Little Big Market

The moment people start defending you without being asked is the moment you actually have something ft. Marianne

We have @mariannehere [https://x.com/mariannehere] this week on Little Big Market Marianne got into crypto through a Clubhouse room about social issues in Lebanon while trying to find a way out of her country's financial crisis and accidentally discovered that the thing she'd been doing her whole life, pulling people together and making them feel like they belong somewhere, was the one thing this entire industry needed and nobody knew how to do properly. She built Keewy because she kept watching projects spend everything on getting people in the door and then wondering why nobody stayed. We talk about what actually makes a community real versus what's just a group of people waiting to be paid to pretend they care, why crypto went from a place full of hope to a place where you're guilty until proven otherwise and how that changed the way people show up for each other, and honestly just how exhausting it is to build something genuine in a space that keeps rewarding the loudest people instead of the ones quietly doing the work that holds everything together.

Relationships economy and building a strong community and a brand online with @grizzle_art

Grizz [https://x.com/grizzle_art] was a therapist who went to college at 16, lived in Cambodia, came back to art, spent four years doing freelance work for crypto projects under NDAs where she was literally building everyone else's brand while her own account had like no followers, and then the first thing she ever made for herself got stolen by some guy in India who had launched 60,000 tokens and it turned out to be the single best thing that ever happened to her career which is objectively insane. We talk about the entire Trencher origin story which is way crazier than I thought it was, why she thinks being good at art is literally the least important skill for being a successful artist in crypto, how she hasn't been to an event since 2023 and built every single partnership she has from her computer, the psychology of people being completely different humans online versus in person which she has a very specific perspective on because she was an actual therapist, why crypto is a relationships economy before it's anything else, and then we both spiral into a rant about the Twitter algorithm because we're both losing our minds over it and honestly that part might be the most relatable segment of the entire show.

Building a brand with Fries, Bimbo Feminism and Jessy

Fries Before Guys, Shadow Work, and Building a Brand That's Unapologetically Feminine. @JessyFries [https://x.com/jessyfries]went from a master's degree in fine arts and painting watercolors in artist residencies across Shanghai and Singapore to selling crypto art at 4am on Tezos to building one of the most recognizably girly brands on crypto Twitter. This episode is the full story of how that happened and everything she learned along the way about what it actually takes to build a personal brand as a woman in a space that still hasn't figured out how to treat women who show up as themselves. We talk about why young artists can't make a living in the traditional art world and how crypto changed that equation for her, how the fries before guys thing started as a joke and turned into something much bigger, what she's learned about growing on X versus Lens versus Farcaster versus TikTok and why each platform rewards completely different behavior, the exhaustion of having to engage every single day just to stay visible when you don't have a hundred thousand followers or a protocol behind you, how much of someone's online persona is performance versus a real part of them they don't express anywhere else, the shadow work of accepting that what you project online is actually you, why the smartest thing you can do when someone is being terrible to you online is just let them be the asshole alone so the receipt stays public, what happened when her tweet about standards for men went viral and ten thousand incels lost their minds over the word no beard, and why being feminine and being a feminist were treated as contradictions for years and how that's finally starting to break apart. We also accidentally contributed to the idea of Bimbo Feminism [https://dailynexus.com/2024-03-02/in-defense-of-bimbo-feminism-in-academics-a-womans-right-to-mediocrity/] philosophy at the end which honestly might be the most important part.

The rise of intentionality and curated vibes with Regan

Dive into the world of crypto events, vibes, and trust building with Regan (aka @0xthegipper [https://x.com/0xthegipper] on X) and me on Little Big Market! We chat about curated vibes, the power of intentionality and how trust flows in the crypto network. See on Youtube [https://youtube.com/live/DS0rd6vVO8A?feature=share]and on X [https://x.com/purrcatlove/status/2032156345982730498?s=20]