Vulnerability and Redemption with Adrian Grenier

A Bit of Optimism

The Optimism Company from Simon Sinek

Business, Education, Careers, Self-improvement

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

We've all been told in our darkest times: "Don't worry this will get better"...but what happens if everything's going right? Should we be afraid that the other shoe will drop? Well, for Adrian Grenier, the other shoe dropped. He was the star of Entourage, the biggest show on television for a decade. He had fame, money, and everything else. Until one day when his girlfriend abruptly dumped him. At that moment, he was forced to see himself in a new light -- which inspired him to follow an entirely new path: a journey of reflection, growth, and farming. This is…A Bit of Optimism. For more on Adrian and his work check out: EarthSpeed on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfzVslwYuraxst_RiqNvRGg EarthSpeed on Instagram - instagram.com/earthspeed DuContra Ventures -https://www.ducontra.ventures/ And a special thanks to Alo Yoga for letting us break in their brand-new podcast studio :-).

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0:00.0	But these days, his life looks nothing like Vinnie's.
0:20.3	He lives on a farm, and is working to be fully self-sufficient.
0:24.3	He's a partner into contraventures, a do-good investment fund.
0:28.6	And he hosts a YouTube channel called Earth Speed, where he shares lessons for others who
0:33.8	want to try farming and homesteading.
0:37.2	And most of all, he was willing to face his demons and completely turn his life around.
0:45.0	This is a bit of optimism.
0:51.4	You and I have known each other a long time, we were trying to figure it out, it's been
0:53.5	like 15 years.
0:55.3	You told me a story, you broke up with your girlfriend a while, it's not that long ago.
1:02.6	And I talked to you in the moment of being broken up, and I'll be honest with you, I forgot
1:09.6	everything you said.
1:11.0	But in the moment, I remember thinking this is absolutely profound, and I really should
1:18.6	internalize some of this.
1:20.1	So clearly I didn't, which is why we're having this conversation again.
1:23.6	But you went on a journey of self-discovery of what it means to be a partner, what it
1:30.5	means to be, I mean, a lot of things.
1:33.6	Can you just take me on that journey because I want to learn it?
1:37.4	And this was recently, I mean, a few years ago, right?
1:39.7	It was during the pandemic.
1:41.0	Yeah.
1:42.0	Essentially I had a rock bottom moment, what I call a cosmic bitch slap, in which my
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