Oprah and Jesse Israel: Your Life in Focus

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 32.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Jesse Israel—social entrepreneur, meditation leader and founder of mass meditation movement “The Big Quiet”—joins Oprah's 2020 Vision: Your Life in Focus Tour Presented by WW for a talk in front of a live audience in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Jesse discusses why we live noisy lives in a culture that glorifies being busy, explains why 90 percent of doctor visits in the U.S. are stress-related and shares why being quiet benefits our lives. Jesse also leads the 15,000-person audience in a group meditation.

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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.
0:25.9	Welcome to Oprah's 2020 Visionary Talks. From the stage of my own 2020 vision, your life
0:31.4	and focus tour, WWE Weight Watches Reimagined, and I join forces to bring you candid conversations
0:38.6	with some of the world's most famous trailblazers. Whose story of wellness will empower you to discover
0:45.0	the highest, trueest vision for your life.
0:50.4	I love the quiet. So when I heard about this brilliant idea called the big quiet, I knew
0:56.5	we had to bring it to our stage. Jesse Israel is a guy who has created a movement by bringing
1:03.6	together people in some of the most iconic places in the world, Madison Square Garden,
1:10.5	one world trade center, Chicago's Natural History Museum, thousands are showing up just
1:16.4	to be still together. And we're going to do that here in the BB&T Center. Please welcome
1:21.9	Jesse Israel!
1:27.1	In about 10 minutes, we are going to experience a mass meditation. 15,000 people in total quiet.
1:46.8	It's one of the most profound yet simple experiences that we can share together as human beings.
1:53.6	But before we get quiet, let's talk about noise. Today, we live noisy lives. From the second
2:04.6	we wake up to the sound of our alarms, we're processing a non-stop stream of input and
2:10.9	information. Text messages, social media updates, likes, growing inboxes, news, politics,
2:19.2	podcasts, and infinite assortment of Netflix offerings. And that little red dot on your
2:27.1	app icon that seems to never go away. So we're told to work harder to achieve more, to
2:34.2	move up, to not fall behind, to hustle, to be better. To be better parents, better
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