The American dream is about options -- Fierce clarity -- Life is the meeting and solving of problems -- Show up as if the room is a stadium -- Choose your hard -- You are enough -- Own your narrative -- You are worthy when you wake up -- Keep taking steps -- Black women are everything -- Way maker -- The fixer -- Stand in the gap -- You have the right to opt out -- People are paradoxes -- Promote yourself to your purpose -- Nice things are only for white people -- You are deserving -- No one is coming to save you -- You are the only you -- Seasons of stillness -- Guard your greatness -- Life is what you are doing -- Everything is different now -- Make a door -- Do all the things -- Mustard seed of hope -- Let faith fill the gaps -- Take up space -- Epilogue : seasons

"A profound and gripping memoir by Nicole Walters, the daughter of Ghanaian immigrants who became a self-made multi-millionaire by showing others how to recognize their own strengths-and her own harrowing journey to the discovery that she was worthy all along of the life of her dreams"--