115: Scott Harrison |From Decadence to Service

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The founder of Charity Water, Scott Harrison was a successful nightclub promoter living a life of decadence many might envy. He found himself hobnobbing with the beautiful people on a daily basis, but he had an epiphany on the beaches of Uruguay. Though he didn’t lack materially he was morally, spiritually and emotionally bereft. He sold everything, took up residence in a friend’s closet and volunteered in war torn Liberia, paying for the privilege. While there he found his mission: He would use his influence to help remediate the lack of clean water that often leads to disease for the 660 million people in third world nations who are affected.

Lessons:

1. To change your life, and the life of others, it may be necessary to step into a new story of your life and scrap the old one.
2. The best way to motivate change is through the promise of positive action with tangible results and not through shame or guilt.
3. Do not compromise your values and morality; maintain your tenacity and you will find a way through the challenge.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey guys I am in a stairwell in Japan with my favorite kettle bell and you are about to hear from Scott Harrison Charity Water.
0:10.0	You've got Colonel Nye covering for me while I'm climbing these friggin stairs in Japan.
0:15.9	Anyway, you're going to love this. You're going to learn how he took his entrepreneurial skills and he's doing something he absolutely loves.
0:22.4	Purpose is awesome in life.
0:24.4	Check this podcast out, you're going to love it.
0:26.8	Sorry, I'm out of breath.
0:27.8	See ya.
0:28.8	So here we are back in Vermont Spartan Up podcast.
0:34.3	Marion's panning back which is actually smart because she was almost impaled a moment ago
0:37.8	without realizing it by Colonel Nye's micro stand.
0:41.4	I like my weapons.
0:42.4	Colonel Nye, you do like your weapons, thank goodness you're well trained in them.
0:45.0	And Scott Harrison likes his water.
0:46.0	Yeah, I don't know if our British doctor is as well trained in weapons, but she's certainly trained as a weapon of goodness out there saving lives on adventures.
0:55.4	And speaking of weapons of goodness, we have Sefra here.
0:58.3	Just full of sunshine and rainbows and you're going to hear lots about that.
1:01.9	Thanks, Johnny, right back at you.
1:03.3	You're very welcome.
1:04.3	Just a mirror of your energy.
1:05.3	And I'm Johnny.
1:06.3	Joe calls me Dr. Johnny.
1:07.6	Don't know why but I'll take it.
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