774 Change the World for Good

This is five minute Friday. Scott Harrison After a decade of indulging his darkest vices as a nightclub promoter, he declared spiritual, moral and emotional bankruptcy. He spent two years on a hospital ship off the coast of Liberia, saw the effects of dirty water firsthand, and came back to New York City on a mission to change the world. Upon returning to New York in 2006, having seen the effects of dirty water firsthand, he turned his full attention to the global water crisis and the then 1.1 billion people living without access to clean water. The Kia Sportage Turbo Hybrid has a bold design, a spacious interior with 232 horsepower and a 12.3-inch panoramic display to keep the adventure going and fit with the way you live. And with SiriusXM, every drive comes alive, bringing you closer to the music, the sports talk and podcasts that you love right in your vehicle or on the Sirius XM app. Every SiriusXM equipped Kia Sportage Turbo Hybrid includes a three month trial, so the experience begins the moment you drive. Learn more@kia.com sportage-sport hybrid Kia movement that inspires this message is brought to you by Apple Card Apple Card members can earn unlimited daily cash back on everyday purchases wherever they shop. This means you could be earning daily cash on just about anything, like a slice of pizza from your local pizza place or a latte from the corner coffee shop. Apply for Apple Card in the Wallet app to see your credit limit offer in minutes subject to credit approval. Apple Card issued by Goldman Sachs Bank USA, Salt Lake City branch terms and more@applecard.com the School of Greatness is sponsored by Capital One. Nowadays, most people subscribe to everything music, tv, even dog food. And it rocks until you have to manage it all, which is where Capital One comes in. Capital One credit cardholders can easily track, block or cancel reoccurring charges right from the Capital One mobile app at no additional cost. With one sign in, you can manage all your subscriptions all in one place. Learn more at Capital1.comsubscriptions to get terms and conditions apply. What's the biggest lesson you've learned in the last 12 years? Giving your life to service and being on this mission to end suffering with the water crisis.

It's been a lot of people feel like it's a big sacrifice, bro, I know you got offered that big job at Facebook. Do you ever think you should have taken it? You know, bro, you're driving a Kia Sorento. You know, like you can't pay for piano lessons for your kid. You know, like there's this empathy that a lot of people will have. Cause I haven't tried to get rich, right? I haven't gone after the money. And they feel like, you know, sometimes, like, I've made this great sacrifice, and I'm like, I haven't made the sacrifice at all. Like, think about it. Today we will raise enough Money to get 3800 humans clean water for the.

First time just in one day today.

And then we'll do it again tomorrow, then we'll do it again the next day. So we're filling, you know, stadiums about every four to five days. So from Monday to Friday, you know, Madison Square Garden, we've just filled with people that are getting clean water for the first time and then emptied it out. And Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, we just did it again. That's an amazing thing to be able to do. One person every 15 seconds, you know, as we sit here, because. Not because of me, because of the community, because of a million people around the world that have joined water, that have rejected the apathy that would be so easy to embrace with a paralyzing global issue like this and said, I can do something. I can donate my birthday. I can give 30 bucks a month. I can build one well. Our family can give up holiday gifts. I mean, we have kids doing lemonade stands all over the country. I love the lemonade stands. There was a little girl in Vancouver, Lewis, who did 12. She came across one of our videos online, was so offended by the fact that people are drinking dirty water. The kids don't have clean water to drink. So she does 12 lemonade stands, one of them in the rain. Just undeterred. At her last lemonade stand, she convinces a local band to perform on the sidewalk next to the lemonade stand to attract an audience. To attract an audience, she sells $5,600 of lemonade, builds half a well. So these stories keep us going. There was a little girl named Nora who was six again, saw one of our videos and goes up to her room that night, and she says, you know, should I give or should I not give? Should I keep my allowance? Should I give my allowance? Right? And it's like this internal bait. She comes down in the morning, and she drops $8.15 on the kitchen counter and draws a picture of herself next to a well in Africa with clean water coming out and writes us a note and says, dear charity water, my name is Nora.

Here's.

Here's my $8.15. And I don't want kids to die of dirty water. So you know, this arrives in the mail. And we were so inspired, we actually sent a camera crew down, interviewed this astonishing little girl, and on World Water Day, we asked everyone we knew to give $8.15 and raised like 80 grand in her honor to build eight. Well, so these, you know, it's an amazing thing to be able to do. Did she go to Africa? She hasn't yet, but we should totally take her when she gets a little older to see where that goes. And I guess the way that I would love for billions and billions of dollars to flow through my hands, our hands, I mean, the way of keeping score is money for others, not money for ourself. My greatest ambition, really about money is to actually write a million dollar check personally to a charity someday. Because someone did it for me at a really, really important time, and it changed the game for us. It was way too much money. Right. It's normally what happens with charities is there's an amount that people are giving, right? Like this is the charity that people give 10 grand to, or this is a charity that people give $100 to. Well, this person came in when we were a charity that gave people gave 10 grand to, and they gave us a million dollars. What was the biggest number? Maybe 50, maybe something. Yeah, something like that. They give a million and a million on the overhead.

It's too overwhelming.

It's almost like, well, it was a year. It was a year of capital. I tell this story in the book, so I won't ruin the drama, but it was at a moment of desperation, and this was. This saved the organization from insolvency.

Basically, you needed the payment in the next couple weeks. Probably.

We were running. We were not. We weren't unable to pay our staff, but we had $881,000 in the bank we couldn't touch. And we were unwilling to compromise by either borrowing against it or borrowing one penny. So I was gonna shut the organization down and say, water didn't work. Oh, man, this is $320 million ago. But this is $318 million ago. I mean, this is.

This is year one, year two.

This is a year and a half in. We had raised a couple million dollars for water projects. Couldn't keep the lights on on the overhead account. Just couldn't tell our story. And I'd been praying, if I'm honest, with very little faith, with no faith that anything would happen for a miracle. I'd been like, God, I need a miracle. Like, you know, would the sky part? Something needs to happen here. And a Complete stranger walked in off the street, sat with me for two hours and said, cool, I'll give a million dollars into the overhead account.

Crazy. Like, there's the miracle.

So I want to do that for somebody at some point so that, you know, the ambition is not a house in the Hamptons or, you know, to drive a Mercedes or anything like that. But I'd love to be able to actually give more generously.

But you're not making a big enough salary to do that yet. Because you make a charity salary, right?

I mean, yeah. And we're benchmarked. And I mean, you know, for years the board has always tried to pay me more because the benchmark in New York is higher than I've taken. And I'm like, yeah, but I'm just gonna give more away. So anyway, at some point it'd be fun to. Maybe it's a side hustle.

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