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What do you want to be when you grow up? It's a question so many of us were asked as kids, one that sparked excitement, endless possibilities, and dreams of what our future could hold. For those with access to education, school became the launchpad, a place where ideas took shape, skills were honed, and passions turned into purpose. Learning gave us the power to shape our futures.
Yet today, 120 million girls around the world are denied this chance. And when that happens, we all lose. Throughout history, we have seen that when girls have knowledge, they don't just change their own lives. They become a force that challenges inequality, strengthens communities, and solves problems that drive progress. Because girls inspire other girls.
And when that happens, the world grows into a better place. This is Watch Her Cook.
I'm Cassie. And I'm Danielle. Welcome back to Watch Her Cook, a podcast dedicated to sharing the incredible lives of women who have taken their power back throughout history.
Well, in my little intro there, we talked a little bit about school and the importance of school. So let's talk about our own experiences really quick, especially with early education, because I think those are really formative years that a lot of us reflect back on and can kind of trace where our lives have gone based on what we loved or maybe didn't love about what we learned in school.
So do you have anything that you look back on and reflect and say, wow, that's where my first introduction to my interest now took hold.
Yeah, actually, I do have an origin story. I'd love to hear it. Yeah, so I, to this day, I think elementary school is my favorite, which I think maybe a lot of people can relate to because it's probably the most fun years of schooling. Also, maybe some of the most awkward. But I realized pretty young that I was really interested in history.
And I think it was fourth grade where we were given the book called Night by Eli Wiesel, which is a Holocaust book. And I remember reading that and being like, wow, this is history that I didn't know. And it was talking about landscapes and countries I didn't know existed outside of my little bubble. And that was my moment in school where I was like,
I really love history, and I need to learn more. And from then forward, other people would be reading Captain Underpants with all the other kids or Goodnight Moon, and I would be sitting there with some type of historical disaster book at nine years old reading it at night. So that was where I really discovered my love of history and just –
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