Scott Puritz’s tenacity for helping people achieve more as Managing Director at Rebalance translates to his philanthropic endeavors with North Carolina Outward Bound School, where he is a longtime member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Investment Committee, and helps establish scholarships for financially disadvantaged teenagers, some of whom are featured in this video.
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It was hard. It was really hard. It was harder than I thought.
I actually didn’t know what to expect when I left for Outward Bound. I did not think I was ever going to come back.
Once I went to Outward Bound. It shifted from not thinking I was going to come back to not wanting to come back.
Outward Bound has taught me how to be a leader in many different settings, and has given me skills where I can adapt to every setting in which I lead.
They taught me how to strategize the way I think and the way I react to certain situations you have to face a lot of your like problems, like, especially me, like my home problems and like, just learning stuff about yourself, like, I honestly didn’t think I was going to be able to complete it. And that kind of was a really emotional me and my friend Samoya, we have had quite a past, and we weren’t really close before the trip.
You never know what someone’s going through. I remember, like, when we first met, like, you know, you kind of have like this perceived notions about someone, and you’re like, oh, they seem happy, but you never really know. Like, you know what they go through their home life, but as soon as we, you know, we, like, got to the trip together, and we talked things out, we realized that what was a problem before the trip wasn’t really important.
I think that’s something that really helped me out, because, like, three weeks into it, like, we all, like, you know, got really close. So we all opened up, and then you realize that someone’s going through something. You didn’t even know that. So that’s actually really helped me, like to this day, you know, it made us so much more close, like we’re best friends today, I can honestly say that we’re best friends, and I’m so thankful for that.
Those other 11 kids over a course of 22 days really became my 11 best friends.
I wouldn’t lie by saying that it’s easy, it’s definitely a challenge, but you meet some great people who help you through it, and they support you all the way, and then, in turn, you also support them, and you can make awesome friendships with them.
I’m just very grateful for what has been given to me.
I honestly did not think that I was going to get through the 22 days of living in the woods, and when I did, I realized that I couldn’t accomplish anything that I just put my mind to.
