Scott Harrison: charity: water Founder on Hedonism, Redemption and Service.

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  So about a dozen years ago, Scott Harrison, my guest today, was living about the most hedonistic life you could possibly imagine.

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  He was a club promoter in New York City, where he would stay out all hours in the evening doing drugs, rolling with the, quote, beautiful people, literally getting paid thousands of dollars a month to be seen drinking certain kinds of alcohol.

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  And then he had a moment of awakening, a moment of reckoning that led to a profound personal transformation.

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  And he found himself being a photographer on a floating hospital ship off the coast of Liberia.

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  That led him to reconnect with something deeper, a voice of service, and then eventually found charity Water, which has now raised more than $300 million and served a huge number of people and communities around the world by partnering with local organizations to provide fresh water.

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  That remarkable journey, how it's changed him, where he came from, how he kind of came full circle in a lot of different ways, leveraged his skills as a world class club promoter to build one of the most formidable foundations or charities in the world, is where we go in today's conversation.

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  It's also detailed, along with a lot of incredible stories and really moving photos in his new book, thirst.

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  Really excited to share Scott and his story with you.

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  I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.

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  Born in Philadelphia, my dad was a business guy.

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  He was an accountant at the time, then kind of transitioning into an electrical engineering firm.

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  Mom was a journalist and writer and was born in the city, then moved to the Pennsylvania suburbs.

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  And then when I was four, we moved to New Jersey to get closer to dad's new job, which was in Bordentown.

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  And I remember the 22 minutes commute.

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  This was like gold for him.

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  He could get there door to door in 22 minutes.

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  And this was really where everything changed for our family.

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  What we didn't know at the time, we'd moved into this gray, drab house that wasn't my parents perfect house by any stretch of the imagination, but it was close to the work, and there was a great school.

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  It was on a little cul de sac.

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  And what none of us knew was that there was a carbon monoxide gas leak in this house.

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