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June 1, 2016

This book was the hardest one yet to write, hard because I finally had to sit down and think about one subject. I pride myself in having a lot to say. I pride myself even more on my diversity and freedom. So when you put me in a box, when I put me in a box, my first reaction is to escape. Unfortunately, sometimes when you’re running, it isn’t always a good thing. Sometimes you can be running from yourself, from your purpose, from what you were put here to do.

And for the last year, that’s what I’ve been doing.

There has been a lot of pressure on me since Dear Woman, and most of it has been self-inflicted. I never expected that book to sell as much as it did, to reach as many people as it did, or to be as influential as it was to women. I wrote that book in eighteen hours, three days before it was released. All I had was a notepad full of topics, my heart, and God. It subsequently singlehandedly changed my life. It put me in a place where I realized that my purpose was to be a voice to speak to women—of honesty, encouragement, support, and hope. In the process, I realized that my work has truly only just begun. Dear Woman did a lot of good for both me and the world. It gave me freedom; it gave the people who read it validation, insight, and a little humor. Another thing I realized it did was that it raised some women’s bar. It changed what they stood for, who they stood for. It let them know that they weren’t crazy. It also let them know that they might need to evaluate some of the relationships they were in. What it didn’t do enough of was tell enough people how to do that.