did you say you want a revolution did
you say you wanted a revolution well
good then you came to the right talk
let’s start off today first though by
defining what it means to be a
revolutionary so Webster’s defines
revolutionary as someone who does
something radically new or innovative
outside or beyond established procedures
or principles now I don’t think any of
you are gonna argue with me when I say
that Martin Luther King was a
revolutionary no so much of what this
man did was radically new and the work
that he did changed the course of
history but what if I told you that my
friends here
Akim Leonard and sherry de Castro are
also revolutionaries Sherry’s working to
eradicate childhood illiteracy here in
the BVI with her organization right to
read she’s not only teaching kids how to
read but they’re her new and innovative
approaches she’s teaching them to learn
to love to read and achim in his company
Greene Creed makes these amazing
concrete countertops and other creations
using bits of recycled glass that he
gathers about but he’s taken things a
step further and he started a recycling
program at the school’s there in Virgin
Gorda teaching the children some of the
early fundamentals of what it means to
recycle these are revolutionaries over
the next 15 minutes or so I’m going to
talk to you about these six core
principles that are spelled out in the
famed Beatle song that you heard me
walking up to so let’s see here in the
next 15 minutes if you can’t find your
way to live a more revolutionary life
now in 1968 when John Lennon decided to
write the song revolution it was an
incredibly tumultuous time
the Vietnam War was well underway John F
Kennedy was assassinated Martin Luther
King was assassinated it was troubling
times people were upset people were
protesting people were angry people were
taking to the streets but some of the
key messages in the beatles song was
that it’s good to take to the streets
and it’s good to have your voice heard
but do it from a place of peace and
change the world for the better change
the world change the world that is big
that feels huge but it doesn’t have to I
want to encourage you today to think
differently about how we want to change
our world have you heard of the ripple
effect so it’s through the ripple effect
that I decided I would change the world
so I’ll tell you a little bit about my
story from a from a very young age I was
always pretty altruistic I loved helping
people it brought me so much joy I knew
that somehow whatever it was I was doing
for work I had to be finding a way to
help people as I stumbled my way through
different professional endeavors I
finally landed myself
that’s a founder and CEO of the company
how I realized what was so cool about
changing the world through business was
that your ability to impact so many
people became more and more possible
when you’re impacting the world one off
one off one off you are making a
difference and I encourage you to
continue but when you do it through
business it’s as far as your business
can reach now the ripple effect piece
came to me as I evolved through running
Jing green and I came to my next calling
in life which was helping other
entrepreneurs starting their businesses
what was so cool about this
me was that I realized my reach and my
ability to impact that many more people
continue to compound upon itself because
now I wasn’t just reaching those that I
was working directly with but all the
people that they’re reaching as well I
use this as a kind of a visual example
if you imagine through Gen Green I’m I’m
touching and talking to the people in
the left hand side of the screen and
then my current role and then the role
beyond its endless the amount of impact
that I can have its maximum impact the
ripple effect that’s how I chose to
change the world now this amazing
revolutionary who were all quite
familiar with I think says it quite well
and I do hope that each one of you are
just crazy enough to do it who found the
love and revolution did you see it who
saw it love is at the core of what makes
a revolution good I want you all to
consider the positive impacts that
revolution can have too often our
mountains immediately come to some sort
of negative connotation we have with the
word the word love is right there he was
there the whole time here in the BVI and
really want us to start focusing on
building each other up not tearing each
other down it’s so important we rise
when we lift each other up now I don’t
mean lifting each other up like this
this is not what I mean
I mean lifting each other up like this
helping people one at a time get to
where they’re trying to go and achieve
the goals that they’re trying to achieve
when he gets at the top he didn’t just
get to the top alone
now all of these people get to celebrate
and his achieving his goal of getting to
the top they were all a part of this win
this is what we need to focus on this is
love now an awesome example that I’ve
seen really recently of this love was
during the biz pitch competition that we
held here in January during this
competition we had six competitors all
rock stars in their own right it was a
tough competition there’s a lot of money
on the line opportunities on the line
and as I sat on the sidelines I watched
and I saw the most incredible thing
happen as each one of those competitors
came on and off the stage after their
pitch they sat down next to their fellow
competitor and I watched him put their
arm around each other
I watched him high-five one another I
watched him Pat each other on the back
say a few words did so good and then in
the end when the judges had to pick just
two there was a perfect opportunity for
the other four and have gotten really
upset I’ve been jealous called foul what
have you but no there was this genuine
joy for Hakeem and Chad for having won
all six of them were so supportive of
each other at the end of the night they
all felt like winners nothing more of
this this is revolutionary this is love
[Music]
okay so when it comes to solving big
problems you’ve definitely got to have a
plan now I say that when you focus on
whether you’re building a business or
you’re starting a new project and you
want to tackle this whole changing the
world thing focus on solving real
problems when you’re solving real
problems that are helping real people
the efforts that you take around solving
these problems are actually made easier
by the collective energy of the whole of
the people that you’re helping and I
love Tom Patterson what said if you plan
your work and you work your plan your
plan will work I want to talk about a
big problem let’s use this as our
example a health crisis whether it’s the
rise in heart disease and diabetes the
the increased number of cancer or
whether it’s a hospital system that
doesn’t seem to be meeting the needs of
these people that are ailing how do we
solve this problem who’s gonna show up
to solve this problem who wants to solve
this problem I ask you to look inside at
this point and think about what are my
gifts what are my talents what do I have
that I can bring to the table in any
little way to help solve this problem
well let’s just use an example like food
I don’t think anybody’s gonna disagree
that having a better diet and having
more access to affordable fruits and
vegetables at affordable prices couldn’t
help things like diabetes and heart
disease and obesity and let’s say you
have a green thumb let’s say you love to
garden well I challenge you to consider
to start farming do something you love
and in a way that you can help solve a
bigger problem
now she’s gonna start her farm and she’s
gonna grow amazing fruits and vegetables
that are gonna become available but
she’s only half the process we need
somebody else who’s gonna show up who
owns a box truck that’s sitting in the
back of the land not getting any use and
is gonna say you know what I will be
your distributor I will take that food
from your farm to the restaurants to the
groceries to the hotels that will be my
role I will take it from point A to
point B now those two entrepreneurs and
their new endeavors they’re going to be
quite successful not just because the
problem they’re solving is huge but the
problem that they’re solving belongs to
so many people that the collective good
will the people that they’re helping
with this will carry them through to
success
[Music]
are we doing what we can are you doing
everything you can to help your
community what does it mean to make a
contribution you know I love this one
particular lyric because it resonates
with me quite well where I’m from in
Fort Collins Colorado
we believe really heavily in the
philosophy of giving before you get we
consider your community equity to be
based quite heavily on how much you’ve
given you know this whole concept around
your life is not as great as as much as
you have but what you have given away
and in Fort Collins I think that we’ve
come to this realization that it’s not
about also just giving to wait to
receive it’s giving without expecting
anything in return and waiting and allow
the universe to return back to you when
you need it the most
now I think one of the best parts about
giving before you get is that it doesn’t
return its dividends overnight it takes
quite some time and because of that
opportunity opportunity people who may
come into your world to try to give a
little bit give a little bit and they’re
ready to take and they’re waiting know
it weaves them out naturally because
this takes time it takes time to see
this all come back around and so in
order for this to actually work you got
to be in it for the long haul which
leads the strength and sustainability of
the gift first attitude and why it works
so well now I want to make a suggestion
around this while I’m on this topic
because quite often people don’t realize
how to help one another and I’ll use an
example of something that happened to me
at one point recently and I had an
entrepreneur who came to me and said hey
Charisse you know I really really want
to get my food product on the shelves
grocery stores in the United States who
do you know can you help me introduce me
to somebody I was like yeah you know let
me think on that I will get back to you
I didn’t have time to think on that I
got a lot going on as everybody does
right I wanted to help they love this
person I wanted to help but I didn’t
have the tools that I needed to help her
the best so let’s do it again the right
a way that I could actually help hazier
ease I could really use your help I’m
trying to get my product on the stores
on the Shelf of the stores and states
who do you know at Whole Foods Market
that may be a buyer and potentially and
maybe this area of the store I do I you
know I don’t know any buyers at Whole
Foods but I do know a couple of people
that that will know let me just make a
couple of email intros and I’ll let you
take it from there
ten minutes later I’ve made two email
intros that could change the course of
history for that person but it was
because of the specificity of the
request that I was able to most
effectively and impactfully assist in
help that entrepreneur along their way
so consider the specificity of the
things you need help with when asking
for help and I guarantee you’ll get it
much better I also want you to consider
what you’re contributing I do believe if
you contribute back into your community
and into your world from a place of your
giftedness and with your talents it will
come much easier to you not only is
there great benefit and giving in your
talents because you’re able to actually
cultivate your gifts and manifest them
in all kinds of new ways but you’ll find
this intrinsic joy doing these tasks
that are asked of you that you wouldn’t
if this wasn’t something you were
comfortable with and I use the Beehive
as a great example because within the
Beehive every bee has their own role and
it’s critically important that these
bees
play within their role and in their
talents from the queen bee to the worker
bee they all depend on each other for
survival I hope that you start to learn
to see each other and depend on one
another in the same way because we are
critical to one another’s survival
[Music]
haters are gonna hate
just be ready for it expect it wait for
it
learn to grow from it I always you know
I’ve come to this conclusion that haters
don’t hate you they’re hating on
themselves because you are a reflection
who who they wish they could be I also
recognize that we can sometimes turn
that whole mentality even on ourselves
and self-doubt starts to sneak in to our
ability to believe that what we can do
is truly possible this revolutionary
said it quite well
I believe if everybody is a genius but
if you judge a fish by its ability to
climb a tree it will live it’s whole
life believing that it is stupid one of
the things that happens with haters and
especially haters that are duplicators
is that when haters try to duplicate
they’re going against one major cardinal
sin in my opinion and it’s best said by
my good friend mr. Meade Malone who says
you do you you will always deliver the
best you and those haters who are
duplicators have not settled into the
comfort zone of them doing themselves
yet they think they’re gonna find their
way to success through doing out what
others have done but no in fact they’re
at the fish you’re the monkey in the
tree and don’t stop to think for a
second to that that hater won’t
hopefully one day stumble their way into
their understanding of the importance of
you doing you now as everybody tells you
that’s a dumb idea
don’t try somebody did that last year it
wasn’t wasn’t successful just
what if we stopped when everybody said
that this wasn’t possible where would we
be today not where we are – don’t stop
just keep going
[Music]
[Music]
Brio mind free your mind you are the
master of your own destiny and don’t
think for a second that this life you
live is not a hundred and ten percent in
your control to make it what you want it
to be I get really tired of listening to
people talk about how I can’t do this
and I can’t do that because of my friend
this because of my family because of the
government these people are not your
source of your problems and you can’t
expect them to solve them for you either
it’s up to you to take charge of your
life and make it what you want it to be
changing the world giving before you get
making your contribution all those
things are decisions that you’re gonna
have to make and that you’re gonna
choose to do to change the course of
your life that’s who’s gonna save you
not these guys in the boat the other
message within that lyric that really
resonates with me is this idea around
group think now I want you to recognize
that it’s only through somebody pointing
out that something needs improvement
from the first version of itself that
anything ever changes or is made better
so don’t be afraid to speak up to point
out and say that could use improving but
don’t be the guy that says problem
problem I see a problem and sit back no
be the guy that says problem and I have
an idea can I come help you fix that I
see a problem you know what I’ve got
I’ve got something that I think might
help be the guy that wants to help solve
the problem don’t just point at the
problem and I want to finish today with
one of my favorite young revolutionaries
Malala she says let us make our future
now and let us make our dreams
tomorrow’s reality come on Bibi I it is
time for our revolution
you say you wanted a revolution well
good then you came to the right talk
let’s start off today first though by
defining what it means to be a
revolutionary so Webster’s defines
revolutionary as someone who does
something radically new or innovative
outside or beyond established procedures
or principles now I don’t think any of
you are gonna argue with me when I say
that Martin Luther King was a
revolutionary no so much of what this
man did was radically new and the work
that he did changed the course of
history but what if I told you that my
friends here
Akim Leonard and sherry de Castro are
also revolutionaries Sherry’s working to
eradicate childhood illiteracy here in
the BVI with her organization right to
read she’s not only teaching kids how to
read but they’re her new and innovative
approaches she’s teaching them to learn
to love to read and achim in his company
Greene Creed makes these amazing
concrete countertops and other creations
using bits of recycled glass that he
gathers about but he’s taken things a
step further and he started a recycling
program at the school’s there in Virgin
Gorda teaching the children some of the
early fundamentals of what it means to
recycle these are revolutionaries over
the next 15 minutes or so I’m going to
talk to you about these six core
principles that are spelled out in the
famed Beatle song that you heard me
walking up to so let’s see here in the
next 15 minutes if you can’t find your
way to live a more revolutionary life
now in 1968 when John Lennon decided to
write the song revolution it was an
incredibly tumultuous time
the Vietnam War was well underway John F
Kennedy was assassinated Martin Luther
King was assassinated it was troubling
times people were upset people were
protesting people were angry people were
taking to the streets but some of the
key messages in the beatles song was
that it’s good to take to the streets
and it’s good to have your voice heard
but do it from a place of peace and
change the world for the better change
the world change the world that is big
that feels huge but it doesn’t have to I
want to encourage you today to think
differently about how we want to change
our world have you heard of the ripple
effect so it’s through the ripple effect
that I decided I would change the world
so I’ll tell you a little bit about my
story from a from a very young age I was
always pretty altruistic I loved helping
people it brought me so much joy I knew
that somehow whatever it was I was doing
for work I had to be finding a way to
help people as I stumbled my way through
different professional endeavors I
finally landed myself
that’s a founder and CEO of the company
how I realized what was so cool about
changing the world through business was
that your ability to impact so many
people became more and more possible
when you’re impacting the world one off
one off one off you are making a
difference and I encourage you to
continue but when you do it through
business it’s as far as your business
can reach now the ripple effect piece
came to me as I evolved through running
Jing green and I came to my next calling
in life which was helping other
entrepreneurs starting their businesses
what was so cool about this
me was that I realized my reach and my
ability to impact that many more people
continue to compound upon itself because
now I wasn’t just reaching those that I
was working directly with but all the
people that they’re reaching as well I
use this as a kind of a visual example
if you imagine through Gen Green I’m I’m
touching and talking to the people in
the left hand side of the screen and
then my current role and then the role
beyond its endless the amount of impact
that I can have its maximum impact the
ripple effect that’s how I chose to
change the world now this amazing
revolutionary who were all quite
familiar with I think says it quite well
and I do hope that each one of you are
just crazy enough to do it who found the
love and revolution did you see it who
saw it love is at the core of what makes
a revolution good I want you all to
consider the positive impacts that
revolution can have too often our
mountains immediately come to some sort
of negative connotation we have with the
word the word love is right there he was
there the whole time here in the BVI and
really want us to start focusing on
building each other up not tearing each
other down it’s so important we rise
when we lift each other up now I don’t
mean lifting each other up like this
this is not what I mean
I mean lifting each other up like this
helping people one at a time get to
where they’re trying to go and achieve
the goals that they’re trying to achieve
when he gets at the top he didn’t just
get to the top alone
now all of these people get to celebrate
and his achieving his goal of getting to
the top they were all a part of this win
this is what we need to focus on this is
love now an awesome example that I’ve
seen really recently of this love was
during the biz pitch competition that we
held here in January during this
competition we had six competitors all
rock stars in their own right it was a
tough competition there’s a lot of money
on the line opportunities on the line
and as I sat on the sidelines I watched
and I saw the most incredible thing
happen as each one of those competitors
came on and off the stage after their
pitch they sat down next to their fellow
competitor and I watched him put their
arm around each other
I watched him high-five one another I
watched him Pat each other on the back
say a few words did so good and then in
the end when the judges had to pick just
two there was a perfect opportunity for
the other four and have gotten really
upset I’ve been jealous called foul what
have you but no there was this genuine
joy for Hakeem and Chad for having won
all six of them were so supportive of
each other at the end of the night they
all felt like winners nothing more of
this this is revolutionary this is love
[Music]
okay so when it comes to solving big
problems you’ve definitely got to have a
plan now I say that when you focus on
whether you’re building a business or
you’re starting a new project and you
want to tackle this whole changing the
world thing focus on solving real
problems when you’re solving real
problems that are helping real people
the efforts that you take around solving
these problems are actually made easier
by the collective energy of the whole of
the people that you’re helping and I
love Tom Patterson what said if you plan
your work and you work your plan your
plan will work I want to talk about a
big problem let’s use this as our
example a health crisis whether it’s the
rise in heart disease and diabetes the
the increased number of cancer or
whether it’s a hospital system that
doesn’t seem to be meeting the needs of
these people that are ailing how do we
solve this problem who’s gonna show up
to solve this problem who wants to solve
this problem I ask you to look inside at
this point and think about what are my
gifts what are my talents what do I have
that I can bring to the table in any
little way to help solve this problem
well let’s just use an example like food
I don’t think anybody’s gonna disagree
that having a better diet and having
more access to affordable fruits and
vegetables at affordable prices couldn’t
help things like diabetes and heart
disease and obesity and let’s say you
have a green thumb let’s say you love to
garden well I challenge you to consider
to start farming do something you love
and in a way that you can help solve a
bigger problem
now she’s gonna start her farm and she’s
gonna grow amazing fruits and vegetables
that are gonna become available but
she’s only half the process we need
somebody else who’s gonna show up who
owns a box truck that’s sitting in the
back of the land not getting any use and
is gonna say you know what I will be
your distributor I will take that food
from your farm to the restaurants to the
groceries to the hotels that will be my
role I will take it from point A to
point B now those two entrepreneurs and
their new endeavors they’re going to be
quite successful not just because the
problem they’re solving is huge but the
problem that they’re solving belongs to
so many people that the collective good
will the people that they’re helping
with this will carry them through to
success
[Music]
are we doing what we can are you doing
everything you can to help your
community what does it mean to make a
contribution you know I love this one
particular lyric because it resonates
with me quite well where I’m from in
Fort Collins Colorado
we believe really heavily in the
philosophy of giving before you get we
consider your community equity to be
based quite heavily on how much you’ve
given you know this whole concept around
your life is not as great as as much as
you have but what you have given away
and in Fort Collins I think that we’ve
come to this realization that it’s not
about also just giving to wait to
receive it’s giving without expecting
anything in return and waiting and allow
the universe to return back to you when
you need it the most
now I think one of the best parts about
giving before you get is that it doesn’t
return its dividends overnight it takes
quite some time and because of that
opportunity opportunity people who may
come into your world to try to give a
little bit give a little bit and they’re
ready to take and they’re waiting know
it weaves them out naturally because
this takes time it takes time to see
this all come back around and so in
order for this to actually work you got
to be in it for the long haul which
leads the strength and sustainability of
the gift first attitude and why it works
so well now I want to make a suggestion
around this while I’m on this topic
because quite often people don’t realize
how to help one another and I’ll use an
example of something that happened to me
at one point recently and I had an
entrepreneur who came to me and said hey
Charisse you know I really really want
to get my food product on the shelves
grocery stores in the United States who
do you know can you help me introduce me
to somebody I was like yeah you know let
me think on that I will get back to you
I didn’t have time to think on that I
got a lot going on as everybody does
right I wanted to help they love this
person I wanted to help but I didn’t
have the tools that I needed to help her
the best so let’s do it again the right
a way that I could actually help hazier
ease I could really use your help I’m
trying to get my product on the stores
on the Shelf of the stores and states
who do you know at Whole Foods Market
that may be a buyer and potentially and
maybe this area of the store I do I you
know I don’t know any buyers at Whole
Foods but I do know a couple of people
that that will know let me just make a
couple of email intros and I’ll let you
take it from there
ten minutes later I’ve made two email
intros that could change the course of
history for that person but it was
because of the specificity of the
request that I was able to most
effectively and impactfully assist in
help that entrepreneur along their way
so consider the specificity of the
things you need help with when asking
for help and I guarantee you’ll get it
much better I also want you to consider
what you’re contributing I do believe if
you contribute back into your community
and into your world from a place of your
giftedness and with your talents it will
come much easier to you not only is
there great benefit and giving in your
talents because you’re able to actually
cultivate your gifts and manifest them
in all kinds of new ways but you’ll find
this intrinsic joy doing these tasks
that are asked of you that you wouldn’t
if this wasn’t something you were
comfortable with and I use the Beehive
as a great example because within the
Beehive every bee has their own role and
it’s critically important that these
bees
play within their role and in their
talents from the queen bee to the worker
bee they all depend on each other for
survival I hope that you start to learn
to see each other and depend on one
another in the same way because we are
critical to one another’s survival
[Music]
haters are gonna hate
just be ready for it expect it wait for
it
learn to grow from it I always you know
I’ve come to this conclusion that haters
don’t hate you they’re hating on
themselves because you are a reflection
who who they wish they could be I also
recognize that we can sometimes turn
that whole mentality even on ourselves
and self-doubt starts to sneak in to our
ability to believe that what we can do
is truly possible this revolutionary
said it quite well
I believe if everybody is a genius but
if you judge a fish by its ability to
climb a tree it will live it’s whole
life believing that it is stupid one of
the things that happens with haters and
especially haters that are duplicators
is that when haters try to duplicate
they’re going against one major cardinal
sin in my opinion and it’s best said by
my good friend mr. Meade Malone who says
you do you you will always deliver the
best you and those haters who are
duplicators have not settled into the
comfort zone of them doing themselves
yet they think they’re gonna find their
way to success through doing out what
others have done but no in fact they’re
at the fish you’re the monkey in the
tree and don’t stop to think for a
second to that that hater won’t
hopefully one day stumble their way into
their understanding of the importance of
you doing you now as everybody tells you
that’s a dumb idea
don’t try somebody did that last year it
wasn’t wasn’t successful just
what if we stopped when everybody said
that this wasn’t possible where would we
be today not where we are – don’t stop
just keep going
[Music]
[Music]
Brio mind free your mind you are the
master of your own destiny and don’t
think for a second that this life you
live is not a hundred and ten percent in
your control to make it what you want it
to be I get really tired of listening to
people talk about how I can’t do this
and I can’t do that because of my friend
this because of my family because of the
government these people are not your
source of your problems and you can’t
expect them to solve them for you either
it’s up to you to take charge of your
life and make it what you want it to be
changing the world giving before you get
making your contribution all those
things are decisions that you’re gonna
have to make and that you’re gonna
choose to do to change the course of
your life that’s who’s gonna save you
not these guys in the boat the other
message within that lyric that really
resonates with me is this idea around
group think now I want you to recognize
that it’s only through somebody pointing
out that something needs improvement
from the first version of itself that
anything ever changes or is made better
so don’t be afraid to speak up to point
out and say that could use improving but
don’t be the guy that says problem
problem I see a problem and sit back no
be the guy that says problem and I have
an idea can I come help you fix that I
see a problem you know what I’ve got
I’ve got something that I think might
help be the guy that wants to help solve
the problem don’t just point at the
problem and I want to finish today with
one of my favorite young revolutionaries
Malala she says let us make our future
now and let us make our dreams
tomorrow’s reality come on Bibi I it is
time for our revolution
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