You have to believe in abundance. Believe that you have more to give and by doing so more will come into your life. It’s the law of the universe. Like attracts like.

In life the more you give, the more you receive. It’s simple to say, not always as easy to do because life comes at you hard and fast. But if you can slow it down, peel away your outer layers and open your heart, then others win.

An abundant heart will have quite a story to tell.

Everyone has a story.

I am Mark Brodinsky and this is Storytelling for Nonprofits.

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Storytelling for Nonprofits: Perfect Match

Some of us have a song in our hearts, others can actually carry a tune. Nicolette Thompson can do both. She’s a professional singer and shares songs of love and hope – but her first love is her work – at HealthCare Access Maryland.

“One of my greatest accomplishments in life is to be of service,” says Nicolette. “Before I joined HCAM I was kind of in a place where I had a hard time getting stable. I had lots of challenges with different jobs. But since I joined HCAM I’m in a place where I can provide meaningful service and I am so happy with my work.”

For a long time, happiness was a fleeting thought for Nicolette.

“I can identify with many of the people I serve at HCAM,” says Nicolette. “I’m originally from South Africa and grew up with my aunt and my family, kind of like a kinship foster program. My mom was not around, nor was my biological father. I can empathize with the foster kids here in Maryland, experiencing those feelings of rejection, of not really belonging. I grew up with a lot of negativity spoken to me, that I would never amount to anything, that I was stupid and worth nothing. I feel like it crushed me and it took a long time to start believing in myself. But over the years my confidence grew and now I say I can do all things if I just believe in me.”

A big part of Nicolette’s confidence is from overcoming the struggle of her youth, finding her voice in the church and the opportunity to come to America. It’s been nearly two decades since a pastor from Colorado was visiting South Africa, saw the work Nicolette was doing to help young adults in the church, heard her sing and decided to make arrangements for her to come to the US.

Yet even that process was a struggle.

“I got a letter officially inviting me to come to the U.S. to work with young people at the church,” she says. “I went to the immigration office and the interviewer asked me questions like, ‘do you have a house, a husband, children…?’, “my answers were ‘no’, so he said you can’t go, shut the window and walked away. I was speechless. I couldn’t or wouldn’t talk to anyone for a long time. I went home and pulled the covers over my head and said, ‘I’m not going.’ But after hearing what happened, the pastor got me another interview. This one was completely different. The female interviewer talked to me like a person and they eventually got me over here on a student visa.”

At age 25, Nicolette arrived in America, was taken in by a family in Colorado, attended college, graduated from Pueblo Community College. While on a visit to Baltimore she also met and fell in love with a man named PJ, the two worked a long-distance relationship, until Nicolette eventually made her way to Maryland.

 

Now she works as a care coordinator for the Match Program at HealthCare Access Maryland. Nicolette and her team provide care coordination with caregivers and the Department of Social Services, to make sure that the clients-in-need, especially children, get to their important medical appointments, help handle issues with medical assistance and more.

HCAM is a nonprofit agency that connects residents to public health care coverage and helps them navigate services, including people experiencing homelessness. They also focus on the needs of pregnant and postpartum women, youth in foster care, people with substance abuse, individuals recently released from jail, and others. Each year the nonprofit also connects more than 145,000 uninsured and under-insured clients to health insurance, healthcare, and vital community resources – resources that are critically vital to the existence of the communities they serve. (http://www.healthcareaccessmaryland.org/)

“We work with the caregivers to make sure these children get the care they deserve,” says Nicolette. “Families get frustrated with caregivers not hearing them out, or have trouble finding someone to listen to their concerns. Too many professional and service providers just put a band-aid on the situation. I like the whole problem-solving process. Someone calls me and says ‘I have this issue, I don’t know what to do.’ ” I tell them if I can’t help them I will direct them to someone who can. I do the job with a smile on my face because you don’t know what the person on the other side of the phone is going through. But making sure all the children are healthy, that’s the mission.”

Nicolette says what she and so many at HCAM strive to do is to go above and beyond. (http://www.healthcareaccessmaryland.org/working-at-hcam/career-opportunties-at-hcam/)

“I had this one woman call me and when she initially started talking she was very angry. She was screaming and shouting and I just went quiet. I let her vent and she went off… I stayed quiet and she finally said, ‘hello, are you still there?’  “I said yes, I’m just letting you speak. I want you to know I heard everything you said and I want to ask you how I can help you, so we can fix this issue. The woman was just frustrated with the whole situation. I said I understand what’s going on with your daughter and I will help to make sure she and your grandchildren are taken care of. I wrote down everything the woman said she had problems with. After I hung up, two minutes later my phone rang and the woman says, ‘I just wanted to call back and apologize. I didn’t mean to scream at you because you are not the cause of the issues.’ “I told her that’s why we are here, to serve you. I can certainly take five minutes out of my day to bless you and make sure you are OK. I ended up helping them and stayed in touch to make sure what we were doing is what she needed and to coordinate it all with social services.”

It’s not only the clients Nicolette enjoys helping, it’s also the people she is surrounded by every day, her co-workers and those on her team who Nicolette says make HCAM such a great place to serve. “Oh my goodness, they are a lovely bunch of people,” says Nicolette. “It’s a pleasure to work with everyone. They are serious, they are motivated to serve and come in every day do the work that’s necessary to make sure these children are well-cared for. It’s not easy. Some are moderate cases, some are high-risk children with a lot of medical issues. Some workers have to deal with children getting procedures in the hospital. It can get very emotional because you are working with the families and providing care for the children and sometimes it’s hard to separate yourself from that. I feel like if I have a case, then this is my child too.”

Nicolette credits her director Kim Floyd for helping her to get to the position she currently holds. Nicolette has been at HCAM for six years now and says it was Kim who encouraged her to do more. “I used to be an entrance coordinator,” says Nicolette. “When I expressed interest in the care coordination team, Kim told me to ‘go for it.’ “She really motivated me and it happened!”

And it’s all happening for Nicolette in a big way.  She thinks big, works hard and has a powerful voice, not just at her job, but in the church as well, singing at the Abundant Life Kingdom Ministries in Jessup, Maryland.

“Our mission is to make Maryland healthy, just like the children we serve in foster care,” says Nicolette. “What I do adds value to the agency and my strength comes from everything that I have endured and overcome through the years. Serving others makes me a better person and I am glad that I am part of HealthCare Access Maryland which allows me to do that.

If I can encourage anyone out there, just because someone tells you something doesn’t mean that’s who you are. You can do anything. As a man thinks, so he is. You deserve everything good. I deserve it, you deserve it. Some people feel they don’t. That’s not the truth. If I didn’t have the courage to say I want to be here, I wouldn’t have made it. You should love yourself… and you should dream.”

Until next time, thanks for taking the time.

Your Storyteller,
Mark Brodinsky

Want a career with HCAM?  http://www.healthcareaccessmaryland.org/working-at-hcam/career-opportunties-at-hcam/

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The purest example of love is to give, to sacrifice, to help another in need. We all want to do it, some simply have found their calling, an inspiration and motivation to dig deep and give what they’ve got, because what you’ve got is so much more than you know.

Enrich another’s life and watch what happens, it’s exhilarating to see the change and the charge you helped ignite, take hold. To see someone else’s life return from darkness is to shine a bright light which reflects back onto your own.

It’s this spirit of soulful giving which weaves a great story.

Everyone has a story.

I am Mark Brodinsky and this is Storytelling for Nonprofits.

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Storytelling for Nonprofits: Never Give Up

“You can’t have compassion without suffering. You can’t help others if you haven’t felt helpless. I chose to leave my past behind. I decided my future was more important than holding on, saying ‘why me?, why me?… No! No! I say Try Me!” – Anonymous Fighter

There is no substitute for shelter, a warm place to rest your head, the comfort of home. Just ask Jason Bess, for much too long he was down-and-out. Mostly out – with no place to call home.

“I was homeless,” says Jason. “I was once on the opposite side of the seat I sit in now. I was a client. It was a bad turn of events. My hours at work got cut tremendously at a job where I was working and I couldn’t maintain my bills. I fell behind on my rent and my lease was up. I was evicted, living on the street on-and-off for four years.”

For Jason, thoughts of his three little girls helped him to survive mentally, but he says it was Health Care Access Maryland that saved him.

You can certainly help another once you’ve walked a mile in their shoes. Jason has walked hundreds of miles along the same scary and dangerous path many who come to HCAM experience, the path of homelessness.

HCAM is a nonprofit agency that connects residents to public health care coverage and helps them navigate services, including people experiencing homelessness. They also focus on the needs of pregnant and postpartum women, youth in foster care, people with substance abuse, individuals recently released from jail, and others. Each year the nonprofit also connects more than 145,000 uninsured and under-insured clients to health insurance, healthcare, and vital community resources – resources that are critically vital to the existence of the communities they serve. (http://www.healthcareaccessmaryland.org/)

Jason is all about serving and sees this same motivation in those he works with at HCAM. “I’m genuine to the core and I love helping people,” says Jason. “These people here also love and care about helping people and that translates into their work and I’m living proof that this organization works for somebody like me. It’s strange you see those commercials where they say, ‘I’m a client’, and I am one of those people now.”

It didn’t happen overnight. Just like those he serves, Jason’s journey of homelessness was long and frightening.

“It was crazy, those four years,” Jason says. “There were a few months where work was available for me to obtain it. But I could never make enough to pay rent, or even get approval for an apartment. In order to get sleep, especially in the winter, I would find apartment buildings and go down in the laundry rooms. I would go in as late as possible so no one would find me and try to get some sleep. The jobs, when I had them, were early morning, so I was having to get up extremely early and move around undetected. I would never go to sleep on the street. My mind wouldn’t let me – I just couldn’t be out like that in the wide open at anytime. When I was in those situations sleep was not even in the picture.”

Jason continues, “I have three daughters and even though I still had to jump from one place to the next and work-on-and-off I still managed to make enough money to pay for things they needed, even though I couldn’t afford to pay rent for me. I was still taking them out and keeping it as close to normal as possible. They are girls and they have to look up to their daddy. What you show them will unconsciously affect them, so I had to keep fighting. They were my reason.”

In his battle to survive Jason also dealt with the severe stigma of homelessness. “You end up in fights with people,” Jason says. “More-or-less people try to take advantage of you. Because of your situation they try to disrespect you…and not think you are human. There were a couple of encounters.”

In September of 2016, one of those encounters nearly ended Jason’s life. It started as a verbal altercation, but escalated into a physical attack. Jason was stabbed in the stomach and ended up hospitalized for nearly a month. He says the outside wounds have healed, but some internal issues, including removal of some organs, continue to plague him.

“It’s OK though,” says Jason. “I’m a strong guy, I’m going to make it.”

And since the beginning of this year, Jason is making it happen for others in similar situations. Once a client, Jason is now a compassionate and empathetic employee of Health Care Access Maryland. “I work in peer support, as an outreach specialist,” says Jason. “I go out actively seeking people in need. I engage with clients out in the field, informing them of all the services we have and can provide for them. They are seeking help and want to get out of the situation they are in – housing issues, drug treatment needs, we try to get whatever they need – even down to finding a pair of socks or shoes for someone. Whatever we can do to help them and get them signed up for the program.”

Having lived it first-hand, Jason knows all about the program and the process. He credits Shannon Nicholson, whom he had actually met at a previous job, for telling him about HCAM and saving him. “While I was homeless I happened to see Shannon downtown one day,” says Jason, “and since I knew her from my past I started talking with her and let her know things weren’t going so well. She told me about the HCAM program and what she was doing. It was more comfortable for me to talk with her about my situation, even though it wasn’t always cool to talk about that stuff, but I quickly learned Shannon was not part of my problem, she was part of my solution. I went to the office and they helped me out. The process took about four months, but they found me shelter as fast as they could. They definitely walk with you hand-in-hand through the process.”

Now, with a roof over his head and a place for his daughters to come every weekend, the story has been re-written for Jason, though he was the one who grabbed the pen and started to write a new chapter in his life. Now he’s the one also reaping the rewards of his work.

“The reward of seeing someone, after first talking to them and getting them out of an area and into a better place, that’s a feeling that is kind of hard to put into words,” says Jason. “It makes you feel like your work isn’t work. You love what you are doing. It’s not a job, you are helping somebody. It’s not even because I was in that position, I would feel this way just because I am empathetic. You never know what the next day might hold, so you want to help somebody, you need to help them. To see people, my co-workers, also fighting like that for this organization, is a beautiful thing to see.” (http://www.healthcareaccessmaryland.org/working-at-hcam/career-opportunties-at-hcam/)

His experience and now his new work with HCAM has and is teaching him much about life and a new and brighter outlook on how to fight for what you want.

“What’s most important is determination,” says Jason. “I was in that situation and it wasn’t a good situation, it was real ugly, but for the reasons of my daughters and wanting better for myself, I was determined not to be average. I’m out there homeless, I wanted to work, to not let my situation control me. Yes, it was a bad hand I was dealt, but who am I going to complain to, if it’s going to happen I gotta make it happen. I thought, I can sit here and be upset, cry and moan, but I knew I had to fight, I had to do something. With the determination and will to want better for yourself and those you love, you can make it. My daughters, my reasons, mean everything to me. There were plenty of days I looked at pictures of them and said, ‘I’m gonna make it for you.’ You’ve got to grab on to it, whatever helps you keep going. As long as you are fighting you’ve got a shot. The minute you give up, you are done.”

 

Never give up.

Until next time, thanks for taking the time.

Your Storyteller,
Mark Brodinsky

Want a career with HCAM?  http://www.healthcareaccessmaryland.org/working-at-hcam/career-opportunties-at-hcam/

To make a donation, visit: https://healthcareaccessmaryland.mypaysimple.com/s/donate-now

 

 

 

Peel back the curtain and peek inside, there you will see the true essence of a person. We all are empowered with a bright light. For some that light shines brighter, but for only one reason…instead of keeping it locked inside, they give it permission to glow.

Behind every great cause and every great person exists that light. If you want to change the world, than you have no choice but to let your light shine.

Your shine is your story.

Everybody has a story.

I am Mark Brodinsky and this is Storytelling for Nonprofits.

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Storytelling for Nonprofits: I’ve Been There

“I treat people the way they want to be treated, with respect. You never know when you might be sitting on the other side.”
– V. Jackson

Vernetia Jackson has been there. She’s worked through her challenges and come out on the other side. Because of her experiences, her story is a powerful one to share with those who come through the doors of Health Care Access Maryland. Once you’ve walked a mile in someone else’s shoes, you can feel the footprints and the sometimes painful steps.

Deep empathy comes from shared experience.

For fifteen years Vernetia says she experienced and battled the demons of drug addiction. Despite being, as she describes, “a functioning addict”, it affected everything in her life, including participation in her happy place, the church.

“Toward the end of my drug use I was starting to black out,” says Vernetia. “I was raised in the church, but the drug life kept me in and out. Life was a revolving door. The drug use affected everything I did. Finally, I got tired, I got scared and realized I wasn’t ready to lose my life.  I asked God for help and he took it away from me. I promised I would never do it again. My faith and strength in Christ saved me. It was gone in an instant.”

That instant was more than 13 years ago.

A few years later, clean, sober and back in the swing of life, Vernetia found her way to Heath Care Access Maryland. HCAM is a nonprofit agency that connects residents to public health care coverage and helps them navigate services effectively.  The programs are designed to bridge gaps in services to pregnant and postpartum women, immigrants, people experiencing homelessness, youth in foster care, people with substance use disorders, individuals recently released from jail, and others. Each year the nonprofit also connects more than 145,000 uninsured and under-insured clients to health insurance, health care, and vital community resources. (http://www.healthcareaccessmaryland.org/)

Vernetia says she serves front and center in the Eligibility Division. “I’m basically on the front lines,” says Vernetia. “But in a positive way. I help consumers fill out applications, verify documentation for proof of income and identity and make sure they are applicable for the program. I love helping people. I love that we can take the edge off for people who are trying to get their medical needs met. I’ll say it again, I just love helping people.”

“A lot of my clients open up to me, not sure if it’s me or my aura. Sometimes they not only ask for help, they ask for prayer. I look at my clients as if I was in their shoes. I look at them with dignity, respect and professionalism. I know it’s already hard to make the decision to come here. They are anxious, many have lost insurance and worried about their children and their future. It makes me feel good to take care of their needs and get the situation resolved as soon as possible. They leave me relieved of their burden and know they’ve had it taken care of from a friendly person.”

Friendliness, love and compassion are not only what Vernetia says she gives to her clients, but she says it’s also at the heart of those who work for HCAM.

“I love, love, love my co-workers,” says Vernetia. “We are a family and they show me that every day. Back in November I had a mini-stroke while I was at work. I didn’t notice it, but my team members noticed the difference in me and showed me their love and concern. They got me to the hospital in time, someone even went in the ambulance with me and then waited for my family members to arrive at the hospital.”

When Vernetia lost her mom a few months ago her HCAM “family” was there as well to support her every step of the way. She says it is always a welcoming atmosphere and a good place to be employed. (http://www.healthcareaccessmaryland.org/working-at-hcam/)

“Every person seems to enjoy working here as much as I do,” says Vernetia. “It’s not as strenuous a job as most people think. They give you space to do your work, which helps you to get your daily duties completed. They don’t hover over you, which gives you pleasure doing what you do. It’s a great company to work for with great benefits. If you do what you are supposed to do, then everybody gets along. There is no micro-management and that helps a whole lot.”

That spirit of helping and serving is what Vernetia tries to impart to all she meets.

“There is a case that sticks with me,” says Vernetia. “I had a young lady come in with her son and she was just so distraught. The lady had lost a high-paying job. It was the first time she had to seek outside assistance for funding, while at the same time her son was trying to overcome a drug addiction. I was able to relax her mind and let her know she was actually eligible for the program. I explained everything and her son and I talked as well. He opened up to me and I shared my own story of addiction and how I was able to overcome. His mom said she felt better knowing she could get healthcare, but was still wondering what she was going to do with her life. They came back to me later on and told me they were doing well. She was not in a good place at all when she came to HCAM, but I truly believe it was God who brought them to me to assist them. She is now in a happy place.”

Happiness is what Vernetia wants for herself, her family and her work. You get what you give. Vernetia is focused on bringing the good into other people’s lives, despite the obstacles. “No matter the difficulty or adversity that comes into your life you can overcome,” says Vernetia. You can get to that happy place in your life, become more productive and become more successful. Some things just take time, but you must keep pushing and believing in yourself and in your higher being.

And what about the future for Vernetia? “I’ll be 53 this year,” she says. “My future goal is I plan to retire from HCAM. Right now I’m happy where I am, but I plan to eventually move up the ladder. I love it here. I’m not going anywhere. This is where I’m going to be.”

And why not, Vernetia has already experienced life on the other side. She’s been there and knows that here is a happier place to be.

Until next time, thanks for taking the time.

Your Storyteller,
Mark Brodinsky

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Want a career with HCAM?  http://www.healthcareaccessmaryland.org/working-at-hcam/career-opportunties-at-hcam/

To make a donation, visit: https://healthcareaccessmaryland.mypaysimple.com/s/donate-now

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We are all here to make a difference. So how cool is it when what you want, what you desire, and what you have to give, align with what you do for a living?

The essence of life is growth and if you can take your essence and put it into your work, work that changes other lives, then the world wins. When what we do, what we say and how we act are all in alignment, we radiate authenticity.

So when your mission amplifies the music of your heart, a symphony is born.  Those melodic sounds echo into the narrative that becomes your story.

Everyone has a story.

I am Mark Brodinsky and this is Storytelling for Nonprofits.

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Storytelling for Nonprofits: The Place for Me

“It is not just a customer-service job, it is a difference-making job!” – W. Franklin

Westley Franklin speaks those words with heart and conviction, he loves himself which translates into the love he has for others, and it shows in the work he produces.

Work that changes lives.

“One of the things that drew me to HealthCare Access Maryland is they offered the type of work I love,” says Westley. “I was looking to do something that helps people, to assist them in a meaningful, effective and impactful way. I never want to have the attitude to just do my eight hours and go home. I want to enjoy what I was doing and assist in making a difference.”

Westley knows it’s about caring and hope. He works in the care coordination department for Health Care Access Maryland. HCAM is a nonprofit agency that connects residents to public health care coverage and helps them navigate services effectively.  The programs are designed to bridge gaps in services to pregnant and postpartum women, immigrants, people experiencing homelessness, youth in foster care, people with substance use disorders, individuals recently released from jail, and others. Each year the nonprofit also connects more than 145,000 uninsured and under-insured clients to health insurance, health care, and vital community resources. (http://www.healthcareaccessmaryland.org/)

Once a client is connected to Medicaid, that’s where Westley and his department step in, to provide outreach and make sure the client is maximizing their Medicaid coverage. Westley and his team also receive referrals from healthcare providers, when they need help. For example if they lose contact with a client who may have moved, or simply cannot be located.

“If we can reach these people we will try to find the barrier in the relationship with their primary care provider. It could be lack of transportation, or not being educated on the proper use of their healthcare. In most cases once we receive a referral we try to reach the client by phone at least two times, and if they can’t be reached, we go to the last known address. If we don’t get an answer there we at least leave a door hanger, telling the person to contact us. Even if it looks the person is no longer living there. It’s our procedure, but also our commitment.”

Sometimes, actually most times, commitment pays off and changes lives, including your own.

Westley says he had a recent case where he was contacted because a medical provider had lost contact with an HCAM client. Westley says he called the woman and then he visited the home, but when he got to the address it appeared to be an abandoned building. Still, he left the door hanger.

Westley picks up the story from here: “So a few days pass and I receive a phone call… and it’s the woman contacting me from the information I left – and to make a long story short this woman was living in the abandoned building, so I came back to the location and spoke with her. She was basically squatting in the house, no lights, no running water, the living conditions were not habitable. It was sad. The woman had a bad hip, she had a cane, but was supposed to have a walker. There were also multiple medications needed, related to different illnesses. It just goes to show you that without the proper education how people will just deal with things… and deal with them alone.”

“I was able to put the woman in touch with the medical provider, and I contacted our homeless services for assistance with housing, to help the woman find shelter. That’s another awesome thing about HCAM, having the ability to reach out to another department for help. Even though we have different departments we can operate as one team. This is the first organization I’ve ever seen or worked for where everything is under one roof, or within one operation. We can help people apply for healthcare, do care coordination, we have an eligibility department, behavioral health, addiction help, help for the homeless, a department that assists with foster care… all coming from the same organization. That is why I can say it is impactful and fulfilling for a person when they go home from HCAM and can say ‘I did something today that changed somebody’s life forever, or set them on a different journey.'”

Westley’s own journey has mostly been a positive one. “I was born and raised in Baltimore,” says Westley. “My childhood was a fun childhood. I remember the city well and went to school here. When I was a kid it was definitely a different type of city. I can remember an environment where the adults were more neighborly. They looked out for each other and they looked out for the children as if they were all part of their own family. There was a big emphasis on respect, honor and definitely more resources available for a young child growing up then there are now. After high school I had different retail jobs and different odds-and-ends jobs.  I found that I was always working somewhere in customer service, always in service to someone, helping someone. But there is a big difference in helping a person in retail and helping someone now. How I assist people now is life-changing and personally fulfilling.”

While HCAM is currently at the core of Westley’s heart when it come to making a difference he is also, as a single father, focusing on his children and their healthy development. “I have two children, my boy is 14, my girl is 17,” says Westley. “My son is into computer technology and into music. He plays several instruments, including percussion and clarinet. My daughter wants to be an exterior and interior designer and may go into real estate. I make it a point to protect their innocence, keep them focused on their goals of success, put them it the best position to be able to succeed and make sure they understand the importance of maintaining great character and high integrity.”

Living with integrity and following your passion are what direct Westley’s internal compass. “I’m a man of gratitude,” he says. “And I never lose sight on what I have to be grateful for. I personally feed and build rapport with homeless people I come across in my travels. I’ve seen the effects of what drugs have done to communities of Baltimore. The by-products of this contributes to a lot of circumstances that create barriers in people lives. So when I saw there was a chance to help and assist, removing barriers that hinder people lives through HCAM, it was a perfect fit.”

Westley strives to be a leader and is looking for continued growth to maximize every opportunity that is presented. “There is no cap on information and knowledge and I love to learn and I’m the type of person who will forever be learning,” he says. “I read many books, books on history, motivational books… right now there are several books I’m reading, one is called Propaganda by Edward Bernays. I’m in between that book and a book by Joseph Campbell called The Hero’s Journey.” Westley says he also loves to read comic books, “my attraction to comics is that I love stories that personify attributes and aspects of life that are not tangible. Stories that deal with real-life situations with a little fantasy sprinkled in, as well as the battle between good and evil.”

Life itself can be a battle and we all need each other, especially when the chips are down. Sharing your heart helps and if you can do that through your work, then everyone wins. Westley says he knows he’s found a winner in HCAM: “My heart is into what I do and into the organization. I believe in the mission. I usually won’t work for a company if my heart isn’t in it, because I can’t give you my best effort. One of the things that drew me to HCAM is they offer the type of work I love. Once I saw what they did and went to interview with them, I definitely believed it was the place for me. And it has been, ever since.”

Until next time, thanks for taking the time.

Your Storyteller,
Mark Brodinsky

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Want a career with HCAM?  http://www.healthcareaccessmaryland.org/working-at-hcam/career-opportunties-at-hcam/

To make a donation, visit: http://www.healthcareaccessmaryland.org/

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