TED Women 2021

tad curating the book list. We have all the authors books, we have all the Malik's books, recommended reading books as well as a kid's section of books. And so were excited. We love this energy and we love this atmosphere. This is a wonderful conference taking place out here in Palm Springs and we are participating. This is what you can do with more together, working together, networking partnerships. Malik Books wants to lift our community with books and we're here

and we're excited. And so I'm gonna be interviewing some of the authors here at the tad Woman one conference and so uh stay tuned because as many as I can get you're gonna hear it on Maliek's bookshelf. This is exciting to hear about all types of books, all innovative books, all revolutionary books, and were uplifting women at the same time. So stay tuned because we got a lot of for you today. Now have the pleasure of speaking with Pat Mitchell, one of the founders of TED Women.

She wrote a book called Becoming a Dangerous Woman. And there's nothing more dangerous in this world than a dangerous woman, a successful woman. And I have the pleasure to speak with Pat Mitchell. How you doing today? I'm doing great? Thank you. Can you by the way, we gotta have dangerous women because we're living in dangerous times. Absolutely, absolutely, so this is an amazing event. I'm blessed to be here. Leak bulls Now I got a chance to interview from

Leak bookshelf. Pat, tell me how did you become part of all this health founders. Well, I've been coming to the TED conferences before, and I noticed that we just needed more women and people of color and people from around the world. So I asked the founder of TED if he would create another TED conference and we would call it Dead Women, focusing primarily on the ideas and stories of women, but not entirely, as you know from

what you've seen, we always have men. And most importantly, we've just made an effort to create the most inclusive space we could find. TED has always been an inclusive community, but with this gave us a chance to create another opportunity, another platform for more speakers. And over the eleven years, I think we've added two hundred speakers to ted dot com, and all of them with good ideas worth sharing. I was blessed to talk with so many of the different

speakers here and that was a joy. I've never been at a place where I had that opportunity and so TED is amazing and I just want a lot of people don't know what TED stands for. That's right, ITAs for Technology, entertainment and design. But you know that was so long ago when it was first started, nobody remembers what TED. That's right, more in terms of the letters, because what TED stands were now um ideas worth spreading. Yes, that's what I noticed is innovative, revolutionary. I mean, you

give voice to so many people at TED. True. I think we had more than two dozen countries represented in our speakers today and eight hundred people here from all over the world, even with a continuing pandemic. And as you know, we took all the preconcerssions that were necessary to make this a safe gathering as well. Yes, it was an amazing conference. I'm glad to be part of I'm glad to meet you, and I appreciate everything you do.

Is any anymore that you would like to share with Maliku bookshelf audience, Well, the reason I read the book Becoming a Dangerous Woman is because I believe honestly that we are living in fragile, dangerous times where a lot of our lights and freedoms are being pushedback. So this was the time to speak up. If you've got a good idea and you need to see some changes, speak up about them. Um, stand up for those people who aren't in the room, and us show up. And and

that's what the Jack community does. We speak up, stand up and show up. Well said, thank you, Pat. This event is lit. Like I told you, Leak bullshelfs is all about keeping it litt for literature. Lit was was hot. And guess what, God, Rock, God is right now here at the tad woman and we here standing rock. How you doing here? She's the author of the calling three Fundamental Shifts to Stay True, Get paid, do good. Tell

us all about this time breaking boat. Yeah, so you know where in a moment right now in Malak where I feel like everybody is trying to figure it out. You know, we don't had two years to think, right, and we've a lot of us thinking about whether or not we want to continue with the job that we're in, whether or not we want to go to a whole other career path, whether or not we want to break

off and do our own thing. And this is your go to guy, This is your blueprint to help you figure it out, right, because we all know that no matter where we land, we want to be someplace where we can be true to ourselves. We want to be someplace where we can be well compensated for what we offer and break, and we want to make a difference. We want to contribute in ways that are meaningful. And so my intention and commitment with the book is that you have your blueprint step by step to be able

to do that. It's an easy read. It is an easy read. Now you will take a slow because I do have exercises. Listen, I'm not messing around y'all. I do have exercises, there are handouts. I even give you a link to a special site where you can for free download the worksheets. But the intention is that listen, this is your life, this is your future. I want you to take it seriously and I want you to

do what you're here to do. There's a place in the world for you, no matter what your talents on, no matter what your background is, no matter what you've been through. Every single one of us has a calling and it's time we get us. Man. Everyone born with a gift and everyone that's when I hear calling our head gifts and we all have gifts and if we can help extriket those get what you're very deep. They're very deep in us. Like diamonds. Diamonds are made over

time with pressure. So reading your book can helps read up that process. Yeah, listen, we we don't have the pressure cooker, y'all. So now it's the opportunity to to shine, right We've we've had the pressure. The last two years have been a pressure cooker and now it's time for us to shine. So let's get it absolutely well. Malik books, you know is here at the TED One, Ted woman, and I'm just running into all these wonderful elevators, authors, mothers,

go get us successful women. And I'm talking to one right now, rock Goddess Boll who dropped a message. I gotta that was a joy to hear you today. I mean, you had a lot to give. It comes out of you like water, doesn't it. Thank you? I mean, we

feel passionate about this moment that we're in. And you know, today we got the opportunity to talk about Information, which is our Women's Initiative for Women of color executives and professionals, and you know, there are things that we needed to say that we've not had the opportunity to say so corporate America to the larger structures of our society, and today was our moment to be able to do that in celebration of the research. You know, pow are redefined

and so the research is out. We're talking about it and don't be in the body, be on the side, or be in front. But we got to elevate our woman today. That's important. The mothers of civilization, the first teachers of humanity. Him, ladies and gentlemen right and all of us right, it's time that we lift and elevate each other up. This was a joy. I hope mans love this segment with Rock Goddess on Relik's Bookshow. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for your work, thank

you for who you being. Thank you for keeping our bookstores alive. Appreciate that. Appreciate that. TAD well, I should say tad woman because there's a difference. TAD stands for technology, entertainment and design. And guess what I got mentally, Charles,

She's an artist, that's what the entertainment. And she performed here at the Woman Ted conference and so I got a chance to speak with her, and I just wanted you to share with Malik's bookshelf audience you know your journey as an artist because it was explosive, enlightening in electric last night as well as today when you perform at the conference. Thank you so much, Milik. That's really kind and shout out to the whole Malague bookshelf family. Malik Books. Um. You know, I am a jazz girl

born and raised in Brooklyn. My family um comes from Haiti Um and yeah, I studied opera when I was young. I played flute in the orchestra. Definitely an artsy FARTSI New York girl. I went to the Fame High School, Leguardia High School like everybody. Um went to the new school where Robert Glasper and those guys went. And um, yeah, now I'm doing my own thing. I just released an album called y'all don't really care about Black women, and um yeah, I'm very grateful. People seem to be receiving

what I'm doing well, so I give thanks. Yeah, yeah yeah. I watch you play the piano today, I watch you play the flute. Last night. I watch you see go ahead with your bad show man. Aren't you learn all them disables? You know? I was very blessed that I had a mom that really supported me. I give things to my mom, Baptiste. She was a weirdo. She said that she always knew she wanted children that were musicians, and so once I started making sounds, she got me

piano lessons, voice lessons, flute lessons. And I didn't have like much of a childhood like playing. I was always in rehearsal for something, But now I don't regret it. It was worth it because I I like who I am. Your music is filled with so much soul, so much vive. It's so man in a core. I mean I felt it in my bone last night. It was hit. We was partying last night. That was fun. That was fun last night. Yeah, and it looked beautiful. That the set

was great. Yeah, that was fun. Set did their thing this year. That ship was amazing. That was a production. That was a production. I didn't expect that. Yeah. Yeah, you stole a show last night here. Everyone enjoyed and we all had a good time. I loved you. I'm glad, I'm glad, thank you, And for me, the high point for me was meeting everyone and specifically meeting you. Mo league like I love me some books so okay, like

love a plug. Yeah, I appreciate you Melody Chark for coming on release bookshelf and we're gonna do something in the future because I just love your spirit and you're just so talented. Wow, disguise the limit. Thank you. I got another author here at the tad woman, Sha Nell Reynolds. She's gonna tell us about this wonderful book called What Matters Most to Get Your Together Guy to Will's Money, Insurance and Life. What if talk to me about it? Talking? Well?

Thank you? Well, you know when when getting my show together found Those words first came out of my mouth when I was standing in the ICU after my late husband Jose had gotten into an accident, and I realized that being a project manager, being college educated, being organized, and thinking that I kind of had my together, I did not. And if that was happening to me, what the heck is going on with everybody else and all

the other hospital rooms. And you know, when the world gets pulled out from underneath your feet, you realize that you wish you would have done a couple of things. And this is a list. This book is a part memoir, part how to of all the things I wish I would have done to make a hard time a really hard time, UM, maybe a little bit softer. So so these are things didn't matter. I mean, we take for granted and then when things like this happened, we're not prepared.

We're not prepared. And I'm certainly not suggesting that we can make a checklist or project managed all pain and suffering away. But I remember standing in the hospital trying to remember the UM password to his phone so I could call his dad. And what would have taken five seconds or to sign up for a password manager or write that down. It took me hours and extra extra,

extra pain and suffering. So things like life insurance, things like get in your living will or advanced care directive done um really like picking who you want your guardians to be, or who the hell is gonna go after your like go into your closet and dig through your very personal things. These are good, really meaningful, really important, generally or often free things to do, and it makes our lives tomorrow better and it makes me feel like I have just so much more space and less worrying

the day. I imagine that if you prepare in advance, it's not as painful and stressful having to do it after something tragic happens. Exactly what takes maybe five minutes now takes five hours or five years later. You know, it's like getting the oil changed in your car, getting a mamigrant um or whatever, furnace filters or things that

people do. Just write some of that basic stuff into the spec like get your review your wills on your birthday, or like at least every election cycle, right yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely prepare in advance for what is inevitable. And we you know, death is inevitable, accidents are inevitable, just things that happened. That's part of life. Life is up and down. You high one minute and you hit the loaded next.

And so, like you said, we can't prepare for everything, but certainly we need to prepare certain things in advance. And I'm gonna take person, I'm gonna get my stuff in it. I want to say, I want to get my s in harder because I need to do some of these things right now. Yes, Hey, we're getting nursed together,

one person at a time. Indeed, Well, it's your point, like dying is the one thing we all humans, we all sentitioned beings, everything has in common, and it's it's amazing or you know, it's just part of who we are as humans to talk about if we die, not when we die. Yeah, real talk. Yeah what Channel Reynolds, thank you for this wonderful, wonderful conversation about your book What Matters Most? Thank you. So I'm blessed at the

conference to meet another author, Sousa make Pearson. Yes, yes, the Lost Art of Connecting, And I just want to ask you tell us a little bit about your books. Sure, sure, Well, the book is all about the importance of building meaningful connections in our lives. And I have to say, every good thing that has ever happened to me in my life happened because of connections. But it's not networking. It's leading with how can I be of help rather than

what I can get? And the book has a methodology which I want borrior listeners, so but it's gather as do and it really helps you build meaningful relationships over the course of your personal and professional lives. That sounds like a timely book. I mean, we live in some difficult times today and so we definitely want to learn how to connect. UM does your book address these changing

times that we're living in. I wrote it during the pandemic, so I started writing it in February of twenty and then the world changed in in March and the book was launched in April of So for eight months during the pandemic, I was writing it talking to people who had actually made the practice of building connections a core

part of their livelihood their career. And believe it or not, I learned from a um for research that making meaningful connections actually makes us healthier UM and and if we make that a priority, it's actually going to help us be healthier than running every day and eating kale every day. But it is challenging now because we have been you know, we had a culture of a and an epidemic of

loneliness before the pandemic that only exacerbated. And now I think people are realizing that our relationships matter more than ever, so they're being more intentional when they reach out. And I say, now's the time go reconnect with people that perhaps you think, oh, they're not gonna want to reconnect with me. Try it. What have you got to lose, You don't have nothing to lose, but all to gain. Well, I'll tell you, um, I would just be considered a connection.

Meeting you today, absolutely absolutely met. Thank you so much for taking a few minutes to talk to me, and how wonderful that we're both here at TED Women. Thank you, thank you, thank you, And you heard it from Susan mcpearrison The Lost Art of Connecting. Thank you. I'm blessed today. I'm blessed today leak book shows at the Ted What Now? The Ted Women, What Now? And I'm blessed to be standing by Anna Tubs and a Molika Tubs, the author of Three Mothers Hey, I'll tell you this. When your

book first came out, it was in the summer. We had a couple of schools, two different schools, order about a hundred and fifty copies teach and that was a major blessing. And I was, you know, that's a big order for us, big book. So we sold a ton of your books. The three Mothers. Can you tell us a little bit about it, because you you got Martin Luther King Jr. You talk about the mother Martin Luther King Jr. Michael Mix and James Baldwin. These are three

powerful women mothers. Talk about this book absolutely. Will I am honored, first of all to be speaking with you all. I'm such a big fan of this bookstore, and I remember the schools and I said, go to this bookstore to buy them. So I'm so rateful that they did. Um and the Mother is of MLK. You're Malcolm X and James Baldwin. Their names were Outbert to Christine, Williams King, Movies, Little and Vertics Baldwin and they all three had such

incredible identities even before they became mothers. They were activists. They were creating life through their arts and through their power and through this activism, and it's so clear that their sons inherited these talents from their mothers. And I just think it's time that the world know that, and that the world appreciate that, and that we all know their names just like we do their sons. We all learned the mothers the first teacher, how the mother couldn't

be influence you in their lives. But I see that you personally took the time out to give tribute to these three mothers because their sons are incredible and have done an enormous amount why of work in their activism, in their literary arts, and in their you know, the movement towards as freedom, justice, inequality here in America. What inspired you? What inspired you to write this book? Yeah, I was inspired when I started my PhD at the

University of Cambridge. I was very inspired by Margotlie Shutterley is Hidden Figures, and I wanted to be someone who found other hidden figures, and I wanted to make sure that more black women's names were known. And I also wanted to fight the erasia of mothers. And so that's how I came up with the topic. And when I discovered that all three of these mothers were born within five years of each other, and their famous sons were

born within five years of each other. I found the hook, the kind of intersection in these three stories, and I wanted to just bring that together in a book and make sure we were celebrating black women and black mothers and the way that they deserve to be celebrated. If you've been here at the tag woman, what now and talk when we celebrating women here, we celebrating women here. So this book is a timely book, and this is the perfect place to talk to a diverse crowd about

your masterpiece. Thank you, thank you, thank you. We're gonna do an extended version when it's quiet and everybody around, and we're gonna talk a little bit more. Thank you. Adam Peace. Flying Free, that's about overcoming fair and learning to fly, like flying an airplane or flying in your life both, but yeah, flying an airplane and doing spins

and loops and rules. I was actually the first Latina pilot on the US air v Addic team, the Olystic team, So I would imagine that that would would definitely be a fear. Did you have to overcome filled with a lot of anxiety? Would you overcame me. I did it, yeah, and that gave me the courage to do so many

other things. I mean, I wrote it to be encouraging to young people because I think, I mean, especially many young people of color and this country are told, like my teachers told me I wasn't going to go to college. They accused me of plagiarism when I wrote, well, because someone like me, you know, should be out in the fields. You know. Um my parents both had really thick accent, so they you know, and they when we tried to buy a house in a you know, quote unquote good neighborhood,

they took it off the market. So you know, it's and it's very discouraging to a young child. And despite that, you still give hope. You still give hope. And that's say this book is really inspiring. More academic, it's all about flying free is more inspiring. This is more inspiring. This is about fan fiction and how fan fiction works. It's more academic. Is full of interesting data if you want to study the phenomenon. Okay, but it's more of an academic book. And this is more you know, general

public book, general public. Thank you, so people are interested in the talk you can say that's a great REFERU. Yeah, you're interested in being inspired, inspired and we need that. That's what this confidence is all about. Inspiration, inspired, motivations, lifting this up right advocates for a woman who rights all of that. Thank you, you have a blessed Appreciate you, steal your aragon and keep on writing. Thank you, Thank you for having an awesome bookstore I love. Appreciate that

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