Growing up as the child of a famous person is never easy. As the daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King, Dr. Bernice A. King came to this realization at an early age.

Born to two famous parents in 1963, one year before her father received the Nobel Peace Prize, King was taught that people are in this world for a reason. Recently, she was told the Nobel Museum in Stockholm that their website gets about one million visitors a day, and the luminary that receives the most searches in all fields, not just peace,is her father.

"Can you imagine being the daughter [of someone] who has had more impact on the world since he has died?" she told a spellbound audience yesterday at Financial Advisor's Invest In Women conference in Atlanta.

King's father was assassinated shortly after her fifth birthday. Much of her talk was devoted to her mother. "My mother told us you don't have to be your dad," she recalled. "You don't have to be me. You just have to be your best self. I grew up knowing that I am an answer to a question and a solution to a problem.

"You are in this world for a reason," she continued. "Martin Luther King was just an ordinary individual. He understood he was here for a reason."

The same thing was true with her mother. "She was responsible for my father's voice in the peace movement," King said.

Indeed, while Martin Luther King was admired by wide, bipartisan cross-sections of the American political establishment during his lifetime, many of these same so-called experts and authorities thought he had waded into foreign territory beyond his expertise when he became an early critic of the Vietnam war. It turned out that the civil rights leader was only a few years ahead of the Washington elites, most of whom would begin to see the folly of the war in Southeast Asia and turn against it. It was her mother who convinced her father of what would become a national disaster long before foreign policy experts could see it.

"Growing up I saw this woman doing extraordinary things," Bernice King, who studied in the ministry and attended law school, told attendees. "My mother can be an inspiration to women. The movement led by my father was really a women's movement."

While the men "may have been out front leading" it, the real influence in Alabama cities  like Montgomery and Birmingham came from women. They were the ones who called for and suggested the boycott.

Change in any regard requires that there are people, "a segment of whom are sick and tire of being sick and tired," she said. When you get to a certain "critical mass, something happens." If women hadn't participated in the civil rights movement, "nothing would have happened," she said.

After her father's death, Coretta Scott King was determined to process her grief in a positive fashion, or "as an assignment." When she decided to create the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Change (today called Nonviolence 365) only a few months after the assassination, her mother was subjected to criticism—from both men and women.

If Coretta Scott King was surprised by that, she remained undaunted and unbowed. Woman have been "silent too long and we've bought into the belief men do things better." This was particularly true in the late 1960s and 1970s.

Her mother needed to raise $20 million to make the King Center a sustainable organization. "So she just showed up as Coretta Scott King and she walked through that door and made people feel special."

Dr. Bernice King acknowledged that when "we talk about change and inclusion, things can get very heated. It's easy to let raw emotion get in the way." But her mother believed that if women are going to "be the soul of this nation," they have to "show up and bring a new way of thinking."

In conclusion, she noted that "intentionality" is what brings about change. "Make it a part of your every day. Why don't you take it as your assignment. You have that ability in you. The only thing that can stop you is you."