Through 25 seasons, 4,561 episodes.

I believe the Oprah Winfrey show

was one of the greatest classrooms in the world.

I really never thought of it that way.

The aha moments, the breakthroughs, the connections, the occasional ugly cry.

I'm missing so terribly, I'm missing every single minute.

The L-O-L's, the moments that matter, the eye-opening like lessons.

Never allow them to take you somewhere else. I'm bringing them back.

It's time to open the vault.

I've personally chosen these classic episodes to share with you again.

Every single person you ever will meet shares that common desire.

They want to know,

Do you see me?

Do you hear me?

Does what I say mean anything to you?

You are listening to the Oprah Winfrey show, The Podcast.

Designing the life of your dreams, I believe everybody can do that if you're conscious of how to do it.

If I ask you, for example, what your wildest dream is, if you could be whatever you want it to be, if you could find your true passion, maybe it's traveling the world or singing with

a band or writing a novel, do you think you have the power to make that happen?

Well today we're going to show you that we all, everybody does, I know this is true, has the ability within themselves to design the life that you've always dreamed of. And we're not going to make excuses,

and we're not going to put it off another day,

we're going to act on it and make it happen.

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