Meeting Michelle Obama - Becoming Book Tour Los Angeles

anybody who knows me knows how much I absolutely love this woman I just adore her love everything about her her message she's so inspiring she's so empowering and yes this is just like a dream come true for me so heading off to the airport now to catch a flight over to Los Angeles and so I've got my hair done and everything so I've got curly hair got me makeup on time time span is quite short so I'm praying fingers crossed that there were no delays and because everything is pretty tight at the moment but I cannot tell you how excited I am waiting for this [Music] it's a navigator [Music] yeah [Music] [Music] I've been staring gazing at the [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] if it's good to be able to make your own cheese toast what kind of cheese you use cheddar cheddar do you use the kind that you slice yourself worthy is our display you know that night we didn't have the shredded so I cut up from a qr8 so I could tell swishing from the toaster and into the microwave guys so I still have some cooking skills with my bargains you know there was love and lust in GI Joes would come in there were relationships and did I I sort of bring in the blocks and they have characters and I read that little universe and I liked it like that and I knew early on I thought about going outside with the other kids but I'm gonna look out the window and it's like messy I'm still Michelle Rock yeah all right the form is filled up and my mother is the kind of person wait but my mother is the kind of person who says why are all these people here and I'm like I don't know Mom I agree I mean she's like who are they coming to see and it's like mom I am Michelle Obama she's like yeah but I don't are they coming to see is there is there music playing is there a band and I'm like no no no so that can get in my head every now and then I start thinking am who I think I am like doing this big tour I mean what if it's all just a bad book I have those those times so I was sort of having a little panic attack Barack had it sit me down and so the book is ready you're gonna be great you're fabulous he's so sweet and I thought my brother because I was having all these emotions because I think because I'm like my mother you just sort of downplay everything you don't ride the highs too high you don't ride the lows too low and that's how she cared at us and like Malia said in the clip all throughout the campaign all this that we were doing I was so busy trying to let the girls to know that this is not a big deal and you have to go to school and you have to behave yourselves and not act like you are not special just be it's a crowd it's a crowd it's not for you act right stop what I mean you know I'm still doing all that so there's sort of like well yeah this isn't a big deal until election night and they're like that you know they're people party mom says this what's the big deal with it like my mother you know so I realize I spent eight years just trying to say this is you know we go to their teacher conferences and they're beasts white guys on top of the roof you know security and I fell the kids it's normal just go to school just don't look up that's not for you I'm living like that so the weekend before we started I had a panic attack it's like this has all been a big deal and I didn't realize it so I caught my breath and I was like this is a big deal what we did for the last eight years was a big deal well I'll take the New Hampshire speech after the Access Hollywood tape and how that happened because it is the typical process I would I was scheduled I was campaigning for Hillary and I was scheduled to do a speech in New Hampshire so the speech was already scheduled and then that the videos come out and there's chatter and we're preparing our regular stump speech and I told my team there's no way I can go out and and just campaign and not address this there's just no way that's just false it would be tone deaf tone down so I had some time to think about so yeah I have my much speechwriting team they're the two of us Tyler and Sarah you know my heart anybody know tiny is there a there so what we usually do is come together and we start we have a conversation about how I'm thinking and so we had one of those preliminary conversations they went away get a graph I've read it I was like this isn't strong enough this isn't what I want so I was like take it back let's all sit on it let's look at it in the meantime my mom had back surgery she yes I talked about it look I think I called it but I called it minor back surgery the one edit was like it wasn't minor it was major that was her one edit even above it was major vector point and such so for the record it was major back surgery and we were having it in the medical suite at Walter Reed so there's a presidential suite that's a whole nother sidebar about life in the White House we have really good health care so she she's in the suite having her operation and I'm there in the waiting room and I start really thinking about this stuff and it's a lot of times what I want to say does just come to me and while I was sitting there throughout my mother's surgery I recently wrote that speech verbatim everything that I felt and I knew I wanted to say sometimes things just become cleared and it was so clear that I got on the conference call I called everybody I said get everybody on the phone I know what the speech should say and I I wrote out the outline for it and they went back did the edits and shaped it and and and I knew when I'm telling the truth I'm not afraid yeah and so I would I would because I thought I know how I feel and what I knew I wanted to do at that time was to take women to that place that we know where we know how we feel when we're demean we we all have experienced that at some point of time and a lot of people women don't have the platform to say it out loud but we all know that feeling in the book I described it as women are subjected to indignities throughout their entire lives and in the form of cuts and some of the cuts are small paper-thin maybe it's somebody who told you you weren't good enough maybe it's somebody that made fun of your shape or your height maybe the cut was a little deeper and it was verbal abuse and somebody you know you know really took you to a negative place maybe it was a cat call you know that feeling when you're walking down the street and some man just feels like they can come in on on your body you know I felt that even as a young the fury I would feel in my body when a guy would just come and walk up and look me up and down it was a it was a visceral kind of how dare you that's what every time that happens it's a cut we don't talk about it but it hurts and then there's the physical abuse that some women ignore and don't say a word those cuts are deeper we're covered and cuts you know then there's just stereotypes and oppression we're covered in cuts and I don't know that men really understand what we bear as women and because in the world the sad thing is women aren't necessarily safe in this world we are at risk to being cut all the time and I wanted to bring voice to that for women I knew every woman knows what that feels like you know you're just putting up with some men's voice saying some stuff that is inappropriate and out of line and they think it's a joke and it has a lasting impact because even if you don't deal with it you take that home and you're mad and maybe you take it out on your kid it's that cut you're dealing with and you're bleeding I want it I wanted to articulate that feeling for women because my hope was that you can feel that if women can really feel that then maybe they'll do something about it because they have the power to stop it to vote against it I want men to be aware of it to voice that this stuff the things you think are games the stuff you play with your ego that hurts us you know so that speech became clear and I was ready to give it and I didn't really care it was also second term I was sort of like you know what I am done worrying about what people think you know it's time does it put some proof out there I'll change minds and I think we changed a lot of minds but you will always have hairs right you will all the way it doesn't matter what you do in life there will be you you you you don't strive to achieve 100% perfection it doesn't happen nobody's gonna always agree with you and I would have to tell myself there will be people you know that you will never have 100 percent approval rating that doesn't happen there will be people who are afraid of you who just don't understand this is where context comes in and I have to tell myself I have to put myself in people's positions they don't really know us and they only know what they're being told and I'm not even going to assume that they're bad people I'm gonna assume that they don't know so it's my job to do my best to be part of educating them and being a different kind of light in the world to them and you can't do that if you're cursing them out in the photo line [Music]

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Length: 14min 9sec (849 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 17 2018