Welcome To The 6 Figure Creative Podcast: Your Guide to Running A Profitable Freelance Business

Brian Hood (0:00)

This is The Six Figure Creative Podcast, Episode 151

Welcome to The Six 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 The Six Figure Creative Podcast. Actually, not welcome back. Welcome to the first episode of The Six Figure Creative Podcast. I am your host, Brian Hood, and I'm here with my big, bald, beautiful, purple-shirted co-host, Christopher J.

Christopher J. Graham (0:36)

Graham.

Brian Hood (0:37)

How are you doing today, my dude?

Christopher J. Graham (0:38)

So good now. Oh my gosh.

Brian Hood (0:40)

Yes, yes.

Christopher J. Graham (0:41)

It took us a while, but we're back.

Brian Hood (0:43)

Yes, so for anyone who this is the first time you ever heard of this podcast, this is The Six Figure Creative Podcast. We have just rebranded from a podcast called The Six Figure Home Studio, where we have been for 150 episodes talking about the business of running a recording studio. This is the first episode that we have re-shifted and rebranded into The Six Figure Creative because now we're branching out to learn from other creatives. That's the whole point behind this podcast is we now want to learn from other creatives. And we want to kind of give you in this episode what to expect on this podcast, why to listen to this podcast, why to listen to us at all, and what you can expect moving forward with The Six Figure Creative Podcast. So the first thing I want to address before we really dive into this is why the name? And are we like some scammy podcast? What's the one like blogger that was like, knowledge man, like he's in front of his Lamborghini?

People like that, no shade to him, like I'm sure he's like a good dude or something. I don't really know the guy. But people like that, the whole like Ferrari, Lamborghini, lifestyle person, like they give podcasts like ours a bad name. And we kind of did to ourselves in naming ourselves The Six Figure Creative. So I want to address that before anything else because I don't want people turned away from that. We don't talk about money just for the sake of money. We are just talking about building a sustainable business with your creative passions. You hear it in our intro. We talk about that.

We just want people to, whatever that number is, six figures, whatever that means to you, that's too high, that's too low. I can never make that much, or I won't even wake up out of bed to make that much. I expect to make seven figures. That's some people.

Just insert whatever monetary amount or whatever thing motivates you. We're just here to learn from other entrepreneurs and to share what we've learned as entrepreneurs along the way. We just want to help share information, to help people speed up their journeys to their creative passion.

Christopher J. Graham (2:20)

And when we say entrepreneur, what we mean as creatives is people who have a passion and they want to do it all damn day long for money. To me, that's success, the freedom to do the work that you want to do.

Brian Hood (2:32)

And let me talk about that again. You just said for money because that puts this achy feeling on the creative side of things. Because we have to keep in mind, not everyone has been on this journey for 150 episodes. And so when we start talking about money, oh my gosh, I feel achy now because I'm going to get paid for something that I love to do all day. Anyways, listen, listen, listen, listen. The reason we are called The Six Figure Creative, the reason we talk about money, the reason we're doing all this stuff is because if we want to be able to do something we love for a living, we have to be paid for it. There's just no other way to do it. You can't sit around all day doing the thing that you love to do for free because now that's just a hobby and hobbies don't feed your kids.

Hobbies don't pay your bills. Hobbies don't pay your rent, your mortgage, your debt, whatever you have to pay for.

Six Figure Creative, we just want to make sure you're monetizing something that you love to do instead of waking up, going to like a day job that you hate, what I call a soul sucking day job. Not all day jobs are bad, but if it's a job that sucks your soul away, that's a bad thing that'll poison your creativity.