There are thought leaders, and then there are thoughtFULL leaders. This week's guest: the one and only Chris Do. 

If you are a creative or in the agency business, you already know who he is. If you are just hearing about him, he is the founder of the design agency Blind and also the game-changing educational ecosystem The Futur which has a mission to educate 1 BILLION creatives (yes, you read that right). He and his work have been featured across the globe and he has more accolades than I could possibly mention here.

Beyond that, he is one of the most thoughtful guests I’ve ever had on the show. We get into some controversial brand marketing topics, talk about leading an organization through a pandemic, and of course, I had to ask about the flat brim hat.

The episode is longer than usual, but it was so rich, I didn’t want to cut it. I know your time is important so I broke out the different sections of the interview so you can jump to what is most interesting to you:

• What’s with the black flat brim hat?

• What has your personal life been like through the pandemic?

• How did your creative agency transition to remote work?

• Do you want to go back to the way you were doing things before?

• Are we losing the advantage of the “human element?"

• Chris and I dig into a very controversial statement on Branding vs Sales by Donald Miller, CEO of StoryBrand

• How a brand is both intentionally AND unintentionally built

• Why branding and marketing can’t exist separately

• The world’s greatest violin and the story that made it sound worse

• The lies everyone wants to believe

• Is the brand age dying because of behemoths like Amazon?

• Chris’ very objective opinion on the automotive industry

• How can a creative artist survive in a marketing and production world? (This gets deep)

• The best way to connect to Chris

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• The Automotive Manifesto: How Brand Connection Can Save Retail Automotive

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