The 5 Business Bottlenecks Holding You Back From $100,000 Per Year

Brian Hood (0:00)

This is the 6 Figure Creative Podcast, episode 189

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, Christopher J. Graham, after our like...

Christopher J. Graham (0:31)

That part of our show never gets old. I love it.

Brian Hood (0:35)

Yeah. I mean, that's the only time you get compliments from me.

That's literally the only time you get compliments from me.

Christopher J. Graham (0:41)

That's the only reason I come. That's the only reason.

Anyways, Brian, how are you, sir?

Brian Hood (0:46)

I'm good, man. I got my new neon sign behind me, as you can see, if you're watching this on YouTube. It says something that I say all the time.

Christopher J. Graham (0:53)

It says, P is stored in the balls.

Brian Hood (0:59)

No, it doesn't say that, but if you want to see what it says, go to your YouTube channel and watch this. That's all I'm going to say. All you people are going to feel FOMO now. But it's something I say all the damn time, and I got tired of saying it, so I made a sign for it, and it's behind me. Here's the coolest part. I'm going to do a little of this, and it's, we can also do these things too. Look at that. Oh, dang.

Christopher J. Graham (1:15)

Oh my gosh. Okay, this is gratuitous calls to action to go look at our YouTube channel for mediocre content at best.

Brian Hood (1:23)

All right, Chris, how you been, man? How you been?

Christopher J. Graham (1:25)

I have been good. And Brian, many times have I thought about having this conversation with you.

Brian Hood (1:30)

Oh God. This is never, that is never the beginning of a good conversation.

Christopher J. Graham (1:34)

No, no, it's a very good one. You know how we get obsessed with like things?

Brian Hood (1:38)

No, that's you. That's literally only you. You're the guy who spends $3,000, $3,000 on headphones. You're the guy who buys a like camera monitor so you can stare at yourself more when you're filming things like.

Christopher J. Graham (1:48)

Oh my gosh.

Brian Hood (1:49)

You're the guy obsessed with things. Okay, I appreciate things. No, I appreciate things. I appreciate my coffee stuff because I like making, like roasting my own beans, but I don't mind.

I don't obsess over them.

Christopher J. Graham (1:59)

You like the coffee stuff a lot. You love roasting your coffee beans. I know because we've talked about this in the past that you do not have an air fryer.

And I would like to say to you and the rest of our audience, dear God, get an air fryer. I am in the cult.

Brian Hood (2:15)

Oh my God.

Christopher J. Graham (2:16)

It is so awesome. I got the Ninja version. It's got two drawers and my kids and I are like, hey, chicken tenders and French fries. Bing, bing, bing. No preheat time. It's delicious.

Brian Hood (2:30)

Here's the thing is I'm not against air fryers. The problem is we have limited counter space in our house and we don't want an ugly ass air fryer sitting up on our counter 24 seven. So like there's a place on the counter, but there's just no place in the counters to store it long term. And I'm just not about that life. Our coffee roaster is big enough. We're not going to get another piece of another appliance. But you know what? Let's just talk about for a second. I just want to make sure our audience understands that Chris is obsessed. You're the one that talked about your vacuum multiple times on the podcast. You're the one who's obsessed with things.

And it's always the most amazing thing on earth to Chris Graham.

Christopher J. Graham (3:01)

It's true. This might be the most amazing thing on earth. Because when you use the air fryer, like all the hype, all the TikToks that you guys see that are like, oh, air fryer this, air fryer that, it's so freaking good. It's almost as fast as a microwave.

It tastes way better than an oven.

Brian Hood (3:18)

I would guarantee that most of our audience does not get air fryer TikToks in their algorithm. You do though, Chris, you do, because they know you're obsessed with products and gadgets. All right, let's get in the episode today. So last week on the podcast, we talked about personal bottlenecks, and it sounds really boring, but it's actually a really interesting episode. I thought, I feel like me and Chris really opened up a lot on that episode, and just talked about like personal stuff. We talked about like, because the whole, if you didn't go back and listen to that, it's not 100% necessary for this, but you can kind of think of this as a part two. We're going to talk about business bottlenecks today.