Ownership Is Owning Your Shizz With Barbara Majeski

This is the Own it show, where we tell stories of how everyday people made ownership theirs to create extraordinary success. Welcome back to another week of the Own It Show Coach Conversations. I'm Justin.

And I'm Elise. Welcome to the Own it show, guys.

I know that if this is your first time here or if you're just joining, we tell stories of everyday people who have made ownership theirs and ultimately now have found extreme success and fulfillment. And I know that's something that we're all truly striving for. And today's guest, if you've ever tuned into the Today show, Inside Edition, Good day, New York, Fox 5, whatever it may be, I guarantee you've seen this bubbly lady that literally can make you put a smile on your face no matter what you're feeling. And she's actually been able to really create the good life for herself. And on the outside, it's like, oh, my God, how did you do this? The lifestyle, the travel, the entertainment, the decor, everything. It just seems like so amazing. It's like, it's like perfect. But little do we know the journey to get there and what it takes to feel that every single day is something we can continually work on and something that each and every one of us can strive for and find that extraordinary success. So, Barbara, I'm so excited to have you on and truly learn your story and hear your story to motivate and empower our audience today. So again, Barbara from the car, thank you so much for joining us.

And thank you. I love these conversations. So I can think of no better way to enjoy my drive into New York City than to talk about something I'm so passionate about, being an entrepreneur, you know, being the quote, unquote, curator of the good life. I love this conversation because I think what you were kind of tapping at is that the road to happiness and success is not a straight line. It's not linear. It's filled with a lot of stories and trials and tribulations and sometimes trauma and setbacks. But when you persevere and find the lesson and not the resentment in your journey, it does lead you to higher ground. So I'm looking forward to all your questions and this conversation very much.

I love it. And you're exactly right. And for all the audience out there, we're actually going to be seeing Barbara up in New York City at an event that I'll give a little plug here for breakfast with Champions if you're on Clubhouse. And again, that's an app that's kind of taken the world by Storm. That's all audio. I'm in there every single morning, really, just hearing from these extremely powerful people that have unbelievable stories that you can truly learn from. So every morning, be sure to dive into Clubhouse Breakfast with Champions. But we're going to see Barbara in person tomorrow and continue to facilitate this relationship even deeper. But I'm curious as to. You mentioned it, the curator of the Good Life. What does the good life mean to you and how have you. How did you get that, I guess, quote put beside your name, if you will.

Yeah. You know, I always say it's living life with purpose, style, and adventure. And the reason I kind of coined myself the curator of the Good life is I always wanted to be on television. And after I went through cancer and we can dive into that, and I kind of got to the other side of a very difficult battle with cancer, I wanted to pursue all the things that I kind of held myself back from and talked myself out of, and television was one of them. So after I hired a media trainer, and she was like, well, what do you want to do on television? I'm like, I'm really good at finding, testing, and sharing all that is good. Like, I'm the first person. If you're like. If you are like, barbara, I love that dress you're wearing. I will tell you where I got it, how much I paid for it, and how you can hunt it down. I will sometimes take it off my. Like, I would take it and give it to you if I could, because I do love sharing, Happiness is shared. And I just think I've been very fortunate through the decisions that I've made in my life to experience a lot of cool things. Not only, you know, my alignment with purpose has been a very powerful force for me to get me unstuck and get me out of that fetal position and get me back on my feet. So that's why I say living life with purpose. I think living life with style, what that means to me is living comfortably in your own skin and whatever that style means to you, knowing that you need to live in that space because it also inspires others. And living with adventure, I think living outside your comfort zone is exactly what we're always supposed to be doing. And fortunately for me, going through cancer and some of the adversities that I've gone through is that I really understand the value of just leaving nothing left unsaid, leaving it all out on the field, nothing left on the table. And that requires living outside your comfort zone. So when I say living, you know, Being the curator of the good life, living life with purpose, style, and adventure. Those are the three things that I'm really looking to zone in on. And that's what I hope to bring to my audience, not only in television, but Instagram and Clubhouse seems to be a real great place for me. So I hope that answers your question.

It sure does. And you know, Barbara, this is the first time we're really sitting down to chat. What I will say is all three of those things absolutely come through in your essence, in your content, even in, you know, speaking with you for the first few minutes before the show, it's so clear that you're so aligned with your purpose, with your style, and at the end of the day, who you really are. One of the things I would love to understand a little bit more is your relationship with living on purpose and in alignment with your purpose. That's something that Justin and I talk a lot about with. The ownership mindset is the prerequisite to living in ownership and is understanding what your true passion and your purpose is. And, you know, we know that this is not something you were always in alignment with your entire life until, you know, you went. You went through some. Some really difficult situations. But tell us about how you came to living in your purpose.

That's a great question. So when. So I'm a twin, and I have younger twin brothers, and twins run in our family. My mother's a triplet. What also runs in our family? I know everyone's like, well, how? I had single babies, and I'm going, tell you what God gives you, you can handle. And God looked at me, I was like, no, no, no, no, no. One at a time for this girl. She can't handle multiples. And that is the truth. And so not only do multiples run in our family, but so does a condition known as fragile X, which is a genetically inherited form of neurological impairment. And that's like. It's a lot like down syndrome. And my younger brother Steven, whose twin is Michael Stephen, inherited Fragile X. So he has the functionality of maybe, like, maybe a third or fourth grader, but he truly relies on others to take care of him. And growing up, I just always assumed that I would always take care of him. I don't know if that's just some sort of soul contract that I made before I came into this earthly place. I don't know. It's just something that I assumed and vows throughout my life kind of solidified that that was what I was meant to do. And when I was 13 and we were kind of all separated at one point, just through different circumstances. Steven and I almost got separated. And we weren't through the grace of God. And because we weren't separated and he chose to stay with me, I made a vow to him when I was, Maybe I was 14, I gotta sit down and do the numbers because I keep saying 13, but I may have been 14, but I guess it's irrelevant. I was going into 9th grade, so if somebody wants to tell me at what age that is, that's great. And I made a vow. We were flying back from LA to New Jersey. I was starting school back on the east coast, and I plotted my life. I said, no matter what I need to do, I'll always put myself in a position where Steven will never be institutionalized and I'll always take care of him. And I just really, I plotted out my life. I was like, I'm gonna make money and I'm gonna take care of him. I don't know how I'm going to do it, but I'm going to do it. And really I held true to these vows. I, you know, I, like, I got married or something, but I, you know, put myself through college. I started a sales company in my early 20s because it was all predicated on, well, I can't take a salary. I have to be in a position where I can take care of my brother Steven. And just to bring this story full circle, it wasn't really until I got diagnosed with a late stage cancer. I was diagnosed with stage three colon cancer at 42 years old. And it was actually not the cancer that I thought was going to take me. It was the chemo. And when I was really battling, I think I was battling chemo. I'm going to say that from now on. I think I was battling chemo and not cancer because I struggled so bad with the treatments. And I had like my eighth infusion coming up at a 12, and I was like, there is no, no way this girl is getting through this next infusion. I've got nothing left in my tank. I'm down to two brain cells. I couldn't eat, I couldn't keep food down. And I was like, I'm not going to make it. And I reflected on all the things I was really proud of because I thought, how were they going to talk about me after I was gone? And it was just a real reflective moment of like, what are my kids going to hear about their mother? And I took pause that everything that I had really persevered through and That I was really proud of. Really. I wanted to quit everything. I wanted to quit putting myself through college. I wanted to quit this crazy sales business I started. I wanted to quit it all. And what I realized, because I always was like, oh, if I quit, I can't take care of Stephen. I realized that I had persevered through everything because of him. And it was in that moment I said, oh, wow, thank God. I was always taking care of Steven because it pushed me to never give up. But it was in that moment that I realized it was never me taking care of Steven. It was always Steven taking care of me. And you see, Stephen gave me rise to the greatest gift we have all been given. And that is the gift of purpose he gave me. No quit, no back door, nothing. I had to always figure it out. And when I came to terms with that, I had been gifted the greatest gift anyone could be gifted. I made another vow to the universe then. If you give me, never play small again. I will never allow voices of fear and self doubt dictate what I'm going to do. I'll never let the weight of other people's opinions. And I'll leave nothing left on. I'll be. I'll leave it all out on the field. I will leave it all out on the field. And I will use my voice to always speak for those who can't speak for themselves. I will continue to live out my purpose. I'll help others see their purpose. And that's where you're meeting me today, is I. When I get asked to do interviews such as yours, or to come up to New York and to network or to speak on stages as a keynote speaker, when I amplify my voice and I amplify my profile and more people know who I am, the more opportunities I get to talk about purpose and help other people see that they have all been gifted purpose as well. They just sometimes don't realize purpose doesn't show up under a Christmas tree. It doesn't show up as a holiday gift, as a Hanukkah treat. Nothing. Purpose is sometimes very much in disguise. So, you know, that's where you're meeting me now, is continuing to live out the very sacred vows that I've made to whatever God you believe, whatever universal energy you, you know, believe in, that's what I'm doing, is staying true to my vows, living out my purpose, and speaking for the most vulnerable members of society.

It's so admirable, Barbara, the path that you have taken and how. It's clear it was not an easy path. Like you said, purpose doesn't show up under a Christmas tree. It's not wrapped up in a pretty blue box with a white bow. And so it's something that oftentimes we have to be able to pause and say and connect with ourselves and really figure out what that is. And it's amazing that you've been able to find that and share it so openly with the world.

You know, I just wanted to share in this space that I think is important to understand is that, you know, I could have framed my childhood or, you know, being raised with a special needs sibling. I could frame that, and many people do, as a complete negative, as a complete disservice. And I didn't get enough attention. Because I didn't get enough attention. I wasn't able to do X, Y and Z. And because of all these things, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. And I think we all could do that. We can all take pity on ourselves and we can all shape narratives that really buy, really sell ourselves on why we haven't been able to achieve our dreams or live out our dreams or achieve great success or be the person that we are divinely supposed to step into. We can frame narratives all in the negative because that's our choice. And I hope that anybody that's listening understands that there are narratives that you are replaying in your head over and over again that need to be looked at and they need to be rescripted because they are no longer serving you. And they are not. They are getting in your way. They are complete blockages from you living out your divine expectations, your divine power. You are supposed to be living a massive potential. You are supposed to be living out your massive potential, but you are sometimes the person that is in your way. Because we can all rewrite our scripts and we can really write a script to be in the negative or we can write it in the positive. And we are. We have to constantly rewrite it. And that's not to say that I don't have to constantly rewrite a script. I just rewrote the script about my divorce because I was. I finally found the lesson in what I went through and the power that it shifted in me. And I rewrote the narrative because it is now such a power empowerment. What I survived and what I went through has made me now like David Goggins. So anyway, I just need to share that because my big something that I run right now is masterclasses. And I always start with the conversation you have with yourself is the most important.

I'm glad you did, because it's so true. Oftentimes we can be our own biggest block. We can be that. That thing that is completely getting our own in our own way. And unless we learn how to rescript it, change the belief, change the thought, change the pattern, we'll be stuck in it forever. And that's so often why people are stuck, living out of alignment with their purpose, is because it's so easy to make excuses.

And people do. And that is a big thing that I'm teaching right now, is taking a look at narratives, conversations. So one of the programs that I run, I also incorporate journaling, although it seems I do this basic journaling. But it's all a precursor to learning that you are. You need to get out of your own way, rewrite the script, and know that you are not a victim. You are a victor in anything and everything that you have gone through. And it is such a powerful, powerful tool. Because when you come at a space and experience with the lessons and not the resentment and the shame and the hate and all the negative looks, vibrations that come with that, but you move it to a higher space, you bring in more abundance and love and connectedness and just so much more into your life. And I'm just going to repeat the word abundance because somebody out there needs to hear that. By rewriting your narrative of what you've gone through and putting it in the space of lessons learned and you get rid of resentment, you bring in more abundance. And I know that's going to resonate with somebody. You. If you want more abundance, then we got to talk about the negativity and the vibes that you're bringing it. So, okay, I'm done. I'm done. I'm done for now.

I was gonna say done for now.

I love it.

Done for now.

I love it, Barbara, because when you were telling your story about you being there for Stephen, but in actuality Stephen was there for you, it gave me goosebumps. Because being able to rewrite that story, that it would have been so easy to say, oh, this is the weight that's pulling me down. This is the excuse as to why I couldn't do X, Y or Z. What you've actually done is literally taken ownership. That is the definition of ownership in so many ways, where it has no correct answer. It's the prerequisite to winning. Ownership, quite frankly, is everything. And that's what we talk about, and that's what we teach, and it's the hard conversation. It's the thing that is uncomfortable. It's the thing that is the elephant in the room. It's. It's the, it's that part in true essence that is like the dark part on the apple. The bruise on the apple nobody wants to talk about. But if you can truly just go and dig it out, well, hey, the apple is now edible all of a sudden again. And that's what we do with our bodies is we're almost like. And our lives is we all of a sudden have this bruise and instead of just digging in, cutting it out and then moving on and still saying, hey, this is beautiful. It still tastes great. It's still sweet, it's still crunchy and delicious. We just are like, oh, you know what? I'm going to toss in the rest of the day. And all of a sudden the apple's gone and there's no more bountiful harvest.

It's so true. And you know, a bad moment doesn't have to make for a bad day, you know, but it's. These are all decisions, you know, in the space of ownership. What I'd love to dive into for your audience is biggest change and shift that came to me was taking ownership of the results in my life and not being a victim. And that came in my 20s when I started launching my sales business. And I knew what I wanted to do. I knew I wanted to scale this business because I knew that I could, you know, it's commission based and I could make money by scaling it. I saw the vision, I got it, I got it, I got it. But I still literally blamed a lot of external factors on when things went wrong wrong and when I so. And I would also get advice from people that didn't necessarily have what I wanted and didn't have. They had the best of intentions because they loved me. But it's not like they had achieved any sort of like grand success. But they were the my. They were like the people that were my sounding board. And I finally had a mentor say to me, why are you taking advice from people that have not achieved what you have achieved? You need to take ownership of where you are getting your information from. And when I took ownership of that, that I was literally feeding my mind and predicating my decisions based on advice coming from people with good intentions but zero experience. I started to kind of move away from getting advice in that space and I started to make sure I was surrounded by thought leaders and took advice from people that were six steps ahead of me that had what I wanted, had the experience and the results that I was looking for. But until I took ownership of the fact that I was taking in information from people that didn't have the right. They had good intentions but the wrong facts, I started kind of moving myself in a better space. But you have to own so much about your decisions. You have to own the fact that you are the average of the five people you surround yourself. Jim Rohn says that, not Barbara Majeski. You are the product and the average of the five people that you surround yourself with. So you need to take ownership of what you're feeding, your mind and your, you know, your soul, what have you. And you need to take ownership that you're not always. Listen. Things go wrong, but it's not what happens to you. It's how you handle what. What happens to you. That's it. You're not. Not always a victim. And you are supposed to learn. You're supposed to grow through what you go through. I have a bunch of cliches, and none of them are mine. We can take a knee and kick rocks, okay? You got to hear that. Everybody needs to know that success and feel sorry for yourself because you got blindsided by some things that really moved you off course. You were headed to California from New Jersey, and all of a sudden you found yourself stuck on some mudslide somewhere in, I don't know, I don't know, Kansas City. But you have to re. You have to reroute your course and get back on. It's okay to take a knee, but it is not okay to sit there for a really long time, ok? And I'm the queen of kicking rocks, so don't even worry about that.

Barbara, you've given us so much amazing advice today about how to shift your mindset, about how to live in alignment with your purpose, about how to not take a knee, about how to continually show up to everything that life has coming for you. What I would love to know is when we're sitting here talking right now, it's easy to say those things, but for somebody who is so in it as you are, how do you practice this and actively move through challenges on a daily basis?

Well, I take that knee a lot and I kick rocks, you know, so I do do those things, but I don't stay in that space. You know, I'm like, oh, like. And, you know, I, you know, for me, I have to say, I think just always knowing what my purpose is, you know, knowing that my brother is counting on me to keep the Feet moving forward. And when I want to stay that fetal position, I feel like he's on the ground whispering in my ear, girl, get up. You know, girl, get off the ground. Come on, you know, you know, come on, sister, get. We gotta keep going. I feel that he's always doing that for me. And the juxtaposition of that story is that I. When I made that vow when I was 14 years old at leaving from LAX to New Jersey, Steven was the one in the fetal position on the floor of lax, not wanting to board that plane with me. And I had to get on the floor and say, steven, I need you to get up, and I need you to come with me. I don't want to. I can't leave you in California. You. You. You're going to come with your sister. And when he got up and followed me onto that plane, that's when I made my commitment to him that because he followed me and believed in me, that I would never let him down. I would never want. I never wanted to see him under this much stress and sadness ever again. And now, as sometimes I have found myself wanting to quit and give up. And just, like, I just want to stay in the damn fetal position because life just gets so damn hard sometimes. And it's just this. It's a better place to stay on the bathroom floor, just feeling sorry for yourself. I feel like he's. He's there. You know, I found him there with me when I was really struggling through chemo, struggling through my divorce, wondering, you know, why ever be happy again? Will I ever, you know, will I ever just understand? Will I ever be happy again? Will I ever be centered, whatever, be myself? Will I always be this miserable and sad? And I could feel him saying, just keep moving the feet. Get up, get up. Like, get out of this fetal position. Get up and keep moving the feet forward. So I, you know, that's the only way. And I do hope it lands with your audience, because that is my truth. When I'm at my worst, I hear him in my. My ear, you know. You know, I need you to get up. You have work to do. You don't only have to speak for me. You have to speak for all the Stevens of the world, and you have to help others, you know, get out of their own way and live out their purpose, because the world needs everyone to align with their higher calling, with their best self, with who they were destined to be. So that is my truth, and I do hope it lands. And it's a lot, but hopefully one of Your listeners is like, I feel you, somebody.

It's so powerful to, like, truly have that person or that thing or that idea or that. That recording in your mind that you can continually go back to. Because the difference between somebody like yourself and somebody who decides to make a negative decision is not the level of the circumstance you're under. It's the decision you make. It's the choice you make. It's the recording like you talked about that you have on. On Luke and earlier, you talked about where you were getting your advice from, the people that were around you, the mentors or the coaches that you had that you needed to actually move away from in order to get to the next level. And having to level up. And so many people around or even listening to this may actually resonate with that, but not know how to do that, not know where they find those people and give excuses as to why they're just going to stay where they are. What was your journey in order to get around those right people? Find the better advice, find the better coaches, find the better mentors that allowed you to continue this journey in this direction.

Before I answer that, I want to make sure that I circle back on this. Is that everybody has that voice and that person asking you to get up. I have never met a person who hasn't been hit with adversity and hasn't been hit with suffering. And the only amount from suffering is to help others. And what I mean by that is the only way to transcend some of the trauma and difficulties and the trials you've been through your life is to take the lessons and then use them in service of others. And if you don't know what that voice is, I am telling you, you are a service guide to somebody that is going through whatever. You have already, already walked the fire that you have already walked through. So this, the voice of Stephen whispering in my ear, isn't indigenous to Barbara Majeski. We all have these voices. We just have to take pause and listen for them. There are people counting on you to live your life in service. So I want to just circle back on that. And to answer your question about finding mentors and putting yourself in situations to really being like a sponge and absorbing good materials. There's so many ways to do that. Well, first of all, you do have to sometimes find space, take space from negative people and people that aren't supportive and really don't, you know, bring value. And we can. We all know how to do that. We all know how to set boundaries or if we don't know, then set a good therapy session on boundaries is a good place to start. But moving away from toxicity is just as important as moving towards. It's like moving away from the Ding Dongs because you want to get healthier, but you got to replace the Ding Dongs with something. Otherwise you're going to be really hungry. And nobody wants to be hungry because that sabotages your diet. So it's the same thing. Getting rid of negative vibes and replacing positive. There are so many amazing because we have the Internet. There's so many ways, whether it's through the podcast that you guys are hosting, I think Clubhouse and Breakfast with Champions, which is this morning group with Glenn Lundy, nothing but it's all about inspiration, education and motivation. That's a really great space and the power of proximity. You know, putting yourself in spaces and places, whether they're conferences that you can go to, investing in yourself to be in real like minded spaces. There's, listen, there's a lot of self help gurus out there that some people are naysayers. But why are you a naysayer when you all of a sudden feed your brain and your thoughts like really good brain food? It's like super greens for your brain like Tony Robbins or Tim Storey or Grant Cardone. I don't know, I'm like falling short of fabulous motivational speakers or books that you can read. You feed your thoughts, your thoughts dictate your actions, your thoughts become things, your thoughts become abundant or scarce. You're either scarcity mindset or abundant mindset. But these are all learned. You got it. You got to like change the brain patterns. So you know anybody that's like, oh, I'm not into that self help guru stuff, you were just screwing yourself. And you need to look at that narrative because it's arrogant and it's self defeatist and it's sabotaging. But you do have to find yourself, you know, your, what do you call them? Personal development coach. I guess that's what they're called. You have to find a personal development coach and leader and mentor that really does gel with your personality. Because listen, I get that, like what's this voodoo you do? Law of attraction. That's not your jam. Find your jam, find your mentor. And if you are saying things like I'm not into that, I want you to take pause, write that down and ask yourself, why are you saying that? Why are you saying that? Why does it intimidate you to learn how to think and learn how to view the world? Are you Too attached to your negative patterns of looking at the world with skepticism and hate and anger. I want you to really look at it because it's wrong. And there's a lot of really good people out there that can serve you by helping you to look at the world in a more aspirational, achievable way. Okay, I'm done speaking. I love it.

Challenging those naysayers.

Yeah, listen, I was a naysayer too, but then I started reading books in my twenties. I. I fell into the self help section. I don't know. I never knew these books existed because I didn't come from a family that I guess read these kind of books or went to these seminars or really bought into any of it. So I think I was Captain Naysayer. I might have been the chief operating officer of Captain Naysayer, but then I started reading these books. I remember finding a book. It was like, success is a choice. I think that was the title by Rick Patino. I don't know. I could be wrong. This was like 20 years ago. And I was like, oh, you, Success is a choice. I thought, like, people were just lucky. Like, I was always that. That was what I was taught. Oh, it's just lucky. They were born into it, and that was what I was taught. And then I fall into self help, and they're like, no, success is a choice. I'm like, I can make a decision to be wealthy. Well, let's go. Because I have made that decision. Now I need to figure out how do I. How do I make that all happen. So, yeah, I'm now the. I was the chief operating officer of Captain Naysayer Institute or whatever. I'll find something for that. But, yeah, I do want. Listen, I align with it so I can talk to it. I was that person. I'm not that person. And I'm always looking to. I'm always in the self development space and the personal development space, and I'm always learning and I'm always the dumbest person in any room. I put myself in rooms where I'm always surrounded by smarter, better, wiser people. Even with this podcast, you guys, you know, teach so much. And you're, you know, Amelia Antonetti is one of your clients. I mean, please. I mean, I worship her. I want to be her, for crying out loud. You guys are just rock stars. So, anyway, okay, I'll pass the mic back to you.

So, before we wrap up here today, Barbara, we want to ask you one final question. This is a question our listeners love hearing. So in a Couple words or a sentence or a phrase. What would you say is your definition of ownership?

My definition of ownership is knowing the difference between intrinsic and extrinsics and. Okay, hold on, pass the dumptrack here. Knowing the difference between that. What I mean by that is knowing what you can and cannot control, understanding that you cannot control so much, but you can control how you handle things. And that is ownership is owning your destiny. Not being like a victim, like, oh, my God, all these waves are crashing on me. But understanding that you can't control the waves, but you can learn how to surf. I am full of cliches today. I hope everyone's writing them down. I don't even know where they're falling out of, but it is so true of, like, that is my number one thing. Own your shiz. Own how you look at things. Take. Take stock of how you think and perceive your. The life around you and what is your attitude? Well, how do you. What do you think about things? Because you control very few things. You can control your attitude and your work ethic. That's it. Those are the. Everything else is more extrinsic and out of your control. And there's a really good book called Hillbilly Elegies, and it really does talk about these value systems in the Appalachian Mountains and how they just have been really ingrained in their culture to blame everything. Everything is external, and they're all victims. As opposed to when you start changing that paradigm of, like, how did I get here? Because you are. We are all exactly where we're supposed to be. We are all exactly where we're supposed to be through decisions that we have made consistently over time. Change the decisions that you make. Change will ultimately change the conditions and your outcomes in your life. So that is ownership. It's owning your chisels. I don't know if we're allowed to curse in this podcast, but you get what I'm putting down. I love it. Own your bullshit. Own your bullshit. Stop selling yourself. Bullshit. You're buying your bullshit. It's so bad. And I hear it all the time. I hear it all. And I sit there, I'm like, oh, yeah, victim. Listen, I was never even a victim when I got cancer. It's not like anybody came at me and was like, oh, here you do the. I just drew the. I drew this short stick, and all I could handle was how I handled cancer. And my kids were watching. I couldn't handle that. I. Look, I. There was nothing I could do. I had cancer. I had to do the Thing things to un. Cancerize myself. But it was all about how I handled it. Did I have my moments? Did I kick rocks? Hell, yeah. Did I take a knee? Hell, yeah, I handled it. Anybody could handle a shit diagnosis as cancer. Okay, I'm done cursing. I'll hand back the mic. And I am in New York City.

I love it. I love it. Barbara, where can people interact with you? Where can they find you? Where can they really? Besides the beautiful day of the Today show and Good morning, New York.

Well, let me say this. I feel that if people really do want to interact with me, I interact on Clubhouse a lot. I do find that if people go into my DMs and say, I'd love to join you in a room, I'll bring them up. I'll bring them up on one of my oops, I'm touching buttons in my car. I'm at a stoplight, everyone. So I'm not driving freewheeling. Clubhouse is so three dimensional. And that if you want to interact with me, ask questions, you got to find me on Clubhouse. I find Instagram is, you know, one dimensional. You can see me in pictures. But listen, I only put the good ones up there. I'm sorry, I'm not that cool to put, like, my morning, like, how I wake up, scare small children. Who does that? Not me. And in television, you can see and hear me. But I feel like if you really want to connect with me and you feel there's some way we can collab and work together or something, find me on. Find me on Clubhouse. Okay, I think I turned it off. I don't know. So. And just Google Barbara Majeski. I'm all over the. I'm all over the place. And if anybody, there's some fake accounts out there with me right now. And people are asking for bitcoin money. Let me tell you, that ain't Barbara Majeski. I don't know, Schmidt. Coin from bitcoin, from coin, coin. Deutsche coin from the coinorama down the street for your Laundromat. So that ain't me. So try to find me Barbara Majewski.

I love it. I love it. So, listeners, everybody out there, life's gonna throw you curve balls. Life's gonna take you to your knees, it's gonna make you kick rocks. But we don't have to stay there, and we don't have to make decisions there. So find that inner voice. Find your inner Steven. What is it that's gonna make you get up? We all have it inside of us. It's just a matter of taking time and taking a pause to identify it. So you can go from that negative, nay, saying individual to the curator of a good life that you can ultimately live with purpose, style and adventure and know the difference between what is in your control or what's out of your control. Because what do we always say? Success is different, so be different and own it.