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The Hard Truths of Helping: Unexpected Battles Revealed #shorts
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If I knew the fights, the donors, the betrayal I'd face, I'd never have started. But messages like these? That's the true reward. Your emergency is *their* emergency. #HelpingOthers #Empathy #NonprofitLife #UnexpectedChallenges #ValidateFeelings
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would know
if I would have known then what I know
now,
I could promise you I would never
have agreed to do it.
But, if you would have told me 11 years
ago, "These are the battles you're going
to have. This is you know, you're going
to have communities coming after you.
You're going to have donors pulling out
on you, threatening you, using money as
tools. You're going to have people that
you help stabbing you. You're going to
have people that you can't help being
angry that you can't cuz you can't If I
would have known all the negative pieces
emotionally, I would have never This is
where you ended up in this avenue.
>> No, I was planning on being rich in
finance. I was going to be the guy
giving money.
Like I started in the beginning, it is a
very lonely place. I'm not going to say
it's not. Yeah.
It's messages like the one I got. You
want to know the hisuk? It's from
messages like this. That's the hisuk.
Okay?
Being someplace and somebody coming over
that doesn't even know me,
never even spoke to me. The joke I say
in the office, "You know the number one
job working at Amudim is? To make me
look good."
How do you make me look good? By helping
people that need help. Wow. That's the
key. Also, let me ask you a question.
Yeah. How do you define an emergency?
Quickly.
A bleeding. Right. An ambulance, fire,
right?
>> Yeah.
You know, I tell the Amudim family how
we define an emergency? Mhm. Whatever
that person is calling us for.
That is absolutely
>> That is the emergency. To that person.
Now, we might have to prioritize which
emergency and how we're going to deal
with what.
But, the empathy that we give that
person that called
is the emergency.
Whether the person called because they
have a stubbed toe, or whether the
person called because somebody's on the
moon, I don't care. The emergency is
what that person's calling for.
And if there's one message that I I I I
I feel that I want to give over to
people and everything, it's that
message.
Don't minimize anybody else's pain and
suffering. You don't know what it is.
And you shouldn't know what it is, and I
don't wish
anything upon what I deal with or what I
see on anybody, on anybody.
But, if you hear something from
somebody,
validate them. Validate the feelings if
you don't want to validate the story.
Validate them.
Don't judge. Don't judge. You know what?
We don't want to We don't want people to
judge us. Why do we judge others, right?
Absolutely.