Are you struggling to make progress in your creative career? Are you ready to learn from one of the industry's most accomplished and inspiring entrepreneurs? In this week's episode, we have the privilege of featuring the one and only Chris Do—a true creative powerhouse.
Discover the secrets to unlocking your creative potential and skyrocketing your business as we dive into the extraordinary journey of Chris Do, an Emmy award-winning designer, director, and founder of The Futur.
Join us in this captivating episode as Chris shares invaluable insights on essential business skills, critical thinking, and effective communication. Get inspired and learn from his mission of teaching 1 billion people to make a living doing what they love.
Chris's wisdom and experiences will empower you to turn your passions into a thriving career. Tune in now!
Key Highlights:
[00:00:04] Teaching to Learn
[00:00:59] Approach to Pricing and Value
[00:02:04] Key to Success for Creative Entrepreneurs
[00:04:35] The Three Stages of Chris Do's Career
[00:05:15] Teaching as a Passion
[00:09:34] Developing Thick Skin
[00:11:39] Standing Up for Himself
[00:13:05 - 00:14:59] Winning Awards
[00:15:31 - 00:16:15] Common Problems of Creatives
[00:23:05] Building The Right Team
[00:24:01] The Story of The Futur
[00:28:19] The importance of core values
[00:31:45] Practical steps for introverts to show up
[00:37:00] Embracing Vulnerability
[00:41:24] Biggest Failure in Business
[00:44:37] Pushing beyond comfort zones
Notable Quotes:
One teaches, two learn.
I've always loved teaching. I just couldn't find a good business model that made sense
I don't imagine that there's a second job after this. This is it for me, whether I make a lot of money or no money at all. This is what I'm gonna do.
I start to realize this is something I love to do and I'd like to do it more because it's very thrilling to be able to help someone. But you also learn so much about yourself and the way you think in your creative process when you share it with someone else.
I'd like to teach in a style that I've described as full-contact teaching. There's no light sparring here. If we want to learn, we have to learn how to get uncomfortable with each other.
I don't think many people are born thick-skinned. I think it's something you develop, uh, through conditioning, and the more you expose yourself to criticism, the less it's going to bother you. You, you learn how to cope and overcome these things.
Perfectionism is a strategy to avoid something. So it's an avoidance strategy.
Entrepreneurship is a lonely endeavor. It's a lonely pursuit.
So I would say to everybody, one, make sure before you make a big expensive decision like this that is grounded in reality and that there's some, a level of commitment from you and your team to make it work. Otherwise, you're going to just self-sabotage.
Connect with Chris Do:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/theChrisDo
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thechrisdo/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@thefutur
Website: https://thefutur.com/
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Resources:
1granary.com
skillshare.com
psychologytoday.com
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