How to Maintain Your MENTAL HEALTH In a Digital World + Exploring Web3 EXPERIENCES | ft. XOCHITL ARTEAGA

💡 In this episode, former MUA turned Web3 Doer --Xochitl Arteaga will share her expertise and personal insights on how to strike a balance between productivity and self-care in the digital age. 

Learn more about Xochitl's shift from master MUA to Tech Tour Guide & Evangelist for the Digitally Curious.

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Find inspiration to shift your career, learn new things, and leverage valuable skills across any industry. 

Transcript

Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Developing Live podcast. We are thrilled to welcome Xochitl Arteaga to speak with us today. Xochitl envisions an inclusive virtual world where everyone can explore the new technological frontiers with confidence and wonder. I love this so much. A place where all people feel invited, not divided. Her goal is to help everybody feel comfortable and confident with digital currencies and technologies.

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I know I need that desperately, so chill is also the head mistress and makeup artist and makeup coach, color stylist and hairstylist at the Look Center School in our. I'm going to butcher this article. Is that right in Argo? Argo. Thank you very much. She has been running the she has been run. Excuse me. She has been running the makeup artist school since .

And a few years ago, she fell in love with the metaverse and jumped into the deep end as a blockchain guide, applying her teaching expertise to the virtual world, she helps the digitally curious newbies navigate a digital wallet and self-custody options, as well as setting up an avatar. Please give a warm welcome to social take it away. So to you, thank you very much.

So I am so glad that we're sitting here talking today and we're going to dive into with especially with everything that you are doing in your life and your business, how to find balance with all of that. and it's really important that we're talking about this today because I feel like a lot of us, especially those in the creative field, are going in headfirst through all this technological and digital advancements that do not seem to be slowing down anytime soon.

And and we feel compelled to stay plugged in just trying to keep up. And I think that detaches a lot of us from ourselves. And we forget that a very integral part of us even progressing and being successful is to come back to that balance of making sure that we are ourselves resting and reflecting and recharging and and actually just taking care of ourselves.

Right. So for you, like with everything that you're doing and, and, and your hand in a lot of what is, you know, going on today in, in the technological world, like how do you make sure that you do not overshadow your need for that rest and reflection? It's tough. It's tough, you know, and, I have I have the feeling that technology has gotten or the advancements in the different technologies have gotten even faster.

plus, also, I've gotten older. So I kind of think like these two things too. These two things are kind of bashing into each other. And it's really important just to, to get outside. is kind of like the easiest thing. You know, I live in Switzerland, so I definitely have to take time out outside, and, it doesn't matter what kind of weather it is, just being outside.

I think that that kind of helps. to unplug and not feel overwhelmed. I feel overwhelmed. There are some days if there's something moving really fast, if I, LinkedIn, there's there's a lot of information on one subject and it's coming from many different people and you get many different tidbits and stuff. I get overwhelmed, you know, and I have to switch it off and go outside.

You know, that's pretty much what I try to do. Or I would go back to being, you know, since I do run a makeup school, I'm kind of in in a creative environment all around me that that tends to help. So I think just getting out of technology, I guess, getting hit by, you know, all the all the impulses and stuff all the time, you just have to take a break from that.

And sometimes you just have to force yourself, you know, we get we get stuck on it. We, it creates anxiety. Sometimes it creates, excitement also. I mean, that's they go hand in hand, kind of like, and, but you have to break away from it and you have to be kind of disciplined and rely on the discipline that you have.

Hey, I gotta stop this, and I got to go do something else. That's actually a really good point. The to say that you need that discipline to take care of yourself, and a lot of people, when they think about discipline, is always the work aspect of discipline and not that inner like nurturing and really being committed to that.

So that's that's very important. So do you do you find that when you do step outside? And I'm really glad you spoke on the fact that things are coming at you like really, really fast because I thought maybe it was just me and I was just so overwhelmed that I couldn't handle it. but then you you find that once you walk away from all of that speed and all those perspectives, that if you take that moment to go out, when you come back, do It's like, hey, this was awesome. I'm glad I did that, you know? But on the days that I don't want to put on my makeup or I don't want to go outside because it's too cold, all right, I do it at home. And that is the biggest bonus that I love being in virtual worlds because of that. You know, any of the new technologies, I love being able to face time with my parents.

You know, my parents live in California. I the whenever we have to if there's some little thing. Oh, I gotta remember to tell my mom that I'll just drop her a WhatsApp or or a message or text message or call on FaceTime, and it's awesome. You know, I love that. Yeah. I think it's incredible that, to be cognizant of having all these digital advancements help you to expand your own human connectivity.

You know, instead of focusing on all the technology to figure out how that technology keeps you centered and keeps you human. So, as I said, you get a full point to focus on. Absolutely. And, you know, connecting with us and and building relationships with each other, that's, that's that's how we become like you said, you know, we become rich, you know?

Yeah. So what I'm hearing is that I don't have to go outside. No, no, no, I actually, if you were to ask, run in there, it was suggested I go outside of my house, but, yeah, I go out, you know, I do go out, but it's not. It's not that I. I can make the choice to stay and make people, or I can make the choice to go out and meet people.

Yeah, right. So I like that, I like that. Yeah. Nice. Thank you for that. okay. So next one was being aware of your surroundings. That light was happening all around this. And to engage in your senses. Yes. Yeah. That's really important not to just, not to just focus on not focusing just on you and focusing on your, your yellow top.

And what a beautiful color that is. I'm focusing on, how I'm feeling. while we're having this discussion, I'm, you know, you have to get out there. We we can, I can I can hear really well, so I can hear all kinds of things around me. And I can smell really good, too, which is not always a good thing.

But that those those kind of things engaging those senses that we have and visually seeing the things around us and hearing the things around us and and smelling, I think that that's really important, you know, instead of just, I guess, just being being on your phone. I like being on my phone. I'm very connected, I like it, but I'm hearing the birds in the background, or I'm hearing, or I'm smelling something over here, you know, to be aware of all all of what's going on around you, not just be, like, in a tunnel.

You know, I think that that's important. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I think a lot of people like you say they're on their phone, but they're, they've turned off errors, put out everything else, you know, and become hyper fixated. I mean, I love music, I love music, but I can't hear I can't put my earbuds in when I'm outside.

Okay? I have to hear the outside. Okay. The greatest thing. yeah. I don't know why. Why? I've tried. I tried to put my ear plugs and listen to some great music and and walk out. I can't do it. So I have to, you know, listen to the nature or listen to the outside and be outside. And then when I'm listening to music, I can do that inside or just listen to music and then anything else, right.

So that is a weird thing. I've been tried to figure that out, I think seen that one out yet.

That is something that I think is something that that we should experience on a regular basis. And, you know, this is why we're talking about this, because people don't allow for those type of things to happen, you know. So it's really important. Yeah. Yeah. So I think it's it's actually to just be aware of your surroundings, you know?

Absolutely. whether you're inside or outside, it doesn't matter. Just be around. Be be aware that you're, you're moving around in this. You know, I think that's important. It's funny you said hearing and smelling. I think those for me were amplified once I became a mother. Like I said, yeah, you you smell it like it's like a survival tactic.

And I, I get it doesn't always bode well in all situations. Right? And I could hear everything. Exactly. Yeah. Everything. You know, it's like, oh my God. You know, I got like, my mom used to have this like, oh shit. You know, I thought she was joking, but it was. No. Well, it. Oh my gosh. So okay, the next one.

Oh my God, I love this. I love this so much. and embrace setbacks as opportunities. Setbacks suck over time. It's very true. But they will help you grow and learn. Yes, ma'am. Talk about it. Absolutely. And, I think that's the one thing. Also, we have to give ourselves time. I used to hate that. but you do have to.

Time will tell you why that happened. Yeah, and you won't. You know, you'll you'll you'll knock yourself out if you're trying to figure out that reason why a setback happened when it's too soon. And I think that over time, as you come out of the emotional kind of circle that you're in because of the setback, you will look back at it and you will find out why that needed to happen.

Then. And it's actually a benefit. It really I, I firmly believe that, I'm, I'm big into karma. I'm big into, things happen for a reason. And usually on the other side of that setback, it's something better, right? I firmly believe that. Yeah, I firmly believe that. I don't know, I, I everything either, if anything that has been a challenge or has.

Hey, you know, I was disappointed about something. If I just give it enough time, I will find out why. Yeah, yeah. I think it's incredibly important to to point out that with you being so aware and wanting to be aware of what's going on around you and everything like that, I think that would, if you weren't careful, kind of make you prone to solve a problem faster than you should, you know what I mean?

So I think that's really important that you, again, are finding the balance to to give yourself the patience to figure things out as they come along and not feel so pressured, you know, to to get to the end point and it'll be revealed in its own time, you know, so that's that's really important 

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Thank you so much again for this. So especially with this last piece about entering Web, you know, and the things that you are able to offer individuals, can you tell everybody where they can find you, how they can be connected with you? and, and maybe take this journey. Yeah. on LinkedIn, actually, my, on LinkedIn and, that's where my, that's my, my tech persona runs over LinkedIn.

And let make a persona of anybody needs any help with there that runs over Instagram. So, so I have my I am a double person and, and, but you can find me mostly on those two sites. Yeah. Okay. And your handle for both of those are, for LinkedIn. It's, such a long time ago, my, whole name.

And then for Instagram for the makeup school is the look center. School of makeup look center school. Yeah. Thank you so much for that. Thank you for an incredible conversation. I, I, I am encouraged I am, more aware of where I need to be to find this balance. And I think I'm I'm ready to take a little bit more on, you know, having that sense of I know how to get there and the pace that I need to get there, you know, I mean, and maybe take a nap, I don't know, I take a nap minutes or so and then it might take me minutes.

Actually fall asleep. Oh my goodness. You got to sit down. Yeah. Exactly, exactly. Thank you so much. So it's been a pleasure speaking with you. Thank you. And I'm so happy that we got to do this. This is awesome. Absolutely. For having you here. and thank you everyone for listening in. And, have a great rest of your week.