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

now.

Sarah Bunbronic was a freelance writer living paycheck to paycheck before writing simple

abundance. That pink book became one of my favorite things, inspiring me and millions of other

women to find gratitude in every moment. More than two years on the New York Times bestseller

list made Sarah a publishing superstar and she was soon trading six figure royalty checks

for trips on the Concorde, Marilyn Monroe's for coats, designer shoes in every color. Even

Sir Isaac Newton's chapel became her private writing studio, but then her simple life became

extremely complicated. The money began to dwindle. A result Sarah says of while spending

bad investments and a costly divorce. Three years ago Sarah found herself on her sister's

doorstep with nothing but a suitcase and her beloved cat Mikey. This was not the way

anyone had expected Sarah's story to turn out. I invited her to Chicago to talk about everything

to find out what she gained by losing it all.

So it feels like a blur to me that whole experience of the Oprah Winfrey show from certainly in

the early 90s until almost the end. It feels like whoa and only when I can look back at

tapes that I think and even in the process of putting a life class together I'd look at

tapes and say oh gosh was I on that show? Oh I was there so I must have you know a blur.

So I wondered does that happen to you with the entire experience of simple abundance. From

the moment you got the phone call from one of our producers because my experience is

everywhere I looked I shared this on TV the very first time I interviewed everywhere I

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