Chatting with Candice Adrian Grenier
Episode Run Time: 1:10:14
My first in-person guest is Adrian Grenier, actor, philanthropist, host of his YouTube channel “Earth Speed”, and owner of DuContra Ventures. He shares his life after being an actor in the limelight, how he decided to create his own environmentally-sustainable community, and his plans for the future to combat climate change in his own way.
00:00:00 00:03:18 Blurred Lines Between Adrian and Vinny Chase 00:14:65 Adrian’s Journey to Finding His Authenticity
00:22:09 Owning Your Own Divine Masculinity
00:34:01 Forced “Boss Babe” Narrative
00:40:29 Decentralization of the Enflamed Food Industry, Bitcoin, and Climate Change
00:56:02 Land Trust Dow and Fund, Cryptocurrency, and YBM
01:03:33 Earth Speed, Hay Bale Urinal, and Homesteads
01:09:03 Where to Find Adrian Grenier
Adrian Finding His Authenticity
It took Adrian more than two years to shed his ego identity like vanity and indulgences during his time as an actor. He rebuilt a new life as a “farmer”, which he still doesn’t feel like he truly is, but is in constant pursuit of growing food and working in harmony with nature. He found authenticity by keeping his feet on the ground and accepting that he doesn’t know and that’s okay, which in turn awakened his curiosity.
Divine and Toxic Masculinity
Adrian grew up with a single mother whom he believed took on traditionally masculine traits through a female perspective that didn’t trust men. She didn’t have any positive male role models in her life and taught Adrian that she could be both a mother and father. This led to Adrian internalize his mother’s relationship with men and became emasculated, feminized, and not be in touch with his masculinity. He then sought negative expressions of masculinity: fame fortune, dominance, and ego that ended up being destructive. He had to relearn what it meant to be a man by unlearning what his mother taught him. Culturally, he believes people are relearning those roles and how best to show up for each other as men and women.
Decentralization of the Food Industry, Climate Change, and Cryptocurrency
Adrian is looking into an ethical and spiritual perspective which will serve as the foundation for his farm and was inspired by decentralization: creating communities and utilizing currencies such as bitcoin and cryptocurrency that is self-sufficient and not controlled by centralized governments and banking systems which can network out to similar communities. In combatting climate change on a smaller scale, he aims to produce an ecosystem that’s created in harmony with itself and has no waste unused, compared to a factory farm that produces waste that only ends up in a landfill. What happens with factory farms and monocropping is once it reaches a certain scale, disease starts to be introduced to a degree that the environment can’t handle. With that, Adrian discusses his future project—a hay bale urinal that turns human waste into compost for land.
Links and Resources:
Adrian’s https://www.facebook.com/AdrianGrenierOfficial, and https://www.instagram.com/adriangrenier/?hl=en
Earth Speed https://www.instagram.com/earthspeed/?hl=en and https://www.youtube.com/c/EarthSpeedbyAdrianGrenier
DuContra Ventures Official Website https://www.ducontra.ventures/
Meta-Description
Actor and philanthropist Adrian Grenier shares what he learned from his life as an actor and currently as a farmer aiming to create an environmentally sustainable community.
