The Art of Tough Fearlessly Facing Politics and Life

the art of tough is her book fearlessly facing politics and life

when I sat down to write the book you know your memoirs which by the way I hope everyone will do it doesn't matter how old you are you have a story to tell and you have many stories to tell

which is called the art of tough

when I was researching you and prepping for the show was you you do recall your mother's advice all the time

the art of tough fearlessly facing politics and life

when I sat down to write the book you know your memoirs which by the way I hope everyone will do it doesn't matter how old you are you have a story to tell and you have many stories to tell you know I realized that of course given my age I had lived through so many unbelievable times you know the World War II the Holocaust the 50s the fight for equal rights by African Americans then for women the environment and on and on and all those things which are baked into my my worldview and how I saw I saw life and I always had this sense of outrage inside me

it was interesting that you probe that because I always said if I lose that I'm just going to stop doing you know my work which I'm still doing by the way even though I'm not in the Senate I still have the outrage I I pour it out on my podcast and my guests help me deal with it

I got up to give somebody a seat in the bus in Florida in Miami in 1950 and the somebody happened to be African American woman and she gave me a look as if what are you doing getting me a trouble and she marched the back and my mother again not educated just had the best heart in the world and the best values she said honey don't offer her your seat I said well why not you always taught me when I saw someone older so she must have been you know 50 and I was 10 she said this is Florida and this is the south and there's segregation what what does that mean well that they say black people have to go to the back of the bus and I was so upset and she said do you want to go to the back of the bus I said yes and so we did and we stood and my mother rubbed my neck which is what she did when she saw it was concerned and I looked at the woman and she kind of looked away and look that's how you learn your values and how proud I was in later years when I sat down to write the book about my mother who really took a chance in a way because you know my father was the educated one she had worked so that he could go to college and then he went to law school but she had the values you know

I think I discussed it in my book how if you look at Abe Lincoln if you look at Richard Nixon if you look at all the men who went to very high levels they lost maybe twice three times four times and it didn't impact their confidence in being able to try again but that women took it personally and the reason I mention it is you know when you do these podcasts like you do when you give people thoughts and ideas about how to incorporate these ideas in their lives you make a difference

I saw what they did to black people on the bus and to Jackie Robinson I saw what they did to me a woman all I wanted to do was help the company get customers right yeah so you know when you see all that you know when you see the oil spills that happen in the dead birds when you see you know kids being mistreated all of that adds up to passion I would hope in most of us and to me it led me then to pivot

She's also the host of fight back with Barbara and the cold boxer on podcast one I gotta give her credit she's done a whole heck of a lot in her time Jason the art of tough is her book fearlessly facing politics and life and so long career and government

And all those things which are baked into my my worldview and how I saw I saw life and I always had this sense of outrage inside me

it was interesting that you probe that because I always said if I lose that I'm just going to stop doing you know my work

which I'm still doing by the way even though I'm not in the Senate I still have the outrage I I pour it out on my podcast and my guests help me deal with it

I got up to give somebody a seat in the bus in Florida in Miami in 1950 and the somebody happened to be African American woman and she gave me a look as if what are you doing getting me a trouble and she marched the back