Harrison: Nightclub promotional and storytelling skills translate directly to humanitarian work
Scott Harrison · Scott Harrison: From Nightclub Promoter to Charity Water Founder (#443) · Apr 19, 2023 · at 18:16
Charity: Water founder Scott Harrison describes realizing during his volunteer work on a hospital ship in Liberia that his marketing background could serve charitable missions.
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“So I learned that maybe the same gift of promoting, getting people to stand outside a velvet rope to cue, to hope to get into a nightclub, telling the story that if you came in my club and you spent thousands of dollars and you left with a cute boy or a cute girl, then your life had meaning. You know, that same Maybe gift or skills of promoting could be used to promote something entirely different and redemptive and important for other people.”
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