Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Jan Black. And I'm Laura Owens. And we are thrilled to welcome Esther Wojitsky to the show today.

Esther is a leading American educator,

journalist, and mother, and the author of the great new book, How to Raise Successful People,

Simple Lessons for Radical Results. Welcome to the show. I'm delighted to be here. Thank you so

much for inviting me. You are a complete legend and a role model as a parent and a teacher.

So can you talk to us about the three successful daughters that you've raised and successful

is putting it lightly? Well, so I have three daughters, as you mentioned. The oldest one is

Susan. The middle one is Janet and the youngest one is Anne.

Well, first I should just mention that they were all normal little girls running around doing normal little things.

They weren't protégés or anything.

They were just real little girls regular.

So my goal was really to empower them.

And so today, Susan, is the CEO of YouTube,

Anne's the youngest one.

She's the founder and the CEO of 23 and me.

And Janet is a professor of pediatrics at UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco.

Wow.

So how did you become such a great parent?

Well, I think it might have been an accident.

You know, my goal was to see if I could empower my children early on.

Empower means I really wanted them to learn as much as they could as children, as really small children.

So that was my goal from the time they were really small and small being, you know, aged like one month.

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