Are you on a healing journey? Well, Deborah Driggs is too. While you may know her as a Playboy Playmate, there is so much more to Deb than her appearance in the centerfold of the March 1990 Playboy issue. She has also had a career in acting, achieved the Top 5% in her industry as a member of the Million Dollar Roundtable, and, more recently, has dedicated herself to writing a tell-all memoir, in which she hopes to give readers an honest glimpse into her life’s journey.
After getting a divorce at the age of 40, Deb explains that she found herself feeling lost. How had she gone from actress, homecoming queen, and model to a mom of three kids, who barely had enough time to squeeze a shower into her daily routine? This realization prompted Deb to reevaluate her priorities and start her own program of total immersion in healing. In November of 2020, Deb created two lists for herself: one list of things she would remove from her routine and one list of things she would add to bring more intention and reflection into her life. She plans to follow this program for a year, as she heals from past traumas and finds inner peace.
Join host Rosanna Gill on this week’s episode of Breaking Labels for a fascinating conversation with Deborah Driggs about self-worth and self-discovery. Learn about the lessons Deb has taken from the entertainment industry, why Deb defies the label of “gold digger” she has so often been assigned, and how Deb is incorporating simplicity into her daily life to find a sense of joy and healing.
Quotes
• “That’s how I built my business. I built it with nothing. And when I say with nothing, I mean with my phone book, my Roladex, my contacts, and my perseverance and hustle.” (11:22-11:40)
• “I laugh about the fact that people call me a gold digger because…I get very uncomfortable with gifts. I’m one of those people where it makes me uncomfortable, it’s not my love language. I’m more about touch, and I like to take trips and adventure….But if somebody gives me a really expensive piece of jewelry, it’s really odd to me and it doesn’t feel authentic for me.” (51:22-52:02)
• “That’s how I feel now – I want simple. I don’t need to buy a pair of shoes to feel good, I already feel good. I don’t need to buy some designer coat to feel good, I already feel good. And I think that when I started to make money, then I was filling that hole of, ‘Oh, now I can feel really good about myself and dress better and wear better shoes,’ but really I’m still me. It didn’t change a darn thing! I’m still me, and it really made me realize, I have to fix internally, not externally what’s going on.” (54:32-55:11)
• “On November 30, 2020, I woke up at two in the morning, and I started writing on my whiteboard, and I started to realize that there was a pattern, and I needed to stop it now. And how am I going to stop the pattern? Number one, you have to recognize that there’s something that needs to change. And then number two...you have to make a program for yourself. And everybody’s program is going to look different. For me, this is what I need to do a dive deep into my soul, into my purpose, into what I believe.” (58:29-59:09)
• “I think that we all go through these really tough times, but we never really take the time to heal from anything. We think we’re over it, but we’re not, or at least I’m not! I can just tell you, I have been through some really tough times in my life, and because I needed to move on or I needed to work, I never really took the time to heal from a lot of those things.” (1:03:35-1:03:58)
• “I didn’t get this far to not give it back. I didn’t have all these experiences to hold onto them. I have to share them to really have them be worth something! I didn't go through all this mud and all this quicksand to not share what not to do.” (1:11:28-1:11:46)
Links
Connect with Deborah:
https://deborahdriggs.com/
https://www.facebook.com/DeborahDriggsOfficial/
https://www.instagram.com/deborahdriggs/?hl=en
https://www.linkedin.com/in/deborahdriggs/
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