A European Living the Filipino Dream: Dylan Will at TEDxKatipunanAve

Both of them on their last afternoon, as you can see, know that they are neither Filipino nor British and that they were actually born in a poor family in England, but of course being poor in a country like England is very different from being poor in the Philippines because even though my family was poor, it's great, free education, free healthcare, everything I could need and in the late 20's Prince Charles left me some money, believe it or not, to start a business of computer games through his foundation, he guided me around two thousand. two hundred thousand pesos and that computer game company became one of the largest computer companies in all of Europe, but I remember that one night I stayed awake and I was in my bed and I thought why even I had everything I could want . a Ferrari Porsche BMW I used to go to work by helicopter if I didn't want to drive a lot of these things somehow I started to feel like my life options are really empty and that they

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never be enough no matter what I buy and I started to understand that there are a big difference between pleasure and happiness.

Pleasure always has a price and new clothes. New car. New holidays. But where does happiness come from? About your relationships and especially knowing that you are fulfilling God's purpose with your life. So when I started praying, I suddenly realized that I had been successful only because many people in my country helped the poor, among whom I was, despite having dropped out of high school, people in our culture do not They gave up on me and they helped me move forward and they helped me start my business. In the end I was able to do Zen because people are even country boys and you know, I've been here for seven years, I'm sorry, it's been nine years and seeing how they were killing themselves, I spent Six months traveling the world before arriving in the Philippines looking for charities, if I could, and I continue.

I wrote it down when I got caught, oh it really changed my life, it was the most amazing thing I had ever seen, a coward killing places that used to be slums that were now beautiful peaceful communities and my intention was just to make a donation. I offered 100,000 dollars to the mulatto Tony. I told him I'm going to sell my car. Please use the money to build a village and call it the BMW village. We said I don't want your money, why would you come back and help us decide how to use that money? So, as you know, my plan was to stay six weeks, but I fell in love with God.

Alina fell in love with the Philippines she fell in love with her daughter and that's what I mean by the Filipino

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and you know, you think about the American

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what is the dream I was raised with the American dream it's the biggest house the biggest car the best career is all about me, me, me, that's the American dream, but Filipino green is never just about being right, it's always about my family, so, about my community, it's about my school, it's about my friends and that's how they learned in the Philippines after nine years. Filipinos are the most amazing people I have ever met in my life and I say that with all sincerity.

I visited more than 50 countries. I found you to be a very special people. You are always singing, always laughing, always eating. That's our beer. Unbelievable at this moment, but. They are very happy, you are the most heroic people I have ever met, how amazing is that and wherever you go around the world, Filipinos prosper, flourish, flourish if they come to the US. Filipinos in America are the second room with the highest income. India is number one in the Filipinos, number two in the kitchen army and number six in America because if you are given a direct opportunity, if you are given a right environment, you thrive and flourish.

I just want to show you a picture of the city that I really love. This is a beautiful and clean one. city ​​and I would love to live there. I want to show you this so you can guess what city it is. Anyone can recognize her. This is Manila. You see? What's happening on the left? Look how clean the plastic is. This is from the 1960s, can you believe it? Look how these streets are. All streets are swept and clean. There is no garbage. Anyway, all the cars are brilliantly polished. All people look good. They are the best.

Right in this city. Manila 50 years ago and we know that it is not like that anymore, we know that there are things to fix, but I am surprised to know how many of you, how many Filipinos are out there fixing them. It is about getting a village in 2004. possible complex at the mouth of the Pasig River and this is what the Filipinos did to it here is another this could be any slum that you see around the Metro thousands of places look like this and this is what we did to him, can you imagine if every snow in the Philippines turns into a beautiful and peaceful cowardly massacre in every house, outside the house, laughter, one family after another, this is the Philippine train that is being built before our hands and I talked a lot about giving it to him because that's what changed, my God. which gave me purpose and meaning before I married my wife for us, if you take a piece of gold, kick it in the ground for 400 years, it

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no longer look like gold, it will just look like a piece of dirt and this is what we believe has been happening in the Philippines for 400 years.

They've been kicking you for 400 years telling you that you're second class in your own country and it's not surprising that there are very few problems, but the ship is still there. in the middle, the goal of every Filipino that inspired me to give my life to God by giving it to the Philippines and that is why I believe in the Filipino dream. I think if you have a great future ahead of you and you know my own country, England used to be much worse than the Philippines I think there was a country of slums the government was very corrupt so what changed England was not the government that started when the people He began to really live his faith by helping in the war.

It became fashionable for the rich in England to give up and build entire cities for the poor, including the city where I was born. It was all built by one man for these factory workers. I want to ask you another question. I told you before. I have free education. Free healthcare in England. Who paid? those things you did every time you bought a British product these things the profits come back to Malcolm cheap and they paid me to go to school so looking for my education I'm sorry I wasted it but I enjoyed it a lot instead you're Now famous , that just illustrates how important business is and I said, I want to talk to you a little bit about the role that business plays today in building our country, our country, and you know, the way business is done is very fundamental. for what type. of the country we live in if I was a business owner and lived in False Park or Carinthia, but my workers live in shanties, I would have built a third world country in my part of the Philippines.

You couldn't be rich as a business owner. if my job as a whole because I would have failed the Philippines and the Filipinos and built a lifestyle for myself, but nothing in the way the business is done is very important, it has more power of development because the business employs more people and this not no more money the government or companies put together the way we do business is important secondly the career you choose is very important if you don't have your own business the career you choose will help shape this country and it is a bit In a tragedy, very often the two highest aspirations of our best students leave the country or work for a multinational.

In both cases, you spend your entire life making another country a bridge. The multinationals love you. Other countries love you. They see the talent in you. They see that Filipinos are hardworking, they see your creativity and dynamism, can you imagine that in all the time that the Philippines was dedicated to making this country prosperous, what a beautiful Philippines we could create, so the way business is done is Importantly, the career you choose has great consequences for our country and thirdly, the limited body also has a great impact. I just got back from some time sightseeing in the city and I joined my wife at the World Economic Forum a couple of weeks ago in Thailand and we met with the Deputy Prime Minister, who is the Ministry of Finance in Thailand and was saving time and There is a law according to which if you go to the supermarket, 20% of the space in the supermarket must be given to seasonal products and they enacted this law because before that the multinational imported products. the products were killing local businesses, they were buying up all the space in the supermarket shelf from all the advertising on television and all the local industries were starting to die and when they enacted this law only 20 percent of the space should be for the products of time.

They regenerated much of their local economy, much of their local industry and now they've become frustrated. Two years ago I was supposed to buy a neom car and I was looking at the Mitsubishi and a Toyota, but I didn't like the Mitsubishi, it was more foldable. it had more features and a friend of mine told me who knew that the Mitsubishi is assembled in Thailand but the Toyota is assembled here in the Philippines you know what I did can you be important in your time for the Toyota and I love it but I think that the right choice because loving one's country cannot be simply singing the national anthem.

Many of us don't sing the national anthem on Monday morning before starting work, school or service and yet we are expected to import all our ingredients from China makes China Reggie local not only can be in the national anthem, they have to be animals, they have to be in our hearts and in our pockets, and you can change this country by deciding what company you work for, what products you buy and how you will build your business if you are looking for business and that's why three years to me and then I came up with the idea of ​​starting a company called human nature and we call this a patriotic social enterprise what is that what is social enterprise, now let's take a look, we all know that capitalism maximizes profits, purchases at the price lowest, you sell it at the highest price and if you make enough profit, you give something to charity.

That's capitalism, but it's a bit like a war game. You are always trying your own war with your clients. You try to get them to pay more. You inform your suppliers. You try to give them less to have more market. Then we will be a social enterprise. It's similar. It's still a business, it has to be profitable, it has to be sustainable, but it starts with making certain decisions about what it represents, it has to be a profit for a cause that does some good and it has to have been a profit with the features, so that it doesn't Not only are profits maximized, but profits are also made.

We are sure that it is done in a good way, without competing with the environment, without offering products that are bad for people, so we started this patriotic social enterprise and founded it on three things in favor of the Philippines, all our ingredients for way we create natural and organic personal care. products and cosmetics, all ingredients must be able to be grown in the Philippines, we will not use any medium if it cannot be grown here because our vision is that in the end every item we buy will come from the Philippines and even the packaging we only buy local packaging, even if they are cheaper in China, even if they are cheaper in Taiwan, we buy products that are only made in the Philippines because this is a home and it means that our Philippines city tour is number one pro-poor, number two of us who work with farmers. and we are going to look for the villages that we change that we can never equip and invite drug use and the environment.

We don't use anything that is harmful to the environment. When we start business, many times you will come up with a decision point. Unfortunately, it's easier to take something out of customs and drive someone around, but if you make a decision the day you start and you would never make it, you'll never face that decision because as soon as it comes up, you've already made the decision. Miami When you started you know you can't do it there will be a time when you will be faced with an ingredient that may be cheaper to use but maybe it is harmful you know you can't do it because you make the decision at the beginning not to So we start the business with these beginning.

These are many of the communities we build in beets. This is citronella. They can learn characteristics of all times. Whose parent is he? What they could with rice when they did it correctly. This is in Davao. It's about killing a. town where sunflower is avoided, there is no sunflower industry in the Philippines, but there used to be, but the price of fruit salad from farmers was so low that everything collapsed, so in the first sunflower started again in the Philippines and This is in Ghana. So I hope that by the end of this year we will be able to use their products to try many different seeds, so this does not mean that I am pro-Philippines, so let's not see them as just a supplier.

I have to help them be world class and how people can do it. You know, if you go to the center of France, you will see miles and miles of sunflowers. There, French farmers can live a first world lifestyle, why notFilipino farmers who grow sunflowers? Furthermore, and it's not just about giving it away, this is our flagship store on Commonwealth Avenue, which is only three years old but we have 23 lots, we sold more than 3 million products, since here loving the country works by doing things the right way, it works by shooting the people Well, the workers now take me to our next philosophy, which is faith in the Filipinos.

This is what everything in our company is based on faith in Filipinos. First, we employ residents of GK villages, people the rest of the world says no to. well the cornerstone that was rejected have become the cornerstone of our business they didn't go to school some of them can't read or write they didn't finish my school like me but if I can do it why not a Filipino So the We employ and pay them a minimum of 625 instead of 400, those are the low sales because that is really not enough. What do we do? That means we have to find other efficiencies in our business.

We have to be more creative because we are trying to pay only for what other companies do and that makes us better at what we do. We have no choice but to be better at it. We also pay them five days a week, but they only have to work four and a half days a week, the other day we return them to their communities so they can serve. We have something I've never heard of before and a no layoff policy. Every business person you talk to, if you tell anyone about this, they will tell you this is crazy that no business should have.

These people will abuse her. People will stop working. We are 130 people in our main office and there is one person who I am a little suspicious might be abusing this policy and it might not be working. As quickly as I should, you know, I have something to tell you, but that leader blames his followers. If you ever own your own business or are just a manager, if you have someone under you who is not doing a good job, you blame yourself. people want to do a good job the reasons for not doing it is that they are not motivated in which case it is your fault as the boss or they are not trained in which case it is your fault as those who are lost or do not have the skills or are in the job wrong, in which case it's their fault, we're behind them, find them a better job to do it, so there's no time in politics and I found out that this actually works for us, but maybe they don't know it.

They have to work and as a result our warehouse for our people laughs, how are you doing, darling? As a result, our warehouse is better, more efficient, making fewer mistakes than my previous warehouse in the UK. Filipinos are world class so I just want to share with you before I finish, some other companies are also social enterprises. I hope some of you come away from this inspired to start your own social enterprise before you decide to leave the country or before you decide to work for a multinational. that you will give yourself two or three years to start your own business and see if you can make it fly here are some of them thirteen printers this was started by a group of graduates from Antonia who met artists it is just a simple printing business but they make all designs patriotic and they only told us that if we only paint you can see a human nature back there in the right corner, if we make two more containers for that bag, the printing presses' summary will increase from 200 to 500 containers per day per person we set 350 pesos like this What are two vessels for someone to have a decent quality of life?

You can even look at this. This looks like it came from Milan or Paris. This is Antonio. This is just waiting for water. Edison is a weed in the Pasig River and other rivers. This looks like weed. Look what. beautiful it's how innovative and in fact you can stand it I just want to show I just want to shake you please - son norine so they can see you listen to these people inspire me this is going to be necessary in the future I'm going to ask you a question which countries in the world are known for produce the best chocolate in normal Switzerland how many cocoa beans grow in Switzerland none not one of them either cocoa from the Philippines they turn it into chocolate they sell us a car again for 20 times the divided price we can turn it into chocolate and that's what people feel like they are making this is the first chocolate in the Philippines that is 100% Filipino from the bean to the bar to the packaging all this is the best day ever another one in a very proud bar these are kids Joker was just a lawyer, public defender and he became a social entrepreneur, he was a cop killing ta and he found out there is a GK site in Zulu, the disgusting cafe, how many of you like the greeting?

How many people got one? How many of you were going to have a vacation next year first? Now everyone is terrified of going to the tavern. the bravest person in this audience, well done, everyone is petrified by the kids in the tavern when she found out there was coffee there, she wanted to change the way we think about the tavern, she calls this piece of coffee brewing in the south alone for the brave who increase in themselves. She wants to change the way even the people in the room see themselves, but especially now we look at them.

What do we need to buy Colombian coffee? What do we need to buy coffee from Brazil? We have coffee here. We just needed someone to put it on. a package and give it to us hopefully this will be the Nescafe in a Starbucks of the future 10 years 20 years I hope this is bigger than Starbucks in the Philippines of these divided do you agree that you are world class Filipino products can be world class Philippines cherlene world class as good as made in the USA as good as made in Italy we have the raw materials we have the Filipino dream and this is convenient for you for the future of our children.

I could finish by telling you in a few words that the key to progress is very simple is love for the country, let's see the beginning and the end if you love what blessed you will give you more God bless this nation, just learn to love the ball and I discovered that I really really believe in this country with all my heart and in the Filipino dream. I think we can sound like that by saying that we have risen. You left most of the others. Enough for everything you believe in. I believe enough with all my heart.

God bless you.