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1 Million YouTube Subscribers (Community Celebration)
Chris Do reveals the untold story of The Futur's growth to one million subscribers and the strategic pivot that changed everything.
Chris Do
Founder, The Futur™ · December 16, 2020
The One Million Person Classroom
One million is a lot of people. It is a number that can fill a stadium ten times over. For a YouTube channel, it is a coveted milestone, a signal of mainstream arrival. But when the channel in question is not built on pranks, celebrity gossip, or video game streams, the number means something different.
The Futur is not an entertainment channel. It is an education platform.
“We're teaching people about the art and craft of design and all its related design creative fields,” explains founder Chris Do. “And we're teaching people how to make money doing what they love.”
This is not a formula for viral success. There are no outrageous stunts or movie star good looks. The core product is teaching. The fact that one million people have clicked “subscribe” to be a part of that is a profound statement about the modern hunger for learning and self-improvement.
“The fact that there's a million people who said, ‘You know what, I want to be part of that,’ it means a lot to me,” Do admits. “Back in 2014 when we first started making videos, I could never even imagine that we would be crossing the 100,000 mark, let alone the one million mark.”
It is a validation. It proves that amidst the noise of the internet, there is a powerful signal for those trying to do good work. It suggests that if you help people accomplish their goals, you can build a community, an audience, and a business around it. Yet for Do and his team, this monumental milestone is not a final destination. It is a single step toward a much more audacious goal.
As Director Matthew Encina puts it, “A million is significant, but it's just a stepping stone onto a much, much bigger goal, which is to help a billion people.”
This journey from a handful of viewers to a global classroom of a million did not happen by accident. It began with reluctance, was fueled by a terrifying business pivot, and was shaped by a clear-eyed strategy for creating value. It is a story about overcoming the one thing that stops most creators before they even start: fear.
The Godfather Offer You Can’t Refuse
In 2014, The Futur did not exist. Chris Do was the founder and CEO of Blind, a highly successful motion design and branding agency he started in 1995. The company had worked with some of the biggest brands in the world, creating culturally significant work like the iconic music videos for Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy” and Justin Timberlake’s “LoveStoned,” alongside major campaigns for Microsoft, Xbox, and Audi.
Business was good. For Do, the focus was on clients, not content.
That is, until his friend and business partner, Jose Caballer, made him an offer. “Hey Chris, let's get on YouTube,” he proposed. “Let's make some video content together.”
Do was resistant. He was, in his own words, “super reluctant.” His mind immediately ran through a litany of worst-case scenarios. He worried about his mouth, which he knew was prone to saying things that could alienate the very clients his business depended on. He imagined being dragged into telling horror stories about bad clients or revealing the secrets of their pricing and sales process. These were the crown jewels of the agency.
This moment is a classic narrative beat: the call to adventure met with refusal. Joseph Campbell, in his seminal work on mythology, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, identified this as a critical stage in any transformative story. It is the fear of the unknown, the comfort of the status quo, and the anxiety of a new challenge. Do calls it something simpler.
The Anxiety of the Call.
“That’s the tension of the story,” Do reflects. Caballer, acting as the mentor figure, understood this resistance. He made Do an offer he couldn’t refuse, a “godfather offer” designed to bypass all his anxieties. Its brilliance was in its simplicity.
“His deal or an offer was for me to sit there like a dummy,” Do recalls. “He literally said that. ‘You don't have to say anything.’”
Caballer would do all the talking. Do’s only job was to show up. It was a set of training wheels. He was invited into the space with no pressure to perform. His first appearances on camera were exactly what you would expect from someone in that position.
He sat there, “jaws clenched and just super stiff.”
He did not know what to say. But the framework gave him the space and time to find his own voice. The fear of doing it wrong was removed. In the end, none of his fears about alienating clients or hurting the business came to pass. The upside, however, was tremendous. That simple, low-stakes start was the seed from which an entire new enterprise would grow, a lesson for anyone hesitating to push their own record button. Sometimes, you just need a mentor to tell you to sit there like a dummy until you feel comfortable enough not to.
From Seven Figures in Services to Zero
As The Futur began to gain momentum, Do and his team were living in two different worlds. There was Blind, the established, seven-figure design agency that paid the bills. And then there was The Futur, the fledgling education platform that was barely making enough money to pay an intern.
They had one foot on the agency boat and one foot on the content boat. The problem was, the boats were pulling apart.
In a management meeting, Do was pushing the team to generate more client work for Blind. “We need to generate more business,” he urged. “I want everybody to reach into your contacts, whoever you've worked with, to email them, to give them a call.”
It was then that Matthew Encina asked a question that would change the course of the entire company. “Why are we doing this, Chris?” he asked. “Is The Futur important to you? Shouldn't we put our energies there?”
Do’s first reaction was defensive. He saw it as a derailment. But the question lingered. Encina had pointed out the fundamental conflict at the heart of their strategy. They could not fully commit to the future while desperately clinging to the past. This question served as another “anxiety of the call,” a moment forcing a difficult choice.
They began to shift their focus. The team started to dedicate more time and energy to making The Futur successful. By December of 2018, the education platform had momentum. It had just crossed a million dollars in sales. It was becoming a real business, but it was still propped up by the profitable client work from their agency, an issue Do explores in how to scale from freelancing into an agency.
That is when Encina issued another challenge. “Let's stop doing client work.”
This was the moment of truth. To abandon a successful, multi-million dollar service business—the very foundation of the company for over two decades—for a new, unproven model was a terrifying leap of faith. It was the business equivalent of burning the boats on the shore to ensure there was no retreat.
In December 2018, they made the pledge. They would attempt to sustain the entire company, with its full-time team and benefits, solely on the revenue from The Futur. The pressure was immense.
“No pressure, no diamonds,” Do says. “And the pressure was on.”
The team rose to the challenge. They leaned into creating courses, workshops, and content that served their growing audience. And it worked. Since December 2018, the company has not taken on traditional client work. They have built a sustainable, growing business by focusing entirely on their mission to teach.
This radical pivot is a masterclass in strategic commitment. Many entrepreneurs hedge their bets, keeping a foot in both worlds for fear of failure. But true growth often requires a singular focus—a willingness to let go of what is safe to create what is possible. As Do's own story shows, sometimes the only way forward is to eliminate the path back, a theme at the core of true entrepreneurship.
A Platform for Every Purpose
As The Futur’s audience grew, so did the complexity of serving it. A follower who subscribed after watching a typography tutorial had very different expectations than someone who joined for a discussion on business mindset. Trying to serve everyone on a single channel created a strategic problem.
“We're trying to tap into too many different audiences and we're stretching them too far,” Encina explains. “Somebody might have signed up for a typography manual and then now they're getting all this business stuff which they didn't sign up for. And then now we're having a weird dialogue with our audience.”
The solution was not to water down the content. It was to create dedicated spaces for each conversation. This led to a multi-channel strategy built on a simple principle: **meet your audience where they are and give them what they signed up for.**
Their content ecosystem is now clearly defined:
- The Main YouTube Channel: This is the flagship, which Do describes as his personal “art project.” It’s where he explores the big ideas he’s passionate about, from business and mindset to creativity and personal development. This is the home of the “why.”
- The Futur Academy Channel: This channel is dedicated to practical, tactical content. It’s the home for software tutorials, design deep dives, and specific skill-building videos like the popular Logo Therapy series. This is the home of the “how.”
- Instagram: Recognizing the platform's visual nature, they embraced formats like the carousel to deliver educational content in a digestible, shareable way. It’s about adapting the teaching method to the medium, not just blasting out video clips.
This segmentation is crucial. It shows respect for the audience's time and interests. Instead of a one-size-fits-all approach, it creates tailored experiences. Someone who signs up for business philosophy isn't hammered with Photoshop tricks, and a designer looking for technical skills isn't forced to sit through a motivation talk.
This is a critical lesson for any creator or brand. Your audience is not a monolith. You must segment your content to match the specific needs and expectations of the people you want to reach. The one exception, Do notes, is for giant personalities. “They tune in for the personality and you can talk about paint drying on the wall and they're going to be thrilled with that.”
For everyone else, focus is key. “We're not a personality channel,” Do states. “We're trying to really teach people things and to make a difference in the world. So we have to be focused, and the focus is what's going to help you to grow the fastest.” This focus on a specific audience is a cornerstone of powerful personal branding.
Building a Global Movement
One of the most profound outcomes of The Futur's growth is not the view counts, but the human connections. Before the pandemic, Do traveled extensively, speaking at conferences and events around the world. These trips were not vacations. The routine was often grueling: airport, hotel, venue, hotel, airport.
“I really have no photos,” Do laughs. “It was what I ate, what the hotel room looked like, and the venue.”
But these trips revealed the true impact of their work. The most exciting part wasn't the sightseeing; it was meeting the people. “It's really meeting the people and understanding the culture and the point of view,” he says. “When I get to hear your stories and hear about your challenges, or maybe you saw something you heard that we did that changed your life or helped you, that's where I get the cells recharged.”
After his talks, Do would often post an open invitation on social media: “Hey, I'll be here in my hotel lobby. Come and meet me.”
And people would show up. In Barcelona, Madrid, and cities across the globe, designers, entrepreneurs, and students would gather to share their stories and connect with the person they had only known through a screen. These impromptu meetups turned a digital audience into a real-world community.
This sense of community is woven into the fabric of The Futur. The one million subscriber celebration itself was a testament to this, with prizes donated by friends and collaborators like acclaimed designer Aaron Draplin, who sent signed prints and a characteristically charming handwritten note.
The community is not just a passive audience; it is an active participant. It gives back, supports the mission, and even provides a talent pipeline. Do recounts how one of their team members, Jonah, got his start by simply showing up at a meetup in Texas with his camera and delivering a same-day edit. “That's a boy who knows to take advantage of an opportunity,” Do remarks. “The door wasn't open. He opened it, kicked it open.”
This is the real power of building a platform. It is not about broadcasting to a million disconnected individuals. It is about creating a gravitational center for a million people who share a common goal: to do what they love and make a good living doing it. The number is just a metric. The movement is the reality.
The Art of Showing Up
During the live celebration, a viewer asked a perceptive question: how does Chris Do switch from a relaxed, pre-show chill to the high-energy persona seen on camera in an instant? Is one version fake and the other real?
Do’s answer reveals a deep understanding of performance and communication. “They're all me,” he explains, “but I just have the ability to dial the energy and the intention and the focus depending on the context.”
This is not about being inauthentic. It is about being intentional. The energy you bring must serve the situation and the audience.
Do outlines his approach:
- For After Hours conversations: The energy is low and relaxed. It feels like a late-night talk over drinks, designed for intimate and reflective discussion.
- For Live Speaking Gigs: The energy is explosive. Do runs on stage and moves with dynamic purpose because the audience is in a dark, air-conditioned theater, fighting their natural urge to fall asleep. “I have to do something to prevent them from falling asleep,” he says.
- For a YouTube Show: The energy has to be high from the first second. Viewers are one click away from leaving. A flat, low-energy intro will lose them instantly. “We got to bring some energy,” Do insists.
The energy is not manufactured from nothing. It comes from a combination of genuine excitement and a healthy dose of fear. “I am genuinely happy,” he explains, “and that happiness is masking fear and excitement because we're live and I'm liable to have tongue twisters and not be able to think and articulate clearly. And that's where the energy is coming from.”
This is a crucial lesson for anyone who speaks, presents, or creates content. You are the conductor of the room’s energy. It is your job to set the tone and command the space. This isn't about faking it; it's about understanding what the moment requires and showing up ready to deliver. You must learn how to speak so people will listen, and that begins with matching your energy to your intention.
The Journey Is Just Beginning
Crossing the one million subscriber mark is a moment for reflection and celebration. It is a long way from the early days of hanging IKEA bed sheets for a backdrop and worrying if anyone would even watch. It is proof that a channel dedicated to education can thrive.
But for Chris Do and The Futur, it is not the peak of the mountain. It is basecamp.
“As thrilled as I am, as much as I want to celebrate this moment, we're just getting started,” Do declares. The past year, with its global lockdowns, may have scuttled plans, but it also forced adaptation and innovation behind the scenes. The foundation has been strengthened, and the team is poised for even greater leaps.
The real mission has always been bigger than a subscriber count. One million is a validation of the path, but the destination is much further down the road: to teach one billion people how to make a living doing what they love.
This is not false modesty. It is a mindset of constant improvement. Every achievement is simply fuel for the next challenge. Every milestone is a stepping stone. The journey from zero to one million was about overcoming fear, making a terrifying business pivot, and learning to serve an audience with intention. The journey from one million to one billion will require a whole new level of thinking.
The message is clear. Do not be defined by your past successes. The biggest opportunities are always ahead.
The work is never done.
TRANSCRIPT
what is up everybody we are live thank you so much for being here as part of our 1 million subscriber just event extravaganza celebration and we are here i guess a couple days late because according to my predictions and algorithm we're going to hit it like maybe late tuesday night but we hit
it early thanks to everybody who did that and where are we right now we're back in the studio we're breaking quarantine and i'm here with matthew you guys see matthew and cena we're back we're back in the same room we're breathing the same energy giving each other whatever viruses we have hopefully that's
not the case but joining me live today is a whole bunch of future pro people some sustaining members and friends of friends you're all here in you can you guys just wave just wave for a second here we go look at oh my god oh my god matthew that looks amazing doesn't it
yeah now i have a question is what's up with everybody who doesn't have a million subscriber background you guys were left out of that party what's going on okay so i don't know what we have planned today but mark put together a whole deck and so i'm going to do my best to
figure out via esp what he wanted me to do but i think it's going to be a little bit of a conversation there's uh giveaways that we're we're doing and we haven't done this in a long time matthew i know i know we have a ton of stuff that we're going to give
away so i'm pretty excited about that you can see some of it here on the lovely table we got merch got merch we got merch especially from the merch man himself aaron draplin he wrote me a really lovely note ricky can you pass me the note it's uh in that stack somewhere i
want to read it off to you guys because it's it's so awesome this was kind of unplanned unrehearsed here so let's see what he wrote and he said mark and chris because mark's the one who reached out to him mark and chris and all the future people and 999 199 and 999 and
one that's him he's and that's me he says thank you congrats on your 1 million erin draplin just in the way that mr draplin can do this isn't that awesome you guys that's so cool so he sent over a bunch of prints and some field notes for us to give away and the
prints are signed and that's just one of the many artists that have been part of the story and the narrative of the future that we've been so privileged and blessed to just have on our show and to share their conversations and their story they send us some stuff they sign stuff it's just
like it's so cool yeah i think the community is everything as we've seen here like we're nothing without you guys and then all the people who have helped build our story up until this point so we're really excited to revisit some of that and reflect on our past yeah totally i think we're
gonna have a good time today we really are so i think we're gonna be here for about an hour and a half to two hours maybe if the conversation is really good we'll go a little longer if it's starting to feel really boring and still we'll just get off the air and just
release our bandwidth to somebody else who's making better content than us right we'll do that but we'll keep it fresh so the longer you stay around the more chances you have to win because we're going to be giving away prizes periodically throughout the entire stream the chat's going a little nuts right now
i'm seeing everybody wishing us congratulations uh everybody just tell us where you're tuning in from so if it's morning for you good morning good afternoon good evening good night if you're staying up late to hang out with us i really do truly appreciate that because that's a sign of a true fan a
true true fan okay we already have a super chat matt and is there a comment with that mark or is it just money in her face there's i know it's money in our face but was there a comment with that or no no okay well we'd like money without a question so that's
good thank you so much it won't oh here we go here we go okay so this is coming in from mona jeet noth and he's like saying hey guys what up sorry i couldn't join the video call but best of luck and congratulations well thank you very much for doing that appreciate it
really appreciate that okay awesome job okay so let's get into it i want to begin by talking about the one million number and why is this significant for us right like why does one million matter matthew why does it matter to you or does it matter i mean it's one million is a
lot like i i think we're sometimes so head down and busy with work and just grinding every day that we forget to stop and realize how big one million is right like we've been watching this number climb up for the past few years and it's nice to have those little milestones but i
think it wasn't until you posted it this past weekend was like we hit a million thought about that a million that's that's a lot that's a lot of people people who have come and joined and then been part of the conversation have taken action have grown from it uh have sometimes bit back
and give us critique but all this has been helpful for us to develop and grow and one million i think is pretty significant towards our even bigger mission which is to uh help a billion people yeah a million is significant but it's just a stepping stone onto a much much bigger goal i
do want to say this and this is not false modesty i'm not a guy who's known for being modest at all okay and i i know i'm not super hot my voice isn't great i'm not i don't have movie star good looks and we're not doing anything outrageous what we're doing is we're
teaching people about the art and craft of design and all its related design creative fields and we're teaching people how to make money doing what they love and the fact that there's a million people who said you know what i want to be part of that by clicking on that subscribe button it
means a lot to me it really does because i know that there are channels that will entertain you that'll make you laugh out loud we're just trying to teach people and so an education channel about design and business like what there's no way back in 2014 when we first started making videos that
i could ever even imagine that we would be crossing the 100 000 mark and let alone the one million mark and it just really amps me up it says that you know what there's a lot of noise in the world but maybe if we try to do something good to help other people
accomplish their goals that maybe then we can build a community and audience around this so that's what it means to me now get a couple of super chats we do okay we'll get to the super chat in one second the more important question is and this is more for the team why does
matthew's lighting look much better than mine i specifically asked you guys last night i don't care if you make matthew it's it's not the lighting it's the face and the hair okay the first burn of the day i get it i get it i feel like there's going to be more of those
moments and i'm totally okay with that i specifically asked the team last night after having a long day spending i i bleed with you guys matthew wasn't here last night and i said hey i don't care you can make matthew look like dog trash it doesn't matter just make me look good and
the first thing you do is just give him the good lighting the good background and here i am just looking like a monkey that is some nice lighting [Laughter] i have to make up for it by wearing 14 layers i asked my wife before i left the house how do i look she
says honey that look is unsustainable you're going to melt you're going to melt it's not that cold in the office but i say you know what fashion before form that's what i got you know there's a price to pay for this so now this is going to be just like a justin bieber
concert throughout the live stream you're gonna see layers of clothing being peeled off because i am already starting to melt under the hot light so guys i'm trying to deliver that entertainment value what did you get okay um we have a bunch of people that are tuning in live with us that can
interact with us i'm going to cut to you guys in just a second we want to hear what you have to say if there's any questions or anything that you want to to ask us i'm just priming you get ready for that let's address the super chat matthew why don't you take on
that the super chat okay i don't know if you can scroll through that we got uh diego emilio he said did somebody say giveaway thank you for the super chat yes there are giveaways rodrigo mueller it says uh when is the next logo therapy call for designers and you dropped us some money
you're talking to the right person because matthew's in charge of the academy channel now so i don't know matthew when's the new episode going to drop i don't know i'm dragging my feet on that that's 100 now you know what it is it's all that hair styling in gel that you got to
use it's taking up all your time that's right that's all my free time i'm just super efficient and it's done i just wash and go see what i'm saying all right there's another super chat oh bella b says everyone in the future is super hot that's why that's why bella b let's talk
call me you know there's another one here they're just reigning in matthew cataplasma design says you guys are our greatest heroes everything you do has set us up in the right track to make our wildest dreams come true thank you for all you do for us sebastian lacona thank you oh my gosh
that's awesome thank you so much for that all right mark can we get volume i'm not hearing myself uh are we doing that are we changing things here i'm not hearing myself on the speaker is that speaker even on it is hello hello can you hear me breaking okay yeah yeah there we
go there you go fantastic all right let's let's keep moving on here there are giveaways like i said giveaways yes and it's uh even in fake gold lettering so you guys know it's important giveaway some big things so here's how you participate in this mark t tell them how they do this okay
guys so the um drawing is going to happen live here online but if you guys can see the link that chris will be sharing go ahead and go there fill out the form and i'm going to be dropping names into our special spinning wheel and to give you guys an idea of what
you can win whoa here we go quick password quilt of what we've given away or what we're going to give away we've got everything from posters to merch hats uh field notes courses digital courses adobe creative cloud we've got some one-year subscriptions there and uh tubebuddy was nice enough to donate some subscriptions
to their service as well so nice we're gonna be going through these uh all throughout the show all right yeah there are some uh little kind of notes here to share about uh how we're gonna do this so oh this is the legal part mark yeah we're gonna be selecting about 30 plus
winners but you could only win once shipping restrictions could apply but we're going to work that out with you guys on an individual basis so once you win i'm going to contact you by email by the end of the year and we'll work out how we're going to get those prizes to you
and then last but not least we have so many prizes that we can't give away just on this show we're gonna lead those up into next year and have regular giveaways going into january so look out for that so you're saying the prize package is so bountiful and so unlimited it just like
can't be contained in one 90-minute stream too much yes and i i think that's a wonderful reflection on the community because we reached out to our friends who have been on their show people who support us and people started volunteering prizes and giving us stuff to kind of just help us to celebrate
we can't keep it even in one episode yeah so i that just warms my cold robotic heart a little bit so it's kind of like greasing the pump a little bit there now i want to say one other thing this url is legit it's safe in case google warns you that it's a
scam and phishing scheme it's not i promise you it's just to give you stuff no strings attached okay some restrictions apply according to our attorneys but otherwise no strings attached looks like employees can enter too there's no restrictions there what no no i'm just kidding look if so if our team on our
staff wins you know this whole thing is rigged like legitimate rig take it to the supreme court won all the posters how did that happen how did matthew have so many field notes after this i just don't know okay let's keep going here so i'm going to take a look back and today's
episode is structured in ways which i'm going to be sharing some personal photos along this many year journey from going from releasing our first episode to going out into the field and meeting some of you in real life so there's a good chance you might see yourself in one of these slides okay
so it's part home slideshow so bear with me so how do we get here okay this is a prompt that mark wanted me to talk about the journey began in 1995 when we first started at our design company and it was in boyle heights in in los angeles as blind as a service
design company and luckily we we found our rhythm we were able to figure out how to make money doing what it is we love so we were able to move so we moved to to my house in venice in 1997 and we finally got our first official legitimate space in i think late
90s early 2000 because it was being built 830 colorado avenue that has really fun memories for me and you're going to see like wait a minute i recognize some of that furniture the furniture has traveled with me right you know it really has so that barcelona day bed and the mies van der
rohe chair it has traveled with me and it's lasted a really long time and along that 20-plus year history we've been able to work on some really cool projects things that have been part of the cultural zeitgeist so when i tell people matthew that we worked on the crazy music video from gnarls
barkley their minds are blown right that was 2007. you remember that 2006 and then 2007 justin timberlake uh love stoned yes audi lots of stuff for microsoft and xbox yeah and there's a book of spells over there you see that matthew mm-hmm that was one of my first big projects as a creative
director over here so that was my first foray into video games i think yeah right in the dead center there you see that one right there kind of like a high water mark the very like almost the last big project we worked on tell people what that is that was the uh the
xbox one x uh launch video and that was fantastic that was a nice feather in our cap in 2017 i believe and man i think that really pushed us it also showed us like all of our full capabilities what we can do um here internally with all of our ragtag crew of amazing
freelancers and staff people that you know we've worked with for some over a decade you know like john robson i think he actually worked here in 2006 for the crazy music video and you didn't remember him i remember when he came back he's like yeah i worked on that no he didn't actually
i don't think john worked on it or maybe he did i think so here's the thing he worked on lovestone because he said i i when vanessa called and said hey can you work on this i think he was like busy or something i see and he's like he's like i was kicking
myself in the butt now john if i got the story wrong with vanessa you're watching this i apologize in advance one of the things that goes with aegis memory so who knows i think you're swapping that story with me because i wanted to work on love stone in 2007 like i i was
a huge fan of justin timberlake but i was still in school and i was like why do i have to graduate i wish i could just work on this project well truth be told we had we asked a lot of people to help us on our projects and of course only so many
people can respond and we work with but that's one of those moments so this is just kind of like a marker a mile marker in our journey because this is not where the story gets interesting it gets interesting right here because in 2014 my friend jose caballer which you guys know and love
from the school said hey chris let's get on youtube let's make some video content together and i was super reluctant and resistant and he said kind of in his his godfather voice i'm gonna make you a deal you can't refuse and his his deal or an offer was for me to sit there
like a dummy he literally said that you don't you don't have to say anything and he can speak for four people so we we know that's just going to be no dead air with him right he said just sit there and let's do the show and i sat there and jaws clenched and
just it was just super stiff i didn't know what to say and i'm really glad that he gave me enough space and invited me in and said look these are training wheels you get there and don't say anything until you personally feel comfortable and that moment is kind of like this moment where
different situation different people are going to have this moment when there's a call to action like in the story arc the hero's journey and there's the mentor which is jose and we have the anxiety of the call like i don't want to do this and i run through all the things that are
going through my mind like what can go wrong back then having business and clients was really important to the survival of the company so saying something and i know my mouth is prone to say something that yeah it is not what i think i can alienate clients and i worried about all the
kinds of things he was going to drag me into telling the horror stories about bad clients how we price projects how we do sales that that was going to hurt us be told none of that happened and there's tremendous upside potential and actually very low downside to this but it was that anxiety
of the call that's the tension of the story that he helped me to get through and the rest is kind of part of our history now yeah that's that's amazing and it's it's interesting to hear you say that um that those were the things that you were worried about because i think many
people are worried about that right when they go on camera like no one wants to look like a fool and the internet is forever even though you can delete something right so you you feel all that that wait like something bad can happen all the many things that can happen when we don't
tend to focus on the one or few things that actually can't the good things that can happen and i know that's one thing you always like to shift our perspective on it's like don't focus on the negative focus on the few ways that it will actually go great yeah i think it's a
scary idea to grow up in public when you make a video or you make a post or you tweet something that people see an evolving point of view and that the the typefaces you used to love you might not love today but for for most of our existence on earth there has been
a way for the for the world to see every little mistake and misstatement that you make and now especially with the younger people this is just part of how we live and how we grow up and we have to start to just embrace that because fighting that change is not really going to
help you and so here we are we're putting out videos we're saying things and production issues aside even my temperament has has like i had to find the groove and to find my my voice and the confidence to be able to say what it is that i think and hope that with grace
people will say i think the intention is good here even though he may have used the wrong tone or misspoke a little bit and and that's the wonderful thing and if we can overcome that fear we have this wonderful chance of connecting with other human beings all of you that are watching live
and growing with you and i think that's a really wonderful experience to have okay so i'm going to move on along the timeline because it doesn't want to turn into like a 20-hour biopic okay so here we go so 2016 is a big breakthrough for us it's because at this point jose and
i we decided to go separate directions he goes doing his thing with the school and then now it's become the system and we we separated and the future was born in 2016. so we've been at the video game for about four years now and this was a video that really broke through for
us and most people who know me know me from this video which is how much do you charge for a logo to this day people still cost me on the street and it's like you're crazy chris doe how how can you charge it you're you're just nuts you're so insensitive to what the
world is doing i'm like okay i'm sorry i'm just trying to help people who can hear the message right right so let's keep going so here we are at 2020 and we cross this major milestone but i just want to tell everybody as thrilled as i am as much as i want to
celebrate this moment we're just getting started right this year has been really tough with covid and everybody under quarantine because there were a whole bunch of plans that were just destroyed because because of how we've had to adjust but i'm so looking forward to next year we've adjusted and when things go back
to a you know quote unquote normal i think you guys are going to see the extent of what we've been working on it's impossible for you to see my point of view but we've made leaps and bounds from those early dark days with a couple of cameras and hanging like ikea bed sheets
behind us for the white wall matthew so it's a little bit different today yeah i mean you could tell everybody's complimenting on the background it's pretty gorgeous yeah i think the guys did a wonderful job and it's only going to get better everything that we do is just going to get better because
i'm of that mindset constant improvement always improve not perfection you would yeah that's it okay so now i promise uh and we're gonna talk to whoever is live with us right now for a brief moment and then matthew you'll deal with a couple more super chats cause i think they're still there right
we haven't had all of them yet okay so who who wants to talk to us uh somebody that's tuning in live via zoom and mark can the audience see all these zoom members with a gold bar behind them yes they can see some oh they can't see what i'm seeing okay it's very
impressive what i'm seeing right now so do you guys make some noise i mean who who wants to say something anybody i just want to see the future all right i hear the deafening clap of a thousand people on mute so there we go congrats guys congratulations all right all right all right
you guys are making some noise okay okay we can hear you all right okay why don't we do this every once in a while i want to cut to you guys and ask you to speak your mind you can share a story you can ask us a question you could tell us a
joke whatever it is you want just keep it clean so who wants to start us off who i can't see you all so who wants to say something here and just speak up oh i'll share something okay david co david cole who i've known for a long time david speak to me yeah
no i i remember i think it was 2014 or 15 when you first came up to vancouver for your first uh um fishing trip and we met up and you were telling me a little bit about pivoting your business and you weren't sure about leaving the motion service client client service business and
i thought you were crazy i thought why would you abandon all of that for something you have like no experience in and and seem very like i don't know um very like on shaky ground and so i thought you were crazy when when you told me about it but now what six six
years seven years later you hit a million on youtube and i remember back then too you had a competition with people uh at blind uh trying to get your your work or your employees uh on instagram you guys were having a competition who could grow their instagram stuff faster and nobody was like
growing their account at all and you were just so frustrated and now like last year i think you grew from like 60 to now you're like half a million so yeah something like that watching the journey from knowing you back from the mid 90s to now and and like to this day where
you hit a million that's that's incredible so congratulations thank you david thanks for sharing that story i really appreciate it and i i appreciate your honesty it did sound like a pretty crazy idea but you know i'm i have no shortage of crazy ideas you just asked the team it's like let's try
this let's go there let's break this and let's see what happens and there's something about me that just is glutton for punishment right because when you set these big lofty goals you have to go way way out of your comfort zone and when people talk about going out of your comfort zone that's
what we're talking about to put yourself in a place in a space where failure seems the most likely outcome and i live in that i revel in that moment because it forces me to change um i think brian collins talks about this like the the what happens with caterpillars they literally eat themselves
until they explode and if there's an imagine a cell that causes the change to happen and so for a lot of us i think we just nibble a little bit but for me it's like pursuing these crazy goals is me forcing myself to explode until i get into that cocoon state and then
re-emerge as something totally different some wonderful things have happened since then okay so at the height of the company as blind as a service design company we almost hit seven million dollars in revenue in a single year that was a high water mark for us and then something really weird happened is we
started to pick up momentum on the future and we're barely making any money you guys just keep this in mind we're barely making money we're not even making enough money to pay an intern in the early days in december 2018 we're sitting around in our normal management meeting as a service design company
still is blind and matthew says to me why are we trying to pursue new clients because i was telling the team we need to generate more business i want everybody to reach into your contacts whoever you've worked with to email them to give them a call because we need to generate work for
blind and matt's like why are we doing this chris is in the future important to you shouldn't we put our energies there and at first as matthew's often to do he'll say something that i find like oh matthew why are you trying to derail this conversation i'm asking everybody to help out and
generate sales leads but this is again a call to action and my anxiety to call is like no matthew let's do it right so then i said okay you're right everybody how long is it really going to take all four contacts that we have to call right to email that's going to take
us one day let's start to shift on how to make the future successful this wasn't in 2018 i'm sorry this was earlier than that okay and then in december of 2018 when we had momentum behind us i think we had just like cracked a million dollars in sales matthew said let's stop doing
client work again it's one of those moments where i was thinking [Music] sure and you want to put your foot on one boat and the other foot on the other boat but the two boats are pulling apart so december 2018 we made a commitment we made a pledge to ourselves let's see if
we can sustain this company without losing staff without having to downsize or dramatically change who works here at the company and see if we can do this and it was a challenge that we met just head-on so the pressure was on no like they say no pressure no diamonds and the pressure was
on so i'm happy and thrilled to report to you with the exception of one or two little kind of favor jobs we have not done client work since december of 2018 and that's something worth celebrating we can sustain a company with full-time team with all the benefits that accompany that and we're growing
and it's an awesome awesome feeling that we can do this by helping other people it's a good challenge i i always find like i think i i'm with you when it comes to taking on challenges i don't think i have the same level of of risk tolerance that you do chris but i
mean that's why you're you're steering the ship but for me it's just like being one of the passengers on the ship it's like well i think we could do more and and i'm always down for the challenge and whenever we set a challenge we seem to hit it or get pretty dang close
or at least learn from it yeah so i think matthew is kind of like the like i'm a donkey and matthew's the the old man with the stick and he just whips the donkey and said donkey do you want to do this thing not thinking the donkey would go and the donkey says
and i just like and then the guy's like whoa he's taking off wait wait for me so i think it's just the relationship that we have we've known each other for a really long time that began many many years before even working together okay before we continue on with places and people i
want to address some of the super chats yeah i i don't know if we could pull some of them up it's hard for me to read here we go let's see this is from hannah troy hello i'm a graphic design program i'm in the graphic design program and i can't find any portfolios
for my teachers that teach adobe programs should i be worried okay okay i think no no i get it she has teachers hannah she has teachers who she's checking up on the teachers to see the work that they've done okay now i admit i've done this this sounds horrible you're auditing the teachers
to make sure like should i be listening to this person are they worth listening to now back in the 90s when i was going to school the internet wasn't even invented back then so it's like it was not easy to check on the work of your professors so you really just had to
judge them on their actions and what they had to say the depth of their critique and the knowledge in which they represented by how they articulated their ideas today it's easy to look people up i haven't had to do this so this is not a dilemma i've had but matthew have you done
this have you checked up on your teachers uh some but i i think uh usually it was word of mouth for me in in school right so if somebody had a great time in class or i could see the student work that came up prior it's like oh they made that i'd like
to make that as well so for me it was just more validating through what the students actually did with the material and and that was how i checked up on my teachers but you know as we've learned and i think that's a i've definitely shared that position as we've learned like some of
the best teachers for things like technical programs like photoshop and stuff like that like they might not be the best designers but they're amazing teachers and i've had actually a lot of experiences like like that learning from people who maybe they don't have the same style or something that i aspire to but
the way that they teach stuff is so good and help me understand it in a way that i think you know people with the best portfolios don't always know how to teach either yeah so here's the thing we need to separate a couple different things a portfolio is just one way to look
at somebody's contribution to us because some of the best practitioners they're so good they don't even know how to teach anymore right or maybe just never knew how to teach and so that can be kind of a false indicator and then we also know that people who are good teachers sometimes are not
the most creative people but they know how to inspire you they know how to create space for you to learn and one person that comes to mind right away is dinda picks imperfect right he does some of the most amazing tutorials on photoshop and he does it with a certain kind of like
childlike energy that i just love he makes complicated things really simple and he's super supportive but you ask him are you a designer he goes no i'm not a designer i can't design but i can teach you how to use the software for the things that you want to make right so i
think teacher is a person who empowers you to do what you want to do versus what they want to do correct and that's a big difference so yes that's one way to look at it but i like matthew's method much better which is to ask people who have or upper term or seniors
or juniors in school and ask them who did you find to be super helpful and a great teacher and why and align their answers with what you want from life and also look at the work that students produce that's the best evidence of all right because it doesn't matter what they say on
a resume it doesn't matter what the job description sounds like if or the course description if the work coming out of that class is not good that's some some cause for concern right right if it's really good i don't care if they're old they're young if they've got one working guy or not
it doesn't really matter because you know that the students go through it have amazing work now i realize matthew's view is partially blocked so i'll read the questions because you can't see it past the camera and then i can see it here you can see it there now they're playing up yeah go
and run it so the next one is from dow design congrats future fam a well-deserved million here's to a million more thank you for that he cheers this with his digital beer digital beer so digital non-alcoholic beer boom next one is from madison uh la clef will there ever be a season two
of the best show on the internet building a brand as if you don't do any more client work now we know that people love building a brand let's use this opportunity to talk about building a brand yeah okay building a brand was an experiment in long-form content that's serialized much like things that
you see on netflix now we took on a client who couldn't afford us for the benefit of sharing the process and they agreed to allow us to have full complete editorial control and it came at a pretty heavy cost to us like on a resource level like a lot of people worked on
it and on a financial level it's something we would love to do but we need to like be able to do this in sustainable ways like we can't just pay for it like i think we had estimated at one point that we probably spent over 200 000 in man hours and production putting
this together and what we got paid to do was just a tiny little amount right right so as much as we love you for loving it we need to find a way so we look at that building a brand series as proof of concept as a calling card that we know to create
content that creative people actually want to see something like this there are reality shows for people who design clothing for people who cook for people who make swords and knives right there's got to be room in the world for design people right matthew they're making room abstract is paving the way right so
yes so hopefully we could see more and more of that and and as our community grows as we get attention behind the content that we make it's just easier proof points for us to go up the ladder and pitch these things and be able to hopefully produce content at a higher level and
give you all the things that you want because right now it's all self-funded and we're doing our best for those yeah but stay tuned you never know you never know because let's blow through some of these comments and i want to cut back to the people who are tuning in live and talk
to somebody else okay yeah the last one is from glendon young this person says started watching in 2015 i've gone from a novice graduating with honors in graphic design worked in packaging design started my own business falling starting another one god bless you all thank you so much glenn thank you okay let's
turn it over to the people who are tuning in live who's got the next comment or question maybe you guys can raise your hand digitally or something so not everybody talks at the same time or we can just call on somebody matthew okay i see it i see somebody you wanna talk to
me joanna hi chris hi i i wanted to ask because i i've been here five minutes earlier and how did you get in the state where you're ready to present and you get that energy and just you just go right into it because it amazes me all the time that's a very good
question okay i'm gonna i'm gonna answer this question so just to let everybody understand the people who are tuning in live just saw matthew and i just chilling out like hey are we ready to go how's the deck looking and then all of a sudden like jonah's like we're live right now and
then we have to just explode right and so analy called me out on this she goes chris are you being fake are you real dude which one is the real you right emily you said this to me before which one is the real you and i said they're all me but i just
have the ability to dial the energy and the intention and the focus depending on the context so when we're doing after hours it feels like somebody slipped me a xanax or something you know i'm like hey so this is after hours when i have real conversations i bring my energy down real low
and if some of you guys have seen me speak live i run on the stage i almost fall on my face i might do a little dance it's because i'm excited to see people and you have to realize people are in a darkened air-conditioned theater they're fighting against their number one priority which
is to fall asleep so i had to do something to prevent them from falling asleep the same thing with our youtube show right if you are just tuning in and you're like who are these two jokers talking about whatever you're not gonna tune in if you're like oh so it's our one million
episode and i'm so happy to see you and let's celebrate together nobody's going to tune in for that we got to bring some energy so i am genuinely happy and that the happiness is masking fear and excitement because we're alive and i'm liable to have tongue twisters and not be able to think
and articulate clearly and that's where the energy is coming from you wanna okay awesome question so we saw one other person had their hand up we'll do this that was an awesome question uh where were we that is savannah savannah you're up next hey guys hi hi i'm tons of vlog from kenya
um i absolutely love watching the future it has absolutely changed my life in so many ways how i do business um i'm primarily a photographer so my question is how do you decide what content to put on all the different platforms that you guys are on because you're on so many different ones
so how do you define what is important to put where great question is such a good question i'm going to pass it over to matthew you know that's a that's an evolving thing that i think we've only started to really see clarity in this past year so we have this our main channel
and what had started as the business of design channel has expanded to so much more so what we do here really is this is chris's art project here like all the things that he's learning and passionate about that's what this channel becomes because it's an evolving discussion we've reserved the space for that
so now it's beyond just business and design it's it's mindset and and productivity and all of these things learning how to learn we that's why we started a second channel early in 2018 which was the future academy so there now we've moved all of our design specific content there our tutorial content there
because we know that if we keep putting that on this channel we're trying to tap into too many different audiences and we're stretching them too far like somebody might have signed up for a typography manual and then now they're getting all this business stuff which they didn't sign up for and then now
we're having a weird dialogue with our with our audience so now we're putting all of our tutorial content there and then inside uh like instagram because of what chris has learned and done on his personal instagram account we've figured out there are better ways to teach on instagram and we've been utilizing the
the carousel uh formats that chris is really known for and and adopting that in different ways and we see that all over the instagram now so we're just trying to find what it is people want from us and then using each platform to deliver that in the best way because we're not just
trying to repopulate and blast out these videos on all of our channels it just doesn't make sense we're just trying to listen to the audience and then work with the platform to give them the best experience for that to add to that the quick short guide to this is this is you want
to be able to segment your content so it matches with who you want to speak to it's very important matthew said this what do they sign up for and what are you giving them so if they sign up for design and type tutorials and photoshop tricks you start talking about mindset and motivation
they're like i'm out of here i did not sign up for that conversely they signed up for like the bigger kind of business philosophy that we like to talk about on the main channel and you start to hammer them with like tutorials they're gonna say i'm out of here so it's really important
that you meet the audience where they're at the audience that you wish to attract and to be somewhat consistent in the range of topics that you talk about there is one exception to this which is if you're a giant lovable personality they tune in for the personality and you can talk about paint
drying on the wall and they're they're going to be thrilled with that so we're not a personality channel i think we're trying to really teach people things and to make a difference in the world so we have to be focused and the focus is what's going to help you to grow the fastest
thank you very much for doing that or asking that question matthew let's hit the comments and i'm going to share some personal photos and talk about the places we've been right so this comes from andrea mcneill uh would you ever offer any emotion design courses or youtube courses so motion design i think
we're working on an animation course actually right now so that that thing will be dropping hopefully in the new year uh and then youtube courses actually i'm working on a video storytelling workshop which is starting in january so once i do a couple of runs of that that's going to be officially a
course that's going to come out on our catalog thanks for the question so i'll read the next comment that's coming from benjamin mark can you highlight that one more time the yellow one the one right there so benjamin arsey rk says i was just promoted from designer strategist and thanks for uh thanks
to the future i'm now solving business problems not just graphic problems i love that thank you so much all right matthew back to you another one all right last one this is uh alex chuev hopefully i said that right we are a small team of web developers and bi uh analysts from minx
belarus how does the u.s market relate to cooperation with smaller companies from eastern europe we work with anybody yeah we don't care where you're from exactly if you've got a heart a pulse and you do good work and you can communicate in a common language with us we will hire you i think
our development team is from that part of the world right yeah for sure right yeah uh i think we've done several projects with eastern european uh development companies so yeah okay so there there's this perception that people won't work with you because you're in a country where for whatever reasons there's a stigma
against you look talent as talented as talent period and if you are just too dumb to recognize it that that's their loss in my opinion and we like to work with anybody like i don't know what anybody looks like what they sound like i look at the work i reach out if they're
responsive and we can afford them and it seems like this is going to be a good match a win for both of us then we just do the deal and that's that okay all right so let's uh let's do a little kind of a trip down memory lane here so i want to
tell you guys something this is a personal thing aside from coming to america from vietnam when my parents fled the country due to communism i haven't traveled much at all matthew i remember one of the first trips i had was flying down to san diego because my brother flew me down and this
is like in high school so i was a little crazy he flew me down to watch was it mike spike and mike's film film festival and the first trip that i actually left the continent was to go to hawaii and i remember in in college my friends were like chris you have to
travel like yeah travel i'm going to work i'm going to read magazines read books i'm going to stick in front of my computer and it's been pretty crazy because i started to look at how many places i've been mostly because of teaching and the future so here they are ladies and gentlemen here's
all the places we've been to look at this and it was like huh and i forgot some and i had to go back in and add it but this is as many as i can fit on the screen without breaking and this is just in the last i would say eight years or
so and so i've made up for a lot of lost time in terms of traveling now i want to say something my traveling is different than you're traveling my traveling is go from the airport to the hotel stay in the hotel room and work on my deck until it's time to go outside
and see people right and i get a little nervous seeing other people speak but i try to go and see other people speak so like can get scared like my god they're so good i got to go back and work on my deck so usually the extent of travel is i saw the
airport i saw the hotel i saw the venue i saw the hotel i saw the airport and i'm out so it's a little bit different right because i was looking through the the my iphone to see like i really have no no photos it was like what i ate right what the hotel
room looked like and the venue so i haven't really seen your country with a couple of exceptions right okay so here it is in pictures uh this is our trip to madrid this is part of the future euro tour part one i got to travel with mark and aaron and so uh in
in madrid it's like a lot of jamon right mark lots of hemorrhoids so that was like this photo spoke to me it's like giant legs of ham standing there and just there's a there's a levels to him that i didn't realize ricky the grade the cut what's that mark sorry vegans i'm sorry
and uh this this photo is pretty awesome because it shows like what travel life is for us it's not all parties and uh hanging around with beautiful people it's literally going back to the hotel room looking at the footage downloading things and working on a cut and this is aaron who is pretending
to work really hard on something i'm sure he's just looking at his instagram account right now because we said we're gonna do same-day edits we had zero edits done in the entire trip now ricky and jonah when you travel with me we're gonna have to actually get work done this is not the
model to follow but uh it's it's a photo that tells a story and then here we are hanging out with a couple of friends and i think mark is flying the drone and it's a pretty epic shot it's like that casey neistat shot you know where the drone pulls away and we're kind
of looking cool on the rooftop looking all i don't know emo i don't know what we're looking everybody's in black right so this is and it's the the beatles there yeah this is in barcelona now i think and and barcelona is known for cava that's their version of wine or champagne right mark
yep yep uh here we are in in where are we here we're in barcelona we're in barcelona a lot of beautiful people in barcelona people came from all over the place to come and hang out with us and that was really cool this is a little meetup whenever i travel after i do
my presentation i have a little bit of energy i just put out on social media hey i'll be here and here is my hotel come and meet me at the lobby and who knows who shows up and so these are the people who showed up and we recognized a couple of these people
today so that's how we met jonah when we went is that right me and ben went to texas and were like oh meet us here and then jonah showed up nice with his camera he he shot everything same day edit he did the same thing he posted it that's a boy who knows
to take advantage of an opportunity that's all right the door wasn't open he opened it kicked it open well done jonah that's how you force your way into the future okay um [Laughter] there's a bead of sweat uh in between something right now that we're not allowed to talk about okay but that's
jonah he's easily frightened this is an edinburgh in scotland right mark and i remember this we were going for a walk we're looking for something to eat and it was straight out of a dracula film or something it's like wow this is so beautiful the air was so thick and none of us
brought a camera i know i know ricky a big disappointment nobody brought a camera and it was so super epic and the thing that i love about travel especially in cultures that are older is you see where history meets contemporary like modern day life and i love the clash between the two you
know here in america especially on the west coast there's a lot of old things right and so there's just something about it and i know i'm telling myself a story but the stone the architecture it's like people lived here who've done things there's culture and there's history and philosophy and music and art
and i'm just so blown away this shot is with aaron and mark that's aaron in the foreground again he brought a big backpack it looked like they were like really busy shooting a lot of stuff but i really haven't seen any of this footage you notice that matthew have you ever seen our
admiral footage yeah i've seen some of it like five clips yeah okay and uh this is the one shot because usually i'm working and then mark and aaron are out there flying drones and doing god knows what and so this is a shot from dublin i believe uh just trying to capture that
beautiful like light on the horizon it's a little low-res because uh it's the drone footage that he shared with me via facebook i think and we get to go around and we get to talk to people and to me the most exciting part isn't seeing necessarily the city and sightseeing it's really meeting
the people and understanding the culture and the point of view and i love doing that being on lockdown and doing these virtual talks it is so draining to me because i don't get any energy from that it takes away my energy but when i get to hear your stories and hear about your
challenges or maybe you saw something you heard something that we did that changed your life or helped you that's where i get like the the cells are recharged okay and then this is uh us in birmingh i didn't spell that correct birmingham design festival and it no ai bi b-i-r yeah i messed
that up sorry apologies to the burmese and this was a venue and you guys see this venue here it is super nuts it's a tiny little venue and there are humans packed in there you think this is tokyo it's not tokyo it's in birmingham and it was it was one of the trips
where i got to travel with some of my special partners here so i love this shot because this was like a really cool venue and look at the architecture all those lines it feels like a science fiction movie right it's really cool but the cool part is i got to travel with these
two dudes here it's the first time my two boys were able to travel with me without mom and you know when the boys are out we do crazy things we take pictures in the streets and that's my oldest and my youngest doing whatever we do as as people and there was a lot
of this every time i turn around this boy was like conked out dealing with the time zone differences so i told him i'm gonna show this photo he's gonna have to deal with it because he's doing all the hard work yes he is yeah all the hard work so before i move on
to the next slide uh mark's saying it's time to do a giveaway ooh let's do it mark what do we do our first giveaway what are we giving away we got up on your slides right there okay i'll pull up the first one okay don't cut to my slide right now as i'm
scanning through this here we go okay and i got wheel of names all right all right so the first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna give away three 300 gift certificates i think or credit for future courses that you can buy whatever course digital course that you can find on the site
and so we're going to give three away and mark's got the spinning wheel of glory here we go we're gonna select three here big money big money so everybody that registered your name's on here and it's real time here we go boom all right so you've got arleigh chevron okay so we're gonna
do this again mark yep we're going to do three in a row no yeah in theory oh bed couturan okay yes good job woohoo one last one is it going crazy we got brigitta leon from cambridge congratulations from cambridge mass is that yeah cambridge massachusetts okay i got a couple more little slideshow
things here and then we'll cut back to the pro group i see is that mr anthony banks the handsome fisherman i see you anthony that's his name that's his new name he gave himself that name both handsome and a good fisherman you know like both are debatable matthew let's do it let's just
say that but he's a really sweet guy so i'll accept that okay so kind of coming back to the slideshow like i i like to go to big venues and talk to lots of people in different cities and countries i've never been but also just to go to high schools and smaller venues
and just to see that so i love talking to people who are passionate about design and want to learn from us as to how they can pursue this life this creative life but new york city had some really special memories for us we were flying back from a long trip through europe and
it was just nice to be home even though new york's not home for me but back in america when people smile at you and they're just happy to see you you know some of these european countries they don't care you come there you spend money it's like you wait we don't talk to
you i'm like oh okay so when we came back as soon as we walked into this shop and the and uh the maitre d came over and talked to us i'm like it's good to be back matthew it's good to be back they like us here and then one of those trips where
the future posse you guys recognize the the silhouette or whoever this person is can you guys recognize who this is yes yes you know who it is it's melinda and we're we're all jumping on the train going to downtown brooklyn and they're hanging out with me it's one of my fondest memories of
any of the trips i've been on because there was like the small future wolf pack that i was traveling with and it just made it so so fun and memorable okay this is us in uh digital design days in geneva in geneva and i've never seen stuart this animated in my life he's
usually a very quiet mild-mannered person he's usually sitting in his room editing all day he pretty much goes to lunch by himself so there can be weeks or months where i don't even speak to stuart but you let the boy out of the editing look at this guy who is he he has
he has been cooped up is he in zoom yeah i thought he was going to be here with us he's got a call at the end okay okay all right oh why don't we do this i got a couple more pictures that's us in geneva and this is this was a really uh
proud moment for me because uh i was running a brand strategy workshop with people from mit people much smarter than me for sure right and i want to show you guys this picture this was us at epicurrence in yosemite and i i've been in snow before we don't get a lot of it
down here but i've been snowed before but it was fresh virgin snow just coming on the road and it was just like it was so so amazing and i almost wrecked my car i almost slid off the side of the road it was it was worth the shot matthew as they say not
really my wife's like what are you doing i'm like oh shoot the car is not stopping and i've already hit the brakes yeah but that's it's like when you go to yosemite you kind of want to be in weather like this it is amazing that's ideal just getting whited out my trip to
toronto there that was awesome kind of going on the other east coast in another country but super cold and like i said even the homeless people are polite okay this is us in in berlin and sometimes my wife gets to travel with me it's not always easy on our relationship so honey i
love you thanks for putting up with me and sometimes we have extra days the only reason why i see anything other than the venue in the airport is if i'm traveling with my wife because she's like let's go here let's go to this museum let's do something other than just the work but
look at my little guy he's sitting in that little poof and there there's somebody that we've seen there's ron segal next to uh sabrina right she's in the group yeah and there's all the pro members and there's my wife back there too okay this was fun this was was that jonah oh now
now jonah's entering the picture now he's like i recognize this this looks familiar yes this is aiga in pasadena right yeah this is the venue first time getting a little booth and setting it up yeah so this was pretty fun it was fun it was exhilarating and scary and unpredictable and it was
just us kind of doing the dress rehearsal for what was to come which is to take our operation elsewhere to take it out of the studio and be on the road and share the stories it was kind of nice to see who whoever would show up okay this is one of the last
trips i took before the the lockdown so we're coming to the end here this is in amsterdam and really wonderful human beings there it was super lovely and we did the typical thing we got into a boat and went down the canals in freezing cold weather both my son and i we're trying
to be tough americans and just shivering in the boat they're like are you guys okay yeah we're all right okay and you know oops i i need to set this up so as i'm prone to do i'll say hey i'm in town let's meet up somewhere and one of the locals organized an
event for us and told me to meet him at the hotel we went to the hotel and to my surprise too many people showed up we were getting in trouble the the hotel staff was like you guys can't be here you're overcrowding this place but they were so so accommodating and this is
one of the pictures we're able to take so i expected six people to show up and it was a little bit more than six i can say okay you can't ask me that question dude my favorite place is wherever the the company and the conversation is good you can put me in a
shack you know with a tin roof it doesn't matter i'm there for the conversation and this just being one of the last trips i took it has a little special kind of nostalgic moment for me because we have not been able to travel but this was such a fantastic group we sat we
talked we went deep they asked questions about matthew and ben that we didn't record so i was able to talk freely [Laughter] okay so here it is this is the trip i've been to the philippines a couple times now seeing it from the sky is so different right it is the philippines matthew
can you confirm that uh i think so been to the philippines and i have to say like one of my dreams like every kid grows up thinking that they're going to be a rock star and play guitar and one of my dreams is to be able to crowd surf to jump into the
crowd and surf and i missed my opportunity there were so many filipinos that were packed in here it was like 13 000 people there was a lot of people not thirteen thousand i'm sorry like three thousand a little exaggeration there and it was so awesome and then i may never get this opportunity
again so there's enough of you i'd like to live out my childhood fantasy just gather around and don't drop me when i jump into the crowd okay okay we already gave that away uh okay let's talk to the pro people let's talk to whoever is live here i see a couple of hands
up so i'm going to go with okay i'm going to go with annalee analyte thank you for your patience i see you what's on your mind natalie hi hello yeah i just want to say thank you and congrats and you know i joined the pro group over a year ago from stockholm sweden
so you have people all around the world and i felt like i had big dreams i want to grow my agency and you know i didn't expect this to happen at all and now i just met my wonderful community and i almost like tear up when i think about it because this is
like the best people and you are the best people i know and you know you permitted me to dream so big so i totally changed my life and my career and i just want to say thank you oh my gosh thank you for sharing that shoot give me a minute guys hold it
in hold it in and nobody wants to see me crying i promise you it's really nasty thank you first for for sharing that and for being such an active and contributing member of the community you push me and you challenge me you're the one who started me on this whole sharing personal vulnerable
stories and it's it's done wonders for for me connecting with other people there is a tiny little beating heart inside the metal chest here so there is something that resembles a human being and you're helping me to discover that and to bring that back out right you're so sweet you know people you
say that you're a robot but people know that you're not a robot don't tell anybody it's much easier for me to be cold if that's thank you very much annalee okay let's uh thank you let's move on let's go to sabrina sabrina hi hi i would like to share observation you're ready for
a bit more of compliments chris i would like to share observation we we saw each other in berlin last year and what really was very very inspiring for me how much you are dedicated to help people i think we we see you all in the group for this two hours every week and
and even more but um we were there for a whole day and a whole night and you never stopped helping people and just let's say everyone asks you a lot of questions but but you never stopped also late night so i that was really inspiring for me and let's say i never thought
that i could start thinking of um helping people in that way but let's say that inspired me to really dig deeper into that and so i'm uh yeah that's that's really inspiring for me and now i started also to yeah work totally different uh less client work more work with people helping people
so thanks for that thank you for sharing that and a little side story here we got to hang out because jonathan courtney from aj and smart put together a workshop and he invited me to speak and it was awesome for because i've never been to berlin before and sabrina was there and at
the end of the night i was like i need to get out of here she goes what do you mean i'll i'll take you i'm like no that's too much trouble and she's like no i insist i'll take you back to your hotel she gets in the car it's not even on her
way she goes out of her way she drops me off we chat for a little bit and then she goes back to the party first of all that's saying two things one is she's very generous and she's very committed to the party because they were out to all hours of the night so
germans you know they know how to drink their beer they know how to party hats off to you for sure okay thank you very much sabrina let's do one more person from the pro group here i see a lot more hands here okay i see your hand let's get a gentleman on here
so that's going to be connor connor welcome hey man thank you so much uh i just want to first of all say congratulations on all your success this is awesome i i think you should be really proud um i have a lot of questions that i'm sure that you would be able to
help me with but i have to ignore all of them because i want to know where you get you know i would use a different word normally but where you get the courage to call yourself a not not a personal or personality channel and then 15 minutes of showing us personal photos of
your travels dude this is a personality channel man like you gotta accept that oh no okay i just so you guys know this is my my virtual family outside of my real family that i spend time with and i i told them before the call before we went live and go ahead and
harass me be a little gentle but you can go ahead and harass me a little bit so connor's taking the opportunity to harass me a little bit okay let me clarify i am trying my best to open up to show you a little bit more about what happens in my life and my
world and i have deliberately kept that out of the public discussion because not because i'm a very private person it's because i just don't think it's that interesting so this connects your question with analyse encouragement is who is the person behind these ideas this philosophy these lessons and people want to know that
i'm like emily i'm i'm not the rock i'm not filling the blank people really don't want to know that about me and she's just try just try kind of like matthew but in a feminine version from stockholm sweden and she's like just do it and then i do it and i'm like okay
so i'm slowly opening the gates and it's mostly out of self-doubt that anybody's interested in it so i wanted to go in and to make this episode special for people because i typically don't talk about that stuff behind the scenes and to share the personal stories i don't see myself as a personality
channel like like says somebody like pewdiepie he can talk about reality shows he can talk about video games and you're going to tune in because he's a character he's wildly funny and entertaining and sometimes offensive that's the person in personality channel but i'm trying to inject personality into what it is that i
do so thanks very much connor for that question no matthew let's let's do the the chats yeah so uh i'm highlighting here a logo geek friend of ours such a huge milestone thank you for making such an incredible accessible and inviting platform for designers around the world i feel honored to have met
and got to know chris and a few of the team over the past few years here's to the next million that's ian padgett yes we met in person in real life and he's such a wonderful person he's one of our early guests on the podcast and he shared just in such vulnerable ways
about how he has anxiety around being around people and how he's overcome that and he's super super introverted too and how a guy like him with his fears and phobias can be out there in public and to to record his own podcast that's an inspiration to every single person all right awesome okay
anything else matthew we got a angel tell us who's contributed here so your vids helped me start my business thank you by the way uh the production quality is top-notch definitely improved over the years i'd love to learn about your setup nice job future team it's almost as if we're going to do
an episode on the most insane video setup ever it's almost like you know what's on our mind look out for that in january 2021 uh we or early january early 2021 we had this idea that we want to go insane and spend as much money as possible to create the coolest most interactive
virtual production ever i know that's a big task but that's the click bait title right so thanks for prompting us on that um do we have another question before we give something away uh just another super chat here from marid he says keep up the good work and content congrats thank you so
much for that and i think there's one last one before we jump in just popped up let's see oh just a thank you awesome attila thank you very much thank you so much okay i think it's time to do a giveaway again giveaway okay yeah yeah so we're going to do a two
for one right mark yes our friend rahul um was at was really inspired by our mission which is to teach a billion people how to make a living doing what they love that's a one billion mission and the way that we created the hashtag is one billion minus one there's you're trying to
reach a billion people and count me as your minus one so your goal is getting smaller and smaller every single day so he came up with this really unique mark and we have the caps here and what we're gonna do is we're gonna give away one of the one billion minus one cap
designed by rule and we're also going to throw in another cap this is one of those ones where you win and we just give you another one we're gonna give you a goddess designer cap the goddess designer cap has been sold out there was just a few caps that we held on for
situations just like this so we're gonna send you two caps okay they're unisex they're snapback caps and and ricky is doing a great job of showing you guys what the caps look like mark let's do it spin that wheel all right in here here we go we're going to do two pairs so
two winners coming up over here we're giving away two sets of two right yes two hats two sets of two here we go lucky winners [Music] kingsley from owery nigeria [Laughter] congratulations some shipping restrictions may apply all right let's do this again and the second winner okay beautiful congratulations both of you you
are very far away you're going to break our shipping uh budget for these they're worth it they're worth it they're worth it for sure they are okay let's do this um part of this what we do is about building a community and this is i'm not gonna talk about this so much but
i'm gonna step through it and just show you what the community looks like because most people know us from the video screen on their laptop on their phones but they don't really come in contact with us and i hope i sincerely hope this that one day i'll be able to meet each and
every person who wants to see my ugly face okay so the community the community is virtual the community is real and it began here with jose running one of his workshops for women entrepreneurs and just being able to watch him now what you don't know about this was in summer it's in i
think pasadena it was hotter than heck and i wore a white shirt and i was dripping with sweat because the air conditioner had been turned off and it was almost like an embarrassing male version of a wet t-shirt contest it was horrific i was doing everything i could to cool down but there's
an embarrassing moment there and we used to do core workshops here in the office right right right ricky all right hold on don't say anything yet do not say anything yet now old school pro members will notice some people in the background okay there's one person in particular that kind of holds the
frame should i say he holds the frame in a really big kind of way when you say he can't defend himself that's what he gets for not tuning in live he's on the chat you see in the chat yeah okay that is none other than mr psycho killer big ben burns doesn't he
look like a postal right there you guys come on he probably has a head in his refrigerator right there that is ben burns uh probably several hundred pounds heavier than he is today but ben burns and i we weren't even talking about working together just yet he had flown himself out to attend
a workshop a live workshop just to learn from us and that chance encounter began a friendship that's lasted several years and to him becoming the chief operating officer of the future so that's big ben burns there i found that photo in the archives band you're welcome thank you welcome if you have any
embarrassing photos of me which i'm sure you do do not share those okay most recently we we had the workshop with marty newmar the branding workshop and some of us got together afterwards and hung out there's one of our lovely interns all the way in the back jaden standing next to moe now
you're going to see in a lot of these photos mo is everywhere and he is literally everywhere every time i turn around he's there so he's in a lot of these photos there's alex [Laughter] that guy such a ham right he's everywhere and then chris franklin's right behind him okay and then like
young people shaping the generation for tomorrow these are high school students and we welcome them to our studio as well so you're like god the future audience has just gotten really young yes it's true they're high school students and a bunch of japanese students came here mm-hmm so you're like multiple times we
get this a lot there are only asian people who come to the future who work in the future and joni jonah and ricky might disagree with that but this photo does seem to prove that they're only asian people right a bunch of japanese people you know they're japanese there's a lot of peace
symbols being thrown around okay [Laughter] okay this is a little workshop i did in in london uh this one i stayed up all night to work on and i was sick right after this workshop so it was a nightmare their body does pay a toll for staying up all night this is future
squad the wolf pack this is them right here traveling with me to new york hanging out in in la at the convention center and this was a trip that david cole brought up not not no different trip but this is us going to vancouver hanging out with some people where are you ricky
are you checking your phone is that you where are you oh david cole you're saying you can see okay yeah so we went to vancouver and there's a story behind this one matt the event was scheduled so tight that we literally got off the airport and they were texting me as we're taking
the train into the city like where are you we need to meet you right now we want you to get into a green car so as soon as we get off the the train there's a guy with a green car it's like is that you and he's like i don't know is that
you and then another car pulls up you're with us i'm like i'm glad we did not get into that green car because that was another i don't know anyways we arrived we're like like 45 minutes an hour late i'm sweaty because i'm nervous so you don't ever be late to anything it's not
my style and everybody here was super patient and warm and welcoming that we literally went through they were just kind of happy to see us as i was happy to see them and there's a story of sweat here it's like there's a recurring theme i'm sweaty all the time so i cool down
and we do our talk and it was such a wonderful night and we hung out afterwards right matthew yeah and you wear too many jackets i think that's the obvious thing that's obvious like i said fashion before function this is that workshop i share this photo because just a couple of short years
ago you could not get this many people in the room because it was designed for production we had to tear down the walls literally to make space for this and we bought all these tables in anticipation of doing workshops in 2020 genius move guys genius you know the foresight that i have right
so we bought all these tables specifically to run one workshop for the year that was it great all right and then i think this is the last photo i have this is just like getting outside hanging out yeah we can see each other in sunlight too not just yeah that was awesome we
walked around santa monica for like five miles but it was excellent i remember half of the group halfway through like uh so how much longer is it one step after the other and you can do this this is like when everybody had a chance to cool down wipe off the sweat yeah and
we could take a picture this uh is chris franklin uh hanging out i love this photo it's just so much personality and this is when i the first time i met chris franklin and mo together and this is us going for a hike even ben's kids are in the picture she didn't quite
make the jump but everything else is kind of catching air right there's david talos there's uh there's a bunch of people in there there's ben his wife is in there with two kids what a trooper you're up the hill too talk to us ben okay that's the funny thing is that she carried
them both up that hill i did nothing really very gentlemanly of you [Laughter] elise is the trooper my son is right behind me okay and uh it's time to give away some stuff let's do it let's give away more stuff what am i doing here we already did this one yeah we already
gave that away that was the uh that was previous oh oh i'm sorry okay now yeah yeah so mark how do we do this because we're going to give away three 500 gift certificates for academy courses to sustaining members people who who just give because they it makes them feel good yeah we
promise nothing right mark yep and yet they become sustaining members how will you pick these people mark yeah so we drew the names already you did okay yeah we pulled them from the list so if you're a sustaining member you're already in the drawing you don't have to do anything i don't got
to do anything so okay go ahead and share here and this is a pre-recorded drawing we got it going here oh wow the technology with the future is awesome wheels going congrats next up villain prince dang woo dylan congrats looks a little glitchy it's okay it's working it's working who's that and mallory
mallory is the third winner congratulations mallory that i know huh wow so here's the thing if you're a true sustaining member you already own all the courses so what's the point if you're a true fan okay i think it's time to enter the next segment here which is called of course back to
the future so we want to take a look at some favorite moments so i'm asking you the audience and the team we have a video for this right no no i'm sorry what are we talking about mark what are we doing here for this segment yeah well so a lot of people that
submitted their favorite moments are here right in zoom so we can leave it open to them if they want to talk about that moment that they entered in the chat okay well we can talk to you in the chat or we can talk to the people who are tuned in live here yep
why don't we do this i want to ask you guys what is your favorite moment looking back on the six plus years of creating content any people live want to just unmute yourself and start talking to us okay i'll just pick somebody then the way this will work go ahead who wants to
say something go ahead i heard a voice oh it's me peter lam peter hey hey peter what's up man what's up what's up congratulations thank you very much one of my favorite videos that you did with a guest on it was ted from um indie mogul i thought that was like a really
fun one that was super insightful i learned a lot and the energy you guys just gave off of each other was was super cool so that was a that was a video i rewatched a lot thanks for pointing out that video i i really liked ted ted is a friend and a fan
of the channel were mutual fans of each other and that was one episode where the guests sweated more than i swear so i love that if you really watch that zoom in on his face he's just like dripping [Music] the wrong kind of drip okay thanks peter thanks for highlighting that episode anybody
else in the live call today a favorite moment i can share okay thank you um hello so i really like um most of your videos because i didn't see all of them but i'm really thankful for you to share your knowledge with us with people who maybe i was a student and i
was learning marketing and i wasn't in design but because of you and your team i am working as a designer now and i really know how to value myself because of your videos and my favorite video is about beliefs when you share the story that one lady was value herself for 8 000
dollars but uh another guy valid himself on 20 thousand dollars and it was only in her head so that's really helped me to understand that all issues are in the head and you always talk about this and i think that it's impossible to stay the same if you watch your channel consistently it's
like just impossible so i'm very thankful for you and your team for this good job thank you so much thank you that story was 100 true 100 true and it's incredible what you can do when you allow yourself to manifest something into reality and nothing had changed about her at all except for
the belief that she was worth more money and having heard that somebody else was able to do it was just all the encouragement that she needed to be able to do it so it's it's a really big um kind of a mental thing for us to get over that once we realize we
can do something then nobody is there to stop us and so hopefully throughout our content in the next coming years we're going to hopefully deliver that message even a stronger more emphatic way so that you all can achieve that life that you so earned not deserved but earned okay i'll take one more
person about any kind of memorable moment a video or anything that we've done and okay i see a hand i see hand i see a hand i see you yeah and that's annie yang annie annie is that annie is that all right yes hey hey young gun hello chris hi matthew um i
just wanted to say well my favorite memory was obviously young guns because i got to interact with your team chris you and matthew um and um honestly i would i don't think that i would have taken the steps that i i did if i hadn't like had you guys light a fire under
my ass so like for that i'm very grateful um i remember one of my first memories or interactions with chris was i was still at my parents place and i was living like right outside like a trash compactor and i couldn't talk i couldn't talk to you properly because it just kept like
slamming and you're like andy you gotta move [Laughter] um and i did so um um and um all the words that you you had said to me i i believe i remember that they were all very like i mean you're always like this is everyone harsh but like efficient and honest and sometimes
i think that's just what i need because most of the time when you encounter people in life they don't really give you what you need to hear and they beat around a bush and so that was very helpful for me personally um and i did not take anything like heart like you know
personally i knew that you were coming from a place where you really wanted to help me um and also matthew is i guess he's like the softer personality only in body but he also gave me words that i felt like really healed me i remember matthew said once you're like there's nothing wrong
with you who you are right now um and i was like i just like blew my mind because i i'm so used to being harsh on myself so um thank you for just supporting people like us young designers designers of all ages like i'm so grateful to have been part of this community
um love you guys oh thank you well first of all it's awesome to hear from you because i haven't spoken to you in a really long time yeah i guess i break people and then matthew puts them together that's right that's the way we work right i'm the the person who makes you
cry and matthew's got the box of tissues ready so he's the healer i'm the destroyer somehow we work now i do want to say this thank you very much for sharing that because i know that some of the feedback that i was sharing not with you specifically but with the group was hard
to hear it was really hard and i think it just frayed a lot of nerves and i'm just thrilled that having some distance between that point and now it sounds like you're no longer with the trash that's good very positive sign there right i don't hear any things being dumped in the back
there so that's good and that you have a seemingly like a very healthy perspective on this now and that's all i want to do i want to help people grow and sometimes my brand of direct talk is a lot for people to handle young and old male or female matthew i'm grateful that
you're there as that kind of softer gentler hey yeah we you know we can do this and you're good enough and gosh darn people like you too and you know he he saves me from destroying myself basically okay i see another young gun here so i need to bring another young gun i
see connor connor fowler bring yourself online good evening chris hey how's it going man good to see you thank you i was hoping i'd get chips but yeah lots of words already excellent um i've been trying to think about what i wanted to say all day um and i could talk about the
young gun stuff which i'm incredibly grateful for but there's one particular favorite moment i have which was re-sparked by that photo you have in your slide from when we were in london from that hotel morning meet-up and i remember it very distinctly because i was the last person there i was late because
i got on the wrong tube in the wrong direction because i was so nervous about we'd i'd already been to the event the day before right but there was something slightly different about this smaller meet-up and i remember turning up i was the last person there and i sat down and we had
pillows and all that stuff followed by you turning to me and saying what did you think of my presentation yesterday and after that moment and having someone who i admire with a similar personality type to me who you just don't see in design publicly firstly and then secondly have someone i admire sit
next to me and say directly to my face and say i value your opinion and say what did you think of what i created after the decades of experience you have compared to the very small comparison of experience i had at the time myself effectively kick started everything to where i am now
you can see the video behind me some of it i live the other end of the country with boxes and really awful lights and cameras but i am making the most fulfilling work i have ever done for the most money i have ever done with the most interesting projects and people i have
ever met because of the interactions i've had with you and the rest of the team in the future and i know i that might sound very big and it is but i do i cannot stress how much i appreciate all of the work that has gone into the content you have produced and
the courses and the general interactions and positivity and personality you have brought to this industry because without you i don't think there would be any way i'd be where i am today that's flat out truth that's heavy hold it in chris i'm trying i'm sure my wife is like on her third box
of tissues at this point she cries for both of us that was thank you very much i really felt that deep in my heart and here's the funny thing you know you're saying this and you're sharing this story and i'm thinking you know connor you're already on your way so here's the really
cool part about conor is that um we had to get on the train and i don't know what i'm doing i don't know my cards so connor's like taking us literally from the hotel right mark he's like walking with us with our luggage and he's like put your money here you monkey pull
this card out and jump on he walks us all the way down to the train station gets right on there with us and that's where we part and that's just i love that a conversation that can begin on a one-to-many scale can happen in an intimate one-to-one face-to-face moment and and i just
i'm just so so appreciative of the people who show up and get value from what we do because it just fuels me to keep doing this and you sharing that story now like from annie moving out away from the trash people and you kind of moving to the other end of town it's
it's so freaking awesome and there's one other thing i want to share with people i'm not a petty person but when we did young guns one connor had more followers on instagram and he just was not sitting well with me i'm just letting you know right now because people are like why are
you listening to this monkey who is he kind of like crushing it so i made a personal vendetta and promised myself i i went down on my knees i prayed to god i'm like you know what this cannot stand i'm just too old for this i need to get past conor and that
was one of my i'm just kidding he all the most of that story was true just the last part wasn't true but thank you very much connor thank you so much okay all right can i go next please yes who's that who's that voice it's me it's me hey hey another young guy
i just wanted to you know have the loop going on it's patreon oh okay another young guy let's see all right it's the it's a young event okay yes um i i have like two memories that i always go back to i don't know chris if you know this or remember this perhaps
because i think it was in 2015 i started watching um the future i was in the university at that time um and i i'm like across the globe from you guys and the perspective that you guys were giving it was like oh my god this is something very different that has been going
on and i have not heard about this like where is this information coming in i haven't even learned about like 10 of it in university and like it was like a perspective change and i was so so so thankful for it and i was like oh this is going to go big and
we don't have such designers like talking about um design strategy research and all the itty-bitty nets that not the teachers and uh even the professors ever tell you um you just get it through experience maybe very late in life but yeah and the second one was when i was in the series the
thing that you said to me it was it kind of changed my perspective um it was like what do you like to do and i was into branding um i i think i recently quit my job um and i was into logo and branding i really loved doing it but i remember you
saying what do you love to do and i was like oh i i like to do both i like to do both and you're like no no pick one you have to pick one and i was like um okay i like illustration and i think i switched that evening wow you illustration everything
and it was one of the best decisions i've ever taken um everything is in my illustration and i'm getting like huge clients and i'm so so thankful that i finally had the guts to switch when i had nothing and i was um just a freelancer just getting my way into it and um
thank you so much for you and i really loved uh brainstorming sessions with matthew it was a very different uh perspective into brainstorming i never really had that experience even when i was doing my job and um thank you so much for giving me that perspective i don't think i'll ever go back
and this is just going to get better thank you so much thank you for sharing that now i have been in touch or i've been in in contact with my trey so it's like we've been talking and she shifted her career focus into illustration and she's worked with really big clients now and
there's opportunities and if you look on her instagram she's doing really well i'm glad it worked out for you sometimes when i say you must pick one that sounds really cold and harsh that sounds terrible i'm glad you did pick one it worked out so yeah for everybody for everybody i say go
pick one it doesn't work out don't call into the show i only want to hear from people this is confirmation bias at work here so i only want to hear from winners that follow the advice if it didn't work out for you i was just joking you guys you didn't you didn't hear
that it was sarcasm you know it was irony it was all those kinds of things okay since we were talking to some young guns people most definitely these are some of the young guns and these are some of my favorite favorite moments and it allowed our audience to see people who were like
them from all over the world and the first casting call that went out for for young guns season one it was mostly dudes it was mostly dudes and everybody's like what up with the sausage party uh it was just because that's who we had to pick from so they're like this is a
sexist channel you're not fair to women and aren't women deserving i'm like 1 000 we're hoping that young guns does so well that a whole bunch of people are encouraged and empowered to apply and so we went back with young guns too and we said no boys only women that's it and so
i'm so happy to be able to be able to share your stories to be part of your journey i hope i did more good than damage matthew is probably doing a lot more good but that's where we're at with that okay let's keep moving on here we do have that video to play
real quick while we're on top oh are we on a video here yeah okay let's do it let's while we're on top let's go ahead and see we have a little video that we've prepared yep here we go yeah back when you guys were called the school i remember when i was in
college years back i subscribed to a channel which had 10 000 subscribers and there were two guys talking very passionately about design and strategy one million subscribers what a milestone oh my gosh i'm gonna cry congrats to one mill it will be three years in december when chris asked us to you know
that he has this plan that like you know he's thinking of starting a city's young ones and i'm glad i got to be a part of it and since then it's only been growth for me personally and professionally i'm so happy and proud to have been a part of the channel fast forward
today i am no longer a student in college anymore i am an independent designer and an illustrator based in india working with a lot of companies from la to seoul i started working full-time as an account manager at an amazing advertising agency here in toronto and i finally started charging four digits for
my design and strategy services i have started an amazing new job at rifle paper company i would not have been able to get it without the help of the future i don't have any formal design training but because of the future i was able to launch my own graphic design business and build
the portfolio and the skills necessary to land the job that i have now and thank you so much for your help over the last few years not just with the young gun series but also with the other courses you provided and all the amazing content and interviews along the way too definitely wouldn't
be where i am now without the future and i couldn't ask for more thanks for everything uh i'm really really glad that chris helped change some of that mindset and i think it'll be really helpful in making decisions as i go forward my career so thank you so much to christo and everyone
at the future you guys seriously deserve these 1 million subscribers congratulations thank you so much for all your work i really just appreciate all the time and energy you're putting into making design resources available to everybody you guys have had just an incredible impact on so many people's lives and sending you all
big hugs congrats and two million is right around the corner let's be real okay bye that was awesome wow okay so there's my heart there's my justin bieber is that how you do it i'm out of touch man okay that was awesome i wanted to read oh that was awesome so good to
see all your faces thank you so much for putting that video together jaden and for the future uh i'm sorry the young guns and young ones won in season two okay let's go give away more stuff mark let's do it all right let's do it so here we go uh wait we already
talked about that weirder did these right mm-hmm mark yep okay here we go this is the next price package here so these are two different giveaways here so here's the deal i only have a few of the first editions left in the closet and i should have checked inventory before i told you
i was giving them away so the first edition this is all we have so we're going to give away three signed first editions if you want me to write a dedication or something talk to mark and i'll write something in there otherwise i would just sign it and give them to you something
that a lot of people don't know about is that we we printed these still screen posters uh first edition pocket full of dough posters they're uncut and so it's kind of laid out with min's awesome design so it's not to scale it's much bigger than the way it looks next to these two
things but go ahead mark let's give away the three signed first editions and then give away the two posters okay so starting with let's do it the book here we go and this uh this wheel is totally legitimate right you got it from india yay some shipping restrictions of life yeah we are
oh priscilla how did she win this is fantastic priscilla congratulations she's a pro member hussein from the uae uae someplace i need to be yeah those were the books right these are for the posters lacey hereford congratulations lacie yes you need to take off the article of clothing for each draw i think
i'll be in my underwear by that point all right beautiful awesome congratulations okay bonchance okay here we go uh we're going to give away the next bit and this is really cool roy cranston has been a this is a very interesting story if you guys know who roy cranston is he watched our
channel taught himself designing essentially and then wound up becoming kind of a little superstar in the design world himself so great to see roy cranston put together a custom poster just for us and this is a one of one right mark meaning like this is it we only give away these three and
that's no more will be made yep just these three okay these three posters not with roy's face it's just the poster on the left and these posters are going to be sent through our printer first winner chintan gupta from new delhi well india is coming in strong you guys know india's taking over
wow they know how to register did you know there are more honors students in india than their students in america wow elwy tay from san francisco all right no no shipping restrictions there [Laughter] astrix forever that's a win lucas gomez good pronunciation i hope good job mark good job good job joan i'm
curious how many people are watching right now 1084. okay thanks for hanging in there with us i know it's a long stream live stream here okay the next one is from our good friend orlando arosina and he's giving us something mark what is he giving us so he's got some custom posters that
he made for adobe and we're going to be sending these prints out to two winners okay orlando if you don't know worked on the adobe illustrator splash screen so if you recognize this woman with the sunglasses the collaboration between him and another artist and they do this and orlando's one of the most
prolific humans i know he and joshua smith they just crank on content it's it scares me it embarrasses me how fast they can make stuff okay so here we go roll the dice what are the odds that somebody will win twice you can't win twice though you can't no yeah we remove them
oh really yep you literally are doing that now aidan valdez congratulations and questions it's going to be the first name here this other one got attached to the string okay yep that's who got it and the second and final winner for orlando is andrew bybee from pasadena pasadena woo-woo everybody pick it up
save us six feet away okay next oh oh oh some posters from mr g monkey wits himself brother g monk john wants your posters [Laughter] ricky's already called dibs on this okay so mark we're giving away two signed posters or what yeah two winners will win a sign poster each and then the
other giveaways are gonna do in the new year okay so we're gonna give away two posters so go ahead okay spin it dj it's spinning we've got some music here too yeah we gotta do something here it's first winner vince wright vince wright from we don't know where yep we'll find it and
we got his emails lucky person vince congrats roxanna andrei from romania yay congratulations beautiful beautiful now your eardrums are probably like blown thanks to jonas okay another person that's been on the channel um pierre kleinhouse i'm a fan of his work we're giving away two sets of prints or something like that right
mark yep two kinds of prints let's do this and here we go again big money far away all right all right [Music] you're not gonna try to read that in the proper accent yeah sorry mark's been doing a pretty good job wouldn't even get out the first word and he'd be done so
those are the two for pierre clint house work yeah pierre cline house those are the two winners thank you very much mark for doing that let's move on to magdale lopez who's also been on the channel thanks uh he's gonna come back on the channel right mark yes he is right so magdio
lopez originally from cuba if i remember correctly yeah so so we're gonna be drawing three here because we've got a lot of digital we're going to daniel barry from pavia italy we're moving around the world i like that i know i like that chris are you topless yet dave i'm bottomless nina alfaro
from kokimbo chile congratulations all right that's what jonah says it's always chilly in here and the third winner you gotta work four layers of clothes posters is edwin hurt from troydorf trotdorf germany beautiful awesome okay the third a third and final yep oh that's it okay congratulations you guys oh my gosh it
just doesn't stop mark okay now we have some stuff from mr aaron james draplin oh my god trying to make it into little leagues right yep so we're going to do what what are we doing here yeah so we're going to do two winners and you're going to get a combination of poster
and field notes you're going to get a combination of signed posters and field notes yep here we go give it away that's awesome give it away i love field notes i'll probably be taking some home later today so we're going to be selecting four winners here nicholas in thanks for being in san
diego california maria christina young from austin texas all right one from tejas we got it gonna be four total yeah two and [Music] rosanne oh wait you know i did say two okay that was supposed to be two winners well we could dip it we could divvy it up there okay we'll do
three we'll do three this will be the third okay mike i just want to read a few super chats here uh this one is from thomas desilus big up and congratulations to your success at the future this isn't a yet a big check to uncle chris but i want to thank you for
the knowledge and deep insights that supports me through my designer's journey cheers from paris thank you very much my kids appreciate it their uh school tuition is not cheap so thank you very much otherwise i got to send it to the public every little bit counts and then this next one is from
bella bb uh my favorite moment was when i found the future i love that he's like seriously when i was it's simple yeah hardcore imposter syndrome when i was in school and you guys helped me out of it uh next one is from comis72 just a little emoji little animation says you are
amazing thank you so much and let's see i think that was the last of the okay super chats let's do this we got three more sets of prizes to give away before like something that i think everybody here could use which is the adobe creative cloud license for a year that's worth something
right so mark let's let's rock and roll on this these are not the actual prints that we're giving away we're going to work it out with joshua smith who's a friend of the channel hydro74 so go ahead and roll the dice we're gonna give two of these away some posters from joshua first
winner all right we're back to india yash patel congratulations and these again are going to send through a digital printer unless the shipping restrictions catches here yep [Music] all right my peoples your peoples yeah danny is saying what is he saying here's one more little bit thank you very much daniel love that
i've been able to interact with each and one of you guys in one way or the other blessings on the one mil again thank you very much danny all right here's the next prize package it's from bowgasm haven't heard from him for a while yeah so are these posters we're actually giving away
something different mark something different these are placeholders okay so two of these let's rock and roll he does nice [Music] okay let's keep moving on here this was uh this was awesome because our friends over at uh tubebuddy decided to chip in here unprompted by us and to give away three years worth
of legend subscription to tubebuddy yes you know more about this yeah so the the the tubebuddy essentially is a extension tool for youtube to help you make content so you we use it all the time here to a b test thumbnails and and uh titles and it just helps you with your performance
of your youtube videos so we actually wanted to highlight a few people from the pro member community that i personally think are killing it when it comes to content and i know chris you push them inside the group all the time to be making content whether that's youtube on instagram or linkedin and
what i love seeing is people actually doing it and then growing so three people i wanted to highlight uh the first is uh our homie mo mo who's been everywhere mo has just like amplified uh all of his channels especially on instagram lately but i know he's getting on the horse with youtube
uh mo is just killing it so congrats you win one of these uh subscriptions reggie reggie has near and dear to my heart man this guy he's he's a working dad he's just been grinding working all hours of the night and in the mornings and he was one of the few that took
on the 100 day content challenge inside the pro group and he did all 100 days wow so he produced 100 pieces of content and since he started he became sponsored really by fujifilm yeah wow so yeah he be he became one of their uh ambassadors and uh he's just killing it he's just
growing his channel slowly and he's been focusing on teaching photography he's released his own digital product and so he's he's uh he's been killing it wow i saw his graph he showed his follower graph inside the pro group and it just went like that and that was really awesome to see yeah so
hopefully this will help him grow his channel even more chris franklin he's been around we saw him in the in the photos right but he's been making content also for filmmakers and and i think he found a really nice niche and been able to grow that so congratulations to the three of you
guys okay and then the another prize package here that we want to give away is uh donated to us from sebastian lacona i hope i'm saying that right sebastian and he's giving away his workbook and one month of coaching strategy workshop so sebastian just like i i don't have things to give but
i can give away my time and my products and i can help anybody that wants it so we're going to give away three of those so are we doing a random draw or is this already pre-selected random draw okay here we go so sebastian's volunteering his time to help coach and work with
you and to do a strategy workshop with you so i think this is pretty awesome [Music] congratulations beautiful congrats while we're spinning here i also want to read a comment here from the super chat jason randall design huge thanks to chris matthew ben and the team channel was the mind expander and business
bootcamp has been invaluable thank you very much jason for putting your faith and trust in us and for doing the work one more we've got another super chat here from dre drexler the future thank you for your amazing work thank you i wish to meet chris and his team one day much love
from espoo finland sincerely thomas third and final okay all right i want to talk to the live people one more time before we give away our last prize package which is uh four uh uh one year subscription to the adobe creative cloud thank you adobe for doing that so we still see hands
up here so mark can you see the participants and see the hand order and just pick somebody from that who should we talk to mahi mahi bring her on where are you mahi i'm here hi hi i have some data to share with you i thought this would be a good opportunity to
do that because i'm on the future india group i i realized that the future has not just reached the metropolitan cities in india but it has reached tier 2 cities and much uh is more famous than i even thought and it's very heartening to see that because we really need the future over
here and yeah i'm i'm so glad that it's happening and more people are getting to learn and i would also like to thank you for trusting me with the responsibility of the group and as well as um i'm still trying to get your books here yeah thank you so much yes thank you
very much for helping out with that as you guys know most of what we do is is with the people that you see here on camera and also behind the scenes and to ship the books worldwide is a really huge undertaking working out shipping and so that it's effective and not wasteful because
sometimes the shipping of the book is way more than the cost of the book and we don't like that so we've been working like we worked with a small group in the philippines so we shipped a batch of books there so that the shipping becomes super affordable and with india we're trying to
do the same we do want to get the books in your hands in different parts of the world it's just we're working out logistics one country at a time so thank you very much mahi for sharing that appreciate it we have some work to do in india it sounds like to get into
the major cities right yes okay and everyone is like when is chris coming here so yeah yeah maybe after the lockdown is done like we are all safe then we should make it possible for you to come here and i would love to come there i really do and i was planning on
going to india and parts of africa nigeria ghana south africa but of course everything changed because of covet but okay let's talk to one other person mark who's the next person from the live group here israel okay did you hear that oh yeah where where hey i'm here hi glasses okay awesome hey
i'm overdressed for the party but that's the one we love it so i want to say congrats and thank you for the pro group i found you this year like a few months ago and my horizons have definitely changed and it's so refreshing to see an introvert like you leave the nest then
you're actually out there doing it it's very inspiring and um i find myself like i'm i'm being more comfortable because i see that it can be done you know you're doing it i'm being more comfortable in front of the camera the fact that i even raised my hand in this zoom is like
so thank you for inspiring us and allowing us to be ourselves and just not judging us or you know just letting us grow so that's it thank you very much thank you and um from one introvert to the other it's a long road ahead and there will be many setbacks there'll be many
moments when you want to go in your room and cry i probably have my moments too and i want to say on behalf of the entire team welcome to the future okay let's check on one more person mark and then we're going to give away the final prize yeah we've got rags and
rags oh rags to riches where is he rags bring yourself online hi chris come back hey rex million thanks for putting out something awesome um for me it was uh i think around 2017 maybe one of the early future pro members at the time it was more of like a blind fight when
i saw your first nike video i said this looks nice and uh let's try to you know learn from you and the team for me the defining moment was somewhere around 2018 when i had to take the jump on the boot camp it was like it was like my runway was just enough
to survive i decided to put everything on that on the boat cam course and after that it's i've never looked back it's been amazing and though i took a sabbatical around 2019 pro group i'm back this year it's been a challenging year but the future has always been bright as like a lighting
and stuff for me also so it's been good big thanks for grateful and like uh was mahi told uh the 2021 should be like making you visit india that's the goal um i like that goal well i know i i and matthew and i have many conversations about this before we're super proud
of you for the for what you've been able to do how you pushed yourself and continued success it couldn't happen to a sweeter kind human being so much success to you 2021 let's go crush it okay beautiful thank you okay thank you very much okay i think people are tired of us talking
so let's give away more stuff mark so let's do it we've got the adobe one and then we've got the uh one more video oh we have another video oh snappage no we need to see it ricky ricky's embarrassed and that's why we know we need to see it okay let's give away
the package and then we'll play this awesome tribute video that ricky's embarrassed to share okay so the last prizes here are going to be four adobe creative cloud subscriptions one-year subscriptions so here we go first of all thank you adobe for doing this yep yeah we want to thank adobe for sponsoring okay
spin that wheel dj first winner khan from kolkata india india is just really lucky today i know amazing i just showed up diego aguilar from santo domingo dominican republic congratulations diego i'm sure you're gonna put that creative cloud license to use all right we got two more coming up gloria googie from acworth
georgia in the us congratulations gloria one more right mark yep okay big money big money last one here we go fingers crossed everybody come on i'm rooting for you all of you at the same time alex rives from moscow all right first first uh russian person right yeah awesome okay congrats guys congrats
big prize big clap all right all right all right okay now we have an embarrassing video to play right here we go guys here's the thing let me set this sucker up yeah set it up let me set it up first of all congratulations for making all the way to the end even
if you didn't win you're still winners in my book now we asked each staff member many months ago their their their moments or what they remember a lot of people getting really uncomfortable leaving the room right now as we're setting this up so this is a tribute video from the staff and team
i've not seen this before and from the faces that i'm seeing and the groaning it's probably going to be embarrassing for all of us so here we go here we go oh ricky's face we're going to start with ricky let's do this hang on this frame for a second here we go ricky
listen to this 1 million 1 million one million a million subscribers that's a pretty big number if you were to tell me five years ago that i'd spend my time making videos for youtube and creating courses and teaching people i don't know how i'd react it stretched all of us in a way
that i don't think any of us were really prepared for going through that with chris was tough i've never felt more open and vulnerable than in those moments we get scared of all the ways it can go wrong we tend to overthink man i've learned so much on this journey i learned a
lot throughout my two years here one of the most crucial lessons being that you don't regress you always progress so long as you keep working at it it's a place where i'm doing a lot of things for the very first time like making my very first youtube video for this channel or directing
the building a brand series it's been the fastest way for me to grow personally and professionally and realize that things aren't that scary a little lesson that i've learned from the future is always sharing what you know because something that might seem trivial to you would make a world of a difference to
other people our number one priority is always to give value so implement that wherever possible i've had the opportunity to meet some incredible people and to travel to some of the most amazing places all where i can speak and share my story in front of thousands my inspirational story comes from the many
many interns that we've hired over the years the level of passion and dedication with some of them where they leave their homes with basically whatever fits in a suitcase and travel cross-country sometimes overseas just to have a small part in what we do with the future that really means a lot to me
because it means that we're really connecting with people around the world and actually helping people change their lives and people have come up to us personally and told us their personal stories and what kind of changes okay we're gonna stop real quick sorry guys there's a little technical problem here we're realizing on
youtube you can't even see it so when we replay it okay we messed up we're gonna replay it so ricky was uncomfortable first time i imagine he's twice as uncomfortable now i'm sorry everybody apologize it's live this happens live okay okay we have it right now jonah yeah we should okay one million
one million one million a million subscribers that's a pretty big number if you were to tell me five years ago that i'd spend my time making videos for youtube and creating courses and teaching people i don't know how i'd react it stretched all of us in a way that i don't think any
of us were really prepared for going through that with chris was tough i've never felt more open and vulnerable than in those moments we get scared of all the ways it can go wrong we tend to overthink man i've learned so much on this journey i've learned a lot throughout my two years
here one of the most crucial lessons being that you don't regress you always progress so long as you keep working at it it's a place where i'm doing a lot of things for the very first time like making my very first youtube video for this channel or directing the building a brand series
it's been the fastest way for me to grow personally and professionally and realize that things aren't that scary a little lesson that i've learned from the future is always sharing what you know because something that might seem trivial to you would make a world of a difference to other people our number one
priority is always to give value so implement that wherever possible i've had the opportunity to meet some incredible people and to travel to some of the most amazing places all over the world where i can speak and share my story in front of thousands my inspirational story comes from the many many interns
that we've hired over the years the level of passion and dedication with some of them where they leave their homes with basically whatever fits in a suitcase and travel cross-country sometimes overseas just to have a small part in what we do with the future that really means a lot to me because it
means that we're really connecting with people around the world and actually helping people change their lives and people have come up to us personally and told us their personal stories and what kind of changes they made in their life during this travel time i noticed a lot of people who run into different
problems but there is a guy who said that when things are going bad there's going to be some good that comes out of it you run into an unexpected problem good you have an opportunity to find a solution stuck three months in quarantine good more time for personal development so no matter what
happens i hope y'all decide to view the good and things despite the circumstance and by watching and making this video for you guys i will able to learn so many valuable things about design business and creativity but beyond that what's even more fulfilling is when you can take that experience and share it
with other people and really bring them along for the ride a few years ago we were doing some shopping when out of the blue this guy walks up and he asks hey are you ben burns from the future he told me that he'd seen my story and that it inspired him to quit
his minimum wage job and start freelancing as a designer successfully he changed his life dramatically for the better that moment stuck with me so trust me when i say that you all mean the world to me to us thank you for being a part of our lives the part of our story thank
you so much for all of your support so far thank you and we will see you in the future thanks for a million guys and we'll see you for the next million and to me that's that's amazing [Music] it's worth the replay so good job guys good job oh my goodness jaden who
edited that um uh good job jaden my brother from another mother wow okay uh are we done with the show yeah it's already won i think so yes it's one o'clock it's a little past one i'm hungry i can tell i'm starting to get angry i did take off one article closing i
didn't fulfill the promise that'll be for 2021 when i'm away from my covet body so there would be a little bit more interesting things to look at okay and i want to say i will go back to the live group in a second here i want to say thank you to all our
sponsors to each and every single person who contributes to us in one way or the other light just went out contributes to us one way or the other to make this all possible we can't do what we do without your support and your support doesn't necessarily mean to buy our course or to
enroll in anything it doesn't you just didn't require that if you just watch the videos if you like comments share or subscribe or tell a friend help help somebody else out then you're furthering our mission along if you're a teacher especially and i use the word teacher in the broadest possible definitions if
you're using this content to help you help other people you're definitely getting us all one step one human being closer to the one billion and that's the goal i'm gonna take to my grave if we can't hit it this is what i work for this is what i'm so proud to be a
part of so thank you very much from the bottom of my heart the rest of the team thank you especially also for sticking it out with us for a very very long live stream thank you very much now i want to talk to some of the live people before we go away let's
talk to three people uh mark just randomly called three people okay well we got some hands raised here yeah pick from those people kevin rui kevin rui kevin what's up talk to us what's up uh that's me right here from the amsterdam um the future yeah the future i don't know if you
remember was the guy in the balcony with all those birds like chirping in the back [Laughter] what's up man oh cool man um um yeah i don't know what to say this like i just wanted to say like um we're still like a fan here like we still have amsterdam fan like um
fam through the future we're all we all the last time you gave like this live lecture it kind of inspired us to just during the covet time it's always been like um it was difficult but you kind of just brought us up like to a level that i can i can actually say
like it was so inspiring and thank you for that and also thank you for um the days that i was struggling for freelancing after graduation i was struggling for a little bit i always could have gone like the future it was kind of like my bible like i remember i was waking up
um one in the morning the first thing i put like on on my website or online is the future like straight to youtube no future and yeah that was no you guys have just been inspiration you guys helped me through a very struggling path i'm now very glad that i can um you
know i'm working out as a designer for a full like a full-time job as a graphic designer and i'm actually helpful for you guys for helping me through that dark path because it was really it was really like a struggle so i thank you guys and thank you guys for doing what you're
doing basically thank you very much for sharing thank you so much okay here's what we're going to do because i want to try to get a couple more voices in there let's keep this nice and tight 30 seconds you're on go ahead who's next mark got anthonyfamnext anthony talk to us what's going
on guys congratulations thank you so much one million um i just want to say probably my best and my favorite moment is joining the pro group a lot of you guys are watching right now may not be designers and um a lot of these things i was able to watch all the videos
on youtube for free and and i just felt like i wanted to help the future out even more and just subscribe and join the group and i've learned so much just from the office hours alone so if you guys are not designers don't worry this it encompasses more than just design i'm a
photographer videographer and i've been able to just learn a lot just from the pro group and there's a lot of great people in there and the support is amazing so thank you anthony your check's in the mail thank you very much i appreciate it hey isn't there another prize giveaway here mark don't
be surprised if it goes down anthony okay thank you very much appreciate that wow it's almost like we paid these people to do this it's fantastic okay totally unsolicited and unprompted and just really super appreciative okay let's do another person mark who's nap next 30 seconds let's mix it up let's get colleen
in here colleen colleen what's up oh snap hey um sorry i just wanted to say that earlier with the young guns like that really i don't know just seeing everyone not just you and matthew and ben and jonah and all those guys but also just like seeing people like the young guns and
like melinda's stories and like moe's story and i i don't know that that has been amazing and i would love to see just more of those like people coming up and i i'm lost for words we appreciate them more stories more stories we got it thank you very much yeah all right come
up mark come up next one more we got uh arie crazy let's get it let's do it hey chris hey ari how's it going good to see you good to see you guys too oh my god when i saw the pictures from our trip last time in santa monica it was just like
you know i missed that really do i can't wait until we can actually do that again next time but um i don't know what else to say i've done like thank you thank you so much i feel like you probably already heard this a million times today um but just like remind me
like back in 2017 i found out about you guys and then the first video i i saw of you is really really about how do you really charge for logo design right i feel like i was so stuck in my bubble trying to grow the agency and did not really find any other
resource to really grow the company and when i saw that video i was like oh crap is this how you guys do it like nobody was sharing anything about this until you come out and become the disrupter for the creative industry and i just feel like so grateful for you to be able
to share all that knowledge to all of us and you know giving us the chance to actually do what we love to do and make a great living out of it so can't thank you enough so thank you ari and i do miss the the that workshop where we're all able to gather
to learn and to hang out and to break bread that was such a fun experience and i see in the chat right now people are saying we need to do another future meet up i'm hopeful i'm optimistic that by june july 2021 we can start making those kinds of plans so i'm hopeful
that in november if not before then that we can get together and do something if you don't come to me i will come to you that's the way it's gonna work okay last one last word give it to somebody mark last one and he's been waiting we got angel velazquez angel hola okay
here we go all right very fast so 2018 i saw this video circulating with how to say no to your toxic boss then i had to go to one of your events in downtown l.a and i was really running late and sweated my butt off just getting there and later on i jumped
on the business boot camp which has been life-changing for me so thank you guys to everybody you matt ben the whole group thanks angel beautiful really buttoned up okay with that i think it's time for us to bid a deal it's time for us to go and say goodbye we will we'll see
you guys i guess in the next live stream or whatever piece of content is dropping that's all i got thank you very much everybody thank you for all of you guys who hung out in the live chat with us and also for doing the super chat options thank you very much take care
everybody have an amazing day week wrestling grace thank you bye-bye
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