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