BEHIND THE SCENES WITH OUR HOST

"This journey has given me my guiding Northstar."

If you've tuned in to Season One of 52 Hertz you are already well acquainted with our host, actor-activist Petrice Jones. Today, we're going behind the scenes with him about his journey to cut out single-use plastic from his personal life and the entertainment industry.

Learn more about The One Movement, founded by Petrice, in the interview below and learn how you can get involved too.

Q&A with Petrice Jones
Host of 52 Hertz & Founder of The One Movement

How do you use your platform as an actor to inform your style of advocacy?

My experience as an actor has both given me the impetus to become environmentally active, whilst also enabling me with a platform to spread the message of encouraging others to become more active themselves. The waste I was seeing on set inspired me to establish The One Movement to help spread awareness about what everyone can do in their daily lives to help. Through this platform I empower my friends who are actors and influencers to do something and leverage the incentives and connections that my industry offers. Together we can create real, meaningful change.

I feel like I now have a real purpose in my life and can use my position to bring people together and create awareness of issues that affect us all. This journey has given me my guiding Northstar and I couldn’t be more grateful.

When did you first realize that the ocean’s health was at risk?

After booking my first major role on "Step Up: Highwater Season One," I suddenly became aware of two things:

1) The production was going through an exceptional amount of plastic waste for a very small number of people in cast and crew and I couldn’t help but feel this was a bigger problem than I had previously realized. And no one else seemed to notice!

2) I was a big part of this problem: One, because my chair pocket was full of plastic bottles, some drunk and some half drunk, but all belonged to me.  Two, because I wasn’t doing or saying anything about it.

From there I went home, started some real research into the issue and hey, "Bobs your uncle," I was on my journey to help stop single-use plastic use.

Why are you passionate about social enterprise? What makes it a different model of business that CAN benefit the planet?

The way I see it, for every dollar that we have going towards helping the planet, there's $1 million that contributes to hurting it. The goal is to reverse this inequality and create a healthy balance between people, planet and profit.

I believe social enterprises like The One Movement offer a way to create more consistent, scalable change without the handcuffs of a lack of income. I love the fact that we can create all the impact of a non-profit, whilst having the consistent revenue stream and financial freedom of a business. Meaning we can go out in the world and create the impact where we want it and when we want it.

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