Earning a huge amount of money and amassing numerous possessions will never give you genuine satisfaction in life. Instead of focusing on your material wealth, you will find deeper meaning by elevating and prioritizing compassion to the world. In this episode, Corinna Bellizzi sits down with Ali Horriyat, Founder of Compassiviste, to share how he killed his life of hypocrisy to start living a purpose-driven life. Ali talks about escaping the addicting money-making culture and beginning his mission to add value to other people’s lives instead of zeroes. He also explains how to harness the power of collective impact to raise awareness about the biggest social issues of today, putting compassion and humanity above financial priorities.
About Guest:
Compassiviste’s Founder Ali Horriyat left the lucrative, profit-driven world of finance in 2016 to devote himself to his vision of a society where compassion, empathy, and social impact are at the heart of our actions. In 2020, he launched Compassiviste to spread this vision. Born in Dubai, he attended schools in the UAE, France and Switzerland before pursuing his higher education in Canada. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in economics, political science, philosophy, business, international relations and conflict resolution, and religion. Ali is the author of 12 books, including collections of essays and poetry, with themes ranging from racism and capitalism to spirituality, love and compassion. He believes that humans must “love always, and always love.”
Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-horriyat-b16295278/
Guest Website:
https://compassivistepublishing.com
https://compassivistefoundation.org
https://compassiviste.com
Show Notes:
00:00 – Introduction
Welcome to Care More Be Better.
04:07 – Educational background
A lot of people say the schooling that they did did an impact the work that they do. I think it did a lot for me because economics was my first degree and I learned so much about countering all the things that I learned
05:13 – Dealing With Discrimination
I will tell you too because you bring up September 11th, I travel a lot on business and at that time I was traveling twice a month.
07:24 – Embracing A Purpose-Driven Life
Now I'd like to start today with you sharing a bit about your perspective your motivations for leaving behind a lucrative job and finances, which is something we've discussed privately. To this more Purpose Driven work that you're undertaking today.
14:53 – Creating A Lasting Legacy
Technology is there to make our lives easier and yet we lean on it to make our lives more complicated
21:41 – Living Smaller
These are powerful powerful thoughts because I mean your follower account how popular you are on a specific social platform at the end of the day none of that really matters.
33:06 – Making A Real Impact
I think we have to address the question in this case. You know, you take somebody like Kobe Bryant they can create exceptional impact with their influence because they've become such an incredible star.
39:41 – Accidental Hypocrisy
You're bringing up to me debate I have had since I was a senior in high school taking classes at a community college, so I was in college, right? With my English professor
44:00 – Collective Impact
Now I have personal stories about my cat got into a brawl with another Tomcat my neighborhood when I was a little girl.
54:19 – Compassiviste Octopus
You've mentioned in your intake form the compassivist octopus?
58:31 - Closing Words
I also think it's fascinating that you're working to disrupt not only the written world, but from the entertainment perspective music because if there is a category that is ripe for disruption, it truly is that and I I commend you for the effort.
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