Curious Conversations with Paisley Heart

#18 Are Open Relating and Web 3 the Same? |w/ Victoria Redbard, Dane Tomas & Rossco Paddison

Dane Tomas has been described as a “rising occult star”. He’s a uniquely positioned individual who sits at the crossroads of media, entrepreneurship, creativity and ritual magick. He recently published a short free book called “Probably Nothing” which provides artists and spiritual entrepreneurs a super quick introduction to the world of NFTs and Web 3.0. Rossco Paddison is CEO of SyncDAO and lead trainer at the New Money Institute, and is considered to be a thought leader on open finance, DAOs, DeFi, and solving real problems with blockchain technology. After 15 years of entrepreneurship across the real estate, coaching and tech sectors, Rossco has dedicated his life to helping people liberate their finance through participating in the world of decentralised finance and becoming their own bank. Rossco was one of the world’s earliest users of DeFi and immediately knew he had discovered a freedom technology that would lead to Web 3.0, mass adoption of the blockchain for the betterment of society. After speaking in over 23 countries to over 250,000 people and closely working with over 10,000 investors, Rossco has created a clear strategy to enable safe and secure returns from portfolios that balance stable and volatile cryptocurrency assets. A veteran keynote speaker, Rossco’s talks are refreshing, engaging and designed to help audiences think deeper about what’s possible. His experience as both a DeFi startup founder and a Crypto educator gives him a clear set of mental models to help people understand how to avoid volatile losses and increase stable, consistent results investing in crypto assets.

#17 Personal Development Meets NFTs | w/ Victoria Redbard, Ben Slater & Atlas Talisman

If you’re in the Personal Development space and interested in crypto then you’ve likely heard these two names: Ben Slater and Atlas Talisman. In this episode Paisley brings along his business partner in the Oblivion project Victoria Redbard to sit down with the legendary Ben Slater who made $1 million in August 2021 on NFTs and runs ‘The Circle’ an investor group for NFTs that both Victoria and I are a part of. As well as the incredible Atlas Talisman who is a web 3 integrator and consultant who is contributing to some of the gamification of the Oblivion project. Bringing these two minds together really allowed for us to hear some simplification of what this space is about and led to some interesting dialogue about the cross over between the personal development and crypto world and what we all see as the future of business for content creators. After this chat I don’t think this will be the last time you see Atlas and Ben in the same space.

#16 Queer Safe Parties | w/ Jonny Seymour, Kat Dopper, & Kelly Lovemonster

Jonny Seymour Jonny Seymour is a non binary homosexual, music producer, sound stylist, activist, agathist, community builder and collaborator. They work with artists & institutions across many disciplines including dance, film, fashion, theatre, song & experimental art forms. They produce music with Paul Mac as stereogamous and have worked with artists such as Yaeji, Electric Fields, George Michael, Kylie, Grace Jones, LCD Sound System, RÜFÜS, Sia, The Presets, Brendan Maclean, Jamaica Moana, The Working Bitches and Shaun J Wright. They have performed at major festivals (remember them?) including Glastonbury, Burning Man, Sydney Mardi Gras, pride festivals from Hobart to Helsinki as well as iconic clubbing institutions Berghain & Horse Meat Disco. They are music directors for Sydney Fashion Week & Melbourne Fashion Festival and sound tracked runways and parades  in London, NYC, Paris and Barcelona. They have collaborated with designers Jenny Kee, Romance Was Born, Akira Isogawa, Philip Treacy, Mary Katrantzou, Carla Zampatti and several more for the past twenty years. They are resident at Queerbourhood, a weekly LGBTIQA performance art night at The Bearded Tit now on its 6th year of bringing light and love to nightlife cultures.they are cofounders (with Dj gemma)  of Club Kooky, the intergenerational iconic queerdo community gathering, now on its 26th year. They were resident at Kens At Kensington, the legendary gay bath house and released 3 mixed “gay make out album” compilations of queer producers and bands. They collaborate with cultural bodies & institutions such as The Powerhouse Museum, Performance Space, Sydney Mardi Gras, Carriageworks, National Gallery of Victoria, Force Majeure, The Red Rattler and Sydney Theatre. Their mission is to collaborate in all mediums, sharing platforms for inducing positivity & resonating joy vibe for all. -- Kat Dopper Kat Dopper is a queer arts practitioner living and working in Sydney. The most recent role was the 2020 Creative Director of Sydney Mardi Gras 2020. Kat is Creative Director & Founder of Heaps Gay, a successful arts organisation and media platform which she launched in 2013. Kat sits on a number of cultural advisory panels including the City Of Sydney and recently Kat was on the core team to pitch for World Pride Sydney in 2023 in Athens. Kat’s other experience lies in the music and youth market and has over a decade of experience in agency land and freelance working on creative campaigns. This stems brands such as Red Bull Music, FBi Radio, Splendour In The Grass, Absolut Vodka,  Junkee Media, MTV, Electronic Music Conference, Semi Permanent, Karla Spetic, Westpac & Cake Wines +++ -- Kelly Lovemonster You can often find self-proclaimed international party dad and nightlife producer Kelly Lovemonster twirling on the dance floor in a pastel pink thong and cowboy hat. The brains behind Sydney’s cheekiest event Leak Your Own Nudes, a queer undie dance party and San Francisco’s Swagger Like US, an arts hub and daytime event featuring emerging QTPOC artists. Lovemonster is a child of the night with a passion for music and performance.

#13 Bridging Queerness & Spirituality |w/ Kathryn Rollins, Hannah Marko & Tirrell Cherry

After coming into his queerness through spiritual exploration, Paisley gathers a few like-minded friends to talk about their path of queerness and spirituality. Kathryn Rollins, Tirrell Cherry & Hanna Marko join Curious Conversations to unpack their where they find themselves on the queer spectrum, becoming embodiment practitioners in the LGBTQIA+ community, using divining tools and so much more. Kathryn Rollins is an Australian artist and intuitive based in Bali, Indonesia. She spends her days designing and building websites, dancing, creating art in the form of music, poetry, and visuals, and sharing her wisdom online. A great experimenter, she longs to experience all that life has to offer and master many skills, which, in this moment, is pole dancing. Prior to this current phase of web developing, dancing, and art creating, she ran an online coaching business called Secure & In Love which helped people heal themselves on a body and energy level and resolve insecure attachment issues. Her online courses have explored a range of topics including pleasure, body love, neo-Tantric wisdom, erotic dance, magic and intuitive gifts, and the energetics of relationships. Everything she creates seems to end up an artistic intuitively guided adventure into the body and the self. Her psychic gifts give her a unique insight into human beings that she often shares on her social media. She’s a queer woman loving woman who flows freely on the gender spectrum, allows herself a wide range of expression, and has a podcast called Queer & Clear which is out now. Tirrell is a mindset and manifestation coach here to help others rewire subconscious beliefs that are holding them back from clarity, peace and the confidence to create a life on their own terms. He is your no-nonsense friend that guides you towards self-empowerment; always the voice of reason that says, "you can do anything you want to do, let's get to it". Han Marko aka Hanarchy is an introverted - extroverted queer multi-potentialite. An entrepreneur, photographer, rapper, pisces, party with purpose advocator, artist and soon to be breath work facilitator. She thrives on psychotherapy, playing basketball, creativity and her connection with the water spirit

#12 Performing Authenticity | w/ ALPHAMAMA & Brendan Maclean

On today's episode, Paisley linked up with two of his favourite local multidisciplinary artists to talk about the diversity of authenticity, living life as performance and shifting culture with our art. Brendan Maclean & ALPHAMAMA share about their journeys into artistry, how to balance all their different artistic expressions + learning when to leave the mask on and when to take it off. Brendan Maclean is a self-managed singer and songwriter with Universal Publishing. Signed in 2014 after their debut single Stupid (Spotify: 6,000,000 streams) cracked through to a young, very online, market. Maclean followed this up with funbang1 in 2016.The electro-pop record won overAustralian audiences debuting #2 in the Australian Indenpendent Album Chartsand finding fresh international ears with three tracks synced to Nextflix's queer comedy series Eastsiders. The music video for the lead single House of Air (Vimeo: 6,800,000 streams) caused global controversy for its graphic content and was later crowned in theTop 5 videos of 2017 by New Yorkers Vulture Magazine. Adiverse and thriving talent, Brendan has been nominated for an ARIA for their work alongside Marcia Hines in the disco cabaret Velvet, made a cameo in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby and is currently collaborating with life-long hero Paul Mac on new works. ALPHAMAMA is the self professed Queen of Vulnerability. The Realest Bitch on The Internet. Passionate about liberating authentic human expression in all the ways. Music, Sex and Spirituality are her playground. Growing up as the daughter of an Indonesian preacher and a European South African Nurse, she is naturally gifted as a healer and truth speaker. She is an Advanced Spiral Practitioner and an experienced facilitator of various programs, workshops and retreats.  With venomous rap verses and womb deep wailing, her voice has been described as Honey Fire to soothe and ignite the soul. She is here to initiate you into fierce vulnerability and the authority of You.