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This episode is #sponsored by betterhelp. Link: https://betterhelp.com/LYBCade This episode I had the pleasure to sit down with Lucas Cullen. Lucas shared his mental health struggles and journey. We dove into the podcast that he started called “Struggle Creates Strength”. Across all his platforms, he creates a space of realism and comfortability when talking about mental health for his audience. Lucas was kind enough to share motivation tactics, tools that helped him along the way, & ways to heal! I hope you enjoy, Stay Curious! Episodes Resources: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wellnesswithlucas/ https://www.instagram.com/strugglecreatesstrength/ Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/struggle-creates-strength/id1540196543 Please leave a rating down below! Leave a review, What is something that stood out to you?! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cade-richardson/support
Lucas Cullen is the founder of Struggle Creates Strength, a mental health advocacy organization based in British Columbia, Canada. He’s also a podcaster, a traveler and a former semi-pro hockey player. In this conversation, Lucas and I talk about the power of story, of sharing our stories vulnerably and courageously and even publicly, so that they can help others. He shares his own story of mental health struggles as a teen and young adult coming up in the hyper-masculine culture of competitive ice hockey. We talk about the rocky and sometimes dark road that ultimately led Lucas to launch Struggle Creates Strength. We also talk about joy and life purpose. Among other things. More at humanitou.com. ----MORE---- Humanitou is created, produced and hosted by Adam Williams. Show notes and transcript of this episode at https://humanitou.com/lucas-cullen/. Follow on Instagram @humanitou Support the Humanitou Podcast: https://humanitou.com/support-humanitou/ About Humanitou: https://humanitou.com/about/ Media Kit: https://humanitou.com/media-kit/
Lucas Cullen started programming from a very young age, liking the idea of being able to make games or tools that others would then use, or to use himself to automate processes. From his early days, this idea of pure logic inspired him and helped him see things early on when most didn't.I was lucky to connect with Lucas to talk all things Crypto, his early days and how he held on, where the nickname Bitcoin Grandpa came from and how cryptocurrency is discussed within his household. Don't miss out on hearing a great perspective from someone who was in the space right at its inception.As always, we hope you enjoy, Mere Mortals out!Timeline:(0:00) - Intro(1:50) - Bitcoin Grandpa(3:00) - Double Spending money(4:50) - Buying Bitcoin(5:20) - Purchasing Bitcoin at $5(9:50) - The Cryptocurrency community(13:40) - Conitnuing to work as a developer(18:15) - The excitement over the next 3-5 years(21:30) - NFT's(28:00) - Getting paid continuously every second(29:30) - Definition of Success(33:40) - The ease of getting involved(35:40) - The next generation growing with crypto(41:05) - Get involvedConnect with Lucas Cullen:Website: https://bitcoinbrisbane.com.au/https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucascullenhttps://civicledger.com/Connect with Mere Mortals:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/An example of some NFT projects if the conversation had you interested:https://discord.gg/5kMZny5tgt
This week, Ryan and Brock are joined by a pair of total beauties. Spencer Hora and Lucas Cullen are team mates of Brock's on the BCHL West Kelowna Warriors, but they're so much more than hockey players. The best friends have a great Youtube channel called A Day In The Life, where they follow around artists, business people, and tons of other professionals and get inside looks at the behind-the-scenes. They soon have an episode coming featuring country star Brett Kissel! Lucas is also a great mental health advocate and does great work with Mindright.info, while Spencer has a cool clothing line called Rain Coast Clothing. The guys talk with Ryan and Brock about hockey, home, life, and their entrepreneurial spirit.
In the final instalment of this two part series on the Great Crypto Divide we chat again with Lien Truong of Huobi Australia, and Lucas Cullen: blockchain developer and CTO of Civic Ledger, about the Great Crypto Divide between Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Lightning Network, BSV, Bitcoin ABC and the wars within the crypto community. Lien explains the history of Bitcoin Cash and the subsequent forks leading to SV and ABC while Lucas explains the necessary need for adoption and the fact that the banks are likely laughing at the squabbling crypto community. Both Lien and Lucas agree that whoever will win the great scaling race will need to take a crack at some pretty good marketing if they want to succeed. We also chat with our first-ever guest on the Clothesline, JP Parker, about how to solve the issues within the community. JP discusses with Abheeti the messages from Joshua Vial, founder of Enspiral who talks about 'Escalating the Bandwidth' in order to solve conflict. We also hear from Hayden Otto, voice of Bitcoin Cash in Australia and Executive Editor of CoinSpice, where he emphasises the importance not wasting time on changing people's minds but rather focusing on crypto adoption. This episode is an attempt to shed some light on the ever increasing divide within the crypto community and to perhaps offer some tips on how to resolve the drama. Check out all our interviews on the Crypto Clothesline Podcast HERE.
Lien Truong and Lucas Cullen on Crypto Clothesline Podcast chat about the great crypto divide between Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Lightning Network, BSV, Bitcoin ABC and the wars within the crypto community. In the first instalment of this two part series on the Great Crypto Divide we chat with Lien Truong of Huobi Australia, and Lucas Cullen: blockchain developer and CTO of Civic Ledger. The question of what has become of the crypto community has our minds boggling when we consider the in-fighting, attacks and division of camps. We have found ourselves in a position where, particularly in Telegram chat groups, there is constant wrangling between the Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin SV, Bitcoin ABC and Lightning Network supporters. Even then the bickering doesn’t stop! Lien explains the history of Bitcoin Cash and the subsequent forks leading to SV and ABC while Lucas explains that we are actually talking about a protocol here, and while everyone is trying to scale, there is always an engineering trade-off. Special guest comments from Brendan Lee: the face of Bitcoin SV (Bitcoin Satoshi’s Vision), and Herman Schoenfeld: an early blockchain developer and the CEO of PascalCoin Foundation. Brendan Lee, the face of Bitcoin SV explains the history of SV from the very beginning of Bitcoin and why SV was born while Herman discusses why there is a war between Lightning Network supporters and those who oppose the scaling solution.The camps have spoken and in this first episode of the two part series we shed light on the facts behind the opposing crews and why they are backing their ‘winning horse’.Check out all our interviews on the Crypto Clothesline Podcast HERE.
This week we go back in time to a cosy couch conversation at the BlockConscious summit last year with two of our favorite blockchain movers and shakers!In 2018 Crypto Clothesline was honored to be the media partner for the BlockConscious summit held in Brisbane, Queensland. We managed to find a tiny corner equipped with plush leather couches, a coffee table and windows opening to views to the Brisbane CBD. This little alcove, walled with banners and 'On Air' signs turned out to be the hangout for dozens of crypto and blockchain presenters at the conference who came to hang out on the couches (some who stole a midday siester on the 3 seater between presentations and panels). Little did we know, the clothesline corner would turn out to be the go to space for zippy podcast interviews and deep conversations on the state of the blockchain space. In this interview, Karen and Anouk snuggle in with us to record after their presentations on the Blockchain Centre and blockchain projects. We discuss the blockchain community and the importance of having a space like the Blockchain Centre for startups to secure support while growing their products. As a bonus we sneak in a snippet of the panel discussion at the BlockConscious Summit which was moderated by JP Parker "Re-imagining Our Future" with Lucas Cullen, Dr. Prash, Karen Cohen, Professor John Flood (Griffith University), Abheeti Kathryn Pass and Joshua Marriage from CloakCoin. It was this panel that got our brains ticking over around privacy, adoption and mindset.
In this episode, Adriana and Lucas talk about developing applications for the early days of the web, bitcoin, coloured coins and ethereum. The importance of being part of the community and giving back. Getting paid in crypto and much more.Connect with LucasTwitter - https://twitter.com/bitcoinbrisbaneLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucascullen/Connect with AdrianaTwitter - https://twitter.com/abelottiLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianabelotti/
This week we interview Lucas Cullen, often referred to as ‘Brisbane’s Bitcoin Grandpa’. We could write a whole blog just on his achievements alone but it is safe to say that this would not tie in well with his humble and grounded approach to life. But to summarise, Lucas is a dad, a blockchain developer, a contributor to the Standards Australia blockchain standardisation project and a founding Board Member of Blockchain Australia. One journey however, (and one that the Brisbane crypto community are glad Lucas embarked on) was the founding of the Brisbane Bitcoin and Blockchain meetup which is now home to over 1700 members including the Crypto Clothesline Podcast.It did take us three attempts to tie this man down but it was a pleasure to finally chat with him about his life, observations, thoughts and predictions on the future of crypto and blockchain. Anyone with skin in the crypto game can tell you that the infancy of the space fosters collaboration and innovation but we have also seen the emergence of contention and separation. Lucas shares his experiences in the first five minutes of his interview stating that “Everyone comes from a different angle, but it's finding a common thread and I hope that people can come to the meetups and these groups and be respectful of each other's opinions.” And on reflection of the darker side of the crypto space he went on to say that “We’ve finally found a technology that can bring so much. But then we've got this ugly side, whether it's a power struggle or whatever, or it might just be technical opinions, but just feels like the community often gets split in fighting and it’s disheartening.”Often we see burnout as a consequence of years devoted to a cause or project so we were genuinely curious as to how Lucas was able to manage his ever increasing responsibilities over so many years (and we were slightly worried this highly sought after developer doesn’t do anything other than work). To our surprise there was a method and its simplicity was comforting “I guess the key is just try and be a little bit more efficient so I practice the agile methodology and the philosophy of last responsible moment of making a decision.” To explain the agile method, let’s head to the coding horror blog which is always a humorous place to find answers. They say that “Decisions made too early in a project are hugely risky. Early decisions often result in work that has to be thrown away. Even worse, those early decisions can have crippling and unavoidable consequences for the entire future of the project.” A little confusing to the organisational demons rummaging away in the human psyche convincing us to ‘be prepared’ for everything. Perhaps the boy scouts and their mantra of being prepared are outdated and the future is living in the now. You can always catch Lucas at the Brisbane Bitcoin and Blockchain meetups where you will find him engaging with and welcoming everyone. If you are wondering though, why on earth he keeps going, particularly in his dedication to the free meetups? Lucas loves what he does and is passionate, he has found his tribe and it is as simple as that. “I guess the best thing is about finding your tribe. The meetups.” There is a worldwide community of cryptocurrency enthusiasts and a meetup is usually close by. If there is not a meetup close by, an opportunity exists for you to create one for your community and find your tribe.You can find more on Lucas and his roles at Bitcoin Brisbane and Blockchain Australia. You can also support the podcast by visiting our Patreon site here.