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The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast

Inside Fascinating Lives: Secret Millionaire

The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast

Oprah

Society & Culture

4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Original Air Date: 02/17/2011 Oprah interviews business owner, best-selling author and motivational speaker Dani Johnson. Dani was a featured participant on ABC's reality series Secret Millionaire. For one week Dani hid her true identity and lived on $40 a week in a cramped one-bedroom apartment in the impoverished Western Heights neighborhood of Knoxville, Tennessee. Oprah also speaks with Brazilian transgender model Lea T to discuss her transition from male to female. Finally, Oprah speaks to New York City Ballet principal ballerina Jenifer Ringer to discuss the secret world of the ballet.

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0:00.0

Through 25 seasons, 4,561 episodes, I believe the Open Winfrey Show was one of the greatest

0:08.7

classrooms in the world.

0:10.2

I really never thought of it that way.

0:12.2

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

0:20.1

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

0:23.8

The moments that mattered, the eye-opening light lessons, never allow them to take

0:29.9

you somewhere else.

0:30.9

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.

0:45.2

They want to know, do you see me?

0:48.0

Do you hear me?

0:49.0

That's what I say, mean anything to you.

0:52.9

You are listening to the Open Winfrey Show, the podcast.

0:59.6

She is an international in-demand top model living with a huge secret.

1:04.0

She is one of the premier ballerinas in the world, and with the popularity of the Oscar-nominated

1:10.3

film Black Swan has agreed to take us behind that velvet curtain.

1:15.8

And she looks like the typical mom next door, but even her own neighbors have no idea about

1:21.1

the secret she has been living with.

1:24.8

Danny Johnson had a rough start in life.

1:27.6

She grew up on welfare, was pregnant with her first child at 17, homeless by the time

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