This content was created by Lewis Howes. This content was uploaded by Lewis Howes. This is a YouTube video titled "How Michelle Obama & Her Brother Grew Up" featuring a conversation between Lewis Howes, Michelle Obama, and Craig Robinson. The discussion revolves around their childhood experiences growing up in a small apartment, the sacrifices made by their parents, and the values instilled in them during that time.
I, I think I heard you say in your podcast, which is an amazing show, I want people to go download it and watch it. But you're talking about you grew up in a one bedroom apartment together, essentially with like a living room as your guys's bedroom up until you went to high school.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
So you shared a room for like 10, 12 years together?
Oh, yeah. We shared a room our whole time growing up. Wow. Until I went to high school. And then we turned the back porch into a bedroom.
Yeah.
You know, finished it off and enclosed it and insulated it and that became my kitchen, my bed, my bedroom. But the, I would say our entire apartment apartment was as big as this, this area right here.
My father was a, he was a city worker. He's a blue collar city worker, work for the water filtration plant. And we lived off of his salary until I went to high school because my parents thought it was important for my mom to stay home so in order to make that work. And my father was very financially responsible, even though he didn't earn a lot of money. And they made sacrifices. So their view was, it doesn't matter the size of the house. It's more important for you to have your mother there who is, you know, so we could come home for lunch. And she was a room parent and she knew our friends, but we didn't have a lot of money. We didn't grow up with stuff. And so, you know, when, you know, I, I talk about this with parents when, you know, you hear young people waiting, it's like, well, I want to make sure I have a 6,000 square foot house and that we have savings for college already lined up before I can even think about getting married. You know, my, that, that wasn't what made us who we were, you know, and, and living in that little bitty space with four people in one bathroom, um, that built character for us and it created a level of closeness and intimacy. And it, it's a reminder to us today that no matter how successful that we get home is about who's there, not where we are.
