Digital Social Hour - The TRUTH About Web 3: Patience Unveiled | Stevie Williams DSH #766

Episode Date: September 29, 2024

Discover the real deal about Web 3 with Stevie Williams in this captivating episode of the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🎥🌐 Uncover the power of patience and development as Stevie shares his journey through the ever-evolving world of Web 3. 🚀 From his innovative Scapes project to the exciting potential of NFC technology, this episode is packed with valuable insights that'll keep you on the edge of your seat. 🤩 Join the conversation and learn how patience can be your greatest asset in navigating the digital landscape. Don't miss out on Stevie's inspiring stories of creative freedom, overcoming setbacks, and transforming challenges into opportunities. 📈✨ Tune in now and watch as we dive deep into the world of digital innovation. 📺 Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more eye-opening stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🚀 Be part of an exclusive conversation and gain insider secrets that'll change the way you view the future. 🌟 CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:30 - Web 3 & Patience 02:16 - Scapes 05:16 - NBA Playoffs 08:25 - Family of Athletes 10:20 - Vision & Execution 12:47 - The Dip 16:39 - Public Failures 19:59 - Being Selfish 23:50 - Dealing with Haters 29:17 - NFCB APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [e-mail] GUEST: Stevie Williams https://www.instagram.com/steviewilliams https://www.threads.net/@steviewilliams SPONSORS: Deposyt Payment Processing: https://www.deposyt.com/seankelly LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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You still see the long term with it, potentially Web3. I mean, I've always seen the long term and the rabbit hole is deep with Web3. But patience and development is like the key. It's just that I had to form the roadmap of patience to understand how fast it changes. All right, guys. Stevie Williams here. What's popping? Got a lot going on.

Can't wait to dive into it. Yeah. Got a Web3 project. Got your apparel brand. Yes. What's been the main thing these days? For real, for real, the main thing has been patience. Yeah, patience.

We're getting deep off the start here. It's deep. Yeah. The rabbit hole is deep with Web3. But patience and development is like the key. So I used to be really impulsive, but I've learned to work on my patience. That's what I would say, yeah. That's a good word for Web3 because a lot of people jump ship on Web3.

Yeah, that's why patience is a virtue. Yeah, it's crazy. But you still see the long-term with the potential in Web3? Yeah. I mean, I've always seen the long-term in it.

It's just that I had to form the roadmap of patience to understand how fast it changes and then also my direction has to stay straight as it changes so you know you just gotta just stay patient that's that's my thing yeah because there's there's a lot of people that were hyping it up on Twitter and stuff for throwing that bull run? What, NFTs? Web3, NFTs, yeah. No, it's a real thing.

It's how you use it, right? For your purpose, I would say. And if you don't have a purpose, then it could be a little difficult for it to help you with the purpose. Absolutely. So when I realized how beneficial it was for me and what I wanted to do for the long run

for like what i what i like to do creatively um i was like damn it works so yeah patience yeah so talking about scapes what was the the vision there for that project that's that's a part of the vision so the the vision for scapes is to re-identify myself in the Web3 space, but not jump so far away from who I am and what I've created and what I've done. So it's kind of like a playoff of everything that I know creatively without confusing people that is like Stevie Williams, right? Because that's a whole situation in itself so i was able to recreate an image out of something that i liked when i was a kid which was urban anime and make it i mean not urban anime but uh japanimation back in the day yeah i'm older like dragon ball no bro i'm older i'm to say like Ghost in the Shell or Akira.

I haven't heard of those. Yeah, Fist of the North Star, things like that where, you know, I've seen what we have to build in Web3, it all made sense to say, okay, well, damn, I want to create a new situation, a new vibe, right? And scapes represents skateboarding and apes represents the, I would say, the identity of the Web3 culture. Everybody uses apes and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah. So scapes, skate apes, it makes sense. So delivering fidgetal stuff was the key to making everything make sense for me because with the NFC chip or the tag,

you're able to make really cool fidgetal products that represents the Web3 space but it's on in real life physical products. So what is Fidgetal? Fidgetal is a new term and that term describes Fidgetal products

with digital assets meaning in real life real physical stuff that have the NFc tag attached to it which means near field communication got it tap technology and things like that so given the consumer experience when they purchase the brand hasn't been done um by a lot of people right so and everybody have their own style of doing it um nfc tags isn't like one person's thing it's it's a thing yeah people can develop it and all of that so it all depends about what you do with it right so i was able to narrow it down into like

what i wanted to do and how i wanted to do it and then developing it and then bringing it to life. That's what I'm saying. Kick off an exciting football season with BetMGM, an official sportsbook partner of the National Football League. Yard after yard, down after down, the sportsbook Born in Vegas gives you the chance to take action to the end zone and celebrate every highlight reel play. And as an official sportsbook partner of the NFL, BetMGM is the best place to fuel your football fandom on every game day. With a variety of exciting features, BetMGM offers you plenty of seamless ways to jump straight onto the gridiron and to embrace peak sports action. Ready for another season of gridiron glory?

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BetMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming Ontario. Patience. Yeah. Process. Yeah, it's crazy, but it's dope. It's fun. No, I feel that, though, because I visited Gary V's office, and he had a whole team just for VFriends, like in the office.

I can only imagine what he has. Yeah. So, yeah. It's a long yeah so um yeah it's a long game yeah it's a lot of people left the space and they're worried because like board apes are down a lot but we'll see what happens yeah i was i would look at those as buyers not creators so the buyers think that the market is down because they didn't make a certain amount of money or they flip like whatever the case may be whatever they they was into, can't knock it, right? But if you're a creator and you believe in your project,

then there's always going to be obstacles and non-believers. So can you get past that to succeed, right? So that's kind of like what I'm on. Yeah. You still watching any uh animes right now no bro i'm so busy i don't even have time to watch tv i swear as soon as i get home i'm like cleaning like walking my dog feeding him sitting down studying a little bit more yeah i may try to catch basketball but as soon as i cut it on, I'm out. Damn, you're grinding, man.

Yeah, I'm out. I'm going to sleep. Who you got winning this four teams left? I'm going to go with Anthony Edwards. Ooh, and they're down 0-1 right now. So that's a bold pick because they just lost at home. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, to be honest with you, I don't really care, now. So that's, that's a bold pick cause they just lost at home. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, to be honest with you,

I don't really care to be honest with you, but I like to see the change of guard and things. And I think that Anthony Edwards represents and, um, the Indiana Pacers represent a new style of, of fast paced basketball that's arriving. And I think that's going to put a lot of pressure on the OGs and then the young OGs too because the fast-paced rhythm.

That's what I like to watch. I could see that. Things like that. And plus, that's my son's favorite player, so I'm rooting for him. Oh, yeah? He's got a good taste in players. He does. He could have picked someone else. My son picked them all.

What do you mean? Like, he picked that the Warriors were going to have a run, like, when he was young, as far as, like, when they was, like, battling the Clippers. Wow. And then he predicted Steph Curry being MVP. Dude. Yeah. Your son's a savant. But my son is also a basketball player, so shout out to my son.

Yeah. I got to see him hoop, man. And his school, Bishop Alamany, won state champ this year. Damn. So he nice. Yeah, he's nice. His team is nice. They're nice together.

Okay. And then he predicted Anthony Edwards. That's crazy. So I got to give him his props. Edwards was a hard pick to predict. I only know him from the movie, the Adam Sandler movie, right? But I didn't know he could ball like that. But he's vicious.

And to me, they already beat the champs. Damn. So, you know. I can see that. It's entertainment. How about that? Yeah. So you got a family of athletes, man, because you were a pro skateboarder yeah skater i'm still a pro oh you're still skating yeah i still skate yeah and then you know it's just a creative house i would say

like my kids can go in their own creative direction but uh we have formulas that we develop for for roadmaps so you can follow in your life and stay on path. Wow. That's interesting because a lot of households tell their kids what to do exactly, and there's not really that creative freedom, right? Yeah. I think a lot of those people were told what to do, so they only know what to tell their kids what to do from what somebody else told them.

My mom, she allowed me to be a free-spirited kid, and I learned, like on the road, I learned a lot. And the things that I learned, I was able to kind of redirect my family with the help and support of them, learning the learning curves and creating a roadmap for us to follow to be successful and then portraying that and them seeing that and me working hard for that every day to stay solid on my path path of greatness path of righteousness and and the path of success so yeah that's interesting because when you were pursuing skateboarding, the market wasn't huge at the time, right?

Or was it? No. No, no, no. It's always been a market. And the goal for any skater that wants to pursue his dream is to turn pro, right? But I seen something different. I seen like more when I moved to Los Angeles. I seen that I could something different. I seen like more when I moved to Los Angeles, I seen that I could become more and the roads kind of just opened up and

appeared and I went for it. So, you know, I'm blessed, definitely grateful for being in this position. And, um, yeah,

it was just success. You had the vision, but you also executed it. I think that's. Yeah. Yeah. I always wanted to be like what I am now. Wow.

My kids asked me that. My daughter, some other kids asked me, like, did I ever see myself being who I am now? And yeah, that's what I worked hard for. Wow. That's what I saw when I was a kid. I wanted this. So now that I have it, what do I do with it? And that's the phase in my life where, you know, giving back, giving out positive, more like accurate information on how to do things and just staying within the system of development so you can have some time for yourself to become who you want to be and things like that. I don't know.

It gets deep. Yeah. No, it's all life stuff. Yeah. I mean, yeah. And,

uh, you never get there again. It's tough sometimes, right? Yeah. I've lost it. I've lost it. And,

um, I feel as though I'm like getting it back and how I got it back is different from how I had it before. So I'm more grateful for it now than I was when I was a little bit younger. Yeah. That's deep. Cause when you're young, it's you get wrapped up in it,

right? Well, yeah. I, my cousin Sewell, shout out to him. We, we got this joke about the dip,

right? So you could be successful, rich. You, you like, you can come up, right? And then within that success and within that come up, you're definitely high and everything feels like it's going to last forever. And everybody hears that story. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. But then that dip comes and that dip is a super low

test of who you truly are and if it was meant for you because every great great has had a dip where they had to overcome the obstacles after success to become

greater than they were before the dip. And then I think that's when you get the goat status because people have to see their hero fail and how strong their hero pursues to come back. Usually they can come back, but if you don't come back from the dip, then that's where you're at.

Yeah, two people came to mind when you're talking. So Michael Jordan came to mind. For sure. And then on the other end, Antonio Brown, because he just went bankrupt yesterday. I wouldn't say that's the dip for Antonio Brown, but I would say Michael Jordan, yeah. Yeah? You don't think that's a dip though? No. What is that?

I don't know what that is for him but what they telling us it's financial issues but i mean who doesn't have financial issues the average person can have that like no nothing to take away from antonio brown or anything but i'm saying more like i say look at Michael Jordan. Yeah. He created his own dip when he went to baseball. Right? He was ridiculed. He was tested. He was humiliated. And he stayed true.

He invested into the baseball team. team he brought light to it he learned from it he took a break from the pressure whatever else was going on but he like he took it all in the media ate him up you know like things like that like he hit maybe one home run you feel me yeah but that michael jordan one home run in a minor league was so monumental probably for him in his life that that that his dip when he came back from to basketball he overachieved after that humiliation embarrassment and people seeing a hero in a lower light yeah right and then he was able to achieve things like that you know i can't really identify everybody's dip but if you know what i know you know that that dip is real yeah and they happen can you bounce back from the right and they happen more than people think, you know. It's not as naturally. It has to happen.

That's life. So, yeah. So, like, when I'm like, all right, damn, did he hit the dip yet? You know, it's like, did he or did she or did the situation hit the dip? Because now you can see, okay, now they're dealing with really true adversity and out of public scrutiny and all that type of stuff. And then do they come back from that? then do they come back from that how do they come back from that right and then that was the testament of their of their of their goatness right because they don't make monuments and statues out of the week so at the end of the day like are you tried and true in the eye of the public to be as strong as they uh they they think you are. Absolutely. And it goes for any industry. I mean, people's expectations is very, very hard. Oh, yeah. You know what I'm saying? Especially these days with social media.

Oh, my God. Getting criticized every game. Like just everything. Yeah. Person, game, whatever. Yeah, choices, you know, stuff like that. So that's why it gets deep. It gets deep.

No, for real. But, yeah, it applies to any industry too. Look at any successful entrepreneur. Yes. Any business owner. Anybody that you look at that has major success you can actually ask them about their dip and they should be able to explain to you like humbly um yeah it's it's it's a thing can you bounce back yeah yeah and i've had i'm only 27 but i've definitely had a few big ones already a few dips yeah yeah they come so imagine being prepared for the dip yeah right which you can't be but doing that road map and and like your your your guided direction of

where you should be going in life you can expect potholes you can expect um just things to obstacles to be in your way and to and setbacks yeah and how to avoid those and don't put yourself into possible possible pushbacks yeah you know did you experience a big one when you were skateboarding which one pushbacks or yeah yeah yeah i have yes for sure i've yeah i have for sure yeah you really uh made a name for yourself in that industry so i assume you went through some some big dips and setbacks and stuff yeah i've had some public failures um i've had some public humiliate humiliating situations i've had financial situations um you know it's just it is what it is yeah but i am blessed to still be around though yeah i will say not a lot of

people are still around your longevity is impressive you know what i mean crazy yeah yeah i mean look 20 years ago like you could probably name maybe five guys still around yeah probably yeah probably more probably more maybe more what do you mean like a level of like skating like have maintained their level of notoriety yeah like reputation that type of stuff yeah yeah there's not many yeah yeah i'm a pretty pretty serious funny acting person but i learned like when it's time to turn it on bring it yeah then when it's time to shut it off like shut it off yeah you know when uh cause of seeing well i have different sets of friends okay you know so these sets of friends do this these sets of friends do that these sets

of friends do this then i have my family. So with my friends, I could definitely be me. Like, I don't have to be anything that I don't want to be. But then when it comes to my family that truly knows me and how to push my buttons or knows what I'm really feeling or know how I really get down, you know, it's just those type of things that being relatable. Yeah, being relatable to multiple different things so you can make the right choice you feel me yeah yeah because if the choice is to have longevity then you can't fall for the small quick things and you this is my personal opinion you just have to feel as though like you're making the right choice for your longevity play.

And you don't, like, sacrifice your long-term shit for short-term things. That's hard. Long-term, yeah. Because, yeah, especially with family involved too, right? Family and forecasting, not knowing what your life could be like in the future. Like you said, you're 27? Yeah. Yeah, 27. I didn't know what my life could be like in the future like you say you're 27 yeah yeah 27 i didn't know what my life would be like at 44 and i was nervous i was worried i carried a

lot of stress i carried a lot of other people's weight and then being able to see the things that blossomed as far as the decisions that i chose to make um stepping up to be a dad yeah stepping up to be a better partner learning studying more like kind of stop just doing things a certain way and evolving into like who i think i should truly be type shit yeah then seeing it work and then seeing the results from that a lot of that comes from your family and how they treat you and love you and respect you right talk to you and look up to you and those are the things that i value way more now than i did from anything else so my whole thing changed yeah so and that's growing up so at 44 i wasn't thinking like that 27 absolutely i Absolutely. I was thinking about money. No, I think about money too. I've had to change my mindset on a lot of stuff.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I used to be a massive people pleaser. Massive. What do you mean? Like passive aggressive people? Like I would put other people before me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like I would make sure they were good before I was good.

So this year or two, I had to be, I mean, selfish is kind of a negative thing to say, but I had to take a step back and think more about myself i'm there right now too though i can't front though only because it feels good to see or help other people out right it like it could it could be dope to help other people out but then if you don't get anything in return and you still anticipating some type of like reward or like right validation satisfaction like you like you don't get none of it that hurts it does and then you like a corny dude for trying to call people out because they didn't like meet your expectations that's what men do right like real alpha shit right but um you want to write the right mindset of of of changing that

at an earlier age than somebody my age that spent an extra 20 years like letting people slide wow you did that for 20 years no i'm just saying if i would have let that up to my age but i mean i was like that at 27 yeah and maybe up to like yeah like 40 like 38 30 40 i let a lot of stuff slide on just because it was as regular as normal it's natural yeah but then you know some switches people change things change money change yeah you know um and then some people don't be don't be deserving things so why would you give so much of yourself to something or someone that's very undeserving right that's when you gotta be like oh no i come first and if you mad at me for

me making sure that i'm situated first and we got a problem yeah you can stand on that like then it's like you're not really there for my well-being you're there to like you would take her and that's the tricky thing with doing business with friends because the money can get in the way, ruin the friendship. Paperwork. Yeah. Put your homie in some paperwork. Yeah. That was my mistake.

I trusted them just verbally. Yeah, handshake type. Yeah. Yeah, everybody get knocked down. It ain't just your friends. So just being able to understand you may take a loss if you don't do it correctly. And you can't even get mad at the homie for burning you you got to get mad at yourself that you wasn't prepared yeah that's deep a lot of people play the victim game but i like that but yeah you got to put that on yourself

right more so like damn like i didn't do it properly and I wasn't prepared to take this L. So now I got to really take this L. But an L ain't really an L. It's a learning lesson, right? So you learn. So if you let that slide again, then yeah, you retarded. You know what I'm saying? Like you can't because you know better now. And then it's like, all right, well, I feel sorry for the next motherfucker.

Absolutely. Because I'm not going let it slide and then that'll just be your mo and i had to learn that too and it's not easy because you might be like a you know a good-hearted dude i want to see people win which is which is great but people would take advantage yeah like the kindness for business for sure facts that's what it's about business is ruthless man yeah you want to swim with the sharks you can't be yeah can't be food yeah it's interesting i mean i want other podcasts to succeed but there's definitely can feel some negative energy sometimes you know oh well i'm having a podcast oh like podcast just like so yeah certain people

in the comments you know hating on me or the guest or whatever it is. But that's social media in general, I feel like. Well, they have to hate. Like, they have to. Everybody's not going to agree, but they have to hate, bro. Don't let that shit get to you. Yeah. Yeah.

Because if they wasn't hating they they wasn't watching so if they wasn't watching if the haters ain't watching then you ain't gonna really have too many like viewers so you gotta you have to it may sting to hear people talk about you but oh well yeah it comes with the views i guess that's a good way to look you won't up here if, they wouldn't be looking at you if he wasn't grabbing their attention. Right. Right. 100%. So you need,

you need both. And it's good marketing too. You know, it's good marketing when haters talk about you to other people because they already know that they haters.

You know what I mean? Yeah. But now that hater had introduced you to somebody new and whether that person is going to be the second hater, well, at least you have two haters. You didn't have two haters before. You had one hater.

You feel what I'm saying? No, for sure. eventually like if your shit is authentic and and you speaking on some cool stuff that like attracts their interest that you could convert a hater over into a fan i could see that yeah you have to kanye has done it a few times kanye used to have a lot he has some crazy formulas i don't even know what his formula is because he's an entertainer so he get a chance to like play with the algorithms and ways where but i think it all starts with with the mind of knowing that you may disrupt some stuff right and then you know it's a lot of backlash is going to come from you being so disruptive but if you don't like care about what people saying because you know you created that wave

then it doesn't really affect you right thick skin no it's just like why would you even care about anything that you these people talking about if you created it and why would you care because you created it right so let them talk about it you need that make sense no it does yeah i think feedback from the right people is important but in general on social media it's a lot of you need feedback from the haters you think so yeah i think so that's what i think okay because the haters are telling you everything that you don't want to hear so even though you may not like it they still telling you something right so if you're like oh fuck i don't want to hear what you're talking about it's like maybe you should maybe you should listen to some bad shit about yourself

i feel that though there's some truth in the hate sometimes it's more truth than the hate than it is in truth that's deep if you think about it because the hater is gonna hate and he's gonna tell you everything that you know because that's i think that that's what it is though sometimes like where you like so insecure or so so much of a perfectionist on your own stuff and then somebody calls out an imperfection and and you like it makes you feel some type of way because only you know that imperfection is there everybody else may not know it's there but if that one hater calls it out right and that hater was right and it's like who did it affect him or or you? Right? Yeah. You feel me on that?

No, I do. Yeah. So you need them for research and development, I would say. I'm giving out a little advice right now because if you really listen to what your haters say, you could find out what you really need to do to improve. So don't let that shit get to you. Look at it like just resourceful information yeah take your feelings out of it yeah that's great advice take your feelings out i love that i would say that you know i feel that i'll start uh i'll start reading the comments and

you know taking them serious you don't gotta respond you know it reminds me like silent jay who's that uh jay and something jay Silent Bob. I don't know. You never seen that movie? No. One of those movies, Jay and Silent Bob, where at the end of the movie, they won all of this money from doing this thing. And then they took the money and spent it on finding every person that made a shitty comic. That's funny. And they pulled up to their house and punched him in the face it was dope

i never understood that like movie part until social media like was just took off yeah because that's what people want to do you want to find that hater and pull up and like do something to them right yeah yeah but if you really look at what the hater is saying and take the hate and the emotion out of it and look at it as like development for improvement then you actually got like free it's free tools yeah absolutely yeah so the haters kind of make sense yeah yeah stevie it's been uh really interesting man i've learned a lot from you i appreciate it anything uh you want to leave the audience with or promote hell yeah so when i was telling you about the fidgetal stuff yeah i have um a brand called nfcb and that stands for near field communication blanks and i have blank products

that have the nfc tag attached to them So I make clothes with the NFC tag, skateboards with the NFC tag inside the deck, NFC stickers, and then also grip tape. So I started developing products with the NFC tag, and then also developing the software as well with one of my partners called Eternal. And we've created so much cool stuff that when that comes out, I just want people to be aware of this new term. And then also my brand that's going to be pushing a wave in the narrative for this.

I'm not the only brand, but, you know, while I'm on stage, I'm going to plug my NFCB. And then when people see it, they understand that when you get my products, it comes with media, meaning like music, videos, photos, social feeds, and hyperlinks. And then more features as the company grows. But this feature will allow a lot of brands to create an experience for their customers just by tapping the phone to the apparel or the product and without downloading the app. Love it. We'll link it below, man. That's awesome.

Yeah. So, you know thanks for letting me uh show my stuff on this stage i appreciate you because scapes is going to be powered by all of this and every brand that you see me working with personally and then um possibly dgk and in the near future we'll be using this tap technology shit so yeah we'll link it below we'll also link escapes and uh check it out guys if you're interested in that stuff and see you next time man thank you yeah peace