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The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast

Have You Forgotten Your Friends?

The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast

Oprah

Society & Culture

4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

From October 28, 1999: Oprah highlights the importance of friendship in our lives, and dedicates a show to reuniting women with best friends with whom they have lost touch. Friendship expert, sociologist and Friendshifts author Dr. Jan Yager gives reasons why friendships shift and shares advice on rekindling relationships. She also explains how to recognize if a friendship is worth salvaging and why it’s important to understand that the relationship may not be what it was before.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Through 25 seasons, 4,561 episodes.

0:06.4

I believe the Oprah Winfrey show

0:07.8

was one of the greatest classrooms in the world.

0:10.2

I really never thought of it that way.

0:12.2

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

0:18.0

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

0:21.0

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

0:28.0

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

0:33.4

It's time to open the vault.

0:35.6

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

0:40.5

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

0:45.0

They want to know,

0:46.0

Do you see me?

0:48.0

Do you hear me?

0:49.0

Does what I say mean anything to you?

0:52.0

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

0:56.0

By the end of this hour, we're hoping to inspire you to pick up the phone

1:02.0

and reconnect with a friend you've lost touch with.

1:05.0

It's just a phone call, but hopefully a new start for your friendships.

1:08.0

And hopefully those of you who haven't made the call in six years, ten years 12,

1:12.0

will get the nerve from this show to

1:14.0

pick up the phone and reconnect.

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