Translating Web3 to the Fortune 500

JP Baric is the founder and CEO of Miningstore (https://miningstore.com), a technology company that designs, builds and operates large scale cryptocurrency mining data centers. He has been in crypto since middle school and truly grasped and understood what impact blockchain and crypto would have on our society and has been on that mission for the past decade.  JP is a builder and has created three businesses and has led the development of ten cryptocurrency mining sites. JP shares how you can get involved in mining with as little as $100 and helps teach us more on the mining side of crypto, which is something I personally took a lot away from!

Lucia Gallardo is a Honduran serial entrepreneur and truly passionate about making a difference in her community and as many people as she can help. As a current nomad, Lucia travels the world helping brands develop one of a kind, end-to-end solutions from her development lab that lives at the intersection of sustainable development, distributed technologies, economic and social incentives, and business strategy. As co-founder of the AEternals, https://www.aeternals.io/, she and her team are building a one of a kind NFT that reflects the Amazon Rainforest and the NFT evolves as much as the individual invests in the NFT. Her passion to break barriers, innovate, and motivate are inspiring. After finishing the recording, I was silent, stumped, pondering all the ideas and work Lucia is doing and hope this helps you as much as it did for myself. 

Natalie Johnson is a leader of innovating fashion in Web3. As a disruptive female CEO leading a global company, Natalie built neuno, a marketplace for fashion NFTs and digital wearables and is a founder of both 3D Robe and a 3D design agency. Natalie and her team are paving the way towards sustainability in fashion through sartorial innovation, moving the industry towards better and more circular models of distribution. Neuno is providing designers the service to translate their ideas from 2D concepts to hyper-realistic 3D renders. Such files can replace e-commerce imagery, dress gaming avatars, power online fitting rooms, showrooms, and this is just the beginning. Join me in learning how moving fashion from the physical to the digital Web3 ecosystems are not that difficult to understand and imagine where the future of retail is heading!

Arvin Khamseh has always been on the forefront of new tech trends. From the centralized world of building ad and marketing campaigns to attract investors, Arvin took his learnings into the decentralized industry. He has a formula for ensuring NFT projects launching successfully and has implemented that across over 400+ projects. Not only does he join podcasts, but he does consulting for NFT projects as well. Arvin took the leap of faith to create and build in web3 without any mentors, trainings, he solely applied his principles and work ethic and is now of the the best paid ad and marketers in the industry.

Jeff Danley is the Director of Innovation at VMLY&R, one of the largest global agencies that focus on creating unique customer experiences. In this role, Jeff speaks with dozens of national and global brands that want to operate in the Metaverse, create NFTs, build in Web3, etc. As an early adopter of BTC in 2013, Jeff is well versed in Web3 and has a strong understanding of how corporate brands can authentically enter this constantly evolving industry. Jeff provides real life examples of how blockchain and NFTs can be utilized as well as explaining how play to earn games will be leading segment of the gaming industry. 

Audrey Nesbitt has spent the last 6 years in defy, diving first into BTC and ETH back in 2016. Audrey is a marketing leader and CMO of Defy Trends. Defy trends is an all-in-one, intuitive and real-time analytics application and chrome extension that provides traders with real-time data to make informed decisions. http://defytrends.tech/ Her first experience with crypto came from her restaurant business partner's husband mining bitcoin in their restaurant. Since investing in the early days of crypto, she's experienced the 2017 bull run, witnessed some of the first NFT launches like CryptoKitties, and helped build one of the largest women crypto communities, CryptoChicks a non-profit, global educational hub founded with the key goal of empowering and inspiring women interested in learning about cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology.  It is great having an industry leading centralized marketing leader share how she made the transition into the decentralized world and continues to build and scale at an even faster pace. 

Crypto Brando, Brandon Priest, is a self taught developer, coder, marketer, and innovator. He's been into crypto since 2015 and always been a believer in just learning as there is never a moment when you're fully prepared to jump in at the "right time". Crypto Brando has built agencies, drop shipping courses and businesses and now built a team of solidity developers and is one of the most successful NFT advisors in the space. From learning smart contracts just 8 months ago, Brandon has been part of dozens of the largest projects in the industry assisting them with marketing strategies, building the smart contracts, and ensuring they have a long term roadmap and vision. His vision to build the next billion dollar business in this new emerging industry will happen!

We are fortunate to have the NFT Steve Jobs on this episode of Minted. With advice from a friend, The Brett Way, Champ took the risk and bought a Doge Pound and then it 3x'd in value overnight. That changed Champs mindset on NFTs and then began learning and watching projects build and scale to begin flipping and decided to go all in on the industry. In just 4 weeks, Champ scaled his Twitter following from 900 followers to 50k+ and built a YouTube following from nothing to 20k+. Champ's NFT flipping and knowledge of the market has allowed him to build Champsonly, an alpha group where you can get access to the best whitelists, learn about the up and coming projects and have actionable insights with a comprehensive suite of cutting edge tools designed to make you a better trader. Learn how Champ let go of his safety net and began taking risks to get to where he is today, and he's just getting started.

Launching an NFT podcast called Minted, where we bridge the gap between the centralized and the decentralized. As an entrepreneur new into the NFT space, I talk with some of the largest NFT influencers, creators, and innovators in the space. We break down their success through learning the business practices they implemented to scale these projects and brands. Our first guest is one of the top NFT influencers, The Brett Way. Brett has influenced over $20M+ in NFT projects from building his own Magic Mushroom Clubhouse NFT, the best first NFT project, to mentoring and advising a dozen other projects in just the past 8 months. Whether this is your first time learning about NFTs or you're ready to build your project, listen to Brett breakdown how he took his passion of making videos into flipping NFTs into building one of the fastest growing YouTube and Twitter NFT audiences.