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Oprah's Super Soul

Glennon Doyle: The Power of Embracing Your Messy, Beautiful Life

Oprah's Super Soul

Oprah

Society & Culture

4.632.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

How to use a crisis as a springboard to a truer life. After a setback, how do you rise up instead of giving up? Glennon Doyle, best-selling author and creator of the popular online community Momastery, explains how sharing the truth of our lives is the key to unlocking a true spiritual connection with those around us. Oprah says this about Glennon, “It’s as if she reached into her heart, captured the raw emotions there and translated them into words.”

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0:00.0

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

0:07.5

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

0:16.1

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

0:23.1

now.

0:24.6

I think Glen and Doyle is a breath of fresh air and a name you should know. She's a new

0:29.0

kind of spiritual teacher who's striking a cord with millions.

0:33.2

Glen and first gained a worldwide following as the beloved blogger who bared her soul on

0:37.4

her widely popular website, MamaStary.com.

0:41.5

Glen and Book, Love Warrior, is the biggest, loudest, wildest, truest thing she's ever put

0:47.8

out in the world. I chose Love Warrior for my book club because of its bone-married truth

0:53.2

and the refreshing way Glen and describes her path to God and to her core self.

0:59.0

I was struck by this, what you talk about in the very beginning of Love Warrior, about

1:04.8

being a pretty little girl. And I was like, wow, gee, because pretty was not a word that

1:12.6

I would ever have used or anyone it would have used to describe myself as a little girl.

1:17.7

I always thought the pretty little girls always had the life that I wish I could have.

1:24.1

And so reading Love Warrior and hearing what it felt like to be pretty and then to feel

1:31.5

like you lost that, that your identity was that. So let me just, I love this when you say,

1:37.0

I begin to understand that beauty warms people and smart, cool people. I also understand

1:45.1

that being Love for Beauty is a tenuous situation for a girl. How were you when you realized

1:52.4

that? Well, I would, I was probably ten because

1:56.6

ten is when I became Belimmick. Ten you became Belimmick. But then there's that you, you

2:01.8

know, you start the book talking about, you know, going to the ball games and being there

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