E151: From major label record deals to six figure album releases Tom comes to us after giving it all up to be an independent artist and business owner from the ground back up. As a Youtuber, producer, artist, music marketer, and many other things we have a lot to talk about today. Tom is extremely bullish on the future of the creative industry and our chat talks on optimism and trends in NFT, AI, VC investing in arts, and careers in creative of the future. Today goes extremely deep into NFT’s for musicians so please take time to listen back to my episode explaining what an NFT is if you aren’t familiar. Accessibility is here, technology is fuzing and disrupting our industries which is a great thing, and coming through with authenticity and experiments to back our ideas is where it’s at.   In This Episode We CoverLooking to alignChoosing to stop touringExperimenting to show results Being authentic Responding to the marketTech / Music: Rapid!Music industry change to “VC Investors” Music NFT’sWhere to distribute your music as NFT’s right now? Access!Software is eating the world Quotes “ The Pursuit of not getting a real job.” - Tom Dupree III “ Musicians have more in common with tech founders and tech start ups than we do with any other industries.” - Tom Dupree III “I am so excited for the disruption to finally hit our industry.” - Host Dave Swillum   Tom’s Links @tomdupreeiii Tom’s Websitehttps://tomdupreeiii.com/  Resources Noted In This Episode Andrew Southworthhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCajL-kaSv6A4-sNoX-U99Qw The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happinesshttps://www.amazon.com/Almanack-Naval-Ravikant-Wealth-Happiness-ebook/dp/B08FF8MTM6/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1QPXQOSZNKQQW&keywords=naval+ravikant&qid=1646702442&sprefix=naval+ravikant%2Caps%2C96&sr=8-1 Fanfarefanfare.fm Mintsongs https://www.mintsongs.com/ Holaplex https://www.holaplex.com/ Vaulthttps://vault.fan/  Waking Up From Work Podcast Links  IG / Tik Tok / Clubhouse / Twitter / HiHo Follow & DM Me!@davewakeup Merch To Support Us!https://wakeup.itemorder.com/sale?fbclid=IwAR30nyVXdpFaax0mN0CRcC_mVjNzafbMo0spds82eoG-GMo01HG6Uq0dvzw Patreon (If you want to support the show check out our sweet offers for you)https://www.patreon.com/wakingupfromwork Facebook Community to connect to creativeshttps://www.facebook.com/groups/wakingupfromwork/about/ Email[email protected] Youtube Channel & Serieshttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJeddF25VuWn8Eg3Fhy13fQ?view_as=subscriber For audio advice and more in depth music content from Davewww.crawlspaceaudio.com Dave’s Indie Band Broadwinghttps://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/broadwing/tennessee