- We're back with America's mom, Tabitha Brown,
number one New York Times bestselling author
(crowd applauding) with her book,
"Feeding the Soul."
And now there's a follow up journal that teaches us
how to do just that.
You know, I'm opening a page, Tabitha,
and I pointed out to you, like,
this paragraph starts, "Now, honey."
And then I was like, how did you do that?
And what did you say?
- Because I wrote it in my voice.
That's how I talk.
So, I want people to feel like I'm talking to you.
You know, this is Tab trying to help you along the way.
Not tell you how to do it but just encourage you
as you do it for yourself.
- May I ask what your advice is to
when you are writing something or reading something
or, you know, trying to communicate in any way,
how you keep your voice because your voice is so distinct
and it never gets lost in translation?
Any advice on how to have one's voice not get lost
in translation?
- I think for me, because for so many years
I covered my true voice and I conformed trying
to make other people accept me or feel comfortable.
The thing is about loving yourself
and realizing that, wait a minute,
my voice as it is who I am is enough,
I deserve to be in this room, in this space.
And when you know that without a shadow of a doubt,
you always show up.
Nobody can take your voice.
- I mean, it's
genuinely your superpower. (crowd applauding)
- It is.
At being your true self, right?
- Can you tell me, and I know you've told it before,
but I really love the Whole Foods story.
Like, you were eating a sandwich
(Tabitha chuckles) and you posted a video?
- Yeah, I was actually driving Uber.
- [Drew] You were an Uber driver?
- Yep, in 2017 I was driving Uber
and I had dropped somebody off by Whole Foods.
I was very still new to being vegan
and so Whole Foods always have a vegan option.
So, I was like, "Oh, lemme go ahead
and get me a little breakfast,
put myself on a little break."
And I went in there,
I had never heard of vegan bacon before.
I got a sandwich.
- Facon, I used to call it. - Right?
It was like tempeh bacon is the one that they had.
And so I ate that first half
and was like, "Oh, I need to do a video
and tell people I found a new vegan option."
'Cause that's what my videos were about.
But wasn't nobody watching them.
And I sat in my car and, you know,
I told people I found this new sandwich
and how amazing it was to me.
And by the time I got home, the video had like 50,000 views.
And I was like, "Who watching this video, Lord?"
(crowd chuckles)
And so, (laughs)
the next morning had over a hundred some thousand,
I told my husband, I said, "I think I'm going viral."
(crowd laughs) And he was like,
"Well, what does that mean?"
I said, "I don't know," you know?
And then four days later, Whole Foods reached out
and was like, "We saw your video,
we would love to work with you."
And it has been uphill from there.
(Tabitha chuckles) (crowd applauds)
- Can you play a game with us?
It's one of my favorites.
It's called "Three to Go."
It just gives some Tabitha Brown recommendations
for us all to run with.
- [Tabitha] Okay.
- All right, this is "Three to Go!"
(bubbly music) (crowd cheering)
All right.
Tabitha, what's an Instagram account that we should follow?
- Other than mine?
I will say. (chuckles) - Yeah, exactly.
- Eric Thomas.
- [Drew] Eric Thomas?
- Yes. - Fantastic.
Next, movie that can brighten any rainy day?
- I would say "The Devil Wears Prada."
- Oh, my God, it's the best. (Tabitha laughs)
- I love it. - It's the best!
- Meryl Streep,
she is comedy gold in that. - Miranda Priestly,
"That's all."
- Yes. - Okay,
last, the best response to give someone
when they are trying to bring you down?
- Oh, honey, that ain't my business.
(crowd chuckles)
And that's it.
That's what I tell them.
That's not my business.
(crowd applauding) (Tabitha laughs)
- All right, I'm writing that down.
"That's not my business."
Thank you Tabitha Brown for once again carrying us
through Tabitha's new book,
"Seen, Loved and Heard: A Guided Journal
for Feeding the Soul."
The follow up to her number one, New York Times bestseller,
"Feed the Soul," is out now.
(bright music)