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

Welcome to the Success Story Podcast, hosted by entrepreneur, business executive, author, educator & speaker, Scott D. Clary (@scottdclary). On this podcast, you'll find interviews, Q&A, keynote presentations & conversations on sales, marketing, business, startups and entrepreneurship. Scott will discuss some of the lessons he's learned over his own career, as well as have candid interviews with execs, celebrities, notable figures and politicians. All who have achieved success through both wins and losses, to learn more about their life, their ideas and insights. He sits down with leaders and mentors and unpacks their story to help pass those lessons onto others through both experiences and tactical strategy for business professionals, entrepreneurs and everyone in between. To get more of the Success Story podcast, go to www.successstorypodcast.com.