S2E182 Water of Life: A Quest for Clean Water with Scott Harrison

It's a Good Life

Brian Buffini

Business, Unknown, Entrepreneurship, Life, Good, Entrepreneur, Coaching

4.4 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

At the age of 28, Scott Harrison walked away from his career as a top nightclub promoter in New York to volunteer on a hospital ship in West Africa and discover his true calling. In this episode, he tells Brian how, with no money or experience, he founded charity: water, an organization that has raised over $740 million to bring clean drinking water to more than 18.4 million people around the world.

YOU WILL LEARN:

· How his childhood shaped him.

· How he came to a radical decision to reset his life.

· How he built one of the most trusted nonprofits in the world.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

charity: water

“Thirst,” by Scott Harrison

NOTEWORTHY QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:

“703 million humans are poisoning themselves today because of the situations they were born into. And it's a solvable problem.” – Scott Harrison

“We literally know how to help 100% of the people on earth get water, but we haven't chosen to do it. We haven't built the will, the determination. We haven't built the movement. We haven't raised the resources to do it. But that's what keeps me so excited.” – Scott Harrison

“I feel so fortunate, at 28, to have realized there would never be enough. There would never be enough - someone would always have more.” – Scott Harrison

“I just encourage people to ask a different question: how can I use my time and my talent and my money in the service of others?” – Scott Harrison

“It almost is intoxicating when you're moving from a life of accumulation, of collecting the markers of success, to then saying, ‘Well, what if my life could benefit others?’” – Scott Harrison

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0:00.0	Welcome to It's a Good Life, the Podcast for Entrepreneurs, where it's all about growing
0:07.7	yourself and your business.
0:09.7	Here's your host, founder of America's largest business coaching company, Brian the Feeney.
0:15.0	Well top of the morning to you and welcome to it's a good life.
0:21.0	Many times I'll say I have a special guest today on a program, but today I am a little more
0:26.5	excited than normal. When I came across this gentleman's information, had a chance to dive into his book, dive into his work, dive into a story.
0:34.4	I'm not going to hype on too much, but in a world that
0:37.6	specializes in being unauthentic these days, the authenticity of this man's story, his experience, and what he's
0:45.1	doing is just fantastic. His name is Scott Harrison and he has quite the story. He's the
0:51.2	CEO of Charity Water and we'll talk about that today.
0:55.0	It's quite a journey. He was a nightclub guy and living hard fast life, had a change in life, a change in experience, and now he's a guy that is changing the world
1:06.0	by bringing the most needed commodity to people in the world, which is clean water.
1:11.0	He has a book we're going to talk about called Thirst, which is a story of
1:14.7	redemption, compassion, and a mission to bring clean water to the world. I believe we'll all find
1:21.1	a little bit of something for ourselves in this chat today.
1:24.8	So Scott, thanks for taking the time.
1:26.6	We really appreciate you being with us here today.
1:28.9	All right, Brian, it's good to be here.
1:30.6	I hope I can live up to that intro.
1:32.3	Yeah, well, I think it speaks for itself. Let's dive right in because you have a heck of a story.
1:38.0	And I think people can connect, as we all know, to someone else's journey.
1:42.0	A very, very odd journey you took, but maybe you can start off and you know I've heard about where you started as a kid and how you ended up in New York City and maybe you can just share a little bit of your background.
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