I <3 Heartbeat.

// March 2nd, 2010 // A-freakn-men!!, Mai News


So far- my trip to Vietnam has been surreal. The food, the people…I can’t even stand it. Yesterday I spent time meeting the family of amazing people at the Heartbeat Vietnam headquarters, and learned all the stories of children who had been qualified to receive heart surgeries. Besides meeting the outstanding Robin King Austin who brought her vision to life by founding Heartbeat Vietnam, I met the incredible staff of talented people who put all the efforts forth to save these children. The most memorable part of my visit was seeing this wall of beautiful children, all with a sensational smile and a signature scar of life down the center of their chest. Mimi described to me the stories behind each of these children from various provinces around Vietnam, and how-thanks to each donor- these pictures are able to be rotated often to celebrate each heart surgery completed! With that, Robin blessed me with the greatest invite ever..to go TODAY to actually visit a young survivor who just recently received her heart surgery! I can’t even tell you how jittery my fingers are in typing this blog to head out on my way now to the hospital to see Hoa. Stay tuned for pictures of Hoa and I.. and thank you so much for joining me here to make things like this happen my friends.

9 Responses to “I <3 Heartbeat.”

  1. Emma says:
    March 2, 2010 at 3:05 pm

    You’re such an inspiration. Good on ya Jeannie :) x

  2. Jeanne says:
    March 3, 2010 at 6:33 am

    Saw you on the Style Channel and noticed we have the same name! I love your style. Do you have a twitter?

  3. jeannie says:
    March 5, 2010 at 12:13 pm

    Thanks Jeanne! I LOVE our name, but do you notice NOTHING ever comes with “Jeannie” on it? There’s Jenny, Jean, never Jeanne or Jeannie. Their loss.

    I do- it’s Jeanniemai. See u there!!

  4. Genina Bradley says:
    March 7, 2010 at 8:01 am

    Hey Jeannie,

    Long time no see Ms. Lady:). It’s so good to see you after so many years. We go back to your MAC days when you were my trainer.

    Congrats on your success. I’d like to catch up with you, I am in Southern Cali now.

    Safe Travels and enjoy yourself on vacation.
    Take care

  5. Flower says:
    March 10, 2010 at 5:37 pm

    WOW!! Your an inspiration to me every day!!!!!

  6. Danielle says:
    March 13, 2010 at 3:09 am

    Hi Jeannie, a blast from the past. You certainly haven’t changed much since high school. You can still brighten up any room you walk into with your smile. Just wanted to say congratulations on all the awesome stuff you are doing. A reminder for those of us back home that dreams do come true. : )

  7. jeannie says:
    March 13, 2010 at 8:50 am

    Danielle, thank you! Yes dreams DO come true, and if it weren’t for setting those goals, they’d never be able to come to life. I’m praying u set yours sky high love :)

  8. joe cornoyer says:
    August 24, 2010 at 10:49 pm

    Hi Jeannie i saw your show and i liked it.Your an amazing woman please e-mail me back Joe.

  9. jeannie says:
    August 25, 2010 at 3:20 am

    Hey Joe, thanks so much for watching. Your the bomb.com yo :)

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