Millionaire Mentors Program What Will YOUR $1,000,000 Idea Be?
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Cynthia Kersey’s Unstoppable Giving Challenge Millionaire Mentors Program What Will YOUR $1,000,000 Idea Be? James Cameron Rev. Michael Beckwith Robert Kiyosaki Dr. Ken Blanchard Bob Proctor Mark Victor Hansen Bill Harris Stewart Emory Jack Healey Wyland Dave Bach Lynne Twist Twelve world-famous millionaires share their private secrets for generating $1,000,000 ideas...without accepting a single dollar in return...and show you, step by step, how you can create one, too…All while saving over 4,000 children’s lives! Mentor: Jack Healey GIVING www.unstoppablegivingchallenge.com © 2008 Unstoppable Foundation. THE MILLION DOLLAR IDEA: HOW TO DEVELOP A MILLION DOLLAR IDEA TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE AND CHANGE THE WORLD Cynthia Kersey interviewing Jack Healey – Mentor #9 MS. KERSEY: Hi. I'm Cynthia Kersey and welcome again to the Million Dollar Idea: How to Develop a Million Dollar Idea to Change Your Life and Change the World. I'm excited to bring you our next section of interviews with philanthropists, business leaders, people who really are showing their strategies for not only generating big ideas in the world, but how can we really make the world a better place. And, of course, the intention behind all of this is to raise the money to build a minimum of 40 schools in Africa. So every expert, every mentor involved in this course I'm so grateful for because they are doing it really as a way to give back. And for the listeners, I so appreciate your generosity. Because of you we are able to make a big contribution and be a part of stopping the cycle of extreme poverty in the world. So continue to share this with your friends at UnstoppableGivingChallenge.com because every penny is going to build schools in Africa, so thank you so much. So my million dollar mentor for today is an extraordinary human being. I actually met him at the home of James and Suzy Cameron. I heard him speak and was so inspired by who he is and what he is doing in the world. When I came up with this idea I thought he has to be a part of it because when we talk about big ideas, this man is attracted to and takes on causes that I think not a lot of people would do. So briefly I'm going to give you a little background about Jack Healey. He grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest of 11 brothers and sisters. He was raised by his mother after his father died when he was two years old, and she told him words that have guided his life. She said I didn't bring you into this world to survive. I brought you into this world to do something - and do something, indeed. Today colleagues credit him with making human rights a major focus on governments, of advocacy organizations and organizations all over the world. US News and World Report called him Mr. Human Rights. And he was named Person of the Week by Peter Jennings at ABC News. In his first job at Freedom From Hunger, he devised the original idea for a walk-a-thon and through his efforts, raised over $14 million in the next five years. In the 1980s he made Amnesty International a household name, presenting four highly successful musical tours, including the Conspiracy of Hope and Human Rights Now, which I'm sure he is going to tell us more about those tours. They featured arts such as U2, The Police, Bruce Springsteen, Brian Adams, Miles Davis, Peter Gabriel, Tracy Chapman and Lou Reed. During his tenure with Amnesty International he increased their membership from 30,000 to 400,000 and increased revenue from three million to $26 million. And today Jack has the Washington, D.C. based nonprofit organization called Human Rights Action Center, HRAC. In addition to his public speaking engagements and support of fellow grass roots human rights organization, he had been an adviser to the US government in regards to establishing sound human rights policies in other country. Jack has brought immense creativity and passion to some really big and important ideas and projects that have impacted the world. I know everyone on this call is going to be inspired to think and act boldly in your ideas that are important to you. So, Jack, welcome so much to this call. I really appreciate your participation MR. HEALEY: My pleasure. Glad to be here. MS. KERSEY: So tell us, I gave a pretty extensive introduction, but I'd like for you to give us an idea of your background and what really calls you into the work that you do? MR. HEALEY: I think I found my voice and capacity to do something because when I was two my father was killed and my mother raised us by herself and it was a difficult time. But what she got across was that we actually had to go out and do something with our lives; and that I took that seriously. And I think ever since then, I'm pleased to do that. And what I found out by doing what my mother said is if you actually enjoy your life, you actually get to see the world and know people that you never otherwise would know and get into exciting moments of history. Either you're small or little, it doesn't matter as long as you are there when things get better and things improve in the world, and you are a little bit of it and you can feel that, and that is important to do. MS. KERSEY: So what was your first project that you got involved in? MR. HEALEY: I think it was when my brother's teeth were knocked out in a fight. So kids jumped him and my mother didn't have the money for his teeth. My mother gave me the job of getting that done. And I went up and saw the police chief and he threw me out of the place and said, you'll need the smartest lawyer in the City of Pittsburgh. So essentially what did, I was 14 years old, I went and got the smartest lawyer in the City of Pittsburgh and went to his office and recruited him. His name was Charlie Maloney; and we won the case in about five seconds. We saw the judge and the people who had done it that filed the charges there, so we won out $300 and my brother had his teeth. MS. KERSEY: Oh, my goodness, so first off, how did you persuade him and, secondly, how did you have the courage as a 14 year old to really walk in to the biggest lawyer and ask him for help? MR. HEALEY: I had to solve it because my mother asked me to solve it. And when she asked me something, I really wanted to do that. I went to him because I asked a number of people who is the smartest lawyer in the City of Pittsburgh. They all said the same name. It was Charlie Maloney. I went to his office and I didn't know when I talked to his secretary that he was in the room. I asked to see him and she called me a little kid. I said I am not a kid. A kid is a goat and I'm a human being. I'm person here, and I want to see Mr. Maloney. He was standing in the room, and he said, young man, so I went in and talked to him. He was a great lawyer and he won the case for me. People were shocked he was there. MS. KERSEY: So that had to be a pretty compelling moment in your life to see you be able to achieve something like that. How did that moment impact you? MR. HEALEY: It essentially set the pattern for the rest of my life because I realized, without power, without money, without anything, really, I could get done what needed to be done - Although, that was a difficult thing to do to get a lawyer like and to win a case in court when you are 14 years old. What I realized was that you could always get it done if you set your mind to it. And I think it is better to act than not to act; and I think most people decide not to act. If they acted more, even if it came to nothing, they'll find out that that is an experience and that is helpful. MS. KERSEY: It is just taking action. Just the action and the experience alone is very powerful. MR. HEALEY: There is the nature to doing something that actually benefits you and whoever you are aiming at, whether it succeeds or not. One or the other gets better, and I think people should remember that even in failures that we all pick up, even by trying to do some good, we actually are doing some good. We improve our own consciousness. MS. KERSEY: That's for sure. So that was the beginning when you were 14 years old and then how did it unfold for you? MR. HEALEY: Well, it unfolded because I went to the monastery and I became a Franciscan, became a priest. I was a monk for ten years. I joined -- luckily 1962, when I came to Washington, we had Dr. King who was on the move. He and his southern Christian leadership were recruiting seminarians.