#25 - Scott Harrison: transformation, finding meaning, and taking on the global water crisis

The Peter Attia Drive

Peter Attia, MD

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Fitness

4.7 • 7.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2018

⏱️ 139 minutes

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Summary

We discuss:

How Scott and Peter met [3:45];
Scott’s tragic family story that shaped his life and altered his trajectory [8:00];
High school years, rebellion, and music [30:30];
Life as a club promoter, drug use, soul-searching, and a change of heart [41:30];
Mercy Ships [1:15:00];
The amazing transformations of Mercy Ships and the parallels to his own transformation [1:28:00];
Leveraging the art of storytelling to raise money and awareness while fighting temptations to fall into his previous life [1:33:30];
Discovering the water crisis that lead to charity: water [1:46:45];
How the lack of trust in nonprofits can cripple charities [1:54:00];
The four pillars of charity: water that helped it overcome the stigma of nonprofits and become successful [2:01:00];
Where to learn more about Scott’s work and charity: water [2:12:30];
Scott’s book recommendations [2:14:30]; and
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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome to the Peter Atia Drive. I'm your host, Peter Atia.
0:10.0	The drive is a result of my hunger for optimizing performance, health, longevity, critical thinking,
0:15.7	along with a few other obsessions along the way. I've spent the last several years working
0:19.6	with some of the most successful top performing individuals in the world, and this podcast
0:23.8	is my attempt to synthesize what I've learned along the way to help you live a higher quality
0:28.3	and more fulfilling life. If you enjoy this podcast, you can find more information on today's
0:32.5	episode and other topics at peteratiamd.com.
0:35.3	Hi everyone, welcome to this week's episode of The Drive. My guest this week is a gentleman
0:47.6	by the name of Scott Harrison, who I suspect many of you have not heard of, which is not
0:51.9	uncommon for this podcast, but my hope is certainly that by the end of this episode,
0:56.0	he'll be glad you heard of him and heard him. Scott's the founder and CEO of Charity Water,
1:02.5	which we'll talk about in great detail. Charity Water is a pretty unique charity, not just
1:07.6	in that the work they're doing is remarkable, but I think the efficiency with which they do
1:11.7	it and the transparency with which they do it and the financial model that they've built
1:15.7	is really interesting. But truthfully, the real reason I had Scott on was not so much to
1:20.2	talk about Charity Water, and we do get to it probably at the end of the podcast, but
1:23.8	it's more to actually talk about his personal story. And even though Scott, as you'll learn
1:28.8	in this podcast is religious and I don't find myself to be a religious person in any way,
1:32.8	shape or form, I'm really moved by not just his conviction, but this sort of incredible
1:39.2	sense of purpose he's found in life. And it's really his life's story and transformation
1:43.6	that, you know, really moved me the very first time we met, which was about four or five
1:48.1	years ago. And to this day, whenever I speak with Scott, I come away feeling on some level
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