Unleash Your Freelance Superpowers: Revolutionize Your Creative Business with the TOTS Playbook Method

Brian Hood (0:00)

This is the 6 Figure Creative Podcast, Episode 245

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Hello, and welcome to the 6 Figure Creative Podcast. I'm your host, Brian Hood. If this is your first time listening to the show, first of all, I just want to welcome you. Thank you for even giving the show a chance. You are in the right place right now. If you are a creative freelancer, you are trying to make more money with your creative skills. You want to do it without selling your soul. This episode specifically will be great for those of you who are probably on the upper end of your limits as far as how much work you can actually complete.

You are at your wit's end with a lot of stuff that you are working on in your business that you don't want to do, or that's taken away from your creativity, and you are ready for a change that will potentially revolutionize your business, unlock your creativity. And what is the title of this episode? Your freelance superpowers, something like that. We'll see what I end up picking for this episode. But if that sounds interesting to you, this episode is going to be awesome. For my returning listeners, great to have you back. I love having you here. I just got back from my four-year anniversary trip with my wife. We went to the Smoky Mountains, which is Gatlinburg, Tennessee, which is like the kitschiest town on earth, if you've ever been there. If somebody came from another planet and saw Gatlinburg, Tennessee, or Pigeon Forge more specifically, they would have a lot of questions about humanity. Honestly, even if you're not from this area, maybe from the Northeast or from the West Coast, or those of you who are from overseas in another country, if you came to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, you would really wonder what the hell is going on over here in America. There are giant buildings for theaters that are like the kitschiest dinner theaters on earth. There are wild multi-level go-kart tracks that just like spiral up into the air. Many golf courses everywhere. It's like the Vegas of the South without casinos. It's more about just like kitschy tourist trap destinations.

We went there for two specific things. One was to just relax, sit in the hot tub, enjoy this wonderful mountain view that we had. The other thing was to go visit Dollywood. For those of you who are Dolly Parton fans, there's a theme park that is called Dollywood. It is for the country singer, Dolly Parton. It's her park, and it is magnificent. There's like a bunch of roller coasters, a legitimate steam locomotive engine, like from the 1800s that they just ride around the park that you can get on with like coal-powered engine. They're like actually shoveling coal, and it's like spitting coal dust in the air.

So we just had a really good weekend. We enjoyed ourselves. We did a Shadow and Bone watch party where we kind of went through season two there. But that's my update since the last time I did a podcast episode. It's kind of been a pretty big break here since I did the last set of interviews, and now I'm back on the treadmill of week-to-week episodes again, which has some fun parts and it has some stressful parts as well. So let's dive into the episode today because I've got something that I think a lot of freelancers need to hear right now.

I'm speaking to my Enneagram fours if you know who you are right now. You make the mistake of thinking that your creative process is so special that there is no possible way that you could bottle it up and share it with the world.

And I want to equate this to something that was on my mind. I heard this on a podcast I was listening to of a baker who creates the perfect cake, the perfect cake, capital letters, trademark it, they create the perfect cake, right? And she makes it for a client, and that client is so happy. It's amazing birthday cake. They tell all of their friends like, hey, this is the perfect cake trademark, and you should get this from this baker. And then the friends go and get this from the baker, and it's just not the same. It's not as good.

It's too much sugar or too much flour or too dry or too stodgy, whatever.