Ep 09 - Part II | How Web3 and NFTs are empowering BIPOC creators to change their economic future The Soul Pod

In part 2 of this 2 part episode, Charm and Gary discuss the potential impact of the Web3 space on empowering people economically through the tools of decentralization. Charm shares her perspective on why she decided to get involved in the Web3 space and turn her musical meditations and other works of art into NFTs, for collectors to own and share in the direct impact of the causes Charm supports. Charm and Gary discuss the opportunity for people of color in the space and why it's important that people of color are a significant part of the shaping of the Web3 space, which is happening in this very moment.
Charm shares her perspective of what it means to be a changemaker. Charm discusses being influenced by the incarceration of her mother in fueling her passion to take action in her community in order to bring awareness to the injustices of the American criminal justice system. Charm views music as her loudspeaker for the causes dear to her, capturing the attention of others in a significant way, with harmonies and lyrics that move the soul. Charm and Gary discuss the problematic American justice system and what restorative justice actually looks like. They discuss the reciprocal trauma of colonization on both the colonizer and the colonized. They touch on institutionalized racism and the impact it has had on society at large and the criminal justice system in particular. Charm shares her perspective that reparation is necessary, the damage of the past, beginning with the colonial system needs to be restored in order for their to be true equanimity realized in America.
Charm is a skilled orator, a conscious creator and someone who knows well her own power and worth. Tune in to this episode and be prepared to be "called in" to action, as Charm likes to say.