Carmen Aguirre is a 4th-year medical student, visual jockey (VJ), and NFT artist. Here we sit down and discover what pushes her to continue developing her passions for medicine and artificial intelligence. You can find more info about her work here: https://linktr.ee/Neurite 0:00 Alex gives some background on NFT's

2:50 Background and Initial Involvement with NFT's

5:50 Seeing stigma around mental health conditions

9:10 Building a community around NFT's

9:40 The process of creating NFT's

13:20 Working for Ariana Grande

15:10 Working as a DJ and in music while in medical school

21:10 "Work is my life" - how Carmen balances the commitments

22:10 Time management

24:35 How a creative outlet benefited Carmen's mental health

27:25 Raising Money for mental health charities through NFT's

30:30 Going from animation to the drop process

34:00 Return of live music, graduating medical school and residency

36:45 The average medical student compared to the average 24-year old musician

39:15 How will technology change medicine in 10-20 years

41:00 Advice you would have given yourself going into your 20's

Interviewer: David Wu

Producer: Aaron Schumacher

Art: Saurin Kantesaria

Carmen Aguirre - Creating NFT Art to Raise Money for Mental Health and Pay Off Med School