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Visit forwork.com to learn more. Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to an incredibly special milestone 150th episode of Awards Chatter, the Hollywood

reporters Awards podcast. I'm the host Scott Feinberg and when I started

this podcast 21 months ago I really couldn't have dreamed of ever having a more special

guest than the one we have today. She's possibly the most famous person of color

alive today, probably the most famous woman alive today, and certainly the most famous interviewer and life coach of the

television age, not to mention a great humanitarian and philanthropist who is an inspiration to people

the world over and to me personally, Oprah Winfrey.

Making this all the more special, this is Oprah's first ever podcast interview.

The 63 year old was born in rural Mississippi and experienced a tumultuous childhood that drove her to the brink of suicide.

But through smarts, perseverance, an unwavering faith in God and a little bit of luck, she not only survived but thrived, going off to Tennessee State University and

realizing her ambition of landing a career in news.

However, over the course of stints on local shows in Nashville, Baltimore, and Chicago, she realized

that her strengths lay not in sitting at a desk and reading off a teleprompter, but in interacting

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