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Speaker 1: Los Angeles. This is Malik Mohammed from Relief Bookshew. We
Speaker 1: are hearing Palm Springs at the tad Woman. This is
Speaker 1: an exciting and revolutionary event, innovative technology. This conference is
Speaker 1: about uplifting women and Malik Books is in partnership with
Speaker 1: tad curating the book list. We have all the authors books,
Speaker 1: we have all the Malik's books, recommended reading books as
Speaker 1: well as a kid's section of books. And so were excited.
Speaker 1: We love this energy and we love this atmosphere. This
Speaker 1: is a wonderful conference taking place out here in Palm
Speaker 1: Springs and we are participating. This is what you can
Speaker 1: do with more together, working together, networking partnerships. Malik Books
Speaker 1: wants to lift our community with books and we're here
Speaker 1: and we're excited. And so I'm gonna be interviewing some
Speaker 1: of the authors here at the tad Woman one conference
Speaker 1: and so uh stay tuned because as many as I
Speaker 1: can get you're gonna hear it on Maliek's bookshelf. This
Speaker 1: is exciting to hear about all types of books, all
Speaker 1: innovative books, all revolutionary books, and were uplifting women at
Speaker 1: the same time. So stay tuned because we got a
Speaker 1: lot of for you today. Now have the pleasure of
Speaker 1: speaking with Pat Mitchell, one of the founders of TED Women.
Speaker 1: She wrote a book called Becoming a Dangerous Woman. And
Speaker 1: there's nothing more dangerous in this world than a dangerous woman,
Speaker 1: a successful woman. And I have the pleasure to speak
Speaker 1: with Pat Mitchell. How you doing today? I'm doing great?
Speaker 1: Thank you. Can you by the way, we gotta have
Speaker 1: dangerous women because we're living in dangerous times. Absolutely, absolutely,
Speaker 1: so this is an amazing event. I'm blessed to be here.
Speaker 1: Leak bulls Now I got a chance to interview from
Speaker 1: Leak bookshelf. Pat, tell me how did you become part
Speaker 1: of all this health founders. Well, I've been coming to
Speaker 1: the TED conferences before, and I noticed that we just
Speaker 1: needed more women and people of color and people from
Speaker 1: around the world. So I asked the founder of TED
Speaker 1: if he would create another TED conference and we would
Speaker 1: call it Dead Women, focusing primarily on the ideas and
Speaker 1: stories of women, but not entirely, as you know from
Speaker 1: what you've seen, we always have men. And most importantly,
Speaker 1: we've just made an effort to create the most inclusive
Speaker 1: space we could find. TED has always been an inclusive community,
Speaker 1: but with this gave us a chance to create another opportunity,
Speaker 1: another platform for more speakers. And over the eleven years,
Speaker 1: I think we've added two hundred speakers to ted dot com,
Speaker 1: and all of them with good ideas worth sharing. I
Speaker 1: was blessed to talk with so many of the different
Speaker 1: speakers here and that was a joy. I've never been
Speaker 1: at a place where I had that opportunity and so
Speaker 1: TED is amazing and I just want a lot of
Speaker 1: people don't know what TED stands for. That's right, ITAs
Speaker 1: for Technology, entertainment and design. But you know that was
Speaker 1: so long ago when it was first started, nobody remembers
Speaker 1: what TED. That's right, more in terms of the letters,
Speaker 1: because what TED stands were now um ideas worth spreading. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's what I noticed is innovative, revolutionary. I mean, you
Speaker 1: give voice to so many people at TED. True. I
Speaker 1: think we had more than two dozen countries represented in
Speaker 1: our speakers today and eight hundred people here from all
Speaker 1: over the world, even with a continuing pandemic. And as
Speaker 1: you know, we took all the preconcerssions that were necessary
Speaker 1: to make this a safe gathering as well. Yes, it
Speaker 1: was an amazing conference. I'm glad to be part of
Speaker 1: I'm glad to meet you, and I appreciate everything you do.
Speaker 1: Is any anymore that you would like to share with
Speaker 1: Maliku bookshelf audience, Well, the reason I read the book
Speaker 1: Becoming a Dangerous Woman is because I believe honestly that
Speaker 1: we are living in fragile, dangerous times where a lot
Speaker 1: of our lights and freedoms are being pushedback. So this
Speaker 1: was the time to speak up. If you've got a
Speaker 1: good idea and you need to see some changes, speak
Speaker 1: up about them. Um, stand up for those people who
Speaker 1: aren't in the room, and us show up. And and
Speaker 1: that's what the Jack community does. We speak up, stand
Speaker 1: up and show up. Well said, thank you, Pat. This
Speaker 1: event is lit. Like I told you, Leak bullshelfs is
Speaker 1: all about keeping it litt for literature. Lit was was hot.
Speaker 1: And guess what, God, Rock, God is right now here
Speaker 1: at the tad woman and we here standing rock. How
Speaker 1: you doing here? She's the author of the calling three
Speaker 1: Fundamental Shifts to Stay True, Get paid, do good. Tell
Speaker 1: us all about this time breaking boat. Yeah, so you
Speaker 1: know where in a moment right now in Malak where
Speaker 1: I feel like everybody is trying to figure it out.
Speaker 1: You know, we don't had two years to think, right,
Speaker 1: and we've a lot of us thinking about whether or
Speaker 1: not we want to continue with the job that we're in,
Speaker 1: whether or not we want to go to a whole
Speaker 1: other career path, whether or not we want to break
Speaker 1: off and do our own thing. And this is your
Speaker 1: go to guy, This is your blueprint to help you
Speaker 1: figure it out, right, because we all know that no
Speaker 1: matter where we land, we want to be someplace where
Speaker 1: we can be true to ourselves. We want to be
Speaker 1: someplace where we can be well compensated for what we
Speaker 1: offer and break, and we want to make a difference.
Speaker 1: We want to contribute in ways that are meaningful. And
Speaker 1: so my intention and commitment with the book is that
Speaker 1: you have your blueprint step by step to be able
Speaker 1: to do that. It's an easy read. It is an
Speaker 1: easy read. Now you will take a slow because I
Speaker 1: do have exercises. Listen, I'm not messing around y'all. I
Speaker 1: do have exercises, there are handouts. I even give you
Speaker 1: a link to a special site where you can for
Speaker 1: free download the worksheets. But the intention is that listen,
Speaker 1: this is your life, this is your future. I want
Speaker 1: you to take it seriously and I want you to
Speaker 1: do what you're here to do. There's a place in
Speaker 1: the world for you, no matter what your talents on,
Speaker 1: no matter what your background is, no matter what you've
Speaker 1: been through. Every single one of us has a calling
Speaker 1: and it's time we get us. Man. Everyone born with
Speaker 1: a gift and everyone that's when I hear calling our
Speaker 1: head gifts and we all have gifts and if we
Speaker 1: can help extriket those get what you're very deep. They're
Speaker 1: very deep in us. Like diamonds. Diamonds are made over
Speaker 1: time with pressure. So reading your book can helps read
Speaker 1: up that process. Yeah, listen, we we don't have the
Speaker 1: pressure cooker, y'all. So now it's the opportunity to to shine,
Speaker 1: right We've we've had the pressure. The last two years
Speaker 1: have been a pressure cooker and now it's time for
Speaker 1: us to shine. So let's get it absolutely well. Malik books,
Speaker 1: you know is here at the TED One, Ted woman,
Speaker 1: and I'm just running into all these wonderful elevators, authors, mothers,
Speaker 1: go get us successful women. And I'm talking to one
Speaker 1: right now, rock Goddess Boll who dropped a message. I
Speaker 1: gotta that was a joy to hear you today. I mean,
Speaker 1: you had a lot to give. It comes out of
Speaker 1: you like water, doesn't it. Thank you? I mean, we
Speaker 1: feel passionate about this moment that we're in. And you know,
Speaker 1: today we got the opportunity to talk about Information, which
Speaker 1: is our Women's Initiative for Women of color executives and professionals,
Speaker 1: and you know, there are things that we needed to
Speaker 1: say that we've not had the opportunity to say so
Speaker 1: corporate America to the larger structures of our society, and
Speaker 1: today was our moment to be able to do that
Speaker 1: in celebration of the research. You know, pow are redefined
Speaker 1: and so the research is out. We're talking about it
Speaker 1: and don't be in the body, be on the side,
Speaker 1: or be in front. But we got to elevate our
Speaker 1: woman today. That's important. The mothers of civilization, the first
Speaker 1: teachers of humanity. Him, ladies and gentlemen right and all
Speaker 1: of us right, it's time that we lift and elevate
Speaker 1: each other up. This was a joy. I hope mans
Speaker 1: love this segment with Rock Goddess on Relik's Bookshow. Thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, thank you for your work, thank
Speaker 1: you for who you being. Thank you for keeping our
Speaker 1: bookstores alive. Appreciate that. Appreciate that. TAD well, I should
Speaker 1: say tad woman because there's a difference. TAD stands for technology,
Speaker 1: entertainment and design. And guess what I got mentally, Charles,
Speaker 1: She's an artist, that's what the entertainment. And she performed
Speaker 1: here at the Woman Ted conference and so I got
Speaker 1: a chance to speak with her, and I just wanted
Speaker 1: you to share with Malik's bookshelf audience you know your
Speaker 1: journey as an artist because it was explosive, enlightening in
Speaker 1: electric last night as well as today when you perform
Speaker 1: at the conference. Thank you so much, Milik. That's really
Speaker 1: kind and shout out to the whole Malague bookshelf family.
Speaker 1: Malik Books. Um. You know, I am a jazz girl
Speaker 1: born and raised in Brooklyn. My family um comes from
Speaker 1: Haiti Um and yeah, I studied opera when I was young.
Speaker 1: I played flute in the orchestra. Definitely an artsy FARTSI
Speaker 1: New York girl. I went to the Fame High School,
Speaker 1: Leguardia High School like everybody. Um went to the new
Speaker 1: school where Robert Glasper and those guys went. And um, yeah,
Speaker 1: now I'm doing my own thing. I just released an
Speaker 1: album called y'all don't really care about Black women, and
Speaker 1: um yeah, I'm very grateful. People seem to be receiving
Speaker 1: what I'm doing well, so I give thanks. Yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: I watch you play the piano today, I watch you
Speaker 1: play the flute. Last night. I watch you see go
Speaker 1: ahead with your bad show man. Aren't you learn all
Speaker 1: them disables? You know? I was very blessed that I
Speaker 1: had a mom that really supported me. I give things
Speaker 1: to my mom, Baptiste. She was a weirdo. She said
Speaker 1: that she always knew she wanted children that were musicians,
Speaker 1: and so once I started making sounds, she got me
Speaker 1: piano lessons, voice lessons, flute lessons. And I didn't have
Speaker 1: like much of a childhood like playing. I was always
Speaker 1: in rehearsal for something, But now I don't regret it.
Speaker 1: It was worth it because I I like who I am.
Speaker 1: Your music is filled with so much soul, so much vive.
Speaker 1: It's so man in a core. I mean I felt
Speaker 1: it in my bone last night. It was hit. We
Speaker 1: was partying last night. That was fun. That was fun
Speaker 1: last night. Yeah, and it looked beautiful. That the set
Speaker 1: was great. Yeah, that was fun. Set did their thing
Speaker 1: this year. That ship was amazing. That was a production.
Speaker 1: That was a production. I didn't expect that. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you stole a show last night here. Everyone enjoyed and
Speaker 1: we all had a good time. I loved you. I'm glad,
Speaker 1: I'm glad, thank you, And for me, the high point
Speaker 1: for me was meeting everyone and specifically meeting you. Mo
Speaker 1: league like I love me some books so okay, like
Speaker 1: love a plug. Yeah, I appreciate you Melody Chark for
Speaker 1: coming on release bookshelf and we're gonna do something in
Speaker 1: the future because I just love your spirit and you're
Speaker 1: just so talented. Wow, disguise the limit. Thank you. I
Speaker 1: got another author here at the tad woman, Sha Nell Reynolds.
Speaker 1: She's gonna tell us about this wonderful book called What
Speaker 1: Matters Most to Get Your Together Guy to Will's Money,
Speaker 1: Insurance and Life. What if talk to me about it? Talking? Well?
Speaker 1: Thank you? Well, you know when when getting my show
Speaker 1: together found Those words first came out of my mouth
Speaker 1: when I was standing in the ICU after my late
Speaker 1: husband Jose had gotten into an accident, and I realized
Speaker 1: that being a project manager, being college educated, being organized,
Speaker 1: and thinking that I kind of had my together, I
Speaker 1: did not. And if that was happening to me, what
Speaker 1: the heck is going on with everybody else and all
Speaker 1: the other hospital rooms. And you know, when the world
Speaker 1: gets pulled out from underneath your feet, you realize that
Speaker 1: you wish you would have done a couple of things.
Speaker 1: And this is a list. This book is a part memoir,
Speaker 1: part how to of all the things I wish I
Speaker 1: would have done to make a hard time a really
Speaker 1: hard time, UM, maybe a little bit softer. So so
Speaker 1: these are things didn't matter. I mean, we take for
Speaker 1: granted and then when things like this happened, we're not prepared.
Speaker 1: We're not prepared. And I'm certainly not suggesting that we
Speaker 1: can make a checklist or project managed all pain and
Speaker 1: suffering away. But I remember standing in the hospital trying
Speaker 1: to remember the UM password to his phone so I
Speaker 1: could call his dad. And what would have taken five
Speaker 1: seconds or to sign up for a password manager or
Speaker 1: write that down. It took me hours and extra extra,
Speaker 1: extra pain and suffering. So things like life insurance, things
Speaker 1: like get in your living will or advanced care directive
Speaker 1: done um really like picking who you want your guardians
Speaker 1: to be, or who the hell is gonna go after
Speaker 1: your like go into your closet and dig through your
Speaker 1: very personal things. These are good, really meaningful, really important,
Speaker 1: generally or often free things to do, and it makes
Speaker 1: our lives tomorrow better and it makes me feel like
Speaker 1: I have just so much more space and less worrying
Speaker 1: the day. I imagine that if you prepare in advance,
Speaker 1: it's not as painful and stressful having to do it
Speaker 1: after something tragic happens. Exactly what takes maybe five minutes
Speaker 1: now takes five hours or five years later. You know,
Speaker 1: it's like getting the oil changed in your car, getting
Speaker 1: a mamigrant um or whatever, furnace filters or things that
Speaker 1: people do. Just write some of that basic stuff into
Speaker 1: the spec like get your review your wills on your birthday,
Speaker 1: or like at least every election cycle, right yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely prepare in advance for what is inevitable. And we
Speaker 1: you know, death is inevitable, accidents are inevitable, just things
Speaker 1: that happened. That's part of life. Life is up and down.
Speaker 1: You high one minute and you hit the loaded next.
Speaker 1: And so, like you said, we can't prepare for everything,
Speaker 1: but certainly we need to prepare certain things in advance.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna take person, I'm gonna get my stuff
Speaker 1: in it. I want to say, I want to get
Speaker 1: my s in harder because I need to do some
Speaker 1: of these things right now. Yes, Hey, we're getting nursed together,
Speaker 1: one person at a time. Indeed, Well, it's your point,
Speaker 1: like dying is the one thing we all humans, we
Speaker 1: all sentitioned beings, everything has in common, and it's it's
Speaker 1: amazing or you know, it's just part of who we
Speaker 1: are as humans to talk about if we die, not
Speaker 1: when we die. Yeah, real talk. Yeah what Channel Reynolds,
Speaker 1: thank you for this wonderful, wonderful conversation about your book
Speaker 1: What Matters Most? Thank you. So I'm blessed at the
Speaker 1: conference to meet another author, Sousa make Pearson. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: the Lost Art of Connecting, And I just want to
Speaker 1: ask you tell us a little bit about your books. Sure, sure, Well,
Speaker 1: the book is all about the importance of building meaningful
Speaker 1: connections in our lives. And I have to say, every
Speaker 1: good thing that has ever happened to me in my
Speaker 1: life happened because of connections. But it's not networking. It's
Speaker 1: leading with how can I be of help rather than
Speaker 1: what I can get? And the book has a methodology
Speaker 1: which I want borrior listeners, so but it's gather as
Speaker 1: do and it really helps you build meaningful relationships over
Speaker 1: the course of your personal and professional lives. That sounds
Speaker 1: like a timely book. I mean, we live in some
Speaker 1: difficult times today and so we definitely want to learn
Speaker 1: how to connect. UM does your book address these changing
Speaker 1: times that we're living in. I wrote it during the pandemic,
Speaker 1: so I started writing it in February of twenty and
Speaker 1: then the world changed in in March and the book
Speaker 1: was launched in April of So for eight months during
Speaker 1: the pandemic, I was writing it talking to people who
Speaker 1: had actually made the practice of building connections a core
Speaker 1: part of their livelihood their career. And believe it or not,
Speaker 1: I learned from a um for research that making meaningful
Speaker 1: connections actually makes us healthier UM and and if we
Speaker 1: make that a priority, it's actually going to help us
Speaker 1: be healthier than running every day and eating kale every day.
Speaker 1: But it is challenging now because we have been you know,
Speaker 1: we had a culture of a and an epidemic of
Speaker 1: loneliness before the pandemic that only exacerbated. And now I
Speaker 1: think people are realizing that our relationships matter more than ever,
Speaker 1: so they're being more intentional when they reach out. And
Speaker 1: I say, now's the time go reconnect with people that
Speaker 1: perhaps you think, oh, they're not gonna want to reconnect
Speaker 1: with me. Try it. What have you got to lose,
Speaker 1: You don't have nothing to lose, but all to gain. Well,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, um, I would just be considered a connection.
Speaker 1: Meeting you today, absolutely absolutely met. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for taking a few minutes to talk to me, and
Speaker 1: how wonderful that we're both here at TED Women. Thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, And you heard it from Susan
Speaker 1: mcpearrison The Lost Art of Connecting. Thank you. I'm blessed today.
Speaker 1: I'm blessed today leak book shows at the Ted What Now?
Speaker 1: The Ted Women, What Now? And I'm blessed to be
Speaker 1: standing by Anna Tubs and a Molika Tubs, the author
Speaker 1: of Three Mothers Hey, I'll tell you this. When your
Speaker 1: book first came out, it was in the summer. We
Speaker 1: had a couple of schools, two different schools, order about
Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty copies teach and that was a
Speaker 1: major blessing. And I was, you know, that's a big
Speaker 1: order for us, big book. So we sold a ton
Speaker 1: of your books. The three Mothers. Can you tell us
Speaker 1: a little bit about it, because you you got Martin
Speaker 1: Luther King Jr. You talk about the mother Martin Luther
Speaker 1: King Jr. Michael Mix and James Baldwin. These are three
Speaker 1: powerful women mothers. Talk about this book absolutely. Will I
Speaker 1: am honored, first of all to be speaking with you all.
Speaker 1: I'm such a big fan of this bookstore, and I
Speaker 1: remember the schools and I said, go to this bookstore
Speaker 1: to buy them. So I'm so rateful that they did.
Speaker 1: Um and the Mother is of MLK. You're Malcolm X
Speaker 1: and James Baldwin. Their names were Outbert to Christine, Williams King, Movies,
Speaker 1: Little and Vertics Baldwin and they all three had such
Speaker 1: incredible identities even before they became mothers. They were activists.
Speaker 1: They were creating life through their arts and through their
Speaker 1: power and through this activism, and it's so clear that
Speaker 1: their sons inherited these talents from their mothers. And I
Speaker 1: just think it's time that the world know that, and
Speaker 1: that the world appreciate that, and that we all know
Speaker 1: their names just like we do their sons. We all
Speaker 1: learned the mothers the first teacher, how the mother couldn't
Speaker 1: be influence you in their lives. But I see that
Speaker 1: you personally took the time out to give tribute to
Speaker 1: these three mothers because their sons are incredible and have
Speaker 1: done an enormous amount why of work in their activism,
Speaker 1: in their literary arts, and in their you know, the
Speaker 1: movement towards as freedom, justice, inequality here in America. What
Speaker 1: inspired you? What inspired you to write this book? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was inspired when I started my PhD at the
Speaker 1: University of Cambridge. I was very inspired by Margotlie Shutterley
Speaker 1: is Hidden Figures, and I wanted to be someone who
Speaker 1: found other hidden figures, and I wanted to make sure
Speaker 1: that more black women's names were known. And I also
Speaker 1: wanted to fight the erasia of mothers. And so that's
Speaker 1: how I came up with the topic. And when I
Speaker 1: discovered that all three of these mothers were born within
Speaker 1: five years of each other, and their famous sons were
Speaker 1: born within five years of each other. I found the hook,
Speaker 1: the kind of intersection in these three stories, and I
Speaker 1: wanted to just bring that together in a book and
Speaker 1: make sure we were celebrating black women and black mothers
Speaker 1: and the way that they deserve to be celebrated. If
Speaker 1: you've been here at the tag woman, what now and
Speaker 1: talk when we celebrating women here, we celebrating women here.
Speaker 1: So this book is a timely book, and this is
Speaker 1: the perfect place to talk to a diverse crowd about
Speaker 1: your masterpiece. Thank you, thank you, thank you. We're gonna
Speaker 1: do an extended version when it's quiet and everybody around,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna talk a little bit more. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Adam Peace. Flying Free, that's about overcoming fair and learning
Speaker 1: to fly, like flying an airplane or flying in your
Speaker 1: life both, but yeah, flying an airplane and doing spins
Speaker 1: and loops and rules. I was actually the first Latina
Speaker 1: pilot on the US air v Addic team, the Olystic team,
Speaker 1: So I would imagine that that would would definitely be
Speaker 1: a fear. Did you have to overcome filled with a
Speaker 1: lot of anxiety? Would you overcame me. I did it, yeah,
Speaker 1: and that gave me the courage to do so many
Speaker 1: other things. I mean, I wrote it to be encouraging
Speaker 1: to young people because I think, I mean, especially many
Speaker 1: young people of color and this country are told, like
Speaker 1: my teachers told me I wasn't going to go to college.
Speaker 1: They accused me of plagiarism when I wrote, well, because
Speaker 1: someone like me, you know, should be out in the fields.
Speaker 1: You know. Um my parents both had really thick accent,
Speaker 1: so they you know, and they when we tried to
Speaker 1: buy a house in a you know, quote unquote good neighborhood,
Speaker 1: they took it off the market. So you know, it's
Speaker 1: and it's very discouraging to a young child. And despite that,
Speaker 1: you still give hope. You still give hope. And that's
Speaker 1: say this book is really inspiring. More academic, it's all
Speaker 1: about flying free is more inspiring. This is more inspiring.
Speaker 1: This is about fan fiction and how fan fiction works.
Speaker 1: It's more academic. Is full of interesting data if you
Speaker 1: want to study the phenomenon. Okay, but it's more of
Speaker 1: an academic book. And this is more you know, general
Speaker 1: public book, general public. Thank you, so people are interested
Speaker 1: in the talk you can say that's a great REFERU. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're interested in being inspired, inspired and we need that.
Speaker 1: That's what this confidence is all about. Inspiration, inspired, motivations,
Speaker 1: lifting this up right advocates for a woman who rights
Speaker 1: all of that. Thank you, you have a blessed Appreciate you,
Speaker 1: steal your aragon and keep on writing. Thank you, Thank
Speaker 1: you for having an awesome bookstore I love. Appreciate that
Speaker 1: I have a safe trip home. But thanks for listening
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