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.

Welcome to Oprah's 2020 Visionary Talks. From the stage of my own 2020 vision, your life and focus tour,

WW Weight Watchers Reimagined, and I join forces to bring you candid conversations with some of the world's most famous trailblazers,

whose story of wellness will empower you to discover the highest, trueest vision for your life.

If I were to share one of the most important aspects in my own wellness, it would be about my next guest,

because we have been friends since...

Honey, I was... I think, yeah, twenty-two, twenty-one and twenty-two.

And we... there was a snowstorm. I was an anchor person, and Gail was a production assistant in the newsroom,

and there was a snowstorm, and she couldn't get home. And I said, oh, you could stay at my house.

And the hierarchy in the newsroom is that, like, anchors don't talk to production assistants, but we would meet in the bathroom and talk.

And so the very first night, we spent the entire night up talking, and she said, I never met another black girl like you,

and I go, I never met another black girl like you. And we have literally talked every day of our lives,

except the one week when her mother passed. It's a 40, more than 40, year friendship, and it's the thing I cherish the most in my life.

I could literally start weeping right now, because there are a few people in the world for whom I wouldn't be who I am.

And I know that I didn't have the family that I thought I deserved when I was growing up, and it's only after I met Gail,

that I finally found the mother, the sister, and friend, in one person that I believed God wanted for me.

To me, she's so much more than a visionary, but I'm thrilled that she said, yes, at first she's like, why? What would I talk about?

What are we going to talk about? Denver, please welcome our WW 2020 Visionary Conversation Gail King!

Hi! My bestie? All right, how many people in the house brought your own Gail?

That is so great. I say how many brought your own Oprah?

This is so fun, because I said to Oprah yesterday, Oprah, do you think people will still come? And look, you came!

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