Most Pure Creatives Are Selfish (Here’s Why That Matters)

Brian Hood (0:00)

This is the Six Figure Creative Podcast, episode 393

Welcome to the Six 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. Hello, and welcome to the Six Figure Creative Podcast. I am your host, Brian Hood. If this is your first time listening to the show, first of all, welcome. So glad to have you here. This podcast is for creative freelancers who want to earn more money from their creative skills without selling their soul. That sounds like you. You are absolutely in the right place. For my returning listeners and viewers on YouTube, awesome to have you back. I just got home from a wonderful trip with my wife and a couple other friends, couples, where it just happened to be all three of the women's birthdays last week, including my wife. We went out to Taos, New Mexico. If anyone's ever heard of that or been to that, Taos is like a small ski town in the high desert of New Mexico, and it is a gorgeous, gorgeous town. Charming. So much history there. It's one of the few places you can go in America and actually have a thousand years of history. We went to the Pueblos of Taos, and it's a continuously inhabited village that has been around for like a thousand plus years. It's crazy when you think about it, because in America, like a historic building to us is like from the 1800s.

You go anywhere else, like Europe or Asia, and it's like thousands of years of history. If you want that in America, New Mexico is a great place to go. Nashville, probably not the best place to go. But I am feeling rejuvenated, I'm feeling refreshed, and I highly recommend anyone who's ever thought of going to New Mexico, make a trip out there. It's actually beautiful. We did Taos and we did Santa Fe as well. Santa Fe is beautiful. My wife and I decided we need to go spend more time there. But anyways, happy birthday to my wife. She's amazing. And now I'm going to talk about what you're here for. Not me and my travels or my wife's birthday even. And you're here to learn about or talk about the topic of the show today. And the topic I have today is something I'm really passionate about, something I've talked about more and more recently, and something that I think is worth considering no matter which side of the spectrum you're on. But on this show specifically, we have to continuously talk about this battle between the creative and the entrepreneur. At the beginning of every show I've said for like the past, I've been saying it for a bunch of episodes recently, we help you earn more without selling your soul on this podcast. And people who go too far in the entrepreneurial world, they end up selling their soul and making more money and being miserable. That's one side of it. And then the other side of it is the creative, the person who is just making art for art's sake, and they struggle immensely with how to actually earn money. And the place that I would love for you to get to is to find that balance in the middle. So I want to spend this entire episode talking about the creative versus the entrepreneur. There are good parts and there are bad parts of both sides. And my goal for you is to find what are the parts of the creative that you possess right now that are good, that you should keep and nurture and grow, and what are the bad parts of the creative that you currently have that you need to get rid of. And then what are the good parts of the entrepreneur that you should keep and nurture and grow? What are the parts that you're missing that you should find a way to add to your skill set or to your personality? And then the negatives of the entrepreneur, what are those that you may need to cut back on? Again, there's pros and cons on both sides, and I want to dive into both here, because both are absolutely needed if we're trying to make money from our creative skills. And if you're listening to this podcast or watching us on YouTube, then you absolutely want that, or else why are you here? So, let's first start with the creative. The creative is what almost all of us start out as. You don't really become a creative freelancer if you're not first a creative. Usually, we first find a skill or something that we're passionate about that takes creativity, and we hone our skillset until we are good enough to start earning money. And then typically, this isn't always the case for everyone, but typically we fall into freelancing. It's not necessarily an intentional thing for a lot of people. Sometimes it is, but a lot of people, we fall into the passion first, the money kind of follows. So, when we're talking about the good parts of the creative, the first and foremost, the biggest thing ever is the fact that we can create something from nothing. And that is incredible. When you sit down and think about this, the ability to make something from nothing is about as close as we have to the golden touch as humans. You can take just an idea, and you can make it real as a creative. That is an amazing thing to be able to do. And that is the thing that we get paid to do as creatives. We take an idea, a concept, a vision, and we make it a reality in some way, shape, or form. Yes, some of it might take special gear.