HELPING THE UNLUCKY 1% WITH EPILEPSY
Following on from the Million Dollar Teddy Bear, Lila and I had hoped the lucky 1% would help the unlucky 1% with epilepsy. Because a million bucks would take the richest person in Australia, less than four hours to earn. That’s how long I thought Lila was dead for after the worst meal of my life. Whereas for the average Aussie, earning $48,360 a year, making a million dollars would take twenty years and seven months.
I guess I figured that because every Aussie on the Australian Financial Review Rich List has a net wealth of more than a billion dollars in 2020, maybe the lucky 1% would step up and help the unlucky 1% in these extraordinary times. Sadly, we haven’t been able to find an amazing billionaire with a heart of gold to help out Lila and the quarter of a million Aussies with epilepsy. Yet.
So, Lila and I turned our attention to the 99%. We turned to you, in the hope that every Aussie out there will SHARE IN THE BEAR.
First, I enlisted a whole range of incredible volunteers to help me make a Ted-E Talk, paying homage to classic Ted Talks. Filmed at Theatreworks, the video got the attention of Channel Ten’s flagship national current affairs program The Project, who remade it for a feature story, launched before Purple Day, epilepsy’s global awareness day.