Blake Moynes is getting real about the financial impact of becoming a wildlife conservationist.
“I’ve spent [everything]. I sold my house, I’ve taken all my investments that I put into it,” Moynes, 35, claimed on the Friday, June 5, episode of the “Bachelor Happy Hour” podcast. “I put everything into this, and now it’s forced me to be on the road. There’s no way out other than through it.”
Moynes, who appeared on seasons 16 and 17 of The Bachelorette, left Canada to pursue his wildlife conservation passions that subsequently affected his entire life and livelihood.
“I don’t have the same relationships that I used to have with my best friends,” he recalled on Friday’s episode. “I don’t get notified that my best friends are having kids in the next four months, and I’m finding out through the grapevine. It’s almost like, ‘Out of sight, out of mind.’ I’ve just kind of become that, unfortunately, through not responding to text. I don’t have time for anything.”
According to Moynes, he has “no time” for anything outside of his career.
“Between being on the road and the time zone differences while I’m on the computer or in the field, like, there is no time for anything,” he acknowledged. “I neglect everyone and everything because I have no money left other than making it happen through these projects, and so I can’t have pitter-patter and small talk conversations through text, like, I’m literally working. I’m nuts right now.”
Moynes founded Save Our Species Alliance (SOSA) in 2023, an organization that facilitates global wildlife missions and immersive experiences across Africa, Costa Rica and Alaska.
“The decision isn’t just a business decision that you’re making because when you’re doing it for something greater than you and you’re doing it for rhinos and you’re thinking about those things,” he explained of the organization. “You’re not doing it to make a dollar, you’re doing it to save them. We’ve been in the red for three years.”
In that time, Moynes claims that he also hasn’t netted a paycheck.
“I have taken zero for the last three years. I have two people that are on salary,” the Bachelor Nation alum alleged. “Our model is built on sustaining nonprofit organizations. If we don’t sustain nonprofits, it’s essentially like if we don’t keep them going, while at the same trying to sustain ourselves [and] while trying to sell a product that isn’t a product. … We’re trying to ask people to try and care about animals, and so it’s not something that people need.”
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