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Women's Achieve Summit Richmond, VA October 15, 2019 Introduction Women’s Achieve Summit Richmond, VA October 15, 2019 Introduction Queen Latifah, producer, actor, and musical performer Announcer: Good morning. Please give a warm Virginia welcome to our host and emcee, a multi-talented star who was a female hip hop pioneer, a Grammy and Emmy winner, and an Academy award nominee. The one, the only, Queen Latifah. Queen Latifah: Wow. You all was jamming. Woo. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you everyone. Relax. Have a seat. We about to hangout all day. I saw you had my girl Missy Misdemeanor Elliot up there. So proud of her. Just talked to her the other day too, so. Thank you so much and thank you. Give it up for the house band, the Misbehaviors. They're going to be rocking with us all day. Please make yourself comfortable. Audience: I love you. Queen Latifah: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You got it. What a great sight to look out at 1400 women and one or two brave guys. I'm so happy to be here and be your host today. Today's summit is one of the signature events of the 2019 Commemoration American Evolution. American Evolution is the Commonwealth of Virginia's 400th anniversary of events in 1619 that still impact us today. All year, Virginia has been telling authentic stories of 400 years of democracy, diversity and opportunity in America. Women have not always been invited to participate in that democracy. Oh, but we in it now. And we are here to celebrate that today. We are actresses, we are astronauts, we are journalists, business owners, soldiers, educators. But what we all have in common is we are women. Yeah, you can make some noise for being a Page 1 of 125 woman. I'm pretty happy about it. And we're committed to a better future for our communities, Virginia, and of course the world. Now we asked you to bring a mentor or a mentee today. Raise your hand if you came with someone. Yes. See, and we take direction. You know what I mean? See our goal today is to keep the program fun, informative, and meaningful. And we have a stellar lineup today of women who have done some amazing things. Have been to outer space. I mean literally been to outer space. I want to go outer space. I ain't going to lie. I want to go to outer space. I thought I was in outer space a few times, but tequila don't really count. You know what I mean? Anyway, I literally want to go to outer space. They have fought on the front lines of war. Yeah. Brave women, powerful women, and they have worn crowns. Why not? Why not be a queen. I'm excited to meet them all today and we have our very own story slam about how well behaved women seldom make history. Audience: Yeah. Queen Latifah: Okay? So we want to remind you to download the event app. We're going to use it to take questions for our guests today. So if you haven't done that yet, download the event app. Okay? Coffee Talk Queen Latifah, producer, actor, and musical performer Wendy B. Lawrence, former NASA Astronaut and retired U.S. Navy Captain Queen Latifah: So shall we begin? Let's get started? My first guest is the first female graduate of the Naval Academy to be a NASA astronaut. Please welcome Captain Wendy Lawrence. Yeah. Can I hug you? Oh my God, I just hugged an astronaut! The hat is awesome. Captain Wendy Lawrence: Thank you. Queen Latifah: I mean ... Yeah, go Wendy. Captain Wendy Lawrence: Thank you. Queen Latifah: I mean, I guess if you can't get to space, the next best thing is to sit next to somebody who went to space. That's pretty awesome. Wendy, do you remember the first time you thought in your mind, I want to be an astronaut? Page 2 of 125 Captain Wendy Lawrence: Oh, absolutely. And this is a very appropriate year to ask me that question because when you talk to astronauts who are around my age, we got to grow up during Apollo. And for us it's the Apollo 11 mission. And I was 10 years old growing up in Southern California, and I remember lying on the floor in front of the still black and white television that we had at home. Not that it would have mattered much because the video coming back from the moon was pretty much black and white. But to this day, I cannot tell you exactly what it was about watching Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin go out and take those very steps on the moon for the first time. But I looked at that. I was amazed. I couldn't take my eyes off the screen. And I remember thinking to myself oh, that's what I want to do when I grow up. Well, my mother remembers it slightly differently. She said "Oh no, no, no. You turned around and looked at the rest of us and proudly proclaimed that's what I'm going to do when I grow up. I'm going to be an astronaut and I'm going to fly in space." So the beauty of being 10 you know, you dare to dream. Queen Latifah: Oh, you dare to dream, but you did what you dared to dream. Captain Wendy Lawrence: I was possessed by a dream. So I absolutely understand the power of having a dream. Queen Latifah: The power of having a dream, I love that. I love that because unfortunately some people's dreams are truncated. They are cut off. Captain Wendy Lawrence: They are. Queen Latifah: They are not encouraged to dream. Captain Wendy Lawrence: I think too often though, we do it to ourselves, and I think women do that more often than men. We just immediately look at something and say "I can't do that. I'm not going to be good enough. Or it's selfish of me to think that this is something that I should go pursue." So that's why I like to say to kids you owe it to yourself to try. You never know unless you try. Queen Latifah: Can everybody hear Wendy well? Audience: Yes. Queen Latifah: Page 3 of 125 Okay, good. Because I have a feeling that that is not the first time you're going to hear that today. So I just want you to make a little mental note of that. That we do it to ourselves sometimes. Okay? Wendy, tell us about the moment when you first found out you were going into space? Captain Wendy Lawrence: Well, NASA kind of delays that a little bit. What people don't quite understand is when you are first selected by NASA, technically you're an astronaut candidate. So that means you have to go through an initial training flow. And once you get towards the end of that training flow and it's clear that you're going to complete it successfully, then you're designated as an astronaut and you're eligible to be assigned to a mission. So fortunately for me, my timing, my arrival at NASA was at a point in time where there are many shuttle flights and I didn't have to wait long. I was actually not done with that initial training flow when the chief of the astronaut office called me one day and said "I'm assigning you to your first mission, SDS 67", which is incredibly exciting obviously. And it dawned on you like how one step closer, I still have another year to go because it's a very intensive training flow. But still a very exciting day knowing that you finally, finally are going to get that chance to make that dream come true at the very end of it. Queen Latifah: You are in. Oh, and you have some pictures. I see you have some pictures to show. Captain Wendy Lawrence: Yes, so this is- Queen Latifah: What are we looking at now? Captain Wendy Lawrence: Here we are looking at my last mission and I ... Queen Latifah: Yeah. There she is. Captain Wendy Lawrence: In particular, I wanted to show this for an event like this, I wanted you to see the commander of that mission, Eileen Collins, first woman to ever land the space shuttle. Queen Latifah: Wow. Captain Wendy Lawrence: So needless to say, quite a privilege to fly with somebody like Eileen. This was her second opportunity serving as a space shuttle commander. Queen Latifah: Page 4 of 125 And I didn't know that he let Liev Schreiber. That looks like Ray Donovan is in space. Ray Donovan get up there before me. That's not fair. That's not cool. I'm going to have to talk to somebody over there to NASA. Captain Wendy Lawrence: I think so. Queen Latifah: You know? Now that's a big jump from flying a chopper, which is pretty rad. I would love to fly a chopper. Captain Wendy Lawrence: It is fun to fly backwards. Queen Latifah: To flying the space shuttle. Captain Wendy Lawrence: It's fun to fly fast, too. Queen Latifah: What was the training like because I mean, there's a long way from being 10 years old and saying "Hey, I want to go into space" to actually doing it.
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