers right now. This is big deal if you've tuned out because you're like, Brian's talking about fitness.

I'm not into that. I've tuned out, but tune back in now because this is for all freelancers. This is mid-January right now. This is tax time. This is not what this episode's about, so breathe a sigh of relief for everyone. But these are a few things you need to know this time of year. The first is quarterly estimated payments were due yesterday. If you didn't already do this, you can still send it in. It'll be like a tiny little penalty for not doing it. But if you pay your quarterly estimated payments so you don't have a big chunk that you owe in April, then yesterday that was due. So make sure you file and send that off and pay that, whatever.