I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of

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Welcome to part two as we go soul to soul with Shaka Senkori.

All right, here we go, Shaka. What was your favorite meal and who was at the table during

the pandemic?

Favorite meal. So my favorite meal was Thai food. I love spicy fried rice and when the

pandemic first hit, I think I ate that a whole lot. And it was just me and Seiku for

a lot of the first part of the pandemic.

Did you feel tested and what tested you the most?

Yes, I felt tested during the pandemic and it actually shocked me because I felt like

I had already been battle tested with being an isolation. But I had this moment I was

in my office. I had been on probably my sixth Zoom meeting of the day and I had some

food delivered and I literally felt the walls closing in on me and it triggered me to

like a moment of solitary confinement. And when I realized I was triggered, I rushed

out the house out the back door and just kind of walked around my yard and that got me

back center.

What did you recognize in your self or in your life that you needed to change?

One of the things that I recognized in my life that was really, really important for me

to change during the pandemic was further isolating myself. I felt like there were moments

where I started to process the pandemic the same way I process prison, my solitary confinement,

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