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.

Win was the last time you wholeheartedly said yes to life. Face your fears, ignore that

no voice inside your head, and just said yes, I'm all in. Well that's what Chanda Rhymes

did. Chanda described herself as extremely shy and introverted and felt it was time for

a radical shift. So the mega-talented mastermind behind some of TV's hottest shows like Scandal,

Raising Anatomy, and how to get away with murder gave herself a challenge. For one full

year she erased the word no from her vocabulary. Chanda's year of yes was in epiphany that

impacted her life in unexpected ways. So welcome to Super Soul Sunday. Thank you for saying

yes. Absolutely. Thank you for saying yes in this year of yes. And you know the whole

point of this show is to open people's heart space a little bit. Yeah. Get them to have

different ways of thinking about things. But I just wanted to share that I knew something

was going on with you because I don't say yes to a lot of things. I like being at home.

But at least three times this year I said yes to things and it every single one of those

things you were there. We saw each other. We saw each other. And so the first time I was

like hmm. Shondas out. The second time we were at a summer party. Right. And then I invited

you to the legends and then oh and I came yeah. Shondas said yes. I said what is going

on. It was completely new for me. I thought Oprah goes everywhere. No, no, those are the

only places I've been this year. And you you were out and about in a way that I had not

seen. And then I heard that you'd written the book Year of Yes. Yeah. And that it was

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