Episode 20: Chris Do (@thechrisdo) is the founder and CEO of two companies: his first being Blind, an Emmy award winning brand design consultancy, and the second being The Futur (thefutur.com), an education platform that teaches creatives the principles of business. He's garnered a huge online following on YouTube, LinkedIn, and Instagram for the content he produces.But being a first-generation immigrant refugee, Chris has had to navigate through a multitude of hoops to get to where he is today: from needing to adopt English as his second language, to choosing the creative path as a designer and dealing with the disapproval of his parents, to forcing himself to acquire the soft skills necessary to lead his own companies - it's been a life-long process of learning, of becoming better, day after day. In episode 20 of the Why You No Doctor Podcast, Dominic and Chris dive into his story, philosophy, and advice for the next generation of Asian Americans. Show Notes:

• 0:00 - Introduction to Chris Do, and his companies: The Futur and Blind + discourse on product creation vs. client service work
• 5:51 - How Chris teaches creatives to merge business and design with The Futur + his thoughts on "selling out" and the trope of the starving artist
• 9:43 - Chris's background, childhood, and parents: how he grew up, what his parents thought about his passion for design, cultural dissonance
• 19:12 - Where Chris went to school + the story of his college application process and getting into Arts Center
• 23:53 - How to let critique not affect you personally + submitting yourself to the teacher to get better
• 32:31 - On Asian representation in Arts Center and art universities in general, both in the current and in the past
• 34:06 - How Chris approached his career in college, what his job aspirations were upon graduating, and the first jobs he worked
• 36:26 - The story of the start of Blind + his biggest challenges starting his business: mindset, soft skills
• 41:58 - Building up the soft skills: through high school, college, and the first 12 years of Blind
• 51:22 - Recounting an experience of white privilege and worship in China
• 56:52 - Advice on how to keep from getting burnt out
• 1:03:56 - what Chris recommends everyone put on their bucket list: on life-long learning
• 1:08:28 - Chris's book recommendations + outro

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