Speak to any musician who has “made it,” and so they’ll say that reaching fame is each a present and a curse. Whereas success in leisure can clearly deliver many positives, it additionally carries the strain to remain related, the concern of regularly needing to remain linked to followers, and the lack of freedom and privateness that comes with being an everyday Joe — all of which might be totally exhausting. Add a jam-packed occasions schedule that robs artists of the time to detox and socialize, and fame begins to seem like simply as a lot a burden as it might be a blessing.
On the flip facet, these aspiring to interrupt by way of and eventually go mainstream cope with the strain of an uphill climb and the potential end result that after all of the wrestle, there won’t be a light-weight on the finish of the tunnel.
For that reason, psychological well being, wellness and feeling like one is plugged right into a neighborhood are issues all creators have to allocate time to, and The Homies DAO is concentrated on simply that.
On Episode 17 of The Agenda podcast, hosts Ray Salmond and Jonathan DeYoung converse with singer and The Homies DAO founder Iman Europe about how the collective is utilizing Web3 to deliver artists collectively to deal with wellbeing.
A secure area for artists to breathe, calm down and socialize
In the course of the dialog, Europe detailed how lonely being a musician can really feel and the way tough it may be to keep up social connections, on condition that generally it looks like members of the family are continually hitting you up for cash and perks, and strangers you join with might need the ulterior motive of getting particular advantages because of their new-found good friend’s fame.
“I do know numerous artists felt very burnt out final 12 months and felt like they couldn’t discover their footing oftentimes as a result of all the things was shifting so quick in Web3,” she mentioned. “And so I noticed the necessity for wellness within the area, and I additionally was needing it. I used to be juggling being an artist and the pinnacle of artist relations of Sound.xyz, and it was so much. They have been two full-time jobs, and I wasn’t making sufficient time for myself and my wellness, and I noticed the results of that.”
professional tip: give your self the primary hour of the day. unplugged, doing one thing that solely you profit from. gymnasium, cleansing, studying, meditating, praying— something for you. stand up an hr earlier if it’s important to. as a result of taking good care of you makes it a lot simpler to deal with others.
— iman, the icon. (@ImanEurope) October 24, 2022
This impressed Europe to discovered The Homies DAO. “After I obtained to the tip of the 12 months, I knew I needed to focus this 12 months on wellness extra and on having the ability to give that again to myself and in addition creating area for artists to do the identical.”
When requested about the kind of wellness and neighborhood actions Homies DAO members might take part in, Europe talked about that the decentralized autonomous group (DAO) supplies a secure area and neighborhood the place creators collaborating within the music trade can socialize, unwind, meditate, work out and interact in exercise that gives a way of neighborhood.
“We’re internet hosting our first occasion on the finish of this month, the Homies Hangout, the place we’ll have totally different types of wellness. So it’ll be bodily wellness — we’ll begin with train, driving the bikes and spinning. This shall be hosted at Burn Biking. So we’ll begin off with that, after which we’ll take a break after which come again for a sound tub, which is non secular wellness. After which we’ll do some affirmations, and we’ll have somebody are available and lead a gaggle remedy session the place we will all type of speak collectively and discuss psychological wellness and totally different assets to bettering that.”
As for the DAO’s future plans, “We plan to do a number of issues like month-to-month meetups like that, but in addition month-to-month meetups on-line the place we’re capable of simply examine in with one another and simply have an area for that,” mentioned Europe, including:
“We later plan to do like academic content material and simply creating totally different content material to deliver extra folks on-chain. We wish to create and mint initiatives by way of our DAO with the artists, possibly primarily based round wellness. And our hopes are later to broaden to offline retreats for artists, artist residencies.”
The Homies goals to place the deal with folks as an alternative of the pursuit of revenue
Like a handful of the opposite crypto and Web3-focused DAOs within the area, The Homies DAO additionally has a nonfungible token (NFT) assortment, with holders entitled to DAO membership and numerous different perks. Typically, initiatives with tokens or NFTs additionally should cope with worth speculators and NFT buyers who don’t contribute something to the venture.
On the matter, Europe mentioned, “I didn’t wish to make this speculative. I needed to make this extra so of a neighborhood. They’re restricted. I believe we’ll solely have 500 members complete proper now.”
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When requested why she’s not at present involved with flooring costs, growing the collective’s dimension, and even partnering with blue-chip initiatives, Europe replied:
“We’ll solely have 500 as a result of we actually wish to know one another, and we’re actually making an attempt to construct a neighborhood, not identical to a venture. I believe that’s the distinction between a DAO and a venture, is you need as many individuals to be on it as potential. However I believe once we consider wellness, it’s an intimate factor. And generally if you make it extra about like clout and, I don’t know, hypothesis, it loses its fact, and it loses its energy to essentially do what we wish to do on this wellness.”
To listen to extra from Iman Europe’s dialog with The Agenda — together with particulars on some main future plans for The Homies DAO — hearken to the complete episode on Cointelegraph’s Podcasts web page, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. And don’t overlook to take a look at Cointelegraph’s full lineup of different reveals!
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