Becoming

Michelle Obama's book Becoming excellent just read that

Michelle Obama's book, great book, great fucking book. Matter of fact, I talked to her, I've been in the same rooms. I've seen her success. What is her book going to be about? Mm-hmm. We'll read a book, wow. I get it. I get why it's moving all the units that it's moving. I get why women are reading this book and walking away feeling better, feeling like they can, I get it, oh wow.

I've had the honor of talking with former First Lady Michelle Obama a couple of times and one of the conversations we got into and that she talks about a lot in her book is the complications of, you know, she came from South Side of Chicago, but her parents were aspiring for her to have a better life and they put this sort of, I think, emphasis on her speaking well and studying hard.

And she remembered getting flack for that because she was saying, you know, she talked about that. She talked about getting flack for it's almost like trying to, I don't know how to put it, but trying to aspire to move up into this culture and then you realize how complicated that can be.

I got the book, Becoming, and I expected to learn a lot about you. I didn't expect to relate to as many things as I did in the book.

There's so much in your book that is about, and this is something that's a little bit of a religion for me, something that I'm religious about, which is people have a tendency to look at someone who they believe has made it and they don't understand everything it took for them to get there.

And it is amazing to me that, I mean, and then there's little details in there like you were 70s television, 1970s television. Mary Tyler Moore.

So there's a moment, there's so much in this book, I read the book and you talk about these time that was, you worked so hard. You have worked so hard in your life.

And I think that you've earned the right to go sit in a car right now and have some fast food and then go binge watch Sex and the City or whatever it is you want to do.

I got the book Becoming and I expected to learn a lot about you.

the last chapter of the book in Becoming is Conan is Resilient.

You read this book and I encourage you to read it because it's a fantastic book.

I started reading books about people, memoirs, autobiographies, about people who had done extraordinary things... It was everything from Shoe Dog by Phil Knight to Bird by Bird by Anne Lamont to Becoming by Michelle Obama to Open by Andre Agassi.

She thought so much of herself she called her own memoir becoming, becoming double entendre, get it? That she's hopeless?

And she said it wasn't until her husband was nominated for president that she'd ever felt proud of her country.

Secretary Robert Gates wrote about it. First Lady Michelle Obama wrote about it twice in her book, Becoming Michelle sent me a handwritten note on how much it moved her.

I didn't know it was a documentary. That was just a book she twice donated to Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign.

You wrote a book called *Becoming* about yourself, how becoming you are.

the Michelle Obama era ... I'm becoming number one New York Times worldwide bestseller.

I can admit now that I was driven not just by logic, but by some reflexive wish for other people's approval, too.

This may be the fundamental problem with caring a lot about what others think. It can put you on the established path...and keep you there for a long time.

Maybe it stops you from swerving, from ever even considering to swerve because what you risk losing in terms of other people's high regard can feel too costly.

There's a beautiful section in Michelle Obama's new book Becoming. If you haven't read it, it's incredible. I recommend it that I think resonates really clearly here. I'd love to share with you the following are her words, not mine.

I can admit now that I was driven not just by logic, but by some reflexive wish for other people's approval, too.

This may be the fundamental problem with caring a lot about what others think. It can put you on the established path. The my isn't that impressive path and keep you there for a long time.

Maybe it stops you from swerving, from ever even considering to swerve because what you risk losing in terms of other people's high regard can feel too costly.

largely on the basis of her 2018 book, Becoming, which sold 17 million copies worldwide.

And then she wrote this very popular book Becoming all about her American journey.

My mom, Marion Robinson said we are here as parents to raise individuals and we have to be thinking along those lines.

We will always like you here.

I knew she always would have my back.

And we had no money. My parents didn't go to college. They didn't have networks. They didn't have any of that, but they had that enoughness, that enoughness in themselves to be confident that what was going on at 74, 36 South Euclid was just as powerful as what might have been going on in the White House or somebody else's nicer house. That our world was secure because we had love and respect for each other.

To me, that's a better tool than being hurt or being afraid or shying away from the negative things in the world inevitably has waiting for our kids out there in the world.

Well, that's a beautiful way to start because I introduced my dad in Becoming. But this book allowed me to really dive into the lessons that both he and my mom have taught me that keep me upright.

I talk in Becoming about the decision I made to walk away from a very lucrative corporate law career to work in the city and then nonprofits.

And as I said in Becoming, we are always evolving. The journey, that evolutionary process never ends.

Michelle Obama won one, I think about two years ago, and that was for her memoir Becoming

people are banning Michelle Obama's books in Texas right now.

One parent even asked the district to remove a biography of Michelle Obama, arguing the book promotes reverse racism

I can't believe these people want to ban a Michelle Obama biography

They're Instagram influencers at their best Michelle Obama's doing arena tours for her book, Becoming.

At their best Michelle Obama's doing arena tours for her book, Becoming and I don't begrudge them.

If you read between the lines of Obama's book and Michelle Obama's book, there's some pretty brutal admissions of Obama being like, I'm running for office and Michelle's like begging him, like, please don't do it.

When I read Michelle Obama's book, Becoming, when I read Valerie Jarrett's book, Finding My Voice, to read the similar experiences that they went through with this same thing.

When I read Michelle Obama's book, Becoming, when I read Valerie Jarrett's book, Finding My Voice, to read the similar experiences that they went through with this same thing.

She's written about it in her memoir.

what I can't let go of is Michelle Obama and some comments that she made this week where she was in London and she was on stage talking with Stephen Colbert, promoting her book and her book Becoming, which has been a topselling book.

That's not to say that after leaving the White House, they don't try to monetize their stories in a way. Often that comes in the form of a book. I mean, Michelle Obama wrote Becoming.

So I'm giving the biggest he-haul to Netflix for removing the Michelle Obama's documentary Becoming from the adults list to the kids list.

And they also removed the ranking after the masses started streaming this movie, this documentary, the same weekend that our current First Lady documentary came out.

What I saw was Michelle Obama's Becoming surges on Netflix. And yesterday when I turned Netflix on, the Check and Make Sure Breakfast Club content was out there, they had the Michelle Obama Becoming thing going across my screen.

And it went ranked from number eight and then it went up to number six. And then the next day it was removed and it was placed in the kids section as top ranked number four.

She's not the top ten ranked.

So I don't know if you've read her book 'Becoming'

She said it was one of the most pivotal moments in her life because she goes to her college counselor, they're talking about what she wants to do, she says she's going to apply to Princeton and her counselor says you're not Princeton material and she says I'll show you

Michelle Obama's book a lot of them aren't reading it. They just buying it because it helps her.

I read the preface of her autobiography 'Becoming' and I almost it was like nails on a chalkboard that I was reading that Michelle Obama microwaved a grilled cheese.

And I was like, no, no. You're an image.

I read the preface of her autobiography 'Becoming' and I almost it was like nails on a chalkboard that I was reading that Michelle Obama microwaved a grilled cheese.

If you'd like to learn more about Michelle Obama, we recommend Becoming by Michelle Obama and Michelle Obama Alive by Peter Slevin.

I picked up Michelle Obama's book somewhere in the middle of writing mine and she's talking about how she couldn't get alone or a mortgage, this was in the 70s, without her husband.

I listened to the Michelle Obama audiobook of becoming and there were so many words I was like oh is that how you say that like I always said indie fatigable and learned it was like indie fatigable or something