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Oprah's Super Soul

India.Arie: Life After Rock Bottom

Oprah's Super Soul

Oprah

Society & Culture

4.632.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In a live appearance at UCLA’s Royce Hall, Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter India.Arie reveals the five most important lessons she learned after she hit rock bottom. India.Arie uses what she calls "songversation" to beautifully describe her journey from breakdown to breakthrough. "Songversation is not a concert," she explains. "It's not a lecture. It's not a performance, even. Songversation is a practice that is part meditation, part prayer, part fellowship and part action." At the height of her fame, India.Arie says she snapped under the unrelenting pressure of the music business. At age 35, she made the bold decision to take a hiatus, rethink her life and start over.

Transcript

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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.

0:16.0

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

0:23.0

now.

0:24.5

She wrote a lyric that really resonated with me. She wrote,

0:27.5

I learned to love myself unconditionally because I am a queen. She knew that at 24.

0:36.8

I don't know about you, but I did not know that at 24. So India has been on the path of self-discovery,

0:44.0

loving herself through music. She's created a new word to describe what she loves to do now.

0:49.5

She calls it songversation. And she's here with a session she calls songversation worthy,

0:57.4

India, Aubree.

1:10.6

Thank you.

1:13.7

Good afternoon, how beautiful is this?

1:19.2

Overset my name.

1:23.6

I swear this is how I feel.

1:25.2

So welcome to songversation.

1:31.5

It is my mission to spread love, healing, peace, and joy through the power of words and music.

1:39.4

Thank you. I heard that.

1:41.9

And songversation is not a concert, it's not a lecture, it's not a performance even.

1:47.0

This is a songversation and a songversation is a practice that is part meditation,

1:55.9

part prayer, part fellowship, and part action.

2:01.3

And so songversation worthy is my story of breakdown, breakthrough, break the shell, elevate,

2:08.8

and fly. Break down, break through, break the shell, elevate, and fly.

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