Women 3.0: All Things Web3 - Issue #2

This week’s all about Keeping Up with “The Joneses”… and apparently now The Jonases too. (Check out the reference below if you had your head in the buffalo chicken dip and just so happened to miss this specific Super Bowl commercial. *Note: I don’t blame you for having your eyes on the prize. My brother-in-law’s buff-chick dip was ??.)

As it relates to Web3 – things are moving at lightning speed. There’s constantly new projects dropping (some of which you’ll see below), there’s new brands entering the metaverse daily, there’s our favorite influencers and celebrities announcing their own NFT projects… so many things we want to hop on the band wagon with, so many events we want to be a part of, so many people we want to meet, so many TikTok dances we want to do.

But with all of this churn,?how can one keep up?

That’s what I’m seeking advice on this week.

I’ve always been one to bite off more than I can chew (especially when it comes to a Crumbl cookie), but professionally, what do you do when you can’t switch from Discord to Twitter to LinkedIn to email to your Zoom calls to your podcast to Instagram to TikTok fast enough? What happens when you don’t have the funds to build a team??– I dream of one community manager per social channel.?Do you hire an intern? Do you just repost the same content on each channel? Do you give every person who reaches out to you a blanket response? Do you curl up on the couch under a blanket and say screw it and turn on Emily In Paris (rosé in hand) and just have a night to escape?

The first answer that came to my mind was this:

Stop trying to keep up. Don’t compare.?Just go at your own pace.?Do your own thing. Focus on your road ahead. Put the blinders on like you’re a racehorse at Kentucky Derby that can’t be distracted by all the floppy hats in the stands (some cheering you on, some that can’t be bothered with what you’re doing… and others who might not be so keen on you winning). It’s a surprisingly accurate metaphor if you ask me.

So sure, I’ve got that answer… but what happens when you can’t keep up with yourself?

I think at that point, it’s time to go inward.

As a dear former colleague used to say -?“Embrace a culture of pause.”

So wrapping this week, instead of?keeping up, I’m?holding up.?Trying to embrace the slow down. To settle into the pause.

• Pausing to go for a walk outside (even if it is 14-degrees again, gosh darnit Virginia)
• Pausing to actually stop typing and put my paintbrush to the canvas (after all, if I don’t paint each day… can I really call myself a painter? An artist? At this point, I’d say I should be classified as a typer.)
• Pausing to prioritize. Me time, you time, family time, friend time… this project, that project… her email, his phone call. Taking a step back to look at my plate before I try and do it all at once.

The rest of the list will go in my journal.

But I’d like to hear some of the ways you like to pause.

I’d love to know what you do when you feel like you’re running a million miles a minute and your brain can’t keep up with your body or vice versa…

…if you’re feeling that Sylvia Plath Energy:

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”

Though, where I have to pick a bone with Sylvia is that last sentence.

I feel quite the opposite.

We aren’t actually limited at all. The only limitations we put on ourselves, are from ourselves.

So how do we stop doing that?

Tweet me @ByCarlyLong, drop me a line here on LinkedIn… write me a snail mail letter with your thoughts.

This intro is already getting out of hand, so more on our innate abundance next week…

?? Spillin' The Tea (Or The Black Cold Brew In My Case)

BFF's crypto community wants to make sure you don’t miss out on a $100 trillion opportunity.

Mila Kunis and Gwyneth Paltrow are onboard. Plus at least 50 other amazing women. I attended their first event and they gave us all FREE tokens to mint their first NFT launch. I got offers on this thing for like $1,600 already.

$1,600 to sit on my couch and watch Mila and Gwyneth speak? Sign me up again & again & again plz!

Mic, Drop. World Of Women Secures 84 ETH for Charity So Far

For those who don’t have a crypto calculator in their head yet (I’m with you… math was never my strong suit)… 84 ETH = about $262,000. Insane in the membrane! The power of women ain’t small.

Reese Witherspoon has been pushing female-led NFT collections and the metaverse on Twitter.

Exhibit A below…

Get Witchy Wit' It. Here's how 5 friends generated over $20M in sales. (M does indeed = million)

The crypto coven is a set of 9,906 digital images of witches minted as NFTs. The project has struck a chord with women in Web3.

Steve Aoki Says He’s Made More Money With NFTs Than From 10 Years of Music Advances

He’s a legend. IRL. And now in Web3 too – anyone want to hit up a metaverse Aoki rave?

#OverheardNFT

Tell me a community that's cooler than this one. Also, tell me you can't relate... I'll wait.

?? Who We're Talking To

On deck this week for the Women 3.0 podcast, we’re chatting with:

• Teddy Kozlowski of Glimpse NFT
• Mo Fiorino of Connecting Roads
• Ernest Spencer, Natalie Trevonne & Xander Simms of the Nessa Dress
• Emily Carrig, NFT bad a**
• Fernanda Boccard of Serious Cool People
• Chrissy Cook of NFTY Token

That should be plenty, right? Nah… we got more & more next week!

Stay tuned. We’ll be compiling these convos and dropping the podcast ASAP!

?? What I'm Working On: A Step-By-Step BTS Look At A Gal Trying To Make It With NFT Art

Alright friends, so I’m new to TikTok. I think this video’s dope. I love it. Young Paris reposted on his IG to 800K ppl, we got some?nfty?thangs in the works, all that good stuff…?BUT?I’ll very unabashedly share that the TikTok version got 9 views.

Nine. I have more fingers than that. Two of those views were probably me & my mom. (Hi, mom!)… so make it a grand total of 7.

Plz teach me the tricks of TikTok – I’ll report back next week for everyone else who’s nearing 30 and just now jumping on the bandwagon.

*Remember: You’re a star. I’m a star. We’re all stars here.

?? New Faves

I do Nelli! ??♀??One ETH bid… now two, now two, will ya give me two?

?? AKA: What Web3 Acronyms Actually Mean

I’m going to let them take this one for the week ??…

That's all for now folks! See you next week.

In the meantime, do like Reese &?call me, reach me, beep me… you know the drill.