Melyssa Griffin: From Madness to Meaning

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Melyssa Griffin grew up without much money, and because of that she grew up with a poor relationship with money and how to view it properly. It wasn't until she was older that she learned the value of not only giving, but giving selflessly. Those acts help her turn the madness in her life into something much more. Take a listen to our latest episode to find out how you can make the murky waters in your life clear again!

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0:00.0	May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get
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0:31.0	We set a goal to raise $70,000 for Pencils of Promise, which would allow us to build two schools in Ghana. And I gave away all of my courses during this fundraiser where if people
0:36.3	donated then they could get a course or if they donated X amount of dollars and
0:41.2	they could get this other course.
0:43.2	So for a couple of weeks, that's what we did and we ended up raising $120,000 and
0:50.2	built over three schools and part of that was me donating 20,000 of my own dollars, which to me was like the biggest
1:00.2	thing I had ever bought and at the time felt like this scary thing especially
1:03.9	coming from that those money mindset issues that I had from my past of just
1:09.6	growing up poor and feeling like I needed to hoard money otherwise I wouldn't be able to
1:15.2	survive and in that moment of just being able to donate that and to raise that money
1:20.7	I felt just the sense of like what was I fighting for this
1:24.9	whole time. I could have had this the sense of connection and abundance if I had just stopped grasping so hard on this idea that I needed this thing to happen or I needed to be successful.
1:43.0	So that was really the beginning of me feeling like I had gotten back in touch
1:49.2	with my purpose and my meaning in life and it's where everything started to make sense again.
1:56.2	I'm Sreeney Rao and this is the unmistakable Creative Podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started movements, built driving businesses, written best-selling books, and created insanely interesting art.
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