Oprah Winfrey, Part 2: A Vision for Success

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🗓️ 7 September 2015

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Oprah Winfrey’s career in broadcasting started when she won Nashville’s Miss Fire Prevention Contest. She was 17. Part Two of our Oprah conversation focuses on Oprah’s life in media. It was too hard to fit everything fascinating the Queen of Talk had to say into one episode! Here, she describes the reasons she was terrible at news reporting and terrific at talk show hosting. She also talks about how she stopped imitating Barbara Walters and developed her own voice, how she willed herself into the acting role of a lifetime, and how the key to success in her life has been trusting her instincts. (c ) American Academy of Achievement 2015

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0:00.0	Madame, this child is gifted, and I heard that enough that I started to believe it.
0:08.6	If you have the opportunity, not a perfect opportunity, and you don't take it, you may never have another
0:14.4	chance.
0:15.4	It all was so clear.
0:16.4	It was just like the picture started to form itself.
0:19.7	There was no way in which a lie could prevail over the truth, darkness over light, death over life.
0:27.0	Every day I wake up and decide. Today I'm going to love my life.
0:34.0	Decide.
0:39.0	My advice is if they don't break your leg once when you go in that place stay out of there. And then along come these differential experiences that you don't look for, you don't plan for,
0:46.3	but boy you better not miss them. This is what it takes, a podcast about passion, vision, and perseverance from the Academy of
0:58.2	Achievement's Recorded Collection.
1:00.8	On this episode, we bring you the second part of our conversation with Oprah Winfrey.
1:05.0	It was recorded in 1991 by the Academy of Achievement.
1:09.0	If you haven't heard part one you might want to go back and take a listen first.
1:12.0	But to recap, Oprah described her
1:15.0	early childhood in Mississippi, her precocious ability to speak in public, her multiple
1:20.5	traumas of rape and molestation and the life lessons she finally learned
1:25.7	and feels is her greatest success the ability to say no. Now on to the stories of
1:32.1	her life in broadcasting with wisdom, humor, and
1:35.8	inspiration sprinkled throughout, it is Oprah after all.
1:40.0	Who really did give me the break? Well, there are several people.
1:43.2	I was one of two students picked from each state in 1971
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