The 6 Levels of Freelancing - Part 1

Brian Hood (0:00)

This is the 6 Figure Creative Podcast, episode 185

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 bald, beautiful, sexy co-host, Christopher J. Graham. How are you doing today, Chris?

Christopher J. Graham (0:33)

Better with these new adjectives.

Brian Hood (0:35)

Yeah. If I were a better co-host, I would come up with brand new adjectives every single episode, but I'm not, I don't think I'm creative enough for that.

With a show called the 6 Figure Creative, I should be more creative than that.

Christopher J. Graham (0:49)

How are you, man? What's new in your life?

Brian Hood (0:51)

Man, I'm doing so good. I'm repping the file pass hoodie. I haven't worn this thing in a while. Made this for NAMM 2020

It says Death to Dropbox on the back of it. Even though I love Dropbox, I just think it's a funny little slogan to put on the back of it. It stopped heads at the NAMM show, which I miss.

Christopher J. Graham (1:04)

Did Facebook show you like a two years ago memory of us out in California two years ago? I think it's like today.

Brian Hood (1:12)

Two years ago today, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, good times. For those who weren't there, it's just like a, it's the National Association of Music Merchandising, I think is what it stands for.

And it was like, it's where like probably 100,000 music nerds get together.

Christopher J. Graham (1:23)

150,000.

Brian Hood (1:25)

150,000 music nerds. And it's one of the most fun things you can do if you are in the music world in any way, shape or form.

Christopher J. Graham (1:31)

It's literally next door to Disneyland.

Brian Hood (1:33)

All right, let's get into the episode today. I think we got a, we got a doozy. This could end up being a two-parter depending on how long this takes.

It's one of the, it's the longest outline we've ever done.

Christopher J. Graham (1:40)

It's so funny to me when you, when you hear like on so many different shows or YouTubes and podcasts, we got a great episode for you guys today. And they just say it every episode.

This is actually, I think, the best outline for an episode that we've had in quite some time, maybe ever.

Brian Hood (1:56)

I'll let our audience be the, all this is for anyone that doesn't buy into Chris Graham's hype, all this is a rehash of an older episode on episode 17, the five stages of a successful recording career. This episode is gonna be the six, as of right now, the six levels of a successful freelancing career. But this is gonna be a lot different than the last episode because Chris and I recorded that episode almost four years ago.

Christopher J. Graham (2:17)

We was dumber back then.

Brian Hood (2:21)

I mean, we were just different people back then. In four years, you change a lot, especially as an entrepreneur. We were forced to adapt and change and grow, especially with the shit we went through in 2020, 2021

So we are different people now. We have different perspectives. We purposely did not look at our outline for that episode, and we purposely did not go back and listen to that episode. So any similarities or dissimilarities or anything we say against that goes against what we said before, that's fine. Today's episode is correct. That old episode is wrong, outdated, and dead to us now.

Christopher J. Graham (2:48)

Well, and what you said earlier about that we didn't go back and listen to it on purpose. I would like to preface this episode by saying, I'm really good at not going back and listening to our old episodes on purpose.

Brian Hood (3:00)

Of our 185 episodes now, how many episodes do you think you've actually listened to start to finish?

Christopher J. Graham (3:05)

Hmm, let's not count ones that I had to make while you were on your honeymoon.

Brian Hood (3:09)

Which was like two episodes. Okay, so there's two.

Christopher J. Graham (3:11)

Both, that was like seven episodes. You were like, I'll be back at some point. And I was like, oh my God, this is harder than it looks.

I listened to the full episode that you had. What was it? It was just a solo episode about some of the problems that we've been facing.