Barbara Majeski
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
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results for operation smile which fixes cleft lips and cleft palates yeah children in parts of the world that won't have access to it and i had gone on a humanitarian mission there's so much to this story but i'll try i'm just going to keep it right here um so i went on we're not in a hurry to be we're not in a hurry to be anywhere
The funny part of this story, because it's in alignment with the election, total sidebar. So I had gotten a postcard in the mail for Operation Smile, and it was to meet the founders. And I was like, oh, my God, meet the founders of Operation Smile. I would love to. So I show up. I knock on this door. It's the dead of winter. And Donald Trump Jr. opens the door.
And I'm like, and it's in the middle of The Apprentice. And I'm like, oh, where did I just go? Because this is supposed to be my friend's house. Like, I don't understand.
This has to be 2007 or 8. All right.
Well, now I do.
Yeah. I'm in the mix of apprentice season. So I know. That's so funny. See all roads. And anyway, so. I ended up going to this, um, aberration smile at home meeting, learned more about it. I went on a mission after that. And when I came back from the mission on the flight back, I was like, I can do more. And I'll tell you, there were three rooms on this mission site.
And at the end of like evaluation, parents were brought into one of these three rooms, um, room one and two they find out about pre-surgery post-surgery and that their kid is qualified for the surgery and remember these are life-changing surgeries here in the united states yeah it's a game changer and room three, something didn't, the dots didn't line up and they don't qualify for the surgery.
They have to come back the next time. And you would see these parents leave the room and it was awful. And I asked our host on the flight back, I said, what happens to room three? What happens to the families? And she said, as long as we keep sponsoring these missions, we'll go back and we'll take care of them the next time around.
Because these kids could get the kibosh even if they have like a 99 degree fever. Like they take no risks.
Yeah. So I'm like, okay. I'm like, well, I would like to, how do you sponsor a mission? Because Colgate had sponsored ours for $150,000. And I was like, well, I'll raise $150,000. I'd never done that before. But I was like, well, I'll just figure it out.
you kind of reverse engineer and i've learned that through different iterations of my life of like all right where do you want to go what do you want get clear on your destination and then you got to reverse engineer i'm like all right well how do people do it so i kind of was like i'm doing it i'm all in and um the the thought in the back of my mind that you'll appreciate is that what if that was stephen
what if my brother needed a sister it didn't have one what if steven it was like the stevens of the world were kind of saying hey you've got a really big mouth you've got great connections i had um i'd been part of a um sales company that had scaled and i had epic amounts of connections and i was one of the startups so i knew everyone and i was like i think i can leverage my previous
work experience and my connections to raise this money. So it ended up just kind of going from there of, all right, I'll figure it out. And I'll, you know, it's just like that quote, quote and frozen, like just do the next right thing, like take the next right step.
So ultimately I, you know, I've raised the first $150,000 and this is where like the go-giver book is so good and everybody needs to read it. I really did that mission out of the goodness of my heart. I was like, I need to take care of the Stevens of the world. I need to use my voice for those who can't speak for themselves. And
the serendipity of it is soon as we qualified for that next mission, five of my, my friends that helped me raise the money went on the mission. They come back. They're like, we didn't raise enough money. They start hosting fundraisers. The thing starts taking off. Um, like, like it was called an adopt a smile campaign.
Next thing you know, I'm raising hundreds of thousands of dollars and they call me and they're like, you've, you deserve our humanitarian of the year award. Yeah. So much crazy goes on from this because at the end of the day, six months later, after getting that award, I got diagnosed with stage three colon cancer.
That's the thing is that you schedule things far enough in advance, whether it's a trip, a humanitarian mission, a goal, you put a deadline on it, you'll start working around it. It's never easy. It's never convenient. There's oftentimes better things that you can be doing with your time in your mind. You're like, oh my God, this is going to be, I'm going to work
for free, but it was something that was something I really had said that I was gonna do in this lifetime. That was something I kind of said, you know, I wonder, I need to kind of get out of my own echo chambers, my own, you know, recirculated air and really see how, you know, see a third world country.
So it's never easy, but if it's on your list of things to do and you write it down and you schedule it, you will work around it. But it's got to be on your list. I talk so much. I have it sitting actually right here. Like I talk so much about journaling and writing things down. And you just talked about Jesse Itzler.
I can't begin to tell you the things that have come to fruition for me, probably my whole life. Just like the subconscious mind has no sense of humor. So what you put in there will start working towards it. So that, yeah, it's never easy. It's never convenient.
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