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Good morning you too. How are
you doing today? We're amazing? How

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are you? Ooh I love words
like that. Oh my god. When

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someone says they're amazing, that means
they live it, they walk it,

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they activate it, and they share
it. Oh man, that's a beautiful

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word. Oh yes, we are
extraordinary too. In addition to being amazing,

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we are extraordinary. I mean,
our book has it's birthday today,

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so we're like, we're buzzing.
I could not play last night. I

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was just like, oh hey,
it comes out tomorrow. It comes out

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tomorrow, and tomorrow it's today,
Arrow, So we're so happy to be

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here and thank you so much for
having us. Don't you love that moment

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when you release something that you've created, because so many people are afraid.

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I mean, they write, but
they don't want to release it. They

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don't realize that there's a connection to
the rest of the universe when creativity is

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moving through you. And this is
a great example of how you're going to

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change people's lives. Oh wow,
well it is received. Thank you so

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much for that, especially in the
times we were living in Now we were

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you know, mindful of the world
is a heavy place right now, and

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both for adults and for children especially, that there's so much imagery and videos

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and things we can control and see, but we really just wanted to add

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some joy and love and be of
service to kids. That's why we write

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children's books, just to add ordinary
little moments in extraordinary way. And you

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know when you have a kid and
you have them in bed and you're reading

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a book and there's nothing else between
you except that one moment, and we're

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just so grateful that our book get
to be that today. That is so

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interesting that you talked about that,
because on iHeartRadio this morning, I brought

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up the very subject how do we
get back to that place and where you

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do have that moment of connectedness and
mindfulness and gratefulness, and it's like and

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that was that was my story today, was that we got to get back

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to that place, and then here
you are talking about it. Yeah.

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I mean, there is really not
much you can do in the world when

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you just feel hopeless, like you're
like you want to contribute and how can

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you contribute? And Sharnay and I
were both writers. Sharnae is this amazing

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diversity expert who I am just like
blown away, wanted to work with me.

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I'm like, well, you want
to work with me, Oh,

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I gotta read it. So but
it's just that you know, you do

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what you can with what you have. And I think a moment of just

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stillness and hugs and love and sharing
a book. I mean, it's such

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a small sacred act that is universal, and I think that's all we can

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do, right, like protect our
kids when we can, and childhood only

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happens once. You never get a
do over, And I think as an

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adult, we tend to forget,
like, oh, we brush it off.

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But our daughters wouldn't leave the house
unless they were overdressed, and they

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had jewelry, and they have hats, and they have a pack of stuffed

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animals. And now my daughter is
in college and looking back at that,

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I just I knew they were ordinary
moments, but they were extraordinary now that

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you look back at that. So
I can still relate with this book because

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I think I'm like the adult version
of Eda in the way that I too

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had a talent show that it was
at Billing Senior High School. I was

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in a garage band and we were
going to win this talent show. We

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sucked. We were so bad.
But the thing about it. Yeah it

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was horrible, and but the principal
come up came up to us afterwards and

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he says, you had the courage
and the confidence to step out there.

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Okay, so you win there win. It wasn't about that you had to

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be the best band. You did
it absolutely And that's what this is about,

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too, write. It's about at
a overcoming the anxiety that she's feeling

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in the butterfly phrase and just really
like learning and knowing and having that confidence

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in herself that yes, I can
do this. I've never performed on the

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big stage in front of a large
audience before, but I am extraordinary.

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I can do this. I have
the confidence I can overcome this anxiety that

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I'm feeling and just go out and
do it. Do you use your words

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in the way of because for instance, like when we started off with amazing,

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we have the word extraordinary, another
big powerful word phenomenal, and how

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about fantastic. I think words that
we choose to use will really they get

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inside of us and then all of
a sudden we start to glow with that

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positive feeling. I love that era
and it's so true because nothing's more powerful

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than the words are used and talk
about yourself, right, and kids use

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big, big words like small words, big meaning. But you know,

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she recognizes that she needs a plan
and she needs to figure it out,

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and she just has the room to
grow and be. And I think as

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parents, that's all we can do
is just hold space for our kids to

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create and to grow and to try
and fail because they're not afraid of trying

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and failing. We are, as
adults, are terrified. But you know,

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so we're trying to be more like
Eta. Basically all of us are

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Eta. All of us are extraordinary
and we and Aero thank you so much

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for sharing that story. I mean, that was awesome that you guys did

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that. That was brave too,
and Eda is also brave well. The

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fact that you guys are sharing this
series that means we get to talk many

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many times in the future because I
love growing with you. Yes, maybe

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maybe as soon as next year.
I don't know when there's a big event

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that happens once every four years,
you know, are we hitting about the

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next book already? Yes, that's
where we are four years, but it's

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not four years next year. We
don't. We don't. We don't have

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that one all if you're yet,
But right, but er, can I

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ask you a question absolutely? What
was your favorite book growing up? Or

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is a kid Mike Mulligan and the
Steam Shovel. Oh good, No,

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it's a great one because he didn't
stop, he didn't quit. He became

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a part of and I always saw
that as being that he still took care

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of his community, even though that
he became a part of that large building

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and he couldn't get out of that
gigantic hole. And we all face those

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gigantic holes. Now, what are
you going to do about it? I'm

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going to grow with my community.
Yes, amen, love that. That's

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amazing. Thank you so much for
sharing that. Well, you got to

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come back to this show anytime in
the future. Thank you. We would

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love to really really appreciate it,
and thank you so much for spreading so

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much joy and love through the radio. We really appreciate you. Oh,

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I love your hearts. You'd be
brilliant today, okay, yes, yes,

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be extraordinary, extraordinary. Thank you, thank you, thank you.