Lynn Smith

Because it's such an overused term, in my opinion.

Well, confidence is the true belief that you can do anything despite any circumstances.

Arrogance is just thinking that you're good at everything.

And so that idea of resiliency, that even if you flopped a keynote like I did, or even if you bomb your TV interview, that if you just keep going, you get the skillset to get better and then be great on television or not bomb a keynote.

Like I now don't bomb a keynote, knock on wood.

But that idea...

was very important to be married with the relationship that you have with your child.

Because I now share stories with my children about when I didn't make the team or when a friend didn't invite me somewhere and I saw all of my other friends had been invited somewhere so that they can see a mirror to their emotions that

We as parents face rejection.

I was so honest with my kids about how many rejections that I got for this book.

And now they're all the more proud of it because they know how hard it took for me to get there.

And so as I'm going to school visits or libraries, I'm doing a lot of in-store readings.

I have parents coming up to me and they're like, I can't tell you how much I needed this message today because they're going through some version of a need to just keep going.

And there's a really,

hard, challenging world that we all are living in.

And three words is not the answer to the challenges that we're having, but it can be a tool that we use in order to navigate these really challenging times.

And we've put together a parent and educator free guide, and it was intended to be a conversation continuer.

Once people read the book that they were able to download this guide and they're

conversation prompts with your children?

What does it mean to be brave?