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Episode 54 - Give Yourself Permission to Start Over

Episode 54 - Give Yourself Permission to Start Over

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 * Listen on Spotify* Listen on Apple* Listen on Youtube* Listen on Pocketcasts* Book Launch checklist: https://BookHip.com/BDSWRRT* Millionaire Author Mastermind Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/millionaireauthormastermind/* http://hapitalist.com/What if the thing keeping your creative career stuck isn’t a lack of talent, strategy, or opportunity, but the belief that you’re no longer allowed to change?In this episode of Six Figure Author Experiment, Lee and Russell look backward at the strange, messy paths that led them into full-time creative careers and forward at what happens when the career you’ve built no longer fits the person you’ve become.Russell shares the decade he spent trying to break into filmmaking, directing, comics, and publishing while making almost no money, accumulating debt, and repeatedly watching projects stall. Eventually, Kickstarter, conventions, direct sales, and years of experimentation helped him build a completely different path than the one he’d originally imagined. Pasted textLee traces her own creative life back even further, exploring how childhood reading became both an escape and the foundation for her writing, and how family expectations, religious upbringing, money, sexuality, and ideas about what constituted a “real” career shaped what she believed she was allowed to become. It wasn’t until she finally decided to call herself an author that everything began moving. Pasted textTheir stories lead to a larger question: How much of the life you want have you talked yourself out of because it doesn’t fit the path you were taught to follow?They discuss how schools, workplaces, families, and social expectations train people toward predictable paths, while creative entrepreneurship requires almost the opposite behavior: standing out, asking for attention, selling your work, taking risks, and tolerating uncertainty. Sometimes the first step isn’t developing a better strategy. It’s simply allowing yourself to want something different. Pasted textBut permission also means permission to quit.Russell explains why he recently dismantled huge portions of a business he’d spent years building after realizing the existing system was producing results he no longer wanted. Instead of endlessly optimizing what wasn’t working, he rebuilt his offers, products, coaching, apps, and business model around where his energy and audience were actually pulling him. Pasted textThat experiment revealed something surprising.After years of moving between comics, fiction, nonfiction, education, coaching, apps, and other projects, a substantial portion of Russell’s audience stayed with him through multiple reinventions. Even more strikingly, customers who consumed both his fiction and nonfiction had dramatically greater lifetime value than customers who stayed within either category alone. Pasted textMaybe audiences aren’t always following a series, genre, format, or product.Maybe they’re following you.The episode closes with a powerful reframing of what creators actually sell. People may discover you through a novel, course, app, coaching program, podcast, or newsletter, but the container isn’t necessarily the thing they’re buying. They’re seeking an emotion, transformation, identity, or experience, and your creative work is simply the vehicle that gets them there. Pasted textSometimes growing a creative career means building something new.Sometimes it means finally starting the thing you’ve wanted for years.And sometimes it means looking at everything you’ve built, realizing it belongs to an older version of you, and giving yourself permission to burn it down and begin again.Topics Covered:* Reinventing a creative business when the old version feels stale* Russell’s early career in filmmaking and broadcast journalism* Choosing University of Maryland over NYU and avoiding massive student debt* Financing early filmmaking equipment with credit cards* Directing films, pilots, and web series that struggled to reach audiences* Spending nearly a decade making almost no money creatively* Why unfinished projects can stall an entire career* Moving from filmmaking into comics and publishing* Kickstarter and the beginnings of a sustainable creative business* Selling books directly at roughly 40 conventions per year* Building a six-figure author business without publishing a book every month* Preparing to move an offline business online before the pandemic* Why reading a bad book can sometimes be more motivating than reading a masterpiece* Childhood creativity and the things we escape into* Trauma, nervous-system regulation, and creative expression* Lee’s upbringing in purity culture and restrictive Christianity* Giving yourself permission to become an author* Publishing five titles in January 2015* Why making the first $50 can feel transformative* Creativity, desire, identity, and personal power* Finding mentors who normalize bigger possibilities* ...
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