Iman Europe and The Agenda chat mental health, music, Web3 and The Homies DAO

Talk to immoderate instrumentalist who has “made it,” and they’ll accidental that achieving fame is some a acquisition and a curse. While occurrence successful amusement tin evidently bring galore positives, it besides carries the unit to enactment relevant, the interest of perpetually needing to enactment connected to fans, and the nonaccomplishment of state and privateness that comes with being a regular Joe — each of which tin beryllium utterly exhausting. Add a jam-packed events docket that robs artists of the clip to detox and socialize, and fame begins to look similar conscionable arsenic overmuch a load arsenic it whitethorn beryllium a blessing.

On the flip side, those aspiring to interruption done and yet spell mainstream woody with the unit of an uphill ascent and the imaginable result that aft each the struggle, determination mightiness not beryllium a airy astatine the extremity of the tunnel.

For this reason, mental health, wellness and feeling similar 1 is plugged into a assemblage are things each creators request to allocate clip to, and The Homies DAO is focused connected conscionable that.

On Episode 17 of The Agenda podcast, hosts Ray Salmond and Jonathan DeYoung talk with vocalist and The Homies DAO laminitis Iman Europe astir however the corporate is utilizing Web3 to bring artists unneurotic to absorption connected wellbeing.

A harmless abstraction for artists to breathe, unbend and socialize

During the conversation, Europe elaborate however lonely being a instrumentalist tin consciousness and however hard it tin beryllium to support societal connections, fixed that sometimes it seems similar household members are perpetually hitting you up for wealth and perks, and strangers you link with mightiness person the ulterior motive of getting peculiar benefits acknowledgment to their new-found friend’s fame.

“I cognize a batch of artists felt precise burnt retired past twelvemonth and felt similar they couldn’t find their footing oftentimes due to the fact that everything was moving truthful accelerated successful Web3,” she said. “And truthful I saw the request for wellness successful the space, and I besides was needing it. I was juggling being an creator and the caput of creator relations of Sound.xyz, and it was a lot. They were 2 full-time jobs, and I wasn’t making capable clip for myself and my wellness, and I saw the effects of that.”

pro tip: springiness yourself the archetypal hr of the day. unplugged, doing thing that lone you payment from. gym, cleaning, reading, meditating, praying— thing for you. get up an hr earlier if you person to. due to the fact that taking attraction of you makes it truthful overmuch easier to instrumentality attraction of others.

— iman, the icon. (@ImanEurope) October 24, 2022

This inspired Europe to recovered The Homies DAO. “When I got to the extremity of the year, I knew I wanted to absorption this twelvemonth connected wellness much and connected being capable to springiness that backmost to myself and besides creating abstraction for artists to bash the same.”

When asked astir the benignant of wellness and assemblage activities Homies DAO members could enactment in, Europe mentioned that the decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) provides a harmless abstraction and assemblage wherever creators participating successful the euphony industry tin socialize, unwind, meditate, enactment retired and prosecute successful enactment that offers a consciousness of community.

“We’re hosting our archetypal lawsuit astatine the extremity of this month, the Homies Hangout, wherever we’ll person antithetic forms of wellness. So it’ll beryllium carnal wellness — we’ll commencement with exercise, riding the bikes and spinning. This volition beryllium hosted astatine Burn Cycling. So we’ll commencement disconnected with that, and past we’ll instrumentality a interruption and past travel backmost for a dependable bath, which is spiritual wellness. And past we’ll bash immoderate affirmations, and we’ll person idiosyncratic travel successful and pb a radical therapy league wherever we tin each benignant of speech unneurotic and speech astir intelligence wellness and antithetic resources to bettering that.”

As for the DAO’s aboriginal plans, “We program to bash a fewer things similar monthly meetups similar that, but besides monthly meetups online wherever we’re capable to conscionable cheque successful with each different and conscionable person a abstraction for that,” said Europe, adding:

“We aboriginal program to bash similar acquisition contented and conscionable creating antithetic contented to bring much radical on-chain. We privation to make and mint projects done our DAO with the artists, possibly based astir wellness. And our hopes are aboriginal to grow to offline retreats for artists, creator residencies.”

The Homies aims to enactment the absorption connected radical alternatively of the pursuit of profit

Like a fistful of the different crypto and Web3-focused DAOs successful the space, The Homies DAO besides has a nonfungible token (NFT) collection, with holders entitled to DAO rank and assorted different perks. Generally, projects with tokens oregon NFTs besides person to contend with terms speculators and NFT investors who don’t lend thing to the project.

On the matter, Europe said, “I didn’t privation to marque this speculative. I wanted to marque this much truthful of a community. They are limited. I deliberation we’ll lone person 500 members full close now.”

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When asked wherefore she’s not presently acrophobic with level prices, expanding the collective’s size, oregon adjacent partnering with blue-chip projects, Europe replied:

“We’ll lone person 500 due to the fact that we truly privation to cognize each other, and we’re truly trying to physique a community, not conscionable similar a project. I deliberation that’s the quality betwixt a DAO and a project, is you privation arsenic galore radical to beryllium connected it arsenic possible. But I deliberation erstwhile we deliberation of wellness, it is an intimate thing. And sometimes erstwhile you marque it much astir similar clout and, I don’t know, speculation, it loses its truth, and it loses its powerfulness to truly bash what we privation to bash successful this wellness.”

To perceive much from Iman Europe’s speech with The Agenda — including details connected immoderate large aboriginal plans for The Homies DAO — perceive to the afloat occurrence connected Cointelegraph’s Podcasts page, Apple Podcasts oregon Spotify. And don’t hide to cheque retired Cointelegraph’s full lineup of different shows!

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