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.

When Eat Pray Love was first published, Elizabeth appeared on the Oprah Show to talk about

how her book had sparked a revolution and stirred something up for millions of women.

Little did Elizabeth know the next leg of her own journey was just beginning. She married

the Brazilian man that readers fell in love with in the book whose real name is Jose. Making

peace with this idea of being married again was not easy. She documented that soul-churning

process in her follow-up book, Committed.

After eight years of writing about her own life, Elizabeth returned to her roots, fiction

writing. In the signature of all things, Elizabeth created a passionate, independent thinking

heroine, not unlike herself, Alma Whitaker. This daring novel about a 19th century botanist

quickly attracted, excited readers and accolades from critics. In the fall of 2014, I was thrilled

to have Elizabeth join me on the life you want to her. Thousands of women cheer when they

hear her urgent message, you can take the lead and be the hero of your own story. On stage

or with her beautiful writing, Elizabeth aims to inspire the phenomenal success of Eat

Pray Love was just a hint of what was to come.

Now you know her as the author of Eat Pray Love, so many people do, and her memoir soul

more than 15 million copies, appearing more than, was it 200 weeks?

It was a long time.

It was a long time, more than 200 weeks on New York Times, but that's like almost four years.

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