Notes To My Daughter: Affirmations, Empowerment & Hope

Notes To My Daughter is for girls only. A book of positive affirmations to instill hope, change and fearlessness. From an early age girls and boys are taught to behave in certain ways based on religion, society, and traditions. These behaviors are learned and unfortunately and routinely a disadvantage for young women. This book comes from the unconditional love a father has for his daughter. A written guide for girls that will empower, transform and transition them into womanhood knowing they are powerful, intelligent, and enough. Notes To My Daughter encourages girl power and women's empowerment. This book features profiles of influential and groundbreaking Black and Latin women who have set the precedent and are proof that anything is possible. Notes To My Daughter is an insightful, and powerful book that will instill in your little girl that she is the masterpiece of her life and nothing is beyond her reach.

Terry Smith is an author who was raised on New York City’s Lower East Side. As a child he was an unfortunate victim of emotional and physical child abuse.

"There is a clear correlation between being from a dysfunctional lower income household and child abuse."  Out of fear for his life, he ran away from home at 16 to escape the beatings, verbal abuse and intimidation. Against all odds he survived and found his passion.

“My life work is rooted in my personal experience and empowering the defenseless and voiceless of society, mainly children. Many of whom are born to parents who are poor, uneducated and the disenfranchised of society.”