I met Sara a month a few months ago via email. She has done some pretty awesome things so far, has a wonderful grasp of what her part is in changing the world… and is doing it in a big way. She founded the ‘Run for Women’, which will be in BC, Alberta, and Ontario. You know that saying “you eat an elephant one bit at a time”? Well Sara eats elephants for breakfast… and washes it down with a nice warm cup of ‘change the frickin world’.

I wanted to know her female perspective on what us guys can do to help support amazing women like her, and take part in the eventual merging of feminine and masculine approaches toward bettering the world for all of us. So I asked her 3 questions… Read more

No idea if this will hit home for anyone like it did for me. This is just something that was a turning point in my life. Something that made things very clear. And something I will never forget doing. Read more

This is a guest blog post I was humbled to be able to do for Harvard.

You are only allowed to read it if you promise not to tell Harvard that I barely passed high school and had to use spell check on the word ‘entrepreneur’

Here is the link to the actual post – may as well read it on there – it’s just cooler.

The post:

The word “Entrepreneur” is one of the most over used terms in the English language today. Read more

I started 2011 owning and operating the real estate company I started in 2006. I lived in Victoria BC. I had a random cool idea for raising some money for charity. The main things I was working on were company culture, systems for the business, and reintegrating back into daily life after traveling for almost all of 2010. It was time to settle back in and get down to work.

Now it’s 2012.

I don’t own the company anymore. I live in Central America. That idea to raise some money for charity has turned into an online fundraising platform that has funded 18 schools in 6 countries. A friend and I came up with the Early Entrepreneurs Experiment, which has launched in 3 countries, raised tens of thousands of dollars and taught hundreds kids to be social entrepreneurs. Now the main plans are to 1) finish the platform for individuals and non-profits to raise millions of dollars for legitimate and world enhancing projects, 2) to launch the Early Entrepreneurs Experiment world wide and be accepted into general curriculum – teaching kids to be entrepreneurs and how to change the world for the better through business, and 3) to film a ridiculously cool documentary made up of 12 separate YouTube size episodes highlighting amazing and world changing work being done by friends of mine in Kenya, India, and Cambodia – it will be a mix of adventure travel, extreme sport feel, and giving on a massive scale – Adventure Philanthropy.

What the F happened?

Happy New Year.

Japan was ridiculous.

Went there on a whim… an intuitive feeling… and a whole bunch of pocket change.

I was at one of my weekly meditation sessions with my (for a total lack of a better term) “guru”, Shigenori Murata, when the feeling came. I have been seeing Shigenori once a week for some time, and have been growing exponentially working with him. He is what we westerners would likely call a “Spirituality/Meditation Coach” and is the most educated man on the subjects that I have met. With an Oxford PhD (DPhil) in Asian Philosophy and Spirituality, and a huge self-study of Zen, Shamanism, Kundalini and different types of meditation, the man has been an incredible wealth of knowledge (I will pop his info at the bottom if you want to try out a session in person or on Skype). Read more

On October 10th, 2011 – the $10,000 in 3 hours system was born…

Fast forward to October 2011. We have been working on making it possible for anyone to raise $10,000 to build a school. And it is launch time. My friend Elton puts a list of 49 friends together. He makes personal 15 second intro videos for each of his friends. We set him up a website called pocketchangeschool.com (still live, check it out). And at 2pm on a Monday, we send out the emails to his friends with the video in it that asks them to give $3.33 a day for 3 months.

By 2pm Tuesday, $10,000 has come in. It worked.

That Wednesday I am driving to the ferry for Vancouver, and it hits me. It is October 12th. Without planning, or even thinking about it, we had launched Elton’s campaign on the exact anniversary of the idea first popping into my head (I have no idea why it came into my head and am just stoked it did). I am speechless.

The reason I was headed to Vancouver was to attend an event. We Day 2011.

As I sat at We Day, WAY at the back row again, I reminisced about the idea that started all this,and my phone rings. It’s Elton. “Hey man, guess where we are at” he says. “What are you talking about, you hit the goal two days ago, $10,000 – what are you talking about” I ask. “Taylor, that video spread man! It is all over facebook. We just hit two schools… $20,000!”. I am speechless again.

Overall, Elton had over 80 people sign up to give $3.33 a day for 3 months, and raised over $25,000.

And that campaign is just the start…

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This is a 4 and a half minute read about a not-so-great campaign we ran a while back – it starts depressing, then gets good… kind of like that movie where Will Smith is a broke single dad, and then through hard work and determination he “makes it”. Except this ends before anyone “makes it”. Actually, it is more like just the crappy parts of the Will Smith movie……….. ENJOY!

The last post I wrote was from a coffee shop the very moment we launched the first tester $10,000 in 3 hours campaign – the one for Uganda (remember the heart warming story of the little girl?!).

Well that one was a bust. Yup, a big failure… it BLEW.

What happened you ask? Read more

This is as “in the moment” as it gets.

7 months of work (work that flowed like nothing I have ever experienced) and we have literally JUST sent out the first campaign to raise $10,000 in 3 hours using our system.

The campaign is being done by a friend of mine in Toronto who runs an NGO called ‘Raising the Village’.

If this campaign works, $10,000 will be raised to Read more

From a fun idea between friends, to an international program teaching kids to change the world with their creativity, and building dozens of schools for the children who need them.

In early 2011, Christina Pelletier and I sat down to talk about what she could do in the elementary school she taught at to get kids involved in giving. A delicious americano each later, the Early Entrepreneurs Experiment (EEE) was born. Read more

Oh boy… it worked.

A group of 33 very normal people, all with different jobs, hobbies, and lives just got together to do something extraordinary.

We raised $10,000 to build a school in Kenya… in less than a day.

It is due to Read more