Amy Griffin
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222 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
Amy Griffin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Thank you so much. Thank you for that lovely, lovely introduction. It's sometimes hard to hear. And I'm really, really honored to be here and grateful that you're having this conversation with me.
And I just came to a place in my life where I realized that, you know, there's this idea that we think secrets keep us safe and really they keep us stuck. And I do, I have the most incredible life. I have a beautiful life. I've built a beautiful family and a career. I get to support these founders every day who I'm learning from and growing with on their teams. And it's been extraordinary.
And the thing I'm most grateful for is the friendships that I have in my life. But when I turned in the last few years to really recognize I'd built this life where I was supporting others in their journeys. And the time finally came where I recognized that it was time to tell my story. And I think one of the most interesting things about this process is that I started writing five years ago.
But this story is not a story that I was trying to tell anyone else. It was a story that I wanted myself to believe. So it was this idea that I had to get the words on the page for myself. And I never knew, I had no idea actually that anyone was ever going to see my words. I wrote this book for me. I wrote it first for me without knowing that it would ever be seen by another person.
And that simple step was... the greatest act of love for myself. And I look at it now, it was, it feels vulnerable. But in that vulnerability, I feel gratitude and power and grace. And I mean, all kinds of things. I feel all the feelings.
And I think the stories we have in our lives, that's the fabric of our lives. The stories of our lives are what make us who we are and the relationships that we have. The stories of our life are what our lives are built on.
And I realized that, you know, also in the work that I do, it's all about the stories of the brands that are being built and how they're being built and the stories behind the scenes. And I think... My intention when I sat down to write, I knew, first of all, my mother told me I was a writer. So you have to believe everything that your mother says.
And I think after I heard her say it enough times after I graduated from college, you're going to write a book, you're going to write a book, you're going to write a book. And she didn't know what was going to come out of that book. Isn't it amazing? Like a mother's intuition for my mother to say, I know you have this in you. I know you have this power within you.
She told me when I graduated from college, I should try out for TV shows when I got to New York City. I said, Mom, I don't know that that's my calling. But she knew that I was going to write a book. And I think that might have been somewhere in the back of my head. Really, I'm saying that for the first time now to think about that.
I have one of my best friends always made the joke that she was writing my novel in her head and writing chapters. my dearest friend, Rachel. But really when I sat down to write for the first time and I pulled out a journal and would write starting at four in the morning until the sun came up, it was this idea that when I put the words on the page, that I couldn't take them back.
They were my truth and they were my truth to myself. And I owe those words to myself.
You know, when those words were said, they were so hard as a mother because I thought I was doing and tried to do everything that a mother thinks they're supposed to do.
I think I can realize how important now the idea of doing for your children, like all the things we do for our children in their daily lives, from everything, from whatever it is, from packing the lunch, to signing the report card, to getting them to practice. Those are the doings.
We get, I know I can get so caught up in the daily lives of just getting them to and from places that sometimes the being and the being with them can get lost.
And I look back at that time and while those words were so hard for me to hear and actually so difficult for me to write, to even write, to write those words down, I realized what a gift, what a gift those words were that my daughter and my daughters could be a reflection to me to say, mom, you know, where are you? And I love you.
I want you to participate in our relationship in a way that maybe that I wasn't. And I think what's so powerful about that is she was seeing something and able to share with me, which meant we already had a relationship, a close relationship. but to call me out and say, mom, I want you to see me in a different way.
And I think that being so close to, I couldn't step outside of what had happened to me to actually really recognize why I had that wall up. And so, I mean, my children are my teachers, but in this moment, for sure.
Well, I think the MDMA piece is really interesting because one of the things I've worked really hard to make sure that I accept is the idea that the MDMA was only one very small part of what was going on in my life. And yet, I think it was very crucial in terms of the timing.
But I've worked really hard also, and I talk about that in the writing, the idea that in the timing, in the place where I'd gotten to in my life was a place where I thought, things were really lining up such that I was coming to a place of being able to be honest with myself about the memories.
And it's not to say that none of the memories weren't there, but the ability of my brain anyway, I am not a scientist in any way, shape, or form, but my individual story, I knew I had tucked the fabric of my life in the back of my brain in many instances, and pieces were starting to come forward. And then I would tuck it back in.
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