Oprah & Comedian Leanne Morgan: It's Never Too Late to Make Your Dreams Come True

The Oprah Podcast

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Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Comedian, actress and author Leanne Morgan is having an extraordinary moment in her career at 59. She’s joining this episode of The Oprah Podcast to share her sometimes challenging but always funny life story and her against-the-odds dream of making it big in Hollywood. Laugh along with Leanne and Oprah as she discusses growing up in a small town in rural Tennessee. Leanne Morgan tells Oprah she knew from the age of 5 years old she would become a star. From raising three kids, to selling jewelry in living rooms to getting her first stand up gig at a local sandwich shop, Leanne reveals to Oprah she’s worked for decades for this moment. Leanne’s comedy about everything from breastfeeding and parenting to menopause and marriage and becoming a grandmother has struck a nerve with audiences everywhere. Leanne Morgan is now starring in the brand-new, hilarious sitcom “Leanne” on Netflix produced by the legendary producer Chuck Lorre. Her stand-up special “Leanne Morgan: I’m Every Woman” is one of the most watched comedy specials in Netflix history, she starred opposite Reese Witherspoon and Will Farrell in the Amazon Prime hit movie You’re Cordially Invited and she is the author of What in the World: A Southern Woman’s Guide to Laughing at Life’s Unexpected Curveballs and Beautiful Blessings. BUY THE BOOK! https://www.leannemorgan.com/ https://books.apple.com/us/book/what-in-the-world/id6474949003 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, y'all, everybody.
0:02.4	Thank you for being with me here on the Oprah podcast.
0:05.0	I'm already talking with a Southern accent
0:07.6	because my guest is a true blue Southern woman.
0:11.0	She's having a breakthrough moment right now.
0:13.6	It's when she's been working toward her entire life.
0:17.3	And if you're listening in your car on your headphones
0:20.5	or watching on YouTube, get ready to
0:22.7	L-O-L for real out loud, because joining me in my tea house is the oh so funny, hilarious comedian,
0:32.4	actress, actress, author, wife, mother, and grandmama, Lee Ann Morgan.
0:39.8	So let me explain how Leanne and I met.
0:42.9	So many people were telling me you have to watch this comedy special on Netflix.
0:47.3	It's called I'm Every Woman.
0:49.1	Now, I'm Every Woman for many years.
0:51.0	Those of you who watched the show, no know that was the theme song to the Oprah show
0:54.7	because I thought, I'm every woman.
0:56.6	So I was alone in my house, laugh it out loud,
1:00.4	and I'm thinking, who is this woman?
1:02.6	And why am I just now finding out about her?
1:06.1	It comes in the middle of the night, like a ghost.
1:10.2	And it's called perimenopause. And nobody talks about it.
1:15.8	And they should because it lasts 10 years. So you talk a lot about menopause and the women are
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