How can the limits of community building in Web2 be overcome with Web3 technology?
This week, our guest on Web 2.5 is Robin Arzón, a former lawyer turned ultra-marathon runner and global fitness leader who currently serves as the VP of Fitness Programming and Head Instructor at Peloton. In addition to her roles at Peloton, Robin is a 27x marathon and ultra-marathon runner, a 2x New York Times bestselling author, and the Founder of Swagger Society, an NFT-enabled lifestyle membership club aimed at helping members set and achieve their life goals.
Swagger Society is a soon-to-be-launched community of go-getters who will be able to set self-directed goals, receive support from Robin and fellow community members, and be rewarded in Swagger Points that will offer access to Robin as well as additional perks.
Swagger Society members will also have token-gated lockers where members can earn rewards for engagement and completing their self-set goals. Through the ecosystem, members will be able to connect with others who share the same goals and interests and become each other’s accountability partners along the way. Swagger Society was Robin’s way of leveraging Web3 technology to go deeper with her community that she’s been cultivating for over a decade in Web2.
In addition to her work at Peloton and Swagger Society, Robin hosts a Masterclass on mental strength. Plus, she is a two-time New York Times bestselling author of Strong Mama and Shut Up and Run. Robin released her newest book, Strong Baby, this year, and she is also taking pre-orders on a new journal called Welcome, Hustler: An Empowerment Journal.
In this episode, Robin gives an inside look at her career transition from law to fitness, what she is building with Swagger Society, and her passion for creating a lifestyle membership club in Web3.
Show Notes:
0:00 Episode announcement
0:57 Show intro
1:58 Robin's intro and career prior to Web3
3:55 About Robin’s community
6:19 Shortcomings of Web2 tools
7:54 All about Swagger Society
11:27 Sponsored message from Hang
14:13 Types of goal-setting in Swagger Society
16:05 Peer-to-peer connectivity
17:38 Molly Dixon's artwork
18:52 Robin's OG interest in Web3
20:08 What it means to be a member in Swagger Society
21:20 Easiest and most challenging parts of building the space
22:08 Robin's inspirations
23:48 Shill
25:36 Wrap-up
25:50 Closing
Show Resources:
Robin on the Web: https://www.robinarzon.com/
Robin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RobinNYC
Robin on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robinnyc/
Swagger Society on the Web: https://www.swaggersociety.io/
Swagger Society on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SwaggerSociety
Swagger Society on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/swaggersociety/
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[00:00:00] Hey everyone, it's Dana. This episode is the Web 2.5 Season 2 finale featuring Robin Arzon,
[00:00:07] the VP of fitness programming and head instructor at Peloton, and the founder of the Web 3 enabled
[00:00:12] lifestyle membership club Swagger Society. Before we dive in, a quick word of thanks.
[00:00:18] First, a big thank you to Ron Passaro, this show's amazing co-producer. I also want to thank our
[00:00:24] Season 2 sponsor, Hang, a Web 3 powered no code customer engagement platform. You can learn more
[00:00:31] about Hang at hang.xyz and if you let them know you heard about them on Web 2.5, they will also
[00:00:38] waive their $10,000 implementation fee. And lastly, I want to thank all of you for listening. We have
[00:00:44] greatly appreciated your support and engagement on Web 2.5. And now onto my conversation with Robin.
[00:00:51] Welcome to Web 2.5, I'm your host Dana Hork. Today, I am so thrilled to welcome our guest,
[00:01:02] Robin Arzon. Robin is a former lawyer turned ultra marathon runner and global fitness leader,
[00:01:08] currently serving as the VP of fitness programming and head instructor at Peloton.
[00:01:13] And she's weeks away from launching a new venture in the world of Web 3 called Swagger
[00:01:18] Society, an NFT enabled lifestyle membership club aimed at helping members set and achieve
[00:01:24] their life goals. Robin hosts a masterclass on mental strength and is also a two-time New York
[00:01:29] Times bestselling author of Strong Mama and Shut Up and Run. And she has a new book out called
[00:01:35] Strong Baby and is also taking pre-orders on a new journal called Welcome Hustler,
[00:01:40] an empowerment journal. On this episode we'll get into Robin's career transformation from law
[00:01:46] into fitness, what she's building with Swagger Society, and why she's so passionate about
[00:01:51] creating a lifestyle membership club in Web 3. So with that, welcome Robin.
[00:01:56] Thanks Dana, I'm excited. I am so excited to have you here. This is a show largely about Web 3
[00:02:03] and how Web 3 technology meets the real world. And so I want to spend the bulk of our time
[00:02:07] talking about Swagger Society. But before we get there, I think it helps to do just a little
[00:02:12] bit of context setting on you and your own journey. So maybe we can rewind the clock
[00:02:17] a little bit and start well before Web 3. And I'd love to just give you the chance to introduce
[00:02:22] yourself and your career leading up to now. Sure, I am a reformed lawyer. So I was a corporate
[00:02:28] litigator for quite some time in New York City. I practiced, yeah, gosh it feels like eons ago,
[00:02:33] but I practiced for almost eight years before entering wellness. I fell in love with running.
[00:02:38] So I started running and writing my first book Shut Up and Run as you mentioned,
[00:02:42] as I was really getting my, what did I my miles in as an ultramarathoner doing 50 and 100 mile races,
[00:02:48] training runners. I fell in love with movement, used movement as medicine to heal from a traumatic
[00:02:54] incident that happened to me entering my senior year NYU being held at gunpoint. And I've written
[00:02:59] and spoken about that extensively. I'm comfortable speaking about it but movement really became
[00:03:03] key to my healing. And then I started creating what I call a superhero toolkit. So the things
[00:03:09] that I am infusing into smaller society and that I put into my masterclass and that are written
[00:03:13] about in my books, including honestly in age appropriate ways in my children's books. I have
[00:03:18] really used to heal myself and then hopefully in every platform and product and partnership that
[00:03:24] I'm participating in from this point forward really helping folks optimize their lives. So I
[00:03:29] joined Peloton shortly after the company was founded and I was one of the first instructors
[00:03:35] hired a vice president at fitness programming there and I should say that anything I'm stating
[00:03:40] related to web three and swagger society is completely separate and from my role at Peloton.
[00:03:44] I am a mean completely committed to my Peloton family. I'm just really, really excited about the
[00:03:48] potential for what we can do in web three and specifically with swagger society and
[00:03:53] yeah excited to chat about that today. Yeah absolutely. So through your role at Peloton
[00:03:58] and through these ventures that you've been doing on your own you have been building
[00:04:01] and curating community for a very long time. Tell us about the community that you've created
[00:04:07] and what are some of the common values and goals of the folks who are in your community?
[00:04:12] Oh my gosh I love this question. So I have been creating community for over gosh over a decade
[00:04:17] from my first follower to the millionth plus it really has centered around folks who believe
[00:04:22] in a growth mindset who believe that more is possible. I really am grateful for a lot
[00:04:27] of reasons for my community in web two but I'm always so pleasantly surprised by how positive
[00:04:33] and dynamic the community is. I think there are some darn spots of the internet and I think the
[00:04:39] thing that we're one that illuminates that there's still goodness in the world. I really,
[00:04:43] really believe that and the fragmented way in which we're having conversations in web two
[00:04:48] the way that algorithms are just tricky. We don't really own any of our data or even our
[00:04:55] creations on web two platforms and we're really seeing a lot of that now with the Twitter and
[00:04:59] the TikTok of it all. So the community has always been currency like it's all about how do we create
[00:05:06] content that people care about that people want to use and that brings people together. I consider
[00:05:11] myself a fire starter. I want to light fires in people's lives to wake up and have some urgency
[00:05:17] about their lives. So whether that is utilizing a tool, whether that's a comment on a post on
[00:05:21] Instagram or whether that's entering my masterclass or something else that I'm creating like Spagger
[00:05:26] Society, that is always the thread, the through line through all of it. Whatever your entry point
[00:05:31] is and meeting me or my projects, it is self-determination, a growth mindset, the idea that
[00:05:36] more is possible for ourselves. I have lived many reinvention stories. I created myself from a
[00:05:42] corporate litigator into a leader in wellness. I created myself from a completely novice,
[00:05:47] non-existent athlete into an ultra marathoner and nothing about my sports is actually remarkable in
[00:05:53] any way. I think it can be achieved by the normal average person. I definitely started with one
[00:05:58] mile and one step and one kilogram and then one pound of weights. So I like showing folks that
[00:06:04] they own the pen to the story that they're writing and I like providing opportunities whether
[00:06:09] it's through my empowerment journal Welcome Hustler, whether it's through Spagger Society,
[00:06:12] illuminating folks that they have a lot more power than maybe they give themselves credit for
[00:06:17] and then providing some of the tools. I've heard you talk about some of the shortcomings of
[00:06:22] Web 2 technology like, hey, you're just liking people's posts but it's not really a deep dialogue.
[00:06:26] What are some of the shortcomings of the existing Web 2 tools that led you to explore
[00:06:32] Web 3 and what was possible? As a content creator looking at what's possible in the
[00:06:36] creator economy for Web 3, we have to be paying attention. Right? Like the fact that
[00:06:41] our followers can be day one stakeholders and really co-owners and some of these projects
[00:06:45] that we create is amazing to me. And so the algorithms on Web 2, they're literally changing
[00:06:51] every day as a landscape that's really frustrating. You know, you're putting your money or time
[00:06:55] into creating stuff that you hope is of service and a value to the community,
[00:06:59] whether it's inspirational, whether it's funny, whether it's educational and sometimes
[00:07:03] it's not seen. And you're like playing that eyeballs game and then you get caught in
[00:07:06] a numbers game and a followers game and it's like, is this the game I want to be playing?
[00:07:09] It's kind of not the point. Like it is the point but it's not, right? There is an economy obviously
[00:07:13] around this whole influencer thing which I am a part of but the trickiness of it makes it a little
[00:07:18] bit, it's a little corrosive sometimes. So there's that and then there's the piece of it that I
[00:07:23] really have a really dynamic engaged community. They comment, they like, they DM, they want to
[00:07:29] dig into quote, the work but it's so limited and fragmented. You know, I can't port my Facebook
[00:07:35] community over to another community. I feel like I'm really having silo conversations often.
[00:07:40] It doesn't scale for me to go into DMs and respond comment by comment. So it's like, how am I creating
[00:07:47] a community that can go deeper into some of the concepts that really matter to me?
[00:07:51] So that really has led my curiosity into a three.
[00:07:54] Yep. So that's a perfect springboard into what is Swagger Society. So your answer to all
[00:07:59] of those questions in your solution is Swagger Society. So give us the overview on what it
[00:08:04] is and paint a picture of the actual experience for members.
[00:08:08] So I built a kingdom. I have always believed that we are royalty and I wanted to architect this world
[00:08:15] that is really foundationally based on self determination and a growth mindset. It's
[00:08:19] built for hustlers who want to optimize their lives and look good while doing it.
[00:08:24] So we've created characters with Molly Dixon for this royal universe of Swagger Society
[00:08:30] and after we min, they're going to have one of these characters. We're really inclusive at
[00:08:33] Swagger Society. We have male characters, female characters and non-binary characters represented
[00:08:38] in seven different skin tones. Of course, Swagger is part of the title. I say that the characters,
[00:08:43] the avatars are kind of like that person walking down the street when you're like, yeah,
[00:08:46] they got it. Like I wouldn't necessarily wear that but it's like, I'm gonna try it on for a
[00:08:51] second. So that's like the fun art piece of it. I call it a lifestyle membership club because
[00:08:56] the lifestyle is really what I care about. So what somebody is going to get out of Swagger
[00:09:00] Society is participating in a community that can be your accountability partner. We're going to
[00:09:05] host challenges and members of Swagger Society are going to participate. The challenges are
[00:09:08] really going to be self-directed. It's about goal setting. I posted something about Sleepy
[00:09:13] other day and I was like, okay, cool. How can I infuse that into a challenge? Just ways in
[00:09:16] which I'm trying to optimize my life. I figure let me blow open the doors and then for
[00:09:21] a small subset of my community we can go deeper and I can share literally what I'm reading,
[00:09:25] what I'm trying to optimize in my own life. So we're building goal setting trackers and
[00:09:30] habit trackers and hosting challenges. Participating at Swagger Society is really going to be three
[00:09:34] parts. It's going to be the goal setting piece and really trying to look under the hood of like,
[00:09:38] how can you be better in your daily life? And then how can Swagger Society help you do that
[00:09:42] by being an accountability partner? And then the second piece is really exciting because
[00:09:46] we're building personal lockers for holders. So that is where your digital assets are
[00:09:50] going to live. That is where you're going to get personal messages from me, pump
[00:09:53] ups from the community. So there's gated content that's going to come along with membership and
[00:09:58] then rewards as motivators. So whether it's early access to content, merchandise drops,
[00:10:04] things I'm building into the ecosystem with future brand partners, really exciting stuff.
[00:10:08] And then of course in real life events which I don't know, can we say post COVID?
[00:10:11] In this chapter of the world we're living in, I think that there is still
[00:10:16] really exciting premium on being able to get together in real life. And so
[00:10:19] we're thinking about what makes sense and we're really polling our community. So we have a framework
[00:10:24] for what we want to do and we have of course value built into the reward system that is playing
[00:10:29] a long game. I don't want to create a gala and nobody even shows up. So it's also,
[00:10:34] we're really going to be dependent on that and we have multiple tiers of membership are most
[00:10:37] exclusive or I guess the membership that you get the most benefit from. Are we calling the OCs,
[00:10:42] the original crowns? And that has a 3x, we're calling this our internal swagger society
[00:10:50] loyalty rewards program. You might want to call it, it's called street cred. So when you log
[00:10:54] into your locker and you log into the community, you're going to see like who has the most street
[00:10:58] cred and you get street care by participating in challenges. And of course, you know,
[00:11:02] depending on your tier of membership and the multiplier, the more you commit to
[00:11:06] yourself and the community, the more you're going to see, you know, that swagger point
[00:11:09] multiplier grow. And so the OCs have priority access to future drops and events and and events
[00:11:15] with me in real life and virtual. And then the realm of royalty is the second tier of membership.
[00:11:20] And that's a 2x multiplier on the street cred points and priority access to future drops.
[00:11:30] Hey, everyone, it's Dana. We'll get right back to the show, but I'm here with our season
[00:11:35] two sponsor hang a web three powered no code customer engagement platform throughout season
[00:11:42] two. I'll be chatting with hangs CEO Matt Smolin to get his take on brand loyalty and
[00:11:47] customer engagement. So Matt, we talked about how web three loyalty is emerging as a hot topic in
[00:11:54] the marketing world. But what happens if a brand's customers don't know anything about web three?
[00:11:59] Yeah, well, I mean, we work with brands where 99% of the customers maybe even more aren't
[00:12:04] going to understand web three. And so our goal really isn't to explain web three to them.
[00:12:09] It's to give them an experience that feels a lot like what they already know, but with added upside
[00:12:14] working in web three, you need to create things that are really seamless for the consumer. And so
[00:12:18] we keep things very traditional in regards to how you sign up and sign in, you're just using
[00:12:22] an email or a phone number, you're signing up their name. And on the back end, we're adding
[00:12:27] a wallet and creating an NFT. But the user doesn't need to know that even when we have
[00:12:31] payments, it's as simple as signing up and paying with a credit card. We work with a
[00:12:35] number of coffee shops and restaurants as well. And for users to be able to attribute their spend
[00:12:40] or redeem rewards, all they need is a phone number or an Apple wallop pass that they just scan in or
[00:12:45] type in at the Toaster Square POS. So again, the web three part is really kind of on the
[00:12:50] back end. The beauty is the customers that know nothing about web three will have that
[00:12:54] experience that seems like anything else that they've ever done and feel this extra upside.
[00:12:58] And those who are more crypto native will kind of see it in plain sight.
[00:13:02] So it's almost an if you know, you know. But especially in the market today, there is a lot
[00:13:06] of skepticism about web three. What would you say to folks who are hesitant about it?
[00:13:11] I totally understand the hesitation. So much of web three over the last year or two has really
[00:13:14] been around speculation and especially with crypto going down and NFTs and FTX and all these
[00:13:19] things people are just going to be hesitant. But I think the important part when talking to
[00:13:23] brands or consumers is to really contextualize it with them around things that they care
[00:13:27] about. For brands, it's not going to be about floor price. It's about how can we actually
[00:13:31] take a North Sur metric that's important to you? Maybe it's LTV. Maybe it's a kind of part of that.
[00:13:35] And how can we increase that? And because of web three and the ownership piece that actually
[00:13:40] really aligns incentives between a brand and consumer, as well as interoperability that it
[00:13:44] creates a whole new kind of like holistic viewpoint on a user, there's really interesting
[00:13:48] impactful ways where we can drive business metrics forward. And I think the best part is
[00:13:53] in many of those cases if done right, the consumer won't even know it's there.
[00:13:57] Thanks so much, Matt. You can learn more about Hang at hang.xyz and if you let them know you
[00:14:03] heard about them on web 2.5 they'll waive their $10,000 implementation fee. And now back to the show.
[00:14:13] You mentioned that this is a community for setting goals and achieving them. I've heard
[00:14:17] you say name it and claim it. Are these just fitness goals or are these life goals?
[00:14:22] And what are the types of goals you hope folks come to the table with and set Thors
[00:14:26] Wagger's site? It's actually not fitness related at all. Somebody might have a movement goal that
[00:14:30] they create themselves, but it's not a modeling fitness instruction. As I said, I remain committed
[00:14:34] to my role at Peloton. So this isn't educational fitness content whatsoever. This is about digging
[00:14:40] into your self-defined goal. It requires introspection. I'm not handing folks anything
[00:14:46] on a silver platter. This is for folks who are willing to do the work and imagine
[00:14:51] participating in anywhere from four to 12 challenges a year doing check-ins that really
[00:14:57] require you to quote, do the work. I can imagine for example a challenge, let's say it's tracking
[00:15:04] your sleep. It's setting an alarm at 7 p.m. to remind you that you're going to bed. It's checking
[00:15:10] in. It's putting your book, let's say it's a reading challenge. It's putting your book on
[00:15:14] your pillow in the morning when you make your bed. So these are little tiny micro actions
[00:15:20] that are habit trackers. Obviously you're going to create a little bit of framework around,
[00:15:24] but it's so much more than me saying this is how you do things. I'm going to give folks a peek
[00:15:31] into how I do things. That's part of the fun and part of the connection because there's a
[00:15:35] vulnerability piece there that I wouldn't share necessarily publicly, but I also want
[00:15:39] folks to have enough self-awareness to say actually I'm a grad student. I'm just trying
[00:15:43] to graduate and it's like great. So I envision micro communities finding each other within
[00:15:48] the swagger society world where folks can share expertise, they can share vulnerabilities,
[00:15:53] they can share questions. That is really the linchpin and then of course there's a layer of it
[00:15:57] that is my learned expertise creating a framework for folks to dig into how they want to optimize
[00:16:03] their own self-defined goals. I'd love to ask you about the peer-to-peer piece because
[00:16:09] that's one of the superpowers of Web 3 is that it really enables both from a technology
[00:16:13] perspective but also from an ethos perspective there's a big focus on peer-to-peer connectivity
[00:16:18] not just influencer to consumer or brand to consumer. Exactly. How do you envision some of the ways
[00:16:23] that members will connect with each other through swagger society and support each other in their
[00:16:29] journeys? That's been a huge priority for us so that's why we actually are building a site which
[00:16:33] can serve as a home, as a hub. Of course we have a presence on Discord and every other
[00:16:37] Web 2 platform. Our cons plan is really going to be meeting people where they are. We are
[00:16:43] developing a consistent newsletter. We've got the Discord presence. We've got the Twitter
[00:16:47] presence. We've got the Instagram presence for swagger society but that's leaving us in the
[00:16:50] Web 2 world. I'm going to have a lot of holders who are Web 2 folks and they don't want to deal
[00:16:56] with any of the potential messiness you know. I think it'll get clean. I have my foot in one
[00:17:01] world one foot in the other. I actually get it and I see both approaches but we are right
[00:17:06] now interviewing companies who say we have the next thing. We have the next thing and
[00:17:10] you know for community and for engagement and for a comprehensive kind of content distribution
[00:17:14] platform. Is this basically somebody downloading another Instagram? You know so I have a lot
[00:17:19] of questions around it. I can say that we're going to meet people where they are. We're
[00:17:22] building a website and our devs are being super creative as to how folks can receive
[00:17:27] information from me and disseminate information to each other. So we're super mindful of that
[00:17:32] and I'm sure it's going to develop as swagger society develops and as we see where people
[00:17:36] want to gather and what matters to them. Right. You mentioned this earlier about Molly Dixon
[00:17:41] being the artist. I wanted to double back on that and just ask you more about her work,
[00:17:45] what the artwork is going to look like for the collection and why was it important for you to
[00:17:49] choose an artist like Molly and choose the artwork and the art approach that you're choosing?
[00:17:53] Molly's so amazing. She's a fashion photographer. She's a motion artist. She's done AI.
[00:17:58] She was an obvious choice for me because she understood the bells and whistles of what
[00:18:03] art could be in Web 3 but also really rooted in the values that we've discussed. I thought she's
[00:18:09] just a badass female artist and I was like, yeah this makes sense and this is one of the first
[00:18:14] female lead generative PFP collections. Certainly one of the first that is intentionally including
[00:18:20] non-binary folks as part of the representation. I was very enchanted with the idea that we
[00:18:27] could build this world in a way that folks are identifying with their characters in maybe
[00:18:32] a way that's like, oh okay not only do I feel included but I can take my personality a little
[00:18:37] bolder with it. I think that's what's fun about some of the art in Web 3. A lot of the art in
[00:18:40] Web 3 is certainly the art that I hold. They're extensions of myself and I hope folks can really
[00:18:45] find that and just Molly and I just really saw eye to eye on what the potential and the meaning
[00:18:49] could be around some of these characters. You mentioned some of the art that you hold
[00:18:54] in this space. I would love to ask you how you got interested in Web 3 and some of the
[00:18:58] communities that you're a part of and some of the art that you hold and if there's anyone
[00:19:02] you want to celebrate and shout out I would love to hear. Oh yeah oh my god this is fun so
[00:19:07] how did I get interested in it? So my husband has been he's the CEO of Swagger Society Drew Butler.
[00:19:11] He's been involved in Web 3 for much longer than me for years and years and I was like what is
[00:19:15] this? It's not for me. Art was my initial entry point actually we're on the Artist
[00:19:20] Council at the Whitney. We're kind of involved in the traditional modern art world if that's
[00:19:24] not Noxymoron. Initially the excitement around holding NFTs from what I read for a lot of
[00:19:29] the communities that I'm a part of was around the art and then of course I developed more expansive
[00:19:33] view but then I started seeing what folks like Reese Witherspoon in Evil on Goria and
[00:19:38] Guy O'Cerry and Gary Vee were doing centered around community and inclusivity and engagement.
[00:19:43] I thought oh okay so then I started to understand the creator economy and what we just discussed.
[00:19:47] As a holder my BFF, Boss Beauties, my husband I think is more obsessed with his Akku pieces
[00:19:55] than any real art that we have in our house. I have a B-Friends, a swaggy seal, I have doodles so
[00:20:02] it's fun to not only participate in communities that we think are meaningful I want to look dope
[00:20:08] doing it. Yeah well and we covered this a little bit earlier but then to bring that back to your
[00:20:13] community what do you hope that the holders of Swagger Society NFTs what do you hope it
[00:20:19] will say about them? What does that badge say about those folks when they're part of the
[00:20:23] community what is it communicating to the outside world that they're a part of Swagger Society?
[00:20:28] Oh my god this is a great question I mean you are crowning yourself for greatness like you are we
[00:20:34] don't have to wait to be knighted we don't have to wait to someone to tell us that there are
[00:20:39] jewels in our crown. Members of Swagger Society know that they have it in their DNA but
[00:20:43] they want to look good for victory. I think the word Swagger to me implies that you are bold
[00:20:48] enough to self-define success and you are vulnerable enough to do it in partnership with the community
[00:20:56] and I think that both and approach to greatness is really beautiful that's how I approach I try
[00:21:01] to approach most areas of my life so that's why it's a foundational tenet of what this world
[00:21:05] is built on so it's that both and approach to how we get to our self-defined goals and how we
[00:21:11] do it in a community that really believes the more is possible and that we don't have to wait
[00:21:16] for someone else to see our value we're going to unite and figure it out ourselves. What has been the
[00:21:22] easiest part about building Swagger Society and what has been the most challenging so far? I've said
[00:21:27] the most challenging for sure is like navigating a man figuring out what they all like is going
[00:21:32] on in web 3 and being like is this right time when do we do this what's going on but thankfully
[00:21:36] I have a lot of really smart people on my team that are great allies and ears the easiest
[00:21:42] has been engagement with the community and the creation not that the creation of the art was
[00:21:47] easy but those were the most fun meetings for me because I was like yeah cool let's like look
[00:21:52] at one of the visuals so that the creative the underpinning of the creative is not easy but
[00:21:57] my role in the creative and like as a future holder and participant guide of the vision that
[00:22:02] has been the easiest part because it really is literally what I've already been doing for
[00:22:07] 10 20 years. I think a lot of the folks that will join this and that are already part of
[00:22:11] your community are very inspired by you and everything that you have done and you have
[00:22:15] achieved I would love to know who inspires you and if there's anyone that you want to shout out
[00:22:20] that's been an inspiration whether in building Swagger Society or any of the other awesome
[00:22:24] projects that you're working on right now I'd like to give you a chance to give them a shout
[00:22:28] out and celebrate them. Oh sure I love this question so specifically in the web 3 world I
[00:22:33] think what Micah Johnson has done with Akku is just so inspiring he built it for Dreamers
[00:22:37] he based the narrative around people of color as a Latina as somebody who really
[00:22:42] wants to see more diversity in web 3 that was really really inspiring and he's been
[00:22:46] incredibly supportive and a wonderful ear in the times that I've been able to engage with him
[00:22:51] in the past year so Doodles is creating an on-ramp for animation that is incredible
[00:22:56] I think NFT now the way they're monetizing or tokenizing media in web 3 is fascinating
[00:23:02] what Gary Vee has done with Vekon and V-Friends and as a media empire is really interesting to me
[00:23:09] as a business person I'm listening I'm watching I'm a holder oh I'm I forget to mention I'm
[00:23:13] obviously a holder of what I mean maybe it's not so obvious but maybe it is I'm a holder of
[00:23:17] world of women I love what they do that combination of serving their community but
[00:23:22] doing it with style exactly the approach that we're taking with Swagger Society looking
[00:23:27] good for victory but also having some substance when you peek behind the door so yeah there's
[00:23:31] some folks I have found really inspiring and honestly what Ashton Kutcher and Mila have done
[00:23:37] and Gaioceri you know I think they have a few businesses together a few web through businesses
[00:23:41] they're constantly innovating and they're not allowing themselves to be just one thing
[00:23:46] and I find that really really inspiring well in that spirit you are not just working on one
[00:23:51] thing you are working on many things and we always end the show with shills which is
[00:23:57] web three community term but I'd love to give you the chance to shill everything that you're
[00:24:01] working on if you want to share with us the projects the handles the URLs where people
[00:24:05] can find all this let everyone know shill away Robin amazing I appreciate that so uh yeah just
[00:24:11] really strong baby so that's my second children's book my third book that is out now my empowerment
[00:24:17] journal that is infused with my mantras and really my love of journaling which is a tool
[00:24:23] that we're going to certainly cover in and spagasite in depth that is coming out this fall
[00:24:29] it's available for pre-order now and it not only has my mantras and prompts but it also has the
[00:24:34] audit like the self audit that I did to transfer an architect my skill set from law to wellness
[00:24:42] so it really takes folks through that audit including and I one of the things I love
[00:24:47] about the journal is that we include plenty of blank space but for folks who find a blank
[00:24:51] page intimidating there's enough prompts that you can plug into and take what you need leave
[00:24:56] what you don't so my other exciting projects that are dropping I just shot something really cool
[00:25:00] let's just say that in the children's space in the family space we've got some really cool
[00:25:04] products that will be revealed later this year and of course slag society I mean that's my number
[00:25:09] one that's the baby and if folks want to dig into any of the concepts and values that I
[00:25:14] really espoused for my entire career this is our opportunity to go deeper what we're doing
[00:25:20] with web three with swagger society is we built a kingdom and now we want to go deeper in the kingdom
[00:25:26] in conversations and building community so let's do it swagger society is accessible on all social
[00:25:32] media platforms at swagger society and swagger society that i o is our site very cool I so
[00:25:37] appreciate you coming here this was a ton of fun I loved learning more about you and more about
[00:25:42] swagger society and I know our listeners are going to get a ton of value out of it as well
[00:25:46] so thank you thank you robin this was a great conversation I appreciate it thank you dana
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