Michelle Obama on Humble Beginnings and Success

Although the media is obsessed with her toned arms and fashion sense, Michelle Obama's story is deeply inspirational at many other levels. In this talk - her first official state visit as First Lady to a London school, she gives a moving tribute to all the men and women in her life who had given her confidence and love and who had made it possible for her to get a solid education. She talks about being born poor without resources and no social standing. And how nothing in her background made it remotely possible that today she is the First Lady. And mind you the first ever African-American First Lady. Armed with a Harvard law degree she fondly recalls how her fist date with her husband was a community organizing event. Unromantic maybe but deeply inspirational as she saw a man dedicated to help the poor and bring as much resources to those who could not navigate an increasingly complex system. She speaks from the heart and like her husband weaves in her personal stories with a large theme about education and empowerment of woman. How it is important to work hard and how it is cool to be a smart woman.