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.

Today on Super Soul Conversations, Cheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, the social media

leader with nearly two billion users around the world. Four years ago, it was Cheryl who

coined the phrase, lean-in when she called on working women to step up in their careers

and shatter glass ceilings at the workplace. Now Cheryl is on a new mission that's landed

her on the cover of Time Magazine once again. After suffering the loss of her beloved husband

Dave Goldberg, she's helping others find their way through grief.

Cheryl Sandberg says her husband Dave Goldberg was her best friend, the pair married in 2004

and later had two children. Two years ago Dave died suddenly while on vacation in Mexico.

In her new book, Option B co-authored with psychologist Adam Grant, Cheryl shares her

moving account of the sudden death of her husband and all the life-affirming lessons she

learned on her journey back to gratitude, resilience and joy.

So I won't ask you how are you doing because from reading Option B, I learned that that's

almost, that is an inappropriate question to ask somebody who's gone through a horrendous

experience. So I will ask you how are you doing today? It's now two years since Dave

died, yeah. I'm different. You're different. I'm a different person. I'm sadder. I have

this grief and sadness in my life and it's like right here I can touch it and it kind

of, it comes up on the obvious days, the mother's days, the father's days, our anniversary. I am

also more grateful, more present, more alive. I mean, I think being here with you would have

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