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Hello, Hello, and good morning
Yolanda. How are you doing today,

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Fred? How are you? Absolutely
fantastic. I'm so proud of you for

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bringing this story forward, not just
because of how old you are, but

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because you have it in your heart
to preserve history and I love that about

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you. Well, thank you,
that really means a lot. Thank you

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for giving me this plot point to
be able to share the book. Well,

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we need voices like yours because you
know how history is in this country.

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We tend to want to forget it. But on the ninety fifth birthday

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of your grandfather, you're saying,
hey, look something did happen and it

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continues to have a force even today. Right rest, you were completely corressed

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about that. How did you know
in your heart that it was time to

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write this book? Because you know, authors walk you know about, on

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the planet every day and then all
of a sudden, boom, it hits

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us. I'm writing a book.
Well, I got from a young age.

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I always been told, oh,
you're going to write up this one

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day, you know, like all
the stuff that you're saying, this is

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great stuff. I'm sure or people
will be like, oh, I'm sure

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she'll have a book and no time
to and and so I always thought,

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you know, that I'll have a
book and then eventually like it. It

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kind of was on my bucket list, but I didn't know that it would

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happen so soon. And I'm really
grateful because I think that now I I

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think the nation and really the world
is ready for a book that is inspiring.

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I think that we've been informed of
the information, and we we know

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about what's going on, and especially
in twenty twenty, we saw more people

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having talks. We saw an awakening. But and and that is a is

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a milestone in a in and of
itself. But now we must actually find

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a way to encourage people. And
so this book, in my opinion,

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is almost as though it pays homage
to the past, but also it's a

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pitch. It It kind of if
you look at the way first starting with

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the past and introducing the product,
and then and then going to the to

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the president and and the potentially I
feel like we're almost pitching to the world

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that and to kids what our worlds
can look like, and to kind of

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to engage people, to get people
involved, to bring inspiration. I think

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that now people know of these issues, but we might we need to find

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something that will encourage people because sometimes
these conversations yes, day great, guess

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it's progressed. But we must do
something to really inspire people, to get

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people involved, to encourage people to
do something, because this can be discouraging

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sometimes. Yeah, so many times
people think that when it comes to having

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a voice, that means that they've
got to be activated in groups and circles

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that are going to bring big change. All you have to do is participate,

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become activated with your word and get
with people that can share your word

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and get into those communities. Pract
you correct once again, and see it

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takes books like this to give people
the voice. Because we all have that

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voice. We've got to stop running
away. And that's why we need a

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bookline this exactly, Yes, exactly
it. So how do you activate it

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in your own personal life? Because
I mean, putting the book out there

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is one thing. But I have
this feeling inside my heart that you are

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really involved with your community. Well, I think that I'm really interested in

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finding creative solutions. I think that
without creativity we can't find solutions to these

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issues. I mean, if you
look at every invention in the phone,

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or even something as simple as something
you take for granted sence as a seat.

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Someone was creative enough to make that
invention to a legitimate problem we had,

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and so I think that we can
do the same thing with these issues.

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And really been spending time thinking about
or finding ways to come together,

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researching people who really have solutions and
creative solutions to these to these issues that

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we have, and so doing that
and following peers and service, I think

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that's one of the best ways to
be involved in engaging in service, doing

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a service to the community and everyone
really is the thing about serving is that

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it's great because everyone can do it. And so we've been working on We've

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been working on making service even more
accessible because for the ninety fifth birthday,

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there will be a launch of an
initiative which we call Realizing the Dream,

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which for five years will be will
be encouraging the country to engage in service

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and obtain an amount a large amount
of service hoursts as almost as I guess

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a present for my grandfather's one hundredth
birthday in the next five years. One

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of the things that I've learned through
spirituality is what we do today affects the

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next seven generations. You are the
second generation after your grandparents, look at

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the energy of what they did and
you continue it today. Yes, what's

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that a question? Now it's more
of a statement. It's also you know,

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how how are you able to embrace
it? I mean, I mean

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because to have that living seed still
inside of you, it just is so

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inspiring to me. Well, I
think because of human nature, and of

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course I am human. There are
times where I feel discouraged. There are

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times where things get hard, and
there's always there's always that pushback that really,

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I think to answer your question going
to the past, seeing the fortitude

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of my grandparents and their peers and
those involved in the movement, Because if

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you asked me, that took that
took a lot of strength, That took

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a lot of with all they had
to endure, that took a lot of

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My new favorite word is fortitude.
And so you're here, you'll hear me

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using that a lot. And to
them being able to have I guess that

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type of strength and power is what
really is inspires me. And also seeing

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my peers and seeing that there are
so many people who are around my age,

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who are in my age group,
who are so concerned about these issues

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and who also stand with me.
To know that I'm not alone to know

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that there are people who are just
as passionate about me, To see that

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there are people who still have passionate
that that's really encouraging it and inspiring me.

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And seeing other activists who are around
my age. I'm glad you talked

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about how the younger generation is thinking
because I did a feature yesterday on iHeartRadio

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that was one hundred percent based on
the people that I talk with that go,

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I don't think about it because if
I think about it, it gives

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me anxiety, and I go,
no, you've got to think about this

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and you've got to activate it.
That's why it's so important that you continue

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your word well exactly, and so
I believe that as well with the book.

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Yes you think about it, that
you don't have to you don't have

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to have because I get it.
Yes, sometimes it can make people really

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anxious, and so being able to
talk about it, but also being able

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to remind people of the potential of
our world. I think so often we

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forget about the potential we can reach, and we we're so focused on talking

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about the issue and talking about our
currency, and that's what's causing the anxiety.

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I think we need to talk about
it and also be like, and

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here is a solution, or and
here is the type of world we're going

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to have. And I remember having
conversations with people and then coming out of

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those conversations and being very, very
discouraged. And it can be draining.

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So we need to talk about it, and but we need to talk about

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it in a new light, a
new way that allows people to Yes,

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I mean, I think if you're
not concerned about these issues, and that's

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a whole other issue in and of
itself, but we need to be able

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to talk to it to a point
where we're not anxious. And I think

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the best way to do that is
to be able to share the type of

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WORL we have and to also focus
on solving the problem instead of just lingering

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and staying I guess sad and about
the problem. Yeah. I'm just so

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proud of you. I cannot wait
to talk to you more and more in

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the future as you continue to grow
with this universe. Well, thank you

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for having me and allowing me to
share a little message. Will you be

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brilliant today? Okay, Ulanda,
I will thank you