Let's Talk About 7 Things NOT To Do | The Freelance F*ckups Series

Brian Hood (0:00)

This is the 6 Figure Creative Podcast, episode 263

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Hello, and welcome back to another episode of the 6 Figure Creative Podcast. If this is your first time listening to the show or you're brand new, this is a podcast for creative freelancers who are good at what they do.

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For the rest of you returning listeners who've been here a long time, so glad to have you back. This podcast has gone through so many changes over the years. Co-hosts, substitute co-hosts, solo episodes, interviews. We're in like a learning phase still, and I feel like this show has still got a long way to go before it's to the place where I want it to be long term. So, if you have input, suggestions, I always love to hear from you. The episode today is something that stemmed from one of your suggestions, and I would love to get more suggestions from the listeners today to help with this series, because we're starting a new series today. I'm like a pastor who went to church growing up. The pastor always had a sermon series.

I like this series because it helps me plan out a lot of episodes and stick to a theme, and that allows me to get ahead on the show, so I'm not like week to week. And I think this series is great for anyone listening because one of the biggest mistakes people make when they listen to a podcast like this or any other podcast is that it is a flood of information. It is what we call an advice buffet. And when you partake from an advice buffet, you get full and fat very fast, and you do nothing with that energy or that information, much like any buffet.

You tend to take in all this information and you feel scatterbrained, you feel like you have 10 million things to do, and so you feel kind of stuck getting nothing done.

It's really easy for me to sit here from this pedestal of this podcast with a microphone in my face and tell you what to do.

And I wanted to take a step back and change things up to something a little differently for this series instead of just giving you advice or tactics or strategies of things that you should be doing. I wanted to switch it up to something that's probably easier for our regular listeners and even for our new listeners to digest and implement in their businesses. And I'm apologizing in advance for our editor because he's gonna have to bleep out a lot. This is gonna be called the Freelance F**k-Ups series. And we're gonna cover all of the major f**k-ups that freelancers have in different categories. So my vision for this, it's not gonna be as long as the Back to Basics series, but this is gonna be things that you should not do or things that you should avoid as a freelancer. And I think this is a lot easier to digest and implement in our businesses because you can listen through these episodes week to week and we can just see, are we doing any of these things?

Are we currently messing any of these things up? Are we f**king this up? And if yes, then just stop or pivot slightly. It's not the same as me saying, hey, here's a new lead generation strategy, here's a new Facebook ad strategy, or here's the new best funnel, or here is the best way to acquire clients, or here's the best pricing structure, or here's the best business model. Those are major big things to implement. They take a long time.

And with a weekly cadence to the show, you're getting too many things like that in your brain, and you don't know what to do. So I wanted to change it up for that series. So this episode, we're gonna be talking about the biggest general things that freelancers f**k up. I've got seven of them for this episode. It could change, because things can pop in my head as we go, because some mistakes lead to other mistakes, but I've got seven outlined for this show. I enlisted my wife, my wonderful freelance wife, to help me with some of these as well. She's not going to be on the show today. Sorry for all those who want her on the show. She's a way better personality than me, and she'd probably be an amazing co-host, but it's just going to be me today. So let's talk about the seven biggest f**k ups freelancers make, and then what to do about those things. The first on my list today is something that I'm calling for right now, the Snowflake Fallacy. It's the reason the 6 Figure Creative podcast exists, and the Snowflake Fallacy is this.