On this episode of The Power of Love Show we welcome special guest, Tony Knight.
Tony Knight is an Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, & Rhino Rescue Leader. Tony is admittedly a bit of an idealist and visionary striving to impact positive change for our endangered wildlife and our environment. He does so through radical conscious consumerism and mentoring businesses on how small changes in their daily operations can not only save them money, but also help them free up cashflow which can be allocated towards helping to impact positive change for our animals, our planet and ultimately us & the future generations to come.
Tony’s career path has been unexpected. He studied Supply Chain Engineering in South Africa and was offered a job with Terex (Construction Machinery engineering) in the UK in 2003. He unexpectedly switched careers in 2005 landing himself in the advertising technology space in London for 5 years before being transferred to Toronto where he eventually started an advertising tech agency in 2010. During these years he was leading wildlife conservation projects in his spare time and leading tourism & travel initiatives to raise funds for the nonprofit projects — specifically rhino rescue projects — he was helping which ultimately lead him to a shift from the for-profit space to the non-profit space.
Tony’s journey from for-profit to non-profit was not without bumps and bruises along the way. It has been a journey of growth, enlightenment, blood (literally), sweat and tears. This transition started to accelerate after his first visit to Burning Man back in 2015 where he made a radical life decision to take active steps to transform his for-profit businesses into platforms to help fundraise for the wildlife/environmental conservation projects he was actively involved with. This came at a pivotal time when rhino poaching attacks were on the rise in South Africa and having been witness to the brutal suffering and trauma rhinos undergo at the hands of poachers he knew he needed to fully invest himself and his time into nonprofit projects — specifically geared to protect rhinos from poachers.
He blended his many years of experience leading wildlife conservation projects, leading tourism & travel initiatives and running an advertising tech company together to make his goal of helping to protect vulnerable animals & wildlife a reality. This lead him to co-founding the Upmost Foundation, a 501(c)(3) Nonprofit organization.
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Website: https://myexclusivelinks.greenrope.com/TonyKnight
Instagram: @URhinoProject
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LinkedIn: Tony Knight
Email: TonyJKnight@icloud.com
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