EO Fire 1218

Not only was I the most polluted person I knew, I actually polluted others for a living.

Hey Fire Nation and welcome to EO Fire, where I chat with inspiring entrepreneurs seven days a week.

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Fire Nation into house, Johnny Doom is here and I am fired up to bring you our featured guest today, Scott Harrison.

Scott, are you prepared to Ignite?

Absolutely, let's go.

Scott is the founder and CEO of Charity Water, a non-profit organization working to bring clean and safe drinking water to the 633 million people living without it around the world.

In eight years, Charity Water has funded over 16,000 water projects, providing over 5.2 million people with clean water.

Scott, take a minute, fill in some gaps from that intro and give us just a little glimpse in your personal life.

Sure, well I guess my story is non-traditional in the Charity World.

I came to this space by way of nightclub promotion. I basically partied my brains off for 10 years in New York City from the age of 18 to 28 and lived perhaps the most soulless and decadent life that you can imagine.

I was fortunate enough to find my way out of it at 28 years old and really explore what the opposite of the life of a nightclub promoter would look like.

That took me on a humanitarian mission to Liberia after selling all my positions and I went to go live in the poorest country of the world.

I set the stage at the time, this is about 11 years ago, there was no electricity, there was no running water, there was no sewage, there was no mail.

Charles Taylor, the dictator had just been thrown out after waging a brutal 14 year civil war using child soldiers.

I had gone in on a humanitarian mission with a group of doctors and surgeons who really tried to pick up the pieces and help people.

The country had one doctor for every 50,000 of its citizens to give you a comparison here in America. I think it's one for every 180 of us.

So if you got sick in the country, you're just completely out of luck.

I was actually living on a hospital ship, a 522 foot converted yacht that had been gutted and turned into the state of the art hospital.

This humanitarian group had just sailed up and down the coast of Africa with the best doctors in the world would pull into port and thousands and thousands of people would be waiting, hoping to see a doctor, hoping to be healed.

So it was an incredibly moving experience, very different from my world of popping 500-hour bottles of crystal and getting people drunk for a living.

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