From Courtroom to Classroom: How One Attorney Found His True Purpose During the Pandemic

The Moment Everything Changed

Have you ever felt like you were doing good work, but somehow still missing your true calling? That’s exactly where Griffin Bridgers found himself in early 2020. As a successful attorney, he was helping clients one-on-one with their estate planning needs. But when the pandemic hit, something unexpected happened.

“I was hit with this creeping sense of I’m just not doing a good enough job helping others,” Griffin shares. “Even in a one-on-one setting, the estate planning job I was doing was incomplete, and I just lacked the capacity as a force of one to really truly help all of those who needed help in this area where I so specialize.”

The Hidden Power of Teaching Others

Instead of staying stuck in this feeling, Griffin made a bold decision. He realized his greatest impact might not come from serving individual clients, but from teaching other professionals how to serve their clients better.

“I subconsciously realized I had the greatest impact in educating other professionals, educating my peers as to how they can better – from primarily a technical sense and possibly even from a human perspective – help clients on a broader scale,” he explains.

Taking the First Step

On July 13, 2020, Griffin started a daily practice that would change everything: he began creating educational YouTube videos (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRaGK2J72zXDvLLcy2aPl-w). Each video was designed to be 5-10 minutes long, focusing on specific aspects of estate planning that could help other professionals in the field.

Breaking Through Perfectionism

One of the biggest challenges Griffin faced wasn’t technical knowledge – it was perfectionism. Many professionals struggle with this same challenge when trying to share their expertise.

“Initially, I was marred by perfectionism,” Griffin admits. “But I eventually realized that nobody is going to care about the first 250 of these or so. So that kind of was my own permission to throw caution to the wind and start putting myself out there.”

The Impact of Just Starting

This decision to start before feeling “ready” led to unexpected results. A year later, Griffin received a message from a young law firm associate that changed everything.

“He reached out to me and just said, ‘Look, I love your stuff, it’s really helped me out a lot, and I’ve really been able to supplement my learning and even rely on it as a primary resource to fill gaps,'” Griffin recalls.

Finding Your Unique Voice

One thing that sets Griffin’s content apart is his perspective. While there are many experts creating educational content, Griffin noticed something important: much of it wasn’t connecting with its intended audience.

“People felt like they didn’t identify with that content because it was coming from people above them,” he explains. “It was coming from people who had reached the pinnacle and looking back didn’t really remember the struggle or didn’t recognize the new struggle of the time.”

The Power of Being Relatable

Griffin’s approach (find him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/griffinbridgers/) focuses on being accessible and authentic. He creates content “for me as an audience – what would I have wanted to hear 10, 15 years ago?”

Keys to Making a Bigger Impact

Want to follow in Griffin’s footsteps? Here are his key pieces of advice:

1. Start Taking Action Now

“We often confuse action with an action plan,” Griffin notes. The key is to start doing something, even if it’s not perfect.

2. Create Consistently

Just like Griffin’s daughter who wanted to be a writer, the advice remains the same: “Start writing every single day, even if it is terrible and you don’t ever want it to see the light of day.”

3. Think Long-Term

“Entrepreneurs look at what they’re willing to do for free for a long time and really just double down on that, knowing that the money is going to come,” Griffin shares.

4. Build Relationships

“The more relationships you can build and the higher the quality of them, the better,” Griffin emphasizes. He suggests being intentional about community building, even when working remotely.

Overcoming Common Fears

Many professionals hesitate to share their knowledge because they worry about critics or feel like everything has already been said. Griffin’s approach to this is unique:

“As an attorney, I always think of worst-case scenarios. I was always thinking of that one critic out there who is going to come back to me and say, this is technically unsound or you’re wrong… That’s really how I ended up having to deal with it, is saying, okay, I’m going to anticipate the worst case critic and really beat them at their own game.”

The Compound Effect of Sharing Knowledge

Griffin believes in the power of compounding – not just in financial returns, but in everything we do: “It’s not just compounding investment returns, it’s compounding returns on anything you’re doing today… any action you take now will compound whether it’s good or bad.”

Your Turn to Make an Impact

The beauty of Griffin’s story is that it shows how one person’s decision to share knowledge can create ripple effects throughout an entire industry. Whether you’re an attorney, financial advisor, or any other professional, your knowledge and experience could be exactly what others need to grow and improve.

Remember Griffin’s key message: “There’s tons of people out there who purport to serve entrepreneurs, but they themselves don’t want their employees to be entrepreneurs. They want them to be employees.”

Taking the First Step

Ready to start making a bigger impact? Follow Griffin’s example:

1. Choose one area of your expertise to share
2. Start creating content consistently
3. Focus on being helpful rather than perfect
4. Build relationships within your community
5. Trust that your unique voice matters

The world needs your knowledge and experience. As Griffin’s story shows, sometimes our biggest professional crisis can lead us to our true calling – if we’re brave enough to answer it.

Want to learn more from Griffin? Check out his daily educational videos on YouTube or connect with him on LinkedIn.