How To Turn Your Knowledge, Passion, And Experience Into An Income Stream | With Graham Cochrane

Brian Hood (0:00)

This is the 6 Figure Creative Podcast, Episode 191

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. I'm here with my big, bald, beautiful co-host.

Is that a purplish, pinkish, lavender hoodie? Christopher J. Graham, how are you doing today, Chris?

Christopher Graham (0:35)

I'm fantastic, man. I'm having a great day.

Brian Hood (0:38)

You sound a little sick. Is it just because you just woke up, or is it like you got COVID right now? What's going on?

Christopher Graham (0:42)

No, I slept in this morning. I stayed up super late last night making art and recording things and adjusting cameras and having so much fun.

And so I'm a little bit sleepy today.

Brian Hood (0:53)

Well, I'm just going to call you out. According to our shared app here for health.

Christopher Graham (0:58)

Oh, man.

Brian Hood (0:58)

You moved like 500 steps yesterday. Like you were so low on the exercise because I got an Apple watch and we shared each other's health data with each other because that's like a privacy concern. And now I can like shame Chris if he doesn't get at least...

I mean, I've been doing 10,000 steps a day every day. I've been doing about 90 minutes of workouts.

Christopher Graham (1:16)

I saw that you burned an awful lot of calories at like 10:30 PM last night. Wow, dude.

Brian Hood (1:24)

When it invaded my private... Actually, my watch was off last night, so that's a bold face lie.

Graham Cochrane (1:30)

What kind of podcast is this?

Brian Hood (1:31)

Yeah, our guest is like, what is this? So speaking of guests, we have a three-peat guest today. We have Mr. Graham Cochrane on the show who has been on episode 46, episode 90, and then kind of like a little fun reappearance. We brought him back, a replay episode of 171 We brought his personal finance episode back. So this is your third interview, fourth time to show up on the show. Mr. Graham Cochrane, good to have you here.

Graham Cochrane (1:52)

Wow, I'm honored to be a four-peat, really, if you want to. I want to take all the credit I can get. So all opportunities to say yes, I was here.

Brian Hood (2:00)

Yeah, so Graham, for those who don't know, just to say it right now, I'm going to mess this up. Chris Graham and Graham Cochrane. I'm going to mess these names up. I guarantee it on this episode. But Graham Cochrane has the wonderful podcast of which I am an avid listener. I listen to just about every single episode every single week of the Graham Cochrane show. And I have been since the beginning. There was a lull where I went about six months without listening, and then I caught back up on all of them. So like, I'm a fan, Graham.

And not just that, I'm a member of your membership site too. I joined this go-around as well.

Graham Cochrane (2:26)

So dude, I thought I saw you join. This is incredible.

Brian Hood (2:29)

I'm not just a fan. I am a client or customer of Graham's as well. And also business coach for Chris Graham. So just so you know, like he is the highest, the highest we could possibly recommend someone to our audience, Graham Cochrane on this show. And he's going to come on here today to talk to us about something that I'm really, really, to use a bad word, passionate about. Something that I believe wholeheartedly in.

And it's something that I'm about to make a whole neon sign to go on my wall behind me that says this, because I say it so freaking much.

And it's the saying that I say all the time, which is, it takes more than passion, because as freelancers, we're almost always passion first. We're passion led. We got into this because of something called passion. But that doesn't mean we're a business owner. That doesn't mean we're equipped to do what we need to do in order to succeed. And Graham is going to hopefully kick our booties into gear. We don't cuss on this podcast anymore, by the way, Graham. So that's a fun thing. Or if we do, we do. Sometimes we bleep it out. That's the 6 Figure Creative way today. But you're going to kick our booties into gear, Graham. So let's talk about just that line right there. It takes more than passion to make it as a anything. Honestly, as a business owner, as a freelancer, or to anything, if you're trying to make a living from it.