Michelle Obama

I mean, I practiced law.

I was an assistant to the mayor in Chicago.

I ran a nonprofit, 501C3.

Like, I've been doing this.

I was a vice president for community relations at the University of Chicago Hospitals.

I was a dean of students.

I was like...

oh you guys i all of that just disappeared in the course of this whole election and you now see me as just barack obama's wife so that made me say what that that quickly

my shoes become the most important thing about me.

There are men out there that were not going to vote for a woman.

Let's just be real about it.

And let's put that on the table and talk about, well, what's that about?

Let's not be mad because I made the statement.

The young women that we're talking to, keep climbing.

We need you.

And know that you may come up short, but keep going.

I want young listeners to focus more on their internal feelings instead of what the world is telling you to feel.

Really start trusting your gut and building that internal gut.

of how you feel about other people, how you feel about yourself.

Because I think in the end, the work is still within.