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

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From the legendary Apollo Theater at Harlem, three powerful voices who are killing it

using their talent and their truth to light up the world. Three-time Oscar nominee for

his first film, The Blockbuster Get Out, writer, producer and director Jordan Peel.

Oscar-nominated actress, producer and co-founder of the Times Up movement, Selma Hayek-Peno.

In host of the Daily Show, comedian and New York Times best-selling author of Born

a Crime, Trevor Noah. First up, Jordan Peel. Oscar Watchers, I think this is his here.

First of all, I just gotta say, I'm so proud of you. I'm so proud of you.

And the reason I am is because that was a bodacious thing. You wrote and directed and I just

think to have the courage. First of all, a lot of people have a vision and an idea.

Yeah.

But to have the courage to follow that through and then to walk into a studio meeting

and say, this is the movie I want to do. Were you a little scarred?

I mean, it's so many years put into conceiving the movie.

But I didn't necessarily ever realize that it would actually ever get made.

Yeah.

So I pitched it and said, let's make this movie. Yeah, it was kind of like a, uh-oh.

Now we're in. We're in. Let's, let's, let's.

So when you say it was years in conceiving it, I love this. I love the way writers' minds work.

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