How To Set Yourself Apart From The Other 500,000,000 Freelancers In The World | Part 3

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This is the 6 Figure Creative Podcast, episode 302

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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 listening to the show, you picked a bad episode because we're in the middle of a series right now, so go back to episode 300

For my returning listeners, so glad to have you back. Even though this podcast is week to week to week, it comes out every week, rain or shine. We're pretty consistent with that, 300 plus episodes in. I've taken some time off because I was on a week long, I don't know what else to call it, a week long nerd cruise.

I'm going to pull up an article of what New York Times says here. It says, JoCo Cruise, if you want to look it up, J-O-C-O Cruise is often referred to as Nerd Summer Camp at Sea.

And it's essentially exactly that. It's like 2,000 plus nerds on a giant cruise ship. They charter the entire cruise ship for this nerd cruise.

And there's everything from cosplay to board games. They have literally over 2,000 pounds of board games on board that you can just check out at any time and play.

All sorts of events and live music. And maybe James or someone on my team can embed this on our show notes page at 6figurecreative.com/302 for this episode. So 302 We'll embed my wife. She did a couple of videos on TikTok because she was brought on as an influencer for the cruise because she does nerd, cozy content on TikTok. So she's kind of a perfect fit.

And I just kind of tagged along for this cruise. And I had a whole lot of fun on it. I highly recommend it for any of my nerds out there. But she did a whole two-part series. And those videos racked up a few million views, I think, on TikTok on what this thing is.

So if they can't upload it or embed it on that page for whatever, just search Meg's Tea Room on TikTok. You can find my wife's thing on there. Just look back to mid-March because that's when we're recording this episode for those videos on there. So just got home from that. I'm Tanner now.

And other updates since that happened. I won the Orange Theory Fitness Transformation Challenge. So I came in first place on that, which is awesome. Unexpected. It was the day after we got home from that cruise. And I had gotten home at 4 a.m. Sunday morning because God bless my soul, I had to fly Spirit Airlines on the way home because it's spring break and there was just like no flight options for nonstop flights. And that's all I wanted to do was a nonstop flight. So we had like booked 1130 p.m. flight on the way home the day we got back from the cruise.

And obviously Spirit, so they're gonna let you down somehow.

And there was a two and a half hour delay on an already late as hell flight because they didn't have enough pilots. So they had to fly a pilot in from somewhere to fly our plane, which had been sitting there the entire time. We landed at 330, we got home at four and after showering and everything, because you don't want to not shower getting home from a long day of travel like that. I had to wake up early to go weigh in for the last final weigh in that I could for Orange Theory Fitness' like transformation challenge. Not a sponsor by the way, just a member. And I came in first, so I won like money. I won like this cool swag bag, backpack full of cool swag. And the coolest thing about that was I lost three pounds the last week while I was on that cruise. I don't know if any of you have ever been on a cruise before, but you don't lose three pounds on a cruise. I somehow lost three pounds on a cruise. I did eat healthy, and I didn't overindulge in anything, but I did pound some pie. I ate so much pie on pie day, which is March 14th, so 3.14 obviously is pie day. And being the nerd cruise that it is, they had a whole selection of different pies to try on pie day.

14 pounds is what I lost in the eight weeks of that transformation challenge. So 14 pounds down in eight weeks, which is pretty solid.