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[Avis Mulhall]
I'm totally going to curse you know that. I'm fundamentally incapable of not cursing
and I'm always late and that's just a problem that I have, I'm not disrespectful it's just
that I really wanted to go for a swim this morning and I still have my wet bikini on
so it's a little uncomfortable.
So I just really want to come along today, Steph asked me to come along and one of the
reasons I really wanted to chat to you guys was that I wish that when I was in uni there
was stuff like this because I came to the whole social change and social innovation
thing a lot later. I wanted to share with you a little bit of my journey and I'm not
really good at sticking to my slides so excuse me if they are kind of a little bit off, but
I just wanted to talk to you about my journey and what happened to me and why I got here
and hopefully that will mean you don't have to do the whole corporate slave thing which
I did for a decade which was a bit s**t.
So I am from Ireland as Linton so eloquently put it and I studied art at university, started
off well then went highly wrong and then I ended up falling into a sales job and very
quickly then ended up working in a bank accidentally. I don't know how it happened and I've asked
myself that many many times. Then I ended up running a bank - I don't know why they
let me do that. Then I ended up becoming a head hunter which basically is high-level
recruitment which is basically like slavery which is a bit s**t and I got into recruitment
and I was doing it for a years and I was in my mid-twenties and it was made to be all
glamorous and you get caught up in this thing, I had a really unstable upbringing and I really
craved security and everyone told me that if you are successful you kind of have a really
good job, you have a partner, you have a house, you have a car and you get all these things
and then you'll be happy. And I said 'Okay, cool, I'll tick all these off one by one'
and friends of mine were going travelling and doing all sorts of these awesome things
and I was like okay, I'm going to be really sensible about this because I'm also a qualified
financial advisor just because I have a little thing where I need to do lots of things and
I was like 'I'm going to do it sensibly because I have all these things I want to do' and
then I could save up enough money, build a business, do all those amazing things later
and the funny thing was that I ended up being in this career and I had this boyfriend of
8 years. It was one of these things where I came home one day and I stood at my front
door and I had my key in my hand and I just had to stand outside my whole door and just
kind of go (sigh) 'It's going to be okay because on the other side of the door was a boyfriend
that I actually didn't like for about 4 years and I realised that at that point, what I
was doing was completely, completely ridiculous. I was going into work and my job was so stressful,
that I would just go in, work really hard, come home, try and breakup with my boyfriend,
he was a d**k and then I would just kind of take him back and then it just kept going
and I realised that I didn't even like him for about 4 years and I was 'this needs to
stop.' So I was 28 years old, I was earning about $250,000 a year, I had two houses, I
had two cars, I had a d**khead of a boyfriend and life was wonderful -- not. You know it
was one of those things, from the outside looking in, everyone was just like 'Oh my
God, you're so successful, everything is amazing'. You get sent to New York on shopping trips
if you want to buy a dress for a ball, you just go to the UK and pick up a new one, your
boss sends you on helicopter trips and I was sent to ride a couple of courses playing golf
every Wednesday. It looked really really great but it was really empty at the same time and
I realised I had all this stuff but I actually had nothing else and I felt that there had
to be more to life. So that day I went into the house, boyfriend was waiting on the other
side of the door and surely he did pick a fight with me that day as he usually always
did and I just went 'I'm going upstairs' and he was like what you going to do, leave me?'
and I said 'yeah, actually I am'! So I packed up everything I owned, I just left and I quit
my job and I booked a one way ticket and I went and lived in a rainforest in Africa.
As you do!
So this was my Christmas party just before I left and this was typically every month
I would go to a ball and it was all fancy pants. I actually haven't blow dried my hair
as you can see in about five years. This is kind of what I left and then two weeks later,
I woke up here, which is way better. And it was really weird because everyone was like
'oh no, how are you going to adjust, you're the girl who has like 200 pairs of shoes',
and I questioned it because I actually don't even like shoes. I was like 'you know, I think
I can adjust quite well, this will be fine'. And so woke up and I kind of arrived at this
village, it was one of these kind of total missions, it took three planes, a ferry, two
taxis, a bus, a four-wheel drive journey, about three punctures, about 300 children
playing football and we finally arrived at the village and it was pitch black at night
and I had to hike for an hour and a half to the top of a mountain to get to this village
because you can see it is kind of remote.
The next morning I woke up and it was kind of like leaving the real world and I am waking
up in Neverland and it was just the best decision I ever made. I was a couple of weeks into
it and I was walking down on my way to school, cause I was teaching English when I was over
there as well as working in the office and I just kind of had this really weird feeling
in my chest and I was like 'I can't really figure what this feeling is' and I found it
really confronting because I couldn't figure out what was going on and then I realised
that for the first time in my entire life I wasn't stressed out and I actually felt
happy. That was a really really confronting moment for me because I was nearly 30 and
this was the first time I've known that where I am is the exact right place at the exact
right time and that what I am doing is what I want to do and it was the first time in
my life that I had done that. Since then, I promised myself that I would never do anything
that I didn't want to do, except maybe get up in the morning which I'm not very good
at but I have to do. It was at that moment where I just kind of went 'okay, this is my
life, I'm going to change it'.
Just to kind of give you a sampler, I went from fancy office, fancy car, fancy house
and I used to have to collect my water at a river. So this was a village that had no
electricity, no running water and no phone signals. There was one spot in one of the
villages where you could climb up a tree and do this. You might get a text message once
a week but that was about it! So my family didn't hear from me for about a year except
when I ended up in hospital, which was quite often. I'm very accident-prone, and I f***
up a lot, I f*** up a lot in business and I f*** up a lot in real life and in everything
and my theory on that is f*** up, and f*** up more often because life will be a whole
lot more interesting if you do. That's my theory anyway! What life in Africa taught
me...I thought I was kind of going to go over there and you know I would help children and
I would teach them and it would all be amazing and you know, I was retarded -- what was I
thinking? You're not supposed to have favourites, but you can't help it! These four were awesome
and there were the exact same life which I found hilarious.
What life over here taught me was that life is hard. My life I thought was hard but I
made it hard because I went into this career that was really difficult and chasing money
I didn't need to buy possessions that I didn't want. What I learnt about life in Africa is
that life is about three things and three things only. It's about food, it's about family,
it's about community. If you have enough food to put in your belly, you've got people to
eat it with and a community that support you in what you do, you really don't need anything
else. This is one of my neighbours and she lived in the house next door. I lived in a
mud hut and in six months I saw her every single day and in six months she never ever
changed her outfit and she didn't have shoes. I don't wear shoes because I don't like wearing
shoes, she doesn't have shoes. It's just one of those wake-up calls you get. You go into
these house and they don't have beds they don't have anything, they sleep on mud floors
and it's fiercely fiercely cold. When I used to go to sleep at night I had seven blankets.
You're on the top of the mountain it gets really, really cold, I slept with a hoodie
on, with thermals, with socks. She slept in that with no bed, no blanket, nothing. I knew
I needed to change something. I knew at that point that I would never go back to a normal
job because how could I? And there's so much more that needs to be done.
Ask yourself the question. What age do you think these hands are? Have a guess. They're
the hands of an 11 year-old boy. So that's an 11 year-old boy who has been working maybe
ten hours a day since he was 3 years-old and the things is that we can look at this and
take two things. We can look at it and go 'it's sad, it's tragic and I pity them'. Or
you can look at it and go 'these are resilient people, they work hard and they know how to
take the best out of life, but they face a lot of difficulties, but they understand what
true happiness is and they know how to find it.' We have all the trappings of wealth.
We have everything that we need, but we're never happy. We're always searching for more.
The more stuff you have the more stuff you want and the more stuff that you're told you
want and I think that is one of the fundamental problems with us.
This was my best friend's daughter, her name's Beatrice, she was in my class. A very, very
beautiful girl and it was just after I set up Lily that I found out she died, so she
died of a diarrhea-related disease, she was 8 years old. And that really just shouldn't
happen. So after I left the village I was kind of all rallied up and I was like I'm
going to go out there, I'm going to get into the world, I'm going to change things but
I'm going to travel first because that's fun too.
I travelled through sixteen countries and along the way I had a few mishaps. I did mention
I was accident prone so I had malaria twice, I had cerebral malaria once, where it goes
into your brain. That's not fun, it makes you forget stuff, yeah really weird. Yeah
you really forget everything; your brain just stops working. So cerebral malaria once, I
ended up having a gorilla this size roll over my legs, quite scary, and it just sat beside
man and I was like 'what the f*** are you doing?!' I was just like 'sh*t!' Yeah that's
not a moment you want to find yourself in a rainforest sitting beside a gorilla that's
bigger than you. I had a couple of encounters with snakes, one of which I had to kill with
my machete. If you're cutting grass with a machete you will find yourself with snakes.
Note to self. I had a very serious disagreement with a monkey in a hotel room and the monkey
won. And I got attacked by a cheetah in Zimbabwe. I don't really know how that happened but
it was entirely my own fault because I tried to take a stupid picture. So yeah, don't do
that either. And that's just some of the stuff I did. And that I ended up rocking up to Mozambique.
Mozambique is a beautiful, beautiful place and I was supposed to stay there for about
you know, I'd been camping for 4, 5 months, me and my tent and a herd of animals and rocked
up to Mozambique and I'm like 'okay, I'm going to chill out by the beach for a few days,
second day broke my foot surfing and so I ended up staying in Mozambique and I ended
up running a surf and yoga lodge on the coastline of Mozambique which if that sounds kind of
awesome it's because it was. Basically one of the best jobs I've had in my whole entire
life.
It was very easy to just kind of fall into the life is wonderful, life is easy, I don't
need to think about the world, but I knew that I couldn't do that. Right, I knew that
I could stay there forever and live a very blissful, blissful life but I would never
be content with myself because I knew that I wasn't changing something. So I knew that
something had to give, and it wasn't forever but enjoy it while it lasts and then try and
think of something that will happen. It was literally a day later that this surfer came
through and this guy is called Andrew and he's really, really similar to me, he had
a lot of the same values, he had a very similar career trajectory, he was earning like $400,000
a year as a creative director in New York and he was completely unsatisfied with life
as well. And I was just like 'yes! Another person like me!' and I had convinced him to
go to Ethiopia because it was the one country I hadn't been to yet. And I was like 'you
should definitely go to Ethiopia, it looks like it's awesome, it's awesome'. So long
story short, I went travelling around Ethiopia with him and I got Giardia when I was in Ethiopia
on a four day trek. So I had no food for four days and it was whilst on this trek that myself
and Andrew got talking about all the things we wanted to achieve in life and all the things
we wanted to do. We were half way up this mountain with this kind of crazy dancing Ethiopian
priest and a goat named Henry and we decided that we would go into business together and
we couldn't quite figure out what it would be or what it looked like but we knew it would
involve travel because we loved to travel, we knew it would involve adventures, because
we loved adventures and we knew that it would make a difference. So that was it, we just
decided there and then and that was it.
Andrew went back to New York, I went back to Ireland for a couple of months. Then between
New York, Ireland, LA we got a developer in LA at a music festival, which was fun. We
decided then to move to Australia to set up Mmmule. And Mule is one of those things that
sounds really silly but it is really silly and that's why it is fun. So Mmmule is like
a social network that connects travelers with locals and non-profits. So the idea is that
if that you are a mule, you deliver something to a local and then in return they give you
a reward. So if you really wanted to go to London, you could deliver a jar of vegemite
to an Aussie expat there and they might let you crash on their couch for a week. Easy.
But the better part is that you can deliver stuff to non-profits, so in July, I'm going
to India and I'm delivering a 40kg bag of donated prosthetic limbs to a project in Northern
India and in return they're bringing me on a 10 day motorcycle trip from Kashmir to Ladak.
So that's all sorts of awesome.
So we came over here to set up Mmmule and I arrived here just over two years ago and
I told you I was a bit of a cluster f*** of a human being so shortly after I arrived in
Australia, I got sick, and this is what happened.
VIDEO PLAYS Yeah well I arrived in Australia about 18
months ago and about six weeks after I arrived, I started to get sick. I've got Chrone's disease
which I've had since about 2005. But literally, I just started to feel really, really unwell.
Ended up going to see a doctor and within the space of a couple of weeks I just deteriorated
really, really badly and was told I needed to have surgery. So I went in and saw the
surgeon on Wednesday and was having surgery on the Friday. It was all supposed to be really
straight-forward. You know five days in hospital and about three weeks to recover. I was released
from hospital and within a day I was rushed back into hospital in the most severe pain
you could possibly imagine. And it turned out I had a massive infection and I had to
have an emergency laparotomy, so they just opened me up from ribs to groin and they said
five to ten minutes more and I could have died basically. When I woke up I ended up
having Ileostomy bag which was a nice surprise and basically just like a colostomy bag and
then the doctors were like 'look, I know it's a bit of a disaster but you'll get better
and you'll get better quickly'. But I didn't, I just felt worse and worse and worse. I just
wasn't getting better, they couldn't figure it out and I wasn't allowed to eat. I had
no food no water, I was on so many pain killers that I actually lost my sight.
Then I remember having a conversation with my doctor and I was just in severe pain all
day long and I just said to him 'is the pain going to go away?' and he was like 'I don't
know'. And I was like 'am I going to live?' and he was like 'I don't know'. And it was
at that moment that I just thought that was game over for me, I just slipped into a massive,
massive depression. I had trying to be strong and trying to be hard, just keep going. But
at that point, when you're in that incessant day in day out, it's really, really hard to
see an end to it. And when the person who is trying to fix you can't fix you and doesn't
know what's wrong with you, you know it's impossible. I became really, really depressed
and I've suffered from depression before but this was like nothing I've ever experienced.
It was the darkest days I've ever possible imagined. All I could think of everyday was
how I could kill myself. I went on antidepressants against my boyfriend at the time's wishes.
I knew that I needed them, I'd been depressed before and not gone on them and I struggled
through but I knew that I couldn't cope. Eventually I started to get better and after a few months
in hospital I was let out and then just it was this really long, hard road to recovery.
It's funny, the only thing I think that really kept me going through it all was that I knew
I had something to look forward to that was not just going back to a normal job, not just
going into a life that I wasn't happy in. I moved to Australia because I wanted to set
up a business and a huge part of that business has a central mission and I think that having
something that's bigger than yourself to look forward to really saved me. Knowing that I
could visualise the light
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One of the reasons I showed that was that it's not ever going to be easy. If you want
to do something worth doing, something will get in your way. I do things to the max, if
I f*** up, I f*** up majorly. And if something bad happens, usually it's rather large, but
the fact of the matter is that something will always stand in your way. For me, my family
stood in my way, my friends stood in my way. No believed in me, nobody could believe it
happened. They booked medical flights home for me, they were like 'Avis, get your head
out of the clouds, you're never going to be able to make this happen, just come home,
just come home where you're family are there, where you're friends are there.' I knew nobody
in this country. I arrived over here, I knew nobody. My business partner hadn't even arrived
when I got sick and I refused to leave. They were like 'you could die' and I was like 'yeah,
I know, but if I go home I give up'. I truly believed that I was doing something for the
first time in my life that was for me. And if I died, I died right? But I'd rather live
a short life full of all sorts of awesome than a long life chasing the pursuit of money
that leads to nothing but emptiness and possessions.
And that's where Think Act Change came about. Think Act Change is a community that I created
because I found that one of the things that's really important is that you need to have
people around you, the guy who was up before me was just talking about this when I came
in late, that if you want to make something happen, if you do learn, you'll surely fail.
They say it takes a village to raise a child. For me it takes a village to pursue your passion.
If you don't have a village, create one. And if you can't create one, find one. Because
you can never underestimate the vale of having people around you because you look in from
the outside again and you see these entrepreneurs doing amazing things and you look at them
and you admire them and you go 'god, they're amazing and they're doing all these things
and they got their sh*t together.' I'm really disorganised and we all don't have our sh*t
together. Nobody knows what they are doing, we just make it up as we go along. This is
one of the great things about sharing the office with another three social businesses.
These are three social business that I was like 'Oh my god they're amazing, they know
exactly what they're doing'. And I got in and I was like 'no they don't! That's great!'
And I felt so much better and it's just like surrounding yourself with people, you have
to remember, we're carving a new path, what we're doing is something new. So you just
go for it and find the people that will support you in doing that.
Think Act Change has grown to over two thousand members in just about a year and we are just
a bunch of people who want to change the world. We come together on a monthly basis. It's
people that will support you. You can come there and get inspired, you go away and you've
got that fire in your belly again and it's been really, really important to me and it's
where I found most of my best friends. Another reason why I wanted to show the video was
that mental health and wellbeing is just something we don't talk about. And it's really f***ing
hard when you're building a business. Everything will go wrong and when one thing goes wrong
all of them will go wrong. I had two of those weeks just recently and I just had two full
weeks of literally everything going wrong. Everything that you could possibly imagine
go wrong. And then to top that off the boy I was seeing dumped me which was fantastic.
It's okay now though, he just had a freak out attack but he'll probably do it again
because that's what boys do isn't it? Come back in six months, watch this space. Don't
tell him I said that he will freak out again. Sh*t! Damn it! I just can't win! You're completely
useless to anyone else if you are not looking after yourself and that's a lesson I learned
even after I got well because I was furiously chasing my dream and just kind of going 'screw
you Chrone's Disease, I'm better than you, I've survived and I'm like all sorts of awesome'.
Then I just got sick again, and again and again. And every time I'd burned the midnight
oil I'd end up back in hospital or crippled in pain and I was just like 'no! I need to
look after myself, I'm reclaiming my weekends'. Just look after yourself cause it's really
bloody important.
Yeah, Mmmule, Think. Act. Change. They're two of the things I do and then last year
I was at the G20 Summit representing Australia. I'm Irish and I really don't know how that
happened. Don't tell the government. And that was really fun! I was in the hotel room one
night and I'm not really good at sleeping at the best of times and completely jetlagged
and I was like, went in, having a pee, over share! And I was like 'dude, there's like
toilet paper here, this is so amazing!' My flat mate is like one of those flat mates
that never buys toilet paper, and when she does, she buys the wrong toilet paper and
it pisses me off. And I was like 'it would be awesome if you kind of came home and never
had to buy the stuff, it was just always there.' And so I came up with Looloo and Looloo is
a business where, we sell toilet paper, it's not revolutionary but we sell toilet paper
by subscription so you never run out again right? Easy! And I was just like 'oh you know,
we also want to be able to kind of help and do something greater with this'. And the thing
is anytime you come up with any business idea, there's always a social mission you can attach
to it. And you just have to believe it and put some perseverance. And then I was like
'oh well you know, Chrone's Disease, that's all a bit s**t' and then I was like 'oh diarrhea,
that happens a lot unfortunate.' And then I thought about Beatrice and I was like 'why
don't we just use our profits to fight diarrhea-related disease in developing countries.' It is s**t-all
I can do, f**, puns, there's nothing I can do about Chrone's Disease, but I can certainly
make a dent on diarrhea-related disease. I went down to breakfast the next morning, this
is a great thing about hanging around entrepreneurs. I came down for breakfast the next morning
and I was like 'dudes, can't sleep, guess this?' And I just went 'bleh bleh bleh' cause
I'm slightly hyperactive. And two of the guys who were at breakfast, are now my business
partners, which is awesome!
So, good is at the core of what we do. We've got really sustainable product, and it's recycled,
and then we use our profits for good. This is the reason why because when I found out
about these statistics like there's 1.5 million children under the age of five die from diarrhea-related
diseases every year and 94% of each one of those cases of diarrhea are completely avoidable.
So if you think about that, yeah, there's nothing I can do about Chrone's but damn I
can make an impact on them, I can change it, because when there's adequate wash programs
in place you can completely reduce the rate of diarrhea-related disease. When 94% of them
are voidable that's something I can do about it. Like diarrhea kills more children than
aids, measles and malaria combined. Statistics just make people glaze over but if you actually
think about that, that's shocking! But one of the really good things that we thought
about was this one here. Every single dollar you invest in water sanitation and hygiene,
$8 is returned in increased productivity. So we were thinking, instead of just donating
our profits to NGOs, why don't we invest, right? So what we do is, for every $10,000
we invest, we build a factory. That factory teaches local people how to build toilets,
they're twin composting toilets. Then local women are taught how to sell those toilets
and then those toilets are sold to local communities. And when people buy the toilets, they buy
them through a kind of aspirational marketing. They want to be better; they want to do better
for their families. And people are actually, actively buying something; it's more likely
to create a change in that community. And also, we're creating a really long term sustainable
cycle of change because we're creating jobs, we're creating increased sanitation. Increased
sanitation equals increased education levels and that in itself leads to breaking the cycle
of poverty. So, toilet paper, who knew?
We want to show people that you can use the power of business to change the world. I could
have just set up a subscription-based toilet paper business and made heaps of money. But
that's not what I want. You don't need heaps of money. So anytime you're coming up with
a business idea, think of a social mission. It's not that hard, there's always going to
be one. And again, I want to empower local entrepreneurs and create change from the ground
up. We've been giving a lot of money to charity for a long time and there's definitely a place
for charity but there's also a place for empowerment as well. When people are born in a developing
country, they're born just like me and you. They've got the same dreams. When you've got
children over there, you've got the same dreams and hopes for them to grow and have a better
life. And they are no different to you and I, somebody said to me before that if you
grow up in the developing world, you're just like a bonsai tree, you know if you take away
that little pot, they'll grow to be as big and there's no limit to what they'll do. So
it's the exact same thing. And then we want to empower consumers to change the world.
You need to realise that every single dollar you spend, you're voting with your money.
You could choose to go to Coles, if you're evil and buy your toilet paper there. And
the toilet paper, yeah, might be cheaper, but we visited those factories. Dude, people
don't question, are the employees whipped when they get to work. Are they looked after?
What's the toilet paper made of? Why are we cutting down trees to wipe our ***? If an
alien looked at us, they'd be like 'what is wrong with these people?' It's just ridiculous.
Ask yourself those questions. So that's Looloo, we want to change the world. With toilet paper.
Hourrah!
But I also want to make an awesome business because all the businesses I've worked for
before, I really didn't like working there because they are very stringent. There's rules
and regulations and yeah you need rules and regulations but have fun. It's also about
empowering your employees and letting them have fun. We don't want to just sell a product,
we want to have a vision of showing people that yes the toilet paper you are buying makes
a difference but also looking at greater questions. So we've introduced little things like Looloo
Craft. So we have 'crafternoons' in the office. Everyone brings in their old toilet rolls
and we make stuff out of them. And everything that we have is re-purposable. So we have
a Looloo paper which is where you get all the news about Looloo and on the back of it
we have Looloo Craft, so you can re-purpose that piece of paper and turn it into an origami
animal. And we're teaching kids that instead of throwing out the toilet roll and recycling
it. Why not re-purpose it for us to make something out of it. It's just about looking at business
in a holistic sense and creating a community. We don't want to just have customers; we want
to have a community. That's a very different thing.
There's my team. They're awesome. He's my brother. He's not, he's not. I'm a Chief Executive
Optimist, because that's important. Because if you have a dream and you have a passion,
you have to just believe that it's all going to work right? If you don't believe that you're
not going to fail, like you will fail. It's just like, it's ridiculous. And they get s**t
done, and buy s**t and build s**t. He works at NASA, he's awesome. Yeah, space and s**t.
It's very easy for me to kind of stand up here and say to you 'go follow your passion'
and you could be sitting there, 'that's really amazing but how can I relate to that, I don't
know what my passion is' or 'I haven't found it. I haven't had these kind of crazy adventures,
I don't look at the world in the same way as you.' The easiest way to fin d your passion
is to ask yourself, here at the pit of your stomach, what is it that makes your heart
ache? What is it, that when you look at the world, you look at it and you just go 'I'm
not going to stop until I change this'. Or look at the things you absolutely adore and
go 'what is it in the world that makes my face explode, it's so awesome'. And they're
the things that are your passion.
Passion isn't this 'oh yeah I'd maybe like to do this one day, sort of nice thing'. It
is a sort of thing where you literally will not rest until you make that happen. You need
that fierce determination to make it happen. And when the days get really, really dark,
because they will, it's what will keep you going. So you have a choice, right? Each and
every one of you has a choice. You are at the beginning of your careers. You can choose
to go into a regular job, just chase money, think maybe 'one day I'll do something about
that, it'll be all sorts of amazing, maybe' or you can go 'screw it man, I'm going to
take a risk, I'm going to do that thing and I'm going to do it now and I'm not going to
ask any questions and I'm going to find people like me, and surround myself with people like
me.' Like what I said earlier, life is short man, I nearly died, my brother nearly died
from cancer, life is really *** short, there's never f***ing unicorns coming to save
you. Just do it. Just quit making excuses, and quit worrying about money because if you
worry about money, you'll spend you're entire life chasing it and then not actually getting
anywhere. And you might go yeah you had this amazing job, you had heaps of money, blah,
blah, blah. When I was in Africa, I didn't ring home very often. There was this little
thing called the GFC that happened and I logged on to my bank account one day and I had spent
my life saving up all this money so I'd have this money in the bank so I could chase my
dreams. Checked my bank balance, and that doesn't really look like there's enough zeros
on it. Since the GFC, I've lost $600,000 in savings. I have no money. My mortgage is in
arrears in Ireland. I don't give a f***, because I'm finally doing something that matters.
If what you do is good for you, if what you do is good for your customers, if what you
do is good for the world, you don't need to worry about money because the money will come
later, you just have to trust. The universe will look after you. I might sound like a
hippy because I am but the fact of the matter is that's just how it happens.
So my message to you today is go out into the world, follow your passion, create a business
and just do what you love.