people in the city
I hate to see kids traveling in Europe
today, who are traveling in a pack—
flirting, drinking, smoking. I was alone
every day, living in a small place, and
did nothing but look and listen. And
so I came back to America with ideas I
would have never thought of. I would
have had the most boring life and
ordinary career had it not been for this
fickle turn that changed the direction of
my life. Now my focus is on two things:
health and education. Education is
tragic in this country. There’s no study
of history. And as Churchill said, “If you
don’t take a long look at the past, you’ll
never understand the future.” Ask any
two students who have just graduated
from high school if they know who won
WWII.
And what about your commitment
to health issues?
After Fiji Water, I started Wakaya
Perfection, a natural, organic product
that combats inflammation. In Time
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Magazine’s February 2004 cover, they
reported: “The Secret Killer”—The
surprising link between inflammation
and heart attacks, cancer, Alzheimer’s
and other diseases—What you can do
to fight it.”
The truth is, we all are slowly dying
from inflammation. And in this article,
they featured all the cures available
using common pharmaceuticals such
as Aspirin and similar agents showing
promise in controlling inflammation.
But, we discovered that the combina-
tion of ginger and turmeric is the best
natural product that stops inflam-
mation. And you can easily get these
through the Wakaya Group.
When Gilmour was a young man, his
father thought he should take a job
in an office. But although he loved his
father and valued his advice, he just
couldn’t see a path for himself doing
that. All his entrepreneurial experiences
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have led him to have a brilliant career.
While his resume is quite impressive,
with notable job entries such as Fiji
Water founder, co-founder of
Southern Pacific Hotel Corporation, of
Brick Gold Corporation (the most
profitable gold-mining firm in the
world), and of Horsham Corporation,
which later became TricHahn Corpora-
tion, one of the largest publicly traded
REIT companies in North America, and
more recently the founder of Wakaya
Group, as he tells it, “I was never as
consumed by acquisition and manage-
ment as I am by helping to start things
up.”
The Erin H. Gilmour Early Learning
Center is starting to break ground in
July. They’re inviting everyone to be an
agent of change in Palm Beach County
by investing in our community.
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