Self Management & Sustainability with Adam Thatcher The Circuit of Success Podcast with Brett Gilliland

On this episode of the Circuit of Success, Brett Gilliland interviews Adam Thatcher, co-founder and CEO of Grace Farms Foods. Adam shares his story of growing up with a World War II veteran father and how it has shaped his values and work ethic. He also discusses his business model of giving away 100% of profits and the Philanthropic Enterprise Act. Adam also shares his own personal approach to time management and the importance of having a purpose in life. Lastly, they talk about how taking action and believing in yourself is key to success.



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Speaker Brett Gilliland: Welcome to the Circuit of Success. I'm your host, Brett Gilliland. Today, I've got Adam Thatcher with me, Adam. How you doing? Speaker Adam Thatcher: Doing awesome, Brett. Glad to be here. Speaker Brett Gilliland: Awesome having you, man. The background looks cool there. It looks like you're probably at Grace Farms out there in Connecticut. Is that right? Speaker Adam Thatcher: That's right. That's right. Grace Farms is just this amazing cultural and humanitarian center that I've got the pleasure of being able to be a part of and getting to create something really new there. So Speaker Brett Gilliland: Yeah. Yeah. Well, we're gonna dive into it, man, because it's a cool kind of a new business model and something I think people just need to be aware of and, came across each other through social media somehow and, And now all of a sudden, here we are, on the circuit of success podcast. It's a small world. I interviewed, interviewed somebody today and didn't even know it until my research. But, you know, she knew this person, and I knew, you know, it's just it's a small world. It's it's crazy, isn't it? Speaker Adam Thatcher: It is. It's amazing how one or two degrees of separation is it's it's They say those big degrees, but it's usually a lot less. Speaker Brett Gilliland: Exactly. I don't disagree with that. So, well, you are the co founder and CEO of Grace Farms, Foods, And, but it's a it's an unbelievable one hundred percent of the profits goes to, your guys' foundation and charities. And, it's just a it's a great business model. But before we dive in all that stuff, Adam, if you can, I'll always like to start with what's made you the man you are today, which I know is a big loaded question, but you don't just wake up and do the things that doing. So I'm curious on what the backstory is. Speaker Adam Thatcher: Yeah. Right on. Well, I think that what made me who I am today is certainly my experience is growing up, having a really unique sort of family set up. My, my father was a World War II veteran right somebody who was born in nineteen eighty four, that's not you do not talk about something pretty uncommon. And that truly was the greatest generation, you know, not only to have the bravery at twenty, twenty two to go off to war, and be in the submarine service in the Pacific, but then to come home and really build our country to what it is today and to be able to, like, grow up with that type of work ethic being surrounded by that, I think, is really a driver for my own passion to create things make a difference, and leave some kind of legacy that, you know, I think my kids would be proud of. Speaker Brett Gilliland: Yeah. So what did you learn from that? Do you think? Biggest takeaways for that, if if did you have older siblings as well? Or are you, Speaker Adam Thatcher: So I'm Speaker Brett Gilliland: the youngest six. Speaker Adam Thatcher: Yeah. Okay. And, you know, I think from that is having the biggest takeaway I would say is that every day is an opportunity to make a difference. And there's no sense in spoiling it. Right? There's enough hours in the day to contribute in a positive way to your community, to yourself, but then also to create that moment of leisure for yourself too, whether it's, you know, putting your kids to bed, it's you know,