I need to give myself a space to really throw things around in my brain and sit with things.

And sometimes it doesn't mean that I'm like actively sitting there thinking about it,

but it just means that I'm kind of going about my day and I'm like,

oh, that would be an interesting way of talking about this.

And when you have those moments, draw them down. Hello. Hello. Welcome to Let it out with me, your host, Katie Dale Bow.

This week I speak with Mina Harris, a extremely impressive person. She's a lawyer, founder, and CEO of Phenomenal, a organization

that brings awareness to various social causes. She's a best-selling children's author. She's a mom. She's ambitious and

phenomenal herself in her work with social change and empowerment. And this is maybe in her blood.

She's the niece very famously of vice president-elect Kamala Harris and the daughter of Kamala's sister,

Maya Harris, who's a civil rights lawyer and a public policy advocate who once led the

nation's largest ACLU affiliate. Impressive family line Mina comes from.

Mina herself is so genuine and really cool in this interview.

We talk about her first book, which is based off of her mom and her aunt, and it's called

Kamala and Maya's Big Idea, which she published a little bit ago.

And then her second book,

Ambitious Girl, just came out. And we speak about that as well. We also talk about inspiration

and her creative process as well as writing a book, a children's book, organizing, catching ideas. And we get into the need for

more inclusion within children's literature and how she saw that gap and mended it with putting

her books into the world. We spoke about community building and the importance of spreading information.

There's a line in her first book, no one can do everything, but everyone can do something.

We speak about that and motherhood and friendship, being an only child raised by successful,

powerful women, and a lot more. I'm really excited for you to

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