Over 1,000 Children 5 And Under Die Every Day From A Lack Of Healthy Drinking Water

What if your “bad day” is someone else’s dream of clean water? Sean opens his heart with a story that hits hard: mothers walking miles with 40‑pound jugs, digging into dry earth for a muddy trickle, and children under five dying from waterborne disease—thousands each day. That jarring reality becomes a mirror for our own lives, from full fridges and hot taps to the quiet privilege of safety and choice. Gratitude is the starting line; service is the race.

We walk through three practical pathways to help: local community service, building homes just across the border in Mexico, and joining Team World Vision to fund clean water projects across Africa and beyond. Sean shares his personal journey from addiction and prison to a life anchored in leadership and service, challenging the false choice between ambition and compassion. Wealth without responsibility feels empty; effort without empathy falls short. Clean water isn’t charity—it’s infrastructure for dignity, education, and health.

This conversation is an invitation to act. We set a $100,000 goal to move real projects forward and show what a community can do when it rallies around a clear, solvable problem. If you’ve ever wondered how to make your days count, start with one small step: give, share, run, or simply choose to be useful today. Service cuts through the noise of division and turns values into outcomes. Subscribe, share this episode with a friend, and join us in backing Team World Vision—because no child should die for a drink. Ready to help write a different headline tomorrow?

Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
We have so much to be grateful for every day.
All these things that we useevery day that is now just
typical of our lifestyle.
Get up every day and focus onbeing a good human being and
helping others around you andputting out that positive
energy.
And watch what will happen inyour world.
I need you to find a purpose andback a cause and go out and do
your part because that's whatwe're here to do.

(00:32):
I'm your host, Sean Crane.
This is a sad message today.
It's a statistic, in fact, thatI learned that really broke my
heart recently.
Last weekend my wife and I wereat church, and they had this day
where they were bringingawareness to the attendees in
church about uh differentinitiatives and endeavors in

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which we could give back to thecommunity and help people in
need.
Uh, one of the causes that wecould be a part of was just
basically community service.
Another one which me and myoldest son Mason, who's 15,
signed up for was to go toMexico during spring break and
build homes for people thatdon't have uh adequate shelter,
which is just crazy becausethey're right over the border of

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San Diego, and you know, that'srated one of the most peaceful
cities in the world, and thenyou have Tijuana, Mexico, with
people that are burning trashfor uh cook to cook their food
and burning trash for uh heat tostay warm.
It's really heartbreaking.
You know, and then the thirdcause is an organization called

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Team World Vision, and they'rebringing awareness to the fact
that children throughout theworld don't have adequate
drinking water.
You know, and they showed thisvideo of women, uh, I believe in
it was it was in Nigeria or someAfrican country, three moms,
three women who had to hikemiles from their village with
40-pound jugs on their back,three of them each, to go and

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find water and then fill upthose jugs and bring them back
to the village.
And they didn't just walk up tothis nice running stream, this
big lush river.
They walked to this open planeof dirt and they started digging
in the dirt, and then waterstarted coming to the surface,
and they filled up their jugsand walked back with those jugs
strapped to their back.
And just seeing that clip,realizing how people live

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throughout the world compared tohow we live in America, it's
very eye-opening.
It's shocking.
And there's a really s sad andand horrific statistic, and it
it it goes it goes like this uh1,000 children throughout the
world die every single day dueto complications from drinking
water, meaning lack of adequatedrinking water or drinking water

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that is unfit for them to drink,and it can cause all kinds of
issues with digestion, um,health complications that leads
to death.
So I don't know how accurate orprecise this statistic is, but
the truth is if just one childdies per day because they don't
have the right drinking waterand it's preventable, it's

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mind-blowing.
It's heartbreaking.
You know, when I heard thatstatistic, my wife Jessica
shared it with me.
I was thinking about my youngchildren.
You know, um, children five andunder, one thousand children,
five and under die every singleday from uh a lack of adequate
healthy drinking waterthroughout the world.
You know, immediately I thoughtof my children.

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Um, Bella's seven months,Preston's five, Scarlett's six
now, so she's above thatthreshold.
But the point is they're youngchildren, and those are the
young children in othercountries who are dying because
they don't have drinking water.
Like, think about right now yourlife.
Think about the things thatyou're challenged by, your
so-called problems.
Right?
We get so caught up in our livesand our world, and we don't

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realize how good we have it herein the United States of America.
We don't realize how good wehave it in the year 2025.
We don't want for anything.
You know, when you have dinnerat night or you go out to eat, I
want you to realize that's howkings and queens and you know,
people of nobility, uh, youknow, people of the highest,

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highest echelons of life livedhundreds and thousands of years
ago.
And we feast like this everynight in America, in developed
countries.
You know, we don't really wantfor anything, we don't struggle.
Your problems are fabricated inyour mind more so than reality.
You know, and don't get mewrong, people have issues,
people have problems, but it'smuch different than needing to

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hike miles and miles every dayfor drinking water.
And this takes me back to theconversation I had with an
Ethiopian Uber driver a couplemonths ago, and he told me, you
know, growing up in Ethiopia,they had to run to school as
kids.
They had to run two hours toschool from their village and
two hours home just to get aneducation.
And I start thinking about, God,like, how are people in this

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modern world that we live in,like with all the advancements
in technology, all theresources, all the financial
ability uh that we have, all thefinances at our disposal, how
are people still dying everysingle day?
Young children, thousands ofthem every single day from a
lack of healthy drinking waterand access to, you know, things

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that you and I take for grantedevery single day.
It's heartbreaking, man.
And you know, I'm at a point inmy life where I've overcome a
lot.
I've overcome my demons.
I'm a success story, you guyslike, you know, I come from a
family that had um drug andalcohol addiction and issues uh
from a broken home.
I was plagued by addictionmyself.
I spent time in prison.
I faced life in prison.

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You know, I've been able toredeem myself and create a life
that I'm truly proud of and onethat I love.
And I can't think of anythingbetter to do with the rest of my
life than to be able to giveback to those who are less
fortunate, those who don't havewhat you and I typically take
for granted every day.
A glass of drinking water, youknow, a toilet to go use, a
refrigerator with food in it,you know, uh doctors that you

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can go see when you're sick,medicine, um, gosh, like your
freaking phone, the TV, whateverit is, a car, a vehicle.
We have so much to be gratefulfor every day.
All these things that we useevery day that is now just
typical of our lifestyle.
People throughout the worlddon't have this.
So my wife Jessica, that day atchurch, signed up to do a half
marathon in March with my sonMason in Los Angeles to raise

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awareness and funds for TeamWorld Vision, which is the
nonprofit that's raisingawareness and funds to help fix
this issue, predict particularlyin Africa, but other parts of
the world where kids don't haveadequate drinking water.
So I'm gonna post the link inthe chat below.
I'd like for you to donatewhatever you can.
I don't care if it's 50 bucks,100, 500.

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This is something that I'm gonnabe donating uh money into.
I'm gonna be in, I'm gonna beproviding resources, I'm gonna
do everything I can to sharethis message with as many people
as possible.
My goal is to raise$100,000 forTeam World Vision to do my part.
And this is just the beginningof my initiative to do my part,
to give back, to make an impact,to save and change as many lives

(07:01):
as possible.
When I started my coachingcompany and my business,
Unstoppable 365, it was to helpmen to overcome their demons,
men to create uh lives that theyloved, men to become examples,
to become good leaders for theirfamilies and their businesses,
and to create that ripple effectin society where we have strong
leadership, masculine men, menwill who will protect and guide

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and lead their families theright way.
And I'm doing that, and I'vebeen able to do that.
Now this feels like the naturalnext step and extension of what
God put on my heart many yearsago, and that was to be of
service and to give back time,energy, resources to make an
impact in people's lives, and todo it in a way that was purely
genuine and like from a goodplace.
Like I just I can't fathom likehaving a baby, you know,

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somewhere, and then seeing themdie because they didn't have
drinking water.
Like if your parents out thereand you're listening to this and
you have young children like Ido, could you imagine, you know,
the joy that you have findingout that you're gonna have a
child with you know yoursweetheart, the love of your
life, your husband, your wife,and then you have that child and
then they don't even have likedrinking water or food, and you

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see them die in front of youbecause of that, or they have
drinking water, but it's it'snot healthy, it's not clean, and
they get some type of parasites,or they get some type of like
you know, stomach virus or issuethat takes their life, like that
would just be so devastating.
And then to know people acrossthe world are flying around in
private jets and they have youknow multiple homes all

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throughout the country and theyhave like more money than they
could ever spend and they're nothelping you, like think about
that perspective.
You know, I'm I'm a capitalist,I'm an entrepreneur, I'm an
ambitious guy.
I love America because you canhave a dream and a vision and
you can manifest it with enoughhard work and enough grit and
determination.
You know, and I love seeingpeople like an Elon Musk or
whoever, uh Jeff Bezos, like allWarren Buffett, all the people

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that have created immenseamounts of wealth because it
shows others what's possible.
There's no freaking limits inthis life.
But you start looking at the waywe live and you start looking at
the amount of wealth that we'veaccumulated in this country and
other um more developedcountries, and then you look at
the way people live in like someparts of Eastern Asia, Africa,
the Middle East.
And I think that as humanbeings, we have an obligation to

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help them.
And I'm not saying that it'sjust all handouts and freebies
because we know that eachindividual in life has to want
it for themselves.
They have to work hard.
That's why like communismdoesn't work, or like, you know,
like people on welfare, likethey're not incentivized to
change, or um, you know, justhandouts in general.
Like, look at people in therecovery community.
Like, I come from a backgroundwith addiction.

(09:33):
If they don't want to change,they're not gonna change, no
matter how much resources,funding, housing, like
opportunity you give them.
The person has to want it forthemselves, right?
That's not this this type ofsituation.
What I'm talking about is peoplein other parts of the world that
are scrapping to survive everyday.
They're they're living in these,you know, dilapidated shanties
and huts, and they're living indirt, and they're, you know,

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they're eating poor qualityfood.
They don't have drinking waterfor their children.
You know, these are people thatwe need to be focused on
helping.
And if we can raise awarenessand raise funds and provide
capital, maybe, just maybe wecan do our part and save some
lives.
Save some kids' lives, man.
That's what this is about forme.
So I'm gonna be donating money.

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I'm gonna be raising um fundsfor this cause, Team World
Vision.
Uh, you can go on there.
I'm gonna post the link below.
It's directly correlated to mywife Jessica's profile and her
initiative to not just go outand run this half marathon and
march with my son to raiseawareness, but then to spread
this message to family, friends,our community, and beyond using
social media.
Uh, we live in such a divisivetime.

(10:38):
Everyone like hates each other,Republican, Democrat, gay,
straight, black, white, likeeveryone has a lot of um
resentments right now.
But if we could focus onactually helping people and
being good human beings, we'llfix a lot of our problems.
A lot of times, if you want tofix issues, it's stop letting
your ego get in the way, stoppointing fingers and trying to
blame other people and just goout and do good.

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Go out and do as much good asyou possibly can for the next
year of your life and watch whathappens around you.
If you wake up each and everyday and you go, how can I be of
service today?
How can I be an example today?
How can I give back to others?
How can I help change a life?
At the very least, open the doorfor somebody at the coffee shop,
smile at them and say, hello,hope you have a great day.

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Right?
Maybe next time you're going outto eat and the server does a
really good job, give them anice tip.
I don't know what that lookslike for you in your life.
Get up every day and focus onbeing a good human being and
helping others around you andputting out that positive
energy.
And watch what will happen inyour world.
Watch how your perspective willchange.
Watch how you'll start to lookat other people and see the good
in them.
You know, one thing that I loveabout going to church too is I'm

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around a bunch of human beingsthat are selfless, that want to
do good.
And I was there, you know, lastweek, and my wife and I signed
up for all these differentinitiatives to give back our
time and energy to be ofservice.
And I saw all these other peopledoing it.
I go, wow, this is this isamazing.
This is where I want to be.
So, you guys, Team World Visionis the organization that's
raising awareness and funds tohelp fix this issue where

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children in other parts of theworld don't have drinking water
or they don't have healthydrinking water, and 1,000
children due to that issue aredying each and every day.
This is something that can befixed.
This is something that shouldnot be happening in 2025.
We're not living in the year1500.
It's 2025.
We have enough money and enoughresources to fix this issue, to

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eradicate this issue.
It needs to be done.
So please share this video withas many people as you can.
Share it on your feed, send itto family and friends.
I'm gonna post the link in thecomments.
I'm just one person.
God told me I need to helpchange the world.
I'm just one person.
I need your help.
I need you to do your part.
I need you to share thismessage.
I need you to reach out topeople that you know.

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I need you to get passionateabout something important in
life.
I need you to find a purpose andback a cause and go out and do
your part.
Because that's what we're hereto do.
We're here to master ourselves,be examples, and then give back
to others so that we can helpthem live exceptional lives.
That's the blueprint.
I need you.
Let's go out and do it together.