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Oprah's Super Soul

Oprah and Tarana Burke - Part 1

Oprah's Super Soul

Oprah

Society & Culture

4.632.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Oprah sits down with the founder of #MeToo, Tarana Burke, to discuss her new memoir, Unbound. In this candid conversation, Tarana reveals how her own experiences with sexual abuse, shame and unkindness helped her discover her true calling as an empathetic leader.

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0:00.0

I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of the

0:07.5

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.

0:24.4

I just want to say welcome to you, to Ronna Burke, to our Super Soul podcast, and to O-Talks

0:32.9

for our magazine, and for O-Daily. We're going to use this on as many platforms as we can.

0:40.4

I'm so excited to talk to you about your new book, Unbound, and it's your story of liberation

0:49.0

you say and the birth of the Me Too movement.

0:52.3

I'm so proud, I want everybody to know, I chose this for my imprint, for the Oprah imprint.

0:57.4

It says an Oprah book right there on the side. It's been four years since the movement that

1:04.0

you found it that originally was called Me Too, unleashed a seismic shift around the

1:11.7

world.

1:12.7

Now you are here to tell us your story in Unbound. What was that process like getting

1:20.0

here to this moment?

1:22.5

It feels like a lifelong process in some ways.

1:26.7

Certainly the process of writing this book is the hardest thing I've done, the hardest

1:30.3

piece of work I've ever produced.

1:33.1

The last four years, I keep saying whirlwind, but I think I need a different word.

1:39.2

It's hard to describe what it's like to have your work put on the front pages of all

1:45.9

the newspapers and just blast across the whole world, but then also have people not really

1:49.9

understand it.

1:51.6

Yes.

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