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Mental Health Matters in Web3 ep.6
Recorded: July 6, 2023 Duration: 1:55:43Space Recording
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Messes me up every single time.
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We're about to start in a second.
And actually, you know how I am.
I'm not starting in a second.
I'm starting in probably 60 seconds.
60 seconds to be exact.
So, ping a friend.
Ping a friend.
Especially a friend that needs to have that mental health discussion.
And to be honest, you know, that just means being around it.
You don't even have to really chime in.
Just listening is sometimes all people really need.
But I'm going to play a song that I really like, actually.
And then we'll get going in here in just a second.
Like, comment, retweet for awareness.
Welcome to Mental Health Matters, Episode 6.
Let's go.
Also, I haven't done this yet.
What I'm going to do is I'm going to start rewarding because I think that's important.
So, everybody drop at the bottom right corner one thing that you do to help with your mental health.
It could be running.
It could be the sauna.
That's mine.
It could be whatever.
You guys are all getting entered into an ETH giveaway.
So, just drop that at the bottom right corner.
That's what will qualify you.
Also, retweet.
It's an obvious qualification.
But, yeah.
I want to hear it.
And, yeah.
We'll get started in just a second.
Let's go.
We'll get started in just a second.
To overcome the hardships in life.
To sort out the wrong from the mind.
Someone's in line, but they can't get down.
I'm my own self by my side.
And mentally, we gotta be free.
I'll see the wickedness coming full speed.
But I hope together that the call is the scene.
I'm trying to do something, not nothing.
You try to hold me back and that's fine.
Nothing you say or do is worth my time.
Good day to you.
I respectfully divide.
And I'm coming stronger than ever.
You say I'm a fool, I say whatever.
I'm in it for the good vibes together.
And the love lost rivalry.
No time for the wicked.
If you're in my mind, I'm a boy.
I'm a sign of silver, bring it.
The sky is the limit.
Wild in my way.
You can't get me down.
No time for the wicked.
If you're in my mind, I'm a boy.
I'm a sign of silver, bring it.
The sky is the limit.
Wild in my way.
Sky's the limit!
Sky's the limit!
Welcome, guys.
Welcome, welcome, welcome.
Appreciate you guys pulling up.
Everybody, thank you so much for pulling up.
Episode 6.
Such a nice day.
It's Wednesday.
It's Wednesday.
8.17 p.m. Eastern.
Having those tough discussions.
No, no, what's the word?
No catch.
No catch, I swear, man.
Coming into Web3.
A couple years ago.
I would genuinely look for mental health spaces.
I'm big on mental health.
I spent a lot of money on therapy.
Because they had them in Clubhouse.
They had meditation rooms, too, which I'm actually thinking of incorporating here soon.
Hint, hint, Chico.
I know you know some dope meditators.
He knows all types of women.
And I know for a fact he knows some great women that like to do meditative spaces.
Anyway, meditative spaces, that would be lit.
But yeah, so I would look for them.
And I wouldn't find them.
And if I did, sometimes it would be cool.
But overall, I can't front.
A little cringy.
So the goal here is to be the opposite of cringy.
And to be more or less open, honest, and having that real tough discussion, right?
We're in Web3 every day.
A lot of you guys are on this app 12, 15 hours a day.
And mixed with your work.
Mixed with your Web3 work.
Like, consuming, you know, I don't know about y'all.
I go to the grocery store and I look at a box of cereal and I see a toy inside.
I'm like, look, there's an NFT inside.
Like, that's just how my mind has, like, thinks.
Everything is an NFT.
Everything is a floor price.
So, yeah.
So it doesn't make sense to not have a real conversation like this.
And you don't have to be qualified, per se, to even have this discussion.
I implore everybody to have these discussions and check on your friends and check on yourself, right?
Make sure you're good.
You're okay, right?
Chico, good morning, good evening.
How you feeling, my friend?
Yo, yo, yo, yo.
What's the vibes?
What's the vibes?
What's up with you?
How's everybody feeling today?
I appreciate y'all pulling up.
I see we got a good amount of people in the room.
Everybody on the stage.
Scott, Stone, what's up?
Future, Sage, Coyne.
How's everybody the day after vibe going?
You know, whether you celebrate the 4th or not, it's a nationally celebrated holiday.
So I highly doubt most people were working.
If you do work, if that's your thing, how are everybody feeling?
I know myself, I had a great day.
I'm with my folks right now.
We went to Atlantic City, went to this little ratchet beach club.
It was like a pool by the beach, but it looked amazing and I had great company.
So I stayed up dumb late like always.
I had work today, you know what I mean?
You know, stuff like that.
But I'm feeling great.
I'm feeling real American.
My mental health is feeling good.
So I say that to say this.
That's my new tradition, right?
And lately, you know, for all holidays, I catch myself, you know, making new vibes, you know,
calling my family up, being the one who depicts the vibe.
Because the person who in my family depicted all the vibes.
My father, he passed away early COVID, right?
You know, rest in peace, no sand vibes.
You know, unfortunately, it's life.
But so now, just the question, how has your life been?
You know, this is called mental health on Web3, but also IRL.
Since COVID, how has your IRL life been affected as far as holidays, as far as, you know, how
you go about with yourself, your partner, your children, your family?
Like, is the vibes there?
Are you in the house now when you used to be outside?
Like, what's going on with y'all?
And more importantly, to keep it Web3, how has, since you entered Web3 specifically, this
is the main topic overall.
How has, since you entered Web3 specifically, how has your mental health and your overall
holiday vibes, has it fucked your money up?
Are you broke on your boo's birthday because of the NFTs?
You know what I mean?
Because you bought Pepe instead of buying your babe's love, Chanel, etc.
And how has IRL been affected by Web3 as far as holidays and how you go about celebrating?
Has your loved one, you know, deceased, unfortunately?
Did you break up?
I know I broke up with my significant other during COVID.
You know, it was corny.
Like, I got so much time together, you know, you start looking at people for what they really
are, whatever the case may be.
I said, I'm always transparent.
So I went through a lot in this COVID phase.
How has your holidays, your life, your bank account on the holidays, how has Web3?
Affected y'all.
Talk to me, man.
What's the vibes?
Yeah, I'll add to that real quick, actually.
And that's a really, really great question and great way to preface.
Because prior to Web3 kind of starting to go semi-viral, and I say semi because I don't
think we're super, super viral still, even though there's, like, ads and, like, you
know, news articles and shit, and we were on CNBC and shit.
But yeah, so I remember being on Clubhouse.
And I remember, first of all, the way I'm even hosting this space right now, it would
freak me the fuck out, okay?
I would see people do it.
And I'd be like, damn, I want to do it too.
Like, that's dope.
Like, because I'm confident.
Like, I could talk.
Like, the thing is about confidence and talking is, it's like in real life.
Like, unless you're super introverted and you just genuinely don't talk to people, which
I know that some people, like, it's kind of like when you treat it like having a convo
and being yourself, it comes a little bit more natural.
Granted, I've been doing it for a while, speaking on stages to a lot of people, so I'm
not going to sit here and act like it's simple.
It's not.
It takes, it's a workup.
It's a workup.
It's like a muscle.
Anyway.
Anyway, so I remember going to clubhouse and I was, like, also going through a lot
of mental turmoil.
I lost, I had a, I shared this before too.
This is when I actually started, like, therapy, for real, talk therapy.
But yeah, so I had a loss of identity at the time.
And at least that's what, quote unquote, I diagnosed myself with.
But it really was because I wasn't outside the way I used to be, you know, camping at the
stores at Supreme with the homies and, you know, sledding and traveling.
I remember we went to All-Star Weekend in Chicago.
We was in lines in the fucking cold.
And any, anybody out there may be like, yo, that sounds crazy.
Like, that sounds, that sounds dumb.
And I'm like, yo, a lot of people think we sound dumb in NFTs, but we're here.
But anyway, there was, like, true meaning and community for that for me.
And I was also making a fucking living on it, off of it.
Anybody that knows me, that's like my Web 2 life.
You know, I sell sneakers in Supreme.
That's how I make my bread and butter, per se.
But anyway, that stopped.
COVID entered.
Everything's closed.
L.A.'s closed.
Anybody that lived in L.A. or still lives there, you know how weird it is.
And it's still weird from after.
Bro, different.
Just weird all around.
And I remember, like, yo, Clubhouse is a way out.
Clubhouse is a way to connect.
And so fast forward into now, I think I personally, not going to lie, I'm way more inside than I
ever have been.
And I'm using the internet way more.
Now, granted, I'm not just scrolling fucking aimlessly.
But, like, I try to, you know, to my best ability, use it to monetize and things of that
nature.
But, yeah.
COVID changed a lot.
Rob, that take a lot, what you just said.
I appreciate what you just said.
Because look how you just even said that you diagnosed yourself with, you know, what was
the word that you used about identity?
I don't want to misquote you.
Loss of identity, yeah.
A lot of people go through that.
That is an unspoken thing.
And, you know, how you just said you're more inside than other.
In my case, I was always outside.
Like, I'm going to give you a little background on me.
I was always outside.
You know, take it how you want.
I went to college.
I was, you know, since, like, about 11, 12.
I was just outside.
I never worked.
You know, that was just life.
And when COVID hit, I had just literally told my family, like, a month or two before,
trust me.
Let me take over the business.
At this point, I really didn't know much except, you know, what I thought I knew at
the moment, which was enough for myself.
But by everybody being my parents' age, about 60, 65 plus in the mental health field, well,
the real owners, per se.
I'm going to pop my shit because I do own my company 100%, right?
So, overall, everybody who was supposed to innovate in the mental health space was inside
covering for shelter and, you know, from COVID.
And I laced up my boots.
I realized my mortgage was like $4,000.
You know what I mean?
Like, they live in a big house.
Like, if I don't do this right, I have to get the bills right.
And that's when I realized that by not being afraid to be the first one to jump outside
and go out there with my chin up, chest out, I innovated a little telehealth thing where,
you know, I was able to see way more people than ever and not let the mental health die,
you know?
And that's what you got to do during times like this.
This is when you reinvent yourself.
And, you know, you will.
I had months where I didn't know where I was doing, but I also never quit.
Consistency is key during times like this.
I just wanted to add.
My bad pride.
I appreciate you sharing that.
No, I appreciate you.
That was perfectly said.
I love how you said that, too, because actually I started with her digital because she was
in a different state.
And so it's ironic you say that because that's what stopped me from doing therapy.
I was like, nah, first of all, I'm good.
Secondly, I don't want to pull up somewhere, the whole thing.
So and now I pull up.
I do both.
I pull up and I do the, you know, the digital stuff.
So so anyway, I think it's changed a lot.
We've all heard this before.
Maybe you didn't.
If you didn't know, now, you know, COVID definitely has effects on this world for the next 10 years.
It's going to be affecting us.
We're going to be going through this for a while, whether we believe it or not or feel it or not.
Some of us are just so accustomed.
It takes like 90 days for a human to get accustomed.
I've literally been speaking at colleges, you know, in my little tri-state area about overall
sociology, about the effects of COVID.
What do we think?
Because you can never even really, you know, overall guess it or have it down to a T.
The effects of COVID will be 10, 20 years from now or one or two decades from now, you know, in general.
We it's like the people from the Vietnam Civil War era.
You know what I mean?
You don't see it really now.
Hey, Chico, add it up to road like just take people from the 80s, baby.
We went through the 9-11 that started the war.
Then we had 2,000 motherfucking eight, right?
When motherfucking eight started going, cool.
Yeah, bro.
Like, bro, like, dude, they gave my son, my second son.
I thank God we're like, oh, shit.
Like, because my older son's autistic.
So, we thought he was having – he literally has a syndrome called COVID syndrome from him not going out for that year and a half.
Like, not be able – my other son, you know, went on airplanes, went to Disneyland, you know, had a normal life.
But just because my son, you know, couldn't get out and go to daycare and go to – you know, just go out.
It's crazy.
That's what's going to be affected the most.
And it's going to have – everyone's going to have a different survival story.
You hear it, bro?
Everybody.
Like, it's going to have – everybody's going to have a different perspective of him.
Pardon me for the interjection.
Because look how you got two children, and both of them going to have two different vibes about how they went through COVID.
Yeah, and the crazy thing is, too, I know we got a bunch of hands to get it started.
I just want to add my little part about COVID.
Like, anyone who comes to Web3 Exposed or any of the show Me and Prophecy before knows my – you know, my art story is, you know, I built another collectible world's community, Funko, Funko Fiends, and, you know, gave the wrong people power.
And what happens when you give individuals the wrong individuals power, the ones that don't fuck with you all try to click up on you, end up, you know – they couldn't take me out of power, obviously.
But it was sad to my heart to see, damn, bro, I put this person – you know, I put this person the president of this whole section.
Like, I'm the reason why you get the free Comic-Con tickets or whatever – whatever, you know, I don't keep score.
Whatever they got from that situation, it all went out the door, just like almost in this space, bag of Titus.
And mixed with that, being hurt from that situation, my pub deal of music was ending, and COVID hits.
So now I'm like, what the fuck do I do?
The studio's closed.
Comic-Cons are done.
Every financial, you know, thing that I depend on other than my royalty checks, which anyone in music biz knows, like, jack shit, even if you have a hit.
Like, I didn't know what the fuck, you know, to do.
So I joined cook groups because I always did sneaker shit, and lo and behold, motherfuckers were selling NFTs in there.
And then, you know, that brought me here.
So literally, without COVID, I would have probably signed another pub deal, like some shitty-ass pub deal I'd be stuck in for another eight years,
and I wouldn't know any of y'all.
And, yeah, man, it's crazy how COVID, of course, you know, it was a bad thing, but for a lot of us, like, it brought us either to shit coins, crypto.
It just put, like, a light, like, what else can we do because everything is shut down.
Like, I literally couldn't.
I've never been able to.
Of course, you can send shit to rappers, but I'm an engineer producer.
You know, my whole shit is you come to the studio, and I make my money recording you and mixing your shit down.
So, of course, I could do that over email, but, you know, it ain't the same.
Motherfucker can't travel, you know.
So I'm just so grateful that this shit all happened the way it did, even though, you know, of course, all these people passed away.
You know, God bless the dead.
But every, you know, all this other shit, I would have never met y'all.
I've never met Chico.
I've never met Prophets, even though me and Chico both in the music biz.
Just like me and Illa were in the music biz, but we didn't really, like, you know, cross paths too many times, except for it was a big event.
So, yeah, man.
Like, thank you, COVID, in the weirdest, craziest way.
I was about to say that.
Dead ass.
But, yeah, we could go forever.
It changed everything in a lot of different ways, both positive and negative.
But I appreciate everybody being here.
If you haven't already, like, comment, retweet.
Also, real quick, doing a quick giveaway at the end of the space.
All you got to do is retweet, and then please comment at the bottom right corner what you do on a daily basis for your mental health.
It could be running.
It could be exercise.
It could be anything.
Forbes, and then El Tio, go ahead.
What's going on, everybody?
This COVID conversation for me is kind of like, I don't know.
It's kind of like, for one, it's why I'm in Web 3.
That's, like, how I got started.
But, like, with COVID, it's, like, the turning point in my life, to be honest, if we're going to get personal and shit on this stage.
Because I ain't never have, like, a real job in my life until, like, five years ago.
Like, right before COVID, I'm, like, 37 with a 20-year-old son.
And so, like, when I sent my son to college, like, I decided to give up the nonsense, like, the streets and all the BS.
Me, like, just so everybody knows, me and Chico are, we are, we got connected through Web 3.
We are, I consider him a friend now and a brother.
But we were always, like, we're from the same hood.
We knew of each other.
We had a lot of mutual friends through, like, street shit.
But we never connected until it was, like, I saw he was in the crypto and NFTs and vice versa.
And that's how we got connected.
But we always knew of each other through the streets and shit.
So, like, when COVID hit, I'm going to keep it a bean with you.
Like, I used to, like, in, like, 2016, I got, like, let's just say I took a lot of perks and a lot of syrup in my life.
I'll just start there.
I got sober in, like, 2016.
But when COVID hit, I suffered with health anxiety, which is, like, you know, any health stuff.
I used to have cancer.
And I'm a cancer survivor.
So, like, anything you feel with your body or, you know, I get anxiety.
I think I'm dying automatically.
So, when COVID hit, I went through, like, a bad time.
And I thought I was dying.
Like, every time I couldn't breathe anything, I got COVID, I thought I was dead.
So, what saved me was, like, finding Web 3.
I ain't even going to lie.
Like, finding my purpose.
And that's why I'm so passionate about this shit.
And, like, I try to do the right thing.
I don't want to be a scumbag scammer or, like, try to finesse nobody.
And I try to just be a good person in this space.
So, yeah, like, as far as, like, COVID goes, for me, it kind of, like, it was, like, the shift in my life to, like, trying to do the right thing and leave all the nonsense alone and shit like that.
So, yeah.
Yo, appreciate that share, man.
You definitely learned so much, too.
We've connected in the past, the very beginning.
And to see your growth has been just the dope.
I could have convos with you about Web 3, and you get it, unlike a convo with my cousin that doesn't get it.
But Forbes came in literally just like that, not knowing, not understanding, and just consistent.
And, bro, he's an IRL person, like, right, like, lives a real IRL life, not like most people that just don't and they're just on Twitter, right?
So anybody can learn.
Anybody can come in and soak, soak, soak, be around the right people, right, not fall into echo chambers, be all around and be in the know and learn.
And El Tio, go ahead, and then Sage.
Hey, hello, everyone.
Profits, thank you again for letting me up.
Chico, how's it going?
Scott, thank you for sharing your story.
It motivates me a little bit to share my COVID story.
And it relates a lot to what you guys were saying.
But, you know, everyone went about it in a different way.
You know, me being a dad and my wife also, I have a wife.
And when COVID hit, as the realist that I am, our approach was creating a bubble and, you know, staying away from everyone.
And that was psychologically very difficult because we were literally locked up for about a year and a half.
You know, we'll go out to get groceries and stuff.
And my wife and I found ourselves disinfecting every box, every can before it came into the house during the height of it.
So it was very difficult.
We were fortunate at the time that we can stay home because of the type of work that I had.
But that didn't make it any easier.
Now, it did also show me and prove to me how strong my wife and I could be.
Because during that time, we supported each other.
And we went through the most difficult times that I think we could, worrying about our kids and COVID and us being high risk, just not taking the chance.
And I can say that we didn't catch it.
We didn't, none of us did.
So our strategy did work out.
But the effects are going to last.
You know, it made us more introverted.
I personally did gravitate to Web3 and crypto, like you guys said, because of COVID.
I actually came into crypto after going through the whole Doge craze.
I was big on Reddit.
I was, you know, following GME and got caught in the whole Robin Hood fiasco in 2021.
But that did focus my attention on NFTs.
You know, I got into crypto in 2017 as a miner.
But I didn't really look at NFTs.
And that, you know, built my curiosity.
I started following one of the greats, HashLips.
And that brought all, you know, it gave me all the knowledge that I needed to support many communities here in this space for the last year and a half.
And meet many individuals and make some amazing connections.
So, you know, Web3 did save us because while we were locked up and afraid of the world,
we had a little community here that we could talk to and we could definitely be a little extroverted.
And as a person that I really didn't enjoy coming up to speak, it turned me into a spaces host and motivated me to build our own communities.
And some of the amazing members are here.
Shout out to El Bulto and Aaron.
El Bulto, that EFI designer logo.
So, big shout out to him.
A La Valveria.
But, you know, I think Web3 is very powerful.
NFT, the space is very powerful.
But it is draining.
And I tell people all the time, this is like when you were back in high school or in college.
You're going to, when you come up to these spaces, you don't know what you're going to get.
But at the end, at the end of the day, it's real.
And you have to take care of your mental health.
And sometimes we need, if you need to disconnect, that's totally fine.
Because we spend so much time in these spaces.
But, yeah, thank you for sharing.
I just wanted to share that.
It was bad for everyone.
But I think we're past the worst of it.
And let's go bull market.
Damn, I just realized my mic wasn't connected.
Sorry if I've been a little far away.
Anyway, Husky, great to see you on this stage.
Actually, it was your turn next.
And then I'm going to pass it to the stage.
Go ahead, Husky.
Hey, everyone.
My name is Galiano, but I go by Husky.
But, you know, I want to tell everyone this.
I've joined this space.
Well, I don't have Web3.
I joined this space because of mental health.
And I want to tell you guys this.
You know, before I start with COVID, I just want to tell you this.
You know, I had a rough childhood.
And, you know, it affected me a lot.
And when I was a teenager, I had fallen to depression.
When I was 18, you know.
Throughout my years, people always betrayed me, misunderstood me, never listened to me.
And people would have, like, turned their back on me because I have lack of appreciation and respect.
And people judge me a lot because of stuff I don't feel like celebrating or feel like accepting.
And they'd be like, Husky, I'm not buying you anything.
You just don't accept what we give you.
Like, you know, when I ask people, people just be like, okay.
And then the next day, they get you the worst thing from the printer room as a gift.
It's not a gift.
It's like an empty promise.
Like, it's not important to me.
The only thing that's important to me is honesty.
Okay?
That's why, you know, you know.
When I was 18, I fell into depression and tried to end my own life.
But I realized I still got a life to live for.
But I wasn't, I was, I, and the thing is, I was scared to kill myself.
And what I did was block everyone that treated me differently.
And then I just, yeah, fell into depression even more, this and that.
I was, I don't want to eat because I'm not a fan of food.
And when I, when I came, when they sent me back to high school again after graduation,
the familiar faces were happy to see me.
But these faces were the people who put me down and humiliated me and embarrassed me.
And when I, when I dropped out, when I dropped out, I went to school.
I stopped being suicidal on January 17th of 2020.
I was still in school that day, but I was still depressed.
But I don't have no intentions of ending my own life.
But I, I was, I was in tech school.
Okay?
But I was like getting bullied and mistreated.
So I left without, and don't go until my graduation.
And then in 2022, I overcome depression and decided to,
I overcome depression by help of friends.
And I delete my old photos and my PFP, you see, that's the new me.
The old me is dead.
But look, in 2020, COVID started, but it doesn't give me anxiety.
But it made, it, it, it did make an impact.
Prices go up, this and that.
Lost, lost a few friends.
But, you know, never shed a tear.
But the thing is, after I beat depression, I decided to focus on my future.
Go on my profile photos, delete my old ones, create new ones.
No more, no more this and that.
Because I'm a new and improved husky.
Not, not a person who wants to be, you know, overlooked as a criminal.
So people, I want people to treat me like a human being.
I don't like people telling me, hey, husky is this and that.
He's not good.
He's a bad person.
Yo, hey, hey, hey, husky.
I'm a good person.
May I interject?
That's it.
Yo, thank you for sharing that.
Because what you just pointed out was one of the main things in mental health.
A lot of people, it's not reinventing yourself and forgetting the past.
But it's realizing that in order for you to proceed, you got to delete those pictures.
You got to, you know, look at yourself in the mirror and say, this is the new and improved version of myself.
So one of my favorite songs in the world, right, is Never Stops My Future.
And one of the bars he say is, I'm living my second life.
It's so amazing.
I've been through so much.
And if I let every moment that I've been through define me, then I would be stuck in the past.
You know what I mean?
So I wanted to point out that that was a great mental health technique.
You know, people might think that it's, you know, you can insert a thousand words being fake, you know, acting like it didn't happen or whatever.
Yeah, you're supposed to have feelings.
But what you just showed was a big sign of emotional intelligence.
With that being said, you know what I mean?
You chose to put yourself first and delete what you had to delete and work on yourself.
And I'm glad that you went back to school.
I appreciate you sharing that.
That was major.
I wanted to point out that tool that you use that is a very important tool in mental health.
Thank you for sharing your story.
Anytime, man.
As I was saying, it's not too late to end your own life.
You don't need to end your own life.
You still got a life to live for.
Think about you're about to have a new life.
Don't worry about your past.
If something that happened in the past, these demons are not there no more.
You have new positivity coming your way.
So that's all I'm going to say.
So yeah, in about on January, on July 18th will be my one year free from depression.
So just wanted to tell everybody.
Let's go!
Damn, that fires me up, Husky.
I really appreciate you sharing.
Also, too, I didn't really say this earlier.
I do a lot of disclaimers in my normal spaces, right?
You know, we talk about finance and obviously literacy, crypto, obviously, NFTs, Web3.
Um, I'll say this real fast, uh, as best as I can.
Obviously, this is recorded.
I know you guys can see it at the top.
It is recorded.
Um, obviously, share whatever you want to, you know, share and feel comfortable with.
Um, if there's any triggers or anybody gets, you know, triggered, you know, feel free to
leave and come back.
I get it.
Totally okay.
So I just want to throw that out there that this is a super open space.
Um, I'm also gonna, uh, I got the Discord open, so I'm gonna make a mental health, uh,
channel in that.
And then I'm gonna put it in my bio in a second.
And then so you guys could chime in in there and we can do more.
I know in the past we've talked about, like, private things that are not recorded.
So we can do that in there as well.
Uh, Sage, thank you for your patience.
Go ahead.
Hey, what's going on, Profits?
It's always good to see you.
I always try to hang out and, uh, Web3 exposed, but it can be a little tough because I know there's
a lot of big personalities in there.
So I don't want to cut people off and I want to let people have the chance to talk.
So I try to contribute the best I can, but I'm always afraid of, like,
you know, steering something the wrong way or giving the wrong opinion.
So I try to, I try to keep you on the ground.
Wait, let me say this.
There's no wrong opinion.
And if you've ever been intimidated, I'll just say right now, I apologize.
And you don't need to be.
And you can definitely pull up whenever.
I will say sometimes people are long-winded.
And I suck at, like, interrupting and, like, hey, stop.
But I appreciate that, that honesty.
And you're more than welcome to come whenever you want.
Yeah, I mean, sometimes the conversation shifts a little bit before you really get a chance
to unload what you're really feeling like.
So, but there's a lot of good people there and I appreciate it.
It's a really good space.
And I did enjoy getting to briefly meet you in Miami because I was a part of the Pepe group
and we got to be at that amazing, amazing party, Pepe party that we went to.
And it was one of the best times I had being in Miami and being around all those people.
But to reset back a little bit.
So the pandemic was extremely tough.
I pretty much went through an entire reset.
And my relationship came to an end of five years.
Became very distant with family.
The engine went in my car, so I didn't have a car for about 10 months.
Lost my health insurance.
Just pretty much everything reset itself.
You know, friends were distant because of COVID.
So it was really a complete reset.
And I think that was probably one of the hardest times of my life because, you know,
you separate yourself from everything you know and then you're sitting there left asking
the question, well, who am I?
What do I enjoy?
You know, what do I do with my time?
And I found the same thing.
I used to smoke a lot of cannabis and unfortunately I can't do that anymore.
And I went through the exact same thing again when I stopped smoking because it was a lot
of my personality and then all of a sudden I was hit with the same thing.
Well, what do I enjoy?
Who am I?
What do I tack on to my personality?
You know, I didn't know who I was anymore.
So going through that time was a paradigm shift.
And it's actually during that time that I found meditating.
I actually became Hare Krishna because I appreciate and enjoy the chants and the mantras and, you
know, spiritually realigned myself and became, you know, more at one with myself, learned
how to lift myself up a little bit more.
And, you know, just last year around the summer, actually right before I stopped smoking, I
actually went through having two panic attacks.
And it was never something I would have thought I would have had to deal with.
It was probably one of the scariest experiences of my life.
I ended up in the hospital twice.
And the first time it happened to me, I couldn't breathe.
I was pretty much drooling on myself.
I was numb and I couldn't move.
I couldn't talk like and a lot of people go, well, we'll just stop freaking out.
Just you got nothing to worry about.
Well, when you're in that situation, you really don't know what's going on.
You don't know how to recompense with that.
Like you can't explain, you know, a personal experience of someone else.
And everything we experience in our lives is subjective.
And I think that's something that's very important to take note of.
We all have different experiences and perspectives and we all go about them differently.
So going through that especially, you know, having to go through another reset with having
these panic attacks and becoming somebody who has had anxiety, you know, and just completely
disconnected from everything once again, it's been a tough struggle.
And I find myself in the unique position.
I'm not an introvert or an extrovert.
I'm both being an ambivert.
So I appreciate and enjoy tying to myself.
And then there are other times where I'm like, I got to get to a party.
I got to hang out with people.
Let's go.
So it's like a switch that's turned on and off.
You just you got to get out there and do stuff or you got it.
You can't be around anybody and you got to be completely alone.
So I see both sides of that.
But my brother actually dragged me into Web3 right around, I want to say, right after my
panic attack.
And my brother's a full stack web developer.
He started focusing on crypto and blockchain technology and all everything that goes with that.
And he pretty much told me, you're getting involved in Web3.
You don't have a choice.
You're coming with me.
So I was actually thankful enough to have a family member that actually dragged me into
So I tell everybody, you know, when we when we go to events and stuff, we're brothers
in blockchain because it's it's hard to have an actual family member that's out there that
that understands the ecosystem and understands the space and profits.
It's I'd I'd honestly love to get my brother up on a on a Web3 expose because I'm more of
the the community, the people side, the you know, the perspective side.
My brother is the is the tech side.
He can sit there and explain to you for hours about how everything works.
So I think he'd be a great person to to talk to in the space.
But I mean, every time I go to see him, I get a I get a three hour coding lesson.
I'm like, Daniel, I really want to go get some food.
He's like, no, no, you're going to you're going to learn about this.
You're going to learn how this works on JavaScript.
I'm like, great, wonderful.
This is how my day is going.
But but yeah, I did just want to say if anybody out there is experiencing something like that,
you know, I've talked to people, not only did a lot of us, you know, I find that a lot
of people from our generation have experienced trauma as children.
A lot of us come from broken homes.
A lot of us experienced the downturn in the pandemic, you know, depression and anxiety and
mental health has become such a bigger issue.
And from what I'm aware of, so many more people are now diagnosed with it or might not be.
You might just be feeling down and you just don't know that something's wrong.
So that's honestly my advice is never be afraid to to reach out to other people to to ask for
help because it's not the worst thing.
And I honestly think my anxiety was an underlying thing that I ignored over and over and over
again and just kept putting it to the side and, you know, working two and three jobs at a time.
And eventually it came to light.
And I guess that's that's just what I have to say is that if you're going to ignore something,
your body's going to tell you something's wrong.
It's going to give you signs that some that everything isn't going right in your body and
your mind.
And eventually it's going to come out one way or another.
So it's not something you want to ignore.
And if I have any advice to anybody out there, it's to to do something nice for yourself,
you know, self-love, self-care, take yourself out to dinner, get yourself something nice every
so often, you know, go and take a nature walk, spend time with yourself and appreciate the time
with yourself.
And for some people, it may not be the best thing.
But just remember that, you know, I'm somebody my entire life that has tried to lift other
people up.
And I realized that I was always putting that first before myself.
And you can't lift other people up, whether it's in the space or in real life, unless you
care about yourself, you love yourself and you lift yourself up to the same thing with
a relationship.
You you can't really love another person unless you love yourself, because if you do, it's
just not going to work out in the way that you'd like.
Yo, thank you for that.
Wow.
Super good.
You guys have some really cool tactics, too, for mental health.
I'm checking them out here at the bottom right corner.
Husky, go ahead.
Sage, right?
That's your name, Sage?
The gentleman that just spoke, that was Sage.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I want to say something about, yeah, what you said about, you know.
Yeah.
What happened was, you know, some people, I feel bad for when people are mental health.
You know what I feel bad about them?
Like, when they are, like, asking for help, like, this is what they ask for.
They ask for, like, help, and they're, like, some people don't like people, they don't
like beggars, and, you know, they are, like, currently in debt.
They, like, they need money to survive, this and that.
Like, when they ask their friends to be the team, or this and that, when you need money
to help yourself out, like, you know, it is hard.
But people, people just thinking that you will do something with their money, but that's
not true.
Some people, some people don't see it.
Some people are just blind.
Okay.
Like, like, a lot of people mention how far they're dealing with financial stuff.
Like, they never had nothing good in their life.
But, you know, I kind of feel bad for them about them.
I'm not kind of, but I really feel bad what they are going to, like, like that.
You know, get what I'm saying, Sage?
Oh, he, he, um, I think he fell off the stage.
He's coming back up right now.
Um, I'll get him to respond to you just a second.
Hold on.
Sorry about that, Husky.
I couldn't hear you.
That's why I stepped off stage.
Oh, all I said was, um, the issue, the issue with people, people that judge people with mental
health, they'd be like, they'd be like, hey, um, I need, I need some money.
Like, you know, if they're like poor, not, but not homeless, but if they're homeless too,
they'd be like, ask for money.
They'd be like, get a job, boy, this and that.
Some people don't understand that people who has mental health, bipolar, this and that,
they need financial help sometimes.
But, but, you know, sometimes they got to stop judging people by their appearance.
But I understand what they're going through.
It just, it's just sad.
You get what I'm saying?
Yeah.
I mean, honestly, the, the cognitive dissonance that we've developed as a society, and it's
not everybody, but it's just a good, uh, it's a good number of people out there today.
It's, you know, you're kind of grouped into whatever the pejorative is to whatever people
have thought or whatever experiences that they've had, they relate you to that experience.
And I, I do agree that it's not fair.
Um, one of the most important things that non, uh, nonviolent communication taught me
was, uh, in the moment, uh, to make an observation and not a judgment, to pull yourself back and
to kind of observe the situation and see things, uh, for what they are, you know, because you,
you can always sit there and, and make a, a not, you know, a non-fair or a biased judgment
about somebody and say, you know, somebody who looks like they're doing great, who looks
like they're successful.
And you're like, oh, well, must be nice.
And I've found that must be nice is one of the most destructive phrases that you can personally
use because you don't know what's going on in their life.
You don't, you don't know what goes on behind everything that they have, or maybe that's just
what they have that makes them feel happy.
And like, when you make that, when you make that immediate judgment, you're not really
seeing things for what they are and you, you need to kind of change your perspective a little
bit.
And I think that's something we can all do more as a, as a society is to try to understand
people.
We need to listen more.
We need to listen more than talk.
We're on social media.
Everybody wants to share an opinion.
Everybody wants to be heard.
Everybody wants to share their good experiences, but not enough people want to listen.
And there needs to be, you know, there needs to be active listeners out there who actually
just want to hear people's story, you know?
Sage.
Yeah.
That's, I agree with that.
And he knows, you know what I, I, you haven't heard this song before.
Well, I, I'm not going to say a bad word, but he's what the song was like.
He's like, I'm scared to ask people for help.
Cause if they say no, I'm a melt, you know what I'm saying?
That means if they say no, you melt, that means you, it is like,
you're desperate, you know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
I mean, I empathize a lot with that and I've been telling people a lot recently, you know,
if you're going to, it's, it's a hard thing to see, but you know, I identify myself as
an empath and I'm very emotionally connected and very, you know, emotionally intelligent.
That's one of the few, it's one of the few things I'll say about myself that I can say,
you know, is, is a leading point.
I don't, I don't go into spaces and talk like I'm hot shit.
Cause I'm not hot shit.
I'm not some millionaire out here.
I'm not some influencer.
And I'll be the first person to tell you that I I've had two jobs for the last eight months.
I quit my job, uh, quit one of my jobs a month ago because I wanted to spend more time in
web three.
Cause it's the only thing that has helped develop meaningful connections to me.
But one thing it's important to realize is that you have energy, you have sweat equity,
you know, all you knew of time.
And if you're going to give these things to somebody, you need to make sure that it's,
it's worth that time and energy.
And, you know, I think it's best to try to train our minds, to try to look for the people
who are also emotionally intelligent and also have that, you know, you can tell about somebody,
you know, when you meet them in their body language and in their, in their presence,
if there's somebody that really is on a different emotional level.
And those are the kinds of people you need to try to give your time to, you know, and
then, and in the same token, you know, if you see somebody that's having a hard time,
try to go about your best to lift them up.
Cause I tell everybody all the time, I believe in karma very strongly.
And I know bad karma is a real thing.
And a lot of people think with good karma, you know, you get good, you put good into, you
know, you, you do something good for somebody and that good thing is going to come back
for you.
Well, that's not how good karma works.
Good karma comes back to you in the action of doing something good for somebody else.
It, you get good karma through doing that.
You, you feel the goodness and it radiates within you and to them.
And we all just seem to practice lifting other people up a little bit in the world.
And, you know, you'll be surprised when you do that.
It may just come back to you in ways that you didn't expect, but not expecting it to start
with.
Yeah.
You know, yeah.
Speaking of jobs, I, I'm not working right now because, you know, I am slowly recovering
from trauma, but, you know, I used to attend, I used to attend job programs, which I never
signed up for during my school year.
Um, I told them I wanted other classes to take, but they put me in jobs without my permission.
I, and then, you know, it was a horrible experience.
And at the last day, they tried to offer me a job at a hotel and I was like, you know what?
I feel, I feel pressured, hurt, and people like you have to get in my way.
You know what?
I'm not working no more.
And, you know, it was a horrible experience I've taken.
So I was like, I, I decided to quit the job program because you know why I I'm sick of
being treated unfairly.
So I decided, I decided to like try to start my own business at home.
So, you know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
And I mean, that's, I mean, I got a lot of respect for you for that because that's, that's
honestly one of the best ways to go about financial independence is to, you know, is to give your
own contributions to the world.
And I think that's how, you know, everybody makes it is eventually getting to that point.
And it's important to note, same thing with a job.
You know, if you're working a nine to five, that's just burning you out.
I mean, I've, I've had, I was a retail manager and I've, I had that job for the last year
and I got to the point where I didn't want to come into work anymore.
I was stressed out, burnt out, tired, exhausted, frustrated.
And I was at the point of handing in my, handing in my keys over and over again.
I started coming into work late and I woke up late one day and told my boss to be on
the way.
And I found myself not getting ready, just not getting ready for work, not even attempting
to get ready for work.
And I'm like, you know what?
I think I've made up my mind.
So I said, you know, your, your body has a way of telling you your body and your mind has
a way of telling you when something, when something isn't vibing right and something
isn't working out right.
That's, that's another important piece of advice is to listen to your body and mind.
And when you're getting signs like that, pay attention to them.
Don't just push them off to the side, because when you do that, it turns into a bigger problem.
Like, as I said, if I would have, if I would have tried to take the active steps to go to
therapy and tackle my anxiety years ago, I probably would have never had a panic attack.
So it's, you know, it's important and don't let it become a worst case scenario for you.
Well said.
Well said.
Six, what's up?
How are you feeling today?
What's one thing you do to add to your mental health, Mr. Six?
You know, sometimes I just pause for a second.
You know, man, that's, that's, that's one of the things that, uh, for some people, sometimes
you wait till it's too late and, or you get in a messed up situation in order for you to
be able to sit down and think.
So I took it up on myself, just like, now I know, cause my life, it moves fast.
So it's like, okay, I'm moving so fast.
I'll make sure I take time to think and pause and, and just kind of look from the outside
looking in sometimes.
So I have to look at myself and I check myself before anybody else have to.
So being just self-aware and, and that, that's one of the things, cause you know, sometimes,
you know, I go from serial to prison in 2.5 seconds.
So I'll be trying to, I'll be trying to, cause that'd be the thing is like, you know, we can
be cool and everything's good.
But if, when it goes there, it's like, uh, you know, some people have that switch that
never turned off.
That's part of my, what's up my boy, part of the interjection, that never, never mind
me a while ago.
I was just talking to, you know, we, the homie while ago and all that, uh, 20 seconds of
his life come through like 20 years in jail.
Cause he ain't take a moment to think.
That'd be, that'd be, that'd be the thing.
It's like, sometimes we, we might be intoxicated or we let rage and anger or emotions and feelings
kind of take control.
And it takes just that 10 seconds and those 10 seconds can take your life away, can take
years away from your life, can, uh, take you away from your family.
You know what I mean?
And just, I just feel like you should just save that for when it's necessary.
You know what I mean?
The reality is that, and it should never be necessary, but there are situations where
it's like, it is what it is, you know what I mean?
So that's one of the things that I do.
I try to meditate and just stay in tune with, with the world and what's going on and stay
busy, man.
You know, I stay busy.
That, that's, that's one of how I cope with shit.
I stay busy.
Cause it's, it's, I don't, I don't just throw shit under the rug.
The problem with a lot of people, especially people that come from the places we come from,
you know, they look at, uh, at man, you know, kind of, you know, when you come, when
you grow up in poverty and especially 20 years ago.
30 years ago, there was no mental health.
There was really no, uh, man, I'm going through it.
There was no, my anxiety bad.
Like, why the fuck this talk about anxiety?
What the fuck is anxiety?
Like, you nervous?
You scared?
Not even knowing, you know what I mean?
It's like, yo, that's what it was.
It's, it's just mental health has been, has been super big, especially in the inner cities
because the lack of understanding, you know what I mean?
They look at it as weakness.
Somebody might have depression, you know what I mean?
And there's, there is people that do things that kind of cause those, uh, emotions or those
things.
And there's other people that really have, uh, chemical imbalance that they can't control
You know what I mean?
And there was a point in time in our communities that we didn't understand it.
And, and, and a lot of people, shit, got fucked up because of it.
You see a lot of the, uh, you know, I always speak about that.
The judicial system, a lot of prisons is full of people that don't need to be in prison.
They need to help.
Yeah.
I mean, there is some motherfuckers that, you know, I don't always jail on nobody, man,
unless you hurt women and kids.
It's just, it's certain things.
I don't really give a fuck what you do, but you know, and there's a lot of kids, there's
a lot of people in a place that's like, you don't belong there.
They, they really not criminals.
They just need help.
They don't have it all, you know, man.
And they go in there and they, and they get the bad part of it because you are in a, in
a space, in a place where it's a concrete jungle and you don't have it all.
So people definitely not going to understand that you're not getting the help that you
need medically or mentally, psychologically.
You don't get no help on top of that.
Your environment is going to push you down and, you know, it's always going to be problems.
Um, thank you so much, thanks for sharing.
Also, I think what, what was just clearly explained to was like a, um, like a mindset,
a paradigm, right?
Like, I feel like I can ask six people that are a little, um, a little older than me and,
uh, my parents and, and relatives.
And they're, when I ask about mental health, um, and tactics there, and it's not necessarily
a negative thing either.
Sometimes people are just accustomed to how they grew up.
Right.
Um, but they found like, I remember being young and my mom would be like in the bathroom
for like an hour and a half.
I'm like, what's going on?
And then now I learned growing up as an adult.
I know what that means.
I know what that means.
Mom's going through it.
She needs some time away from the kids.
Um, so like fast forward to now and she's even shared with me new things she's learned
and she's, when I was 50, man, and she's, she's even learned new things.
So, uh, that's cool how, how, you know, you can, you can take that, you know, you can be
willing to learn.
You know what it is, Prof?
I think, pardon the interjection, I think that, um, a lot of older people, I just turned
36 the other day.
I'm glad they had B36 coming from where I'm from, right?
So overall, it's like, um, back in the day, I'm going to say 70s, 60s, 80s, people who
were born in that era per se, they called it bottling their emotions.
Like I said, again, I've been doing a lot of public speaking lately.
And when I do my public speaking, I tell them, I speak about emotional intelligence.
And when I talk about emotional intelligence, you know, I get a lot of different reactions.
What Six just spoke about was nothing more, nothing less than mastering your emotions and
emotional intelligence.
He never said that he doesn't go through problems.
He never said that he doesn't feel anything.
He said that he stays active.
He breathes because he knows how he's going to react if he doesn't breathe, right?
I think as human beings, we all know ourselves.
And unfortunately, the generation before us, they looked at the words emotional intelligence
or mastering your emotions as bottling enough.
Don't speak about it.
Like Six said again, you quote, bro, you can't depress, what's that?
Anxiety, what's that?
You being a punk.
Stop acting like that.
So, you know, and not just to say as an art culture, I was blessed enough to go to college
to deal with people with many different cultures, to travel or whatever.
So I see that it's the same thing interpreted differently.
You know, I got Caucasian friends.
I've seen them go through a wild shit.
And they don't speak about that outside that household.
You know what I mean?
So it's more of a shift in the paragon of our new, you know, millennials and, you know,
my generation.
Like, for example, I'm a future setter himself.
I don't speak on certain things.
I'm a, I ran the streets, you know, I'm from the hood, all of that.
With that per se, you know, I never, a lot of people to reinvent themselves, guys, they
have to move to a new place.
They have to leave their old group of friends.
They have to go online and create a new identity.
You know, per se, I never had to do none of that.
I've been through every emotion.
I've been through addiction to alcohol.
I overcame alcoholism.
I caught three DUIs.
I did two years in the state penitentiary.
I did everything.
And I was labeled many different things.
I was labeled so many different things.
But about six years ago, when I chose to clean my shit up, and I said, listen, my family
owns a mental health agency.
Don't worry about me.
Worry about yourselves.
I'm about to show y'all how smart I am.
If I was able to do this in this field, watch me switch it over.
And watch me thrive in this field.
I do got my college degree.
I never, you know, slacked on certain things.
So it's a matter of, you know, being able to reinvent yourself, but knowing who you are,
being able to master your emotions.
Because now in this new field, I get tested.
And I get, you know, to my ticking point a lot more.
But if I've done it in, you know, uncomfortable, you know, life-risking, freedom-risking situations,
as I've shifted over to use my intelligence and my emotional intelligence, you know, I've
overcame battles that I never thought that I could.
And I've seen financial accomplishments that I never thought that I could in a couple of
years of being consistent, but being able to know who I am and in front of my family
and friends and say, yeah, you used to look at me like this, but this is who I am now.
That's what mental health is and owning it.
And they will accept you.
We love when Chico on a good one.
Thank you so much for the chime in.
And everybody that's been here so far, the time always goes by genuinely fast because
I think it's because we're just flowing through.
But great questions and great conversation.
Also, if you haven't already, make sure you follow everybody.
Everybody is in their own right, you know, good at what they do.
And a little bit, I want to actually hear what everybody's building, what they're up to.
While they're keeping their mental health intact.
But yeah, thank you everybody for tuning in.
What's going on?
Kayla got some new faces.
Nicholas, queridos, how are you guys feeling tonight?
What's up?
I'm chilling, watching the rain.
I'm smoking, watching rain.
On a live space, I'm trying to figure out how much I want to share.
I put my hand up earlier.
It's hard with the reinventing and money thing.
I, uh, man, I died five years ago.
So when people tell me, like, what are you doing here?
Like, you, what's up?
I'm like, man, this is where the shit I want to be, bro.
Like, this is actually what I fucking do.
So when it comes, like, to the money thing, and we say, you know, you work.
Because I dealt with bad anxiety.
It's still a background on me.
I say all the time.
Black man.
Dreadlocks.
I'm 30.
Mama was a lawyer.
Had me at 17.
White woman.
Daddy.
Shot somebody doing a coke transaction for a brick.
So I'm, like, right there in the middle.
And all that comes up with a lot of anxiety coming from, you know, a hood environment.
I'm from New Orleans.
It's the street down here.
So, especially in the 90s.
Like, 90s in Louisiana, it was, like, murder capital of the country.
This is not something that I'm proud of.
But when you're talking about, like, your mental health and trying to understand and find your way, being a little tech nerd or whatever.
Man, when you got hood people in your family, you can't even begin to address any of these things.
And if you can, what advice can they really give you because it's so street?
But, anyway, I'm going all over the place.
But when it comes to, like, the money thing, you work and try to get good at a craft to avoid your anxiety, right?
And you start to have success.
And, like they say, they say it must be nice.
They don't know that you work two, three jobs or you work 18 hours because you don't want to be bothered with the outside world.
So, Web 2, I'm a certified real estate broker.
I'm a real estate investor.
I say that all the time.
But I came to Web 3 because you get judged so much, bro.
You get judged so much.
And you get to a point where you work and you get successful.
And they continue to judge you.
And you're just like, man, this isn't what's up.
This doesn't help my mental health because the friends around you are now saying, man, it must be nice.
So, it's just bringing it back to Web 3.
I got into this space and, you know, because I'm a nerd.
At heart, I'm a nerd.
You know, I grew up playing chess in the law office.
I also grew up in the streets, so it's real weird.
But I came here and I started working real hard in the space.
You know, you learn how to dove.
And people start saying all kind of crazy shit.
Like, oh, you're here to cash grab.
You're here to do this.
Man, I'm here because I enjoy networking with people that can see beyond their environment.
That's what Web 3 is to me.
Because you can get on the internet and live not a whole different life, but you can have unlimited fucking opportunity.
A lot of the friends that I have still to this day that came from where I come from or even that I go back and meet today, I know that it's not as easy as them to just get plugged in and start jogging and moving in Web 3.
So I say all the time, I'm blessed.
I'm blessed to still be alive and be here.
And it's just good to be able to talk with people without saying, hey, I'm trying to sell you this thing.
Or, hey, I need this from you.
I need this money from you.
Because when money starts getting involved, you start becoming sad.
I've been saddest in my life with the most money.
You know how bad it feels to work and then see some success in your job.
And everybody around you that has money, they're just sad all the time.
They're unhappy.
They don't have any faith.
They don't have friends.
It's bad, bro.
It's really difficult.
So it's important to keep your mental health up and be around good people that have similar beliefs.
And they don't have to have the same beliefs.
But you have to know that the people around you aren't going to bury a knife in your back as soon as you open up to them a little bit.
And it's hard to open up to people sometimes.
Real life, Web3, it's hard.
So I respect everybody that comes and shares their story.
I respect everybody that shows up and works good, bad, ugly to change their life.
You know, that's noble.
I commend that.
No matter where you come from, anyone that's working to change your life or deal with your mental health or fix your situation, man, I am nobody to stop you from doing that.
You keep doing that and don't let anybody change your hustle, your dedication.
And Yari, just as wealth can be something that's self-destructive and can make you sad, I feel like success can do just about the same.
Because I was chasing a passion of mine in the music industry.
I ran an independent label for seven years.
I was an artist manager.
And got to that point where, you know, a passion becomes a hobby, becomes a job.
And we got to the point where we started being successful.
And to get that closer, to be on that point, and then to feel the pressure to keep it up and feel the pressure to constantly deliver.
And, you know, something that's hard about being a behind-the-scenes guy as well is, like, you know, you're artists.
And I was always artist-focused.
I always wanted the artist to succeed.
I wanted to take people who were relatively unknown.
You know, I got musicians onto Skrillex's record label, onto Monster Cat, onto Steve Aoki's record label.
But the unfortunate thing about that is people usually don't know who you are.
You're behind the scenes.
So even though things are popping off and things are going great and everything, it's like this, it's kind of like this selfless thing where you're not really, you're not really benefiting from the exposure.
Nobody knows who you are.
Nobody knows that you're the person behind the scenes trying to make these things happen.
And I didn't get to the point of being able to see money from that because I wanted my artists to succeed.
So I gave them 50% of everything we made, which unfortunately was a terrible business decision.
And it wasn't anything that ever yielded me anything, you know, any kind of amazing gain financially.
But I was trying to lift other people up in the space.
And I guess that's just how some people are.
But to be at that point of success where you feel the pressure to keep it going or you're chasing your dream and you get there and then you realize it's either harder than you expected.
Or it's harder to be consistent or it isn't as easy to operate as you felt it would be or your industry changes.
Some of these industries like music, like Web3, change so sporadically.
Everything was just one way the other day.
And now all of a sudden everything has gone to a paradigm change and it becomes hard to keep up.
And not only that, if you're running your own thing and you have a team, you know, a team behind you, that team may not always be there.
You know, I had people that went off and went to college and got jobs and eventually I got to the point where it was just me.
It was just me doing everything.
And I'm like, well, this doesn't make me happy at all.
I don't have anybody to share anything with.
You know, I'm just I'm sitting here and I'm not happy because I am everything at this point.
And what's to what yield is there anymore from that point?
So it's success can be just as as pivotal as a as a breaking point as wealth can be.
I very much appreciate that take and I don't want to monologue and take up the whole stage, but I just had to share.
It's very good to be able to come and talk about things that aren't your standard Web3 nonsense because everybody has their PR face on all day long.
Everybody's doing a Twitter thing and building their brands and I get it.
But we forget that there are real people here.
And last two, three days, profit's been coming hot on her space.
I'm like, man, I wish that I could sit down and smoke some weed with profits outside of the Web3 shit and just kind of understand, like, how profits and mon work.
Because, you know, it's weird.
It's weird when there are people who are doing the profile picture thing and there are people that you feel like could really be your friends.
But, you know, it's it's weird because there's the Web3 face and then there's like, who are you actually as a person?
Because you can be Web3 cohorts and as people not mesh at all and vice versa.
You know, it's all that with whatnot.
Profits, don't ever.
I love what you're doing.
I love that you get in your bag, that you're putting on consistent spaces.
I don't care what anybody else says about you.
I don't care what I say about you at any point in time in the future.
Right now, as it goes right now, I just I respect your hustle.
And I wanted to say that because I don't come up here and I never get on Web3 and monologue about my life story.
But I had somebody really tell me that they thought that I was some sort of plant, some sort of I don't know what the fuck that meant.
They said that they thought I was a plant.
So I'm making an effort.
It was weird.
They said I was a plant today.
I thought you were a plant.
I'm like, a plant from where?
I've been here.
But I just wanted to, like, remind people like we're human.
But like I come from like the real life.
I'm not an NPC.
No one here is, you know, people are talking, sharing real life stories.
But I appreciate you all in this space.
But, yeah.
That's funny.
I mean, wow.
Anyway, Warrior, go ahead.
And then Legend 30.
Yeah, it's that's good.
I was listening for a while.
You know, there's a saying, Spanish saying goes more of a phrase, maybe a catchphrase.
Maldiciones de familia.
You know, these curses that are passed on through generations.
You can call it generational trauma.
But, you know, what's interesting is that it's said so often that it becomes kind of this norm, right?
Like, oh, yeah, you know, like your uncle struggled.
Your dad struggled.
So, therefore, you know, you'll likely struggle.
But, hey, you know, that's just like this curse of generations.
It's maldiciones de familia.
And, you know, what's interesting about it is as I've gotten older, I've kind of, like, had to have moments to reevaluate my state of mind.
And why am I a contrarian at times?
Why do I push on the political front?
Why do I engage in discussions that I know ultimately might be detrimental to opportunity?
And in a lot of ways, like, it comes right back to the beginning, right?
Like the 12-year-old that understood altruism through the lens of just kind of praying to God that I get hurt rather than my dad, right?
Like I always say before I became a doctor and put a needle in, I was pulling needles out.
And so, like, in a weird way, like this, these Twitter spaces, more so than Clubhouse, but these Twitter spaces, feels more, correlates more to what I used to feel when I was 12.
Where you're navigating as a kind of a lost boy in a world and you're kind of trying to connect with things.
And in a way, the things are validating what you're feeling, right?
And, like, some of this chaos is not bad because, like, there's a lot of struggle that needs to be validated.
And for some of us, you know, like, I think I'm at a point where I'm past so much of that being internal and I've come to grips with who I am.
But I do think that there's an external piece as well.
Like, how does that chaos within create fruits or bear fruits outside?
And it's almost like reinventing that phrase, my dissonance de familia, you know, and kind of thinking, like, what is beneath the curse?
I mean, it's a framework, right, that we were kind of, like, imprisoned by.
And maybe this was all just to make sure that we didn't break out and kind of become somewhat erratic and challenge these systems.
And then at the end of the day, make some solutions.
But it's been cyclical.
I mean, in grad school, every time, every time I enter spaces that are different, I find that people are, and it's fine, everybody can live their life,
but many people are just kind of following a set path.
And for some of us, we've existed outside that path for so long that it's hard to even see that path isn't real, you know?
I don't even know if I'm making sense here, but, yeah, just thinking out loud.
Yeah.
I think I took it from, like, the – because when I remember – I remember when I was younger being so – such a free thinker, and I'm still on, but I don't know.
This is weird, maybe because I remember my thought process, but I'm 30.
I remember being 10 years old, walking my hallway in elementary school, being, like, I can't wait until I'm 18 because I felt that I was going to be able –
like, I felt like my ideas were so dope that – but nobody's going to care until I was older.
Yes, I was 10, and I thought that.
So, anyway, so what you said about being 12, it reminded me of, like, we have no, like, filter, right?
We haven't got punched in the mouth yet, for real, by life.
So everything is kind of, like, naive and shit.
So I feel like I kind of felt like what you were saying.
I think I get it.
So thank you for sharing, and thank you for having the guts to share.
Ledge, Dirty, Aiden, and then Nicholas.
Also, guys, like I said, good times, unfortunately, have to come to an end, but we're going to wrap up probably closer to 10 o'clock.
You know, it's been such a great space.
So thank you for being here.
Follow everybody.
Engage, support.
Anyway, Ledge, go ahead.
Yeah, just kind of wanted to come up.
I, you know, just kind of hopped on Twitter, and I saw this topic and just thought it was, you know, great that it's up here.
I haven't, you know, seen one of these in a while, actually.
So I really appreciate posting this.
I think it's much needed, not only currently what's going on, but just, you know, in general and just doing these check-ins
and having people talk about, you know, these really real concepts and, you know, topics.
So, you know, really like that that's up here.
And so probably with that passion with me being a nurse, that's probably where that comes from, where I'm like, okay, this is a topic that I really like to have the conversations on.
But, you know, just kind of to touch base a little bit on, you know, mental health and especially, you know, getting into Web3, what I noticed is that, you know, a lot of times we get into this.
We all got into space for different reasons, but, you know, a lot of times it was that even if you got in for one reason, it was really focused on the whole, you know, when Lambo, when am I making money, when this, when, you know, always chasing this idea.
And, you know, a lot of times people go, I want to get that best PFP so I can show it off.
I want to show, I want to, you know, kind of, so a lot of times I notice is that, and this isn't just in Web3, this is in general.
People, a lot of times are chasing happiness, and they think that it's based off of, so I can show it off to other people, so I can flex that best PFP, so I can show off that Lamborghini, so I can show off all of these things.
And so it's, you're not really chasing personally, your own personal happiness, you're chasing what you think society is saying that this is how I'm going to be happy.
And so, and so a big thing in noticing is that, you know, when you're working towards your goals, I always say it's really important to focus on not what you want to buy with your money, but more so what is going to make me happy during this journey.
And so I noticed that a lot in the space when we were, you know, that time, we're grinding for whitelist spots.
And, you know, people are saying, I don't care if this is sucking up all my time.
I would say, like, I don't like doing the whole, when I, you know, first got in, they're saying, you got to get to level 50.
And I go, this is terrible.
I don't enjoy texting.
I don't enjoy doing all of these messages trying to get to a certain level.
But when I was in Discord and, you know, I'd go into a VC and I'd turn my camera on and I'm talking with people and having great conversations, that didn't feel like a grind to me.
They're like, oh, I'm grinding in the VC.
I'm like, I just like doing this.
Like, I just, I just enjoy talking to people.
I enjoy turning my camera on and having a glass of wine.
I always would have fireside chats with Ledge and have a glass of wine and enjoy my time.
And, you know, in the process, you know, a lot of doors opened, a lot of, you know, networking and communication.
And, yeah, I got some whitelist spots, sure.
But a lot more opened up for me.
And it's just because I was enjoying my time.
I was having a good time doing this.
And so it's the mindset of saying that you don't have to grind while you're working.
You can actually enjoy yourself when you're doing it with that.
And, you know, Prophets, you mentioned you were 30 and that's, you know, around the age I am.
And I think when you have that reflection of saying you can always make more money,
but you can't make more time.
And so my big focus is saying if you're going to be working towards something, do something that you enjoy.
So if you like and if you love hosting Twitter spaces, host Twitter spaces.
If you like to write threads, write threads.
I don't like writing threads, but I love talking on Twitter spaces.
You don't have to do it all.
So I would say just, like, focus on the things that you actually like to do and then make sure,
but with that, make sure you don't get burnt out with it.
You know, I've seen that a lot, too, where people have such a passion where it's not even a burnout.
It's actually more compassion fatigue where you care too much.
You care so much about your community.
You care so much about what you're building, what you're going towards.
So it's a little bit different than burnout where it's like you love it so much,
but then that fatigue of saying I'm trying so hard and it's just not reaching my goals.
I'm just not getting there.
And that's kind of when you have to kind of do that reflection of, like,
taking those breaks when you need to, reflecting on it, kind of redirecting, going back to it,
maybe changing, we're saying, okay, well, this is my goal, but goals can change and that's okay.
And sometimes it's actually for the better to have those goals change
because there may be opportunities that you have no idea even existed when you started your path.
So you don't always have to stay on that for, you know, that goal.
We're saying, you know, you got into the Web3 space.
Your goal was to make X amount of money or get a certain NFT or do certain things.
So it's like during your path, it's okay if you didn't reach your goal because you may have even gotten to a better one
that you didn't even know was there.
And that's a big thing is those roadblocks and, like, building that resilience.
And that's where we're at right now.
All of us in the space right now are building up this resilience,
which is actually going to make us so much better in the long run.
But we may not even know what that opportunity is.
So I just, you know, encourage everyone to keep, you know, keep an open mind
and just continue to do things that you enjoy.
You know, learn a new hobby, start something new, start doing video creation
or whatever you thought that you might want to do, you have time to do it now.
So, you know, be more something that, you know, something that you want to enjoy learning.
And, you know, you might have some fun opportunities show up that you may have, you know, never realized.
Yo, Lech, super nice to hear from you.
And I love how you said that you haven't heard this, or excuse me,
you haven't seen it at the mental health space in a while
because that lets me know that you've been around for a while.
I said this, that's exactly what I said the first five, ten minutes of the space.
So appreciate your take.
And I just followed you, so thank you.
Let's see, Dirty, Aiden, and then Nick, I don't know if you still want your take.
Go ahead, Dirty.
Hey, what's up, everybody?
Profits, thank you for making me feel so well, Thoman.
Thank you for the room.
Thank you, everybody else on the panel.
I just want to say I empathize with Chico and Six about the penitentiary thing.
I, too, myself, I pissed my whole 20s and early 30s away in the penitentiary.
I just got out last year.
I'm new to Web3, and I'm new to Twitter.
I just want to say thank you for everybody making me feel welcome.
I'm loving it so far, man.
I know we're pressed for time.
I'm not going to hold the stage long.
I just want to say whenever I struggle with mental health, I always look back and I tell
myself, I may not be, I may not want to be, wait a minute, I may not be where I want to
be, but thank goodness I'm not where I was.
And that's all I got.
Wow, beautifully said.
Aiden, go ahead.
What's up, Profits?
I just want to say thank you for having this space, you know.
Obviously, I haven't seen one in a while, but I just want to touch in because what Ledge
said, because I used to grind so hard for Whitelist last year, it actually put me to a point
of burnout.
Now, because my first project was Cosmix, grinded three months for that, flopped, and
then I grinded three months for Possess, and that flopped.
And it taught me that, you know, I grind three months, it's basically three months of hard
work to maybe go up like 600 bucks.
My time was worth a lot more than that.
So I took a huge step back.
I think I didn't, I took a break from July to about December, and I stepped back in when
I saw, you know, a lot of stuff was happening.
I was like, okay, I'll try it again.
And I pretty much completely stopped trading, because it just wasn't good, because I'm really
bad with greed.
That's one of my biggest flaws in this space, is I can't handle it very well, so I don't
like doing it very much.
So what I really went through was content creation.
I just went all in on that.
And so far, so good.
It's been going really good, and I'm a lot happier.
No burnout at all.
It's just great.
And then I started animating, because I like drawing.
That's what I used to do for Weightless.
I used to draw a crap ton.
And I just started drawing, and now I'm starting to make a business out of it.
And it's just, I'm just so much happier now than where I was before.
So that's all I wanted to say.
I appreciate you sharing that.
Because you basically, from what you just told us, you found a way to re-enter the space
that you had to step away from.
But you knew you loved it.
Your time was valuable.
But you came back in and found a way to reinvent yourself, for lack of better terms.
Or re-insert yourself in the space.
Made it useful.
And made it to where it's not even about the money.
You ain't mentioned money one time after you said content, because you found something
that fucked the time.
It was worth it.
You know, your soul was smiling.
You was content with it.
So that's just, I'm pointing out many, you know, I want to let the floor keep going.
But that was a hard, hard choice to step out and then come back in and, you know, re-invest
your time and then never please, knowing that you've lost money, et cetera.
Appreciate you sharing that.
Very well, very much so appreciative.
Nicholas, go ahead and then I'm going to pass it to Kayla.
Go ahead.
What's up, what's up?
I loved everything everyone said.
There were even some points that I had written down and they were explained so beautifully
already.
So there is one thing in relationship to work, whereas sometimes we might have so much work
that we feel overwhelmed and we might not be able to find ourselves to even get to do the
first thing.
And what happens is like scientifically, we're so stressed that our brain kind of shuts.
And that always happens to me.
I'll get overloaded with things and I just won't do anything.
What I found a cure for was using this AI calendar and it allowed me to just, it really just comes
down to organization.
I'm horrible at organizing, but when I was able to view things is when I relaxed and I
was like, oh, you know, I don't even have that much to do.
And that's when you can start doing stuff.
So for someone that's disorganized like me, unorganized like me, it's good to just put it
on paper so you can view and like have it tangible.
And that really helps your brain like relax and, you know, get things going.
Now in something else for trauma, because sometimes we, we try to like lose ourselves in work because
of maybe something else that it might've happened.
Work can almost be an addiction like anything else.
And, but there are some things that are very strong.
Like some people might have some traumas that are extremely strong so much that they, you
know, they'd rather not really say it.
Um, and something that has helped me and it's might sound weird.
It's like finding peace in death, um, and the finality that death comes and it won't matter.
Like it won't matter.
These things that happened in the past.
So why are you making it matter now?
And I know it because these thoughts are never going to go.
Sorry for context, by the way, for anybody that may not be catching on, I just want to
clearly say this is one of those situations that I've been through like a work process,
like in a therapy session where you get, I forgot the term.
Anybody knows any technical terms you may share.
Basically when you put yourself, it's like you, you grab yourself by the shirt and you
snap yourself back into reality by giving yourself the understanding of like that.
We're, we're not immortal.
Like we're going to die.
Right.
So that's all I'm sure.
We're not trying to be so harsh here.
Nicholas, go ahead.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And there is some peace in that, uh, because it's also like, if you're trying to change the
world, right, let's say at our point in time, there are certain circumstances and we
want to make it better, but it's almost, it's like, you can't write.
It's a set of circumstances that are there and we have to learn from them because at no
matter what point in history, if we were to pop in, something's going to be wrong, but
it's not our stop.
Like we're not supposed to be fixing it.
We're supposed to be learning from it.
So it's kind of like the same thing.
If you've had traumas, it's like, fuck bro, you know, this, this, this shit did happen.
And it's like, so fucked up that this person did this and I can't, I can't comprehend it,
but it's like, you have to step back, like almost like an alien looking down and realize
like, ah, fuck it is what it is, bro.
Like, and, and then, and then woman, woman too, it's surrounding yourself with more women
if you can, um, cause women just have so much love and they, they teach you how to really
connect with people.
Because if you can connect with a woman without lust, um, you learn a lot about life.
I don't know.
Maybe that, yeah.
Yeah.
That was deep.
That was deep.
Uh, appreciate that.
Web three, what's up?
Hey, yeah, I was, I was interested in what Nicholas was saying.
Uh, there's, I believe there's quite likely a life after death.
Um, if you've been on a spiritual journey, any of you guys yourselves, um, then you, you
kind of find that out for yourself, whether you believe in life after death.
So, but for me, I definitely have found that there must be something.
There's too many signs just around to think that there isn't something beyond.
It might sound crazy, but.
I don't, I don't mean to interrupt.
Yeah.
Go ahead.
I was going to say, I don't, web three might be on shrooms.
I'm kidding.
Um, I, I used to be big on, I used to be big on, so I can tell us, I used to grow my
own.
This was 10 years ago.
So this doesn't matter when I was a young buck, you know, but, um, I, I've done my little
shrooms in the hood.
You know, this was like 2012 and shit.
It's just way back.
Right.
But, uh, without going all into detail and getting all philosophical, I've died and I've
like been on the other side and my experience, what I've seen could be described as however
you want to, but there's some shit out there.
You can't explain and, you know, it's hard to come back from it and say, Hey guys, no,
I saw it.
But, uh, there's definitely some shit going on that you should open your mind to at least
the possibility of.
That's all I would like to say.
So, you know what, let me, let me interject with that one right now.
What I'm hearing from what y'all saying is, is basically, you know, you, you felt as
though, you know, you got to find some, some peace with, with, with death, right?
You got to be able to process it and keep it moving to an extent that it happens.
And that goes nothing else, which you're absolutely right with mastering your emotions.
Everybody will deal with death, whether it's a parent, a loved one, a friend, a partner
or whatever, a wife.
So what happens is, here it goes with the mastering your emotions.
You could spend the majority of your days, months and years after you go through that
tragedy, dwelling on the negative.
Yeah, you're entitled to a month, maybe, you know, however, a couple, however you really
need personally to get yourself together.
There is no time barrier on that.
So in mental health, like I've been saying in the last couple of weeks, one of the least
acknowledged assessments is, uh, victim mentality.
We always speak about bipolar.
We speak about anxiety.
And, you know, unfortunately, so many of us deal with the death of a loved one.
Yeah, maybe you were closer than others and, you know, however, but at one point, all of
us will experience close death.
And how you deal with those tragedies, how you come out in the end is what defines your
personal life, your journey, your story.
Yeah, you know, you can attach yourself to a loved one's death.
But the goal of Aiden is saying, if I'm not, Nicholas, pardon me, is that, uh, you got to
find some type of peace and solitude and accept it.
If not, you're never going to be able to be the whole human being that you're meant to
be, correct?
Yeah, yep.
And, and the way that I got to that realization, cause it's, you know, just saying these words,
it's like, you almost have to experience something to come to a conclusion like that.
And if there's one thing I would love for everyone to try is, is to try to astral project and
really try to practice that through meditation.
Because when you come out of your body and you're able to go past the duality, like go
past this, like you see your body laying in your bed and you move through this physical
reality that's in front of us through the walls and stuff.
It's, it's, you start to notice like, oh, okay.
There is this thing of like, it's longer, there is more of an eternity.
Like it's like, you, you know, then you notice like this finite thing that your body's experiencing.
It's just, it's, it's fucking happening, bro.
It's like, you can't, like, there's a reason why you're learning from it.
Um, yeah.
It's like, we're almost too stuck to our own problems.
I almost feel like I'm on the North Star right now, the way you guys are speaking to me.
Kayla, um, welcome to the stage.
And yes, it is recorded for everybody that may not see you up top.
Thank you for being here.
Haven't met you yet.
Excited to hear from you.
And then I'm going to pass it on to LTO.
Yeah.
Um, I, I just want to say I, I have depression and anxiety and I know what it's like.
And I just want to, I just want to throw it out there.
If, if, if anyone in this room ever, ever needs an ear or someone to talk to it, my messages
are always open.
I know that sometimes life gets really hard and, um, we can't always, we, we can't always
predict how we're going to feel from one day to the next.
I mean, there are days whenever I don't, there are days when I don't even want to go up in
bed.
I mean, honestly, there are some days I don't shower.
I mean, I shower five, six days a week, but there's one day, probably one or two days.
I just don't feel like getting up and getting in the shower.
And I feel bad about that, but you know what?
You can't predict depression.
You can't predict how depression is going to make you feel, but you know what?
You got to get up every morning and say, you know what?
I woke up today.
I'm here for another day.
And you know what?
If you can get up and make it through the day, then, then you can make it through anything
that life throws it your way.
You really can.
You're, you're strong enough to get through it and you're, you're strong enough and you
are good enough and you're worth it.
And whatever happens in your life, you'll get through it.
You'll be okay.
From the bottom of my heart, I'm telling you that things will get better.
It'll be okay.
And if you need anything at all, my messages are open.
I think you can message me even if I don't follow you.
But I'm here for you.
And I just wanted to throw that in there and just say that I have things I could share,
but I don't feel comfortable sharing it with the, with the space being recorded.
So I'll just pass on it for now.
But I, I do, I understand what it's like.
And I have been through some really rough times in my life and I just wanted to say
that I'm here if you, if you need someone, that's all I'm going to say.
I, I have a passion for helping other people in distress.
I, I, I am actually a trained active listener.
I have been for a long, for a while now.
I mean, I've talked people down for a trigger warning.
I've talked people down from suicide before.
So I, I, I, I be here for you when you need me to be.
So if you need someone, don't hesitate to message me.
I appreciate, I appreciate you sharing that with us, Kayla.
Cause like, definitely I'm a, I'm a listener myself overall.
And from what I heard was you just shared with us that you,
you have a diagnosis of depression or something that just can't up and go away.
And that's a personal thing.
Thank you for sharing that as far as you went,
but you're also telling us how you battle it, how you deal with it,
how you face it head on.
You just told us one of your challenges or two at the same time.
So you chose to have that, you know, situation that many people deal with.
And you, you know, you own it to the point where, you know,
you're aware that it's there, but you don't let it beat you up or hold you down.
You embrace it.
And thank you for, you know, being open about how you deal with it.
I, I, I think one of the biggest things for me is when I get into my space is
venting helps a lot.
It does, but I also have a cat.
My cat is, she's not just a cat to me.
She is like my emotional support animal.
She is there when I need her.
I, I, I don't want to hold up the space too long, but I just want to say this.
I have anxiety attacks sometimes.
And when I feel an anxiety attack coming, I'll go to the end, to the edge of my room
and I'll go to the corner and I'll focus on something in the room,
whether it's the wall or something I have hung up on one of my walls.
And I'll just sit there for a second and just kind of focus on my breathing.
And my cat, my cat does not like to be held.
She'll, she likes to cuddle, but she doesn't like to be held.
But when I have an anxiety attack, she'll come and she'll circle around my legs over and over again
until I pick her up.
And then when I pick her up, I, I, you know, I, I stroke her, I pet her and you know,
I, she rubs her head against mine and licks on me.
And within five minutes, I am a different person.
I am calm.
I am better.
I, it's just something about an animal.
Like she has no idea what she has done for me.
So if you have an animal in your life, a cat or a dog or anything, they know when you're upset.
My cat has saved me.
I don't know how many times.
So I think that's just an amazing thing that animals can say, because I don't know how she knows,
but she knows when I'm having an anxiety attack, she wants me to pick her up.
She wants to be there for me and she doesn't like being picked up.
So that, that the animals are just amazing to me, you know, I might be going out on a limb here,
but I think, uh, I don't think web three needs any other, uh, needs another NFT project.
Web three needs more active listeners and empaths in the space.
Facts really well said warrior bearded.
Great to see you, Mr. Bearded.
What's up warrior?
Yeah.
I think it's Theo is, is next.
It's okay.
You can go.
Oh no.
Yo, you know what it is?
It's weird.
I'm on a different iPhone, by the way.
I'm on an older one.
Sometimes it, it goes, it goes away for a second.
Yeah, you're right.
I'll tell you and then we're, thank you guys.
We're thank you.
Profits.
Um, I just, you know, I was going to say a couple of things, but I learned a lot from what
everyone was sharing, especially what a sage and, and, and husk were talking about earlier today.
We all need to learn how to become better listeners.
I think as human beings or homo sapiens, uh, that's something that we're not good at.
Everyone wants to be heard.
Everyone wants to be listened to, but you know, it's tough to listen to them and listen
attentively and patiently.
Um, but, um, I will say this, this moment right here, this, this moment in space and
time is nothing but a blink of an eye compared to the evolution of our galaxy and our planets
and everything around us.
Right?
So when you take this into context and you do, as many said, take a 10,000 foot view of
the world and history and humanity, then what, what Nicholas was sharing, it, it, it means
a lot because many of the things we believe are man-made and also making us believe things
that maybe, maybe two dozen year old fairy tales is not doing good for, for the, I guess
humanity as a whole, because we're brought up to think that we're different from each
other, whether it's through indoctrination, whether it was through a colonization, you
know, we all have different struggles, but at the end of the day, we're all homo sapiens.
We're all the same.
Genetically, there's nothing that makes us different from each other.
And, um, we need to come to terms with death.
And I do believe faith, faith in whatever you believe in, even yourself is important.
You can make anything happen if you have enough faith in it.
So, um, as an open atheist, I will say, I have lived my life and have had to reinvent
myself many times as a Latino in America that had, um, has found it very difficult to, uh,
I guess, to be accepted by what, what to, and this is as a person that has a batch, has
two degrees and has been in technology all my life.
And that alone is a mental health struggle that I've dealt with.
And it brought me here to web three.
Um, but I'll end with this web three.
There is something good with web three.
I felt, I feel that web three has accepted me as a developer, as a person that's willing
to build, build and willing to like, uh, build up other individuals and community and just
come in and collaborate and get the job done.
And, uh, web two, they didn't even give me a chance.
So it says a lot about where we are.
Uh, it says a lot about the space and it says a lot about the community that we're building
together.
So, um, I would say just keep going.
Uh, there are many people out here that host amazing spaces, uh, that are good for mental
health, you know, meditation, uh, you know, music.
We have, uh, Violetta here, we have Aaron, and these are people that are, they do it for
free and they spend their time to just teach you how to breathe, teach you how to meditate,
teach you how to listen to music a bit and just step out of your, your comfort, comfort
zone.
Um, but yeah, just stay positive and profit.
Thanks for the space.
I was rambling a bit cause I had so many thoughts in my head.
Um, and I, I also censor myself because, um, when people talk about religion and you know,
it kind of triggers me, but I'm learning to listen.
No, I, you know, not go too far.
I totally get it.
I totally get it.
And that's why I was like, okay, I might even do a psychedelic segment because I would
be lying if I said I've never microdosed from my mental health, like an anxiety.
It's helped me, but I choose to not go so deep and, and, and thank you for saying how
you did.
I definitely appreciate it.
And I agree with you warrior and then bearded and, and Althea, you have a stage, a spot
here at any time.
So please keep coming.
Go ahead, bro.
Yeah.
Um, you know, if, if someone doesn't want to microdose or do something, uh, there was
this really difficult phase a few years back where, um, you know, the phase that I think
everybody has a version of it.
You go against the biggest Titan and you, sometimes you get, you get knocked out.
So you gotta, you gotta get back up.
And this is, it's figurative.
There was no boxing match, but, but, you know, I was trying to kind of understand why, you
know, this part of the system was a challenge and try to like, but I felt defeated and the
phase was pretty long.
It was like a nine month phase and being, you know, being an MD, like I understand the signs
of clinical depression and stuff.
And, you know, I don't, I wasn't there, but I was kind of in between and I started to
run and then simultaneously intermittent fasting.
So I, I went like on the, not to go biblical, but you know, what the ancients used to do
across all religions, right?
Fast and, and, and then you get into this mindset.
And when I was in that mindset, probably became the most philosophical I've ever been.
And I just started to kind of understand kind of St. Augustine's concept.
So St. Augustine, it's controversial, but he was the first African priest in the Catholic
church.
And he had this idea that he called remembrance, which is that you're born with all the knowledge
of the universe, all the knowledge that any of us could ever, could ever have, except that
you won't discover it all.
So as we go through life, we're all discovering different pieces of that, like universal knowledge,
right?
And the great thing about places like this is they can come together, right?
And we can kind of see it if we can combine our eyes collectively.
But another aspect that I kind of came to grips with is like, if you, if you read all the books
of all the ancients and even contemporary philosophers, it's pretty clear that one of the deepest golden
nuggets that you can discover is like, what is suffering, right?
Like to be confronted with what this question of what is suffering.
And it's like, I don't even think you can build up empathy until you've confronted that
question a profound way.
And we can all say we are, but I really like, what is suffering and what is it to me?
And then ultimately, can I see it better in others?
And so I look at these, these layers, I call them layers that we go through.
And it's like the more layers that you can discover, understand pain, understand suffering,
understand virtue, understand wisdom, the more layers that you can get through, it's
like you're getting to a level that's leveling up and whatever it is that's after, even if
after is another iteration of this, like, you know, will you, will your third eye, right?
Will your soul be more in touch with that palpable question of like, what is suffering?
Because ultimately, I think that's what drives everything, this pursuit to reduce suffering
in this universe that seems almost like it's built on top of it.
Um, and not that it is, but you know, it's just this feeling, right?
And it's, it's, it's in all these ancient books and all these, as a conclusion to many
of these writers, um, but yet we go through life, right?
Looking for ways to make it less, um, make things better.
And I think there's joy in that.
There's joy in the pursuit to just make, make the suffering less.
And that's a lot of what I've done has always been about that.
Even medicine, it's about making suffering less.
Even if you never find a cure of things, it's just making suffering less.
Um, anyway, St. Augustine, uh, cool guy.
Thank you for that.
Um, as we are coming to a close, ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for being here.
Make sure you follow all the hosts, all the speakers.
Um, this, this space was inspired, um, not only because I genuinely enjoy mental health.
Uh, I had the blessing of meeting Chico a while back and been following not only what he's
kind of been up to, but he's also been following what I've been up to.
And when we met recently, um, he's like, yo, you know, we should talk more about this in
Web3.
Um, and I definitely agree.
And I think for me, I'll be honest, at first I was very wary and not super willing because
of the, uh, unfortunate idea and the, the, the, the whole, like in the beginning of the
bull market and how cringy these types of things unfortunately were and not respectable and just
taking advantage and weird shit.
And Hey, I'm not even gonna say we're running this shit the most perfect, right?
Like I'm trying to do disclaimers, uh, emotional disclaimers and shit.
Um, but yeah, so this, this really was inspired by, you know, him pushing me to, to not only
like talk about what we stand for, but more importantly, bringing it up in the way we feel
comfortable.
Um, he's, he's a huge mental health advocate has, uh, one of the most, I think successful
nonprofits today in the world, uh, way out of Philly doing a lot of real things.
IRL, I pinned it up to the top.
You guys should check it out and definitely follow it.
Um, so this space is definitely brought to you by him and, and, and by, uh, his organization.
No, there's no dollar amount or anything like that, but if you want to go check it out,
you know, engage, go to an event, chip in for an event, you are more than welcome to do so.
Uh, Chico, I'm going to pass it to you real quick.
Well, actually I'm going to get to this last two hands and I'm going to pass it to him to
share a little bit more.
Uh, Sage snuck his little hand in there.
I'm going to let Sage go and then I'm going to let Bearded have the last take.
I appreciate that.
I just had one thing to say real quick.
Uh, on what Yari said about not knowing who we are, uh, as people, like I did, I imbibed
a lot with that.
So I feel like if I come in these spaces, um, since I'm a part of purple and I have the
affiliate badge, I can change my picture as much as I like to, cause it's a habit.
So when I'm in here, I'm going to, I'm going to put my picture as me.
So, you know, who, who's speaking and it's not a, it's not an NFT or it's not a random
picture.
Just so you can know that I'm real and I'm being real with you and I'm being transparent
and I'm being the best representation of myself that I can be a little bit of wisdom.
I wanted to share with you is, um, it can be viewed that living in the past, uh, can be
seen as depression and living too much in the future can be seen as anxiety.
So my best advice is to try to do what you can to be here now.
Agreed.
Go ahead, Bearden.
You got the last take, fam.
Yeah, I'll, I'll be quick and hopefully my service, uh, there was with me here.
Um, something I, I just wanted to share and I didn't realize this myself is, uh, um, you
know, how many veterans are actually still hanging out in these spaces.
I, I, I was in the spaces, uh, I don't know, yesterday or the day before, and there's
literally five of us.
I didn't even know it.
Like I'm, I'm hanging out, you know, I'm in these spaces sometimes with these people
all the time.
I had no clue.
And, uh, you know, there's a lot I could talk about on this subject because, uh, there's
a lot, you know, there's a lot that, you know, everybody's been through some stuff, but,
um, I could definitely share a lot of, a lot of stories and, and, and talk about this
a lot.
And I just haven't had the opportunity to come up and share any of that because of timing
or whatever, but I just want, you know, I just want to thank you for having me.
You never know, you know, who's, who's life you might change or emotionally, like how somebody
might feel that they got something off their chest that didn't have an opportunity to,
to do that.
And, um, I think it's like a really good thing.
It's, it's, it's, I think you said it was beautiful because it really is like this space
can be like kind of crazy at times.
And, and it's not just red three, uh, red three adds to mental health.
And, you know, this could be a lot of people's first, like big financial loss, you know, that
things are hard right now and you don't know what people's been through in the past.
And so, um, you know, just be, you know, outside of this space, I know we're all like
being professional on the air, but we can all do better and be a little bit respectful
and just don't know what people are going through.
I'll definitely come back when I have more time to chat or can get here a little earlier.
But, uh, yeah, thank you guys for hosting this.
I think it's needed.
Oh man, of course.
Bearded always gets that last take.
Shout out to Bearded.
Um, man, what an amazing space.
Super amazing.
Nice, amazing two hours.
We're live every Wednesday at this time, 8 p.m. Eastern, uh, with this, uh, with this
spaces and different topics, all based off of mental health and on three, uh, Chico would
love to pass it to you, uh, share a little bit.
Also for those that may be new and may not know who Chico is, please introduce yourself
and, um, share a little bit about Citywide.
Appreciate that, Prof.
Again, thank everybody for showing up, whether it was for, you know, just to listen or those
who participated always makes my heart smile.
People just showing up in general or to something that me and Prof thought about in New York, like
did NFC NYC and we finally executed.
Um, I am the sole owner, 100% owner of Citywide Community Counseling Services, 501c3 non-profit.
It's an outpatient mental health center located in Philadelphia, PA.
But not only is it in Philadelphia, PA, it's located in one of the worst opioid-affected
neighborhoods in the country.
So, uh, which I also happened to grow up in and, you know, um, it was near and dear
to my heart.
My family, my mother and my father, you know, they always were very, very straightforward
working people.
My stepfather was a career politician, worked in the White House for about, you know, collectively
about 16 years, traveled the world with President Jimmy Carter.
And when he met my mom, uh, she was an active, uh, therapist at the moment, psychotherapist
and she was finishing up her, uh, PhD to become a psychologist, et cetera.
You know, the rest is history.
Unfortunately, my stepfather passed away about three years ago and, um, my mother's, you know,
health and age, you know, started taking over.
So I inherited the company solely and I understood that I've overcame many things.
I've had to reinvent myself as we talked about in the space tonight.
And, you know, a lot of times without any advice, I'm self-motivated, you know, um, I
am a people person.
Uh, I am an empathetic guy, though.
I have to be a cold person to survive in the business world at times.
I got to master my emotions.
I got 70 to 90 employees at all times.
So I know that my decisions can affect 70 to 90 families.
You know what I mean?
I tried to be a leader.
I tried to be a trailblazer in the mental health space only because I was given this opportunity.
You know, I do all around the board.
Um, I do community based events around the country, you know, prophecy me work a little
bit.
I've had the pleasure of meeting a couple of people already throughout the year.
Um, and, you know, I'm looking forward to keeping it going.
This is, if I'm not mistaken, the sixth episode, again, you have no idea how much this means
to me because this was an idea that I had when, you know, somebody brought me on for
a project and it was, you know, I was blessed enough to get a stage and, you know, I was
speaking and I saw that I was getting good, you know, reciprocation and, you know, it
was good engagement.
So I always wanted to, uh, re-approach it.
You know, those people are still near and dear to me.
You know, they, they introduced me into the speaking role in Web3, though.
I also am, um, I, I like to speak things into existence.
You know what I mean?
I'm one of those people about two years ago, I wanted to become a self, uh, uh, self-motivated,
uh, public speaker.
So, you know, I took my life story.
I purposely became more successful.
We work real hard around here and I've been, you know, going to colleges and, you know,
going, um, doing team building and work events all across the country since COVID has hit.
I've also, um, realized that I'm good with money, right?
So I do financial management.
I do artist management.
Like, I got a lot to offer on this side and ain't nothing but organic, you know, hard work.
I do very, very good with time management.
There's nothing special except I chose to take the 24 hours and, you know, I don't watch Netflix.
I haven't watched the latest series, but I might tell you the next two, uh, tax loopholes
for the next tax seasons, right?
This all depends on what you choose to put your mind.
Legally, dude, legally at that.
Right.
I'm also, you know, um, a product of my environment, but why I proud myself is from being a product
of my environment, I chose to still be in the same environment where I ran around in.
And, you know, uh, at the age of 36, I can say that I'm an outstanding member of my
community, my city.
I'm well-respected for all the right things.
I've shown people, you know, the youth that you can make a million dollars legally and
still be yourself.
You know, uh, we got some money over here.
I'm a good philanthropist.
I donate.
It's just all about, uh, again, I'm self-motivated.
You know, my, my family, my mother has full blown dementia.
My stepfather passed away.
It is nothing that, you know, I haven't been through that, you know, none of you have been
through.
I've been in the state penitentiary.
I got sentenced to one to two years for a DUI, but I took all of that time and, you know,
I self-reflected and I took, you know, everything accountability for all the bullshit that
I've brought on myself and I blamed what had to be blamed on life.
I blamed it on life and I had to take a lot of accountability and again, learn to master
my emotions.
And I wish that on everybody.
Y'all have a great night.
I promise you, I'm going to be known as the mental health guy.
I'm going to be known as the guy, not that I'm full of shit, the guy, the opposite.
I've been through it fucking all.
And I chose to persevere and, you know, profits.
I look at her like an influencer, as somebody who could put these stages together, right?
She gave me the chance to, you know, shine and give y'all my natural talent, which is
speaking about shit that nobody else speaks about, which is talking about the obvious,
which is saying, yeah, I'm in Web 3 for community, but I also like to make money.
You know, yeah, I'm an empathetic person, but I also got no time for bullies.
You know, speak your mind and it'll free you.
Be who you are.
I'm not doing nothing but being my motherfucking self.
Y'all, thank y'all for rocking with me.
We just getting started.
Dude, you would think he looks in the mirror before he goes, like, all right, no.
He just fucking talks, bro.
I fucking love it.
Scott, any last words for the beautiful people?
And thank you for pulling up, fam.
Like, I have to admit, me and this kid bump heads like brother or sister, and I think
this is why our relationship has gotten even closer.
But he's one of the first people in Web 3, he doesn't even know this, I'm telling him
now live, that was real as fuck and was like, yo, I got a little, you know, I deal with
this shit too, this and that, because he lets me vent to him, and he was one of the people
that let me vent to him and not use it against me.
So anything you want to share, Scott, please go ahead, and then I'm going to close this off.
Shout out to Scott.
Shout out.
I had the pleasure of meeting Scott in Vegas.
I heard many great things about him.
I've met a lot of people, IRL, and I get disappointed a lot.
I'm an honest person.
Scott was one of the few that kept it a buck, and it's not about what nobody has or what
they do, it's your character and who you are, and Scott is, he's one of the ones.
Like, he's an honest, good guy.
Appreciate you, my dog.
Go ahead.
Oh, shit, I appreciate you too, Chico.
Profits.
Yeah, it was dope, because, you know, if you ever hear me and Profits, you know, we do majority
of the talking, so everyone knows I suffer from bipolar, or I don't want to say suffer,
whatever you want to say, whatever you want to say it is.
You know, sometimes y'all can tell when the avalanches fall in, because you can't really
have this shit on social audio.
So it was really great to just come listen, you know, just have the AirPods in, and just
listen to each and all of you, you know, some I know you, some I don't, but it just takes
a big person to come up on social audio and share any of the things that you guys shared.
So I'm excited to pull up, you know, to this space, and I've always been an advocate for
mental health.
And so while I never close my DMs off, even though, you know, you can click a link and
fuck yourself over, I'm always like, damn, bro, what if my DM is the last thing?
Because unfortunately, my close homie didn't answer his call, and they're taking his life.
So I just always feel like, yo, what if somebody I don't know hits me?
Even like with Denton, where Denton feels that nothing to do with, you know, he just felt
like he could trust me.
So DMs were off, I never would have met Denton.
So yeah, man, appreciate y'all.
Appreciate everyone who came up here and shared, you know, DMs are always open.
Like I said, it doesn't matter.
I'm up at all times.
I don't care how stupid it is.
I'm always here.
We all feel the same.
We all believe the same.
So don't think his motherfuckers got X amount of followers, X on their resume.
Nah, we the same thing.
We get anxiety.
We get scared.
We get mad.
We get sad.
We get happy.
So yeah, we all the same when it comes to that aspect.
Got nothing but love for everybody at Web3 because y'all help me mentally.
You feel me?
So yeah, man, nothing but love.
Big love, everybody.
Everybody be safe.
Drink water.
Hydrate yourself.
Remember, I think one of the best things that I can say to end this off is when you feel
the pressure, when you feel so much going on, look at, try to spot three real things
in your room, whether it's like, you know, the glass cleaner or this couch.
Point out real things that are around you.
Remember, you're human and you're allowed to feel how you feel.
Take care.
Much love.
See you guys next time.
