# What Losing My Mother on September 11 Taught Me About Leadership

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Podcast: [Branding Room Only with Paula T. Edgar](https://stenobird.com/podcast/branding-room-only-with-paula-t-edgar-6264973)
Published: 2026-09-15T08:00:00+00:00
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Duration seconds: 1336

## Resource

For 25 years, much of the conversation about my mother, Joan Donna Griffith, has focused on how she died. But the greatest leadership lessons I carry did not come from losing my mother on September 11, 2001. They came from how she lived, what she taught me, and how she prepared me for moments neither of us could have imagined. In this episode of Branding Room Only, I’m sharing one of the most personal talks I have ever given, originally delivered as a PDC Talk at the Professional Development ...

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