I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of

the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time to be more fully present.

Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right

now.

The reading of Radical Awakening, which is available in bookstores now, a Radical Awakening,

or you can download it just like that on Apple Books. You truly had your own Radical Awakening.

Yes.

And then decided to bring the rest of us along. Is that how it happened?

You know, as our children grow and we realize that they do not make our identity, we women

then go through our own midlife crisis. And that's what happened to me. Who am I now that

my child doesn't need me? How do I define myself? And that's when I began uncovering

my own authentic self in a very powerful way.

You say in the introduction of Radical Awakening that we all yearned to be free. Yet we feel

engaged in our daily lives, consumed by fear and unworthiness. And what these pages in a Radical

Awakening promise you is a path out of the cage toward a new vision of yourself.

And what do you see as that new vision?

The Radically Emancipated Woman is one who steps out of this encagement of her civility

and her indoctrinated fear. You see, we women have been engaged and trapped in what we now

know as this modern toxic patriarchy. And this patriarchy has kept us suppressed. So,

toward that vision, we need to wake up. The first step of waking up is to understand that

we've been asleep, that we've been unconscious. We've been in this drug-fogged state of

civility, subjugation and degradation at the hands of the toxic patriarchy. And then

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