Scott Harrison: From Nightclub Promoter to Charity Water Founder
My First Million
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šļø 17 April 2023
ā±ļø 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I turned out that the Red Cross is not looking for a nightclub promoter. |
| 0:04.5 | Doctors without voters are, they're looking for credible doctors, not, you know, DJs or promoters. |
| 0:11.9 | So I remember being so, uh, |
| 0:15.1 | dejected by the rejections. |
| 0:18.0 | And then one organization wrote me back and said, if you are willing to pay us five hundred |
| 0:24.0 | dollars a month to volunteer, and if you're willing to go live in the poorest country in the |
| 0:29.2 | world, a country I'd never even heard of called Liberia. |
| 0:33.9 | And it was at the bottom of the United Nations development chart because it had just come out of |
| 0:38.4 | a 14 year civil war. And it was finally data on the country that they could stack rank it at |
| 0:44.0 | the bottom of the world. And they said, we are taking a medical mission into this country and |
| 0:49.7 | we'll take you if you pay us. |
| 1:00.1 | What's up? I have Scott Harrison here. We've been, I don't know, maybe planning to do, |
| 1:05.3 | but at least in my head, I've been planning to do an episode like this for a long time. |
| 1:09.8 | So I invited myself on. Let's be honest. You did invite yourself on, but that's something I love about you. |
| 1:14.7 | That's because I like you. You are, you're also like kind of unashamed. You are unashamed at like |
| 1:20.5 | doing, getting the right thing done. I met this guy once and he said, if your intentions are good, |
| 1:26.3 | you can get away with anything. I don't know if that's, I don't know if that's 100% true, |
| 1:30.7 | but I do think it's a good motto. Don't be stupid. Too shy. So yes, you invited yourself on, |
| 1:36.3 | but I think this is going to be a good one. Well, the alternative was you want people to die of |
| 1:40.2 | bad water. So I mean, right. Yeah. Well, which one is it? Just kidding. Scott's a good friend. |
| 1:48.7 | We met through a mutual friend, Michael Birch, and then I went on a trip to Africa with Scott and |
| 1:54.6 | saw the work that he was doing. So that was kind of cool. I'll say this. So a lot of people click on |
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