Chris Do: Teaching People to Make A Living Doing What they Love

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Chris Do is the director, CEO and Chief Strategist of Blind, an Emmy award-winning motion design studio which he ran for over 2 decades. Since founding Blind back in 2014, Chris reluctantly made his first YouTube video which altered the trajectory of his life and career. That’s when he founded The Futur—an online education platform with the mission of teaching 1 billion people how to make a living doing what they love. Chris is also a Vietnamese immigrant who understands building himself from the bottom up. This Episode’s Heavy-hitter’s: A true shining example as a kid, Chris’s father worked his way up, as an immigrant that didn’t speak the language, from a bus boy to the Chief Engineer at a semiconductor factory. Another formative moment was when Chris had a messy breakup that led him to a dark period in his life, where he missed out on going to all the top design schools he had dreamed of. He made a promise to himself while attending a community college, and committed to a life of celibacy for a few years to get himself back on track. Through the organization The Futur, Chris helps people do what they love without losing their soul. He elaborates that part of what that means is being able to step away to recharge your creative juices without having to experience financial turmoil in the process. Chris has the opinion that in order to become masterful at your craft, you’ve got to copy the work of masters you look up to at first. The key is to graduate from that phase of your artistry by creating and embodying your own style. Another creative gem: it isn’t all about the quality of the work when it comes to getting discovered or noticed. While you should hold the utmost standard for your work as an artist, you can’t get stuck in the myth that marketing is unimportant as long as the work is good. The POZCAST is brought to you in partnership with Vincere, the Recruitment Operating System. The all-in-one tech platform, purposefully built for recruitment & staffing to unify your Front, Middle & Back office operations. Vincere is designed by recruiters, for recruiters. Both the company and the platform are the unique creations of successful recruiters who sold their business, saw a need for better rec tech, and made it happen. If you're looking to upgrade your recruitment tech and give your recruiters a new, modern OS, visit vincere.io/pozcast for an exclusive offer. Thanks If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review: https://ratethispodcast.com/thepozcast #thePOZcast is brought to you by our friends at Interseller – the prospecting + outreach platform of recruiters and sellers. Whether you’re doubling down on business development or recruiting talent, Interseller does all the heavy lifting of finding contact data, automating the email and follow-up process, and syncs all that rich data into 20+ CRMs and ATSs. Reach out and get going in a 2-week *free* trial today and let them know you heard about them from Adam on #thePOZcast. Check out a free demo today! https://bit.ly/2Fbm/BZ For more, please visit www.thePOZcast.com thanks