Taylor Conroy: The Profound Power of Philanthropy

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

From growing up poor to going bankrupt in his own business venture, Taylor Conroy has seen it all throughout his personal and professional career. But the main thing he learned along the way is the power of believing with a wealth mindset rather than a poverty mindset and how that positively changes lives. Take a listen to our latest episode to find out how to harness the power of philanthropy in your life to start improving yourself and those around you!

Taylor Conroy is a meditating surfer obsessed with building businesses that create change. His first social enterprise, Change Heroes, mobilized 15,000 people from 80 countries around the world to to fund hundreds of schools, water projects, libraries, girls scholarships and more for 200,000 people. He recently co-founded an impact travel company called Journey333 whose goal is transforming the world’s largest industry (travel) into a vehicle for sustainable impact and personal transformations.

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0:00.0	So sure 9-10 startups fail I get that and a lot of people say that don't worry 9-10 fail
0:05.3	I was like I didn't plan on being the 9-10 you know my investors were were betting on me being the 1-10
0:11.3	and calling them all up and feeling I just felt so much I felt
0:15.8	like I disappointed people I felt ashamed that I'd failed I felt like I
0:19.9	disappointed people I felt like I'd let them down and that was the hardest part for me
0:24.7	Because I have always been really sensitive to what other people think I've always cared far too much what other people think
0:30.7	So you can imagine being a people pleaser, being a, you know,
0:34.7	success addict, someone who's always been done well, and then not just failing, but I'm talking like
0:40.9	skidding on my face failing, you you know and then I mean call I
0:44.1	run up and be like by the way I just failed and because I failed you're losing your
0:48.0	25 grand or you're losing your 250 grand or whatever it is that you put in those
0:51.9	calls were just so, you know, devastating.
0:57.5	And what was incredible about is that some of them, the guy who put in $250,000,
1:02.2	I actually a guy put in 350 grand he put
1:04.4	it more than anyone else he was like just get up dust yourself off move on to the next
1:08.6	thing you know you gave it your all good job you made an impact in the world and you know I believe in you for your
1:13.9	next venture you know which was incredible and then you go to the people that put in a couple
1:18.4	people that put in ten grand were just all over me like like white on rice and
1:22.3	making me feel ten times of, let's say,
1:24.8	what their actions made me feel 10 times worse than I had already felt.
1:29.7	I'm Srenny Rao and this is the unmistakable Creative Podcast where you get a window into the stories
1:38.9	and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started movements, built thriving businesses, written best-selling books, and created insanely interesting art.
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