Should You Just Quit?

Brian Hood (0:00)

This is the 6 Figure Creative Podcast, episode 173

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Welcome to the 6 Figure Creative Podcast. This is a very different episode from normal. Very, very different, actually, because I'm solo, I have absolutely no notes.

It is all from the gut today. And the topic of today's episode actually ties back into why today's episode is a different type of episode and why I'm doing this solo and why I have no notes for it and all that stuff and why I'm recording this, like, just a few days before it's supposed to air and so on and so forth. And this is ultimately going to tie back to something that's extremely relevant for you, the person watching on YouTube right now or listening on your podcast app right now, because it's the question that we all have to face at some time or another, and that is the question of should we just quit? Should we just quit? Should I just quit? Should you just quit? And when I'm talking about quitting, I'm talking about anything, like anything worth doing, whether you are struggling with your business right now as a whole and you're considering just quitting, just throwing in the towel and going back to a day job that you hate, or maybe a day job you don't even hate. It's just not exactly what you want to do. Or maybe it's something specifically in your business right now that you're going up against that you're considering quitting, whether it's trying something new in marketing, whether it's building a new system out, whether it's doing something like completely revamping your business that you've been trying to do something for a long time. And then ultimately you decide, should I just quit? Or you have the question inside of you, should I just quit? And this is how it ties back to this podcast right here, because the 6 Figure Creative as a whole, for anyone who's been listening for a long time on the 6 Figure Home Studio for the first 150 episodes, everything was a lot different than it is now. And those 150 episodes were a lot of fun for Chris and I to do. But we hit this point where we kind of had to face the question, should we just quit what we're doing? But that was a different kind of question we were answering, because it wasn't really just, should we quit and just move on from the podcast? The question really was, should we completely revamp everything we're doing from the ground up and essentially start over again and try to bring the group of people along with the ride that were already with us, which is you listening right now, chances are.

Because what had happened after 150 episodes is we felt like we were getting stagnant. Like, Chris and I only have so much in our brains, and to come up with new, fresh content after 150 episodes is really a tall order. And so we wanted to start bringing experts in from other industries to start bringing stuff to us in the audio world or the music production world.

And the byproduct of that would be attracting different kinds of people to our world as well. So we moved out to the 6 Figure Creative. So with that came a lot of pain.

The word is relative, like pain, not really. It's like, sort of pain, but it's, I like to use the word more friction than anything. With that came a lot of friction. And that friction came in the form of completely redoing everything we were doing for the podcast. The rhythm and the christen, and I promise you, if you're watching right now, you're like, why the hell is Brian telling me this?

This ties back into you. I promise I will tie this 100% back to you, the struggles you're going with right now. There's still a big payoff for you, so don't worry. But I'm just trying to make a story so you kind of get this stuck in your head and think about this next time you're considering should I just quit. But with the podcast, we completely revamped everything that we did because we had a really good routine, Chris and I. It was a routine of every Tuesday and or Thursday at 1 p.m. my time, 2 p.m. Chris' time, we would just show up. We had no plan other than we were going to record a podcast that day. And sometimes we didn't even record a podcast. All we did was chat and just be friends. So that was really good routine. It built our friendship, and a lot of people can tell over the years, like Chris and I's friendship has been a huge part of like why people stick around because they get to know me and Chris, they feel like they're a third friend with me and Chris. You feel like you're along for the ride, and that is a really good formula for a podcast. And it wasn't fake, don't get me wrong. It wasn't like a formula we were doing for TV. Like that's genuinely, that's how Chris and I have been. So none of that was for the podcast. That was just genuinely who we were in that season of our lives. So when we shifted to an interview-based podcast, that's where the friction comes in. We are trying to move to where we're doing weekly interviews, and that completely basically throws away the year and a half, or I'm sorry, the 150 episodes, three years of work, that we had done so far, building this really good system and a routine around getting episodes out weekly for the podcast. So now the question comes, how's that going, 6 Figure Creative? Well, pure download numbers, we're doing fine. People are still listening to our podcasts, and we have not, I'm happy with where we're at right now. That's not the struggle, that's not the friction. The friction is getting a high-quality, high-value guest to our podcast every single week so that you, the listener or the viewer, are gonna get something they can take away from it.