Redemption with charity founder Scott Harriso...

Hello from Team Simon! We're taking a quick break this week and will be back with brand-new episodes of A Bit of Optimism next Tuesday. Until then, we're revisiting one of our favorite episodes — when bestselling novelist Fredrik Backman joined the show to talk about the thing he ...  Show more

Maybe this sounds familiar: you leave a party and spend the rest of the night convinced everyone was upset with you. Or you replay something you said in a meeting for days and second-guess every last word. Vanessa Van Edwards has been there. As a self-proclaimed "recovering awkwa ...  Show more

“Charity means love. It means to look after your neighbor in need and get nothing in return.”Scott Harrison From the outside looking in, he was living the dream.Killer SoHo loft. Private jets to exotic locales. Rolex, cover model girlfriend and cash. Lots of cash.But ten years li ...  Show more

After 10 years of being a club promoter in New York, Scott Harrison declared moral bankruptcy, and bought a one way ticket to Liberia to serve others. While in Liberia Scott was faced with the startling reality of clean water access in the developing world. Seeing how big of a pr ...  Show more

Scott Harrison was living a life that was as close to pure hedonism as you could come. He was on top of the world, getting paid to party and living utterly (and destructively) in the moment...in the worst way

Eventually, falling apart physically and emotionally, Harrison ...

Scott Harrison is the founder and CEO of Charity: Water, one of the most innovative non-profit organisations in the world. Bringing the Netflix model to the charity sector, Scott has built a positive community around trying to bring drinking water to the 700 million people who do ...  Show more