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Hello and welcome.

If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Sir Isaac Newton wrote that in a letter to Robert Hook in 1675.

I've always liked that quote because I think it's incredibly humbling.

It's a reminder to us all that even the people that we perceive to be great.

Their achievements should be attributed to the real greats that came before them.

There was somebody that walked so that they could run.

I have only ever known one giant and I have stood on his shoulders my entire life.

I've shared that giant with the world the best of my ability.

I don't think there is a single person who can legitimately say that they are a Candice

Owen span. You cannot also tell you something about my grandfather.

One of my most viral internet moments, for example, testifying in front of Congress.

Check today.

It has upwards of six million views on YouTube and millions across other platforms.

It was my grandfather that was sitting right behind me, shaking his head at Ted Lu.

My first book, which I published a dream of mine called Blackout as of today, I looked.

It has 498,695 copies sold.

That is just under half a million people who own a book that tells a story of my grandfather

in chapter one.

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