Episodes: 452
Frequency: Weekly
Rating: 4.9/5.0
Estimated listeners: 10k-100k
Gender skew: Unknown
Location: USA
YouTube: 2.8M subscribers
Instagram: 530.0k followers
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Chris Do - Designer, educator, and founder and CEO of The Futur, a creative education and business platform focused on helping creative professionals improve their design, marketing, and business practices.
Matt Essam - Scaling A Solo Creative Business, Differentiation, Pricing, Positioning, Communication, And Selling Processes Rather Than Services.
Justin Sung - Learning Science, Overcoming Ineffective Learning Habits, Teaching Methods, Neurodivergent Learning, And Building Durable Knowledge.
Matt Gray - Personal Branding, Content Systems, Audience Growth, Overcoming Perfectionism, Monetization, And Building A Business Around A Personal Brand.
Kimberly Parry - Personal Style, Clothing And Confidence, Identity Formation, Image Coaching, And Style Archetypes.
Scaling A Solo Creative Business w/ Matt Essam | Ep 448
August 26, 2026
Matt Essam, author of The Creative Studio Roadmap, joins Chris Do for a live episode recorded in front of a studio audience to break down the pillars of turning a solo creative business into one that scales: differentiation, communication, and delivery. Chris and Matt pull audience members into the hot seat to work through real pricing blocks, story-driven positioning, and the shift from selling yourself to selling your process, live and in real time. Timestamps: (00:00) - Intro (01:02) ...
Stop Studying, Start Learning w/ Justin Sung | Ep 447
August 19, 2026
Dr. Justin Sung was a practicing physician before he became one of the most-watched learning coaches online, and in this conversation he takes apart the biggest myth people believe about how they learn: that everyone has a fixed "learning style" they should lean into. Justin walks Chris through what actually drives fast, durable learning: the discomfort of overwhelm, the discipline of turning confusion into questions, and why understanding something is not the same as remembering it. They get...
Perfectionism Is Killing Your Brand w/ Matt Gray | Ep 446
August 12, 2026
Matt Gray built and exited companies, grew audiences into the millions across three ventures, then turned that same systems thinking toward his own personal brand and scaled it to over 3 million followers. In this conversation, Matt walks Chris through the full arc: getting sober and using a messy, unstructured writing practice as the starting point, learning to ship imperfect content instead of waiting to get it right, building a content waterfall system that turns one piece of work into doz...
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