No-nonsense marketing content and interviews to help you master marketing and grow your business. Hosted by Allan Dib, bestselling author of The 1-Page Marketing Plan and Lean Marketing.
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The Futur Podcast is a show that explores the interesting overlap between design, marketing, and business. Our host (and CEO of The Futur), Chris Do, hold candid conversations with inspirational people from the worlds of design, technology, marketing, business, philosophy and personal development. These conversations go deep. With the aim of understanding who these incredible people are, what drives them to do what they do, and what can we--the listener--learn from it all. Visit thefutur.com ...
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Welcome to Founderverse: a new podcast for founders, entrepreneurs, self-starters, and creators. On this show, we’ll be talking with other entrepreneurs about starting their business, growing their audience, handling clients, dominating social media, and much, much more.
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What if I told you that the difference between struggling and thriving in the restaurant industry is just one conversation away? I’m Josh Kopel, a Michelin-awarded restaurateur who’s spent decades building blockbuster brands across every tier of dining. I know the challenges you’re facing—because I’ve been there. That’s why I created FULL COMP. Every week, I go one-on-one with the smartest minds in the game: restaurateurs, chefs, and industry insiders who’ve cracked the code. Together, we un ...
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Weekly Tac-planning on marketing, brand strategy, and category design for early & growth stage veteran small businesses, keeping you in the fight and not face down in a rice paddy!
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Curious how businesses grow their revenue without turning every employee into a hardcore salesperson? Hosted by Mark Drager, CEO of SalesLoop and veteran podcaster, the How to Sell More Podcast helps business owners and marketers tackle one of the biggest challenges companies face: increasing sales. Each episode features proven strategies from founders, CEOs, and industry experts to elevate your branding, marketing, and sales—helping you attract new clients, demonstrate your value, and beat ...
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Running the Key Person of Influence Brand Accelerator, I’m exposed to a lot of inspiring people and their stories. I’m a business geek and I love getting behind the scenes of other people’s businesses to find out how they did it. I like getting into the frey – the tactical stuff around pitching, creating high value content, converting services into products, building a personal brand, JV’s, partnerships, campaigns, attracting top talent, the dramas inherent in scaling a business, internation ...
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Building a business is hard. Maintaining healthy relationships with those that you care about is hard. Staying fit and healthy in your body, your mind and your emotions is hard. This podcast is about finding and sharing tools, strategies and experiences that may help you to achieve and maintain moderate success in your life, whatever that means to you. There is a ton of content created by the billionaires, the ultra successful athletes, and by people that are at a level that the vast majorit ...
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Quality is Overrated: Allan Dib on Scaling Sales the Smart Way
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39:20Most restaurant owners think better food or better service will win the game. But Allan Dib has a different take: your product is not your problem—your marketing is. Allan is the best-selling author of The 1-Page Marketing Plan, and in this conversation, he dismantles the myths that keep restaurants stuck. We get into the high cost of bad positioni…
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Future-Proof Your Marketing Strategy w/ Allan Dib | Ep 376
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45:04In this episode, Chris Do reunites with Allan Dib, bestselling author of The One Page Marketing Plan and Lean Marketing, to break down timeless marketing truths in a noisy AI-driven world. Using his playful “wedding episode” framework—something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue—Allan shares why fundamentals never go out of styl…
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Winning IRL: The Future of Retail w/ Lara Marrero | Ep 382
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44:50Retail isn’t dead—it’s transforming. Laura Marrero, Partner and Strategy Director at Gensler, reveals why the best brands are rethinking stores as experiences, not just points of sale. We explore the “PhD” of retail—Physical, Human, Digital—and why the future is less about malls and more about destinations that build belonging. From Westfield Centu…
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I’m Josh Kopel, a Michelin-awarded restaurateur and the creator of the Restaurant Scaling System. I’ve spent decades in the industry, building, scaling, and coaching restaurants to become more profitable and sustainable. On this show, I cut through the noise to give you real, actionable strategies that help independent restaurant owners run smarter…
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Make Reputation Your Strategy w/ Matt Essam | Ep 381
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54:44Most creatives avoid building a personal brand because it feels like chasing clout. But in this conversation, Chris Do and Matt Essam flip the script: personal branding isn’t about being famous—it’s about being findable, credible, and trusted at scale. You’ll learn why “attention without influence” is meaningless, how the Know–Like–Trust framework …
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How Two Vans Became a $65M Brand with Alana Nicholls
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48:01What if repeat customers and referrals could grow your business faster than chasing new leads? In this episode, Alana Nicholls shares how she and her husband bootstrapped an electrical company from two vans to a $65 million national brand with 100+ staff—then stepped back and installed a CEO to run it without them. We dig into the early door-knocki…
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Burnout Isn’t a Badge: Ahu Hettema on Risk, Reinvention, and Building Restaurants That Work
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35:19Ahu Hettema didn’t hedge her bets—she burned the boats. No Plan B. No safety net. Just a belief that betting everything on one restaurant could rewrite her life. And it did. But not through stubbornness. Through adaptation. In this episode, Ahu breaks down how listening—really listening—to her guests saved her concept, why comfort matters more than…
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Identity, Style, and Belonging w/ Priscilla Lau | Ep 380
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51:00Chris Do sits down with strategist and partnership builder Priscilla Lau to talk about the business of relationships. From her early days at Google and YouTube to launching Representation Matters, Priscilla shares how she helps creators and brands build partnerships that grow both revenue and community. They cover the creator economy, selling witho…
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This Is What Luxury Actually Feels Like: Chris Adams on Culture, Tech, and the Soul of Service
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36:59Chris Adams does. He’s built a business on showing some of the biggest brands in the world how to make guests feel something—without faking it. In this episode, we dig into what defines modern luxury and why it has less to do with money and more to do with culture, people, and emotional precision. Chris shares how AI and tech can enhance—not replac…
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Office Hours: Acquire Talent, Don’t Nurture It
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9:00I’m Josh Kopel, a Michelin-awarded restaurateur and the creator of the Restaurant Scaling System. I’ve spent decades in the industry, building, scaling, and coaching restaurants to become more profitable and sustainable. On this show, I cut through the noise to give you real, actionable strategies that help independent restaurant owners run smarter…
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Mastering LinkedIn w/ Jasmin Alic | Ep 379
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1:53:46What if the secret to standing out on LinkedIn isn’t posting more—but mastering comments? In this episode, Chris Do talks with copywriter and creative strategist Jasmin Alic about building influence, writing with rhythm, and showing up with consistency. From his early days as a rapper to becoming one of LinkedIn’s most engaging voices, Jasmin break…
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Episode 65: Kindness as a Growth Strategy With Brent Ridge
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43:18What if your biggest growth lever isn’t capital or creatives—but kindness, creativity, and simply showing up? In this episode, I talk with Brent Ridge, co-founder of Beekman 1802, about how a small goat farm became a national skincare brand. We cover the real stuff: starting with hand-wrapped soaps, cold-calling big stores, landing a 52,000-bar ord…
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From Maxed-Out Credit Cards to 41 Locations: John Gelastopoulos on Building Broken Yolk’s Lasting Momentum
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35:49Most people buy a restaurant and inherit someone else’s problems. John Gelastopoulos bought a closed breakfast spot, maxed out his credit cards to keep it alive—and turned it into a 41-location powerhouse. The secret? Relentless persistence and an obsession with people. In this conversation, John shares how he went from washing dishes to franchisin…
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The Costs of Being Internet Famous w/ Jodie Cook | Ep 378
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51:37What’s the real cost of internet fame? In this episode, Chris and Jodie Cook break down the hidden pressures of building a big online audience—relentless DMs, parasocial fans, and the constant demand for time and attention. You’ll learn how to set boundaries, use automation to manage inbox overload, and price coaching calls in a way that protects y…
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Geoff Alexander on Leveling Up Leadership Skills
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37:57After 30 years with restaurant conglomerate Lettuce Entertain You, Geoff Alexander could teach a masterclass on building and scaling a restaurant brand. And that’s exactly what he’s done for us today. In this far reaching conversation we discuss the essential elements of leadership, how to build a brand from the ground up, turnaround strategies for…
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Office Hours: Sell the Thing People Dream About
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7:42I’m Josh Kopel, a Michelin-awarded restaurateur and the creator of the Restaurant Scaling System. I’ve spent decades in the industry, building, scaling, and coaching restaurants to become more profitable and sustainable. On this show, I cut through the noise to give you real, actionable strategies that help independent restaurant owners run smarter…
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Free Work That Actually Pays w/ Troy Plota | Ep 377
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46:43From Atlanta studios to Hollywood sets to inventing new technology, Troy Plota has built a career on persistence and reinvention. In this conversation with Chris Do, he shares how he went from organizing model books to shooting celebrities, the $35K day that changed everything, and the app that transformed still photos into living motion. But the s…
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Chris Ducker on Leading for the Long Haul
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43:28What if the smartest move for your business right now isn’t to push harder—but to pull back with intent? In this episode, I sit down with entrepreneur and author Chris Ducker to unpack what it takes to lead for decades, without burning out.. We talk about the season of life that inspired his latest book, The Long Haul Leader, why “more” isn’t alway…
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Brad Wise on Transforming a Bad Launch Into an Epic Brand
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31:30Sometimes the only difference between those who succeed and those who fail is the decision to not give up. Today’s guest, Chef Brad Wise, is a testament to the grit required to build something prolific in our industry. In our conversation we discuss how to overcome a slow start and how he turned a failed bar into the hottest steakhouse concept on t…
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Bruce Bromberg on the Fundamentals of Scaling
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39:14Chef Bruce Bromberg is not the typical restaurant magnate that comes to mind when you think of a national restaurant group. More than anything, he’s a chef, leveraging the universal truths he’s learned over the years in innovative ways. His ability to translate the fundamentals of cooking to the fundamentals of business has led to his meteoric succ…
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Office Hours: Stop Chasing Customers & Start Programming Behavior
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7:21I’m Josh Kopel, a Michelin-awarded restaurateur and the creator of the Restaurant Scaling System. I’ve spent decades in the industry, building, scaling, and coaching restaurants to become more profitable and sustainable. On this show, I cut through the noise to give you real, actionable strategies that help independent restaurant owners run smarter…
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Becoming Unshakable: Design, Filmmaking, and Identity w/ Stan Nwaeze | Ep 375
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36:35Register for AdobeMax using the code FUTUR25 for $400 off a full pass. See you there! In this episode, Chris Do sits down with designer, filmmaker, and creative entrepreneur Stan Nwaeze to unpack the story of how he built himself—from growing up with scarcity in Nigeria to crafting a career rooted in vision, values, and relentless curiosity. Stan…
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The Money Habit: Breaking Entrepreneurial Poverty with Mike Michalowicz
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45:48What if the real solution to your financial stress isn’t earning more—but spending with intention? In this episode, I chat with Mike Michalowicz, author of Profit First, about the behavioral traps that keep entrepreneurs financially stuck, even as their revenue grows. Mike shares how understanding your financial season can transform how you make de…
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