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.

If you were a regular Oprah Show viewer, Gary Zukov is probably a familiar face. In order

to find true meaning purpose in join our lives, Gary says we have to create authentic power

which he defines as the alignment of your personality with your soul.

According to Gary, your relationships play a key role in your spiritual development. I

wanted to talk to Gary and his wife Linda Francis about their relationship or as they

call it their spiritual partnership. And what better way to do that than by inviting

them to join me under the oaks in my own backyard to talk about one of my favorite topics,

spiritual partnerships which also is a subject of Gary's latest book.

So we spend a lot of time talking about authentic power and how that comes to us. And now

you've written a book called Spiritual Partnerships, the Journey to Authentic Power which I find

so fascinating that you use the concept of being a spiritual partner which I learn from

the Oprah Show. A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals between the

purpose of spiritual growth or the purpose of spiritual growth. How we use a spiritual

partnership to create authentic power. How do we do that?

Creating authentic power is the reason that a spiritual partnership happens. In other

words, Linda and I are spiritual partners. I'm committed to my spiritual growth to creating

authentic power. Linda is committed to her spiritual growth. I can't create it for her,

she can't create it for me. But I can support her and she can support me. And as you begin

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