Being overwhelmed can stop you from achieving your goals and living the life you want. This can be especially damaging when you run your own business, so your livelihood relies on you alone.

In this episode, Chris and Brian talk about how they deal with overwhelm in their businesses and in life. They also discuss mental health issues such as PTSD, ADHD, and ways to cope as a self-employed creative.

Get ready to start 2022 in the right headspace for success: listen now to learn more!

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For full show notes, visit https://6figurecreative.com/180

For decades, recording studios around the world were able to thrive in a healthy music industry full of platinum albums, hefty recording budgets, and, most importantly, ACTUAL profits.

Things have steadily declined over the past 15 years with large commercial facilities closing down left and right. For many studios, the final nail in the coffin was the COVID-19 lockdown. 

While many are failing, some are still thriving despite the struggles of many other studios. In this week's interview, our guest has turned things around in a big way in an iconic LA studio called Total Access Recordings. 

 Listen now to learn more!

In this episode you’ll discover:

For full show notes, visit https://6figurecreative.com/179

In 2017, John McLucas was homeless and sleeping on a foam pad in his one-room, windowless recording studio. Just a few years later, he's earning a six-figure income as a producer working with pop artists to provide a high-value, white-glove service.

How did he make this massive change? While there isn’t one thing John did right, there are a few big things he did that you can start doing today to put your own freelance business on a similar trajectory. 

Listen to this episode of 6 Figure Creative now to learn more!

In this episode you’ll discover:

For full show notes, visit https://6figurecreative.com/178

Humor is a great way to connect with your friends 1 on 1, but it’s one of the most difficult things to do right in marketing (1 on many).

Allie LeFevere of Obedient Agency has spent the last six years helping companies find the sweet spot between lame, lifeless jokes and cringy, over-the-top humor to get their marketing just right.

Listen now to learn how Allie has built her business from a two-person partnership to a thriving agency with 8 people on the team!

In this episode you’ll discover:

For full show notes, visit https://6figurecreative.com/177

Most freelancers shy away from the corporate world because “they’re special snowflake creatives who will never sell out and could never possibly be fulfilled working with corporations”. 

The reality is that any creative work can be fulfilling. 

The beauty of working with corporate clients is they actually have budgets. 

With budgets come options...

This week’s guest, Daniel Clark Cunningham, is a perfect example of this. 

He’s worked with many household names – from Discovery Network to Dale Earnhardt Jr., to Chevrolet – and he’s learned a lot along the way.

He’s also taken a very unconventional path to get to where he is today. 

Listen now to learn how Daniel used “the war of attrition”, constant failure, and email marketing to build his photography business. 

In this episode you’ll discover:

For full show notes, visit https://6figurecreative.com/176

The words you write have the power to build trust and win clients, but they also have the power to bore people to death and turn away clients. 

It’s your choice whether you want to put in the work to write website copy that does all the “selling” for you.

Most freelancers, unfortunately, leave copywriting as an afterthought. This creates a massive opportunity to stand out from your competitors by taking the time to nail your website copy. 

This week’s guest, Rachel Greiman, is a freelance copywriter who works with nearly 100 clients per year. 

Not only is she earning 6 figures from her freelance work, she’s also writing website copy for other 6 figure freelance photographers (our guest from episode #172 is actually one of her 6 figure clients).

That makes Rachel the perfect expert to bring onto the podcast to teach us all about the process behind copywriting for freelancers. 

In this episode you’ll discover:

For full show notes, visit https://6figurecreative.com/175

You always struggle to make progress in your business.  

Everyone seems to be against you. 

You can’t hire anyone because they’ll never do it as well as you can.

You simply can’t bring yourself to leave the security of your day job.

These are all symptoms of negative mindsets that are holding you back from your full potential as an audio engineer and entrepreneur!

By working to defeat negative mindsets, you can be much more comfortable in your own shoes and teach yourself to succeed rather than waiting for someone to hand things to you on a platter. 

Listen to this episode now to find out how you can identify and eliminate five different toxic mindsets that are ruining your chances of success!

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For full show notes, visit https://6figurecreative.com/174

We’ve all hit the point in our lives when we’ve faced this question. 

“Should I just quit?”

Whether you’re considering giving up on your entire business, or you’re simply considering quitting a new approach to marketing you’ve been trying out, it can be difficult to keep going when stuff gets hard. 

So should you give up and go back to the way things were when it was “easier”? 

Should you push forward and keep trying even when everything sucks? 

That’s what I discuss in this week’s super short podcast episode.

For full show notes, visit https://6figurecreative.com/173

I love learning about people who are earning 6 figures in a relatively obscure niche… especially when they’ve grown that business to where it is in just a few short years. 

Sean Oblizalo has built an incredibly successful adventure elopement photography business. If you’ve never heard of that before, you’re not alone. 

While elopement photography may be relatively obscure, what isn’t obscure are the strategies he used to build his business to 6 figures in such a relatively short amount of time. 

This interview is a gold mine for any freelancer who’s struggling to get website traffic, leads, or clients. 

In this episode you’ll discover:

For full show notes, visit https://6figurecreative.com/172

Do you run a successful business, but find yourself stressed out about finances?

Does it affect your creativity to the point that you aren’t making your projects the absolute best?

If your finances are a shambles, chances are your business isn’t very stable, and neither is your personal life. It’s time to make a change.

A big welcome back to Graham Cochrane of The Graham Cochrane Show as he talks about potential solutions and fail-safes to make sure that you can survive difficult times in your business and come out the other end swinging!

In this episode you’ll discover:

For full show notes, visit https://6figurecreative.com/171