Overcoming Adversity as a Source of Inspiration with Real Estate Mogul Venus Morris Griffin
11/02/21 • 36 min
With a story of overcoming adversity to not only survive, but thrive, today’s guest is a source of inspiration to women everywhere. Venus Morris Griffin is an award-winning real estate agent, inspirational speaker, author of an upcoming book, and single mother of seven who unexpectedly became the sole provider for her family in 2011. Today, she tells the story of how she rose above her circumstances to become stronger than ever today. Venus shares how she received a call from a sex worker who was blackmailing her husband and explains why, while she is not responsible for the awful things that happened to her, she takes responsibility for the choices she made. In the face of adversity, she recommends always asking, what can I learn? Who am I and how can I be better for it? Venus gives us some powerful examples of how she has found a positive spin for the tricky hands she has been dealt in life, and how her own challenges have led her to refuse to judge others. She lets us in on her public speaking journey and how she chose this career in the hope of helping others before telling us why the first piece of advice she gives others is to take care of themselves.This episode is peppered with powerful pearls of wisdom that you can apply to your own journey, so we hope you will join us to learn from Venus’s remarkable story today!
Key Points From This Episode:
- The call Venus received from a sex worker blackmailing her husband.
- Her first reaction to defend her husband and not to believe the accusations.
- Insights into Venus’s childhood and the details of her mom’s alcoholism.
- Why she wrote the book to share her light and help others after experiencing darkness.
- Her message is that it doesn’t matter what happens to you; you can get through anything.
- Why it is so important to take responsibility in order to help people to get out of that cycle.
- How she chose to keep supporting her husband before he failed his lie detector test and was convicted of a terrible crime.
- The realization that education would distinguish her life from her brother and sister’s.
- How each of her children was conceived with a donor.
- Her belief in having a deep sense of who you are in order to do better.
- Why she chose to forgive her mother and her husband in order to move forward.
- What you should ask in adversity: what can I learn, who am I, and how can I be better for it?
- Why she refuses to judge others after having experienced her own challenges.
- Why she chose to become a public speaker: to help other people.
- Her advice to surround yourself with people who are better than you, competition is healthy!
- Why your work ethic will set you apart without you having to say anything.
- Her book, Validated, that is coming out towards the end of the year.
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Venus Morris Griffin
Venus Morris Griffin on Instagram
Venus Morris Griffin on Twitter
Venus Morris Griffin on Facebook
Venus Morris Griffin on LinkedIn
Venus Morris Griffin on YouTube
With a story of overcoming adversity to not only survive, but thrive, today’s guest is a source of inspiration to women everywhere. Venus Morris Griffin is an award-winning real estate agent, inspirational speaker, author of an upcoming book, and single mother of seven who unexpectedly became the sole provider for her family in 2011. Today, she tells the story of how she rose above her circumstances to become stronger than ever today. Venus shares how she received a call from a sex worker who was blackmailing her husband and explains why, while she is not responsible for the awful things that happened to her, she takes responsibility for the choices she made. In the face of adversity, she recommends always asking, what can I learn? Who am I and how can I be better for it? Venus gives us some powerful examples of how she has found a positive spin for the tricky hands she has been dealt in life, and how her own challenges have led her to refuse to judge others. She lets us in on her public speaking journey and how she chose this career in the hope of helping others before telling us why the first piece of advice she gives others is to take care of themselves.This episode is peppered with powerful pearls of wisdom that you can apply to your own journey, so we hope you will join us to learn from Venus’s remarkable story today!
Key Points From This Episode:
- The call Venus received from a sex worker blackmailing her husband.
- Her first reaction to defend her husband and not to believe the accusations.
- Insights into Venus’s childhood and the details of her mom’s alcoholism.
- Why she wrote the book to share her light and help others after experiencing darkness.
- Her message is that it doesn’t matter what happens to you; you can get through anything.
- Why it is so important to take responsibility in order to help people to get out of that cycle.
- How she chose to keep supporting her husband before he failed his lie detector test and was convicted of a terrible crime.
- The realization that education would distinguish her life from her brother and sister’s.
- How each of her children was conceived with a donor.
- Her belief in having a deep sense of who you are in order to do better.
- Why she chose to forgive her mother and her husband in order to move forward.
- What you should ask in adversity: what can I learn, who am I, and how can I be better for it?
- Why she refuses to judge others after having experienced her own challenges.
- Why she chose to become a public speaker: to help other people.
- Her advice to surround yourself with people who are better than you, competition is healthy!
- Why your work ethic will set you apart without you having to say anything.
- Her book, Validated, that is coming out towards the end of the year.
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Venus Morris Griffin
Venus Morris Griffin on Instagram
Venus Morris Griffin on Twitter
Venus Morris Griffin on Facebook
Venus Morris Griffin on LinkedIn
Venus Morris Griffin on YouTube
Previous Episode
Dr. Manasa Mantravadi explains how Plastics are Disrupting our Planet and our Children's Health
As moms, we want to take the best possible care of our children. Here to discuss how plastics may be affecting your children, and what you can do about it, is Dr. Manasa Mantravadi, a board certified pediatrician who launched the world’s first colorful stainless steel dishes for kids, Ahimsa. Tune in to hear about endocrine destructing chemicals and how they are considered to be the second greatest threat to human health, and the science behind how the endocrine system supports overall health. Dr. Mantravadi reveals some of the health problems she is treating in children that historically only affect adults and she tells us why we can’t leave environmental factors out of the conversation about children’s health. She assures us that small incremental change at a mass scale is a powerful tool to change the world, and tells us the story of how Ahimsa was started, with the philosophy of doing no harm as a hero product to champion the movement towards a plastic-free world. Join us today to hear all this and more!
Key Points From This Episode:
- What is meant by endocrine destructing chemicals and what this means for global health.
- The global health organizations that consider endocrine disrupting chemicals in plastic to be the second greatest threat to human health.
- How hormones create a communication pathway in the endocrine system.
- Some of the health problems she is treating in children that are new to this generation.
- Why we can’t leave environmental factors out of the conversation about children’s health.
- The oversights in the food industry, with 60 percent of 6,000 chemicals having been tested.
- How you can speak with your wallet to enact change in children’s products.
- Small incremental change at a mass scale as a powerful tool to change the world.
- The story of how Ahimsa was started with the philosophy of doing no harm.
- How Ahimsa was created with intentionality at a design, material, and concept level.
- Why, when you teach children healthy habits at a young age, they stick.
- Giving a big picture perspective to moms as a tool to empower them to make good choices.
- How Dr. Mantravadi sees Ahimsa growing: to create a movement as a solution to the plastic problem, Ahimsa Home as a way to make your home cleaner and greener.
- What school cafeteria systems look like at the moment and how they need to change.
- The kids as the reason for doing anything.
- Dinner time at Dr. Mantravadi’s house: the children are involved in cooking dinner, plant-based food, and a lot of Italian and Indian food.
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Manasa Mantravadi on LinkedIn
Ahimsa
Next Episode
Teaser: If you dress like you, you will always be in style; a conversation with celebrity stylist Lauren Messiah
If you dress like you, you’re always in style. That’s our top tip from today’s guest, celebrity stylist, Lauren Messiah. Tune in to hear why she doesn’t have a single important piece in her closet, but aims to have plenty of staple pieces in her closet, because those are the ones that will last. We hope you’ll join us to hear how to build your own long-lasting closet!
Key Points From This Episode:
- How you’re always in style if you dress like you.
- Why you will buy clothes with longevity if you’re drawn to something from the right place.
- Learn how you can ignore trends entirely and just aim to be yourself.
- How the big icons in the world are not following any rules but have the confidence to own it.
- How Lauren guide her clients to pick out the right clothes rather than choosing for them.
- Why low rise pants and exposed g-strings are not a trend we want to revisit.
- Understand how the foundational pieces in your closet are the most important.
- The role of staples as a go-to solution to a wardrobe crisis.
Tweetables:
“If you dress like you, you’re always in style.” — @LaurenMessiah [0:00:01]
“If you know who you are, you know where you’re going. You will be drawn to the right things and, when you have the confidence, you’ll be able to pull it off.” — @LaurenMessiah [0:00:39]
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Lauren Messiah
Lauren Messiah on Twitter
Lauren Messiah on Facebook
Lauren Messiah on Instagram
Lauren Messiah on YouTube
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