The Jamie Kern Lima Show
The Power of Your Story and Deciding to Tell It! You Are the Hero of Your Own Life with Amy Griffin
Tue, 11 Mar 2025
Full Video Available on YouTube @JamieKernLimaOfficial. Are You Ready to believe in YOU?🙌 jamiekernlima.com 👈 Sign up for my FREE Inspirational Newsletter here and you’ll ALSO get special prompt questions to help you grow in your self-worth-building that pair with each episode!🩷 Make sure to click the “Follow” button for the show on your favorite podcast app, so you’ll be the first to get each episode! ____ 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 to center stage and share your truth? If you have a story inside of you to tell, today’s episode will inspire you to embrace the power of that. Your story has so much power, power to inspire, and power to heal both yourself and others. Our guest in today’s episode is my amazing friend and soon yours too, Amy Griffin! Amy is a business mogul, founder of investment firm G9 Ventures, author and icon of female empowerment. Her 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’ve read this book cover to cover, it’s so powerful and let me tell you it will inspire your own hero’s journey in your life, through Amy sharing hers! You’re going to leave this conversation feeling SO inspired and I am so excited to share today’s episode with you! And whether you're joining me today for yourself or because someone that you love shared this episode with you, I want to welcome you to the Jamie Kern Lima Show podcast family. And remember this episode is not just for you and me. Please share it with every single person that you know because it can change their life too. The Tell is available now: https://www.thetellbook.com/ Episode Reflection Questions for YOU: Jamie writes prompt questions each episode to spark revelations in your self-worth journey and help you apply the tools and lessons from each episode into your real life right now. Please make sure you’re signed up for Jamie’s free inspirational newsletter jamiekernlima.com 👈 Get my new book WORTHY plus FREE Bonus gifts including a 95+ page Worthy Workbook and more at WorthyBook.com For more resources related to today’s episode, click here https://jamiekernlima.com/show/ for the podcast episode page. Chapters: 0:00 Welcome to The Jamie Kern Lima Show 1:00 The Power of Your Story 3:05 Secrets Keep Us Stuck 5:30 Relationships are the Fabric of Our Lives 9:05 Doing the Work + Psychedelics 23:00 Amy’s MDMA Experience 26:30 On Gratitude 41:14 Unlocking Repressed Memories 45:19 Building Resilience 50:30 Worthiness for Yourself 52:30 The Beautiful Impact on Relationships & Kids 56:00 Thank You Notes 59:30 Telling Your Story It’s such an honor to share this podcast together with you. And please note: I am not a licensed therapist, and this podcast is NOT intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician, professional coach, psychotherapist, or other qualified professional. This episode of The Jamie Kern Lima Show contains discussions of sensitive topics including sexual assault. Our aim is to approach this topic with sensitivity and respect, but viewer/listener discretion is advised. To receive 24/7 support from the National Sexual Assault Hotline, call 800-656-HOPE (4673). To report child sexual abuse or find resources for those in need of help, contact the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (https://www.missingkids.org/gethelpnow) at 1-800-843-5678. Click Here to Subscribe to the YouTube Channel Follow me here: Instagram TikTok Facebook Website — Sign up for my inspirational newsletter for YOU at: jamiekernlima.com — Looking for my books on Amazon? Here they are! WORTHY Believe IT
Chapter 1: 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.
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Chapter 2: Who is Amy Griffin and what is her journey?
Everyone knows you for your incredible philanthropy, for all of the things that you and your husband do in New York and beyond. Also for all of the companies you've invested in, for helping take Bumble public, for an IPO, for being on the board of all these businesses, for investing in founders. You know, everything is just sort of like, you know...
looks like the most, um, I'm not going to use the word perfect, but the most ideal, amazing fairy tale. And, and everyone sees you online with every celebrity under the sun, uh, you know, who all just adore you, uh, and, and love you. You know, I had the gift of speaking at G9 summit at your summit. I remember being on stage, um, looking out into the audience and being like, Oh,
And I don't ever get fazed by this, but I was admiring how many incredible women who are iconic in our culture and in our history were there for you and to be in this group. So my point in sharing all this is to say, everything is as picture perfect, aspirational ideal as it could be. And you are choosing, and this is so powerful.
You guys, I believe, I believe why Oprah was, was, was able to shift culture and to help heal humanity through love is because she shared the parts of herself that we all can connect to. We all can relate to. You're sharing everything. parts of your journey and your story that you could have so easily kept secret that I think are going to inspire so many people today.
There's no other way you would do this unless it was something greater than yourself, unless it was to be an offering and help beyond yourself, because it's the most vulnerable thing you can do.
What's so beautiful is this recognition that I didn't know I was going to come to throughout the book. of the telling, of the permission that first I gave myself.
I gave myself permission to tell. So I know everyone's on the edge of their seats right now because they want to know and live vicariously through you in the start of what this looks like and then sort of like go through your story along with you. So you decide to, after doing a whole lot of work, to then... weave in MDMA and psychedelics into your journey. And so can you explain what happens?
You mentioned you put the pill in. So you walk in and can you sort of set the stage for us on what this is like and what your experience was like as you experienced it the first time?
Ooh, emotional, very emotional. I have to go back to that word permission again, because going in and making this decision that I was going to go in and address things that I knew I needed to address.
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