Barbara Majeski
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129 appearances
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
Barbara Majeski’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I started a business. I was part of a startup that ultimately scaled, did very well with that. I wanted them to know certain things. And I thought through that, I was like, oh, everything that I'm proud of that I want my kids to remember, I wanted to quit. Like putting myself through college was brutal, horrible. The startup I was part of, I went door to door selling telecommunications.
I mean, it was really hard and we scaled it from there, but I always wanted to quit. And whenever I wanted to quit, I thought if I quit, I can't take care of Steven. Even when I was doing the fundraising for the humanitarian work, I was like, this is really hard. It wasn't going as quickly and expeditiously as I had envisioned. There was the nuance that I talked about earlier.
And with administration, I was like, oh, this is a beast. I hadn't really calculated for, but anytime I wanted to quit, I was like, what about Steven? You got to make it work. So in that moment, I realized, wow, I'm so fortunate to have Steven to take care of because otherwise I would have quit all these great things.
And it was at that same moment, I was like, it was never really me taking care of Steven as much as it was Steven who was taking care of me.
I never. When that post went up... I'm still shook over that one. I got to be honest. That one does not math for me. The math is not math. No.
Well, like you said, you test high on resiliency. So your perception of maybe what you've tried, you've had to overcome, figure out, transverse is probably minimized in your own perception because you're like, I just have to, I've got to get, I'm getting through this. I'm going to figure it out. I'm going to make it happen. So there's that, that makes sense to me that you're saying that.
I'm like,
Absolutely. Absolutely. So I, you know, I'm really coming to grips with my own mortality as I'm like getting through the end of chemo and recognizing that I was given like this great gift, like the gift of purpose. I was given no backdoor, no quit, figure it out, make it work. Because if you don't, your brother is going to be institutionalized.
If I don't figure out how to make personal wealth and I don't figure out how to do well for myself and I don't make this, my brother's going to be an award of the state. Get your head out of your rear end and figure it out. Recognizing that I had been gifted such a
you know an immeasurable gift really i said to myself i'm like if i survive cancer i will never play small again i will forever use my voice to speak for those who can't speak for themselves i that is what i was meant to do it wasn't just a vow to stephen that i would speak for him but i'm supposed to use and amplify my voice to give a voice to others and
When I got to the other side of cancer, I remember thinking, I was like, okay. And I was sitting in this very seat. I'm like, all right, Babs. Babs is my badass bitch self, B-A-B-S. I'm like, all right, Babs.
What are you going to do with your badass self? And I'm like, I think I want to go on television. I literally was like, you know, I think I need, I need a bigger platform. I need more exposure. I need, I need to get back out there again and do something. And mind you, I'd never done television. And I was like, okay, I'll go on TV. Okay. So like you're doing your vision board. I wrote it down.
I was like, I want to be on the today show. Life is so funny. I wrote down, I want to be on the Today Show. This is a girl with a degree in community health education who was a door-to-door sales girl who scaled sales teams and randomly decided to run a fundraiser and do fundraising. Nowhere in this resume of Barbara Majewski does it read television personality.
But I'm like, I'm 43 now and now I would like to be a television personality.
You would think so. But see, I just reframed all of it and I was like, I don't know unless you go. Like I have a very great way to kind of
talk myself into stuff of like you don't know unless you go and unless you try things so and ever like I'm sure that went through my head like who do I think I am and like all that like you're in your 40s nobody wants like everybody wants everyone in their 20s but I was like listen I don't know that I have to I'd rather take a no than an I don't know and I just love that Right.
Like I'd rather just be told you're too old as opposed to me assuming that or you're not a match for us. And it's been unbelievable. So here's the serendipity. Again, I write down that I want to be on the Today Show. I go and I'm like, well, I guess how do you be on TV? You have to go back to school and learn how to be in television or you go hire a media trainer.
So I end up on Instagram and I find this media trainer. And so I DM her and I'm like, you don't even know what to say to people. Or no, I didn't. I picked up the phone and I called her. But let me just tell you, I wrote her name down for a good month before I could find the chops to be like, hey, like, yeah, I don't know. I was a little nervous.
Yes. You have to come up with your word. So we're on the phone. I'm on the phone with our assistant. She goes, I like the sound of your voice. And she goes, what's your name? I said, Barbara Majewski. She enters my name into the computer and a Google search comes up. And at this time, I'm not Google searchable except for one thing. I want a humanitarian word where I spoke on stage.
That's the only thing that got me in the door. So Amy Rosenblum grabs the phone from her assistant. She goes, you do public speaking? I'm like, yeah, I'll speak. I don't care. I'll do whatever. She goes, I want you in here this week. I'd love to meet you. I go in to meet her. She's the former executive producer of the Today Show.
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