Unresponsive input

I’m trying to make a game where you type in commands and the game responds.

Question: Why is my user input not responding or just kind of breaking out of the program when I enter something?

Here is the part

   # paths
    def path1():
        coins = 0
        gem = 0
        print("Welcome to, community manager.")
        print("Type start")
        if cmd == "start":
            print(f'''Welcome {user} I will give you 10 coins to start with.
            you can always type balance to check your coins
            ''')
            sleep(1.5)
            coins = coins + 10
     

There is also a while loop running the cmd = input(">>> ") but it is at line one.