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No, You Probably Can’t Become a Six-Figure Creator
The Reality of “Making It” as a Creator — Replacing Your Full-Time Income Doing What You Love
Pursue your passion. Put it online. Just keep going. Build an audience. And someday you’ll be able to quit your job and do it full-time. Your life will be so much better for it. More meaningful. More connected more authentic. More…you.
There are thousands of people out there that did just what I’ve described. And they spend an inordinate amount of time telling us that we can do the same. You know the type — dudes in their late twenties and early thirties, Twitter followings in the hundreds of thousands, profile pictures taken at cafe tables, sweating San Pellegrino bottles half-empty, MacBook splayed open, the whitewashed walls of Santorini in the background.
And we eat it up. Why? Because we want to believe it. We need to believe it. It speaks to that small voice inside each of us that says, “You have something to say.” And, lucky for us, those same creators have a product — a newsletter, an online course, a mastermind, private coaching — to show you exactly how they did it and how you can, too.
The bitch of it is they’re half right. They made it through consistent effort. That means we can, too, right? Maybe. It’s not that you…
