Barbara Majeski
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
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Absolutely. And at the time, the company had no real alignment with charitable giving, believe it or not. People did their individual thing, but they hadn't collectively come together. And it was still a growing... I mean, now that was to 2007, 2008, 2009. I could probably look at the award and read the date, but...
that was almost 20 years ago a long time ago god's a long time ago and really the culture of this generation is very philanthropic so i had kind of come in at the right time and was willing to champion this
um this cause and bring people together and i think people are very drawn to um humanitarian work and giving back and this alignment without being too like inconvenienced or put out and i think it be i made it a lot of fun that was another thing like i read my audience i knew who i was catering to and i was like listen let's do some softball games some volleyball games a fundraiser you know bowling
um pool nights whatever it just became like who can put together the most fun fundraiser and team night or whatever um pizza night so it just was injunction because it was a young young company um with there was a lot there was a lot of there was a lot of dollar for dollar here this wasn't like people stroking checks for 100 grand i mean you were you were grinding it out I was grinding it out.
It was like make a little money off a lot of people kind of thing. And yeah, instead of people writing checks, really integrating philanthropy into their business instead of like, just check this box and give a dollar, but really talk about the philanthropy, the work that they do, why we're choosing this one. And I think just I was on, I was in the...
I was I think I was on message with this right generation and they really took the ball and ran with it. But I was very passionate. And then like the nuances of figuring out administratively how to organize this took a little that got a little hairy. Yeah. Where do you send the money? And like, how does this all go? But again, like you reverse engineer and you figure it out.
And that is the blessing of growing up Schwartz is you and growing up with a special needs brother and a bit of a chaotic home.
100%. And not only that, it's like, figure the F out, like, make it work. You've got to figure things out. Like, you can't just walk away like with a special needs sibling. You've got to figure things out on the spot, you have to be resilient, you have to be creative, and you have to have that, I'm going to make this happen, I'm going to make it work. And that kind of fortitude, resilience,
I'm just curious. 19, 20, and 13.
Well, you need to know it's on the heels of my marriage falling apart. So I... Oh, so bonus.
It's funny because I'm like, you know, oh my goodness, like I need to... Let's back into that.
Somewhere in between. It was definitely like out of an old soap opera and I didn't see it coming. It was more on his, his end. And it was, it just ended in a, like a dumpster fire blaze of glory that I was very blindsided by of like, Oh, not plan for this. And as I'm kind of, you know, recalibrating for my new normal, I get this, this,
cancer diagnosis and i can remember the doctor telling me and i'm like in such denial i'm like i really don't have the bandwidth for this diagnosis right now not a good time but it's not a good time for this not a good time for this um my my husband at the time was um very good through it we were in marriage therapy i was in chemotherapy i mean i did um all the things and it was and my kids were young i mean two out of my three kids still believed in the tooth fairy and santa claus
um that's young to be diagnosed and um were the doctors telling you like get your stuff in order i mean was it that kind of that kind of diagnosis it was like we're going to see where we're at or they're saying you're going to beat this like where was your head based on the information you're getting stage three is a dicey one but it's better than stage four um they were they i have had very strong odds for sure but there's
I had great odds. I think, you know, anything that's not stage four, I think I had great, great her odds of survivorship. Um, so it was more of like, don't get, you just get, get down to the work. Like I was like, I don't want to do chemo. And they're like, you know, that's, it's like a non negotiable. You got to have surgery, you got to have six months of chemo.
And you're I was young, I just finished the New York City marathon like the year before. I mean, I was not. I just wasn't really I was like, I did all the right things like this is very rude. And but the universe is always conspiring in your favor. When you can get through something there's in your favor. I like that. In a very serendipitous way.
I think I needed to, you grow through what you go through. I needed that in my life and the timing was crazy and it wasn't easy or fun, but it really allows you to take a good hard look at
at your life and what you want and who you are and how are you going to live your very best life like you're the master of your own destiny this is like you're in charge and it did i mean being confronted with your own mortality does give you this all right How do I live out the next best? If I get another shot and I survive cancer, what am I doing with it?
How am I living at the highest expression of myself? Chemo and me, we were no bueno. I did not do well in chemo. I got violently ill. And there was a moment where I was like, what if I don't make it? Like in the beginning, I'm like, I've got this. And I looked up the statistics and I'm like, if she survived this, I can survive that.
And then about on my eighth or ninth round of chemo, I was like, I need to take stock of this situation and get real with myself because this really does suck. And I had a funny revelation in that I was like, if I don't make this, what do I want my kids to remember about me? And I started reflecting on all these things. The Humanitarian Award is one of them. I put myself through college.
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