Full Transcript for Unlocking Human Potential Through Clean Water Access w/ Dr. Greg Allgood

00:03:09.000 Dr. Greg Allgood: Well, yeah, my my purpose in life really has has 00:03:09.035 --> 00:03:13.035 Dr. Greg Allgood: evolved a lot around helping provide clean water to people because I've 00:03:13.035 --> 00:03:16.715 Dr. Greg Allgood: been blessed to be able to go and see the need, see what happens 00:03:16.715 --> 00:03:20.715 Dr. Greg Allgood: when women and girls are hauling water long distances or or people are sick, 00:03:21.720 --> 00:03:25.720 Dr. Greg Allgood: been places where there's cholera outbreaks and and helping to address that, helping 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:29.800 Dr. Greg Allgood: save lives and transform lives with clean water is is my is 00:03:29.960 --> 00:03:32.600 Dr. Greg Allgood: my purpose in my professional life. 00:03:32.600 --> 00:03:33.000 Lisa Nichols: Yes. 00:03:33.000 --> 00:03:36.585 Lisa Nichols: Well, and you did you founded the children's I think it was called the 00:03:36.585 --> 00:03:38.825 Lisa Nichols: children's safe water, I think. 00:03:38.825 --> 00:03:41.225 Lisa Nichols: P and G Children's Safe Drinking Water Program. 00:03:41.225 --> 00:03:42.745 Lisa Nichols: If drinking water program. 00:03:42.745 --> 00:03:43.865 Lisa Nichols: And you founded that. 00:03:43.865 --> 00:03:46.185 Lisa Nichols: You were the founder of that when you were at P and G. 00:03:46.185 --> 00:03:46.585 Lisa Nichols: Right? 00:03:46.585 --> 00:03:47.410 Lisa Nichols: So 00:03:47.410 --> 00:03:47.650 Dr. Greg Allgood: Yeah. 00:03:47.650 --> 00:03:50.370 Dr. Greg Allgood: It was it was a sort of a radical idea. 00:03:50.370 --> 00:03:54.370 Dr. Greg Allgood: It it, it focused on providing a little water purification 00:03:54.370 --> 00:03:58.370 Dr. Greg Allgood: packet that makes dirty water not only clear, but purified. 00:03:59.330 --> 00:04:02.725 Dr. Greg Allgood: It kills the bacteria, the virus, the parasite, and takes out the parasites. 00:04:02.725 --> 00:04:06.165 Dr. Greg Allgood: And we tried to make it a for profit business, but it failed. 00:04:06.165 --> 00:04:09.525 Dr. Greg Allgood: We were we were not meeting P and G's expectations for a for profit 00:04:09.525 --> 00:04:09.765 Dr. Greg Allgood: product. 00:04:09.765 --> 00:04:13.605 Dr. Greg Allgood: In fact, we were losing a lot of money, and I had this rather 00:04:13.605 --> 00:04:16.645 Dr. Greg Allgood: radical idea to create a not for profit business. 00:04:16.645 --> 00:04:20.060 Dr. Greg Allgood: And, I like to say about every hundred and eighty five years, P and 00:04:20.060 --> 00:04:23.100 Dr. Greg Allgood: G did something radically different, and this I happened to be there at the 00:04:23.100 --> 00:04:23.580 Dr. Greg Allgood: right time. 00:04:23.580 --> 00:04:27.580 Dr. Greg Allgood: But, yeah, there was, some battles in in, in, 00:04:28.300 --> 00:04:31.945 Dr. Greg Allgood: creating a not for profit business, probably rightfully so. 00:04:31.945 --> 00:04:35.945 Dr. Greg Allgood: P and T had failed commercially, with some of the brightest marketers 00:04:35.945 --> 00:04:37.865 Dr. Greg Allgood: that we have and business leaders. 00:04:37.865 --> 00:04:41.865 Dr. Greg Allgood: And now I, as a scientist, with no real strong business background said, let 00:04:41.865 --> 00:04:43.545 Dr. Greg Allgood: me run it as a not for profit business. 00:04:43.545 --> 00:04:47.545 Dr. Greg Allgood: And so, yes, some senior leaders tried to decided to fire me, 00:04:48.160 --> 00:04:50.720 Dr. Greg Allgood: and it it was a bit of a battle within P and G. 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:54.720 Dr. Greg Allgood: But luckily, our leadership, including our our former CEO, 00:04:55.040 --> 00:04:59.040 Dr. Greg Allgood: AG Lafley, and also had great support from from past CEO 00:04:59.175 --> 00:05:03.095 Dr. Greg Allgood: John Pepper saw the potential of this to really build P and G reputation 00:05:03.095 --> 00:05:04.535 Dr. Greg Allgood: and and to save lives. 00:05:04.535 --> 00:05:07.015 Dr. Greg Allgood: And so the work continues to today. 00:05:07.015 --> 00:05:10.455 Dr. Greg Allgood: They had me back in Cincinnati of P and G's headquarters last year to 00:05:10.455 --> 00:05:14.455 Dr. Greg Allgood: celebrate twenty one years and twenty five billion liters 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:17.600 Dr. Greg Allgood: of clean water that that program has provided. 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:18.880 Lisa Nichols: Say that again. 00:05:18.880 --> 00:05:19.680 Lisa Nichols: Twenty 00:05:19.680 --> 00:05:20.880 Dr. Greg Allgood: five billion. 00:05:20.880 --> 00:05:22.080 Lisa Nichols: Billion. 00:05:22.080 --> 00:05:23.040 Lisa Nichols: With a b. 00:05:23.040 --> 00:05:23.240 Lisa Nichols: Yeah. 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:25.680 Lisa Nichols: It's just that is so amazing. 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:27.135 Lisa Nichols: That is so amazing. 00:05:27.135 --> 00:05:30.415 Lisa Nichols: Well and I just I love I mean, you know what I think? 00:05:30.415 --> 00:05:34.415 Lisa Nichols: I when I when I hear that story, Dr. 00:05:35.135 --> 00:05:36.895 Lisa Nichols: Allgood, I just think, you know what? 00:05:36.895 --> 00:05:38.735 Lisa Nichols: P and G had a heart. 00:05:38.735 --> 00:05:39.775 Lisa Nichols: I know they had a heart. 00:05:39.775 --> 00:05:43.775 Lisa Nichols: You know, you guys had the whole love campaign for a while, and, 00:05:44.470 --> 00:05:48.470 Lisa Nichols: I think people want to support and get behind companies 00:05:48.630 --> 00:05:49.750 Lisa Nichols: that have heart. 00:05:49.750 --> 00:05:50.150 Lisa Nichols: Right? 00:05:50.150 --> 00:05:51.830 Lisa Nichols: And so that's what it does for me. 00:05:51.830 --> 00:05:53.510 Lisa Nichols: I'm like, wow. 00:05:53.510 --> 00:05:57.510 Lisa Nichols: You know, they truly are using the business for a greater good. 00:05:58.255 --> 00:05:58.495 Lisa Nichols: Right? 00:05:58.495 --> 00:05:59.935 Lisa Nichols: It's not just about profits. 00:05:59.935 --> 00:06:01.535 Lisa Nichols: It's about saving lives. 00:06:01.535 --> 00:06:05.535 Dr. Greg

Allgood: And the fact that it's sustained now through five different CEOs, also 00:06:05.775 --> 00:06:09.775 Dr. Greg Allgood: shows P and G's long dedication to to this 00:06:09.855 --> 00:06:13.430 Dr. Greg Allgood: work and and to really transforming lives and helps to prove be a proof 00:06:13.430 --> 00:06:16.630 Dr. Greg Allgood: point for their you know, a lot of P and G products improve lives 00:06:16.630 --> 00:06:20.630 Dr. Greg Allgood: every day in everyday ways, whether it's, you know, Head and Shoulders 00:06:20.950 --> 00:06:23.270 Dr. Greg Allgood: or Vicks, 00:06:23.270 --> 00:06:25.575 Dr. Greg Allgood: or Tide detergent, Pampers. 00:06:25.575 --> 00:06:29.575 Dr. Greg Allgood: You know, everyday ways improve health and hygiene, but, this is really the centerpiece 00:06:29.975 --> 00:06:33.975 Dr. Greg Allgood: of of showing that it can actually, you know, help transform lives with 00:06:33.975 --> 00:06:35.015 Dr. Greg Allgood: clean water. 00:06:35.015 --> 00:06:35.575 Lisa Nichols: Right. 00:06:35.575 --> 00:06:39.575 Lisa Nichols: I think I read a story where you actually 00:06:41.590 --> 00:06:45.590 Lisa Nichols: drank some water where there was a dead dog 00:06:45.750 --> 00:06:46.630 Lisa Nichols: upstream. 00:06:46.630 --> 00:06:47.030 Lisa Nichols: Right? 00:06:47.030 --> 00:06:49.190 Lisa Nichols: And you used to pure pack it. 00:06:49.190 --> 00:06:50.710 Lisa Nichols: Tell that story. 00:06:50.710 --> 00:06:51.270 Dr. Greg Allgood: Oh, yeah. 00:06:51.270 --> 00:06:55.270 Dr. Greg Allgood: It was, you know, one of the things when when I was 00:06:55.325 --> 00:06:59.325 Dr. Greg Allgood: showing the communities the the miracle of turning water 00:06:59.805 --> 00:07:03.805 Dr. Greg Allgood: dirty and clean and purified is they always had to drink the water myself 00:07:03.885 --> 00:07:07.485 Dr. Greg Allgood: to prove that, you know, that it that it's, is something that they would 00:07:07.485 --> 00:07:08.660 Dr. Greg Allgood: be able to drink. 00:07:08.660 --> 00:07:12.260 Dr. Greg Allgood: And one of the places we collected water, there was literally a dead dog 00:07:12.260 --> 00:07:13.700 Dr. Greg Allgood: in the water. 00:07:13.700 --> 00:07:17.380 Dr. Greg Allgood: And the acceptance among people once I drank the water was was even higher 00:07:17.380 --> 00:07:19.540 Dr. Greg Allgood: than normal, which is usually good, but it was great. 00:07:19.540 --> 00:07:22.625 Dr. Greg Allgood: And I thought this this should be our next best business approach. 00:07:22.625 --> 00:07:24.865 Dr. Greg Allgood: Always bring along a dead dog and have them in the water. 00:07:24.865 --> 00:07:26.065 Dr. Greg Allgood: Dog. 00:07:26.065 --> 00:07:26.945 Lisa Nichols: Oh my goodness. 00:07:26.945 --> 00:07:27.185 Lisa Nichols: Yeah. 00:07:27.185 --> 00:07:28.865 Lisa Nichols: That was proof in the pudding for sure. 00:07:28.865 --> 00:07:29.185 Lisa Nichols: Yeah. 00:07:29.185 --> 00:07:29.985 Lisa Nichols: That was proof. 00:07:29.985 --> 00:07:31.505 Lisa Nichols: You know? 00:07:31.505 --> 00:07:33.345 Lisa Nichols: Well, I'm excited about this. 00:07:33.345 --> 00:07:36.360 Lisa Nichols: You've got an upcoming book, and we were just talking before. 00:07:36.360 --> 00:07:40.360 Lisa Nichols: Bob McDonnell and John Pepper both endorsed the book for you, but it's called 00:07:40.440 --> 00:07:42.680 Lisa Nichols: Thirsty for a Miracle. 00:07:42.680 --> 00:07:46.680 Lisa Nichols: What is the miracle that you're actually thirsty for, Greg? 00:07:46.985 --> 00:07:48.185 Dr. Greg Allgood: Well, yeah, I'll show you the book. 00:07:48.185 --> 00:07:50.985 Dr. Greg Allgood: It's, it's coming out September twenty second. 00:07:50.985 --> 00:07:54.185 Dr. Greg Allgood: Yeah, it's published by Tyndall, 00:07:54.185 --> 00:07:58.185 Dr. Greg Allgood: House Publishing, which is a, you know, a Christian, book publishing company. 00:07:58.825 --> 00:08:01.390 Dr. Greg Allgood: And the thirsty for miracle 00:08:01.390 --> 00:08:03.550 Dr. Greg Allgood: relates both to, 00:08:03.550 --> 00:08:06.590 Dr. Greg Allgood: the fact that people need clean water, and part of it is this miracle 00:08:06.590 --> 00:08:10.590 Dr. Greg Allgood: of of the PNG packets turning dirty water to clean water, 00:08:11.150 --> 00:08:15.150 Dr. Greg Allgood: but also my own spiritual journey of becoming 00:08:15.575 --> 00:08:17.655 Dr. Greg Allgood: a person who was always of faith. 00:08:17.655 --> 00:08:21.655 Dr. Greg Allgood: But, for many years, I was a person that, sort of arrogantly thought, 00:08:21.895 --> 00:08:23.815 Dr. Greg Allgood: you know, God was supporting my work. 00:08:23.815 --> 00:08:26.535 Dr. Greg Allgood: And and sort of almost like I had when I need to pray and 00:08:26.535 --> 00:08:29.190 Dr. Greg Allgood: ask for help, I had sort of got on speed dial that he would 00:08:29.190 --> 00:08:30.790 Dr. Greg Allgood: he would favor my work. 00:08:30.790 --> 00:08:34.790 Dr. Greg Allgood: And over the years learning that I was really just God's water boy 00:08:35.110 --> 00:08:39.110 Dr. Greg Allgood: doing his mission of helping, provide clean water 00:08:39.590 --> 00:08:41.375 Dr. Greg Allgood: to people in desperate need. 00:08:41.375 --> 00:08:44.815 Dr. Greg Allgood: So that that miracle is also my my spiritual journey and Your 00:08:44.815 --> 00:08:45.535 Lisa Nichols: spiritual journey. 00:08:45.535 --> 00:08:46.095 Lisa Nichols: Along the way. 00:08:46.095 --> 00:08:47.135 Lisa Nichols: Yeah. 00:08:47.135 --> 00:08:47.535 Lisa Nichols: Yeah. 00:08:47.535 --> 00:08:51.375 Lisa Nichols: And, I mean, you you've got oh my goodness. 00:08:51.375 --> 00:08:55.375 Lisa Nichols: You know, you've got a PhD in toxicology. 00:08:56.750 --> 00:08:59.390 Lisa Nichols: You got master's in public health. 00:08:59.390 --> 00:09:01.630 Lisa Nichols: You started with a bachelor's in biology. 00:09:01.630 --> 00:09:05.630 Lisa Nichols: I mean, Greg, was there any kind 00:09:05.790 -->

00:09:09.790 Lisa Nichols: of, how do I wanna put this, ego there 00:09:10.175 --> 00:09:13.935 Lisa Nichols: about, you know, look at how smart I am and what I can do. 00:09:13.935 --> 00:09:17.935 Lisa Nichols: Did you did you ever have that kind of I I think about, 00:09:18.575 --> 00:09:22.575 Lisa Nichols: I bet you know him, Mark Whitaker, who runs t factor for Consolidated. 00:09:23.135 --> 00:09:26.560 Lisa Nichols: He was very, very smart. 00:09:26.560 --> 00:09:28.160 Lisa Nichols: But he told me he said, oh, yeah. 00:09:28.160 --> 00:09:29.200 Lisa Nichols: I was very smart. 00:09:29.200 --> 00:09:33.200 Lisa Nichols: I was an executive when I was, like, twenty nine years old. 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:37.200 Lisa Nichols: And, you know, I mean, an ego kind of gets in the way 00:09:37.205 --> 00:09:38.645 Lisa Nichols: a little bit sometime. 00:09:38.645 --> 00:09:39.565 Lisa Nichols: Do you have a sense 00:09:39.565 --> 00:09:40.805 Dr. Greg Allgood: of that? 00:09:40.805 --> 00:09:43.285 Dr. Greg Allgood: And and, I've always been very ambitious. 00:09:43.285 --> 00:09:47.285 Dr. Greg Allgood: I mean, going back to, you know, getting becoming an Eagle Scout at thirteen 00:09:47.525 --> 00:09:51.525 Dr. Greg Allgood: and, you know, excelling in academics and and definitely, ego 00:09:51.710 --> 00:09:52.190 Dr. Greg Allgood: gets in the way. 00:09:52.190 --> 00:09:55.790 Dr. Greg Allgood: And that was part of my journey in learning that, 00:09:55.790 --> 00:09:58.910 Dr. Greg Allgood: when God could do it with or without me. 00:09:58.910 --> 00:09:59.310 Dr. Greg Allgood: And 00:09:59.310 --> 00:10:00.030 Lisa Nichols: and Yes. 00:10:00.030 --> 00:10:04.030 Dr. Greg Allgood: And, learning that I can be, know when I can contribute 00:10:04.125 --> 00:10:08.125 Dr. Greg Allgood: and knowing when others, can contribute and that we're all have the same mission. 00:10:08.525 --> 00:10:11.565 Dr. Greg Allgood: If you're showing yourself with people who have the same mission, you can achieve 00:10:11.565 --> 00:10:12.525 Dr. Greg Allgood: extraordinary things. 00:10:12.525 --> 00:10:16.525 Dr. Greg Allgood: So, that's definitely been part of of what I've learned over the years, 00:10:16.710 --> 00:10:17.990 Dr. Greg Allgood: and it's a really important lesson. 00:10:17.990 --> 00:10:21.990 Dr. Greg Allgood: I'm I'm so grateful that that God had me has given me a purpose 00:10:22.470 --> 00:10:26.470 Dr. Greg Allgood: that allows to channel that ambition into into saving lives, 00:10:27.110 --> 00:10:29.675 Dr. Greg Allgood: instead of, you know, some other effort. 00:10:29.675 --> 00:10:30.955 Lisa Nichols: Absolutely. 00:10:30.955 --> 00:10:33.195 Lisa Nichols: Absolutely. 00:10:33.195 --> 00:10:37.195 Lisa Nichols: I would love and you kind of touched on it, doctor Algoo, but I 00:10:37.355 --> 00:10:41.275 Lisa Nichols: know when you and I had talked before, you told me this story about 00:10:41.275 --> 00:10:43.420 Lisa Nichols: this documentary. 00:10:43.420 --> 00:10:47.020 Lisa Nichols: And I think it's called The Long Walk for Water Yes. 00:10:47.020 --> 00:10:49.340 Lisa Nichols: That you were involved in putting together. 00:10:49.340 --> 00:10:51.100 Lisa Nichols: And I was so moved. 00:10:51.100 --> 00:10:52.220 Lisa Nichols: In fact, I was so moved. 00:10:52.220 --> 00:10:55.660 Lisa Nichols: I immediately came back and told Jenny Hill, my EA. 00:10:55.660 --> 00:10:58.745 Lisa Nichols: I'm like, let me tell you what he told me. 00:10:58.745 --> 00:11:02.745 Lisa Nichols: Tell tell our listeners about what they may not understand 00:11:03.305 --> 00:11:07.145 Lisa Nichols: about what girls and women have to go through to get clean water. 00:11:07.145 --> 00:11:08.185 Lisa Nichols: Can you tell that story? 00:11:08.185 --> 00:11:11.865 Lisa Nichols: And you actually walked the walk yourself because you wanted to know what it 00:11:11.865 --> 00:11:13.100 Lisa Nichols: was like. 00:11:13.100 --> 00:11:13.500 Dr. Greg Allgood: Yeah. 00:11:13.500 --> 00:11:15.180 Dr. Greg Allgood: So, 00:11:15.180 --> 00:11:19.180 Dr. Greg Allgood: you know, there's the impact of the global water crisis is many it impacts 00:11:19.420 --> 00:11:21.980 Dr. Greg Allgood: people in many ways, and one of them is the fact there's still a 00:11:21.980 --> 00:11:25.100 Dr. Greg Allgood: thousand children that die every day from having unsafe water. 00:11:25.100 --> 00:11:29.100 Dr. Greg Allgood: Another big impact is the fact that women and girls, mostly 00:11:29.365 --> 00:11:33.205 Dr. Greg Allgood: women and girls, have to haul water, have to walk long distances. 00:11:33.205 --> 00:11:37.205 Dr. Greg Allgood: And in fact, the estimate is that just in Sub Saharan Africa, where seventy 00:11:37.205 --> 00:11:40.565 Dr. Greg Allgood: percent of the people are that don't have clean water access, basic clean water 00:11:40.565 --> 00:11:42.300 Dr. Greg Allgood: access, 00:11:42.300 --> 00:11:46.300 Dr. Greg Allgood: Women and girls in sub Saharan Africa have to walk two hundred 00:11:46.380 --> 00:11:50.300 Dr. Greg Allgood: million hours every day hauling water. 00:11:50.300 --> 00:11:54.300 Dr. Greg Allgood: And so I I wanted to I want people, Americans in particular, to 00:11:54.815 --> 00:11:58.735 Dr. Greg Allgood: understand the long walk for water that women and girls have to endure. 00:11:58.735 --> 00:12:02.735 Dr. Greg Allgood: And so we, World Vision was was doing work in providing 00:12:02.815 --> 00:12:05.375 Dr. Greg Allgood: clean water access in a number of countries. 00:12:05.375 --> 00:12:09.375 Dr. Greg Allgood: And I said, let's, before we provide clean water access, but 00:12:09.550 --> 00:12:13.550 Dr. Greg Allgood: knowing that these communities will get clean water access, let's really 00:12:13.630 --> 00:12:17.630 Dr. Greg Allgood: let's really measure and and and record the the long walk for water. 00:12:17.790 --> 00:12:21.470 Dr. Greg Allgood: And our idea was to make

it so that people can relate, was to 00:12:21.470 --> 00:12:25.470 Dr. Greg Allgood: put smartwatches, to invite women in these countries to 00:12:25.525 --> 00:12:29.525 Dr. Greg Allgood: wear smartwatches as they did the long walk for water because everyone's, you know, 00:12:29.845 --> 00:12:33.205 Dr. Greg Allgood: supposed to walk, you know, ten thousand steps and, you know, counting their calories, 00:12:33.205 --> 00:12:34.085 Dr. Greg Allgood: counting their miles. 00:12:34.085 --> 00:12:37.365 Dr. Greg Allgood: And so it was a way to make Americans understand this long walk for 00:12:37.365 --> 00:12:37.830 Dr. Greg Allgood: water. 00:12:37.830 --> 00:12:39.430 Dr. Greg Allgood: So we did it in four countries. 00:12:39.430 --> 00:12:43.350 Dr. Greg Allgood: And when we got the data back, I asked the team to disaggregate the 00:12:43.350 --> 00:12:43.670 Dr. Greg Allgood: data. 00:12:43.670 --> 00:12:47.670 Dr. Greg Allgood: I wanted to see what community was walking the furthest for water, 00:12:48.070 --> 00:12:52.070 Dr. Greg Allgood: and I wanted to go back there with a a film crew, 00:12:52.665 --> 00:12:53.385 Dr. Greg Allgood: and we did that. 00:12:53.385 --> 00:12:57.385 Dr. Greg Allgood: And, of course, because this is a primarily a woman's issue, I picked a 00:12:57.385 --> 00:13:01.385 Dr. Greg Allgood: colleague, Lindsay Deems Ratchford, who's a World Vision employee, 00:13:01.465 --> 00:13:04.585 Dr. Greg Allgood: who has a passion for clean water to go along so we could experience 00:13:04.585 --> 00:13:07.550 Dr. Greg Allgood: through through Lindsay's eyes this journey. 00:13:07.550 --> 00:13:11.550 Dr. Greg Allgood: And two lovely beautiful women that chose to do the walk 00:13:11.550 --> 00:13:15.550 Dr. Greg Allgood: again because the time we we did the walk, they had clean 00:13:15.630 --> 00:13:17.550 Dr. Greg Allgood: water access. 00:13:17.550 --> 00:13:20.455 Dr. Greg Allgood: And 00:13:20.455 --> 00:13:24.455 Dr. Greg Allgood: they shared with us that the physicality of the journey is incredible, 00:13:24.695 --> 00:13:26.535 Dr. Greg Allgood: and we got to experience that. 00:13:26.535 --> 00:13:30.535 Dr. Greg Allgood: But even even more than this the the struggles in 00:13:30.535 --> 00:13:33.440 Dr. Greg Allgood: carrying the water is the dangers along the way. 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:36.960 Dr. Greg Allgood: One of the women, Nomogene, had almost been killed by an elephant in the 00:13:36.960 --> 00:13:40.880 Dr. Greg Allgood: area, and the stress of and and worry about their children. 00:13:40.880 --> 00:13:43.520 Dr. Greg Allgood: The children they have too many times is the the younger ones have to 00:13:43.520 --> 00:13:45.680 Dr. Greg Allgood: leave the home while they're walking for water. 00:13:45.680 --> 00:13:46.160 Lisa Nichols: Yes. 00:13:46.160 --> 00:13:49.625 Dr. Greg Allgood: But, Lisa, they were they were each carrying forty four pounds of water. 00:13:49.625 --> 00:13:53.625 Dr. Greg Allgood:

They they put a strap around the the container of water and put 00:13:53.625 --> 00:13:57.545 Dr. Greg Allgood: it around their head and balance the water on their back, and then then 00:13:57.545 --> 00:14:01.545 Dr. Greg Allgood: pulled and dragged another forty four pounds each, eighty eight pounds 00:14:01.785 --> 00:14:02.820 Dr. Greg Allgood: of water. 00:14:02.820 --> 00:14:06.820 Dr. Greg Allgood: We walked through a dry river bed, through a forest where these wild 00:14:06.820 --> 00:14:07.460 Dr. Greg Allgood: animals were. 00:14:07.460 --> 00:14:11.460 Dr. Greg Allgood: We saw cobra, elephants, then up a mountain, then down 00:14:11.460 --> 00:14:14.820 Dr. Greg Allgood: the other side of the mountain where they had to dig down into the 00:14:14.820 --> 00:14:18.820 Dr. Greg Allgood: sand to collect contaminated water and then haul the eighty 00:14:18.875 --> 00:14:19.915 Dr. Greg Allgood: eight pounds of water back. 00:14:19.915 --> 00:14:23.915 Dr. Greg Allgood: And so, yeah, I I wrote and directed the the long walk for water 00:14:24.075 --> 00:14:28.075 Dr. Greg Allgood: documentary that shares the story of these two amazing women and and through, Lindsay 00:14:28.395 --> 00:14:31.275 Dr. Greg Allgood: Dean Rashford's eyes about this long walk for water. 00:14:31.275 --> 00:14:35.275 Dr. Greg Allgood: And the goal is to inspire action, through all World Vision's work. 00:14:35.810 --> 00:14:37.250 Dr. Greg Allgood: So we we want Yes. 00:14:37.250 --> 00:14:40.610 Dr. Greg Allgood: We want this to never have to happen again for for women and girls. 00:14:40.610 --> 00:14:41.330 Lisa Nichols: Absolutely. 00:14:41.330 --> 00:14:44.290 Lisa Nichols: Well and you and I talked about it because I was telling you about 00:14:44.290 --> 00:14:48.290 Lisa Nichols: our work with OI, you know, Opportunity International that helps women 00:14:49.095 --> 00:14:52.535 Lisa Nichols: get up on their feet with a business idea. 00:14:52.535 --> 00:14:55.255 Lisa Nichols: But something that you said, Dr. 00:14:55.255 --> 00:14:59.255 Lisa Nichols: Allgood, that I had not really thought about before, you're like, these women 00:14:59.255 --> 00:15:03.255 Lisa Nichols: don't have time to do anything but haul water. 00:15:03.840 --> 00:15:07.840 Lisa Nichols: When you are working when you are you're walking two hundred 00:15:08.640 --> 00:15:12.640 Lisa Nichols: out million hours a day, you know, collectively, 00:15:13.680 --> 00:15:17.305 Lisa Nichols: there there's not time for that, or you're so exhausted. 00:15:17.305 --> 00:15:20.265 Lisa Nichols: How could you even have the energy to start a business or anything? 00:15:20.265 --> 00:15:23.065 Lisa Nichols: And I I had really not thought about it in that light. 00:15:23.065 --> 00:15:27.065 Lisa Nichols: So you're really that's your purpose is just to get water. 00:15:27.305 --> 00:15:27.625 Dr. Greg Allgood: Yeah. 00:15:27.625 --> 00:15:31.625 Dr. Greg Allgood: So even though World Vision is the the world's leading nongovernmental provider 00:15:31.650 --> 00:15:33.730 Dr. Greg Allgood: of clean water, we don't stop with water. 00:15:33.730 --> 00:15:36.290 Dr. Greg Allgood: In fact, we actually don't even start with water. 00:15:36.290 --> 00:15:40.290 Dr. Greg Allgood: We start with with people, helping people understand that they're made in the 00:15:40.290 --> 00:15:42.770 Dr. Greg Allgood: image of a loving God and they're meant to be successful. 00:15:42.770 --> 00:15:46.545 Dr. Greg Allgood: God doesn't want them to live in extreme poverty, and so you deal with 00:15:46.545 --> 00:15:50.545 Dr. Greg Allgood: the hopelessness and apathy that's in many communities to one of resourcefulness 00:15:51.265 --> 00:15:52.705 Dr. Greg Allgood: and and thriving. 00:15:52.705 --> 00:15:54.545 Dr. Greg Allgood: Get that mindset change. 00:15:54.545 --> 00:15:58.545 Dr. Greg Allgood: Then when you bring clean water access, you unleash, 00:15:58.810 --> 00:16:02.810 Dr. Greg Allgood: as you said, that that time and energy, and, wow, do 00:16:02.890 --> 00:16:05.770 Dr. Greg Allgood: you see things change once you once you provide clean water access in the 00:16:05.770 --> 00:16:06.250 Dr. Greg Allgood: community. 00:16:06.250 --> 00:16:07.610 Dr. Greg Allgood: But we don't stop there. 00:16:07.610 --> 00:16:11.210 Dr. Greg Allgood: Then we bring in our economic opportunity work Mhmm. 00:16:11.210 --> 00:16:15.210 Dr. Greg Allgood: To organize people into savings groups, to teach them business skills, 00:16:15.425 --> 00:16:19.425 Dr. Greg Allgood: and, when needed to provide microfinance, for example, through World 00:16:19.505 --> 00:16:22.225 Dr. Greg Allgood: Vision's leading microfinance group Vision Fund. 00:16:22.225 --> 00:16:26.225 Dr. Greg Allgood: And when you put those together, mindset change, then providing clean water to unleash 00:16:26.225 --> 00:16:30.225 Dr. Greg Allgood: time and energy, and then economic development, you really see communities thrive. 00:16:30.830 --> 00:16:34.830 Dr. Greg Allgood: And particularly particularly the women and family relationships improve. 00:16:35.150 --> 00:16:39.150 Dr. Greg Allgood: The relationship between husbands and wives, really change, when 00:16:39.150 --> 00:16:43.150 Dr. Greg Allgood: you when people are no longer in extreme poverty, and we focus on making 00:16:43.150 --> 00:16:44.825 Dr. Greg Allgood: sure that happens. 00:16:44.825 --> 00:16:45.465 Lisa Nichols: Yeah. 00:16:45.465 --> 00:16:46.745 Lisa Nichols: I just I love it. 00:16:46.745 --> 00:16:50.745 Lisa Nichols: Tell this story real quick, because I told you that 00:16:50.825 --> 00:16:54.345 Lisa Nichols: we have supported children through World Vision for a long time, and I'll never 00:16:54.345 --> 00:16:54.545 Lisa Nichols: forget. 00:16:54.505 --> 00:16:58.505 Lisa Nichols: I think it was Bob Pierce, right, that founded World Vision. 00:16:58.825 --> 00:17:02.825 Lisa Nichols: Tell our listeners kind of the

genesis of that, 00:17:03.030 --> 00:17:07.030 Lisa Nichols: and what was the what was it that really 00:17:07.510 --> 00:17:09.910 Lisa Nichols: spurred him on the prayer? 00:17:09.910 --> 00:17:13.910 Dr. Greg Allgood: So, Bob Pierce is the founder of of World Vision, also Samaritan's Purse. 00:17:14.070 --> 00:17:18.070 Dr. Greg Allgood: He was an evangelist, worked with alongside Billy Graham in in 00:17:18.075 --> 00:17:20.075 Dr. Greg Allgood: China, then Korea. 00:17:20.075 --> 00:17:21.275 Dr. Greg Allgood: Evangelists were kicked out of China. 00:17:21.275 --> 00:17:25.275 Dr. Greg Allgood: They went to Korea and, at a, at a revival 00:17:25.675 --> 00:17:27.675 Dr. Greg Allgood: in Korea. 00:17:27.675 --> 00:17:31.675 Dr. Greg Allgood: One of the attendees, a young girl, Jade White, 00:17:32.350 --> 00:17:35.470 Dr. Greg Allgood: accepted Christ, and her family, shunned her. 00:17:35.470 --> 00:17:39.470 Dr. Greg Allgood: And, she went to an orphanage, and Bob Pierce happened to be visiting 00:17:39.470 --> 00:17:40.510 Dr. Greg Allgood: the orphanage. 00:17:40.510 --> 00:17:43.885 Dr. Greg Allgood: And a a nun there said, what are you gonna do about this girl 00:17:43.885 --> 00:17:45.085 Dr. Greg Allgood: who knows? 00:17:45.085 --> 00:17:49.085 Dr. Greg Allgood: And so that's how, World Vision started child sponsorship. 00:17:49.405 --> 00:17:50.925 Dr. Greg Allgood: And and then we work to grow that. 00:17:50.925 --> 00:17:53.805 Dr. Greg Allgood: We're the leading child sponsorship organization now. 00:17:53.805 --> 00:17:57.805 Dr. Greg Allgood: And that's really critical to our whole development model because 00:17:57.870 --> 00:18:00.110 Dr. Greg Allgood: when people, 00:18:00.110 --> 00:18:04.110 Dr. Greg Allgood: sponsor a child, that funds go, not just to that child, 00:18:04.110 --> 00:18:05.790 Dr. Greg Allgood: but to that entire community. 00:18:05.790 --> 00:18:09.390 Dr. Greg Allgood: And we work in communities about the size of a a county, typically about 00:18:09.390 --> 00:18:10.705 Dr. Greg Allgood: fifty thousand people. 00:18:10.705 --> 00:18:10.945 Dr. Greg Allgood: Mhmm. 00:18:10.945 --> 00:18:14.945 Dr. Greg Allgood: That child sponsorship funds allow us to have a presence with local staff 00:18:14.945 --> 00:18:18.945 Dr. Greg Allgood: in those communities for the long term, ten to twelve, 00:18:19.185 --> 00:18:21.105 Dr. Greg Allgood: fifteen years in some cases. 00:18:21.105 --> 00:18:25.105 Dr. Greg Allgood: We work alongside the community so they can lift themselves out of extreme poverty. 00:18:25.250 --> 00:18:29.170 Dr. Greg Allgood: So we talked about the mindset change and the wars and economic development. 00:18:29.170 --> 00:18:31.410 Dr. Greg Allgood: So child sponsorship is critical to that model. 00:18:31.410 --> 00:18:35.410 Dr. Greg Allgood: And on top of child sponsorship, we raise funds for for water economic 00:18:35.730 --> 00:18:36.975 Dr. Greg Allgood: development. 00:18:36.975 --> 00:18:40.815 Dr. Greg Allgood: We're now in our fourth five year business plan for water. 00:18:40.815 --> 00:18:44.815 Dr. Greg Allgood: We've committed between twenty twenty two and twenty thirty raise, 00:18:46.095 --> 00:18:50.095 Dr. Greg Allgood: to provide clean water access to thirty million additional people. 00:18:51.110 --> 00:18:52.870 Dr. Greg Allgood: So it's just a a a huge 00:18:52.870 --> 00:18:54.150 Lisa Nichols: global effort. 00:18:54.150 --> 00:18:56.870 Lisa Nichols: And you've already provided to how many? 00:18:56.870 --> 00:19:00.870 Dr. Greg Allgood: So between twenty sixteen and twenty, and now between twenty 00:19:00.870 --> 00:19:04.870 Dr. Greg Allgood: sixteen and now, we've reached thirty five million people with clean water. 00:19:05.365 --> 00:19:08.965 Dr. Greg Allgood: To put that in perspective, that's like the population of Texas, except we're not 00:19:08.965 --> 00:19:12.965 Dr. Greg Allgood: operating in a place with good roads and infrastructure working in the toughest to 00:19:12.965 --> 00:19:16.965 Dr. Greg Allgood: reach places on the planet, places like, Doctor Congo and, 00:19:18.405 --> 00:19:20.060 Dr. Greg Allgood: Ethiopia, 00:19:20.060 --> 00:19:21.340 Dr. Greg Allgood: and Zambia. 00:19:21.340 --> 00:19:25.340 Dr. Greg Allgood: So, you know, really tough to reach places, and thirty five million people's 00:19:25.740 --> 00:19:29.500 Dr. Greg Allgood: lives have been changed because of the wonderful people who who support World Vision 00:19:29.500 --> 00:19:31.740 Dr. Greg Allgood: and the World Vision staff who do the work. 00:19:31.740 --> 00:19:33.660 Lisa Nichols: Is that it's just so amazing. 00:19:33.660 --> 00:19:35.825 Lisa Nichols: So amazing. 00:19:35.825 --> 00:19:37.425 Lisa Nichols: Well, you started as a scientist. 00:19:37.425 --> 00:19:41.425 Lisa Nichols: Did you ever did you ever think back then, doctor 00:19:41.745 --> 00:19:45.745 Lisa Nichols: Allgood, that that would turn into your ministry and your purpose as you've said? 00:19:45.905 --> 00:19:47.670 Lisa Nichols: Did you ever think that? 00:19:47.670 --> 00:19:48.030 Dr. Greg Allgood: No. 00:19:48.030 --> 00:19:50.470 Dr. Greg Allgood: I I definitely did not. 00:19:50.470 --> 00:19:54.390 Dr. Greg Allgood: You know, my, two two people that really inspired me to try to think 00:19:54.390 --> 00:19:58.390 Dr. Greg Allgood: about doing something that would have a big impact, were Jane Goodall and and, 00:19:58.710 --> 00:19:59.830 Dr. Greg Allgood: Jacques Cousteau. 00:19:59.830 --> 00:20:03.830 Dr. Greg Allgood: They were my heroes and how they were both scientists, but also, 00:20:05.025 --> 00:20:07.025 Dr. Greg Allgood: you know, wanted to change the world for the better. 00:20:07.025 --> 00:20:10.545 Dr. Greg Allgood: So I I had I had that inspiration, but I I never dreamed I 00:20:10.545 --> 00:20:14.070 Dr. Greg Allgood: would be able to to, be blessed to be part of efforts that have 00:20:14.070 --> 00:20:15.910

Dr. Greg Allgood: have reached millions of billions of people. 00:20:15.910 --> 00:20:18.230 Dr. Greg Allgood: I was blessed to be able to work with Jane Goodall and Jane Goodall 00:20:18.230 --> 00:20:20.270 Dr. Greg Allgood: Institute, when I was at P and G. 00:20:20.270 --> 00:20:21.110 Dr. Greg Allgood: Oh, okay. 00:20:21.110 --> 00:20:24.310 Dr. Greg Allgood: And, also, I hike Kilimanjaro on a celebrity hike with Alexandra Cousteau. 00:20:24.310 --> 00:20:28.310 Dr. Greg Allgood: Jacques Cousteau had passed, but I've I got pretty darn close to my either 00:20:28.335 --> 00:20:31.215 Dr. Greg Allgood: directly working with my heroes or their descendants of my heroes. 00:20:31.215 --> 00:20:32.655 Lisa Nichols: That is so remarkable. 00:20:32.655 --> 00:20:33.855 Lisa Nichols: That is awesome. 00:20:33.855 --> 00:20:37.855 Lisa Nichols: Well, I tell you what, I've got pages and pages of questions 00:20:37.855 --> 00:20:38.655 Lisa Nichols: for you. 00:20:38.655 --> 00:20:41.695 Lisa Nichols: But we need to take a really quick break, and we'll be right back 00:20:41.695 --> 00:20:45.695 Lisa Nichols: with doctor Greg Allgood on the Something Extra podcast. 00:20:45.720 --> 00:20:49.720 AD: In business, the tendency is to seek out partners who are bigger, faster, 00:20:49.880 --> 00:20:50.440 AD: stronger. 00:20:50.440 --> 00:20:54.440 AD: When it comes to IT, you should be looking for smarter, faster, better. 00:20:54.705 --> 00:20:58.705 AD: That's just what you'll find with the talented technologists at Technology Partners. 00:20:58.785 --> 00:21:02.785 AD: Our experts develop custom solutions to tackle your most complex challenges, 00:21:03.105 --> 00:21:07.105 AD: all to simplify your processes in the smartest, most efficient way possible. 00:21:07.345 --> 00:21:09.870 AD: The time to be swift and nimble starts now. 00:21:09.870 --> 00:21:13.870 AD: Go to technology partners dot net slash solutions and see what's possible. 00:21:15.310 --> 00:21:19.070 Lisa Nichols: So welcome back, everyone, to the Something Extra podcast with Dr. 00:21:19.070 --> 00:21:21.230 Lisa Nichols: Greg Allgood. 00:21:21.230 --> 00:21:25.230 Lisa Nichols: Greg, you know, you've said that purpose often reveals itself one step 00:21:25.525 --> 00:21:28.085 Lisa Nichols: at a time one step at a time. 00:21:28.085 --> 00:21:32.085 Lisa Nichols: What advice would you give to someone who is still searching 00:21:32.165 --> 00:21:34.645 Lisa Nichols: for their purpose? 00:21:34.645 --> 00:21:35.685 Dr. Greg Allgood: That's a great question. 00:21:35.685 --> 00:21:39.685 Dr. Greg Allgood: You know, I think finding your purpose, it'll be where where you 00:21:39.720 --> 00:21:42.760 Dr. Greg Allgood: have passion, where you you see that it excites you. 00:21:42.760 --> 00:21:46.760 Dr. Greg Allgood: You wanna get out of bed every morning and and and, get involved in 00:21:46.840 --> 00:21:48.040 Dr. Greg Allgood: that purpose. 00:21:48.040 --> 00:21:52.040 Dr. Greg Allgood: Pray, ask for discernment from God to to, help you know when that 00:21:52.040 --> 00:21:54.805 Dr. Greg Allgood: true purpose is. 00:21:54.805 --> 00:21:58.245 Dr. Greg Allgood: And so and be patient because sometimes it does take a a while for 00:21:58.245 --> 00:22:00.325 Dr. Greg Allgood: you really to to understand that. 00:22:00.325 --> 00:22:01.365 Dr. Greg Allgood: And passion is not enough. 00:22:01.365 --> 00:22:03.365 Dr. Greg Allgood: You need to have the skill set along with it. 00:22:03.365 --> 00:22:03.565 Dr. Greg Allgood: Yeah. 00:22:03.525 --> 00:22:06.165 Dr. Greg Allgood: So if you think this is your passion, then, you know, build your skills 00:22:06.165 --> 00:22:09.530 Dr. Greg Allgood: in that area where so you can really have a meaningful impact. 00:22:09.530 --> 00:22:10.570 Lisa Nichols: Mhmm. 00:22:10.570 --> 00:22:14.570 Lisa Nichols: You know, that is sometimes where I see, and I'm sure 00:22:14.970 --> 00:22:16.010 Lisa Nichols: that you could speak to this. 00:22:16.010 --> 00:22:19.690 Lisa Nichols: And I would love for you to speak to, like, what what were you 00:22:19.690 --> 00:22:23.690 Lisa Nichols: doing back then even that you feel like has prepared you for what you're 00:22:23.770 --> 00:22:24.695 Lisa Nichols: doing now? 00:22:24.695 --> 00:22:28.695 Lisa Nichols: And sometimes, I mean, doctor Allgood, there is a season of 00:22:28.855 --> 00:22:30.455 Lisa Nichols: preparation. 00:22:30.455 --> 00:22:30.775 Lisa Nichols: Right? 00:22:30.775 --> 00:22:34.775 Lisa Nichols: And sometimes your purpose is not necessarily revealed immediately 00:22:34.775 --> 00:22:36.770 Lisa Nichols: because you're not ready. 00:22:36.770 --> 00:22:37.170 Lisa Nichols: Right? 00:22:37.170 --> 00:22:38.770 Lisa Nichols: There's this season of preparation. 00:22:38.770 --> 00:22:39.970 Lisa Nichols: I love what you said. 00:22:39.970 --> 00:22:42.770 Lisa Nichols: You gotta have the skill set, so work on that. 00:22:42.770 --> 00:22:43.250 Lisa Nichols: Yeah. 00:22:43.250 --> 00:22:44.930 Lisa Nichols: Have the patience to wait. 00:22:44.930 --> 00:22:45.330 Lisa Nichols: You know? 00:22:45.330 --> 00:22:49.330 Lisa Nichols: But, you know, looking back, is there what what 00:22:49.455 --> 00:22:52.335 Lisa Nichols: were some of the things you were doing that really prepared you for the 00:22:52.335 --> 00:22:54.495 Lisa Nichols: work that you're doing today? 00:22:54.495 --> 00:22:55.135 Dr. Greg Allgood: Well, you're right. 00:22:55.135 --> 00:22:59.055 Dr. Greg Allgood: It did take years for me to understand what my true purpose was. 00:22:59.055 --> 00:22:59.375 Lisa Nichols: Mhmm. 00:22:59.375 --> 00:23:02.655 Dr. Greg Allgood: At P and G, we mentioned I had a lot of ambition, and I 00:23:02.655 --> 00:23:06.380 Dr. Greg Allgood: was, you know, very grateful to have a position at the world's leading consumer 00:23:06.380 --> 00:23:10.380 Dr. Greg Allgood: products company doing job I worked that it doing work I I

really 00:23:10.540 --> 00:23:13.900 Dr. Greg Allgood: value, but, didn't quite fit with my purpose. 00:23:13.900 --> 00:23:15.100 Dr. Greg Allgood: I didn't understand my purpose. 00:23:15.100 --> 00:23:16.780 Dr. Greg Allgood: And, 00:23:16.780 --> 00:23:19.955 Dr. Greg Allgood: I worked on project after project that failed. 00:23:19.955 --> 00:23:21.715 Dr. Greg Allgood: And so I was really becoming discouraged. 00:23:21.715 --> 00:23:24.195 Dr. Greg Allgood: I think is, you know, is this is this what God wanted me to 00:23:24.195 --> 00:23:24.395 Dr. Greg Allgood: do? 00:23:24.355 --> 00:23:27.635 Dr. Greg Allgood: Even even what I thought were big successes, 00:23:27.635 --> 00:23:31.635 Dr. Greg Allgood: like, I was, in a a debate with a critic on Oprah, 00:23:31.955 --> 00:23:34.355 Dr. Greg Allgood: when it was the top television, 00:23:34.355 --> 00:23:35.590 Dr. Greg Allgood: show in the world. 00:23:35.590 --> 00:23:38.230 Dr. Greg Allgood: And I was very successful in that debate and thought, wow. 00:23:38.230 --> 00:23:42.230 Dr. Greg Allgood: I'm I'm this is gonna lead to more successes in my career. 00:23:42.310 --> 00:23:46.310 Dr. Greg Allgood: That project, though, crashed financially because it wasn't meeting P and 00:23:46.390 --> 00:23:47.830 Dr. Greg Allgood: G's expectations for sales. 00:23:47.830 --> 00:23:51.155 Dr. Greg Allgood: And so it was a it was a financial failure. 00:23:51.155 --> 00:23:52.995 Dr. Greg Allgood: And, 00:23:52.995 --> 00:23:55.475 Dr. Greg Allgood: project after project that I worked on were like that. 00:23:55.475 --> 00:23:57.475 Dr. Greg Allgood: And at the time, I was thinking, you know, wow. 00:23:57.475 --> 00:23:59.235 Dr. Greg Allgood: I maybe I should leave P and G. 00:23:59.235 --> 00:24:01.235 Dr. Greg Allgood: Maybe I'm just not cut out for this. 00:24:01.235 --> 00:24:01.875 Dr. Greg Allgood: Mhmm. 00:24:01.875 --> 00:24:04.515 Dr. Greg Allgood: But what I did was I learned through those failures. 00:24:04.515 --> 00:24:08.515 Dr. Greg Allgood: And my success in in convincing leaders to, 00:24:08.970 --> 00:24:12.250 Dr. Greg Allgood: create a not for profit business with the P and G, I can directly 00:24:12.250 --> 00:24:16.250 Dr. Greg Allgood: link back to understanding, what happens in a corporation when things 00:24:16.330 --> 00:24:16.730 Dr. Greg Allgood: fail. 00:24:16.730 --> 00:24:19.130 Dr. Greg Allgood: And I was able to get ahead of it with the the not for 00:24:19.130 --> 00:24:23.130 Dr. Greg Allgood: profit business recommendation. 00:24:23.355 --> 00:24:27.355 Dr. Greg Allgood: And, you know, if if you're patient and you you learn those skills, 00:24:27.995 --> 00:24:31.995 Dr. Greg Allgood: and then you've asked for for god guidance from god, 00:24:32.555 --> 00:24:33.595 Dr. Greg Allgood: you can find your purpose. 00:24:33.595 --> 00:24:36.950 Dr. Greg Allgood: For me, it was when, 00:24:36.950 --> 00:24:40.950 Dr. Greg Allgood: I was almost fired from P and G for

for recommending this, not for 00:24:41.030 --> 00:24:42.070 Dr. Greg Allgood: profit business. 00:24:42.070 --> 00:24:43.110 Dr. Greg Allgood: You know, who was I? 00:24:43.110 --> 00:24:44.550 Dr. Greg Allgood: Who was I to lead this? 00:24:44.550 --> 00:24:48.390 Dr. Greg Allgood: Could damage P and G's reputation to try to continue with a a product 00:24:48.390 --> 00:24:50.115 Dr. Greg Allgood: that had failed commercially. 00:24:50.115 --> 00:24:53.875 Dr. Greg Allgood: I was in Geneva meeting with some of our P and G team, who 00:24:53.875 --> 00:24:54.275 Dr. Greg Allgood: had asked me. 00:24:54.275 --> 00:24:57.955 Dr. Greg Allgood: And I I was walking I was running around Lake Geneva, to get rid 00:24:57.955 --> 00:25:00.755 Dr. Greg Allgood: of some of the stress of the fact that people are trying to have 00:25:00.755 --> 00:25:01.635 Dr. Greg Allgood: me fired. 00:25:01.635 --> 00:25:05.635 Dr. Greg Allgood: And, usually, after running for a while, like, you know, I 00:25:07.300 --> 00:25:08.660 Dr. Greg Allgood: I I start relaxing a little bit. 00:25:08.660 --> 00:25:10.740 Dr. Greg Allgood: You know, my my my stress is really 00:25:10.740 --> 00:25:12.340 Lisa Nichols: Endorphins 00:25:12.340 --> 00:25:13.460 Lisa Nichols: kick in and But 00:25:13.460 --> 00:25:17.460 Dr. Greg Allgood: in this run, it just get it get got worse and worse. 00:25:17.780 --> 00:25:19.540 Dr. Greg Allgood: And, 00:25:19.540 --> 00:25:21.495 Dr. Greg Allgood: I stopped 00:25:21.495 --> 00:25:24.775 Dr. Greg Allgood: and I I heard God very clearly tell me, do you doubt I can 00:25:24.775 --> 00:25:26.135 Dr. Greg Allgood: do this? 00:25:26.135 --> 00:25:27.815 Dr. Greg Allgood: And 00:25:27.815 --> 00:25:29.815 Dr. Greg Allgood: I never had an an experience like that. 00:25:29.815 --> 00:25:33.815 Dr. Greg Allgood: I dropped on my knees and wept, and, I felt an 00:25:33.930 --> 00:25:37.930 Dr. Greg Allgood: amazing confidence because of that that, God had told me he 00:25:38.010 --> 00:25:42.010 Dr. Greg Allgood: that he could do this, which changed everything within P and G 00:25:42.090 --> 00:25:45.930 Dr. Greg Allgood: because the people that were wanted to work alongside me, they were nervous as 00:25:45.930 --> 00:25:49.050 Dr. Greg Allgood: well, but they saw the confidence I had, which I attribute to the holy 00:25:49.050 --> 00:25:51.985 Dr. Greg Allgood: spirit, entering me and and it giving me this confidence. 00:25:51.985 --> 00:25:55.505 Dr. Greg Allgood: And so, we had a few more battles ahead, but I I had the 00:25:55.505 --> 00:25:59.505 Dr. Greg Allgood: confidence to to, to to get the agreement from P and G, the green 00:25:59.585 --> 00:26:02.545 Dr. Greg Allgood: light to to run the for profit business. 00:26:02.545 --> 00:26:03.290 Lisa Nichols: Okay. 00:26:03.290 --> 00:26:05.290 Lisa Nichols: We could just stop the podcast right there. 00:26:05.290 --> 00:26:06.570 Lisa Nichols: That was just gold. 00:26:06.570 --> 00:26:10.570 Lisa

Nichols: That was gold, and that will be something that that I 00:26:10.570 --> 00:26:11.290 Lisa Nichols: will remember. 00:26:11.290 --> 00:26:13.850 Lisa Nichols: I hope our listeners do too. 00:26:13.850 --> 00:26:15.930 Lisa Nichols: Do you doubt that I can do this? 00:26:15.930 --> 00:26:17.305 Lisa Nichols: God is sovereign. 00:26:17.305 --> 00:26:17.545 Lisa Nichols: Right? 00:26:17.545 --> 00:26:18.825 Lisa Nichols: And he can do anything. 00:26:18.825 --> 00:26:22.265 Lisa Nichols: And going back to what you said in the beginning, Dr. 00:26:22.265 --> 00:26:26.025 Lisa Nichols: Allgood, you go, you know, he doesn't need me to accomplish his purposes. 00:26:26.025 --> 00:26:26.825 Lisa Nichols: Right? 00:26:26.825 --> 00:26:30.825 Lisa Nichols: I always say that that when I really camp out on that, 00:26:32.230 --> 00:26:34.070 Lisa Nichols: that one blows me away. 00:26:34.070 --> 00:26:36.550 Lisa Nichols: He doesn't need any of us. 00:26:36.550 --> 00:26:37.590 Lisa Nichols: Here's the deal, though. 00:26:37.590 --> 00:26:39.110 Lisa Nichols: He wants us. 00:26:39.110 --> 00:26:43.110 Lisa Nichols: He wants us involved, and he knows what's gonna fill 00:26:43.110 --> 00:26:45.435 Lisa Nichols: our bucket more than we know. 00:26:45.435 --> 00:26:45.915 Lisa Nichols: Right? 00:26:45.915 --> 00:26:49.915 Lisa Nichols: And so getting to do that work and the work that you've been able 00:26:49.915 --> 00:26:53.915 Lisa Nichols: to do and knowing that the work that you've been able to do, 00:26:54.235 --> 00:26:58.235 Lisa Nichols: which he gave you, the brains and the scientific brain 00:26:58.395 --> 00:27:02.130 Lisa Nichols: and that and the business brain, but that you've been able to be a 00:27:02.130 --> 00:27:05.090 Lisa Nichols: part of saving so many lives. 00:27:05.090 --> 00:27:09.090 Lisa Nichols: What a fulfilling, satisfying life, and he knows that 00:27:09.090 --> 00:27:10.050 Lisa Nichols: better than we know it. 00:27:10.050 --> 00:27:13.730 Lisa Nichols: So that, that that's gold. 00:27:13.730 --> 00:27:15.755 Lisa Nichols: Do you doubt that I can do this? 00:27:15.755 --> 00:27:16.635 Lisa Nichols: That is gold. 00:27:16.635 --> 00:27:19.515 Dr. Greg Allgood: Lisa, it it it it was a, you know, it's a journey. 00:27:19.515 --> 00:27:19.835 Dr. Greg Allgood: Right? 00:27:19.835 --> 00:27:22.955 Dr. Greg Allgood: We continue to to to struggle with our own ambitions. 00:27:22.955 --> 00:27:26.475 Dr. Greg Allgood: And and, and for me, one of the things that happened at World Vision 00:27:26.475 --> 00:27:30.320 Dr. Greg Allgood: was, after I was with World Vision for a while, 00:27:30.320 --> 00:27:34.320 Dr. Greg Allgood: we started missing our targets, and things got really bad. 00:27:35.120 --> 00:27:38.320 Dr. Greg Allgood: I I had tried to get the organization to understand that we needed to 00:27:38.320 --> 00:27:39.600 Dr. Greg Allgood: change what we were doing. 00:27:39.600 --> 00:27:43.040 Dr. Greg Allgood: We were we were at risk of no longer being the leading provider of 00:27:43.040 --> 00:27:44.000 Dr. Greg Allgood: clean water. 00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:45.825 Dr. Greg Allgood: And 00:27:45.825 --> 00:27:48.705 Dr. Greg Allgood: and one of our biggest donors on a call said that they're not gonna 00:27:48.705 --> 00:27:50.945 Dr. Greg Allgood: continue to fund our work. 00:27:50.945 --> 00:27:54.065 Dr. Greg Allgood: Dave and Dana Dornsife have have invested more than a hundred fifty million dollars 00:27:54.065 --> 00:27:58.065 Dr. Greg Allgood: with us, but they saw our poor performance and and, said we're not gonna 00:27:58.065 --> 00:28:00.780 Dr. Greg Allgood: continue to fund bad performance. 00:28:00.780 --> 00:28:04.780 Dr. Greg Allgood: And, I it was a crisis for me because their initial 00:28:05.020 --> 00:28:07.900 Dr. Greg Allgood: funding of our first business plan brought me to World Vision. 00:28:07.900 --> 00:28:10.460 Dr. Greg Allgood: And even more than that, I could see that, you know, these millions of 00:28:10.460 --> 00:28:11.020 Dr. Greg Allgood: people are helping. 00:28:11.020 --> 00:28:14.620 Dr. Greg Allgood: We're not we're not gonna be able to help anymore if this spirals like 00:28:14.620 --> 00:28:16.455 Dr. Greg Allgood: it looks like it's spiraling. 00:28:16.455 --> 00:28:19.015 Dr. Greg Allgood: And, 00:28:19.015 --> 00:28:23.015 Dr. Greg Allgood: the lesson I learned from that was that I was ineffective at getting 00:28:23.015 --> 00:28:26.695 Dr. Greg Allgood: the organization at that point to understand that we were headed this way. 00:28:26.695 --> 00:28:30.295 Dr. Greg Allgood: But when when our biggest donor at the time said that they were having 00:28:30.295 --> 00:28:34.295 Dr. Greg Allgood: a problem, the organization under the leadership of Edgar Sandoval, 00:28:34.310 --> 00:28:38.310 Dr. Greg Allgood: our CEO, really really created this as a 00:28:38.550 --> 00:28:41.910 Dr. Greg Allgood: understood that this was a crisis, got the right people in place, changed some 00:28:41.910 --> 00:28:45.065 Dr. Greg Allgood: leadership, and and got us back on track. 00:28:45.065 --> 00:28:47.065 Dr. Greg Allgood: And I didn't do that. 00:28:47.065 --> 00:28:49.465 Dr. Greg Allgood: I I had nothing to do with getting us back on track. 00:28:49.465 --> 00:28:52.825 Dr. Greg Allgood: In fact, I was not successful in getting the organization understand initially. 00:28:52.825 --> 00:28:56.345 Dr. Greg Allgood: So that was an an instance where I learned, you know, in this case, 00:28:56.345 --> 00:28:57.865 Dr. Greg Allgood: god doesn't need me to do this. 00:28:57.865 --> 00:28:59.980 Dr. Greg Allgood: He needs other people to do it. 00:28:59.980 --> 00:29:00.700 Lisa Nichols: Yeah. 00:29:00.700 --> 00:29:01.100 Lisa Nichols: Yeah. 00:29:01.100 --> 00:29:02.300 Lisa Nichols: That is so good. 00:29:02.300 --> 00:29:04.380 Lisa Nichols: That's so good. 00:29:04.380 --> 00:29:05.420 Lisa Nichols: Oh, wow. 00:29:05.420 -->

00:29:06.700 Lisa Nichols: Well, let me ask you this. 00:29:06.700 --> 00:29:08.300 Lisa Nichols: I mean, this dovetails right in. 00:29:08.300 --> 00:29:12.300 Lisa Nichols: I mean, you guys you've been successful, you and the team, 00:29:13.515 --> 00:29:15.675 Lisa Nichols: of building these partnerships. 00:29:15.675 --> 00:29:15.995 Lisa Nichols: Right? 00:29:15.995 --> 00:29:19.515 Lisa Nichols: I mean and you just said, what, a hundred and fifty million from this 00:29:19.515 --> 00:29:20.075 Lisa Nichols: one family. 00:29:20.075 --> 00:29:24.075 Lisa Nichols: But I think and I could be wrong on my numbers, but, like, one 00:29:24.075 --> 00:29:28.075 Lisa Nichols: point six billion, at least, you're closing in on two billion. 00:29:28.570 --> 00:29:31.930 Lisa Nichols: What do you think the secret is, Dr. 00:29:31.930 --> 00:29:35.930 Lisa Nichols: Allgood, of getting people to rally around something bigger than themselves 00:29:35.930 --> 00:29:39.930 Lisa Nichols: and, might I add, for people that they may never meet? 00:29:40.915 --> 00:29:42.435 Dr. Greg Allgood: Yes. 00:29:42.435 --> 00:29:44.675 Dr. Greg Allgood: Well, 00:29:44.675 --> 00:29:46.595 Dr. Greg Allgood: generosity has has its rewards. 00:29:46.595 --> 00:29:47.075 Dr. Greg Allgood: Right? 00:29:47.075 --> 00:29:50.595 Dr. Greg Allgood: We're wired to to want to help other people, and so that's that's a 00:29:50.595 --> 00:29:52.195 Dr. Greg Allgood: big part of this. 00:29:52.195 --> 00:29:55.900 Dr. Greg Allgood: But but giving people the opportunity to invest in something that we can show 00:29:55.900 --> 00:29:59.900 Dr. Greg Allgood: a track record of results, amazing impact, and then taking people 00:30:00.060 --> 00:30:00.780 Dr. Greg Allgood: to see the work. 00:30:00.780 --> 00:30:04.300 Dr. Greg Allgood: We we run, on average, more than a a trip every week to whether 00:30:04.300 --> 00:30:07.740 Dr. Greg Allgood: it's to Central America to see our work in Honduras and Guatemala or the 00:30:07.740 --> 00:30:11.740 Dr. Greg Allgood: many places we work in Sub Saharan Africa, or in in Asia, 00:30:11.895 --> 00:30:12.695 Dr. Greg Allgood: or the Middle East. 00:30:12.695 --> 00:30:16.695 Dr. Greg Allgood: And so, helping people to to see the work directly is is something that 00:30:16.855 --> 00:30:17.815 Dr. Greg Allgood: will inspire folks. 00:30:17.815 --> 00:30:21.735 Dr. Greg Allgood: But, we've also been blessed to be creative and come up with innovations to 00:30:21.735 --> 00:30:23.175 Dr. Greg Allgood: really appeal to people. 00:30:23.175 --> 00:30:27.175 Dr. Greg Allgood: And one of the ones I'd like to mention is innovation that we said 00:30:27.640 --> 00:30:30.040 Dr. Greg Allgood: is based on a couple of insights. 00:30:30.040 --> 00:30:31.480 Dr. Greg Allgood: Two insights in particular. 00:30:31.480 --> 00:30:35.480 Dr. Greg Allgood: One is the fact that the the global water crisis is something that 00:30:35.560 --> 00:30:37.365 Dr. Greg Allgood: is solvable. 00:30:37.365 --> 00:30:39.205 Dr. Greg Allgood: And that's not just hyperbole. 00:30:39.205 --> 00:30:42.325 Dr. Greg Allgood: It's it's not just a aspirational statement. 00:30:42.325 --> 00:30:46.325 Dr. Greg Allgood: The world has reached two point one billion people with clean water since 00:30:46.485 --> 00:30:47.605 Dr. Greg Allgood: two thousand. 00:30:47.605 --> 00:30:48.725 Dr. Greg Allgood: Two point one billion. 00:30:48.725 --> 00:30:51.620 Dr. Greg Allgood: And there's about seven hundred million left to reach. 00:30:51.620 --> 00:30:54.260 Dr. Greg Allgood: So we've come much further than the way we have to go to to 00:30:54.260 --> 00:30:54.820 Dr. Greg Allgood: solve this. 00:30:54.820 --> 00:30:56.260 Dr. Greg Allgood: This is a solvable crisis. 00:30:56.260 --> 00:30:57.220 Dr. Greg Allgood: That's the first insight. 00:30:57.220 --> 00:30:58.020 Dr. Greg Allgood: Yes. 00:30:58.020 --> 00:31:02.020 Dr. Greg Allgood: Second insight is the biggest reason people don't give to international development 00:31:02.020 --> 00:31:03.860 Dr. Greg Allgood: is they think the problems are too big. 00:31:03.860 --> 00:31:05.540 Dr. Greg Allgood: You're never really gonna solve anything. 00:31:05.540 --> 00:31:09.540 Dr. Greg Allgood: You're never gonna finish the job in things like providing clean water access. 00:31:10.795 --> 00:31:14.315 Dr. Greg Allgood: So those two insights are actually opposing each other. 00:31:14.315 --> 00:31:15.035 Dr. Greg Allgood: Right? 00:31:15.035 --> 00:31:19.035 Dr. Greg Allgood: And so, the disruptive idea we had was let's 00:31:19.195 --> 00:31:23.195 Dr. Greg Allgood: prove that we can finish the job of providing clean water access 00:31:24.040 --> 00:31:28.040 Dr. Greg Allgood: to everyone everywhere we work in a country to prove that 00:31:28.040 --> 00:31:32.040 Dr. Greg Allgood: we can finish the job because, unfortunately, not for profits, including World 00:31:32.120 --> 00:31:36.120 Dr. Greg Allgood: Vision, ask for money for the same things in the same countries 00:31:36.215 --> 00:31:37.335 Dr. Greg Allgood: year after year after year. 00:31:37.335 --> 00:31:40.455 Dr. Greg Allgood: So we sort of reinforce that you're never finishing the job. 00:31:40.455 --> 00:31:40.935 Dr. Greg Allgood: Right? 00:31:40.935 --> 00:31:42.615 Dr. Greg Allgood: And so we turned that on its head. 00:31:42.615 --> 00:31:44.135 Dr. Greg Allgood: We started with Rwanda. 00:31:44.135 --> 00:31:48.135 Dr. Greg Allgood: We fulfilled our commitment in thirty nine areas of the country, more than one 00:31:48.295 --> 00:31:50.890 Dr. Greg Allgood: point two million people. 00:31:50.890 --> 00:31:52.730 Dr. Greg Allgood: We're just finishing Zambia now. 00:31:52.730 --> 00:31:56.730 Dr. Greg Allgood: Again, more than a million people finishing the job in in twenty nine 00:31:56.810 --> 00:31:59.690 Dr. Greg Allgood: areas of the country, and we're well on our way to doing it in 00:31:59.690 -->

00:32:00.650 Dr. Greg Allgood: Honduras. 00:32:00.650 --> 00:32:01.210 Dr. Greg Allgood: We're there. 00:32:01.210 --> 00:32:04.865 Dr. Greg Allgood: We're gonna reach more than half of the people that don't have clean water 00:32:04.865 --> 00:32:08.865 Dr. Greg Allgood: access in the rural areas of the entire country of 00:32:08.865 --> 00:32:10.145 Dr. Greg Allgood: Honduras. 00:32:10.145 --> 00:32:12.225 Dr. Greg Allgood: So next, we're doing we're we're doing Ghana. 00:32:12.225 --> 00:32:16.225 Dr. Greg Allgood: We just bit off the the ambitious goal of reaching 00:32:16.380 --> 00:32:17.340 Dr. Greg Allgood: everyone in Ghana. 00:32:17.340 --> 00:32:21.340 Dr. Greg Allgood: And it's not, only clean water access or near people's or in people's homes. 00:32:21.500 --> 00:32:25.500 Dr. Greg Allgood: We're upgrading all the schools so they have clean water, sanitation, and handwashing 00:32:26.060 --> 00:32:27.980 Dr. Greg Allgood: in all the health care centers. 00:32:27.980 --> 00:32:31.825 Dr. Greg Allgood: In Ghana, that means five hundred schools are gonna be upgraded and two hundred 00:32:31.825 --> 00:32:34.945 Dr. Greg Allgood: health care centers if we get the funds that are needed to do that 00:32:34.945 --> 00:32:38.705 Dr. Greg Allgood: work, and it's eighty five million dollars that we'll need to to, finish the 00:32:38.705 --> 00:32:42.225 Dr. Greg Allgood: job in in twenty three areas of Ghana. 00:32:42.225 --> 00:32:46.225 Lisa Nichols: That that I'm so glad that you mentioned that because I know 00:32:46.380 --> 00:32:49.420 Lisa Nichols: that you had that finish the job philosophy. 00:32:49.420 --> 00:32:53.020 Lisa Nichols: And so you just you just and true. 00:32:53.020 --> 00:32:56.220 Lisa Nichols: I mean, it's like if you're asking for the same thing every time, people 00:32:56.220 --> 00:32:57.660 Lisa Nichols: automatically are like, well, gosh. 00:32:57.660 --> 00:33:00.145 Lisa Nichols: This when is this ever gonna end? 00:33:00.145 --> 00:33:03.185 Lisa Nichols: But, that was really, really smart. 00:33:03.185 --> 00:33:05.825 Lisa Nichols: Really smart. 00:33:05.825 --> 00:33:06.625 Lisa Nichols: Gosh. 00:33:06.625 --> 00:33:09.825 Lisa Nichols: I've still got so many questions, but I know that we're running out of 00:33:09.825 --> 00:33:10.945 Lisa Nichols: time here. 00:33:10.945 --> 00:33:12.465 Lisa Nichols: You know? 00:33:12.465 --> 00:33:16.465 Lisa Nichols: We've already talked about your faith, and your faith has evolved, 00:33:16.590 --> 00:33:18.590 Lisa Nichols: so much over the years. 00:33:18.590 --> 00:33:21.550 Lisa Nichols: And I just I love like I said, I will not forget that. 00:33:21.550 --> 00:33:21.950 Lisa Nichols: You know? 00:33:21.950 --> 00:33:23.470 Lisa Nichols: Do you doubt that I can do this? 00:33:23.470 --> 00:33:27.470 Lisa Nichols: I what a great what a great encounter, you know, you had with 00:33:27.470 --> 00:33:30.425 Lisa Nichols: God in that. 00:33:30.425 --> 00:33:33.865 Lisa Nichols: You know, let's ask let me ask you this. 00:33:33.865 --> 00:33:37.865 Lisa Nichols: You know, you visited hundreds of communities, hundreds of communities across the 00:33:37.865 --> 00:33:38.425 Lisa Nichols: world. 00:33:38.425 --> 00:33:40.265 Lisa Nichols: Is there a family, Dr. 00:33:40.265 --> 00:33:42.690 Lisa Nichols: Allgood, that you'll never forget? 00:33:42.690 --> 00:33:46.690 Lisa Nichols: Can you remember a story of a family that you will never forget? 00:33:48.210 --> 00:33:49.170 Dr. Greg Allgood: There's there's a lot. 00:33:49.170 --> 00:33:52.850 Dr. Greg Allgood: In fact, I've been to Africa as an example, sub Saharan Africa more than 00:33:52.850 --> 00:33:56.370 Dr. Greg Allgood: seventy times, and I I do that because it fuels me. 00:33:56.370 --> 00:33:58.315 Dr. Greg Allgood: You know? 00:33:58.315 --> 00:34:01.755 Dr. Greg Allgood: Bible tells us that we'll we'll find Jesus among the suffering, and that is 00:34:01.755 --> 00:34:02.075 Dr. Greg Allgood: true. 00:34:02.075 --> 00:34:06.075 Dr. Greg Allgood: That's the almost a a secret about visiting these areas 00:34:06.155 --> 00:34:10.155 Dr. Greg Allgood: and seeing world visits work is that you you get, fueled, 00:34:10.315 --> 00:34:13.595 Dr. Greg Allgood: and and you feel the presence of Jesus in these communities where they're suffering. 00:34:13.595 --> 00:34:17.595 Dr. Greg Allgood: But, just to pick one, a story of a of, 00:34:17.730 --> 00:34:19.250 Dr. Greg Allgood: something that will stay with me. 00:34:19.250 --> 00:34:20.930 Dr. Greg Allgood: It's more recent. 00:34:20.930 --> 00:34:24.930 Dr. Greg Allgood: It, it's in Kenya, and it's a a couple I met there. 00:34:25.650 --> 00:34:27.225 Dr. Greg Allgood: Biblia and Lantanjian. 00:34:27.225 --> 00:34:28.265 Dr. Greg Allgood: That's a cool name. 00:34:28.265 --> 00:34:30.105 Dr. Greg Allgood: Biblia Bible and Lontongian. 00:34:30.105 --> 00:34:32.345 Dr. Greg Allgood: I have no idea what it means, but it's a really cool name. 00:34:32.345 --> 00:34:32.745 Lisa Nichols: It is. 00:34:32.745 --> 00:34:34.505 Dr. Greg Allgood: And he's a really cool looking dude. 00:34:34.505 --> 00:34:38.505 Dr. Greg Allgood: So they were in extreme poverty, before World Vision came into their community. 00:34:39.225 --> 00:34:43.225 Dr. Greg Allgood: And Biblia, along with her daughter, used to walk five miles a day, 00:34:44.000 --> 00:34:47.200 Dr. Greg Allgood: carrying water, much like I described the the women who are in the the 00:34:47.200 --> 00:34:51.200 Dr. Greg Allgood: the documentary long walk for water, carrying forty four pounds, strapped around 00:34:51.440 --> 00:34:55.440 Dr. Greg Allgood: her head, dragging another forty four pounds, and her daughter would go to a 00:34:55.440 --> 00:34:56.745 Dr. Greg Allgood: dry river bed. 00:34:56.745 --> 00:34:58.985 Dr. Greg Allgood: And there are camels and goats everywhere. 00:34:58.985 --> 00:35:02.105 Dr. Greg Allgood: So there's, you know,

clearly highly contaminated water. 00:35:02.105 --> 00:35:04.665 Dr. Greg Allgood: They dig deep into the sand to get the water and haul it back, 00:35:04.665 --> 00:35:08.665 Dr. Greg Allgood: and her daughter would often miss school because of being sick from the dirty 00:35:08.825 --> 00:35:10.960 Dr. Greg Allgood: water or just being exhausted. 00:35:10.960 --> 00:35:14.960 Dr. Greg Allgood: And Biblia had no future except hauling water every day. 00:35:15.040 --> 00:35:18.800 Dr. Greg Allgood: No sun dissolve, no holidays, no Christmas off, everyday hauling water. 00:35:18.800 --> 00:35:22.800 Dr. Greg Allgood: She couldn't even dream of what a future might be beyond hauling water. 00:35:23.040 --> 00:35:23.240 Dr. Greg Allgood: Mhmm. 00:35:23.120 --> 00:35:23.360 Dr. Greg Allgood: Mhmm. 00:35:23.360 --> 00:35:27.360 Dr. Greg Allgood: Then World Vision came in with our development model and, you know, helped 00:35:27.475 --> 00:35:31.475 Dr. Greg Allgood: her and her husband, Lontange, understand they're made in the image of a 00:35:31.555 --> 00:35:32.915 Dr. Greg Allgood: loving God. 00:35:32.915 --> 00:35:36.435 Dr. Greg Allgood: Everyone has been given tools by God to be successful. 00:35:36.435 --> 00:35:40.435 Dr. Greg Allgood: And, you know, we use exempt we we take them through trainings, 00:35:40.510 --> 00:35:44.270 Dr. Greg Allgood: for example, to understand that everyone has these different talents, and they can see 00:35:44.270 --> 00:35:44.590 Dr. Greg Allgood: that. 00:35:44.590 --> 00:35:45.150 Dr. Greg Allgood: Okay. 00:35:45.150 --> 00:35:46.350 Dr. Greg Allgood: Biblio is very creative. 00:35:46.350 --> 00:35:49.550 Dr. Greg Allgood: Lantanjan is, you know, very organized, and, you know, they can see that everyone 00:35:49.550 --> 00:35:51.790 Dr. Greg Allgood: in the community has has different skills. 00:35:51.790 --> 00:35:54.750 Dr. Greg Allgood: Then you bring them the clean water access, and the time and energy is 00:35:54.750 --> 00:35:55.905 Dr. Greg Allgood: freed up. 00:35:55.905 --> 00:35:59.665 Dr. Greg Allgood: And and then and then, Billia entered a a savings group. 00:35:59.665 --> 00:36:02.225 Dr. Greg Allgood: For the first time in her life, she was able to buy things for 00:36:02.225 --> 00:36:06.225 Dr. Greg Allgood: herself, like, it she just purchased a dress when we recently gotten there. 00:36:06.225 --> 00:36:10.225 Dr. Greg Allgood: And the relationship between Billia and Lontonjian, he he told me, 00:36:10.430 --> 00:36:12.910 Dr. Greg Allgood: you know, before this, I felt like I was blind. 00:36:12.910 --> 00:36:15.710 Dr. Greg Allgood: Now I think I I I feel like I can see. 00:36:15.710 --> 00:36:19.710 Dr. Greg Allgood: I didn't feel like a good father before because we could only afford one 00:36:19.790 --> 00:36:22.030 Dr. Greg Allgood: meal a day for our family. 00:36:22.030 --> 00:36:26.030 Dr. Greg Allgood: And and now, we're he told me, and showed me 00:36:26.195 --> 00:36:30.195 Dr. Greg Allgood: that, Biblio and him are building latrines together, but making 00:36:30.275 --> 00:36:33.555 Dr. Greg Allgood: the bricks, digging the holes, building the trains, selling them in the community. 00:36:33.555 --> 00:36:36.810 Dr. Greg Allgood: Some of the first latrines this community has ever seen, they're doing together. 00:36:36.810 --> 00:36:40.810 Dr. Greg Allgood: Biblia's now that she has water access right there, she has a garden, better 00:36:40.890 --> 00:36:44.890 Dr. Greg Allgood: nutrition for her family, and selling the extra produce to in the market 00:36:45.050 --> 00:36:46.570 Dr. Greg Allgood: to to have income. 00:36:46.570 --> 00:36:50.570 Dr. Greg Allgood: So literally, their lives have been transformed, and so I'll never forget Biblia 00:36:50.570 --> 00:36:51.835 Dr. Greg Allgood: and Lontagian. 00:36:51.835 --> 00:36:52.075 Speaker 2: At least 00:36:52.075 --> 00:36:54.875 Dr. Greg Allgood: I hope I won't forget his name. 00:36:54.875 --> 00:36:55.595 Lisa Nichols: Right. 00:36:55.595 --> 00:36:56.875 Lisa Nichols: I love that story. 00:36:56.875 --> 00:36:59.595 Lisa Nichols: And I bet you've just got thousands of those. 00:36:59.595 --> 00:37:00.075 Lisa Nichols: Right? 00:37:00.075 --> 00:37:03.195 Lisa Nichols: So that's beautiful. 00:37:03.195 --> 00:37:05.970 Lisa Nichols: If a CEO is listening right now, Dr. 00:37:05.970 --> 00:37:09.970 Lisa Nichols: Allgood, and they want their company to make a greater impact 00:37:10.210 --> 00:37:14.210 Lisa Nichols: in the world, where should they where should they start? 00:37:15.650 --> 00:37:19.650 Dr. Greg Allgood: Well, you know, having a a company that not only has 00:37:19.730 --> 00:37:23.665 Dr. Greg Allgood: a a short term, you know, focus that they need to have for shareholders, 00:37:23.665 --> 00:37:27.665 Dr. Greg Allgood: but having an eternal purpose by really being able to use their success 00:37:27.825 --> 00:37:31.825 Dr. Greg Allgood: and their business to to, help others, 00:37:31.825 --> 00:37:35.825 Dr. Greg Allgood: is an extremely motivating thing for employees, for shareholders 00:37:35.825 --> 00:37:36.540 Dr. Greg Allgood: of the company. 00:37:36.540 --> 00:37:39.420 Dr. Greg Allgood: You know, P and G is a great example of that, how how they 00:37:39.420 --> 00:37:43.420 Dr. Greg Allgood: really make their purpose of improving lives, of the world's, people 00:37:43.500 --> 00:37:44.940 Dr. Greg Allgood: to come to life. 00:37:44.940 --> 00:37:47.900 Dr. Greg Allgood: And we have number of companies that support World Vision that do that. 00:37:47.900 --> 00:37:51.900 Dr. Greg Allgood: One that comes to mind is, RTI, Refined Technologies Incorporated. 00:37:52.075 --> 00:37:54.875 Dr. Greg Allgood: They have been a driver of our work in Honduras. 00:37:54.875 --> 00:37:58.875 Dr. Greg Allgood: They, have, the places they've reached with clean water 00:37:58.955 --> 00:38:02.955 Dr. Greg Allgood: through World Vision, their conference

rooms are named after these communities 00:38:03.355 --> 00:38:05.540 Dr. Greg Allgood: with pictures of the community. 00:38:05.540 --> 00:38:07.700 Dr. Greg Allgood: Through World Vision, they take trips to see the work. 00:38:07.700 --> 00:38:11.700 Dr. Greg Allgood: They take their associates, down to see the work and 00:38:11.860 --> 00:38:13.860 Dr. Greg Allgood: come back and and share with the employees. 00:38:13.860 --> 00:38:17.860 Dr. Greg Allgood: And it is it is a a motivating, 00:38:17.940 --> 00:38:21.940 Dr. Greg Allgood: effort, that has helped propel them to success as 00:38:22.055 --> 00:38:23.975 Dr. Greg Allgood: as an organization. 00:38:23.975 --> 00:38:24.175 Lisa Nichols: Mhmm. 00:38:24.135 --> 00:38:28.135 Dr. Greg Allgood: And so, it's it's a great way to to fuel your 00:38:28.215 --> 00:38:32.215 Dr. Greg Allgood: company's success to really do something that is, beyond 00:38:32.570 --> 00:38:35.690 Dr. Greg Allgood: the everyday to to help help people thrive. 00:38:35.690 --> 00:38:36.330 Lisa Nichols: Yes. 00:38:36.330 --> 00:38:38.090 Lisa Nichols: Oh, that's so good. 00:38:38.090 --> 00:38:39.850 Lisa Nichols: So good. 00:38:39.850 --> 00:38:43.530 Lisa Nichols: Well, let me do just a really fun little lightning round with you, and, 00:38:43.530 --> 00:38:46.475 Lisa Nichols: and then we're gonna talk about something extra. 00:38:46.475 --> 00:38:48.395 Lisa Nichols: So, 00:38:48.395 --> 00:38:51.675 Lisa Nichols: what is one word do you think and I know that you've got four 00:38:51.675 --> 00:38:53.835 Lisa Nichols: children and four grandchildren. 00:38:53.835 --> 00:38:54.155 Dr. Greg Allgood: Right? 00:38:54.155 --> 00:38:55.835 Dr. Greg Allgood: Maybe you've got grandchild on the way. 00:38:55.835 --> 00:38:58.075 Lisa Nichols: I was gonna say maybe you have one in the oven. 00:38:58.075 --> 00:38:59.435 Lisa Nichols: I don't know. 00:38:59.435 --> 00:39:01.680 Lisa Nichols: But that's that's awesome. 00:39:01.680 --> 00:39:04.400 Lisa Nichols: Grands are such a blessing, aren't they? 00:39:04.400 --> 00:39:04.600 Dr. Greg Allgood: Mhmm. 00:39:04.480 --> 00:39:04.880 Dr. Greg Allgood: They are. 00:39:04.880 --> 00:39:06.480 Lisa Nichols: Do you have a word? 00:39:06.480 --> 00:39:09.760 Lisa Nichols: In one word, how would your family describe you? 00:39:09.760 --> 00:39:10.960 Dr. Greg Allgood: Passionate. 00:39:10.960 --> 00:39:11.680 Lisa Nichols: Passionate. 00:39:11.680 --> 00:39:12.800 Lisa Nichols: Love it. 00:39:12.800 --> 00:39:15.455 Lisa Nichols: What about your coworkers? 00:39:15.455 --> 00:39:17.615 Dr. Greg Allgood: Well, passionate. 00:39:17.615 --> 00:39:18.815 Lisa Nichols: Passionate? 00:39:18.815 --> 00:39:20.015 Lisa Nichols: Yeah. 00:39:20.015 --> 00:39:20.735 Lisa Nichols: That's awesome. 00:39:20.735 --> 00:39:23.295 Lisa Nichols: Do you have a favorite Bible verse? 00:39:23.295 --> 00:39:24.895 Dr. Greg Allgood: Oh, I was thirsty. 00:39:24.895 --> 00:39:26.175 Dr. Greg Allgood: You gave me something to drink. 00:39:26.175 --> 00:39:26.975 Dr. Greg Allgood: Matthew talked 00:39:26.975 --> 00:39:27.295 Lisa Nichols: about. 00:39:27.295 --> 00:39:29.300 Lisa Nichols: That's a good one. 00:39:29.300 --> 00:39:29.620 Lisa Nichols: Yes. 00:39:29.620 --> 00:39:31.620 Lisa Nichols: He's like, when have you done it to me? 00:39:31.620 --> 00:39:32.820 Lisa Nichols: Do it to the least of these. 00:39:32.820 --> 00:39:33.060 Lisa Nichols: Right? 00:39:33.060 --> 00:39:35.380 Lisa Nichols: And they're like, when have we done that to you, Lord? 00:39:35.380 --> 00:39:37.940 Lisa Nichols: You know? 00:39:37.940 --> 00:39:41.940 Lisa Nichols: Well, most inspiring leader that you've ever met. 00:39:42.505 --> 00:39:44.905 Lisa Nichols: And that might be hard to 00:39:44.905 --> 00:39:45.385 Dr. Greg Allgood: No. 00:39:45.385 --> 00:39:47.065 Dr. Greg Allgood: Well, 00:39:47.065 --> 00:39:51.065 Dr. Greg Allgood: with with apologies to all the other leaders, John Pepper 00:39:51.065 --> 00:39:54.265 Dr. Greg Allgood: at P and G has has been a a personal mentor to me. 00:39:54.265 --> 00:39:58.260 Dr. Greg Allgood: And I know hundreds, if not thousands, of others, but I'm blessed to call 00:39:58.260 --> 00:39:59.460 Dr. Greg Allgood: John a friend. 00:39:59.460 --> 00:40:03.460 Dr. Greg Allgood: He, he he he really taught me about, 00:40:03.460 --> 00:40:06.100 Dr. Greg Allgood: doing the right things in life. 00:40:06.100 --> 00:40:06.580 Lisa Nichols: Right. 00:40:06.580 --> 00:40:07.940 Lisa Nichols: I love that. 00:40:07.940 --> 00:40:11.940 Lisa Nichols: Do you have a best leadership book beside the Bible and beside your 00:40:12.265 --> 00:40:16.265 Lisa Nichols: own that you, you know, go back to the best 00:40:16.345 --> 00:40:18.425 Lisa Nichols: leadership book that you've ever read? 00:40:18.425 --> 00:40:18.825 Lisa Nichols: I mean 00:40:18.825 --> 00:40:21.625 Dr. Greg Allgood: Well, there there's a lot, but one of them is written he happens to 00:40:21.625 --> 00:40:25.220 Dr. Greg Allgood: be a a World Vision donor, but he's, his name is Harman Kong. 00:40:25.220 --> 00:40:29.220 Dr. Greg Allgood: And the book is Values Over Valuables, and it's based on 00:40:29.300 --> 00:40:33.300 Dr. Greg Allgood: the premise that, ninety percent of wealth, is not transferred to the third 00:40:33.460 --> 00:40:33.940 Dr. Greg Allgood: generation. 00:40:33.940 --> 00:40:36.260 Dr. Greg Allgood: Seventy percent is lost by the second generation. 00:40:36.260 --> 00:40:40.235 Dr. Greg Allgood: And he says the way to address that is, first of all, being generous, 00:40:40.235 --> 00:40:44.235 Dr. Greg Allgood: you know, flattered, but also really helping your family, 00:40:45.035 --> 00:40:49.035 Dr. Greg Allgood: understand the principles that they want to value as a family. 00:40:49.355 --> 00:40:53.355 Dr. Greg Allgood: And for me, it's, it's family, faith, finances, 00:40:55.690 --> 00:40:57.850 Dr. Greg Allgood: fun, in my life.

00:40:57.850 --> 00:41:01.850 Dr. Greg Allgood: And so, you know, making sure that my actions align with those 00:41:02.010 --> 00:41:02.970 Dr. Greg Allgood: those principles. 00:41:02.970 --> 00:41:06.970 Dr. Greg Allgood: And and Harmon's book does a wonderful job of of talking about values 00:41:06.970 --> 00:41:08.255 Dr. Greg Allgood: over valuables. 00:41:08.255 --> 00:41:09.135 Lisa Nichols: I love that. 00:41:09.135 --> 00:41:12.015 Lisa Nichols: Well, I'm getting that book today. 00:41:12.015 --> 00:41:15.615 Lisa Nichols: One daily habit that you never skip. 00:41:15.615 --> 00:41:15.935 Lisa Nichols: You know? 00:41:15.935 --> 00:41:19.775 Lisa Nichols: And I like to talk about morning routines and stuff, but is there a 00:41:19.775 --> 00:41:23.775 Lisa Nichols: daily habit that you never skip? 00:41:24.170 --> 00:41:27.530 Dr. Greg Allgood: Unfortunately, I have a a back that after years and years of running has 00:41:27.530 --> 00:41:28.490 Dr. Greg Allgood: has sort of gone out. 00:41:28.490 --> 00:41:32.490 Dr. Greg Allgood: So I start every morning with, twenty minutes of of stretching, 00:41:32.570 --> 00:41:35.645 Dr. Greg Allgood: and, my back was in bad shape when I created the P and G 00:41:35.645 --> 00:41:37.085 Dr. Greg Allgood: children's drinking water program. 00:41:37.085 --> 00:41:40.205 Dr. Greg Allgood: Wasn't sure if I was gonna be able to continue to work, and it's 00:41:40.205 --> 00:41:43.485 Dr. Greg Allgood: no worse than it was twenty five years ago. 00:41:43.485 --> 00:41:44.045 Lisa Nichols: Yeah. 00:41:44.045 --> 00:41:44.605 Lisa Nichols: Okay. 00:41:44.605 --> 00:41:45.325 Lisa Nichols: Good. 00:41:45.325 --> 00:41:45.885 Lisa Nichols: Alright. 00:41:45.885 --> 00:41:49.010 Lisa Nichols: So this is called something extra. 00:41:49.010 --> 00:41:50.290 Lisa Nichols: What do you believe Dr. 00:41:50.290 --> 00:41:54.290 Lisa Nichols: Allgood, Is this something extra that every leader needs? 00:41:55.890 --> 00:41:57.890 Dr. Greg Allgood: Well, there's not one for sure as you know. 00:41:57.890 --> 00:42:01.250 Dr. Greg Allgood: But if I had to pick one, I would say vision. 00:42:01.250 --> 00:42:05.250 Dr. Greg Allgood: And so the vision, that we had to, 00:42:06.465 --> 00:42:09.825 Dr. Greg Allgood: to finish the job in countries has been a game changer. 00:42:09.825 --> 00:42:13.025 Dr. Greg Allgood: When I created the P and G Children's Day Drinking Water, my my boss 00:42:13.025 --> 00:42:17.025 Dr. Greg Allgood: at the time, Don Tasson, said write the vision of what would happen 00:42:17.025 --> 00:42:20.070 Dr. Greg Allgood: if P and G takes the bold step to create a not for profit 00:42:20.070 --> 00:42:23.590 Dr. Greg Allgood: business and write it in the present tense as if it's five years from 00:42:23.590 --> 00:42:24.390 Dr. Greg Allgood: now. 00:42:24.390 --> 00:42:28.390 Dr. Greg Allgood: And I I wrote it, and I really believe it was divinely inspired because 00:42:28.470 --> 00:42:32.470

Dr. Greg Allgood: it was far more reaching and had more things 00:42:32.655 --> 00:42:35.535 Dr. Greg Allgood: that we would achieve than than I ever could have believed. 00:42:35.535 --> 00:42:38.655 Dr. Greg Allgood: And I didn't I've actually but I feel it was divinely inspired to have 00:42:38.655 --> 00:42:39.375 Dr. Greg Allgood: this vision. 00:42:39.375 --> 00:42:39.935 Dr. Greg Allgood: I wrote it. 00:42:39.935 --> 00:42:43.055 Dr. Greg Allgood: It said we would the P and G effort would be praised by presidents 00:42:43.055 --> 00:42:44.300 Dr. Greg Allgood: and kings. 00:42:44.300 --> 00:42:48.060 Dr. Greg Allgood: We would provide a billion liters of clean water when as a for profit, 00:42:48.060 --> 00:42:50.220 Dr. Greg Allgood: we'd only provided thirty million liters. 00:42:50.220 --> 00:42:53.980 Dr. Greg Allgood: And John Pepper would come out of retirement to give the billionth liter away. 00:42:53.980 --> 00:42:55.980 Dr. Greg Allgood: Like, mind blowing stuff. 00:42:55.980 --> 00:42:58.060 Dr. Greg Allgood: Impossible to believe it could happen. 00:42:58.060 --> 00:43:00.335 Dr. Greg Allgood: Every word came true. 00:43:00.335 --> 00:43:04.335 Dr. Greg Allgood: And so that vision, helped us, you know, have the inspiration 00:43:04.895 --> 00:43:07.055 Dr. Greg Allgood: to create this this effort. 00:43:07.055 --> 00:43:08.495 Lisa Nichols: Oh, that's beautiful. 00:43:08.495 --> 00:43:12.495 Lisa Nichols: And it gives everyone something to align to, right, and 00:43:12.655 --> 00:43:14.380 Lisa Nichols: something to aspire to. 00:43:14.380 --> 00:43:15.660 Lisa Nichols: That's beautiful. 00:43:15.660 --> 00:43:17.180 Lisa Nichols: Well, 00:43:17.180 --> 00:43:21.180 Lisa Nichols: Greg, it has been such a pleasure to be with 00:43:21.340 --> 00:43:22.460 Lisa Nichols: you on this. 00:43:22.460 --> 00:43:26.460 Lisa Nichols: I cannot wait for our listeners to hear your story, to hear 00:43:26.540 --> 00:43:30.540 Lisa Nichols: the World Vision story, to hear what you guys are 00:43:30.685 --> 00:43:33.325 Lisa Nichols: doing in the world to make the world a better place. 00:43:33.325 --> 00:43:35.885 Lisa Nichols: And, I just appreciate your time. 00:43:35.885 --> 00:43:38.125 Lisa Nichols: Thank you so much for sharing your time with me. 00:43:38.125 --> 00:43:38.765 Dr. Greg Allgood: Thank you, Lisa. 00:43:38.765 --> 00:43:40.605 Dr. Greg Allgood: It's been a pleasure to spend the time with you. 00:43:40.605 --> 00:43:41.610 Lisa Nichols: It's been awesome. 00:43:41.610 --> 00:43:42.810 Lisa Nichols: Thanks so much. 00:43:42.810 --> 00:43:46.650 Announcer: Something extra with Lisa Nichols is a Technology Partners production. 00:43:46.650 --> 00:43:49.770 Announcer: Copyright Technology Partners Inc twenty nineteen. 00:43:49.770 --> 00:43:53.756 Announcer: To learn more about this week's guest, check out the show notes at tpi 00:43:53.756 --> 00:43:56.075 Announcer: dot co slash podcast. 00:43:56.075 --> 00:43:59.276 Announcer: If you enjoyed this episode, consider leaving us a review. 00:43:59.276 --> 00:44:01.276 Announcer: Thank you for listening to Something Extra.