David Mandel, CEO of Ohel, shares his inspiring journey of waiting 24 years to have a child and discusses mental health challenges in the community.
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we went to a doctor many of the doctors in the field the Jewish we went to one particular person and um you know we have a conversation and um we're talking and we're talking and he never mentions statistics and it's like waiting because that's what everybody does so finally we say to him so what are the chances and he says what do you mean I see that you know you know you know I see that you know you know you know how old my wife is and how old I am and every single doctor poses statistics what are the statistics and he said 100 percent we said what do you mean he said if God wants you to have a baby you have 100 chance of having a baby if God doesn't want you to have a baby you have a zero percent chance of having a baby welcome back to another episode of inspiration for the nation I'm Jaco Langer and this week I spoke to one of the most passionate people I've ever met he's the CEO of ol oil is one of the most important powerful what they do most important powerful what they do it's so powerful work in Claudia Australia hear all about them literally too much to talk about but like everything to do with mental health and helping people get by on a real real scale life and death scale it's it's tremendous what they do but the person we talk to how who he is and how he's shaped to be who he is is incredible and obviously one of the most moving parts of this episode is him talking about uh him and his wife waiting 24 years for their
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