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Ciara and Russell Wilson discuss their debut children's book, "Why Not You?" and how growing up in households that instilled that mindset in them led them to be successful partners, parents, and public figures.
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00:00when did you look at each other and think like oh this could be a book like we could
00:03make a children's book about this well when we first met um we talked about you know i like to
00:08ask a lot of questions yeah so we we uh we um and the first day we talked we talked about things
00:19that we wanted to do and um and one of the things you know is is you know we talked about opening up
00:24a school one day that was one of our big dreams you know we both say open up a school another
00:28thing we talked about is is uh you know is to obviously write a book and to be able to do a
00:32children's book um it's such a gift because we have our kids that and sierra's like the queen queen
00:38reader over here okay when mama comes gets to read every all the kids oh my god mommy you know so
00:44every night you know they get to listen to mama read but for me um it's cool to know that you know
00:50like i said earlier to know that our kids you know future he's an amazing reader he loves school
00:54sienna she loves getting uh reading too as well and being read too yeah and then when you know
01:00he's he's over there laying on brother he loves his books so for us to be able to bring this home to
01:06not too long ago to show them you know the depiction of obviously mom and dad up here in
01:10the front when we were kids but also to see themselves um on the front too is such a cool
01:15story and and then obviously as you've been able to have had the chance to be able to get your eyes on
01:20on on the words it's all about inspiration it's all about confidence to succeed and and that's
01:26what we want to be able to instill those kids you know and our kids but also other kids around the
01:29world so i i think that's that's um that's been a lot of fun for us and uh you know it was when we
01:35got to do it it was like we felt like it was perfect timing to be able to to write this and you
01:40know having three kids and all that and now did the kids give any feedback as you were working on it
01:44like yeah no you know actually we kind of held we kind of kept it a little tight for them in the
01:49process right and so it was kind of a big reveal for them once we had the book physically in our
01:54hands and um you know it was like a sweet surprise they saw this book and they were so excited and so
02:02excited to read it and it was just so cute it was a really touching moment because again that why not
02:08you attitude is like hey this is real like we had a vision from when we were young just like them
02:13and we were very fortunate enough to make for those dreams to happen and to become true and to now be
02:19able to take a book that we actually like created and like this is from mom and dad and to share that
02:25with them and for them to be proud just as proud as we are um it's that's really special you know it
02:31motivates you
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