Episode Description
If you're a creative professional - a designer, writer, marketer, videographer, illustrator - using AI tools to work faster and still not seeing your rates move, this episode is probably about you. I'm following up on something I said back in June and didn't fully explain: that I'm thinking about upskilling into something closer to where client revenue actually lives. A month later, I still don't have a clean answer. But I'm thinking through it out loud, because that's what this show does.
I get into why creative professionals who use AI tools to speed up production work tend to hit a pricing ceiling that strategists don't, and it's not a mindset thing, it's structural. I talk about what direct response taught me about proximity to measurable outcomes, what AI actually amplifies in creative work (and what it can't touch), and the question I'm asking myself right now that feels different from "I should probably upskill."
This one doesn't wrap up neatly. If you're a freelance creative doing good work, using the tools, still feeling stuck, it might be worth 17 minutes of your time.
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TIMESTAMPS:00:00 Following up on June's 2am episode
02:26 Career arc: 2018 to now
04:19 The thing I didn't clock for a long time
05:21 The webinar that reframed everything
07:45 Being three steps from the outcome
09:23 Where AI actually fits in and where it doesn't
12:07 The real risk for creative producers right now
13:04 What I'm doing differently with existing clients
14:38 The bigger move I'm still figuring out
15:26 The question that hits different
16:18 The thing to sit with before you close this app
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