Oprah and Gary Zukav: What Is Your Soul’s Purpose?

The Oprah Podcast

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 711 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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BUY THE BOOK! "The Seat of the Soul” by Gary Zukav, is published by Simon & Schuster and available wherever books are sold: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Seat-of-the-Soul/Gary-Zukav/9781476755403 "Universal Human” by Gary Zukav, is published by Simon & Schuster and available wherever books are sold: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Universal-Human/Gary-Zukav/9781982169886 In this episode of "The Oprah Podcast," Oprah reflects on the profound lessons she's learned from world renowned spiritual leader, Gary Zukav. Gary Zukav is the author of multiple New York Times best-selling books, including The Seat of the Soul. Oprah shares why the lessons she learned from Gary shifted the trajectory of her life. Oprah speaks with people across the country whose lives have also been transformed by The Seat of the Soul, including Emmy-winning dancer, actress and TV host, Julianne Hough. Oprah shares one of the most profound moments she experienced on The Oprah Winfrey Show and invites one guest who says this iconic moment helped her to cope with her own journey with grief. Oprah also follows up with a guest twenty-five years after she considered taking her own life. The Seat of the Soul Institute https://seatofthesoul.com/ Head to http://intuit.com/expert-careers for more information. Follow Oprah Winfrey on Social: https://www.instagram.com/oprahpodcast/ https://www.instagram.com/oprah/ https://www.facebook.com/oprahwinfrey/ Listen to the full podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0tEVrfNp92a7lbjDe6GMLI https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-oprah-podcast/id1782960381 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi there. I'm glad to be with you here on the Oprah podcast, and I think we can all feel that
0:06.2	we're living in profoundly defining times, a lot of uncertainty, politically, socially, morally,
0:13.5	doing any kind of change or challenge in my life, I have learned to come back to the center of myself, to go inward and get closer to the
0:25.1	source with a capital S of all things, and check my own internal GPS. And a major contributor in
0:36.6	helping me to do this is this book, The Seat of the Soul, by one of the
0:42.0	most insightful spiritual teachers of our times. He's a New York Times best-selling author,
0:49.2	thought leader, Gary Zoukov. Now, Gary appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show and Super Soul Sunday over 40 times.
0:57.1	I kept inviting him back as I was expanding my own spiritual insights along with our audience.
1:04.9	He first appeared on the Oprah show during a time when talking about spirituality on daytime television
1:10.0	was uncharted territory.
1:12.1	I know you all are on all the social media platforms now and everybody's talking about the soul
1:17.7	and about spirit and about wellness and about the light. Well, let me just tell you, in the early
1:24.4	90s, this, nobody was talking about it.
1:27.9	And you were considered, it was not a good thing to be talking about it.
1:33.1	A lot of people felt I got all kinds of backlash for it.
1:36.0	People accusing me of trying to start my own church,
1:39.1	not understanding what the word spiritual meant,
1:42.8	confusing spirituality with religion.
1:45.0	So many people were, and my producers were convinced that America was not ready for a conversation about spirituality, and certainly not about talking about the soul.
1:57.5	But I always operate through my own instinct and my own intuition, and I felt deeply that the
2:05.8	audience was ready. And I believe this because I was ready, and I always just saw myself as a
2:11.7	surrogate for the audience. And here's how I knew. After every single show, I would sit and talk to the
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