Discuss to any musician who has “made it,” they usually’ll say that attaining fame is each a present and a curse. Whereas success in leisure can clearly convey many positives, it additionally carries the stress to remain related, the concern of continually needing to remain related to followers, and the lack of freedom and privateness that comes with being a daily Joe — all of which will be completely 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 could be a blessing.

On the flip facet, these aspiring to interrupt by way of and eventually go mainstream take care of the stress of an uphill climb and the potential consequence that after all of the wrestle, there may not be a lightweight on the finish of the tunnel.

Because of this, psychological well being, wellness and feeling like one is plugged right into a group 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 convey artists collectively to give attention to wellbeing.

A protected house 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 troublesome it may be to keep up social connections, provided that typically it looks as if relations are consistently hitting you up for cash and perks, and strangers you join with may need the ulterior motive of getting particular advantages due to their new-found good friend’s fame.

“I do know a variety of artists felt very burnt out final yr and felt like they couldn’t discover their footing oftentimes as a result of every little thing was shifting so quick in Web3,” she mentioned. “And so I noticed the necessity for wellness within the house, and I additionally was needing it. I used to be juggling being an artist and the top of artist relations of Sound.xyz, and it was quite a bit. They had been two full-time jobs, and I wasn’t making sufficient time for myself and my wellness, and I noticed the consequences 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. rise up an hr earlier if it’s a must to. as a result of taking good care of you makes it a lot simpler to maintain others.

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

This impressed Europe to discovered The Homies DAO. “Once I obtained to the tip of the yr, I knew I wished to focus this yr on wellness extra and on with the ability to give that again to myself and in addition creating house for artists to do the identical.”

When requested about the kind of wellness and group actions Homies DAO members might take part in, Europe talked about that the decentralized autonomous group (DAO) supplies a protected house and group the place creators collaborating within the music trade can socialize, unwind, meditate, work out and interact in exercise that gives a way of group.

“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 can 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 are able to all type of speak collectively and speak about psychological wellness and totally different assets to bettering that.”

As for the DAO’s future plans, “We plan to do a couple 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 test 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 convey extra individuals on-chain. We need to create and mint initiatives by way of our DAO with the artists, perhaps primarily based round wellness. And our hopes are later to develop to offline retreats for artists, artist residencies.”

The Homies goals to place the give attention to individuals as an alternative of the pursuit of revenue

Like a handful of the opposite crypto and Web3-focused DAOs within the house, The Homies DAO additionally has a nonfungible token (NFT) assortment, with holders entitled to DAO membership and varied different perks. Usually, initiatives with tokens or NFTs additionally must cope with worth speculators and NFT buyers who don’t contribute something to the challenge.

On the matter, Europe mentioned, “I didn’t need to make this speculative. I wished to make this extra so of a group. They’re restricted. I believe we’ll solely have 500 members whole proper now.”

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When requested why she’s not presently involved with flooring costs, rising the collective’s measurement, and even partnering with blue-chip initiatives, Europe replied:

“We’ll solely have 500 as a result of we actually need to know one another, and we’re actually attempting to construct a group, not similar to a challenge. I believe that’s the distinction between a DAO and a challenge, is you need as many individuals to be on it as doable. However I believe after we consider wellness, it’s an intimate factor. And typically while you make it extra about like clout and, I don’t know, hypothesis, it loses its reality, and it loses its energy to essentially do what we need 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 total 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 exhibits!

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