I am ‘the audacity of hope’ man.” She responds, “What’s the alternative? Mrs. Obama teased her husband as the eternal optimist, “The ‘yes we can’ man!” He laughed and said, “I am the, ‘yes we can’ man. So we’re just going to dive in.”.

And as a result, if something good happens to you or you have an advantage don’t hoard it, you share it, you reach out, you give back. What's your journey of becoming? Not to judge people, the drunk uncle, or the cousin out of work, because you didn’t know what happened to them,” she said. Take my advice at your own risk. It is not enough for me to succeed on my own. And if you’re not getting it, something is wrong.” They discussed how they were brought up in the opposite way, to be content with what they had, that if you wanted or had too much, someone else had nothing, and those values are manifested in their politics. And I can say that my family, my neighborhood, my notions of community growing up shaped that view and shaped the choices I made in life as I felt your experiences shape yours.”, They also discussed how they again went on different journeys, but came to the same conclusion about working in their communities. This gorgeous journal features an intimate and inspiring introduction by Michelle Obama and thought-provoking questions and prompts to help you discover—and … “Government is just us, collectively, making decisions together.”, The couple joked that their “dinners get a little heavy,” but they hope these are the sort of conversations that are had around dinner tables and in communities, and that people choose to have hope and vote. They often fed him, made sure his laundry was done, helping him any way they could. All Rights Reserved, This is a BETA experience. You know? I write life and career advice for twentysomething women. Mrs. Obama candidly discusses some of the challenges she and Barack Obama faced during the early years of their marriage, including a stint in counseling. The former first lady, mother, wife, attorney and author discusses the life experiences that have shaped her. She discusses her years as an attorney and executive in Chicago and how she worked to balance the demands of her career and raising two daughters. How do I look after us?” said the former president. “They take for granted, all the things a working government has done in the past and in some ways we’re still living on the investment that was made by that greatest generation.”, The former first lady said there’s no marketing budget in government. If a neighbor saw a child misbehaving, they would scold them and call their parents, who would discipline them once they got home. Her first VIP guest? But work in community organization never seemed lonely to him. Finally, Mrs. Obama explains her thoughts on how she believes President Trump put her family’s safety at risk.

Mrs. Obama explains how her parents invested everything they had into her and her brother’s futures. I’m a twentysomething freelance journalist, writer and blogger in New York City.

She reminisces about her humble childhood on the South Side of Chicago with her family, which she describes as “four corners of a square:” her mother, Marian, her late father, Fraser, and her brother, Craig. That’s right, this year might be … Arena. Copyright © 2020 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.

The conversation then segued to the former president stating that “Culturally we’ve become much more focused on stuff and much less focused on relationships, family and part of being an adult, part of being a citizen is you give something up.” Mrs. Obama responded, “So instead of that, we have ‘You can have it all.’ That’s the philosophy. The 44th president moved around a lot when he was younger, so he didn’t establish roots in a community growing up the way his wife did. My values in terms of what I think my obligation, my personal obligation, Michelle Obama. How do I protect me? When the former president joked that his wife fell in love with him for his looks, she responded, “You’re cute but you know no. And when young people especially hear about government, it’s how it’s failed, not how it’s succeeded.

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“You kind of have a sense that this is a cutthroat competition dog eat dog, we’re on our own and constantly nervous about where we’re going to be on this pecking order, that reflects in our politics. That’s the thing.”. Michelle Obama just debuted The Michelle Obama Podcast. “We weren’t special.

I have to care about what happens to the kid in the desk next to me at school, because he’s just as smart but his Mom works. “The danger for this generation is that they become too cynical in government,” President Obama responded. And that’s how I was raised.

She also opens up about her years in the White House and the pressure of being the “first black family” to live there. “Partly because, they have been told, the message is sent every day, that government doesn’t work,” her husband responded.

So let’s just dive in.

I write about everything I’ve done wrong as a twentysomething woman here in the trenches. The first episode was with none other than her husband, President Barack Obama, and Mrs. Obama opened the show by saying, “So let’s just dive in! © 2020 Forbes Media LLC. And that young people know more about their cars and other aspects of their lives than how the government helps them. And my father always taught us to take in everyone’s full story. But he experienced the same sense of community when he went to college, and his friend lived across town from school, so the former president’s grandparents would often let his friend stay with them during the week so his commute to campus was shorter. None other than Barack Obama for a cozy, intimate conversation. (Photo by Kirsty O'Connor/PA Images via Getty Images), EY & Citi On The Importance Of Resilience And Innovation, Impact 50: Investors Seeking Profit — And Pushing For Change. Listen on Apple Podcasts At the Hearst Tower in New York City, Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama sit down for a conversation about Mrs. Obama’s much-anticipated memoir “Becoming.” The two speak in …