Jan 18, 2023
Sage, a geomicrobiologist and molecular biologist, takes us on a journey into the world of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency. Through conversations with Rudy, we explore the potential of blockchain technology to benefit communities, the steps necessary to bring ancient tech. Sage, a geomicrobiologist and molecular biologist, takes us on a journey into the world of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency.
We explore the potential of blockchain technology to benefit communities, the steps necessary to bring ancient technologies into the blockchain, and the importance of using your money to empower yourself and others. Sage shares her personal story of transitioning from a comfortable consulting job to a journey of immense dedication and passion, as well as her mission to create economic systems that truly empower people. Sage's mission is not to become financially wealthy. Rather, she is intent on creating economic systems that empower people. She believes that if we all direct our resources towards this goal, the human species will make it through to the other side.
To that end, she is currently working on a project to verify the origins of food and ensure its quality, in addition to creating a legal infrastructure that will best support her end goals. Join us on this exciting exploration of blockchain technology, ancient teachings, and more!
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Transcript [0:00:00] Sage: I realized that I was never going to feel legitimate enough or ready enough to put up a bitcoin grant for a new project, and I just needed to tear out the band aid and do it. I just knew that get coin on 15 was the right time. There was never going to be a better time. I was never going to feel more ready, and that nature couldn't wait on me to feel cozy about it. [0:00:22] Rudy: I'm Rudy Dogum, and this is wholesome crypto. Here I speak with crypto experts, influencers, and entrepreneurs to find out what personally led them to the path of cryptocurrency. Welcome stage to the Wholesome Crypto Podcast. Thank you so much for joining me tonight. [0:00:38] Sage: Hey, Rudy. [0:00:40] Rudy: So good to have you on, and I really appreciate you taking the time. I know you're busy moving and busy with co founding Resign network, and thank you for being a builder. But before we get into all the building phase and what your life is like in crypto, I want to know a bit about sage before ever even hearing about anything crypto or bitcoin. [0:01:03] Sage: Oh, sage before crypto. Well, that's most of my life. Wouldn't you like to know? Okay, Rudy, what phase of life would you like to know about? [0:01:12] Rudy: Let's see. I guess give me one year before you heard about bitcoin. [0:01:17] Sage: Oh, I probably heard about bitcoin in college. Okay, let's just backtrack to college, then. Tell about that era. So I grew up in a really small town in North Carolina and was like, wow, nature is beautiful, but the world must be so big. I should really go see what's out there. So I was just curious and followed my nose and went to school in Southern California, studied geomicrobiology and molecular biology, and did a bunch of fun stuff looking at weird microbes that grow in the salt and sea, which is near Death Valley, California. In my early years, I would say I was largely fascinated by microbes and spent a lot of time in labs, a lot of time storing things, pouring things, weighing things, autoclaving things, sterilizing things with ethanol, spray bottles, counting cells on plates. I spent a lot of my life in a lab age like, 18 to 25. [0:02:25] Rudy: Was that something you wanted to do as a kid? I want to be in a lab and figuring out no. [0:02:31] Sage: I've always loved being outside. So for me, there was, like, this pull in this multi directional pole where I was, like, wanting to understand how nature works, to get under the hood and understand the micro level, how are all these things interplaying? And wanting to zoom in and really getting to do that in a laboratory, but then finding myself confined to kind of a prison of a laboratory. Right. I left graduate school because of that. [0:03:05] Rudy: That's a tough move. It's like you invest so much time into something that you're like, I got to go. [0:03:09] Sage: It's not easy my ecosystems of study changed a bit over the years. I went from in high school, I was assisting with studying caves in Eastern Tennessee, western North Carolina, and then in California was studying these weird extremophilic mud volcanoes in the salt and sea. And then in graduate school, I was studying species interactions in Pinot Noir up at Oregon State, which was super fun. It was a really good time, but I was like, wow, if I do a really good job pipetting these tiny amounts of liquids, I can get a full time job pipetting tiny amounts of liquid forever for EJ Gallo, and I can live in Modesto, California. Wait, this master's degree is setting me up to be a director of a laboratory for a large conglomerate winery. And how did I end up here? And, oh, my God, this is not at all the life I wanted. I want to be connected to nature, not living in one of the most, like, desolate, sad places, which is California, sadly, I have a whole love affair with California and a lot of grief for the West Coast, watching it lose water and burn slowly. But my move away from science fund me into a whole spiritual awakening process that somehow spit me out into web three. And I'm not sure exactly how that happened. [0:04:44] Rudy: I guess was there somebody who, like, said, hey, Sage, there's this thing called ethereum or this decentralized world. You have to get into it. Do you have, like, a friend or a peer? [0:04:54] Sage: There was no one trying to get me into it. I think, if anything, maybe the opposite. I had a friend who I had met during this phase in my life, like, 2019, early 2020. He was a lover and a partner who I met, and he was from the San Francisco Bay Area. And I had gone to school in SoCal, but I never, like, lived lived like a techie part of the Bay Area. I had lived in Napa doing wine stuff in Sonoma. But I moved out to the San Francisco Bay Area and got to know a bunch of really interesting folks who are, like, interested in consciousness and authentic relating. Also blockchain technology, some of them, although the people who I met who are interested in blockchain technology didn't really lead with it. And there's one person in particular who ended up becoming a good friend of mine. The winter of was the first winter of COVID and I was working a pretty straightforward, like, SAS tech sales job. I was living in Portland, Oregon. I had a roommate who was a friend via this network I had met in the Bay Area, and he and I were, like, hanging out a bunch. I was trying to understand who he was and what he was doing, and I would glance at his double monitors and be like, what's going on over there? And don't worry about it. And come to find out, he's like, with maker dow. [0:06:26] Sage: He's like, deep with Maker dow and totally wasn't pushing crypto on me. If anything, he had already seen a lot and was skeptical of crypto and was trying to save me from crypto or something. [0:06:40] Rudy: Don't go through the headache. [0:06:42] Sage: He wasn't trying to pill me. And I was just deeply curious, and I was like, what are you doing? And then in meditation, I started hearing the word ethereum more frequently, and I was like, well, that's a sign that I should be leaning into this. I should be curious about it. Basically just having one person that I knew from my real life who was a roommate of mine, who I trusted, who was somehow, like, deep in the space, kind of as, like, a proof of concept to me. That crypto was real. Got me curious enough to buy some ethereum to start just really silly things on the Internet, to start reading and falling down some rabbit holes. I did end up in the fall of 20…