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QCP #033 | Christopher Renfro, Founder of the Two Eighty Project|The Way of Natural Winemaking and Re-imagining a Thriving Society

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Christopher Renfro (instagram, additional links) is the founder of the Two Eighty Project, an organization “dedicated to building a sustainable food and wine community that nourishes every member of the local economy and ecosystem.” It began with his love and curiosity for learning about wine and implementing his knowledge into a community farm visible from the Highway 280 Freeway heading out of San Francisco.

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SEG 1 – Castles and Finding True Freedom in the outdoors

SEG 2 – Financial Illiteracy, The Underlying Reality of Food Service, Ambitions for 280

the Food Service Industry and Humanity
Black Wallstreet
Tulsa Oaklahoma
Critical Race Theory
Think Tank

SEG 3 – Rethinking the Food Industry Models, Baselines of Comfort

Food Security in San Francisco
Feed the People Collective
Shared Cultures Miso
Co-op Businesses
Rethinking the Comfort Baseline
Homelessness, Youth, Elders

Contains a snippet from Good Morning America | Patagonia founder donates company to fight climate change, Sept. 15, 2022

QCP #025 | Jairus Ferrer, Agricultural Entrepreneur | How the Youth are Taking on the Food Crisis in the Philippines

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https://www.ifarms.ph/

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Jairus Ferrer is a agricultural entreprenuer from Philippines. With family roots in Mindanao, the southernmost region of the Philippines, he decided to leave the congested, fast-paced city after thirteen years in favor of a more steady-paced, semi-rural, widely untapped area to get in touch with nature and get involved in economic development in rural communities.

QCP #023 | Jake Luigi – Less Impressed, More Involved Youtube Channel | Leading with Curiosity and The Organized Meta Knowledge of Jiu-Jitsu

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Less Impressed, More Involved on Youtube
Instagram Page @shorthairedjake

Jake Luigi is the mind behind the Less Impressed, More Involved video blog on youtube. In less than a year, I saw his channel grow from a few hundred to well over seven and a half thousand subscribers. Some of his most popular videos have amassed sixty thousand views and continues to grow due to his cerebral, detailed, and cataloged approach to learning the art, the language, and the endless evolution of Jiu-Jitsu.

In a time that has never seen more opportunity than today for creative exploration and exchange of ideas, I hope that conversations like this one can give some insight into those that want to invest in themselves, their life’s work, and the most authentic expression of themselves to what I believe will be the future of designing a flexible lifestyle – in creating content for an open, and shared information economy.

QCP #021 | Garnet “G Stacks” Geoffroy, BBQ Pit Builder | The Arc of Fire and Iron

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If you had BBQ in the Bay Area in the past ten years, there’s a good chance the meat was cooked on one of the units fabricated by our next guest – Garnet Geoffroy, also known as G Stacks – proud owner and welder of custom-made, handcrafted smokers and pits right here on the west coast of Northern California.

Barbecue pits are a great equalizer for entrepreneurs typically bogged down by the seemingly endless fees and regulations imparted on small business owners who have no resources or means of opening up a brick-and-mortar business. Barbecue pits and pitmasters are the embodiments of resilience. The techniques they’ve honed in and feel they’ve developed for cooking come from trial and error. Their cooks are subject to variables in time and weather, so they must be able to adapt and keep their techniques fluid and flexible to adjust as necessary to create consistency in their products.

QCP #017 | Tom Brown III | How Reconnecting with Nature Teaches Resilience, Self-Reliance, and Awareness

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Tom Brown III is the founder of FutureNature and T3Photography. He is a lifelong practitioner and living guide of ancestral skills, a frequent contributor, and a consultant to the Anchored Outdoors network. He is a lifelong practitioner of ancestral skills under his father Tom Brown Jr. – prolific author and Founder of Tracker Wilderness Survival School.

Tom has devoted his life to passing on his knowledge of these skills. He works diligently as an educator, a steward of the land, to help return the connection to the natural world and awareness back to our wild selves.

He joins us from his homestead in Oregon by Mount Hood – his home base for sharing his knowledge and experience through teaching, writing, and photography. He hopes to, in his words, “help people see Nature through his eyes, leading them to understand that spectacular natural beauty can be found anywhere, no matter where you may be.”

I believe that our ability to be resilient is not gone; it’s simply re-awakening what we already have innately in us through the examples of how our ancestors lived and what people like Tom bring to light. To recognize our abundance, that we do have it all, and that there is always much to learn about our home here on earth and how to undo our distractions, even if only a little bit, to become better stewards of the land.

It was an honor to sit with Tom III and listen intently as he shared his passion for learning and sharing some of the knowledge passed on to him by his father, Tom Brown Jr., and his grandfather, Stalking Wolf, who taught his father. And it was also great to hear some perspective from someone who, through his lifetime devotion to a life outdoors and educating others to find their own way in life, figures out ways of balancing both modern and primitive aspects of our human experience.

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TOM BROWN III LINKS AND MORE INFORMATION

Find Tom’s work and class schedules here https://www.tombrown3.com/
Tom demos the Proper way to walk in Nature
The Tracker School
Tom’s Trusted Organizations for Further Education

QCP #012 | Why do we collect things? | Chino, The Sneaker King of the North

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What is it about our collections that take up spaces in our lives?

Meet Chino – The owner of the largest sneaker collection I’ve ever seen.

He comes all the way to us from Edmonton, Canada by way of the Philippines. He’s a loving husband, father of two boys, a working man who does whatever it takes to make an honest living to care for his family.

A few years ago, I had the chance to see in person an entire storage basement full of sneakers, jerseys, and sports memorabilia. And after having this conversation, it reminded me of the importance of culture, no matter what form it takes, in helping us come together, and integrate with the world around us.

Check out our smoked brisket Youtube Episode.

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QCP #005 | Ernesto Pineda |How to Awaken Our Curiosity and Engage in New Ways with our Surroundings

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Ernesto Pineda has over 20 years of experience in the Real Estate and Real Estate Tech industry. He is an entrepreneur, a business advisor, and an artist at heart. With his life-long love for books, art and travel, he uses his experience to merge his professional and creative endeavors. He has a passion for learning through experience, conversation and interacting with his environment.

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QCP #003 | Marlon S Payumo, Sr. | Life in San Francisco’s Most Famous Ice Cream Shop

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Marlon S Payumo, Sr. is the general manager of Mitchell’s Ice Cream Shop in San Francisco, CA. He arrived in the United States when he was twenty years old, and has been working there since 1988. Among the many things we touch upon in this conversation, he shares his hardships as a child growing up in the Philippines, his experiences in dealing with the transition of adapting to a new country, speaking a new language, the values of hard work, and resilience.

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QCP #001 | Vincent Yuen | How to be a Steward of Our Public Spaces

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Vincent Yuen gets it done. He is the founder and head organizer of RefuseRefuseSF.org – a community organization dedicated to keeping San Francisco Clean. Meet the person behind a city-wide effort to help clean up the garbage littering our streets through community organizing, volunteering, and setting an example to take pride in our public spaces for generations to follow.