ABOUT US
Our Mission
The Journey with Rita Organization is dedicated to informing, empowering, and inspiring women to build and cultivate resilience.
Resilience is the inner strength that helps us navigate trauma, adversity, and life’s inevitable challenges. Like a skill, it can be learned—and like a muscle, it can be trained and strengthened over time. There’s no single path or formula for building resilience, but through experience and reflection, Rita identified key principles that can guide and support us as we learn to adapt, grow, and thrive.
Our promise is to:
Inform - Share the principles that helped Rita build resilience and bring you wisdom, guidance, and inspiration from thought leaders across the globe —to guide us on our own journey of growth and strength.
Empower - Share simple yet powerful practices, daily habits, and new ways of thinking that will help you navigate life with strength, purpose, and confidence.
Inspire - Share inspiring stories and words from those who have walked this path before us—stories of courage, perseverance, and triumph—to remind us that resilience is possible for us all
Resilience doesn’t shield us from life’s difficulties. We’ll always encounter new challenges and moments that test our strength—but each one offers an opportunity to grow and rise stronger. It is a journey. And as Oprah Winfrey said, “Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.”
Our Promise
Our Why
"One day you will tell your story of how you overcame what you went through, and it will be someone else's survival guide."
- Brene Brown
Journey With Rita was founded by a mother and cancer survivor who has guided countless women through life during and after cancer—through peer support, activism, writing, and public speaking. She founded this organization to provide women with resources, insights, and tools to develop and strengthen resilience. Through her research and personal experience, Rita identified key principles that helped her navigate life’s challenges, and she is committed to sharing that knowledge, wisdom, and actionable guidance to support others on their own journeys.
Just one month after launching this organization, Rita faced a new test: losing the ability to move. Relearning to stand, walk, and navigate life brought profound insight and renewed determination. This experience inspired her to launch the Journey With Rita Podcast, where she speaks with everyday people and thought leaders about their personal journeys to resilience. Because every story carries a spark of strength, and every journey can teach us how to rise stronger.
Meet Rita
Rita Naffas is mother, wife, interior designer, and women’s empowerment advocate. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children. After having two beautiful children and overcoming a life-threatening illness, Rita found the courage to leave a career she had built for a decade in corporate consulting and pursue her passion for interior design. She is the principal at Rita Naffas Design, an interior design studio in Los Angeles. Rita believes everyone has the power to reinvent and redesign their home– and life. She has been featured in numerous publications, including Forbes Magazine, Real Simple Magazine, and Authority Magazine.
Rita has served on executive boards and councils of several non-profit organizations. She is extremely passionate about women’s advocacy: She seeks to inspire and empower anyone struggling with unforeseen life changes to overcome these challenges and reclaim their lives. Rita continues to share the lessons that helped her overcome adversity and redesign her life through her podcast, writing, and speaking engagements.