Sometimes I despair that young women fail to realize how far women have come and at what cost.

So when my friend Mary Heston sent me a link to a video produced by her teenaged daughter Cecilia for a World War II school project, I said Yipppeee!

It's important to support girls and young women as they find their voices and make them heard so they will continue to do so as adults.

I have spent a lifetime not fitting in (more on that: Here's To Being A Crazy One. A Misfit. A Rebel. And A Square Peg In A Round Hole.)

I live in a space many would not dare to go. And I am much less "out there" than others.

I look around me I see women rebels and adventurers, changemakers and hellraisers.

During my amazing trip to Japan in November 2008, I had the incredible good fortune of staying with Fukiko Yuki Teramachi in her traditional Japanese home, which she operates as a guesthouse.

Fukiko is a fantastic hostess, who provided me with one of the richest travel experiences I’ve ever had.

Are you one in a billion?

I am. So are girls like Malala Yousafzai, and women worldwide just like you.

But you don't have to be shot at to to be brave. But you do have to make your voice heard. Watch the video. Share the link.

Dr. Janet Rose Wojtalik has seven powerful “secrets” to share about parenting girls.

They will help today’s parents the create the strong, independent, amazing women of the future.