They Were Brought Together in the Most Impossible Way

Stories Of Hope With Tzipora Grodko - Meaningful Minute

A couple shares their deeply personal journey of love, loss, and divine timing, highlighting resilience, self-growth, and faith in finding soulmates later in life. Their story blends heartbreak, healing, and miracles, offering hope to singles navigating late-life relationships.

Key takeaways

• Healing from loss prepared one for true love.
• Self-love is essential for receiving love.
• Miracles can happen through faith and perseverance.

Transcript preview

How old were the two of you when you got married? When we got married I was 37 and you were 40 from the beginning girl. I'm Val Truba even though I grew up in a very secular environment all I ever dreamt of was having a family. So to be newly from and then 25 26 and then 30 I was like where are my babies? But at the same time there was a deep pain that I was missing my person. I actually thought I found my Zibro I actually got engaged and and he died. like a breaking that you think you'll never survive. Adam, tell us a little bit about your journey. I was born and grew up in Mexico up till I was 20 years old. I was not looking for God at all. That was a whole journey of 20 years. I did a conversion to Judaism. I saw my car, some of my things and I just went to Crown Heights with a single ticket. It's August, so it's like a little time and I start having dreams and visions that I'm going to be in New York for a Teshre. And I guess I guess I'm going to New York. And I guess I'm going to New York. And I'm going to New York. And I'm going to New York. And I'm going to New York. And I'm going to New York. And I'm going to This guy on the other side of the room says neuroplasticity and I'm looking over and I'm like and he has an accent and he's laying a hat so he's like a cussid like what's going on we always joke like you had me a neuroplasticity the moment we got engaged I just got scared all the doubts came in all the fear came in we called off engagement we're not gonna get married. Hey welcome back to your favorite podcast stories of hope. This week we have a couple that's different like any other as per usual Adam. Whoa, what a story. If you've been struggling to navigate Chiduchem in any time period, but especially your upper 30s, low 40s, then this one is brought to you with so much love, so much divine intervention and hopefully inspiration for you. And of course this episode could not continue without our wonderful sponsor, PZ deals. 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I'm Suppor Gradco and this is the Stories of Hope Podcast. This interview has been a year in the making I just checked my messages I reached out to your lovely wife in 2000 and actually I think it's at 25 I think yeah that makes sense yes yeah, it was before no it was before we moved into our house. Yeah so tell everyone through Mo and Michelle Swirr Mo yeah. Yes through Mo and Michelle. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. tell us a little bit about where you and your husband are from and before we even jump into the podcast how old were the two of you when you got married. We're from lower Pomona now. I'm originally from LA and then Israel who's originally from Mexico and when we got married I was 37 and you were 40. Or one year less bored of us maybe 36 and 39. I was 37. I was already school met I had already turned 37 when I got married. Wow. Yeah. What a journey navigating through everything that comes with singlehood and the story that I know you're about to share? So Keely let's start with you from the beginning girl. Wow, how much time do you have? I know. I know. I know. So I'm Valchuba. So, so I'm Valchuba. a very secular, very progressive environment. All I ever dreamt of was having a family. That's all I cared about and from a very young age I also was like very active I was a leader I had my own nonprofit organization at 14 years old. So there's I could have been distracted by other things if people ask me what do you want to be when you grow up was a mom like that's all I wanted. So to be from newly from and then 25 and then 26 and then 30 and And I was like, where are my babies? Like I would dream about them. I would see them like I was like it was like being a mom without the family and it was excruciating and also at the same time you know just from my own life's journey and what Hashem has shown me I always I was able to also you know trust it's gonna come in the right time it's gonna unfold I don't need to stress about what someone else has and I don't have like it's all it's all in the right time, but there was a deep pain that I was missing my person. And I just have to also share this because I feel like people will so resonate if you've been dating for a long time. People's comments are just so obnoxious. It's like something's wrong with you. You must be doing it wrong. Or like you're being too picky or you're... So that was frustrating. And then I'd get the opposite. They'd be like, oh, okay, it just because you're so amazing you're so amazing you're gonna have... to find like the diamond like it's he's gonna and I'm like that no I just have to find my person so if you're thinking he's so hard to find maybe he is but if you're like maybe I know him you could find him anyway so it was a long journey and I actually thought I found my Zivok and when I was 30 I actually thought I found my Zivok and when I was 30 I actually got engaged I actually got engaged I was living in Israel and excuse me and I had made Aliya and like very quickly after making Aliya I met David and and you know it's like one of those things you're just like oh like you moved to Israel you found your person like it's all like meant to be you know and and he died. It was devastating. It was devastating. And in a weird way though, like, I was very clear, even though I was shattered, just like, you can't put it into words. It was like, breaking that you think like you'll never survive. that it was just part it was just we were supposed to have that experience David and I and that it was just preparing me for the next step and one thing I really learned from David that I think really prepared me to be able to really receive my husband you know he was he was I was just a really special person and one time he said to me he said if you don't love yourself I'm not going to be able to love you like I can love you but you won't receive it like it you don't love yourself it doesn't matter and that's something I tell every single today I'm like you just focus on loving yourself most of us don't and I went when he died I went on such an intensity journey to learn self-love and to learn how to receive that for myself almost like that's what I kind of learned from him and took from that relationship and I think that made me the person that could then you know meet someone like Adam and how we met is insane it's not insane it's not insane it's not insane it's not insane it's just a she's just a she's just a she's just a she but know that I was worthy and know that I'm lovable and that it was my time now and I could just lean into it and trust it and so it's all just you know it all unfolded in that way. Can I ask you a quick question? Of course. Did you choose at any point to leave God or give God the silent treatment after navigating singlehood for so long? someone and then suffering the devastating loss of only having them pass away before you even get married. The quick short answer is no. I was given a huge gift when I was a child. It's not going to sound like a gift to the listeners, but to me it was I was diagnosed with MS when I was 12. And one of the first symptoms was affecting my eyesight, so I spent the first 60 days. with my eyes closed I was in the dark I had to have everyone had to do everything for me because of the other symptoms as well I was showered I was fed well 60 days in quiet it's not like we had YouTube back then and all I did was talk to God you know we weren't from but I knew about God and I just talked to God and talked to God and talked to God and talked to God and so from a very young age I knew he was always with me and what did shake me when David died was my belief that I didn't even know I had, but there was a belief that I had that like every human, I really believe this, has to face some challenge in life. Everyone's going to go through one challenge. And so I figured like I already, you know, I already checked the box, like I was living with severe illness, like, so I didn't have to worry about facing any other challenges. So, I already, you know, I already checked the box, like, I was living with severe illness. Like, I didn't like, within a few seconds, I did have a moment like, are you kidding? I just like looked up, I was like, like, I haven't faced enough, like, like are you really serious right now? And then I was like, oh, oh, I was wrong. I was like, this isn't even gonna be the last challenge. I like knew right away, I was like, all of that, it wasn't about all of that, it wasn't about the facing illness, it wasn't about preparing me for this. I to come and I was just like I just had to make such a paradigm shift and I was frustrated and angry I processed a lot of anger so I was angry at a sham but there was never silent treatment it was and I think like facing your anger keeps the relationship real and authentic it just deepened it that's incredible and I don't we're gonna get to you we're gonna get to you he's got a lot also your wife just like giving me whiplash here I obviously have to ask you Kie you said I was I was diagnosed you MS and I see you here today and you don't seem to have MS. What does that mean? Okay, there's a lot to say here. First of all, there's a lot of people with MS who don't look like it, okay? There's, and especially today, there's great treatment, but I experienced this huge, huge miracle that thank God my diagnosis was reversed. I set out to heal, I think, I got to a stage in my life where I just said I cannot live like this anymore. Like I just can't like every day you're waiting for the other shoe to drop you don't know are you going to be able to wake up and see or walk and I just decided enough is enough if a sham who you know if a sham created the human body to create that can this body that can create life it should be able to repair and I found the path to do it did and I'm it's like the greatest gift. the story is part of how we met. Okay, whoa. So I'm going to have to hear the path. I'll pause you here. Okay. Thank you so much for sharing so far. Um, of course. Um, Adam, tell us, Adam, Adam, Adam, or Adam, but tell us, Adam, or, um, or, um, or, um, I have so many options. Yeah, exactly. But please correct me if I don't use the right one. Adam, I tried to say that the very short but because I could be like from so it's so big but they can edit it but I was born and grew up in Mexico and when they asked me where in Mexico is like all attitudes like in the north in the south and in the center I was born in San Miguel Lejeand this a very wide community a lot of American Canadians is very bohemian type of but I didn't live there I grew up then in the north all my my childhood in Sinaloa it's a very different totally environment and then yeah just for context Sineloa is where all the cartels are from oh good so now not anything we can relate to and then and then I live like from my 20s on almost all the time in the in the yucatan Peninsula in which is the color the Riviera Maya which is like Cancun all the Caribbean Jews are familiar with King's yeah that's where I start but then I went like the to play yeah to loom I live like seven years in Cosumel this is an island and then later on when I develop my career as a career as an artist I always was very curious about San Miguel I always was very curious about San Miguel I always hear about the place where I originally was born and I and was a place for artists so I also end living there like a few years I went back there so going back to your question like up to my till when I was 20 years old I was not looking for God at all I probably like up to my till when I was 20 years old I was not looking for God at all I probably like consciously probably like the opposite I always was looking to connect and to cling and and when I was 20 years old I came I was coming out of like a like like an intense action movie and I end up with with my friend that