Hey everybody, Chris here. We're trying something a little bit different than what we normally do for the podcast.

We're doing solo episodes. These are shorter, more contained.

Built around certain themes and questions, I think, are very relevant for us to be talking about.

So wherever you're listening to this, however you're seeing this, let us know in the comments and the feedback, what you think.

And we'll make some adjustments. I'm going to begin this episode with the metaphor, be bamboo, my friend, be bamboo.

Bamboo grows fast, is very flexible and it's super strong.

When we're talking about clients, you're going to run into a situation where you're not

sure if you should go against what they asked for or if you should comply.

If you're younger creative, you just think automatically the answer has to be go against the

client because they don't know what they're doing and you do at the ripe old age of 22.

Let's think about that for a little bit.

Most of the time, I'm going to tell you this, you're in the service business and the only way

that you have business is to be of service to your client. You have to understand they're not interfering

with your art. You're interfering with their money. You have to really think about this. They

afford you the life that you have, the ability to live and express yourself creatively and pay,

rent, buy food, and save money for a rainy day. A lot of creative people mistakenly believe

themselves as artists where you have a patron who just pays you to make whatever it is that you

make. And oftentimes when the client's asked to, I don't know, make the logo a little bit bigger

or to move things around, you have an adverse negative emotional reaction to it. And what happens then,

and you don't know this because clients are pretty good at hiding their emotions, they just say

to themselves when they get in the car, never again. And whoever hired or recommended Rich or Chris,

they're dead to me at this point. So not only have you burned that

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