Today we’d like to introduce you to Jeff Marconette Jr..
Hi Jeff, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
January 7th, 2002. Ordinary days can produce extraordinary events and this seemed like just an ordinary day heading to lunch from high school. Sitting at a red light, changing my music, waiting to go when a friend behind me actually honked to tell me that I could go, so I looked up and noticed the light was green. I pulled forward without looking to either side. That was a big mistake that would change my life forever. I was hit by a lorry that ran the red light. From the initial hit, I was knocked unconscious, it broke my jaw, broke two ribs, punctured a lung, ruptured my spleen and the worst injury of all was a traumatic brain injury. The traumatic brain injury caused a lot of problems, I spent two and a half months in a coma from it. The doctors told my parents that they did not know if I would ever come out of the coma and even if I did, they didn’t know if I would know who they were.
Once I came out of the coma though, I had a long way to go just to survive, nobody thought that I would thrive. Once they knew that I would survive, I noticed that most people in the world live their lives in a coma every day. You might ask me what I’m talking about. I say people that do not try to live their purpose on this earth are living in a coma. If you don’t try to better yourself each and every day, you are living in a coma. Now it’s not the same kind of coma that I was in, but it is the coma of average. You see, I realized that we are all born great, we all have abilities inside us and we should not take any of them for granted. Therefore I challenge you to go through an entire day not on autopilot. Celebrate each day that you are alive. Live on purpose. Give all your attention to everything you do. Live each second like it is your last, because it very well might be.
I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle free, but so far would you say the journey have been a fairly smooth road?
Every journey is filled with hazards, it’s not a question of if, but when they will happen. It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to what happens that truly matters. I was supposed to attend a conference to learn to be a motivational speaker and I had to have an emergency appendectomy. Right after I met my speaking coach Dr. Ruben West and I found out I was going to be a co-author in a book, my mother passed away suddenly. I was supposed to be in Topeka, Kansas for my first-ever keynote speech at a bigtime event, I was supposed to be emceeing an event in Vegas, speaking at an event in Kansas City and speaking at an event in Kenya all over that summer and it was all canceled because of covid. Then I got covid. Then in February of 2021 I found out that the event in Kenya was rescheduled for June, was all excited to go to that, but in March I broke my wrist really bad. Had surgery for that. Found out they were having another event in Kenya in November, but it seemed everything was against me.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
You know, at the age of 17, I was involved in a near fatal car accident that left me in a coma for two and a half months, I was not supposed to walk again and now I help the rising generation see what they already have instead of looking at what they want all the time, so they can find happiness and joy in life instead of depression, stress and anxiety.
What are your plans for the future?
I am planning to go back to Kenya next year, I will be speaking virtually to an orphanage in Kenya this Saturday. Speaking in Kansas City in February. Hoping I get to speak at the event in Topeka, Kansas. I would really like to have a trip to a bunch of different states to speak at schools.
Contact Info:
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: www.jeffmarconettejr.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeffmarconettejr/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jefijr
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/c/jeffmarconettejr
