How To Spend Less Time Doing The Stuff You Hate | The Easy Ates Framework

Brian Hood (0:00)

This is the 6 Figure Creative Podcast, episode 216

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 an 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'm your host, Brian Hood. I'm here with my special recurring substitute to co-host yet again, Mr. Mark Eckert. Hi, Mark.

Mark Eckert (0:32)

Substitute teacher in the house. What's happening, babies? How are you doing?

Brian Hood (0:35)

Hi. So if this is your first time listening to our podcast, by the way, our podcast is all about making more from your passions and creativity and hopefully doing it without selling your soul.

And we focus specifically on getting more clients, on making your business run smoother, anything that you need to be to be a better entrepreneur. And I'm kind of watching this intro, but you kind of get the gist of this. If you're a recurring person, you've been listening to this podcast for a long time. Thank you for coming back. It means a lot to me and Mark and anyone else who cares about this podcast. It means a lot to them as well.

Today's episode is going to be a treat. But before we get into that, Mark, how have you been, my dude?

Mark Eckert (1:04)

I don't like talking about my feelings.

Brian Hood (1:06)

No, you put on the world's noisiest jacket seconds before we started recording. So when you hear Mark swishing around in the background, you'll know he's listening. He's wearing a North Face jacket, unsponsored by the way.

Mark Eckert (1:16)

Yeah, that's right. They don't pay me.

I'm doing this for free. No, dude, I got the AC on in here. You know, I'm a little chilly. I think it's fine. I'm trying to protect myself. I'm, you know, I'm breaking out in hives. It's so cold.

We're like cranking the AC. I don't even know why. I should probably actually turn it down.

Brian Hood (1:32)

You're the only person I know that would just willingly crank their AC to the point where they're uncomfortably cold and just keep paying the bill every month because I don't know many people that do that.

Mark Eckert (1:41)

I like constantly being uncomfortable. It makes me work harder. Some of us are real entrepreneurs, bro. Come on.

Brian Hood (1:46)

Okay, whatever, man.

Right now, I've got, I literally have a gauge in my room right there. That's like a thermometer that I got off Amazon, like a little portable one. It's 76.8 degrees in this room right now. Really hot. I do have a fan blowing in my right now, but it's because I'm too cheap to run my AC nonstop like you because at 6 Figure Creative, I don't want you to just earn the money. I want you to keep the money, too.

Mark Eckert (2:05)

I'm all about making 5 figures spinning 6 So God only made one perfect. He chose me, baby.

Brian Hood (2:14)

Can I have a gripe really quick? Like, okay, so for anyone who's ever run ads before, people who comment on ads are the lowest of the low on the totem pole on this earth.

That's just a universal truth. If you've ever run any sort of substantial money behind ads, you know this. Mark, I know you've run ads, so you know this. They're worse than Reddit comments. They're worse than YouTube comments. They're worse than any other medium. And so one of the things that I get more than anything when they see the name 6 Figure Creative, or previously when I was running ads under the brand 6 Figure Home Studio, the recurring joke was always, you know how to have a 6 figure business?

Start with 7 figures and then lose it or some other variation of that same stupid joke. And I hate it.

Mark Eckert (2:56)

Which I love because they didn't even like come up with that insult themselves. That's a Richard Branson quote on how to start a profitable airline is start with a billion dollars and then you can maybe make a couple million dollars. It shows how creative they are.

Brian Hood (3:10)

That or he got it from his like degenerate uncle years before and he just repurposed it into a more sophisticated billionaire quote.

Mark Eckert (3:17)

Yes. And by the way, if you guys out there have not read Richard Branson's book, Losing My Virginity, it's actually one of my favorite books ever.