Dr. Tererai Trent: Awaken to Your Full Potential and Achieve the Impossible with Lewis Howes

so it's sisters is we go into these circles of a were kidding ourselves and are working other women so that we don't get to see the silencing of women then we can also tackle on those issues so women can be happy with who they are happy with their own bad bodies that's what welcome back everyone to the school of greatness podcast we have dr. terror ID Trent in the house thank you so much for being here and thank you for having me thank you I'm very excited you have a book out called the awakened woman remembering and reuniting our sacred dreams it just came out recently around the launch of my book make sure you guys pick it up I'm excited to have you in here because we we tried to have you come on a couple months ago when you're gonna be in town a little bit we're gonna reschedule now you're here Oprah says that you're her favorite guest of all time on The Oprah Show so I'm curious to see why and I'm excited to learn more about your story and really why you wanted to write about this book and you've been talking about female empowerment for many years now right essentially since you were a young woman growing up in Zimbabwe yeah you lost sight of your dreams is that what I'm that's alright I lost sight of my my dreams I am I always talk about I come from this long line of generations of women women who had been married very before they could define the life they wanted for themselves my great-grandmother became the sixth wife to my friend grandpa and it was a polygamous union so she was given off as a young girl to my great-grandpa my grandmother would follow the same pathway and became the fifty wife and married off when she was very young my own mother would also follow the same pathway and here I come before I was 18 years of age I was already a mother of four and one of the babies died as an infant because I failed to produce enough milk to feed the child I was a child myself and I realized the pathway that I was going through was silencing me and it silenced me I was also exchanged for a cow the same way now yes the same way it's practiced in my in my culture but I wanted education so badly I wanted situation I was born in Rhodesia before the country became Zimbabwe and I was born during the war the war that shipped everything about me everything about the gender inequalities in poverty in my community and I realized at an early age that gosh I didn't like this life but I didn't know how best to change that life because growing up in the rural areas where you have no electricity no running water no role models what can you envision but then we gained our independence and we became Zimbabwe and we when we gained independence this woman from America came to my village I didn't know her name later I lent her name is Joe luck she found me with other women sitting in a circle and she asked me one fundamental question what are your dreams I looked at him and I am thinking me poor black woman I'm supposed to dream I kept quiet the other women talked about their hopes for educating their own children they talked about their dreams for having food security at household level and I was quiet she turned around and you see there's a photo affair she turned around and she looked at me and she said young woman why are you quiet what are your dreams and I'm not sure maybe it was the way she looked at me maybe it was the way she kept on urging me when I opened my mouth I became a chatterbox I couldn't stop I said I want to go to America I want to have an undergraduate I want to have a masters I want to have a PhD there was silence because the other women knew I did not have a high school diploma I was also expecting my fifty child and you're 18 at the time when I eat Wow and this woman she looked at me and she said Tara Ryan if you believe in your dreams they are achievable and she used one word she know gonna in my language it means it is achievable and I and I'm thinking how can she say that I have no high school diploma I live in an abusive relationship I'm expecting my 50 child I rent to my mother and I said mother I met this woman she made me believe I can achieve my dreams and that was music to my mother my mother turned around and said terror I if you truly believe in what this stranger had said to you and by the way we were just a newly independent country we never had any white people coming in foreigners coming in and we had lived in an oppressive system racial system where the white community were not good to the black community and these an American woman rubbing shoulders with me and asking me this so I believed here and my mother said if you truly believe in what she said and you achieved these dreams not only are you defining who you are as a woman but you are defining every life that comes out of your womb and generations to come and I am thinking what does that even mean so my mother said write down your dreams in buried them the same way we bury the umbilical cord the birth code I come from a culture where when a child is born they slip the umbilical cord of the child and they take the mother's uterus they wrapped that umbilical cord and bury it deep down under the ground with the belief that when this child grows wherever they go whatever happens in their life the umbilical cord the buried umbilical cord will always remind this person of their birthplace so my mother said bury down your bear write down your dreams and bury them wherever you go whatever happens in your life despite the abuse in your life despite the challenges those dreams are always remind of their importance so it would take me eight years from the day I buried my dreams to achieve my GED and I always talk about eight years of failing because that time we were still under the British system of Education where you would because I was already in all the woman so I would go through correspondence and outright my classes and through correspondence try to get the next tuition that I needed and go to the post office mail those results to a place called Cambridge in Britain wait three six months for that brown envelope to come go to the post office and I opened that brown envelope and I realized I have a you which is a failure and graded and I have an F and I'll try to find money to repeat those classes again and it will take me another true yes to do that and write the exams and sent them to this place called Cambridge the brown envelope comes back and I opened that brown envelope and I realized I have a D and I have a you find more money and write again up until I achieved my GED eight years and then I found myself at Oklahoma State University yeah and I did my undergraduate in agriculture and then I did my masters in plant pathology which is the same field as agriculture but now you're looking at the diseases that affect agricultural crops and what interested you in that those studies I remember I thought I talked about bearing my dreams under the ground I believe in rituals in this book is full of rituals the F is sacred to my people in my community we survive from the earth whatever we dress it's from the earth whatever we do we go back to the earth when we are born we bury our umbilical cord in the earth when we die we go back to the earth and so I knew coming to America I wanted to do agriculture because it's part of who we are so after I completed my must as it was it was terrible because I had brought with me my five children in my abusive husband you brought them yes I did I did and they were all enrolled in your vision to go to the United States to do underground and they said we'll go with you and so when I when I wrote down my dreams when my mother said write down your dreams initially I had four dreams to come to America driven undergraduates have a master's in a PhD and I was ready to go and bury those dreams when my mother said your dreams will have greater meaning when they are tied to the betterment of your community and I had no idea what my mother was talking about and I said what does that mean my mother was a very quiet woman and she said your dreams or he have greater meaning when they are tied to the betterment of your community so I ended up writing my 50 dream when I'm done I want to come back and improve the lives of women and girls in my community and I knew in those moments that I had a moral obligation a sacred obligation not only to educate myself but to educate my own children and to come back with the gift of Education to my own people so I had to make sure I pray my children also I didn't want to leave my children behind and especially the girls because I knew if I do so they will end up also following the same pathway work you know I always talk about the relay you know this sport where you have four track the track and they are running and they are holding a stick the Patania so I I knew through the stories from my grandmother and my mother that my great-grandmother was born holding this patron she was born in this relay and I call that the relay of poverty and I call that the baton of illiteracy the pattern of early marriage so as my great-grandmother is running in that race she is holding that pattern she is running so fast she hence that pattern of poverty - my grandmother my grandma that grips that pattern of poverty the pattern of illiteracy the pattern of early marriage she ran so fast with that patrol she hands it over to my mother my mother grabs that baton of poverty the pattern of illiteracy she runs with that baton and she hands it over to me I never wanted that but one it was not my race it was not my relay but something happened even though I accepted that baton I had children when I was young married young Joe luck when she came him at that point in my life at my lowest point in my life when I had children before they could be married so coming to America was a no-brainer for me to bring my own children yeah but anyway after they arrived my children I realized that America was a difficult place to live I was then all the students an international students no access to scholarships I used to work three four jobs to be able to feed the children and pay for my own tuition and one day I saw my kids when they were brushing their teeth the guns were bleating and I realized that they were missing fruits and vegetables back home in Africa fruits and vegetables I everywhere in America know where especially especially in Oklahoma right it's like processed food yes I you know I guess I ended up fitting the children with french fries and burgers and it affected them so I had to go to the University and back to the University and I said you know I have a dream I want to achieve this education but I need help with the kids so the vice-president's dr. andreas late said well you know we can get you to your local store and sometimes they live fruits and vegetables that are going bad at the end of the day they may throw them away I hope you don't mind taking those and wash them and feed your children well the store manager says in this country if we give you these fruits and vegetables that are going bad and you feed your children and if something happens you might end up suing us and I said no I have no money to sue anyone I really need the fruits and vegetables and I guess the store manager saw that I was almost in tears and he said okay here's what I'm going to do I'm going to make sure that we put the fruits and vegetables in a cardboard box and we place that cardboard box near the trashcan four o'clock make sure you come and pick it if you don't you'll find your fruits and vegetables into the trashcan and I used to take 18 hours of coursework 3-4 jobs taking care of five kids 99% of the time I was late to that trash game and I would find the fruits and vegetables into the trashcan and how to retrieve the fruits and vegetables wash them and feed my children and ask myself Who am I even to complain that my own children are eating from the trash can when I know there are thousands if not millions of children out of Africa in men and in many developing countries who are eating from trash cans that no one washes at least the American trash can is washed who am I even to complain I live in Oklahoma I am living in a trailer house where we don't have electricity and when it's summertime it's so hot we can't stand it but who am I even to complain when I know in Oklahoma and even in the United States there are so many women who are living on the streets homeless and they have no shelter those sports grounded me in those thoughts they gave me a platform to know my greatness in this life so I graduated with my masters and I thought well there's something about poverty I want to find a job to help the kids and then I can do my PhD so I applied for a job in Oklahoma or I just went online yeah and I applied a job in valyrian Oklahoma and I was living in Oklahoma and I got it accepted by heifer international in her face in Arkansas little rocker so I went to work as I one day I was I was I was walking and I met this woman and she said I know you and I'm thinking I think I do I said I you know from Zimbabwe mmm and I said yeah and I said oh yeah I remember we had met some 14 years back and that's the woman who told me if you believe in your dreams they are chief him no way yeah the woman who came the white woman came in no way in Arkansas yeah in in that woman that time she was a program officer and I had no idea now she is the president and CEO of heifer international the company are working with now yeah Wow and I always talk about you know the universe of course is always conniving for our success and she said I know your dreams Wow you weren't you have a PhD what was that like when you came across her I couldn't believe it did you tell her the story right then or yeah she's yeah her brother she remembered she remember this story Wow she remember this story she was like I don't know what I told you that yeah we have oh yeah yeah she remember this story I for me I I heard like well it happens I met this woman and I wrote down my dreams but I could I remember the woman's face you know you know and you know and she remembered she remembered home without a I don't think how they remembered she remembered and to top it off there was a small magazine with my photo with yes sitting and I'm thinking what are they all bearing our dreams it's a ritual that I talk about in this book I think when you want something so badly when you have a vision to change your life whatever you write down it becomes ingrained in your thoughts and whatever is ingrained in your thoughts it can be manifested because your mind and your thought and your being and your feelings thinking about that goal that vision and I so my first trip back home I went to that place where I had buried my dreams dug them up checked going to America checked undergraduate checked masters reburied those dreams came back to the United States enrolled myself at Western Michigan University and achieved my PhD in evaluations and it had taken me almost 20 years from the day I buried my dreams to the day I then achieved my PhD and I remember walking to that podium where they were these professors wearing their big guns and heads and and I'm looking and I'm saying I'm going to get that pepper and I felt like a lawyer we addressed that hair case to the world and my closing argument was if we give education opportunities to those who are turned down and marginalized by the social years of our times they can achieve their dreams and if we give education opportunities to women and girls it is the best investment any country any nation any individual in any community can do because we need to make sure that we educate our women and girls we have 62 million girls in the world in the world who are being denied the right to education so we have a moral obligation to make sure that we access universal education to everybody and making sure that women also have the opportunity for an education more so now I have my PhD and you think I'm happy and I go home and I'm thinking dear mother why did you make me write that 50 dream to give back to the community because when my mother said your dreams I have greater meaning when they are tied to the betterment of your community I ended up writing the 50 dream when I'm done I want to come back and improve the lives of women and girls and I buried those dreams maybe I was just trying to please my mother I don't know so I'm thinking what can I do to fulfill that 50 dream I had no money I had nothing and I remember Joe luck when she came to the village and when she found me in that circle she used the word Tino gonna it is achievable and I said I'm going to design my t-shirts and I'm going to write Tino I'm gonna and I'm going to have it is achievable I'm going to sell these t-shirts and I'm going to make more money I'm going to go back home like a giant and build schools but guess what I only sold 22 shares it's a lot harder and mostly to my friends rare American friends and I I didn't know what to do up until I got a phone call the most memorable phone call of my life a call from Oprah Winfrey and she donated 1.5 million dollars Wow was that fifth a dream was that I call this sacred a dream all along my mother she knew that it's not about our personal goals in law in life it's not about those pissed off financial goals it's not about the degrees is none of that but it is about how our personal goals and how our financial goals are tied to the greater good that's the secret to our success if I had not written down that 50 goal I don't think I'd be sitting here with you I don't think I'll be invited to speak all over the world I don't think I'd be addressing the United Nations to talk about the importance of education I don't think none of that would have happened our greatness in life it comes from recognizing that I am because we are and since we are therefore I am I also in this book talk about the Honda or the passion or the desire that we have in our lives and I think in many ways I defied the odds and I defied everything that my great grandmother my grandmother and my mother had gone through because I had Honda and there are two kinds of hangers in our lives there is the little Honda the little Honda is all about immediate gratification I want it now how many Facebook Likes how many and how many how many friends are over yes but the great hunt that the greatest of all hungers is hunger for a meaningful life in our lives ultimately as human beings we become bitter when we lead their life without meaning because that's what gives us our greatness so I realize well now we are funding today we have 11 schools going on benefiting more than 6,000 girls and boys going through our education system yeah and these are campuses you're a match yes yes no no they are not small schools so we have we we range from the smallest school would have about 400 kids and the largest school which is the school that I attended when I was young it has become one of the largest schools in the whole district if not the country we have about nineteen hundred kids going through that school because of the success that we have had many parents they want to bring their kids rascals and I met these old men holding their eight-year-old girls and say terror I can she be just like you and I realized in those moments that not only if we manage to provide quality education to the poorest of the poor but we have also managed to help the communities to transform them themselves to understand the importance and value girls education yeah that's all that's what makes me yeah you said 62 million girls are without education or denied education what does that mean they're not allowed to go to school or they don't have access to it what does it mean everything no don't have access to school they are being denied because okay yes and like I talked about in my region in Africa every day we have thirty nine girls that get married before they tend the age of 18 those girls should be sitting in classrooms those girls should be engineers those girls should be dreaming whatever life they want but because of the policies times that we have and because lack of funding we have neglected girls yeah what about boys around the world do you know the statistics around young boys are they do they have more access to education or boys are more likely to have access to education but there are also boys that are being forced into Wars civil wars that have no access to education that's why for me I'm not only talking about access access to education for girls only I talk about universal access I want boys and girls to have equal opportunities but we know that the playing field is not level and that's why I'm giving heads up to more girls to make sure that when I go to these communities I want to ask the fundamental question to each girl what are your dreams how best can we help you to excel mmm yeah it's a great question ask yeah I believe that without dreams we're living a subpar life if we don't have a dream to at least think about and just keep on on the path its it doesn't actually in my mind matter if I achieve all of them but to have them yeah - better go for ya it gives you it gives you hope it gives you you want to jump because you know you have something that you can see in your future you know and I wrote down my dreams I would go to this place where I had buried them and I would sit there and visualize what life would be like in those moments out God deep and look at myself getting into that aeroplane to America I'd never been in an aeroplane and I didn't even know what it looks like but I knew it was something that would go up in the sky sit in that aeroplane and visualize myself carrying a bag at a campus and going to school and taking my classes and then visualize myself getting that degree that says now I have another graduate now I have a master's how to visualize myself and then visualize myself after I am done what life would be like those things helped me grounded me to have that mental image of what life would be like so I want every girl every woman every boy every man to have mental images of the life that they envisioned the life that was meant for them not the life that someone else is defining not where someone's trying to pass me exactly exactly yeah yeah well what would you say is the greatest lesson you learned about yourself during those 20 years of planting the seed of the dream into finalizing the the fourth dream of the doctor the doctor degree what was the greatest lesson for you you know you know that's a great question because many also asked me the same question by the say gosh you must be very lucky to have achieved all these things what did you learn in the process I know I I am NOT lucky no there's nothing called lucky I had opportunities so the lesson for me is Co opportunities if we give opportunities lay there for everyone to have access to their passion access to whatever they want it's easy it's not like I was this Majesty person no I wasn't the way other women I know we're smarter than I am but I had an opportunity and that's why when I finished my school when I started working on the schools I wanted to give opportunities to the children so they can have access to a life a better life that they deserve yeah yeah what's your message to women and young girls growing up now who maybe live in privilege in the United States or maybe don't live in our privilege in other countries developing countries is the message the same to both sets of girls and women or is it different based on their environment you know you know I would say which I write so much in my book migrant my mother would talk about the invisible ladder letter letter yeah that we are all climbing the ladder the ladder we are all climbing this invisible ladder some people are on the top rung and that could be maybe a Western woman I don't know some people are still under law so we have a moral obligation to make sure that those who are on that top rung they look down and pull their sisters so we all climb together and I say the silencing of one woman is our silencing so when we see another woman being silenced whether they are in Cambodia where you work or whether they are in Africa or they are here in America we also need to help that woman because they are working of women it is they are weakening of the whole world and it is our healing you know Native Americans they have taught us one thing that I have learned in admire so much humankind is not often the web of life we are one thread within it whatever we do to this web we do it ourselves all things are bound together all things are connected our very survival in the United States is connected to the survival of women in Cambodia in India in Africa when there are so many people who maybe are on a lower part of the ladder in the world yeah what's your recommendation for someone who does want to make an impact when you know you've built a massive impact in your country you've built 11 schools but there's so many more people to lift up and you're only one person and how can what is someone's approach to how they can help serve whether it be you know everyone every other country when there's other stuff and their own family that they're dealing with how do we all need to be awakened as we men inform this collective circles of women to help other women and when I wrote this book and I was thinking about what about if all women rise together and realize these statistics that we all know the 62 million and more girls that are being denied their right education what about women realized that we have 700 million women today marriage today who were married or had babies before they were 18 700 million via home of those 700 million surely enough there are many who are still on the bottom rung and there are many who were denied the right to the erotic power ironic power what do you mean chapter 5 tell me more so I write about the power of our sensuality as women many women may be denied that power because sex is such a taboo subject so when I talk about the silencing of women we men were silenced through sexual abuse through these many things and we hate even an America the greatest country where women are being silenced hetero sex but women who happily in the partnership who are happy who are happy with their sex life or a happy being loved it's not only about the physical sex that I'm talking about but just being happy having somebody who looks at you and say you met her I love you you are the best thing having that feeling is part of our our coming so as sisters as we go into these circles of working in ourselves and our working in other women so that we don't get to see the silencing of women then we can also tackle on those issues so women can be happy with who they are happy with their own bare bodies that's what I recognized in my life as part of our coming a woman who is sexually satisfied a woman who is happy with her own sensuality is a woman who can sit in a boardroom and make decisions mm-hmm and a woman who isn't sexually satisfied or happy with herself what is not available for them we need to help them we really need to bring that consciousness to all women do you think they're they're limited in their abilities to achieve their dreams if they're not sexually sighs really yes there's a connection between achieving your dreams and your happiness in life with who you are and sexuality as I said it's not only about the physical sex but also being in a loving relationship course so what's your recommendation for women who don't feel like they have a loving relationship and they don't feel comfortable with their sexuality of course no you know I I truly encourage the women to to find help because there is help out there what some would find their voice to to help define themselves by finding their own voices knowing their own bodies knowing what makes them happy is there a specific ritual that you recommend that anyone listening or watching right now could do was something small or to start to rekindle that fire within themselves that would they wouldn't require someone else to support them with yeah you know sometimes you requires others to support them back home i I do these circles of women where we all sit together in an intimate circle and we talk about these issues and one of the questions that I always ask is what breaks your heart what really breaks your heart what's the most common response it all depends if we are talking about the great hunger what breaks your heart some people they talk about I really want to help with the issues that are happening in my community some people they talk about the oppression of women and they want to be part of that some people they talk about the abuse of animals the end they want to help in that area some people they talk about I'm not happy in my own life and it breaks my heart and I'm afraid that this unhappiness it will overflow to my own children and why are you not happy and it could be they are not happy because they live in an abusive relationship and it's because they're being allowed to dream big and there are so many things that makes women unhappy or individuals unhappy what advice would you have for men who are listening because our audience is about 50/50 men and women what advice for men on how they can support the women in their lives their mothers sisters daughters partners all the women our lives what can men do better you know there there are many men who are so good who really understand these issues and I call these my soul brothers the men who are there for for women and as you see with the silencing of women in America then some men are standing up and say this is just wrong so I encourage men to bring their voices out to fight these social injustice to make sure that we live in a world a loving world in a world that they would want to see their own baby girls growing living excelling and being the mistresses and the masters of their own destiny mm-hmm yeah like that yeah what's the vision now moving forward you've you've come back to fulfill the fifth dream you're building schools you're empowering women you're cultivating them to awaken their sacred dreams and you're making a big impact what's what's the vision now have you planted new dreams you know I get that all the time I'm tired of writing and bearing dreams deep down under the soil under the ground I'm baring my dreams in your heart so we have I'm talking to I'm baring my dreams in their hearts yeah yeah what's something that's a non-negotiable for you every single day and every single year being silenced not not being sound silenced because when I share my story many come to the conclusion that maybe I'm a victim you know and I and I always say no I'm not a victim I am part of the solution and I have learned to define myself I'm the mistress and master of my own destiny and I'm refusing to let the past define who I am and I'm also refusing to let the current challenges in my pathway become the narratives that shape my future I defied the rules of my father I defied the norms of my culture and I refuse to keep silence about societal expectations that marginalize women and girls to be submissive at the expense of their dignity and I'll never be silent so that's negotiable that's powerful and do you believe if someone doesn't have access to university or maybe it's just they still want education but they can't come to America for whatever reason know what's how do they get education or how to make what's the best education they should be getting so when I talk about getting a PhD or these degrees I'm not saying everybody should have that I'm saying find your passion find your great hunger if education is your great Rhonda go for it there are many ways that we can define education it could be skills that you do with your hands it could be other things that you you could do and coming to America is not the only thing that you can people should think about we have your dress that was my dream we have universities in our own countries let's go there let's do the best that we can otherwise if we all say oh I want to follow the same dreams and go to America and if it's not your passion you're just leaving someone else is passion and you'll never be happy yeah yeah thank you powerful want people to make sure to go get the book the awakened woman remembering and reigniting our sacred dreams you guys hear me talking about dreams all the time for me as a young boy growing up in a small town in Ohio I had education but I was dyslexic and it was very challenging for me to read and write and comprehend the information I was receiving so I never felt good enough to be able to really excel in education yeah so I learned sports and other things that became my form of it education my teachers were different teachers but I always believed in dreams and for me I held on to those very strong and loose at the same time and it was just constantly persistent in pursuing them and that brought me a lot of joy in that pursuit so for me um it's always sad for me when people don't have a dream yeah or when they just have no clue how to discover the dream yeah yeah so I know there's some rituals and other things in here to help ignite those dreams and light the fire to get the juices going yeah what's something that what's a question people don't ask you that you wish they would ask you what makes you happy what makes you happy what it what is it then you know gosh I always want to say happiness is temporary but wholeness is permanent so the question should not be what makes me happy what makes you all what makes me hard what is that what makes me whole is when I managed to live the Native American mantra that we are all connected we own a sacred journey and realizing that I'm part of that Jenny it makes me oh I'm a work upset but I'm so Hall it when I'm Hall I am me mmm and I'm happy yeah yeah yeah that's great yeah and what's the thing you're most proud of that maybe most people aren't aware about you you know Oprah favorite guest building schools in your country and all these things the awards with the n-double-a-cp Award for outstanding literary work all these things that people know about what's the thing people don't know that you're most proud of my mother what about her my mother was my greatest mentor despite the fact that she was poor herself not educated herself she saw something in me that I didn't see she wanted me to excel she wanted me to live this dream and I'm living the dream well yeah and what's the greatest lesson she taught you your dreams will have greater meaning when they are tied to the betterment of others yeah that's powerful yeah and the greatest lesson your father the wind you feel sand just sing you say a lot I do yeah yeah do you sing when you're happy too hopefully yeah it's not always sad you know my father would say when you feel sad you're overwhelmed or you are truly happy to express these feelings these emotions just sing so it wasn't only about being said you're right yeah I've got a couple of questions left for you okay this one is called the three truths huh retrace huh so imagine this is the last day for you many years from now many many years it's the last day for you and you've achieved every dream and you've helped inspire the world and you've done everything you said you wanted to do and you feel whole completes you've awakened the dreams and millions of women around the world you've you've done it it's all happened right and you've written books and spoken all over the world like you already have been but for whatever reason all of the information you've put out into the world is erased so there's no access to your information in books or videos gone mm-hmm just the memory the vo right hypothetical but you had a piece of paper and a pen and you got to write down three things you need to be true about your life your experiences or three lessons that you would share with the world and this is all people would have of your work what would you say are your three truths one forgiveness [Music] without forgiveness we cannot be at peace with ourselves and we give more power to those who hate us and we can do that that's one that does that that's the truth for me forgiveness the second one is a one eNOS our one eNOS is people our winter which is the same the essence of our humanity I am because we are since we therefore I am and the third one is peace in the world we need peace because without peace then we live in a world that subjects more women and children just suffering so those for me the truth but also principles that guide my life thank you I want to acknowledge you for a moment for your incredible contribution to humanity you have defied so many odds from where you come from to create such abundance and wealth not just financially for women and men but spiritual wealth and the opportunity for people to unlock something greater within themselves one acknowledge you for being a great example of what is possible no matter where you come from what you've been through who's treated you poorly or pushed you down you've risen up and created incredible results in the world and you're an inspiration to so many people for that yeah I appreciate that thing yeah yeah I want people to get the book the awakened woman make sure to check it out where do you like to spend time online is there a website for you or social media that you spend the most time yes or your team or yeah my my facebook on my facebook you can go to terror i trends and my Twitter feed is tarah right when its terror i trends and I think that's it okay perfect in terror right rent calm for money for money reverse right yeah for my website its Tara ride calm it's not known ww terror i dot olga yeah we'll make sure to go there follow you and get the book and I have one final question and that is what your definition of greatness so what defines my what defines greatness what defines greatness for me is to have is my ability to recognize the fact that I am part of something that is bigger than I am just waking up every day recognizing that fact in knowing that I am here on earth for a purpose when I know that then I see my greatness in this world because if I don't see that then I'm living what I'm being led by my little honker and I want to be led by my great Angus it is that which breaks my heart that makes me recognize that I am part of the solution and I am part of what is also needed I have a place in the world because I am hmm thank you so much for coming on I really appreciate it thank you thank you play is powerful thank you for having me thank you you

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Keywords: Dr. Tererai Trent:, Awaken to Your Full Potential and Achieve the Impossible, lewis howes, the school of greatness, entrepreneur, NY Times Bestselling author, oprah, story, ted talk, family, africa, the awakened woman, super soul sunday, oprah winfrey, oprah winfrey network youtube, full episodes, how-to, oprah life class, interview, 2018, mel robbins, tony robbins, garyvee, tom bilyeu

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Length: 58min 54sec (3534 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 31 2018