Updated at 9 p.m.: To include comments from White House counselor Kellyanne Conway.

There are four things Tomi Lahren says she knows to be true.

One, don’t eat with chopsticks. Two, don’t parallel park.

But more important: Don’t apologize for the truth, and do apologize when you’re wrong.

“You can [say] it in a nice way, you can even apologize for your delivery,” the 25-year-old conservative pundit told a crowd of more than 1,000 teens and young women. “But never apologize for telling the truth, because guess what? The truth hurts. Life’s tough. Get a helmet.”

It's a lesson Lahren, a former Dallas resident, has come to fully embrace.

She was one of several well-known conservative figures to speak on Day 2 of the fourth annual Young Women's Leadership Summit, a four-day conference that offers leadership training and networking opportunities to young conservative women.

The summit is hosted by Turning Point USA, a grass-roots organization that pushes young conservatives to start college campus chapters promoting small government, free market principles and other conservative ideals.

Right around the same time she addressed the same crowd at last year's summit, Lahren had just been fired by Glenn Beck and his conservative media firm The Blaze, which is based in Irving, after she spoke out in support of abortion rights. She argued it is hypocritical to be for limited government and also for federal restrictions on abortion.

Her comments ignited a backlash in conservative circles, and during her remarks Friday, she told the crowd she didn’t know where her career path would take her after what happened.

“I stood my ground on an issue that was important to me, and I lost everything for it, or so I thought,” Lahren told the crowd. “Some people can rise from the ashes and some people become the whole fire, and I’m sure all of you can agree it’s better to become the whole fire. That’s what I had to do.”

Tomi Lahren, conservative political commentator, speaks during Turning Point USA's Young Women's Leadership Summit at the Hyatt Regency at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on Friday, June 15, 2018. (Rose Baca / Staff Photographer)

Since then, Lahren has been hired as a contributor for Fox News.

"I knew I would make it," she said, "because nothing can break you if you stand your ground."

Sometimes, that means disagreeing with people when you usually think the same way on most issues. Lahren said she's "certain" most of them probably disagree with her on abortion.

"But guess what: That's what makes us better than the left," she said, "because we can think for ourselves and we don't bully each other when we have differences of opinion."

Lahren told the crowd during a Q&A session that she will be releasing a book in fall 2019.

Later Friday, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway addressed the summit's attendees. She pointed to Hillary Clinton's loss in 2016 to show that the "glass ceiling" is still intact, waiting to be shattered by the right conservative woman.

"We kept open the job of first female president of the United States, and maybe she's in this room," Conway said. "This country's more than ready for a female president — just not that one."

Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Donald Trump, speaks during Turning Point USA's Young Women's Leadership Summit at the Hyatt Regency at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on Friday. (Rose Baca / Staff Photographer)

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, who sat down with Conway during her comments, and the crowd routinely praised her for playing an instrumental role in snatching the presidency in 2016.

Conway said her team was helped in part by Clinton and the Democrats never finding a resounding message. This remains true today, she said, as the Trump administration tries to maintain Republican majorities in Congress.

"I'd wake up every single day and say, 'Dear God, please, please don't let this be the day Hillary Clinton finds a message,'" Conway said to a round of applause. "Every day, I was so worried, and it never happened."

Author Kelley Paul, wife of Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, also spoke Friday afternoon.

Dana Loesch, spokeswoman for the National Rifle Association, addressed the crowd Thursday with Kirk, conservative commentator Ben Shapiro and Fox News host Jeanine Pirro.

Candace Owens, Turning Point USA communications director, is scheduled to speak Saturday afternoon.

1 / 3Conservative political commentator Dana Loesch speaks at the Turning Point USA Young Women's Leadership Summit, a conference for young conservative women, on Thursday, June 14, 2018 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel at DFW International Airport, Texas. (Jeffrey McWhorter / Special Contributor) 2 / 3Heather Young, left, and Kylee Taylor, center, both from the University of Toledo, listen to conservative political commentator Dana Loesch speak at the Turning Point USA Young Women's Leadership Summit, a conference for young conservative women, on Thursday, June 14, 2018 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel at DFW International Airport, Texas. (Jeffrey McWhorter / Special Contributor) 3 / 3Conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro speaks at the Turning Point USA Young Women's Leadership Summit, a conference for young conservative women, on Thursday, June 14, 2018 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel at DFW International Airport, Texas. (Jeffrey McWhorter / Special Contributor)

The summit has 12 breakout sessions, from the Second Amendment to how to resist "political correctness." Saturday has several panels related to networking, focusing on ways to build a brand and how to become a student leader on a liberal college campus.

Andrea Gomez, 20, said Lahren's was one of the summit's best speeches so far. Gomez, who attends a university in Massachusetts, said she's faced a great deal of backlash for expressing her beliefs in front of her more liberal peers.

"It is very hard to be a conservative woman in college, just because of people [attacking] you," she said. "It's important to always remember that even if people don't agree with you, you still have a voice. And having people [like Lahren] who are up there telling you that it's okay... to stand your ground and be who you want to be, it was really good for her to mention today, especially."