Accolades
I am not a typical business person. In my life, I have…
…fallen (jumped) off a glacier at 17,000 feet in the Himalayan mountains, slid uncontrollably down an icy cliff face, and launched over a gaping crevasse before coming to a stop 3,000 feet later.
…snuck into the war zone of Rwanda in 1994 so that I could help refugees in need and document human rights abuses,
…lived in the home of the King of Hunza,
…acted in an NBC mini-series with Lea Thompson,
…stood face-to-face with a polar bear, alone in the open Canadian tundra,
…been accused of plotting to assassinate the Aga Khan,
…meditated near constantly for 20 years,
…been told by doctors that I might never walk again due to auto-immune arthritis (I’m still walking),
…worked amongst people struggling to survive in the largest refugee camp in world history,
…developed a cause-marketing campaign that raised $30M for NGO aid programs in 1 year,
…written a book on practicing Mindfulness and Meditation through everyday life of family and career,
…won the equivalent of the Academy Award from the First Americans in the Arts,
…bribed my way out of Azerbaijan,
…with Samburu tribesmen in NE Africa, drank blood still pulsing from the neck of a freshly killed goat,
…passed through JFK airport security with a sword,
…watched a child carry his dying mother in a wheelbarrow down a sun-scorched road for days in an effort to transport her safely out of a war zone.
