{"id":4006,"date":"2015-11-10T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everywomanover29.com\/blog\/?p=4006"},"modified":"2015-11-10T09:54:06","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T17:54:06","slug":"jj-virgin-unleash-your-greatness-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywomanover29.com\/blog\/jj-virgin-unleash-your-greatness-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"JJ Virgin inspires on The Unleash Your Greatness Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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JJ Virgin, author of The Virgin Diet<\/a><\/em>, The Sugar Impact Diet<\/a><\/em> and the forthcoming book The Miracle Mindset <\/em>inspires and motivates and changes lives. She is one incredibly gutsy woman, a true leader in the nutrition world and her interview on the upcoming Unleash your Greatness Summit<\/strong> <\/a>being hosted by Lewis Howes, is not to be missed!<\/p>\n

Here are some snippets from her inspiring and heart-warming interview where she talks about her son\u2019s awful hit and run accident, his brain and heart surgery, coma and long recovery \u2013 and how she was able to finish and launch her book in the midst of all this!<\/p>\n

She shares so much wisdom during this interview. The first one is asking for help:<\/p>\n

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one of the important lessons that I learned early on\u2026I have always disliked asking for help. And I don\u2019t think I am alone. I think most of us don\u2019t like to ask for help, right. But the morning of the accident, standing in the ICU, I realized that most of my friends in the world are doctors, and not just any doctors, the biggest, best doctors around. And if they weren\u2019t my direct friend, then they were friends with the ones. So I was like first off, if I don\u2019t know them directly, I know their closest friends who do. So I\u2019m going to work my network big time. I go, but I need help. There\u2019s no way I can do this one on my own, especially with this book launch<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Another one is pulling from everything that you have learned:<\/p>\n

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I think too much we play it safe. And then when something like this happens, you have no clue how to handle it. I looked at this whole thing, and I was like all right. I\u2019m going to pull in from all of my lessons learned. And I\u2019m going to go for it and do it. And I think it\u2019s one thing if you lose your job, but when it\u2019s your kid? It\u2019s your kid. You\u2019re going to do it. You\u2019re going to do whatever it takes to save your child.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And this one \u2013 celebrating every small win:<\/p>\n

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I would look for any small win I could celebrate. His eyelash fluttered, or his pinkie. The first day in the hospital when they told me, \u201cOh, he\u2019s in a deep coma. And we don\u2019t know if he\u2019ll ever come out,\u201d I was holding his hand. And I said something about his girlfriend loving him. And he grabbed my fingers, squeezed them, lifted my hand up. And I\u2019m like he\u2019s in there. He\u2019s so in there. So you find those things. There is a gift in every single thing that happens out there. It all depends on how you look at something, right. It\u2019s all perspective. I think we\u2019re never better than when we\u2019re challenged.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

She also shares many of the practical aspects of how she helped her son Grant recover from this traumatic brain injury (with the help and advice of trusted friends and colleagues) :<\/p>\n