STARS Podcast

The core team behind FuZZieMiNTs is game dev studio, Stories Studio, that Saba and Sajad (Wife and Husband) co-founded in 2018. They are the creators of the FuZZieMiNT brand and lore, and Saba is also the 3d artist behind them. The team at Sniftie are behind the robust smart contracts for our NFTs, utility token and more. Stories Studio love working with Sniftie as they have the same code of ethics, and they have been a partner since inception and launch of the collection. They will continue to work with Stories Stuidios the game and brand of FuZZieMiNT ecosystem grows. https://twitter.com/fuzziemints https://www.fuzziemints.com/ https://thestarspodcast.com/

This too shall pass.

TL;DR: With lazy minting, you have the option to make your NFT attainable off the blockchain, so you only pay for gas(the fees associated with the computing power it takes to add your NFT to the blockchain) once your NFT has been sold. cocoNFT helps make this possible! Not too many years ago, you may have heard the word “meme” and assumed it referred to someone's estranged French Canadian grandmother. Now, iconic digital images like Disaster Girl and everyone's favorite flying feline toaster pastry Nyan Cat (see image below) have sold at auction for as much as half a million dollars. Total NFT sales this year so far clock in at an absolutely ice cold $2.5 billion. https://blog.coconft.com/how-much-does-it-cost-to-create-an-nft-755d0db24757

Andrea Delucia is the founder and Lead Advisor at Life Future Wealth. She is a global success retirement expert. "You can make a living with what you get, but it is best to build a life with what you give. It is not just about the numbers and math, it's about caring and giving more. Using education to upgrade the way others feel, think and perform; especially around money. Let us help you create clarity and full understanding for today, tomorrow, and 50 years from now. Life can change quickly, what is sweet and solid one minute can become painful the next. Our aim as integral financial professionals is to create awareness about the importance of securing a retirement plan. Not just working with the portfolio, but working with the individual. Together, we learn where you want to be and with a balanced purpose-driven plan, we will help you achieve an extraordinary and exceptional life." Life Future Wealth specializes in helping individuals that are in retirement or within 10 years of retirement. https://lifefuturewealth.org/about-us/ https://thestarspodcast.com/

The EVAC Movement started with a group of students and our teacher, Amy Donofrio, in Jacksonville, Florida. Our class was full of conflict and divided, until we began sharing our stories, and realized our shared traumatic experiences: murdered loved ones, incarceration, and police brutality. We began not only to bond…but motivated to create change. We began by inviting police officers to class for youth-led roundtables and just over one year later, these powerful in-class discussions led to us speaking at the White House, meeting President Barack Obama, making the front page of The New York Times and winning first-place nationwide in a contest sponsored by Harvard. We share this journey in our Tedx Talk, “At-Risk or At-Hope? How We Label Youth Matters.”

Let's Make Things Happen. Ash has been an entrepreneur for most of his life. He enjoys being creative and experimenting, applying lessons learned along the way to both new ventures and in his personal life. From Full Time D1 Golf athlete turned entrepreneur. Lets get into it with Ash and figure out how he got so lucky. I bet it took a lot of hard work and mental toughness. ​ http://www.Spotify.com/TabataSongs​ http://www.tabatasongs.com​ Ash Crawford: @ashrcrawford http://www.Instagram.com/ashrcrawford​ https://www.ashcrawford.com/

Michael has no shortage of stories to tell when it comes to mindset. He has been a guitarist, an endurance runner, a 3 pack a day smoker, and graduate student. With the support of his girlfriend and mentors from his university Michael has grown into a superhero. He is able to complete these monumental acheivements like the running 100 miles on a treadmill, multiple 50K events, and so many marathons he can't even keep count. Join me in welcoming Michael to Stars Podcast and hear about his journey to achieving his growth mindset! Follow him on IG: https://www.instagram.com/mc_tie645/ Follow Ron Jordan (host): https://www.instagram.com/ambitiousdistractions/ Follow Stars Podcast: https://www.instagram.com/stars_podcast/ TheStarsPodcast.com

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A family-led collection of 5k randomly generated scoundrels navigating the Ethereum Blockchain. Every trait is hand-drawn by @markeetox. Many traits were created on live streams with the community. We're a husband/wife team (@markeetox and @celiapaulina) plus our two little pirates who also come up with ideas and even steal daddy's iPad to make their own pirates.

Michael Sapienza, Chief Executive Officer of the Colorectal Cancer Alliance, lost his mother to colorectal cancer in May 2009. He turned his profound grief into action, inspiring and challenging the colorectal cancer community, family, friends, and professional associates to follow his lead and dedicate themselves to ending colorectal cancer within our lifetime—the mission of the Colorectal Cancer Alliance. Michael founded The Chris4Life Colon Cancer Foundation and served as its President from 2010-2015. In 2016, he led the team that merged the Foundation and the Colon Cancer Alliance, creating the nation's largest colon cancer specific nonprofit, which changed its name to Colorectal Cancer Alliance in 2017 to embrace both the colon and rectal cancer communities. Over the last decade, Michael has become an expert and trusted voice on the topics of colorectal cancer prevention, patient care, and medical research. Michael regularly appears on TV and radio programs throughout the United States, including NBC's TODAY show. He is frequently quoted in national publications such as USA Today, Newsweek, and The New York Times, promoting awareness and the importance of increased funding for colorectal cancer research and early detection. Michael is a member of The Ruesch Center for the Cure of GI Cancer's Advisory Board at Georgetown University, and in 2020 he was appointed to the President's Cancer Panel and NCCRT's 2021 Steering Committee. In 2014, Michael received three prestigious industry awards: David Jagelman, MD Award for advocacy in Colorectal Cancer Awareness by the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons; the Public Service Award from the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract; and the Champion Award from Preventing Colorectal Cancer. In 2018, Michael was honored with a Luminary Award from OncLive and The Ruesch Center for his lifetime commitment to improving the lives of patients affected by gastrointestinal cancer. Michael holds degrees from both Northwestern University and Rice University and currently resides in the District of Columbia.

Today you'll be hearing from our friend Cory Hogan. Cory is a former serviceman for the US Navy, a defense contractor working on data analysis and information of deployed assets, created a virtual reality arcade, COVID impacted those dreams and now Cory has resurfaced after doing some serious soul searching. His new endeavor is New Tortuga NFT Project that tokenizes real life real estate offering the holders a unique opportunity in the new WEB3 Live to earn community. Please join me in welcoming Cory Hogan onto the show!!! New Tortuga Discord Link: https://t.co/gbMdRwof5X New Tortuga IG Link: https://www.instagram.com/newtortuga/ Cory Twitter Link https://twitter.com/HoganCory Cory IG Link: https://www.instagram.com/cory820.eth/ TheStarsPodcast.com

Samee believes in boldness, persistence, and having a bias towards action. He is excited by using technology to give people superpowers like he does with the new Mobile P2E NFT Project "The Fives" https://projectfives.com/ https://twitter.com/projectfives  

Brigham is the director of the Iron Games in Cedar City, Utah. A VEEFriends Macro Micro NFT Holder, Performance Mindset Coach, and now a STARS PODCAST Fam member! Brigham felt a strong calling towards helping people realize their potential thru athletics. He's a go-getter including showing up at CrossFit Games unannounced to get his foot in the door with the Brute team. Brigham exemplifies hard work and perseverance even when the card deck is stacked against you. TheStarsPodcast.com Performance Mindset Coach @theirongames Director @brute.strength Athlete @lhmutahsummergames Assistant Director

21 years post-op 300-pound weight loss. maintaining, pro-am bowler, recovered addict, smoking cessation advocate, and long-time community builder assisting others in their journey through bariatric surgery.   https://twitter.com/gabbygurl220 TheStarsPodcast.com NFDaddys.io/mint

Kevin is pioneering Cryptocurrency donations for 4Kids paving the way for NFTs and Crypto to be used for GOOD! By using his platform to connect generosity to those in need. 4KIDS exists to bring hope, homes, and healing to kids and families in crisis across South Florida and the Treasure Coast. In partnership with local churches, businesses, and government agencies, 4KIDS is committed to redefining foster care in our community, one child at a time. https://www.4kids.us/ TheStarsPodcast.com

Today NiftyDreaming joins the STARS PODCAST family with this one! This conversation is like a nice stroll through the hills of topics like "dont look up" netflix series, to global warming, vespas, and of course web3 and NFT. We uncover why we are making decisions we make while creating our passions. Co-Founder of ESPOSNFT.COM Steve ESPO Powers has been making art in the streets since the 80's, showing art in galleries since the 90's, and holds a space between the two with his storefront gallery/print shop, ESPO's Art World, now entering its tenth year of making art and community in Brooklyn.

Hello to the new listeners today/tonight depending on which timezone you're in and welcome back for you long-time listeners. Today we have a fellow VeeFriend joining us on the show.  He is Jeremy by name and Origami Own by Twitter.  He mixes photography, music, and a passion for horror stories and haunted buildings to ultimately tell a story about his art.  As we get into the journey today we will understand what drove Jeremy to leave a great job marketing for Budweiser, a dream job he thought, and move into the WEB3 Crypto and NFT space.  Please join me in welcoming Jeremy aka Origami Penguin to the show.

Crazy Carl, the host of Crazy About Crypto Show joined us to talk about all things Blockchain. He has been an early adopter of Crypto and Carl's outlook on the defi, crypto, and blockchain, in general, is one of positivity and levity. He understands with a strong community comes with a strong project. Couple that together with innovation and leadership that is recipe for longevity in this space that we are all pioneering. Personally, this show enlightened me on hard assets, financial literacy, and how we should be good humans to one another. Carl and I bond a bit over being dads and husbands while traversing the metaverse. Suitable for all skill levels! Welcome to the Tuesday Live Crew Fam!

Founder @ Quizzy- Creating Content for Edtech.  Starting by hustling Chess private lessons to get money and a community of friends that have now followed him into the edtech and content creation world.  Hiran is a leader through and through.  Cannot wait to see this guy in 5 years! WOW.  

Endurance athlete is the focus of today's episode.  Kevin went on a journey to run 100 miles in one run!  He may have failed, but the story leading up to it and how he is feeling on it now is one you want to tune into. Coach at HitchFit Gym Endurance Athlete Bow Hunter #hitchfitgym (link below)www.hitchfitgym.com/contact

Jt00ns is the artist and creator of Ink Society and Hoodlum Society. Before he became an NFT artist, he was a tattoo artist. Now, he specializes in tattoo design, street art, custom art, and cartooning. At 17, he found himself homeless, and started spending a lot of his time at a local tattoo studio. This is where he really focused his talents and became a true "artist." He has been an NFT artist since June 2021, creating the brand known as Ink Society.

Our guest this week is paving the way for the next generation of women to do business worldwide.  Her involvement as an author, advisor in NFT Communities, and has traveled the world as an eager entrepreneur.  She may have went through a sort of Hunger Games to get here and we are happy she is tribute, please welcome Beenish to the show.  Twitter: https://twitter.com/estrelasenorita?s=20 Founder: She Gonna Make It | #inclusionintech | Team #NylaCollection | Team #BossBeautiesNFT | LongNeckieLadies #1

Mario Longtin created a YT Channel which documents how he flipped his way to a VeeFriend NFT created by Gary Vaynerchuck. He's been involved in the space since April, 2021. Heavily focused on positivity, happiness, growth and love. Mario also shares his experience with cryptocurrency and NFT safety, news, tips and more! Disclaimer: Always do your own research when investing in cryptocurrencies and/or Non-Fungible Tokens. Always consider the volatility of blockchain assets found on this channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCje36yUuKBHLjqgWCiXZEKQ

Taylor Morgan is a total badass!  He also sleeps more than you might think and he says that is the ONLY way to have High Performance!  He has all the numbers and strategies now but it wasn't always that way.  Join us and welcome Taylor to the show. https://www.instagram.com/captain_taylor_morgan/

Jason Mullen is a Professional MMA Featherweight who moved away from his friends and family to follow a passion and dream of his.  Now he is living that out.  After moving to Colorado and earning a spot on the Factory X team he has quickly learned that believing in himself is the key to his success.  Join me in welcoming back Jason Mullen to the show.

Welcoming Kids to the Metaverse Curator of digital art by kids & more The 1st NFT Magazine for kids. Let's play in the crypto playground.  Clara is an artist, children's author, and the kindest person you'll meet with a tenacity about her that should not be taken lightly.  Her persistence to achieve her dream has been one that has spanned the globe.  She introduces YaYa the traveling mouse here on STARS for the first time ever which is her children's book that is coming out soon.  https://heyzine.com/flip-book/81be4b27c7.html https://www.culturelablic.org/arselectronicafestivalgardennyc  

Sal Diguardia has held many titles in his life from Top 40 DJ to SWAT teams most wanted for a night. He has also persevered through adversity coming out on the other side to tell the story we all have our own versions of. I am proud to call Sal Diguardia a friend now, and cannot wait to share his story with the STARS Podcast Fam! He is also VeeFam Tremendous Tiger Veefriend Owner. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf1NgE8S27sx5446chynP8w https://rebuildingme.us/

Driven. There's a hack for everything. He hails from the south in Atlanta, Georgia. Jarrod Tafoya has over 10 years of financial analytic experience and has a newfound love for NFT. His love for Nipsy Hustle got him into Gary Vaynerchuk and that lead to VeeFriends. Make sure we ask him about that during the Meet n' Greet. https://www.mse.ventures/

Tim Livingston joins us to talk about his vision of Vectorbots in the Public education space. He also runs us through how he has become in the right place at the right time. He likes to keep the next generation of thinkers equipped with the right tools. Please give it up for Tim Livingston aka Vectorbot Tim. https://twitter.com/VectorBotTim

This guy has the voice of a mammoth, the heard of a lion, and just the right amount of humility to round him out. Thank you for joining us. Please welcome Bryce Allard onto the show! He is an online retailer, NFT Collector, and Microgreens Enthusiast When Bryce finds something he wants to do he masters it.  Here is his journey.

We break down our tactics and strategies around NFT HOT DROPS. 1. ARTBLOCKS 2. CURIO CARDS 3. MONSTER STACK 4.VEEFRIENDS 5. FAME LADY SQUAD 6. MAYWETHER NFT 7. PENGUIN PROJECTS We are using Opensea.io , Cryptoslam, Discord, Twitter, and Coinbase as our tools this week to understand the activity from the development teams and commmunity, unique ownership, amount traded in 7 days and overall, as well as interactions on their discord i.e. announcements. THESTARSPODCAST.COM NFTCATCHER.IO

Brian has been instrumental for others during his brief career as an NFT Collector. Brian has been able to use his skills as an impeccable inostranat to leverage the crypto NFT System to his favor. By studying the markets, sailing the opensea secondary market, and executing on his plan Brian went from Bitcoin to NFT Portfolio in about 12 days. This is a wild ride, and it is ONLY just begun for Brian. Brian is currently an outstanding member in the NFT Community offering a helping hand here he can. We are all better for knowing a guy like Brian. Lets hear it for Brian CryptoBullyCamp Lopez!

Brooklyn Stabile is a fellow VeeFriend who has traveled down the road of Fitness & Nutrition junkie stemming from a childhood filled with canned vegetables.  We dive into the ins and outs of her Veefriend and NFT Artist journey which resulted in her project being in Jay-Z's wallet.  Brooklyn continues to be a beacon in her immediate circle and abound.  Please join me in welcoming Brooklyn into the STARS PODCAST family!

Tired of missing drops and wondering which projects are HOT NFT projects to get into?  Look no further!  NFTCatcher.IO Michael Keen and Ron Jordan from Rocinante Studios are breaking down the previous week's HOT DROPS and what to look out for this week! NFTCATCHER.IO https://discord.gg/abX5H4nc https://thestarspodcast.com/  https://discord.gg/he6jQQMU 

Current mission to raise awareness on Social Platforms about Addiction medicine and Mental Health. Learning how to be a better human each moment. https://www.instagram.com/lisamarzilli/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-marzilli-pharmd-cdoe-424a2892/ https://www.THESTARSPODCAST.COM    

If you are an NFT artist or a METAVERSE enthusiast you need to listen to this.  Loic knows the metaverse and how to leverage the technology with a keen "value add" lens. Adding value to a business is a task we all know needs to be done.  HOW do we do it!?!? Loic tells us a bunch of ways to do this in the metaverse and BEYOND.  Loic is on a mission to document the process of learning skills as fast as possible, and collect people's life stories from all over the world.  Life is abundant. Instagram - TellMeWRLD

Adam Souza's father has been the head grower of a local nursery for 25 years. He has always been intrigued by the genus & species of a plant, how it grew and what affected that. He grew up around Agriculture which had taught the importance of farming. Adam was plugging trays at 7 years old and remembers as a kid anywhere he would go, he would point out unique looking plants and name what they were. Growing up underprivileged, Adam wanted something better. School wasn't for him as he dropped out of college to focus on music. He has been making music since 2003, which taught him how to brand through social media. In 2012, he moved to Wyoming, selling cannabis as a way to support his music habit. Money was great, but after a few friends got into trouble, I decided to start selling phones instead. He quickly realized having an empathetic mindset makes for a killer salesman. Making the mistake of chasing money after becoming bored with cell phones, he got into car sales. He was able to sell 12 cars in 1 month, but after having to go against morals just for a flat, he quit. He went and moved to Colorado for a fresh start, finding a job at AT&T. From here the journey gets very very very interesting and Adams journey is one that many of us go down, but few of us recover from. Please join me and welcome Adam to the Stars Podcast family! #EnjoyTheJourney

Droshik guides us through his creative process, how to overcome the negative self talk, and ultimately teaches us the importance of community. Droshik makes art and electronic music for your mind, your body, and your soul! Be silly, be kind, and spread the love! Trilingual, multi-cultural, people-loving, adventure-seeking, positivity-leaking, knowledge-craving, weirdness-embracing digital artist and music producer. :love_you_gesture: GET IN TOUCH WITH DROSHIK: Website: Droshik.com INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/_droshik/ GET IN TOUCH WITH STARS PODCAST: WEBSITE: THESTARSPODCAST.COM DISCORD: https://discord.gg/sGBfRZMy INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/stars_podcast/ ASK US ABOUT VIP ACCESS WHEN YOU GET TO THE DISCORD!

Mohit Madaan is the CEO of Biterminal, Crypto ATM.  Biterminal has successfully launched and maintained 100's of atms acrsos California where users can instantly exchange crytpo with little fees attached.  He discusses the future of NFT investments as well as crypto as a whole.  Mo is also a social media marketing manager, built ios and android app for biterminal, the head of customer service which manages 5 off-shore teams, a husband, father, and of course a wonderful friend.  Lets give a warm welcome for Mohit Madaan!

Michael Keen is the co-founder at NFTCatcher.io "Never Miss another NFT 'drop' again".  He is also the co-founder of VeVewiki.com which is a collectibles community powered by VeveWiki.  He is from Philadelphia and a big Philly sports fan.  He talks us through what NFT 'non fungible tokens' are today and what they may be in the future as well as how his NFTCatcher.io will aim to do for that market.  Please welcome Michael Keen to the Stars Podcast Family.

Alissa Jordan graduated from Duquesne Law school, as a single parent, with a full-time job, and in a city where she had no family.  She also puts together community food drives, surprise parties, and makes sure that nobody is left behind and is ultimately heard! Her heart is big and we explore the pros and cons of that lifestyle.  Please join me in welcoming Alissa Jordan officially into the STARS Podcast family.

Nick Corso is a fellow VEEFRIEND.  Nick is also a Rocket League Streamer, NFT Creator and Collector, as well as a full-time student. He is also the winner of a GIFT GOAT Veefriend from the G.O.O Collection. Nick navigates through his journey to becoming self-aware of his lack of initiative in high school and how he has completely done a 180 degree turn into being the absolute goal crusher he is today!  He is a humble human that is doing great things, don't let him tell you any different! Please join me in welcoming Nick to the Stars Podcast Family! #EnjoyTheJourney  

1st degree black belt with 13 years in the sport. He is the Onnit Invitational 205lbs champ, Sapaterio Heavyweight Champ, and a champion in many other pro events. Quentin received his Black Belt and first degree from BJJ Red Belt Ricardo Murgel. He is now under Eddie Bravo and the 10th Planet system.

Gemma Louise is from the UK and knew the biscuit game was a big play in her hometown.  She created the Biscuit Club all due to the engagement she received from a comment she left on social media.  That propelled her into a job as an online marketer for a company stuck in the past.  She had the creativity sucked out of her!  Gemma made the bold decision to move on from that company and realized her true calling was creating.  Please join me in welcoming Gemma Louise to the Stars Podcast family!  #EnjoyTheJourney

I used to tear up the competition. I used to dog on them and make fun of their technology or their features. I used to try to win because the other guy sucked. I didn't sell very much by doing that. I didn't understand why the customer couldn't see how superior my product was to the comps. Then I started blaming the customers. I started thinking they were stupid or something. How could they not see what I saw in my solutions? ... WORST SALES GUY EVER ... I cannot pin point where I heard the saying from but I remember the saying " If you are helping others make money then you never have to worry about money". This is part of it, but not the full picture. However, this is where I started to have success. I started to slash prices and give discounts to beat the other guys. I would go out of my way to try and save them money. That is how I got my opportunities. I saved bottom line dollars. From there I created relationships by ALWAYS being available, ALWAYS changing my schedule to fit their needs, and ALWAYS being transparent with the customer. Sometimes I was too transparent, but I figured give them the information and they can make the decisions themselves. By being authentic in my interactions with them they started to gain trust in me. I stuck it out for years like this. I didn't make hardly any money the first few years in my career. I made enough to live decent enough, BUT there was something bigger at play here. I was starting to enjoy the pursuit of new business. I welcomed the competition because I started to gain and understanding about my customers NEEDS and DESIRES because I was listening to them more than SELLING them. I was creating bonds with them. I was creating a deeper connection to them. I was not doing it because i was trying to manipulate them. Some of them still never bought from me. A lot of them did, but some still do not buy ANYTHING from me. Granted I do not spend a lot of energy on those accounts, but I sort of know why. The OTHER guy already created those relationships there and they are winning that battle. I stay connected though, in case they retire or they just cant meet one of those needs. Being a SOLID number 2 option is better than nothing at all sometimes. Getting to that level took about 4 years to accomplish. I went to the trade shows and did trainings for the up and coming talent for free for years. I put myself out there not gaining anything except knowledge about the customers I was serving. That knowledge helped me in my delivery and my approach to my customers. You know what i figured out ... they're just normal people with bosses that want certain things out of them. They are NO DIFFERENT than I am. They have goals in their job. Maybe I can meet that, maybe I can't. Maybe my competitor does it better. HOWEVER - By sticking to my plan of learning more about the customers NEEDS I am now able to help them, guide them, protect them, and they trust me more now. The last couple years of my business has been amazing, but I had to be in the business for YEARS before I was comfortable being able to "challenge" the customers and have that be respected. If I would have tried that early on then I would have had NO CLUE what I was talking about. This all came from TIME IN THE TRENCHES! I put the time in because I wanted to succeed at this thing. I wanted it more than I wanted the money. I wanted to be a resource more than a salesman. WHEN THAT transition happened I transitioned into more money somehow! Caring and being a genuine human being matters in the business world. CUT THROAT tactics are short term thinking. I want to have passive income so I can focus on GROWING business than worrying about where the next sale is coming from. In order to do that, I have to care about my business and the people's lives that are effected as a result. This is how I am winning business. I care a whole hell of a lot about people and their lives.

There are times in my life where I have been ALL in on something for literally 2 seconds, told everyone about it and then looked so foolish on my exit strategy (if there is one). I think I have told you about my cell phone experience in High School. Well after the cell phone experience I had a car experience. I would tell everyone I was getting this car that I saw on EBAY because I was told, find a car and we will buy it. Well, i found a BUNCH of cars with cool wheels and shared them with my buddies on AOL Messenger only to be let down time and time again and told we can't right now, but we will. I looked so foolish and it was embarrassing. Not ONLY did I not have the car that I thought would make me cool, now I lied to all of them AGAIN. I learned VALUABLE lessons through both experiences DO NOT do this to people because they lose trust in what you have to say. Hmmm... FF to RIGHT NOW in my life. When I get hot on something I am loud. I like to tell people. However, I will only tiptoe in things until I can make sense of the new puzzle. My newest puzzle is Crypto "currencies" and Distributed Networks. I am tackling this with caution of course, but as I am coming to find out the hermits have emerged and reached out to me. They have all been IN on crypto for years! AND now to boot I am learning that there are ENTIRE industries being built with very little following 1M or less that are having MASSIVE impact. I am learning that all of these companies are sort of propping each other up. I look at all of these crypto currencies like any other business venture. There seem to always a "big 5" when it comes to businesses and making up market share. There are usually 2 BIG companies and 3 fortune 100 companies then the rest that make up the market. I think of Oil companies and Car manufacturers for this example, but I think the same holds true in ANY market you look into. Crypto currently has 2 front runners for those top spots being BITCOIN and ETHEREUM. Think of them as your DOW JONES top businesses. They will also have other projects within their ecosystems. Hence why there are a bazillion of these currencies out there. If you follow the projects you can follow the money and follow the investments. If you trust the team, get into their community. Get into the weeds on this. You will need to spend time in the discord chats and telegram chats. These are all places where the conversations are happening. The communities are talking and strategizing. Dont forget or sleep on the fact that GameStop stock was manipulated by a chatroom. We are ants that are connected now and we can down down some massive things if we direct ALL our energy at a target. ALSO- Once you dive deeper into the projects you will find out that they are mimicking systems already in place by traditional institutions. T hey are not recreating the wheel, just adapting for the virtual online world we are currently residing in. I urge you all to do more research into this stuff, but I feel like there is some REAL money to be made if you stop watching the news and sports for a couple weeks and dive in here. Dive into the research, and then dive into the investments if you feel like you can. OH AND GET ON THE GARYVEE VEEFREINDS DISCORD. This community is just like ours, hard working humble, and kind. The smartest of attributes.   or join my discord : https://discord.gg/TEJDe2qg   Here is where I am getting my info from:   https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/ https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/103874/eth2-staking-protocol-lido-raises-73-million-paradigm https://research.lido.fi/t/proposal-ldo-treasury-diversification-part-2/506 Three Arrows Capital DeFiance Capital Jump Trading Alameda Research iFinex Dragonfly Capital Delphi Digital Robot Ventures Coinbase Ventures Digital Currency Group The LAO

Have you ever played a game online and bought more "gems" or "coins" to get to the next level on Candy Crush or some other APP based game? I know I have and I KNOW all of our kids have at some point. They have at LEAST asked. My life is 80/20 online to IRL as are most during the pandemic. I have been an "internet" guy for my whole life. I have always been a gamer. I seem to be more trusting of the online platforms than most. Keep these facts in mind as I run you through the things I have learned in the past 30 days about Crypto, Blockchain, Hot/Cold wallets, and Web 3.0. I may botch terms and none of this is advice to invest or any of that. I'm just trying ot help the next person trying to understand the process and why this stuff exists at all. Lets start at Blockchain. The way I understand Block - Chain is this. The sequence of all blocks that have been committed to the Ethereum network in the history of the network. So-named because each block contains a reference to the previous block, which helps us maintain an ordering over all blocks (and thus over the precise history). Think of this in terms of a normal dollar. We have all used dollars forever for physical goods and services. Think all people in America agreeing that 1 dollar is how much 1 12 oz cup of coffee should cost. We all agree. Now that coffee costs 1 dollar. Well, then comes along a person that says well, I think it should be 2 dollars. We all disagree with that person and tell them nope, cant do it. That transaction doesn't go through. These transactions are done in "blocks" at a time which are sometimes hundreds at a time. The "CHAIN" refers to all of us agreeing on the $1 coffee. Phew, okay Now, we need a market to sell the coffee. Crap ... we can't do this all on our own we need a community to do this. This is where I am going to drop the coffee act and move to Ethereum specifically. Using that analogy stops working now because this is where things get really different. Sub Ethereum for Coffee Introduce Dapps. These are apps that are using the ethereum as their security backbone for their transactions. This is where my mind starts to sizzle. Yes, we need projects to USE the Ethereum distributed network in order for Ethereum to have any value. If nobody uses it then there is no value. Which is why 99% of the Crypto currencies will likely fail. I think of Bitcoin and Ethereum like Ford and Chevy. They are the front runners. There will be others like Doge, Decentraland, and Cardano that could survive also as they have quite a lot of DAPP projects using their distributed networks. This is where I want to say this ... Invest what you can lose. These could be valued at 3k today and 0 tomorrow. If there are no projects using the distributed system, I do not see how the crypto currency survives. The currency is the safety protocol. When you hear about "MINING" this is what happens. When a bad actor comes into the arena and tries to disagree with our $1 coffee everyone up the blockchain is referred back to in real time as a witness that we are still at $1 coffee. The next node down from Mr. $2 coffee writes a new protocol saying ... Hey I just caught $2 coffee and kicks out that $2 coffee node from the chain and is rewarded with ethereum. That node just mined cryptocurrency. If you are a trusted node and can compute these blockchains against the SMART contract correctly then you earn Ethereum as your payment. Now on to NFT or Non-Fungible Tokens These are the easiest to understand in my opinion. Those apps we all use to pass the time and crush candy ... well the coins you buy to buy "in app purchases" are NFT's (non fungible tokens". The coins have ZERO value if we do not play the game. Same goes for any NFT project. The Art is an afterthought of the actual project in my opinion. yes there will be some jackson pollock caliber NFT that have value just because they're from Beeple and everyone wants one, but that doesn't happen often. Remember that. Think of your beanie babies. Just as much as you lost interest in them, so did the market. We trade our fiat currency (thats fancy for dollar bills" for those coins. In order for that transfer to occur there needs to be a transaction between the game developers and our banks. IN ORDER FOR THAT TRANSACTION TO HAPPEN THE NETWORK MUST BE TRUSTWORTHY. BLOCKCHAIN is designed to be more secure and fair to all players in the world for a few reasons but most notably CENTRALIZED v. DISTRIBUTED networks. Here is the key distinction between Paypal and say ... Ethereum PayPal has a centralized system where PayPal carries the burden of keeping all of the keys to data and transactions at a central system. This is good for transaction speed but not so much for security as the "central" system has a single source to crack the code. This Centralized system can also censor data from being transferred. Ethereum is a Distributed system. yes there is 1 ultimate "smart" contract that we all build from as nodes. There is no personal data stored in the transaction, just the transaction. It is also cryptographically assorted through the blockchain process. This takes more time, but is more secure. Also - Each of those nodes needs paid each time that transaction goes through. Therefore there is "GAS" that powers the system which is "ETH" or ETHEReum. Get it? Marketing level genius. Here are my predictions - We will all have virtual land in decentraland. We will all have "hot" wallets and "cold" wallets for crypto currency. I think this is where we get our "chips" installed in our body somehow to make sure we dont lose our wallets. I also don't think we are too far off from it either. Tattoos of our QR codes. I'm telling you, just listening to the Clubhouse rooms and hearing the community chatter. Things are about to get weirder and weirder. Check back for more info on this as I am not letting this subject go. There is so much to dive in on but here are some starting points. https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/dapps/ https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/the-meaning-of-decentralization-a0c92b76a274 add me on discord : rocinante#1850 add me on instagram: ambitiousdistractions add me on snap: rsjordanjr add me on twitter: starspodcast

Starting to learn anything new is a gut punch. I feel like it is a necessary evil, that gut punch that is humility. Humility is a superpower that I want to dive in on. Everyone likes to say they have humility because its hip and cool and we are supposed to be empathetic and self aware. Its lip service from most people I talk to. They want to say they are self aware and open to feedback but fail to respond accordingly when I give feedback. Maybe that is in my delivery. Maybe the actual words I said were not right. We need to have a conversation about my behaviors too. Yes, they're tough. Its tough to put yourself out there when you just went after the other person for their stuff. Thats the point! That humility breeds more humility. That part BREEDS GOOD CONVERSATION. We get to the ROOT CAUSE! In business we call this a root cause analysis. Some comapnies call it "lessons learned" or "post op" or "tailgate meeting". I'm sure you can fill in the gaps I missed there. The only way we learn about each other and create trust is by being vulnerable. In that vulnerability we let the other person know that we are just as human as they are. I would not go out of my way to make a mistake and then call attention to it, that is just manipulation. However, I will call out a MINOR mistake I have made to do two things. First it lets them know I am looking at the details. SOmethign I am not great at. FOr you long time listeners, you know that I am the WORST at details. Us 100MPH entrepreneur type see a new goal to accomplish sometimes before we can get that first one completely across teh finish line. It happens. Pointing out that small detail starts that relationship. That small detail would have KILLED me early in my career. I would have sat there and thought to myself that this person will think I am an idiot if they realize I made that mistake. THEN i would sit there and worry that they were thinking that. INSTEAD of living in the WHAT IF world, we start living in the world where those mistakes are little gold nuggets of trust. I think of my mistakes now as opporutnities. not only an opportuntiy for me to learn and to build a relationship with a new customer/friend/lover. Be careful with your work. Be careful with your words. However, when we do make a mistake just make sure you look in the mirror first before you start pointing fingers. Extreme ownership by JOcko WIllink is a great tool I talk about often. Another tool is the production "Into the Woods". Recently we went to a local high school to watch the production be put on by these fearless high school students. Seriously, they were fantastic. Sure they could have used work, but they're high school kids and they killed it in my book. The story is a mashup of Cinderella, Jack and the Bean Stalk and Little Red Riding Hood. See they all needed something from one another, but didn't know it until they went into the woods. This is classic hero journey as we know from Steven Pressfield's work i have talked about before. Once they all meet one another though a series of wild circumstances and a crazy old man they end up making a huge mistake that they all have a part in creating. There is a number where they all blame each other, but realize quickly they all had a part in the mistake and learn to live with it because they OWN their part. I also heard another example yesterday because of the Ben Askren and Jake Paul MMA matchup coming up. The interviewer asks what do you think about the haters out there Jake? Jake said " I think i'm an elite level fighter, they think I am a joke. I am somewhere in the middle I would guess. BUt we will find out when we fight how good i really am. ". EVen Jake Paul can win me over with some humility. Shout out to my brothers and sisters at Monarch BJJ who are competing tomorrow at Grappling INdustries. We have a DEEP crew coming at you tomorrow and we are all coming for GOLD chains! Shout out to ValorPDS for the most professsional self defense in the game. We are in Meadville and Grove City featuring Kickboxing, Krav Maga, and Jiu Jitsu. We also offer Tae Kwon Do for adults and Kids! Come check us out the first class is always free! Shout out to Fuzzy Monkey Coffee for always having the freshest roasts from the finest beans. Squirrel monkey is still my favorite but they have that Spider Monkey if you are feeling like a darker roast is your flavor! STARSPOD15 for 15% off at checkout! #ENJOYTHEJOURNEY