Joe Huff

About Joe Huff: Joe Huff is a social entrepreneur who has founded two eight figure businesses and conducted one of the largest surveys ever on life experiences, regret and fulfillment, gathering data from over 20,000 people around the world.  This research is the foundation of his best-selling book, Experiential Billionaire, in which he shares this shocking statistic - the number-one universal regret for 78% of people is not doing the things they aspired to do.  This is the main point of his keynote, MAKE SOMEDAY TODAY – From Intention To Action, From Ideas To Impact, through which he teaches audiences to deepen their business impact, their personal relationships and their sense of purpose in life, all by embracing urgency with intention.

Joe’s Background: From very humble beginning on the south-side of Chicago, Joe’s parents were factory workers.  The morning before his 18th birthday, he came down to the breakfast table to find his father unconscious and white as a ghost, nearly dead.  He revived him, and doctors soon determined he needed an immediate heart transplant.  Dad was only 48, a two-job, grinder of a worker, who spent his whole life saving for ‘someday’.  Through this personal ordeal, Joe realized ‘someday’ is not guaranteed…it might never arrive.  You’ve got to take action.  You’ve got to do it now, not wait for tomorrow your whole life.  And so began an extraordinary and inspiring life of adventure, business building, and giving back to those in need.  

Barely completing high school, Joe struggled through a number of business failures,  eventually finding success with This Shirt Helps, a mission-driven apparel company that combined fashion with philanthropy. For every shirt sold, a portion of the proceeds was donated to organizations addressing critical global issues like clean water access, education, and disaster relief.  Joe began to travel the world, rolling up his sleeves, helping people.  This Shirt Helps laid the groundwork for Joe’s biggest business success, LSTN Sound Co., a company that produces high-quality headphones and uses the profits to provide hearing to people in need around the world (over 50,000 so far).   This led to all kinds of partnerships with companies including Google, Delta and Youtube, and media coverage from the Today Show, Good Morning America, The NY Times and many more.  Joe has shared the stage with President Bill Clinton, Sir Richard Brandson, and even Kim Kardashian.

Joe’s keynote wraps with him sharing how this living with urgency approach to life guided he and his wife through a recent battle with Stage 3 breast cancer, which touches the heart of everyone in the room, and leads to him putting the audience through a very hands on ‘urgency exercise’  that not only gets the whole room talking, but keeps those conversations going long after the presentation has concluded.