Ep. 25 | Tub Talks with Illangelo: Music Producer, Carlo Montagnese

Carlo Montagnese, known in the music industry as Illangelo, has been exploring his musical

landscape since childhood. He is best known for his work with the Weeknd in creating The

Trilogy, and songs like "The Hills" which has accrued billions of streams. Hitting major

mainstream professional success relatively young, Carlo moved to LA from Canada to

continue collaborating with interesting artists. However, a good life in LA didn't come easy.

He describes the beginning as a 'disaster, when he had been hyperfocused on the goal of

"making it' in Hollywood.

Yet, it was while living in Los Angeles that Carlo deepened his relationship to nature, the

earth, and spirituality. Carlo believes it takes three to four years to drop into a culture of a

place. Eventually in LA, he found his people, his friendships: deeper connections. It was

through exploring different dietary options and ultimately the film Game Changers, that Carlo

committed to a life of veganism, and active care for all life forms. Through an initial 10 day

silent Vipassana meditation retreat in Joshua Tree, Carlo connected to the importance of

breath, and his physical body.

In Tub Talks, Carlo shares about this journey into living a life in alignment with the earth

across self care, creativity in music, and integrating technologies of the future. We can learn

from Carlo about cryptocurrency, Al, music, spirituality, and creativity. Most significantly, he

shows us how they intersect and blossom together.

Carlo sees cryptocurrency as the future. He impresses upon us how we need to have a more

secure financial system, and that is possible through the blockchain. We have access to

storage of value, and that means having access to our finances. Financial freedom is in

alignment with creative freedom. Carlo describes why cryptocurrency can be successful, but

cautions behaviors that lean on 'get rich quick' schemes.

Carlo looks at 'storages of value' across different genres of life. He not only warns about 'get

rich quick' schemes in crypto, but also in popular music, and health and wellness. A way of

shifting that desire could be utilizing his idea of observation as a way of being. Carlo says that

his life has shifted into a state of 'observation' in opposition to manifesting. This life shift

includes having moved to Miami, surrounding himself with good people, creating his own

music, spending more time with family, and playing games.

There is much wisdom from the way Carlo moves authentically through life, and there are

many nuggets of information shared in this bath. Perhaps this is the first bath in his life, as we

quickly learn when we start soaking, and you will too. Soak it up!

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