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The Futur with Chris Do

196 - Self Sabotage Part 3 — with Chris Do

The Futur with Chris Do

The Futur

Arts, Education, Marketing, Design, Business, Self-improvement

4.9998 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In the final episode of our series on self-sabotage, we pick up where the conversation between Nidhi and Chris left off. If you missed the first two episodes, we suggest you go back and listen to those first. At this point in the story, Chris is betting his future (and the future of his staff) on pivoting into a new teaching venture then called The Skool. But to do that, he must abandon his design agency. Everywhere Chris looks, he sees doubt. Doubt from internal management, creative teams, and even his business coach. At the time, that doubt seemed reasonable. Why leave a business earning $4 million annually in favor of something that generated a mere $10K the previous year? What everyone didn’t know was that Chris had a plan. And a quantifiable vision of what success looked like for The Futur. Sponsored by BetterHelp - https://betterhelp.com/futur Wix - https://wix.com/partners Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I think that that's probably where a lot of businesses honestly fail is that they're so desperately trying to figure out what the solution could potentially be that they've never even asked themselves what the true problem is. Are we even asking the right questions when it comes to our business?

0:16.0

Like we assume that the problem is one thing, but we haven't even really done the analysis to identify what is tanking right now. I'm going to do you know.

0:33.0

And do you know.

0:35.0

And do you.

0:36.0

And do you do?

0:38.0

Do you need me

0:40.0

and do you need to I'd love to tell you a story about how I could see their future and how revolutionary and forward thinking I was.

0:56.4

I'm not. I'm actually really conservative when it comes to certain things. I'm just not so married

1:01.9

and attached to the past that I can't see opportunity knocking at the door, screaming at the door.

1:08.0

Right, so people don't know this, but as in my last semester at Arts Center, I took a class in animation and my teacher was a woman named

1:18.0

Linda and she taught after effects. And Linda was an okay teacher, she wasn't blown my mind.

1:24.0

And Linda went off and then did her own thing and she wrote a couple of books on web design

1:29.0

and started hosting conferences out in Ohio, and she started to build this company and they started to realize that

1:36.8

people couldn't travel to the location and wanted to then produce things on disk but then the big breakthrough was like let's put this on

1:44.6

the internet at a time when probably the broadband connection wasn't great for

1:49.8

everybody and compressions ratios and algorithms were terrible but they're out ahead and

1:56.0

Yes if you're thinking is that that same Linda of Linda.com. Yeah she was my teacher at art center and fast forward a few years she has I think at one point

2:06.7

when I when I knew about this over 250 editors working for a full time in this giant facility. I'm like 250 editors like movie studios

2:16.2

only have 250 editors working for them and she sold her company for 1.7

2:22.1

billion dollars to LinkedIn.

2:25.1

And this was happening in the middle of all this stuff

2:27.6

and we're seeing other portals for education popping up. So it's not hey man I've got this idea no one's seen before not at all it's like everywhere

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