What are you doing right now? Sitting at your desk? Eating a bagel, feeling generally uninspired? That’s where I was 5 years ago. Until I had a conversation that changed my life.
It was February 2010, the dead of winter. My advertising gig was winding down and, having just gotten out of a break up, I was drinking too much red wine and watching entirely too much Winter Olympics. That’s when a co-worker started talking to me about Haiti. Why? Well, as it turned out, while I was obsessed with snowboard cross racing, the rest of the world was captivated by the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti only a month before, taking the lives of 316,000 people.
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