Creative business thinking with practical edges.
The Futur with Chris Do sits at the working edge of design, marketing, and business. Recent episodes move from sales language and niche strategy to personal branding, LinkedIn behavior, storytelling, and the emotional cost of building a visible creative business.
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The Futur with Chris Do treats creative work as both craft and business problem. It is not a quick-tip show. The conversations tend to stay with an idea long enough to expose the fear, habit, or unclear assumption underneath it. Recent episodes move through sales, positioning, content strategy, personal branding, product-market learning, and the hard tradeoffs behind focus. One episode reframes sales around value, listening, and better questions rather than pressure. Another turns over the cost of doing too many things, using the five ones as a way to narrow a business until it can be understood. The show is especially strong when creative ambition runs into operational reality. A brand identity conversation with Tinna Loaiza becomes about burnout, visibility, proof, and the small window a working person can actually use to change direction. A LinkedIn episode with Richard van der Blom challenges the idea that the platform itself is the enemy, pushing attention back toward audience response and posting behavior. Personal-brand episodes with Jodie Cook and Goldie Chan are more nuanced than the usual visibility advice. They acknowledge the appeal of naming a business after oneself, the anxiety of performance, and the social drain introverts can feel in public-facing work. Founder stories also get treated with discipline. Wombi Rose's Love Pop conversation looks at passion, customer response, and the willingness to stop a business model when the data is clear. David J. Ebner's episode connects artistic training to commercial storytelling without flattening art into a slogan. Across the sample, the show keeps translating stories into usable business judgment. It is warm, analytical, and patient. The best moments feel like a coaching session where creative instincts are respected, but still asked to become specific enough to sell, publish, or scale.
Made for: For designers, creators, consultants, agency owners, coaches, and solo operators who want clearer offers, stronger positioning, and a more durable relationship with visibility and sales.
What sets it apart: The show turns creative-business anxiety into concrete working frameworks without losing the human story behind them. Its interviews are reflective, but they keep returning to decisions, language, audience behavior, and execution.
The Futur Podcast is a show that explores the interesting overlap between design, marketing, and business. Our host (and CEO of The Futur), Chris Do, hold candid conversations with inspirational people from the worlds of design, technology, marketing, business, philosophy and personal development. These conversations go deep. With the aim of understanding who these incredible people are, what drives them to do what they do, and what can we--the listener--learn from it all. Visit thefutur.com/podcast for show notes and additional information from each episode.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Chris Do turns founder and brand-building interviews into practical tests of judgment, positioning, client handling and sustainable growth.
The Futur with Chris Do treats interviews as working sessions, pressing guests to turn experience into decisions about clients, growth and visibility.
Chris Do turns client blowups, failed experiments, and visibility anxiety into questions you can actually use.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A grounded look at selling creative work by leading with client value, sharper questions and careful listening.
Selling creative work turns into a question of measurable client value in this focused review of Socratic Sailing by Kevin Daly. The episode follows the idea of dollarizing value and applies it to brand identity design: a stronger pitch explains what a client gets back from the…
A grounded case for choosing one lane after a creative studio feels the cost of saying yes to too much.
Specialization can look simple from the outside, but this episode is at its best when it treats focus as a hard business choice rather than a tidy mantra.
A grounded look at brand identity, creative doubt, and social-media pressure through a practical 90-day implementation lens.
Brand identity turns into an operating question when visibility, positioning, and burnout begin to compete. Tina Loaiza traces the move from building the Faceless Method to 400,000 Instagram followers without appearing on camera to stepping into a personal brand under her own…
A grounded conversation about building professional visibility without turning every public moment into a performance.
Visibility gets complicated when public presence starts to feel like a performance. This episode gives that tension a practical business shape through Goldie Chan's experience making more than 800 consecutive daily LinkedIn videos, running Warm Robots, and writing Personal…
A Shark Tank story turns into a grounded lesson in testing products, reading customers, and backing away from expansion that misses.
Love Pop's Shark Tank story gives this episode a clean way into the harder work of scaling: staying close to the product, watching customer response, and changing course when a bet does not hold up.
A practical episode on nervous-system threat, empathy, and boundaries when client or workplace conflict gets hot.
Hard conversations often come down to a mismatch in perceived stakes, and this episode gives that tension a useful, practical shape. Simon Goode connects workplace conflict and difficult conversations to the nervous system, while Chris Do keeps the frame close to negotiations,…
Art historian Tamar Avishai interviews critics, curators, and writers about single paintings and ideas.
Creative practice, honestly worked through.
Simon Goode explains 'preemptive empathy' and why our brains are hardwired to fail in conflict.
Jodie Cook explains a framework for categorizing clients as rabbits, deer, or elephants to help entrepreneurs choose the right clients for their business.
Brittany Carlini, a full-time thumbnail strategist since 2022, describes how a year and a half of reps and blunt feedback from client Leon taught her to add tension, such as red veins on an eye or scratches on a steel soap bar.
Chris Do shares five lessons from the book Socratic Selling, focusing on dollarizing value to sell money instead of services.
Mo Ismail discusses the importance of extreme focus in business using the 'five ones' framework to avoid spreading oneself too thin.
Tinna Loaiza discusses overcoming brand identity crises and building a business through social media, sharing her journey from a faceless brand to a personal brand.
LinkedIn expert Richard van der Blom discusses the balance between intuitive and data-driven content creation on LinkedIn.
Jodie Cook discusses the pros and cons of naming your business after yourself, sharing her accidental experience with JC Social Media and exploring how personal branding affects business reliance and exit potential.
Goldie Chan leads with color.
Wombi Rose says LovePop, founded in 2014, has reached "66 million magical moments" and nearly "$400 million in lifetime sales at retail." Chris Do focuses on the Shark Tank deal, the kiosk rollout, and the company’s pivot toward Lovepop.com after the retail experiment underperformed.
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Visual artist Craig Black discusses his unique acrylic fusion technique and creative journey, including a notable project with Porsche.
Ranbir Arora shares seven logical pivots to refine a business, from problem identification to messaging, for entrepreneurs feeling stuck.
Mita Mallick discusses her background and mission to fix broken workplaces, drawing parallels between childhood bullying and toxic leadership.