i started dressing and boys close. i dressed had to toe like a boy and i did not want to be looked at. i think dancing was like that. also for me and my girls. dancing as like what we did. just because we needed something to do. we went to bayside marketplace. you could pay $3 to get on a boat that have a dance floor. now when we look back. .. .. other questions? you please talk about your editing process, how much of the book was edited and how did you get with an editor and agent and publisher? >> my first book, even before the book was finished, i started submitting part of the book to agents that i found online. that was a mistake. don't do that. there's plenty of information out that's free on the internet. find out if you are interested in agent, what kind of books you're interested in writing and what are the books out there in the market that are like yours are like the books you want to write and who are the agents who represent the writers you love? or writers who are writing about something similar and do res

i started dressing and boys close. i dressed had to toe like a boy and i did not want to be looked at. i think dancing was like that. also for me and my girls. dancing as like what we did. just because we needed something to do. we went to bayside marketplace. you could pay $3 to get on a boat that have a dance floor. now when we look back. .. .. other questions? you please talk about your editing process, how much of the book was edited and how did you get with an editor and agent and publisher? >> my first book, even before the book was finished, i started submitting part of the book to agents that i found online. that was a mistake. don't do that. there's plenty of information out that's free on the internet. find out if you are interested in agent, what kind of books you're interested in writing and what are the books out there in the market that are like yours are like the books you want to write and who are the agents who represent the writers you love? or writers who are writing about something similar and do res

i started coming here a couple of years ago for need to impeach. i have loved the people i have met here. just so you know. loved. it is -- my wife moved here. we have really, really really -- , i think we have only met the democrats, to be honest, but we have loved the democrats we have met. but i have got to say as an outsider, and i know i'm from california and we have big problems, but the injustice here is stark. >> it is. mr. steyer: it's painful. when you hear that story that , story is about debt. unnecessary debt. if you see people in denmark, i wouldn't drink the water coming out of the tap in denmark. they showed me the water. it's scary. you know, if you see -- people working -- there was a guy two nights ago working three jobs and living paycheck -- three jobs. gentrification in the united states is in charleston, south carolina. the fastest. the education system here is ranked really close to the bottom. i went to -- you know, i went to hilton head and never been to hilton head. i went to hilton head over a year ago to do a townhall on

then i started doing professional storytelling. that started in libraries. it escalated into theaters. now i do them at the actual abandoned places themselves. i approached the owner about that and told him i could protect them legally and make him some money to go back into his foundation. you guys have been great. any questions? you have until 4:00. >> why are you attracted to abandoned and decaying places? , the mood,he texture the mystery. to me, the challenge of going out into the community, walking into fire stations, interviewing people. hanging out in diners. what started as a simple hobby to grow and instagram following has quickly graduated into a strong devotion allowing virginians to have a deeper experience with their past. ♪ >> tonight, a look at american presidents. the story has often been that kennedy's father was the one pulling strings. but that is not true. he wanted the pulitzer prize. he said he would rather win a pulitzer prize than be president. because he had this strong desire for literary fame, he got himself the prize. and washingt

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[laughter] and i said really. we started talking. i went to all the managers and started realizing they all needed the similar type of reporting. so i worked on that. not long after that, all the reporting came online they started using it. i would go back and ask how it's going and as i got familiar with it, it was going really well. then i remember the day i started walking back down and instead of all of the hussle and bustle trying to figure who just walked by, it was michelle, come in. come in. then i come in info this is what i need now. this is great. i go okay. i can go down the aisle without getting called into the office because they saw value in what i was doing. but they had to get to know me and what my value was. in the book i talk about don't we all have that role to play? you have to show your value to people and they have to be open to see it. because at the end of the day, we all have choices to make every day. one is, we all have challenges and differences, am i going to hide in the world and just let it be there? o

and i said really. and we started talking and i went to all the managers and started realizing they all needed the similar type of reporting. so i worked on that. and not long after that all the reporting came online and they started using it. and i would go back to ask how it's going and as they a got familiar it was going really well. and funny enough i remember the day i started walking back down and instead of all the hustle and bustle trying to figure out who just walked by it was michele come in, come in. and i would come in and they would say this is what i need now, this is great. and i would say oh okay. i cannot go down the aisle anymore without getting called into every office. because they saw value in what i washe doing. but they had to get to know me and what my value was. in the book i talked about don't we all have the role to play, you have to show your value to people and they have to be open to see it because at the end of the day we all have three choices to make everyday, one is we all have challe

steyer: look, i started a business. my parents had a deal, we'll get you through school and that's it. nothing after that. you're on your own when you graduate. i never got a penny from my parents. and i started a business, i built a business i walked away from the business and talked the giving pledge to give the bulk that i made to good causes while i'm alive and spent 10 years putting coalitions of people to fight of what i think is the unchecked corporate power in our country. let me say this. we have never lost. we can win every time. you know, i started taking on a fight against two oil companies in my home state who are trying to repeal our very progressive energy laws. and they thought that they could get their way because no one would fight them. and honestly, nobody wanted to fight them because they thought the oil companies are so rich they'll do whatever it takes, we'll lose. and if you lose, you will spend a lot of time and money doing it. we got 70% of the vote. the president of one of the oil companies was

so, it struck me that i needed to make some conclusions and think about where we were and i started to think about i didn't think i have ever characterized in this way that i started to think that sports was one of the main sources even though in the previous book i started thinking about how sports was in power in the athletes, i began to ask myself how much power do you really have if you lose everything, if you run the risk of taking a black physician and losing everything that you have, despite your millions. >> host: to bring this up, having a conversation where now still in morning over the tragedy that happened with kobee bryants death and nine other people. there is a group coming against this right now as we were doing the interview it's onl is for mn what, 72 hours. but, you see that anti-blackness starting to kind of bubble over whether we are talking about in the media or social media. and i think that ties into a lot of the points that we are going to delve into but i want to get a reaction on that in dealing with the kobe bryants tragedy. >> guest: i wonder how much of a

and i started three forms of my own after i left the road price one integral and silverlake, and thenon with a bono, the singer from youtube. which is where i got involved with facebook. but i've been blessed to be involved in some of the greatest tech companies in america for the last 37 years. maria: said you were a mentor to market zuckerberg and had a wonderful relationship. and then you thought things would not face but didn't fit your value. >> i thought this is where you could talk to friends was a great idea. in 2016, the beginning of that year i started seeing things going on inside facebook that just did not fit my rosy view of the company. in october i reached out to mark and sheryl sandberg denied also been an mentor to cheryl. i tried to warn them. saying there is something about the business model, the culture and the algorithms of the company that allows bad actors to harm innocent people. and i begged them to get on top of it. again this is nine days before the election of 2016. after the election, i continued to talk to them for three months. they just were not intere

when i started this project, for the same reasons a lot of people go to mcdonald's but i started hanging out with them and they started going to mcdonald's all the time. free wi-fi, you could shoot up in the bathrooms. most important, you could just hang out there. so i started hanging out there and i start seeing friendships form. there's also a community there. there are morning groups, people who grow therapy for their wedding. places like gary, indiana, it's basically this arm town center. you go in there and fact that. it's like the town square. people are playing dominoes, people are romancing and reading more people are doing everything so it was funny when i started this because i would meet people at mcdonald's, i couldn't believe i was seeing so much community in mcdonald's, i was in denial and take a photo of them. i can't possibly have met you at mcdonald's. then i realized mcdonald's is a story. to me, i always say think about what mcdonald formed as. it's entirely forth transactional in-and-out and get a community center. the way, that's evidence of two things. one is peopl

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i start assembling a cast of characters that i think would be interesting to write about in general and then if you have an imaginary space, what would happen if you put them on the stage and start letting them bump into each other to see what happens. not something any writer or teacher is going to recommend how you proceed into a novel because it is chaotic and it is a tight rope but it is the only thing that keeps it interesting for me. i have many friends who are successful writers who are incredibly disciplined. one book a year or 18 months and they have recurring characters, joe detective or jill detective who are very successful, people love the books and it is bank bank paying. i cannot work that way. for my mind i would get the sense that i was recycling. secondly, it is fun to start from scratch for the characters because you learn about them. what happens if you have a recurring character, come franchise characters if they are successful, you start writing, all your readers of read your other books about that character, you don't get to rebuild that character and if you do yo

i started practicing law in 1990 , started with the law firm in cincinnati, ohio, i was doing primarily corporate defense work , representing big chemical companies and other corporations that were trying to figure out how how do we comply with state and federal and environmental laws and how to help them manage that system. so for the next 8 years, i work ed within that system, all the different rules and regulations that identified all the toxic has adder -- hazardous chemicals and as long as we were getting right permits, complying with rules and limits and standards for identified regulated materials, hopefully things were okay and that we were protecting the environment and we were doing what was required to prevent unnecessary risks and harm to folks. the world i lived in for 8 years , one day i got a call on my telephone at work and the man on the other end of the line started rattling on about cows dying on his property, had no idea why he was calling me, this is not what i did and i was about to hang up the phone when he mentioned i got your name from your grandmother. [laughte

i did start a business. i ran it for 27 years. i walked away from it. i took the giving pledge to give the bulk of my money to good causes while them alive, and for 10 years, i have been putting together coalitions of american citizens, exactly like you. exactly like the people in this room. to fight back against unchecked corporate power. and let me say this. we have never lost. i started taking on two oil companies in my home state of california who wanted to repeal the most progressive energy laws in the world, which are california state energy laws and the reason i got the job was because there was no one else stupid enough to take it. really. everyone thought, the oil companies are so rich and they are so mean and they are so well-connected, you will never win. you will spend a lot of money and make a fool of yourself in the process. and before it was over, one of the presidents of the oil company said to a friend of mine, i had no idea tom steyer was so mean. what a compliment. literally. we got 70% of the vote. i took on the tobacco companies in

i started thinking about what could i do to do the work of justice. state.he work of the to do the work i struggled so hard for almost two years to convince people to let me try. if i could not be the governor, could i do the work without the title? the answer is, you cannot do that much. it's helpful to have the budget and the office and a really nice house. but you can do something. so my first something was called fair fight. i believed i could expand on the work that i did in spelman college in 1991, when i march in 1992.l call their work i did as a student registering people to vote for the 1992 elections, as one of the happiest 18-year-old in america because i could vote for the first time. following my friends and trying to get them to sign up to vote, then coming back in training get them to pick my candidate. the work i did that took me to austria as part of the youth civic engagement workshop to wee people understand how could make it real and engage communities that felt left out. their fight is not new for me. it is a new name and new proj

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i start chanting the song and ever feel so in this celebration. of the end the. same. thing. useful means expresses why feeling it shows what i know i show it shows me off and especially my even last. thing. with the instrument itself you get a feel for the whole body through it the vibration is different vibrations through the whole body. adam has a moderate hearing loss so it's very it's be varying levels of sound that he hears he does live create a lot his personality started off quite shy but then he got into the drone and he's confident started to build up because he's joined music and the death and goes to yorkshire musical he's also now helping all the children in the club because he feels that he's got more to offer. i think with music being able to communicate through music is a good way to challenge your energies through in order to and to to release the frustrations that you might have been at not being able to hear properly but the idea of music is to incorporate everybody you can be deaf you can be hearing you can be blind an equal you can still have the opportuni

i started to look at this in terms of my own 4o1k. thought it was interesting to add that into the essay that we want to think we have the right politics. we want to feel that we are the clean fuel and then i look at my own 4o1k and i am funding private prisons and my econ sector is funding the keystone pipeline that politically i disagree with. but yet it's feeling my retirement. so i thought it was key to look at that as well. and to pay attention and to think that on the one hand you think you are the clean fuel but there are lot of ways is no such thing as a non- pollutant. >> host: i thought that was a very good point and if you're looking at somebody who you're talking about different athletes, and somebody gets a lot of criticism of course that's brought up in this conversation is michael jordan. and they talk about him with different things he has invested in. or has contributed to things that are pretty much against conventionally the upliftment of the black community. he does a lot of great things but his things are under the

you know i pursued a question that i really want to start by thinking that you know when the and i are on the inside of this issue you have doctors and patients that are suffering and so the language whatever you. put it to a better place and you know i really believe there is a place for both burnout and injury and so i do sometimes get frustrated when they are not or not or not at all injury the reason for that it turned out the research for a very long time after intervention validated will be our going but it doesn't answer everything moral injury thing you offer and help people understand what i mean the umbrella so so so i think both need to that so that we can get a better life that we're looking for. joe and i just want to say for the audience here actually i asked everyone before the show they're all doctors they should be referred to his doctors they all gave you permission to use their 1st name for the ease of today's conversation but i want to take the conversation now to jill who sitting in atlanta georgia you're a physician dr did you experience a kind of burnout what did

[laughter] and i said really. we started talking. i went to all the managers and started realizing they all needed the similar type of reporting. so i worked on that. not long after that, all the reporting came online they started using it. i would go back and ask how it's going and as i got familiar with it, it was going really well. then i remember the day i started walking back down and instead of all of the hussle and bustle trying to figure who just walked by, it was michelle, come in. come in. then i come in info this is what i need now. this is great. i go okay. i can go down the aisle without getting called into the office because they saw value in what i was doing. but they had to get to know me and what my value was. in the book i talk about don't we all have that role to play? you have to show your value to people and they have to be open to see it. because at the end of the day, we all have choices to make every day. one is, we all have challenges and differences, am i going to hide in the world and just let it be there? o

your entertainment. >> guest: tha >> guest: that is one of the things they start to add them together and it's one of the reasons i wanted to do that and that section where does that fit you start asking the question where does it fit and how many different ways, why are we having this conversation in that people wear your jersey and feel like they can abuse you or if you like we go back and forth through all this how many times can you fight for your country and at the same time there's a feeling of anti-blackness like go back to africa, go back where you came from. i think that there is a total of it that made me really think that there was some recalibration on my part about how to navigate this. >> host: how do you negotiate this because this happens on both sides of the aisle and i say that all the time of the left and the right when they speak out about something you agree with them there is a platform and brilliance lifting them off but when they speak out on something that you don't agree with, and again on the left and the right i think that is a problem we have in society is being able to actually have a

especially when i started salesforce. it was a meaningful and powerful relationship. would not be the person i am an salesforce would not be the company it is without steve jobs. >> you have people start developing applications and apps. then you have the name, the app store. >> in 2001, salesforce was like 18 months old. i got an invitation to fund something called culture act, that was starting. -- college track, that was starting. it was being put together by steve jobs. i go to this dinner and lorraine had forgotten to make a reservation and it was packed. steve says i am not leaving until a table opens. i won't go into the aspects of his personality but just know that we were not leaving. he says do you want to see something cool? i say yes. he takes out -- take this out of his back pocket. he says i just introduced this last week, it is an ipod. i said that is pretty cool. he says yes, i have 1000 songs in my pocket, what do you think of that? i say i like it. he said you can turn it like this. like this. like this. i said that is very cool. then i said to him it

after the 2008 election, i was curious and then i started looking into it in 2009. would go to really good research libraries and get in those card catalogs and look up john quincy adams by his last name. how many books are thereby john quincy adams? making that list, it was astonishing how many were by them. herbert hoover wrote a mining textbook. who knew? also, there were these really intimate and important books. i started to realize that abraham lincoln, calvin coolidge, ulysses s. grant, jefferson, adams, there were so many examples of these books really mattering. that is when i started to realize that there was a story to tell here. >> you alluded to the history of nonfiction book publishing in america. why do you tell that part of the story? craig: that is what helps us realize how important these books have been. even if you read a good biography about a lot of the presidents i talk about, their books don't come up. there books are not central. biographers and historians have a lot of work to do. they are worried about the policy. my books are about the hum

fun i've always wanted to be shaping things to wish that i started writing screenplays before i started acting in films but. then i learned how to edit and how to write a treatment. how to get funds. and without that i probably would never have dared to make a feature length film that called as i'd thought. the pings are going to follow how do you integrate your acting experiences into your director. so i'm going on like others starting out with directing i've got the great advantage of having been on many sets as an actress i cherish and i have observed many other directors men and women at work so couldn't leave us leaving your directorial debut i love life it was about an obsessive relationship between a young woman and an older man. but it's about much more isn't it i can feel me. yet this is after i means i think yes on the one hand that it's an obsessive love affair but on the other say it's also about a family the book i based it on is a young woman's breathless monologue a woman who goes into an unknown space and does things that could be considered extremely unfeminist in natur

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i started to deliver these, what i called these little gifts of aloha, and very quickly started getting responses, that during every day on the house floor we have either one or two or three voting sessions. and i started to see, while we were having votes, the only time all 435 members are in the same place at the same time, there were senior ranking republicans, chairmen of powerful committees, people from other parts of the country who, normally, i wouldn't cross paths with. they probably would not give me the time of day or return my call if i asked for a meeting. but they were coming and looking for me. just to say thank you. many of them following that up with, "i ate it all and i need more before i can go home and see my family this weekend. can you hook me up?" [laughter] tulsi: but then most importantly saying, tell me, tell me what issues your constituents are worried about. you know, what what are the things you want to work on? now that you're here in congress? i'm the chair of this committee or i've been working on that issue, or this is an area that i've been focused on. l

i remember the day i started in -- i stood in the doorway and watched as my mother paced back and forthshe had on her stocking feet, best dressed laid on the bed. -- best dress laid on the bed. she was 50 years old. never worked outside the home. she was terrified. but we were on the edge of losing our house. my mother looked at me. she looked at that dress. she looked back at me. she walked over, pulled the dress on and walked to the sears roebuck and got a minimum-wage job answering phones. my mother saved our home, and more importantly, she saved our family. she taught me how to fight from an early age. fight for the people you love. [cheers and applause] and when i wanted to be a schoolteacher and my family do -- did not have the money for a college application, when it looked like there was no chance on earth, i got in and fought for it. i got to be a special education teacher. i've lived my dream job. [cheers and applause] i learned to fight early on, but here is the thing. it is not enough just to fight. two fight and -- you have to fight and have a plan to get things done. [chee

[laughter] i started thinking about what could i do to do the work of justice. to do the work of the state. to do the work i had struggled so hard for almost two years to convince people to let me try. if i couldn't be the governor, could i do the work without the title? the answer is you can't do that much. it's helpful to have the imprimatur of the governor behind you, to have the budget and the office and a really nice house. but, but you can do something. so my first something was called fair fights. a belief that i could expand on the work i did as a student at spellman college in 1991. when i marched down to city hall in the wake of the rodney king riots in 1992. the work i did as a student registering people to vote for the 1992 elections as one of the happiest 18-year-olds in america because i had the opportunity to vote for the first time. bothering my friends at l.l.c. 1 and over here at morehouse college, getting them to sign up to vote and coming back to try to get them to pick my candidate. the work i did in civic engagement that took me to us a --

well, i realized when i started learning this work about four years ago and it really is based on the teachings of an israeli scholar who you have met who is connected very closely with the bay area. comes out here all the time to lead workshops and developed this whole method doing which we built on and a danced around teaching jewish leaders how to redesign jewish life around these belonging principles. when i started working with sar la, i realized this is something that many of us have had this experience, you, too, i think. i have been doing sort of by accident or naturally my whole life is sort of designing experiences so that people have authentic and intentional xa the first time i tried this and really tried to design something was a witwo families, multigenerational. i made everyone answer a couple of really hard questions like name one thinof. one thing that you appreciate about your parent or your child. i made everyone bright those down and take a moment of quiet to think about it. then we whence around the table and talked about what we lad written down. the sharing and