He Slept on a Garbage Dump at 14. Then He Took Over the World Cup.

Hugh Evans just produced the first halftime show in World Cup history, for an audience of two billion people. At fourteen, he spent a sleepless night on a concrete slab on top of a garbage dump in Manila. This conversation is about the line between those two nights.The co-founder and CEO of Global Citizen tells Michael how a school assembly became a 40-hour fast, how that fast sent him to the Philippines, and how one night in a slum called Smoky Mountain set the direction of his life. He talks about the year in the Himalayas, the prank call from Bono that turned out to be real, and the month Global Citizen came within thirty days of shutting down, until a $1.5 million check and a call from Neil Young changed everything.He also opens up the World Cup halftime show itself: five headliners in eleven minutes, every camera angle planned months out, and an entire turf cover installed in three.A conversation about scale, cost, and what it takes to keep showing up for an impossible goal for twenty years.Download the Global Citizen app to take action daily: globalcitizen.orgSubscribe for new episodes of The Michael James Way every week.