Lisa Nichols: How To Find Your Voice And Own Your Story

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00:00He would say things like, Lisa, God dropped you in the tar pit, and God left you in the

00:05oven too long, and I summarized it as, damn, I'm God's mistake, really?

00:11And I remember I had never seen myself as anything less than anybody.

00:17I just didn't have that conversation until I went there.

00:22I had been teased every day of the school year.

00:26There was this one kid, Brian, and Brian would remind me every day that God had made

00:31a mistake when God had created me.

00:35And I remember they were having tryouts for Charlie's Angels.

00:39Remember Charlie's Angels?

00:41You young bucks, I'm not talking about the new ones.

00:46Talking about the old school Charlie Angels.

00:48And they were having tryouts for Charlie's Angels, and the bionic woman, you remember

00:53Lindsay Wagner?

00:55Lindsay Wagner was amazing.

00:58So when they had tryouts, I said, oh my God, if I try out and I make it, and I become one

01:03of Charlie's Angels, or I become the bionic woman, then I belong.

01:10And 40 girls, 40 excited girls, stepped up to the line to be considered, to do the three

01:15things that you had to do, the three, you know, challenges you had to cross in order

01:20to become one of the Charlie's Angels, or the bionic woman.

01:23I was the only little chocolate girl there, just looking like a little kiss, right?

01:29So the first event was the 100-yard dash, ready, set, go.

01:36And I ran, ran, ran, ran, ran.

01:38When I crossed the finish line, the first person that just hit the 50-yard mark, Lisa

01:44Nichols wins the first event.

01:46I'm like, yes, one down, two to go.

01:49I'm almost in.

01:50I'm almost going to belong.

01:53Second event, we want you guys to jump over a chair, but I did something different.

02:03When I bent down to go over the chair, I did a little extra.

02:08When I came up, I went, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do.

02:14Then I leaped over the chair, and I landed, and then I threw some Wonder Woman on.

02:21They were confused.

02:22They didn't know what hit them.

02:23They said, Lisa Nichols won the second event as well.

02:27And then the third and final event was the roll, stop, and freeze sucker.

02:33And I did it perfect, on the dime.

02:36So when the final, like, eight, nine girls are standing on the line, I'm like, oh my

02:40God, my life is going to change right now.

02:42I'm going to belong.

02:44And so I'm standing on the line, and I'm like, oh, life is about to look way different.

02:49Like the first thing I'm going to do is get my other Charlie's Angels girl, get my Bionic

02:52woman, and we're going to go and punch Brian.

02:54And so they said, Charlie's Angels number one, Diane, okay, that's not my name, Charlie's

03:08Angels number two, I'm so excited, Teresa, okay, that's cool, that's cool.

03:17I got one more Charlie's Angels or the Bionic woman, that's all right, it's all right, it's

03:20good, Charlie's Angels number three, Kim, it's good, I like the Bionic woman.

03:38And anyway, she just shows strength, that's all right, that's all right, that's all right.

03:44And the Bionic woman, yes, yes, yes, the Bionic woman is Linda, yes, that's not my name.

04:02I stood there for a moment, I can hear a few boos, a few people upset, and I finally

04:08mustered up the nerves to go over to the judges.

04:14Why didn't you choose me?

04:15I won every single event, I ran the fastest, Spro stopped and free suck on the dime and

04:22the asphalt was hot, I jumped over the chair and I made the sound effects.

04:31And one of the judges, long, beautiful blonde hair, she said, Lisa, we know you won every

04:39event, but we couldn't choose you.

04:44Which Charlie's Angels or the Bionic woman will you ever look like?

04:49And that day was the day that I began to blame myself for my story.

04:57For the next 15, all I tried to do was prove I was good enough, prove I was smart enough,

05:04prove that I was worthy of choosing.

05:07Anybody know what I'm talking about?

05:10And then I discovered that I wanted to begin to use my voice, I could hear this thing in

05:16my voice when I spoke and I said, I think there's something, I think there might be

05:21a gift up under all that junk.

05:24And I began to try my voice out and I was in a church and I was delivering a poem and

05:33at the end of the speech, I got a roaring standing ovation from the 15,000 people that

05:38were in this church.

05:39It was the biggest standing ovation, biggest audience I'd ever spoke in front of.

05:42And as I'm walking through the audience and all of a sudden I heard this voice that was

05:46so familiar with this hand on my shoulder, she said, you were amazing.

05:53And I turned around and I looked and it was television's bionic woman, Lindsay Wagner.

06:17I said, I did you, I've been down, I jumped, I do, do, do, do, do.

06:24No, really, I did that, I said it.

06:27I'm not just saying that for y'all, I mean, I was all in my story.

06:32Some of us are all in our story.

06:34And I looked at her, I said, they said I couldn't be you because I was black.

06:45They said I couldn't be you because I'd never look like you.

06:49And I knew I could never make myself look like you.

06:51I do a lot of things well, but I don't do blonde.

06:58She said, sweetheart, she said, I'm an actress.

07:04She said, I'm in Hollywood.

07:07She said, you, with your journey, you are the true bionic woman.

07:22And something shifted that day.

07:27I no longer could fit in my old story.

07:31There becomes a time when you no longer fit in your old story.

07:36I think that day is today, that there's a new part two trying to be born for you.

07:46And it requires you to own every part of the past, but own every part of the possibility.

07:52And on the other side of that, the diamonds that will drop out of your mouth, the diamonds

07:59that will come birthing from your soul, the seeds that will be planted and the harvest

08:05that will grow, you will be barely recognizable.

08:09But better than that are the people around you.

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