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The GaryVee Audio Experience

#AskGaryVee 300 | Scott Harrison

The GaryVee Audio Experience

Gary Vaynerchuk

Business, Marketing

4.818.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Super happy to have my great friend Scott Harrison, founder of Charity:Water come on the show for this iconic 300th episode! We sit down and chat about his charity, the issue of unclean or non-existent water facing millions of people on earth, and take calls from viewers that are starting their own charities & more.

It'd mean a lot to me if you checked out Scott's book, Thirst here: https://www.amazon.com/Thirst-Story-Redemption-Compassion-Mission/dp/1524762849

Transcript

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0:00.0

On this episode, I want you to buy a book and meet a great friend of mine for another time, Scott Harrison of Charity Water.

0:08.0

This is the GaryVee audio experience.

0:21.0

Hey everybody, this is Gary Vay, Nerd Chuck, and this is it. This is episode 300 of the Ask GaryVee Show.

0:28.0

Scott, I'm very excited. I made a big to do and told them we got to save this slot. It's got to be this big to do.

0:33.0

300. And then make that movie about that?

0:36.0

Yeah, exactly the warrior. I think that I think this is a super special A, you've been on the show before, and B, I think what better, you know, what better slot to use than for somebody I admire, who's on a project that I admire.

0:49.0

And so for the V-Internation who's watching, why don't you tell them who you are and what you're doing here on this special day.

0:57.0

Happy to come up to you this time.

0:59.0

Thank you.

1:00.0

So 12 years ago started an organization called Charity Water, a very simple mission, bring clean drinking water.

1:05.0

And your name and your name?

1:07.0

Oh yeah, sorry, Scott Harrison.

1:09.0

Yeah, I want to help get every single person on earth clean drinking water.

1:12.0

And Benat that now for 12 years, love what you've been saying lately about, you know, showing up for, you know, not a year or nine months or nine weeks, right?

1:21.0

It's been, it's really been 12 years of really, really hard work. And that's the mission to get everybody clean water.

1:28.0

Then the vision is really to reinvent charity. And you and I have talked about this over the years.

1:32.0

So many people don't trust charity. So many people aren't giving.

1:35.0

There's a cynicism, there's a skepticism. And we just tried to design the perfect charity.

1:40.0

What would people want to give to what would it feel like? How would we handle their money?

1:45.0

What would those feedback looks, loops look like? So it's been 12 years of trying to innovate in that direction as well.

1:50.0

And you know, I'm hopeful that this is hit your radar because I'd probably bring it up once a month.

1:55.0

Or even if you're not cynical or you don't think about giving and you come from a good place, you were brought up the way I was, which is, you know, society that like, you know, you worked hard your whole life and then you got older.

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