E153: How I Raised $700 Million: Charity: Water Founder

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Scott Harrison is the founder and CEO of Charity: Water, one of the most innovative non-profit organisations in the world. Bringing the Netflix model to the charity sector, Scott has built a positive community around trying to bring drinking water to the 700 million people who don’t have access to it.

For this episode, we’ve partnered with Charity: Water to ensure that all of the proceeds we receive from it will go towards providing drinking water to the people who need it the most.

The story of how Scott came to lead a global movement in water provision is unlike any other. A former nightclub promoter and owner, he was a user of every type of drug under the sun before he cleaned up his act and started again. Because when he asked himself what was most important, it wasn’t his own pleasure, but helping other people.

Topics:

Early Years
Attention seeking & becoming a nightclub promoter
Being deprived of fun led me into drugs and alcohol abuse
Death threads & finding my purpose
Leaving my life and vice behind
Humanitarian work in Africa and its impact on me
How did it feel helping people & starting your own charity?
Promoting clean water for the whole world
What struggles did the charity face?
Work-life balance
The importance of giving and service
Our last guest's question

To help Scott in his mission, we are donating 100% of the advertising revenue from this episode to help people access clean water. If you’d like to donate also, click here:

charitywater.org/thediaryofaceo

Scott:

https://www.instagram.com/scottharrison/ https://twitter.com/scottharrison/

Scott’s book:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thirst-Story-Redemption-Compassion-Mission/dp/1524762865/

Charity: Water:

https://www.charitywater.org/uk

Mentioned books:

The Pursuit of God - Tozer, A. W

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pursuit-God-W-Tozer/dp/1940177103

Watch the episodes on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDiaryOfACEO/videos

Sponsors:

Huel - https://my.huel.com/Steven

Myenergi - https://bit.ly/3oeWGnl

Vodafone Business - https://bit.ly/3NIM35n

https://bit.ly/3AuPKsA

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm emotionally bankrupt.
0:01.9	I'm morally bankrupt.
0:03.2	And this is not how I'd want it to end.
0:06.3	The founder and CEO of Charity Water,
0:08.5	making a difference all over the world.
0:10.3	A New York Times bestseller.
0:12.0	He's a certifiable badass in his name.
0:14.0	He's a scat heresy.
0:15.0	The lifestyle of a promoter is one
0:17.0	where you get lots of attention.
0:18.5	The fun I had for 10 years in nightlife
0:20.4	was a lot of cocaine and MDMA, 40 to 60 cigarettes a day fun.
0:25.0	I realized, what if I did die?
0:28.2	What would I have to show for life?
0:30.9	So that started a process.
0:33.6	10% of the world's drinking dirty water.
0:37.1	And I realized so many of my friends didn't trust charities.
0:40.2	Where does the money really go?
0:41.9	So I had a very simple idea.
0:43.4	Promise the public that 100% of anything
0:45.7	they would ever give to charity water
0:47.6	would go directly to help people get clean water.
	...

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