Oprah & Lara Love Hardin

Oprah's Super Soul

Oprah

Society & Culture

4.6 • 32.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Oprah sits down with New York Times bestselling author Lara Love Hardin to talk about her new memoir and Oprah’s Book Club 104th pick The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing. Lara shares her heartbreaking, yet inspiring journey of reinvention from suburban soccer mom to opioid addict and convicted felon to successful ghostwriter. Oprah describes it as a book "about redemption, about joy, about hope, about reclaiming yourself and what you rightly deserve in life." In this candid conversation, Oprah and Lara discuss her downward spiral of addiction, Lara's time behind bars and what she wants people to understand about the process and power of self-acceptance and self-forgiveness. Want more podcasts from OWN? Visit https://bit.ly/OWNPods You can also watch Oprah’s Super Soul, The Oprah Winfrey Show and more of your favorite OWN shows on your TV! Visit https://bit.ly/find_OWN

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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.
0:15.0	Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us
0:21.0	starts right now.
0:25.0	Hello everybody, to all the Oprah's book club readers and to everybody watching and listening to us on Super Soul.
0:36.0	I'm just delighted to be here with the author of my 104th book club pick, Laura Love Harden.
0:45.5	Her book is called The Many Lives of Mama Love.
0:49.0	Now, this is some title. It's a memoir of Lion, stealing, writing, and healing. What a title.
0:59.0	Well, we first met years ago. We're going to talk about this a little later, you'll see how that happened.
1:05.0	But what I didn't know when I met you is that Laura really has had many different lives.
1:12.0	I'll list just a few of them,
1:14.0	graduate student, proud of that,
1:16.0	soccer mom, a four boys,
1:19.0	owner of a pet cemetery,
1:20.0	a writer, a literary agent, and also a heroin addict
1:24.8	thief convicted felon an inmate number S-3-2-2-2-179 whoa-2-1-7-2a-79
1:31.6	whoa I have to say you have had one incredible 3, 2.179. Whoa.
1:33.0	I have to say you have had one incredible journey
1:36.0	from being an inmate to today,
1:39.0	and now after so many years of hiding behind the truth, the full truth. You are finally sharing your story in this
1:48.3	beautiful memoir, The Many Lives of Mama Love. How does it feel in this moment to have given birth to these
1:58.0	words, this book, and now have it out in the world, your truth.
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