Digital Identity & Personal Brand 🎟️ Your Ticket To The Creator Economy 🎨📚

Hi Friends, my name is Callum aka wanderloots. Welcome to the Creator Economy! One of the fastest growing and most lucrative industries, all it takes to play the game is to create your character (digital identity) and connect to the Internet. The Creator Economy and Metaverse (read: NOT facebook's metaverse) are estimated to be worth $5 Trillion by 2030. Only 6 years away 🤯 Every person in the world has the ability to build their own digital identity and generate value online by sharing story, knowledge, or art. In this video, I talk about: (1) why you should care about digital identities; (2) what a digital identity is and how it relates to personal brands; and (3) how to start building your digital identity (personal brand) so that it has value. This video series complements my Recalibrating newsletter, providing additional context to the world I am building here. I hope you enjoy! ✨ P.S. I greatly appreciate any feedback, please let me know what you think 😊 💌 Sign up for my [free weekly newsletter: Recalibrating](https://wanderloots.substack.com/) ABOUT ME After working for 5+ years at a corporate law firm as an intellectual property lawyer and patent agent, I quit my job to pursue a life of freedom and creativity. Why? I was burnt out by my job and I knew that I needed to make a change. Over the last 4-5 months, I have been researching burnout and what it means to live a sustainable life while writing a weekly newsletter ([Recalibrating](https://wanderloots.substack.com/)) sharing my best findings. Over the last 3-4 years (since I returned from my 3 month backpacking trip to Africa), I have been practicing mindfulness and journaling as a way to improve my mental health and overall happiness. I'm excited to tie together my knowledge as an IP lawyer and patent agent and studying engineering with my experience as a photographer and mindfulness educator to create a channel that can help anyone improve their life, regardless of where they are at. The purpose of this series is to explore what it means to be human in a world that is increasingly being impacted by artificial intelligence (AI), while teaching you how to build your own creation system to tap into the digital economy (creator economy, knowledge economy, attention economy). WATCH NEXT 🧭 Recalibrating (Main Storyline) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWhMzDKA7vJ4SLS2e6KiPmu9mku81B__Y 🎨The Creative Act (Art and Mindfulness) (coming soon) 🖼️ NFT & Smart Contract Tutorials https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWhMzDKA7vJ55vsKfDWEBtwfj2BYxZYC3 ✨ Mindfully Calming Timelapses https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWhMzDKA7vJ4i4WawiPx0MAqdE7E8kr7X LINKS (MY WORLD) 🧭 [Recalibrating Newsletter Home (Substack)](https://wanderloots.substack.com/) 🏔️To start reading from the beginning: [Recalibrating Newsletter Entry 1: What Recalibrating Means To Me](https://wanderloots.substack.com/p/1-what-recalibrating-means-to-me) 🌍 My [Website](https://wanderloots.com/) 📸 My [Print Shop](https://wanderloots.darkroom.com/) ✨ 🧠 [What is Mindfulness](https://www.wanderloots.com/mindfulness)? 🔥 [What is Burnout](https://www.wanderloots.com/burnout) and How Can I Recover? SOCIALS 📸 [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/_wanderloots/) 📰 [Flipboard](https://flipboard.com/@_wanderloots) 📍 [Pinterest](https://www.pinterest.ca/wanderloots/) 🐦 [X (Twitter)](https://twitter.com/_wanderloots) 🧵 [Threads](https://www.threads.net/@_wanderloots) 🤖 [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/user/_wanderloots) MY FAVOURITE TOOLS 😴 🤯 The [Waking Up App](https://dynamic.wakingup.com/guestpass/SC4914439) (use this link for a 30 day free trial) 📝 [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md/) (decentralized note-taking) 🗓️ [Notion](https://affiliate.notion.so/wanderloots) (project management) ⏰ [Descript](https://www.descript.com/?lmref=Jjh8Gw) (text-based video editing) 📹 [Adobe Suite](https://prf.hn/l/lQ9DwpA) (general creativity) 🎵 [Epidemic Sound](https://share.epidemicsound.com/0o6bev) (YouTube Music) ❤️ [Welltory](https://app.welltory.com/payments/plans/main/?coupon=wanderloots) (Health Tracker) EQUIPMENT USED 1. Camera [Sony A7iii](https://amzn.to/3seSHv6) 2. Lens [Sony F2 28 mm](https://amzn.to/3TiWCT2) 3. Tripod [K&F Concept](https://amzn.to/3soCKCP) 4. Lighting [Ubeesize Ring Light](https://amzn.to/3GD02Zy) ABOUT ME My name is Callum, also known as wanderloots. I am an intellectual property lawyer, patent agent, engineer, blockchain specialist, photographer, animator, videographer, and writer. Timestamps: 0:00 Ready Player One? 0:46 Recalibrating Recap 1:46 Overview of Digital Identity 2:41 Part 1: Why you should care about digital ID 12:23 Part 1 Recap 13:26 Part 2: What is a digital ID? 22:37 Part 3: How to build a digital ID 28:00 Evergreen Topics 32:00 The Bigger Picture 36:20 Recap of Digital Identity 37:20 Next time...