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.

So Marie Forleo is a leader in a whole new generation of super-soulers and at age 33,

she launched what became a multi-million dollar life coaching business. Millions of young

women look to Marie as their inspiration for empowerment and also achievement. The title

for Marie's session is Everything is Figure Outable.

Hello, super-soulers. It is so, so good to be here with you. So I want to tell you about

a time a few years ago. It was a really rough time. Business was going great, but my relationship

with Josh, my beloved, was on the rocks. So much so that we found ourselves in couples therapy.

Now let's be honest, because we're all friends here, right? Generally speaking, you don't

do couples therapy unless it's serious, which in our case, it was. So the issue on the

table, how much time I spend working? Now I got to be honest. I love my work. I love what

I do. It's part of my DNA. It's creative and exciting and fulfilling on so many levels.

So this was a hard issue for me to face. And while I hated the fact that this was the

issue, facts are facts. And there was some irrefutable evidence that I couldn't deny. For

instance, at that time, Josh and I had been together for a full seven years and never

once taken a vacation. Like never taken a vacation together as a couple. Of course, we traveled

all the time, but it was always for work. It was always for speaking conferences and workshops

and seminars and yada yada. But like a real vacation, just the two of us for no productive

purpose, that never happened. So here I was feeling scared and conflicted and heartbroken

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