Naima B. Robert – I am on a mission…

			The reality is I never ever thought that
		

			I would be a writer, especially after I
		

			became Muslim, after I had my family,
		

			started wearing jibab, niqab,
		

			it just was not part of my vision.
		

			And I definitely didn't think I had anything
		

			to say.
		

			But you know, what I've come to understand
		

			in the years since I started writing, which
		

			is a good 20 years now, is that
		

			every one of us has a story to
		

			tell. Every one of us has a message
		

			to share and every one of us has
		

			knowledge. Knowledge that's needed out in the world.
		

			My job is to help you
		

			own your story, recognize the value of your
		

			message
		

			and distill that knowledge
		

			that is being waited for right now. Because
		

			believe it or not, there are people out
		

			there in the world
		

			who need what it is that you have
		

			to give.
		

			So the work that I do now,
		

			simply about helping
		

			my ladies
		

			see themselves.
		

			See themselves the way that we see them.
		

			Recognize what it is that they have to
		

			bring to the table.
		

			And then give them a system and a
		

			structure and a framework and a support network
		

			to be able to get that book out
		

			into the world.
		

			Because
		

			that book is
		

			the clearest
		

			download
		

			of the gifts that you have. Lots of
		

			us think that, you know, we post on
		

			social media, you know, we talk to our
		

			friends, we talk to our family, we talk
		

			to our children, but those stories and those
		

			messages and that knowledge
		

			are never as clear and concise
		

			as they will be in a book. And
		

			that's why I believe that every one of
		

			us has a book within,
		

			and my job is to help you to
		

			discover the book within.
		

			So let's do this.