The 6 Levels of Freelancing - Part 2

Brian Hood (0:00)

This is The 6 Figure Creative Podcast, episode 186

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, and I'm here with my big, bald, beautiful, weird kind of weird co-host, if you can see what he's doing right now on camera, Christopher J. Graham. Chris, how are you doing today, my dude?

Christopher J. Graham (0:36)

Brian, I'm great. And I'm great because yesterday, I had a return credit at Best Buy.

Brian Hood (0:42)

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

You shop at Best Buy. Who shops at, people still shop at Best Buy.

Christopher J. Graham (0:47)

I love Best Buy, which brings me to a second level of conversation that maybe we shouldn't have yet, but I've started recently shopping at a place called Micro Center. And Micro Center, it smells like nerds, dude.

Brian Hood (1:01)

It smells like nerds? So it's like the sweatiest shop on earth?

Christopher J. Graham (1:05)

It is, and it's like a build your own computer. It's like, oh cool, they built like a VR racing rig, or they've got a computer monitor that's 360 degrees around your head. Like, it's just a nerd store. And they've got lots of good audio gear, but lots of great computer gear. And I want to get us a sponsorship.

Brian Hood (1:23)

No, I will say, no, thank you, sir.

Please, goodbye. I don't know, I'll hang up the phone because they'll call me on a landline. I'll have a landline, and take it somewhere in my house. Because no one shots at Best Buy or whatever, Compute, what is this place called? I'm not even going to give them the time of day. Tell me your story, Chris. You had a story for me, and that's the only thing, you drew me in and then you pushed me away with this trash story about-

Christopher J. Graham (1:47)

It's true, but I created anticipation for the actual story. Well, I went to Micro Center. I had a blast with my kids. They were freaking out. I bought them like cool gaming computer stuff. And then the next day, I had to return something that I bought and didn't work out for me at Best Buy. And so I had to store credit.

And I was looking around thinking what I should spend my store credit on. And I was like, you know, my last apartment, I had a robot vacuum. And it was pretty nice. And every day at two o'clock, this robot vacuum, this very cheap and expensive robot vacuum would turn on and it would vacuum my house. And then I got Buster. I got my dog. And it was amazing.

Until one day, Buster was home alone at two o'clock and he made a little poo poo.

Brian Hood (2:28)

Chris, you've told this story in the podcast before. This is already a story we've told. Why are you telling it again?

Christopher J. Graham (2:32)

It has a resolution. That vacuum cleaner ate the poo poo.

Brian Hood (2:36)

Yeah, and it smeared it around your house. And that video got some views on TikTok. So thanks for that. But what's the point for our audience who's already heard the story?

Christopher J. Graham (2:43)

Well, I went to Best Buy and they just so happened to have a brand new robot, Brian. I'm gonna introduce you to her. Her name's Jill Palmer.

Brian Hood (2:51)

Oh, ours is named Tippi.

Christopher J. Graham (2:53)

Oh, Jill Palmer won't let me turn her on.

Of course. She's shy right now, guys. But Jill Palmer, oh boy, Brian. I'm so excited because my apartment is ridiculously clean right now. We are not sponsored. But I got the one with Poopoo Protection.

Brian Hood (3:08)

Wait, there's a Poopoo Protection robot?

Christopher J. Graham (3:10)

Yes, the iRobot J7 has a camera in front of it. And they tested thousands of piles of poop to make sure that the vacuum cleaner would be like, yo, I'm not gonna smear that into the carpet.

And it was like half off and I had to store credit. And I picked that sucker up, man. And I'm so excited to have a system that I don't have to think about. It's just my freaking apartment gets cleaned. And so I can focus on everything else.

Brian Hood (3:36)

I like the payoff. For those who are long time listeners, you've heard the story, Art. Chris got a dog he adopted, and then it pooped on the floor and it got smeared everywhere by his old vacuum. And it was a system that ran amok. And it turned into a beautiful story that was actually relevant to the podcast episode.