Why You DON'T Need To Be A Better Creative in 2023 | Full Stack Freelancer Pt. 1

Brian Hood (0:00)

This is the 6 Figure Creative Podcast, episode 235

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.

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, you are in the right place right now. If you are a freelancer, or preferably a creative freelancer, who is looking to make this more than just a side hustle, more than just a side gag, you want to make this your full-time thing, maybe six figures or more, which is why we're called the 6 Figure Creative. If that sounds like you, then you are in the right place. Typically on the show, we bring other experts from other fields, people in photography niche, or videography, or graphic design, or my own background in the audio industry. We bring people from all different industries so we can learn from each other and figure out what's working in different industries that we can bring back to our own. I believe in learning from other places and seeing what they're doing, what's successful, what's not successful, and then bring it back to my business. However, lately, I've been doing a lot of solo episodes, partly because it's the holidays and partly because I just really enjoy doing these. I do have a lot of plans to bring some guests on in 2023 and beyond, but it's just hard to do it over the holidays. And to be honest, I've been neglecting what I call my guest acquisition funnel. This is the funnel we use to actually reach out to people and get them booked on the show. So from time to time, I like to share my own experiences. For those of you who don't know my background or anything about me, I was trying to come up this morning when I was playing this episode out.

I think I've launched more than nine different six-figure income streams. And not all these are like six figures a year. I just mean like things that I've put out in the world that have earned me more than six figures.

I think I'm up to nine, maybe 10 at this point. And so through all of these different income streams from all of the different industries and product types, I've had to develop a lot of skills, and I've had a lot of experiences, a lot of fails, a lot of struggles along the way. And so I like to just bring these experiences and these ideas to you in these solo episodes.

And today's episode is no different. So we are halfway through January right now, January 2023, and I have a question for you, a rhetorical question, because you can't answer me or you can't answer me. Feel free to answer me. Like if you're on a subway listening right now, you're on a walk, just talk back to me and people will think you're weird, it's fine. It wouldn't be the weirdest thing that happens on the subway. I definitely know that. Here's the question. Do you think freelancing will be more or less competitive this year than it was last year in whatever niche you're in or whatever industry you're in? Do you think your industry is gonna be more or less competitive in 2023?

The answer to that is probably more competitive in most cases, unless you're either in a dying industry or you are in an industry that is like so unique.

I'd be questioning whether or not you can actually survive and thrive in that industry to begin with. But for most people listening to the show, your industry will be more competitive in 2023 and beyond than it was last year. And I know in my own experience, from my background in music production, the entire music industry, from recording to mixing to editing to mastering to all of the little specialist jobs in between, that industry has seen massive change over the last decade. And it's gotten more and more competitive every year as that skill gap decreases.

There's amazing resources out there to learn how to do all of the skills, the creative skills around audio engineering and recording engineering and music production. And it's the same in pretty much every creative genre. It's an explosion of amazing free and paid resources out there and courses to learn every skill you need to learn. But I was looking at some statistics. I got data free today. This just kind of supports my argument of whether or not it's going to be more or less competitive for all of you listening right now.