Help Me Fulfill Jeanne's Last Wish
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My mother Jeanne M. Venuti passed away on March, 11th, 2019 in Auburn Maine after a 16 year battle with multiple terminal illnesses.
When she was still with us, we had numerous conversations about a dream she had to help people suffering from the illnesses she was suffering with herself. That was my mom, always wanting to help others, even when she herself, was in need of the same help. She was such a caring and generous person with a warm heart, and radiant soul.
She was a nursing assistant for 35 years, and she loved helping people. Along with her love for helping others, she also loved her three children more than anything in the world. When I was ages 3-11 I remember her working 80+ hours per week to support me, and my older brother, older sister, and our house as a single parent.
She never got the chance to fulfill her dream of helping others who were suffering from the same illnesses that took her from us at the age of only 61. I, as her son, want to help fulfill her wish to see this dream become reality. But, I need your help.
Allow me to share more about my mother's life, based on everything she told me while she was still with us. I think it will help you understand why her dream is so important, and also why we feel we can only make it a reality with your help.
My Mother's Early Childhood:
She always told me she had the best parents in the world. She loved them dearly, as they loved her. However, she said because she was the youngest of 7 children, she always felt like she was alone since her older siblings didn't want to hang out with the baby of the family much. To add to this feeling of sadness, she felt she was bullied often in school for being overweight, and needing to wear eye glasses.
My mom in the third grade: (before she needed glasses)
My Mother's Teen Years:
She would tell me stories of hanging out with her older sisters, and having a blast with them at Canobie Lake Park in Salem, NH. However, she also told me that as she entered her teenage years, sexual abuse became a problem from the same type of people that would bully her in school when she was younger. The bullying got worse. So even though my mom kept a smile on her face, and did her best to enjoy life, she carried a dark cloud with her because of the bullying and abuse she experienced her entire time in school, until she ultimately ended up dropping out in the 9th grade.
My Mother's 20's:
She was married twice. To my brother and sister's father, and to my father. She told stories of being cheated on, lied to, and being subjected to mental, emotional, and physical abuse on a regular basis which lead to both marriages ending in divorce.
With two young children to care for, she worked full-time as a nursing assistant, which she starting doing when she was just 16 years old. She didn't have a car, so she would walk to and from work, and walk to get groceries, and do laundry, even in the harsh New England winters.
Something I always admired in her was how she managed to laugh and smile, no matter what she was going through, and no matter how hard things were. She was the strongest woman I ever knew.
(She's the one on the far right, pictured below...)
My Mother's 30's:
She had her third child (me). She was married one more time, which also ended in divorce due to mental and emotional abuse. She worked 80+ hours per week as a nursing assistant. She would have to commute a total of two hours per day and work 16 hours per day. She rarely had a good night's sleep, but still managed to take excellent care of her three growing children.
Toward the end of her 30's we lost our house, and had to move into a single wide trailer with my grandparents. She continued to work full-time, but became very depressed, and her quality of life declined.
My Mothers 40's:
I'll never forget the day when my mom broke down crying because the doctor had just called and told her that she tested positive for TWO terminal diseases. Liver cancer nearly took her life in this decade of her life, and her overall health continued to decline year after year.
My Mother's 50's:
Both of her parents, and one of her sister's passed away. Mom's depression became worse. She was on a long list of medications that were keeping her alive at a very base level quality of life.
She was diagnosed with lung cancer, and had to have the upper third of her right lung removed through surgery. Part of this surgery which required a tube to be placed in her throat damaged her vocal cords, which took 95% of her voice away, which she never fully recovered from.
Still through all of this pain and suffering, my mom continued to smile and laugh, and live the best she possibly could.
She loved the beach! (pictured above)
She loved cats! (with her kitty "Smudge" pictured above)
She loved Yanni! (holding his book pictured above)
She loved Cirque Du Soleil! (before the show in 2014 pictured above)
That Was My Mom...
Never showing her pain or suffering, and never asking anyone for help.
I am glad we got to spend the time we did, and that she shared so much love. I miss her more with each passing day.
My Mother's 60's:
My mom only made it 6 months into her 61'st year. In her last 6 months of life, her body rapidly became weaker, her breathing became a struggle, and simply hanging out with family and having conversations for a few hours would make her physically exhausted.
During her final 6 months with us, she mentioned several times that “If I had the money, I would help in any way I could so that nobody ever has to deal with the pain I am going through now. I wouldn't wish this much pain on my worst enemy”.
One of her last wishes in her life was to help end the suffering of people who are going through the same health issues she battled for 16 years of her courageous life.
I took the picture above to show mom while she was in the ICU. She always told me this color comforted and relaxed her.
In the picture above, my older sister and I are comforting Mom just a few days before she passed in the hospice house in Auburn Maine.
Why I Need Your Help:
For the final 8 years of my mother's life, she lived with me. I served as her caregiver, and assisted her in every way I could to make her quality of life as comfortable and enjoyable as possible.
During the final 6 weeks of my mother's life, she lived with me and my fiance in our new home we purchased just 6 weeks before mom's passing.
I am an entrepreneur and am in the process of building a profitable online business, and our income took a $25,000 per year hit when mom passed away. One of my sources of income was from being her caregiver. Much of that income was being used to fund my business growth, which has now become much more difficult after losing $25,000 of yearly income overnight.
I need your help so I can do several things:
1) Get my current business back on track, so I don't end up going out of business and losing that income as well.
2) Create a new source of income to make up for the income we have lost.
3) Use the new income I create in my business to help my mom fulfill her dream of helping others who are suffering with the illnesses that took her life.
How The $50,000 Will Be Used:
1) The first $25,000 will be used to create new income for our family. It will help replace the $25,000 in annual income we recently lost.
We are a family of 5 with 3 children ages 11, 7, and 7. So, as you can imagine losing $25,000 in annual income is a huge hit for us, especially with the recent purchase of a new home.
2) The second $25,000 will be used to support the growth of my current business income source, so that not only will we be able to continue business operations as usual, but also be able to grow this business income.
Creating A New Income Source:
I have been involved in business networking for a little more than 7 years. In this time I have connected with many successful entrepreneur's, some of which earn 7 figures and even 8 figures per year in business.
I have connected with one person in particular who currently runs a multi-million dollar per year Amazon business. He has offered to lend his entire team to me and help me build a 6 figure Amazon business over the next 12-18 months. His fee for this service is $20,000 and I need an additional $5,000 to cover the initial cost of getting my store up and running ($25,000 total).
My business connection and his team are responsible for helping 100+ people just like me create 6 figure Amazon businesses using the exact same service he has offered me. This is how I am going to create a new source of income for my business, but I need your help to do it.
Supporting & Growing My Current Business Income:
In the 7 years I've been involved in business networking, I have developed skills in communication, lead generation, and sales. I have used these skills to create a successful online business training other's how to generate leads and sales for their businesses on social media.
This is the business that is in danger right now because losing $25,000 in annual income takes away about 90% of the cashflow that was making the early stages of growing this business possible.
I need your help to keep this business income source alive, and to continue growing it, so that we can get to a place financially to help mom fulfill her dream.
How You Are Helping When You Donate To This Fund:
1) You are helping a family of 5 with 3 small children recover from a $25,000 loss in yearly income.
2) You are helping me acquire the services of a multi-million dollar company to help me create a 6 figure Amazon business with a proven model that has already succeeded in doing so for 100+ entrepreneurs just like me.
3) You are helping me support my existing social media business growth. This will not only prevent this income source from going away, but it will also help me generate more income through this business over the next year.
4) You are helping me fulfill one of my mother's last wishes before she passed away. She always wanted to help support people who are suffering from the illnesses that took her life, and with your support, and the additional business income I will create over the next 12-18 months, we WILL be able to help mom realize her dream!
How Does This Help Jeanne Venuti (my mother) fulfill her dream?
The $50,000 we hope to raise will help create a 6 figure income through my Amazon business in the next 12-18 months. It will also help me save and grow my social media business well beyond the 6 figure mark.
I am prepared to commit 10% of ALL of my profits from every source of income from my business to several local and national organizations that support people impacted by Cancer, Diabetes, Abuse, Hunger, and a few other causes that my mother requested we not disclose publicly for her privacy.
My goal is to reduce and help prevent the suffering of millions of people who are being impacted by the pain associated with the illnesses that took my mother's life at the age of only 61 years. It is also to help support the millions of people in the US that are suffering from hunger, and/or any type of abuse my mother experienced in her life, that she told me she wants to help prevent so nobody else ever has to feel the pain she felt.
My Sincere Request To You:
I hope my mother's story has touched your heart in some way, and that you will find it in your heart to donate whatever you can to our cause. I have the right skills, the right information, and the right people supporting my goal, and I know we will succeed!
All that's missing right now is the funding to make it all a reality. Please help me recover from this massive loss of income, and help me aquire the services necessary to transform my business so I am in a place financially to help my mother fulfill her dream as she watches over me from heaven.
The only things my mother ever wished for...
1) For her children to be healthy, happy, and successful.
2) For nobody to have to suffer the way she did in the final years of her life.
How soon we need to raise these funds:
The goal is to reach $50,000 in total funding by June 1st 2019. This will make it possible to continue growing my current business, and begin building a 6 figure Amazon business with the services and personal help of a multi-million dollar Amazon business team. If we don't reach this goal in time, there's a high likelihood that my current business, and all of that income will go away due to lack of sufficient funding. And if I don't start building my new income with Amazon by then, I won't be able to replace the $25,000 in annual income we have lost, and be able to fulfill mom's last wish.
By helping me raise $50,000 to recover from a significant loss of income, and to support and grow my business income, I then will be able to fulfill one of my Mother's last wishes, by helping prevent or end the suffering of millions of people in my mother Jeanne M. Venuti's name.
Please donate whatever you can comfortably afford, and I will be eternally grateful. And if you can also share this GoFundMe page with others who may also want to contribute to this fund, that would be greatly appreciated as well. Thank You!
Sincerely,
James Godin
"Son Of The Greatest Mother Anyone Could Ever Wish For"
P.S. Please join my Donor Update List at www.LastWishForJeanne.com , so I can send you updates on our campaign progress.
I will share with you exactly how the funds are being used so you can see the positive impact your donation is having on my family, our business income, mom's wish being fulfilled, and of course the specifics of which organizations and people are being helped by our efforts, made possible by your generous support.
When she was still with us, we had numerous conversations about a dream she had to help people suffering from the illnesses she was suffering with herself. That was my mom, always wanting to help others, even when she herself, was in need of the same help. She was such a caring and generous person with a warm heart, and radiant soul.
She was a nursing assistant for 35 years, and she loved helping people. Along with her love for helping others, she also loved her three children more than anything in the world. When I was ages 3-11 I remember her working 80+ hours per week to support me, and my older brother, older sister, and our house as a single parent.
She never got the chance to fulfill her dream of helping others who were suffering from the same illnesses that took her from us at the age of only 61. I, as her son, want to help fulfill her wish to see this dream become reality. But, I need your help.
Allow me to share more about my mother's life, based on everything she told me while she was still with us. I think it will help you understand why her dream is so important, and also why we feel we can only make it a reality with your help.
My Mother's Early Childhood:
She always told me she had the best parents in the world. She loved them dearly, as they loved her. However, she said because she was the youngest of 7 children, she always felt like she was alone since her older siblings didn't want to hang out with the baby of the family much. To add to this feeling of sadness, she felt she was bullied often in school for being overweight, and needing to wear eye glasses.
My mom in the third grade: (before she needed glasses)
My Mother's Teen Years:
She would tell me stories of hanging out with her older sisters, and having a blast with them at Canobie Lake Park in Salem, NH. However, she also told me that as she entered her teenage years, sexual abuse became a problem from the same type of people that would bully her in school when she was younger. The bullying got worse. So even though my mom kept a smile on her face, and did her best to enjoy life, she carried a dark cloud with her because of the bullying and abuse she experienced her entire time in school, until she ultimately ended up dropping out in the 9th grade.
My Mother's 20's:
She was married twice. To my brother and sister's father, and to my father. She told stories of being cheated on, lied to, and being subjected to mental, emotional, and physical abuse on a regular basis which lead to both marriages ending in divorce.
With two young children to care for, she worked full-time as a nursing assistant, which she starting doing when she was just 16 years old. She didn't have a car, so she would walk to and from work, and walk to get groceries, and do laundry, even in the harsh New England winters.
Something I always admired in her was how she managed to laugh and smile, no matter what she was going through, and no matter how hard things were. She was the strongest woman I ever knew.
(She's the one on the far right, pictured below...)
My Mother's 30's:
She had her third child (me). She was married one more time, which also ended in divorce due to mental and emotional abuse. She worked 80+ hours per week as a nursing assistant. She would have to commute a total of two hours per day and work 16 hours per day. She rarely had a good night's sleep, but still managed to take excellent care of her three growing children.
Toward the end of her 30's we lost our house, and had to move into a single wide trailer with my grandparents. She continued to work full-time, but became very depressed, and her quality of life declined.
My Mothers 40's:
I'll never forget the day when my mom broke down crying because the doctor had just called and told her that she tested positive for TWO terminal diseases. Liver cancer nearly took her life in this decade of her life, and her overall health continued to decline year after year.
My Mother's 50's:
Both of her parents, and one of her sister's passed away. Mom's depression became worse. She was on a long list of medications that were keeping her alive at a very base level quality of life.
She was diagnosed with lung cancer, and had to have the upper third of her right lung removed through surgery. Part of this surgery which required a tube to be placed in her throat damaged her vocal cords, which took 95% of her voice away, which she never fully recovered from.
Still through all of this pain and suffering, my mom continued to smile and laugh, and live the best she possibly could.
She loved the beach! (pictured above)
She loved cats! (with her kitty "Smudge" pictured above)
She loved Yanni! (holding his book pictured above)
She loved Cirque Du Soleil! (before the show in 2014 pictured above)
That Was My Mom...
Never showing her pain or suffering, and never asking anyone for help.
I am glad we got to spend the time we did, and that she shared so much love. I miss her more with each passing day.
My Mother's 60's:
My mom only made it 6 months into her 61'st year. In her last 6 months of life, her body rapidly became weaker, her breathing became a struggle, and simply hanging out with family and having conversations for a few hours would make her physically exhausted.
During her final 6 months with us, she mentioned several times that “If I had the money, I would help in any way I could so that nobody ever has to deal with the pain I am going through now. I wouldn't wish this much pain on my worst enemy”.
One of her last wishes in her life was to help end the suffering of people who are going through the same health issues she battled for 16 years of her courageous life.
I took the picture above to show mom while she was in the ICU. She always told me this color comforted and relaxed her.
In the picture above, my older sister and I are comforting Mom just a few days before she passed in the hospice house in Auburn Maine.
Why I Need Your Help:
For the final 8 years of my mother's life, she lived with me. I served as her caregiver, and assisted her in every way I could to make her quality of life as comfortable and enjoyable as possible.
During the final 6 weeks of my mother's life, she lived with me and my fiance in our new home we purchased just 6 weeks before mom's passing.
I am an entrepreneur and am in the process of building a profitable online business, and our income took a $25,000 per year hit when mom passed away. One of my sources of income was from being her caregiver. Much of that income was being used to fund my business growth, which has now become much more difficult after losing $25,000 of yearly income overnight.
I need your help so I can do several things:
1) Get my current business back on track, so I don't end up going out of business and losing that income as well.
2) Create a new source of income to make up for the income we have lost.
3) Use the new income I create in my business to help my mom fulfill her dream of helping others who are suffering with the illnesses that took her life.
How The $50,000 Will Be Used:
1) The first $25,000 will be used to create new income for our family. It will help replace the $25,000 in annual income we recently lost.
We are a family of 5 with 3 children ages 11, 7, and 7. So, as you can imagine losing $25,000 in annual income is a huge hit for us, especially with the recent purchase of a new home.
2) The second $25,000 will be used to support the growth of my current business income source, so that not only will we be able to continue business operations as usual, but also be able to grow this business income.
Creating A New Income Source:
I have been involved in business networking for a little more than 7 years. In this time I have connected with many successful entrepreneur's, some of which earn 7 figures and even 8 figures per year in business.
I have connected with one person in particular who currently runs a multi-million dollar per year Amazon business. He has offered to lend his entire team to me and help me build a 6 figure Amazon business over the next 12-18 months. His fee for this service is $20,000 and I need an additional $5,000 to cover the initial cost of getting my store up and running ($25,000 total).
My business connection and his team are responsible for helping 100+ people just like me create 6 figure Amazon businesses using the exact same service he has offered me. This is how I am going to create a new source of income for my business, but I need your help to do it.
Supporting & Growing My Current Business Income:
In the 7 years I've been involved in business networking, I have developed skills in communication, lead generation, and sales. I have used these skills to create a successful online business training other's how to generate leads and sales for their businesses on social media.
This is the business that is in danger right now because losing $25,000 in annual income takes away about 90% of the cashflow that was making the early stages of growing this business possible.
I need your help to keep this business income source alive, and to continue growing it, so that we can get to a place financially to help mom fulfill her dream.
How You Are Helping When You Donate To This Fund:
1) You are helping a family of 5 with 3 small children recover from a $25,000 loss in yearly income.
2) You are helping me acquire the services of a multi-million dollar company to help me create a 6 figure Amazon business with a proven model that has already succeeded in doing so for 100+ entrepreneurs just like me.
3) You are helping me support my existing social media business growth. This will not only prevent this income source from going away, but it will also help me generate more income through this business over the next year.
4) You are helping me fulfill one of my mother's last wishes before she passed away. She always wanted to help support people who are suffering from the illnesses that took her life, and with your support, and the additional business income I will create over the next 12-18 months, we WILL be able to help mom realize her dream!
How Does This Help Jeanne Venuti (my mother) fulfill her dream?
The $50,000 we hope to raise will help create a 6 figure income through my Amazon business in the next 12-18 months. It will also help me save and grow my social media business well beyond the 6 figure mark.
I am prepared to commit 10% of ALL of my profits from every source of income from my business to several local and national organizations that support people impacted by Cancer, Diabetes, Abuse, Hunger, and a few other causes that my mother requested we not disclose publicly for her privacy.
My goal is to reduce and help prevent the suffering of millions of people who are being impacted by the pain associated with the illnesses that took my mother's life at the age of only 61 years. It is also to help support the millions of people in the US that are suffering from hunger, and/or any type of abuse my mother experienced in her life, that she told me she wants to help prevent so nobody else ever has to feel the pain she felt.
My Sincere Request To You:
I hope my mother's story has touched your heart in some way, and that you will find it in your heart to donate whatever you can to our cause. I have the right skills, the right information, and the right people supporting my goal, and I know we will succeed!
All that's missing right now is the funding to make it all a reality. Please help me recover from this massive loss of income, and help me aquire the services necessary to transform my business so I am in a place financially to help my mother fulfill her dream as she watches over me from heaven.
The only things my mother ever wished for...
1) For her children to be healthy, happy, and successful.
2) For nobody to have to suffer the way she did in the final years of her life.
How soon we need to raise these funds:
The goal is to reach $50,000 in total funding by June 1st 2019. This will make it possible to continue growing my current business, and begin building a 6 figure Amazon business with the services and personal help of a multi-million dollar Amazon business team. If we don't reach this goal in time, there's a high likelihood that my current business, and all of that income will go away due to lack of sufficient funding. And if I don't start building my new income with Amazon by then, I won't be able to replace the $25,000 in annual income we have lost, and be able to fulfill mom's last wish.
By helping me raise $50,000 to recover from a significant loss of income, and to support and grow my business income, I then will be able to fulfill one of my Mother's last wishes, by helping prevent or end the suffering of millions of people in my mother Jeanne M. Venuti's name.
Please donate whatever you can comfortably afford, and I will be eternally grateful. And if you can also share this GoFundMe page with others who may also want to contribute to this fund, that would be greatly appreciated as well. Thank You!
Sincerely,
James Godin
"Son Of The Greatest Mother Anyone Could Ever Wish For"
P.S. Please join my Donor Update List at www.LastWishForJeanne.com , so I can send you updates on our campaign progress.
I will share with you exactly how the funds are being used so you can see the positive impact your donation is having on my family, our business income, mom's wish being fulfilled, and of course the specifics of which organizations and people are being helped by our efforts, made possible by your generous support.
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James Godin
Organizer
Lewiston, ME
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