Flourishing By Giving Hope Away with Hal Donaldson—Convoy of Hope, CEO & Co-Founder

The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Crossroads

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

After a challenging and impoverished childhood, Hal Donaldson had one goal in life—don’t be poor. He was making strides toward meeting that goal when a chance encounter with Mother Teresa changed everything. He was cut to the heart by the question she asked him, and over time, his entire life realigned. As the CEO and Co-founder of Convoy of Hope, a nonprofit relief organization influencing the lives of millions around the globe, Hal has found the secret to a flourishing life is giving hope away.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Dirt, your executive producer for The Aggressive Life. I have some big news on June 6th.
0:07.2	We'll be releasing our 200th episode of The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome. Two hundred episodes.
0:13.0	Freaking amazing. It's a huge milestone. We want to feature the most important piece of our
0:17.9	aggressive life family in that episode. And that's you. We want to know.
0:22.4	What's your favorite episode of all time? How has the aggressive life influenced you? Has it made you
0:26.9	make any big decisions? Do you have a burning question for Brian that you need him to answer? Leave us
0:32.4	your voice on the aggressive life voicemail and it just might show up in our 200th episode special.
0:38.5	You can go to bryantome.com slash your voice for the number and all the details.
0:43.5	It's bryantone.com slash your voice to get your voice on an upcoming episode of the aggressive life.
0:50.0	Now, let's get to today's show.
1:08.0	Music Now, let's get to today's show. Welcome to The Aggressive Life.
1:10.4	Nearly everyone has a dream of change in the world, making it a better place, but not many
1:15.1	people actually get around to doing that.
1:18.3	Today's guest, I would call him a friend, Hal Donaldson, is not one of those people.
1:24.8	He's the president and CEO of Convoy of Hope, a faith-based non-profit.
1:31.0	He leads an organization that's helped 200 million people worldwide. 200 million. How does he help
1:38.5	them? He, by sharing food. I don't even want to tell you how he's helped him do. See,
1:42.6	what I'm concerned. Because whenever you start talking about poverty,
1:46.3	we're going to talk a little bit about today.
1:49.2	Everyone's walls go up like the Batmobile.
1:51.7	You know, it's like,
1:52.4	tired of pleas for money.
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