How You Can Work ON Your Business Instead of IN Your Business (Part 3)

Brian Hood (0:00)

This is the 6 Figure Home Studio Podcast, episode 95

Welcome back to another episode of the 6 Figure Home Studio Podcast. I am your host, Brian D. Hood. I'm here with my amazing bald and beautiful purple-shirted, glassy, four-eyed, stupid, big, dog-headed host, Christopher J. Graham. I feel like, Mr. Graham, I feel like I've gotten meaner and meaner over the last ten episodes on your intro, and I'm going to dial that back.

Christopher J. Graham (0:43)

Well, we have to switch it up in some way. If meanness is the direction that it needs to go, then so be it.

Brian Hood (0:49)

I know.

I mean, sometimes you just need to let it out. If you've had a rough day, if you just got that one support email that you just want to like stab your eyes out, you know when you get those emails, you have to type up a really mean reply and then just never send it, just so you can get out of your system.

Christopher J. Graham (1:06)

Yeah.

Brian Hood (1:07)

Instead of doing that, I can just insult you in front of thousands of people.

Christopher J. Graham (1:11)

You can.

Brian Hood (1:12)

And make myself feel better.

Christopher J. Graham (1:13)

One of the funny things that I remember when we went to Yosemite, there was a small child when we got lunch, right before we were getting ready to do the Valley Walk, and there was a small child who face planted right in front of us. And I remember you began laughing really loud and mocking the child, and the mom looked up at you like, what?

And I was like, oh yeah, he was-

Brian Hood (1:37)

I will not pretend to be a grown adult at any point in my life. I will always find that funny, and I will be unapologetically laughing at any child's face that face plants into the snow.

Just for the record, it was into the snow.

Christopher J. Graham (1:49)

No, no, it was on Submit.

Oh yeah, he didn't have kids yet. That's true. He'll learn the ways soon enough.

Brian Hood (2:00)

You know what, if my kid face plants, I'm gonna be laughing at him too, so it's okay in the world.

Christopher J. Graham (2:04)

Oh man, you have not experienced dad anxiety, or as I like to call it, dadxiety.

Brian Hood (2:09)

I knew you were gonna put those two words together, man.

Christopher J. Graham (2:11)

Well-

Brian Hood (2:12)

You're such a dad with your dad jokes.

Christopher J. Graham (2:14)

That's what you do, man.

Brian Hood (2:15)

Hey, man, I tell my dad jokes, and sometimes he laughs. Oh, that's the only dad joke I'll ever tell in this podcast, which, by the way, is brought to you by LaCroix.

Christopher J. Graham (2:32)

Back to what you said a minute ago about, you knew I was gonna combine those two words, because simplification is better, it's good, and that is the topic.

Brian Hood (2:41)

It's the worst segue we've ever had into a podcast episode ever.

Christopher J. Graham (2:45)

But it's a simple segue.

Brian Hood (2:47)

No, it's not, because now we have to explain how bad your segue was, and then explain what we're gonna actually talk about. Today's episode is all about simplification. The last few episodes in the series, we talked about ways to work on your business, not in your business, ways to work on your business in order to give you more time and to help make you more money. The third and probably final part of this series is ways to work on your business in order to simplify things, because a lot of what we gave you these last couple episodes, you'll be working on those things, and they can get out of hand really fast. They can get uber complicated.

And I'm gonna use a quote here, I'm gonna steal from you, Chris, what gets fancy gets broken. We're gonna talk about that today, but before we get into today's episode, let's talk about our two sponsors we have today, which are really just mining Chris's companies.

Christopher J. Graham (3:34)

I forgot about that, yeah.

Brian Hood (3:36)

First sponsor for today is Chris's company, Bounce Butler. Chris?

Christopher J. Graham (3:42)

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