http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2015/12/ep-146-mick-ebeling/

• Mick Ebeling is a film/TV producer, author (Not Impossible), entrepreneur (The Ebeling Group), and philanthropist (The Not Impossible Foundation).
• Influenced by parents who were usually starting charities or doing something good
• Mantra: help one, help many
  • Allows for starting small and building momentum.
  • Asking for more makes it seem less achievable.
• Tries to make something that already exists more accessible. Not making something new.
• Project Daniel – Daniel, was a 12 year-old Sudanese boy who had his arms blown off. Helped design arms.
• Helped a paralyzed artist, Tony “Tempt” Quan, to draw again through eye device
• Commit and then figure out how to pull off
• Don’t need permission, just help people. Others will iterate and make better
• Find a story that is compelling and ask companies if they want to get behind it
• We are going to do anyway, do you want to get behind? Is good for brands because doing good is good for the company
• Technology for the sake of humanity
• Don’t need a phd or be at the cutting edge to help people. Want practicality and functional
• We tried open source, but people don’t want to make things, they just want it
• Failures never failures, shows what you should do better. learn to systematize what we do with it
• Believe nothing is impossible
• Look for things with emotional reactions, aggregate people, have forward momentum, research, leads to action.
• Currently working on clothes that help deaf feel music
• Book is Not Impossible: The Art and Joy of Doing What Couldn’t Be Done