00:00so in 2001 I was living in New York City and I was doing investment banking I was
00:07doing some filmmaking different sorts of things and then September 11th happened
00:12I lost 64 friends that day and they were in the buildings so I just knew something
00:19inside of me I knew that I could do something you know I just grabbed my
00:22little medical kit and raced eight miles downtown on my rollerblades and as I
00:27arrived at the World Trade Center it really was something unbelievable nothing
00:32else made sense after that so that's when I knew I had to do something
00:36different in my life and and then it all everything else went on from there I am
00:42the founder of third wave volunteers we respond to all the major disasters around
00:46the world we've been to every major natural and main my man-made disasters in
00:51the last 25 years and the mission is everyone's needed and we respond we get
00:55in there respond fast we're usually the first people in we do search and rescue
00:59we do medical we give them solar lights and we do water filtration third wave
01:04volunteers also runs very large field hospitals and refugee camps around the
01:08world and we stay long-term many many years for long-term recovery what we've
01:15really learned in disasters is it really works from the grassroots up you know
01:19tapping into all the early NGOs and nonprofits that are already established all
01:24the small businesses and all the church groups interfaith groups and we try to
01:28connect everyone you know there's not enough firemen and policemen to respond
01:32after a large disaster so we go into communities and we have free training we
01:38train everyday citizens and it's really working and we've grown to 30,000 plus
01:43volunteers and we're growing because people really want to know how to help but
01:47they don't know that first step of doing it personally I am motivated by love I
01:53have this heart full of swelling love and I just there's so much suffering around
01:57the world and I see it front lines so much suffering the core of it is I just
02:02know deep inside that I can land I can look people in the eye and I can just do
02:07something the one message I'd like people to take away from our platform really is
02:13that everyone is needed service to others it'll change your life
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