How Shannon Watts went from stay-at-home mom to founder of the largest gun violence prevention org in the U.S.

“After all, you’re probably plenty busy taking care of your kids and making a living. You might think you don’t have the time, energy, or guts to be an activist…Stop that! You have so much potential to effect change - more than you know,” she added in the book.

Before Watts decided to be a stay-at-home mom, she had spent a more than a decade in public relations. Her executive and communications skills have come in handy, she noted, but she it is being a mom that makes her a great activist.“I always refer to us as multitasking mofos. I can do a million things at once and do it really well,” she told me.

“I think there is also something to the fierceness of protecting your kids. I never felt this fierceness before I became a mom,” Watts said. “I bet on that being the emotion that would win the day. The NRA had made gun extremists afraid that their guns would be taken away, but I bet that 80 million moms in this country, regardless of political party, were afraid that their children would be taken away.

“I can’t tell you the amount of times in the early days when people would call me or reach out to me and tell me, ‘Oh, you’re not the person to do this’ or ‘This already exists’ or ‘You can’t do it well, There’s no way this will ever work,’” she told me. “I was cold calling people for advice, and I decided to ignore [the advice from those who] said I shouldn’t do it, because my gut told me I should and [instead] just listen to all the other advice about how to do it, not whether I should.

Watts continued, “… If I had listened to [those critics], I wouldn’t have started it. If I had said ‘I really need to be prepared here, I need to make sure all my t’s are crossed and my i’s are dotted before I jump in — I wouldn’t have started it.”

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shannonrwatts LOVE her. She has inspired so many and with her as our leader we at MomsDemand and Everytown have hope that one day there really will be much no more senseless deaths related to gun violence. Thank you NBC and Shannon!

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