WISDOM TALK - Music is-ness: maintaining baseline happiness in the industry with Blaise DeAngelo and Matt Handley

Blaise DeAngelo, former partner and consultant to iconic artists like Skrillex and Richie Hawtin, and Matt Handley, 1/2 of hit-making duo Yolanda Be Cool, attained to material success at very young ages, accumulating all of the things we’re told will create happiness—money, power, success, notoriety, and the proverbial rockstar lifestyle. Finding themselves unfulfilled by these externalities, they set out to learn why. Through 3,000 hours of training with a neuroscientist and master meditation teacher Maharishi Vyasanand Sarasvati, they discovered another type of happiness, known as baseline happiness, which comes from within, isn’t dependent on external things, can’t be undermined by the ephemeral events unfolding around us, and is available to all.

Blaise and Matt will illuminate the idea of baseline happiness and share their strategy for maintaining soundness of mind in a chaotic and often toxic industry rife with stress, anxiety, burnout, depression, exhaustion and substances, reclaiming creative mental potential and strengthening our own connection to this more sustainable and fulfilling type of happiness.