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All It Takes Is A Goal

ATG 71: Reinvent your life, raise millions of dollars, do work that matters - The Scott Harrison Story

All It Takes Is A Goal

Jon Acuff

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51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

How do you tackle the goals that feel totally insurmountable? Things like ending world hunger, putting a stop to trafficking, or saving an endangered species? This week’s guest understands how intimidating it can be, but that hasn’t stopped him from pursuing his goal of providing clean water to everyone - as in literally every single person on the planet.

Scott Harrison spent almost 10 years as a nightclub promoter in New York City before leaving to volunteer on a hospital ship off the coast of Liberia, West Africa as a volunteer photojournalist. Returning home to New York City two years later, he founded the non-profit organization Charity: Water in 2006. In 15 years, with the help of more than 1 million donors worldwide, Charity: Water has raised over $598 million and funded 79,136 water projects in 29 countries. He joins me to talk about rebuilding his entire life, what saved his nonprofit from bankruptcy, and the power of living a transparent life.

In This Episode:
Visit Charity:Water online
Watch the video at The Spring
Buy a copy of Scott Harrison’s book, Thirst

Scott Harrison Book List:
Getting Things Done by David Allen
The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer
Chip and Dan Heath
Sacred Fire by Ronald Rolheiser

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone and welcome to the All It Takes to Go podcast, the best place in the entire

0:08.3

world, including all of Canada to learn how to build new thoughts, new actions and new

0:12.5

results.

0:14.1

I'm your host John A. Kuff and today I'm joined by Scott Ayers.

0:26.5

Who's that?

0:27.5

I'm so glad you asked.

0:29.6

That's been almost 10 years as a nightclub promoter in New York City before leaving to volunteer

0:34.0

on a hospital ship off the coast of Liberia as a volunteer photojournalist.

0:39.5

We're turning home to New York City two years later.

0:41.2

He founded the nonprofit organization Charity Water in 2006, turning his full attention

0:46.2

to the global water crisis and the world's 785 million people without clean water to drink.

0:52.8

He created public installations and innovative online fundraising programs to spread international

0:57.6

awareness of the issue.

0:59.5

In 15 years with the help of more than a million donors worldwide, Charity Water has raised

1:04.4

over $600 million and funded 79,136 water projects in 29 countries.

1:12.1

When completed, those projects will provide more than 13.2 million people with clean, safe,

1:17.5

drinking water.

1:18.5

Scott's also been recognized as Fortune Magazine's list of 40 under 40, Forbes Impact 30 fast

1:23.4

companies, 100 most creative people in business where he was number 10, by the way, that's legit.

1:28.8

He is currently a world economic forum young global leader and author of the New York Times

1:34.1

bestselling book, Thirst.

1:35.9

Scott and his wife Victoria have two children, Jackson and Emma.

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