Chris Do - Emmy Award-Winning Designer | Stop Hiding Behind Your Work
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Chris Do is an Emmy award-winning designer, director, CEO, and founder of The Futur, an education platform with 3+ million YouTube subscribers and a community serving millions of creatives across 190+ countries. As the former CEO of Blind for 20+ years—a motion design agency that generated $7M+ annually working with Fortune 500 brands including Nike, Microsoft, and Samsung—Chris has built a career spanning design, strategy, and entrepreneurship, now empowering the next generation through courses, workshops, and content that have generated over 500 million views worldwide.
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➡️ Talking Points
00:00 – Intro
01:21 – Why the Most Creative People Are Survivors
05:00 – Can Creativity Be Built from Scratch?
07:43 – Discovering Creativity at 42
10:04 – From Corporate Leader to Creator
13:25 – How to De-Risk Entrepreneurship
16:23 – Knowing Your Worth as an Entrepreneur
23:58 – Sponsor Break
28:34 – Why Charging More Makes Sense
31:15 – What It Really Means to Build a Personal Brand
40:07 – Growing a Business on Social Media (Without Oversharing)
47:25 – Chris Do’s Personal Branding Playbook
57:43 – Sponsor Break
1:00:36 – How to Present Yourself to the World
1:16:06 – Turning an Audience into Opportunity
1:19:16 – The Right Way to Monetize Your Audience
1:28:46 – Advice Chris Do Would Give His 20-Year-Old Self