The Power of Your Story and Deciding to Tell It! You Are the Hero of Your Own Life with Amy Griffin
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How can your story empower you and others?
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What if I told you you are the hero of your own life? When you think about the journey of your life so far and how you have the power to decide how your story continues to unfold, would you say you're writing and casting yourself as the hero? Or do you feel like a background role still waiting to step into center stage and share your truth? Your story has so much power, power to inspire and power to heal both yourself and others. Our guest today, my amazing friend, and soon yours too, is a business mogul, founder of investment firm G9 Ventures, author and icon of female empowerment, Amy Griffin. Amy's brand new memoir, The Tell, explores how far we will go to protect ourselves and the healing made possible when we face our secrets and begin to share our stories. I have read this book cover to cover. It is so powerful. And let me tell you, it is going to inspire your own hero's journey in your life through Amy sharing hers.
For decades, Amy ran through the dirt roads of Amarillo, Texas, where she grew up, to the campus of the University of Virginia as a student athlete, on the streets of New York, where she built her adult life through marriage, motherhood, and a thriving career. She's a board member of many beloved companies, including Spanx and Bumble, and the founder of the investment firm G9 Ventures. Now, to outsiders, it all looks so perfect, but Amy was running from something, a secret that she was keeping not only from her family and friends, but unconsciously from herself. So began Amy's quest to solve a mystery trapped in the deep recesses of her own memory, a journey that would take her into the burgeoning field of psychedelic therapy to the limits of the judicial system and ultimately home to the Texas panhandle where her story began.
In her search for the truth to understand and begin to recover from buried childhood trauma, Amy interrogates the pursuit of perfectionism, control, and maintaining appearances that drive so many women, asking when in our path from girlhood to womanhood did we learn to look outside ourselves for validation? What kind of freedom is possible if we accept the whole story and embrace who we really are? With hope, heart, and relentless honesty, she points a way forward for all of us, revealing the power of radical truth telling to deepen our connections with others and ourselves. Amy Griffin, welcome to the Jamie Kern Lima Show. I'm so happy to be here.
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.
You're so happy to come visit. Oh my gosh. I'm happy. And you and I were like, our eyes are watering up for every person who's going to share this conversation with us. Who's listening, who's watching right now. There are so many people who have a story to tell and they haven't told it. They have a book to write. They haven't written it. What is so inspiring about this conversation we're gonna have is I know every person listening is gonna like literally speak to their soul on their own hero's journey in their life. Amy, you grew up in Amarillo, Texas. You were a student athlete at University of Virginia. You built a life that most people say is what fairy tales are made of. You married an amazing man, John, who I've had the gift of meeting.
You have four children, a thriving career. I think to outsiders, they look at it and in so many ways, it seems perfect. But you say you were running from something, a secret that you say you were keeping from everyone, including unconsciously from yourself. That's right, Jamie.
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