G9 founder Amy Griffin told the story of her most personal trauma. It strengthened all the relationships in her life

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List her story. About five years ago, Amy Griffin began to remember. Through a mixture of daily and MDMA treatment, a long pointed shock-memories of childhood sexual abuse-to the surface. It is a story that Griffin shares in her new book SayingIt was just the most recent Choose a Opera Book Club.

In the notes, Griffin remembers the ideal version of her life in Texas, before that image is broken with these memories-which re-renovates that narration and re-evaluates everything. During the time when Griffin tells an endless attack from memories, it was just a few years away from the management of her company, G9 Ventures. G9 supported female brands for females such as Stabbingand Saiand BobbyAnd Midi.

However, when she remembered this experience herself, then she began to tell others about this, she found that doing so has strengthened her relationships in all areas of her life – including flourishing relationships in her career. (Before the establishment of the G9, Griffin says she was “in the background of choice”, which is raising her four children with her husband, and the founder of the hedging box John Griffin.) “Everything was better in my life when I was at risk. There is strength in weakness and changed my relationships for the better.”

During those most intense months, Griffin recalls, “The days when I could barely be able to land, when I was trying to go to enlarge to work and put a face to say,” Yes, I help others, I receive this invitation to build companies and create value for women, “and yet I hardly wearing my clothes.”

Once you stop trying to hide what was going on from others or from herself, she changed how she built her relationships with the founders in her wallet. She can appear as “herself complete” to help them, and now she knows who is that self. It is not afraid of what it seemed to be big problems. She is not afraid to hold difficult conversations anymore. “I now have confidence in the idea that it will do everything,” she says. “When someone feels panic or does not grow at the rate it should be, we have really sincere conversations and discover it.”

She found incomprehensible links between her work as an investor – as she is more passionate about the brand and creative – and a narration of such a personal story. “Building the brand is what I like to do-this was not a brand, but there is an idea that I will tell my story and be honest in my reality.”

Griffin says she is looking for “humility” in the founders. Many of these founders and friends have appeared to support it, through the process of remembering, writing and publishing now, from Sarah Blackly from Spanx to with with with Wolfe Herd to Kitsch from Cassandra Thorswell, to Reese Witzberon and Gwenith Paltrow.

Nevertheless, its largest ready -made meals apply to its coherent circle. “You never know what is going on in a person’s life,” she says she learned. “Give someone who always believes generously in what he is going through.”

Emma Hinchelv
whatever.Henchev@Fortune.com

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