Dr. Jackie Friedrikson urges everyone not to let life’s trials and challenges define who you are, but to let them refine who you are. Don’t give up in the darkness of the tunnel, walk through it.

Dr. Chanel F. DeGuzman delved into the importance of freeing ourselves from the past, her transformational experience through coaching, and what she hopes others take away from her book.

Lucille Clifton wanted her children to read and enjoy books featuring Black protagonists, but in the 1960s and 1970s, there weren’t many to choose from—so she wrote her own.