Soledad O’Brien: Seeing the potential in others and ourselves
Meditative Story
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4.6 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
As a former broadcast journalist and anchor for major networks like NBC and CNN, Soledad O’Brien understands the value of telling people’s stories in the correct light. In this week’s episode, she shares how experiences from her own life helped her recognize the importance of identifying people’s strengths and how reflecting those strengths back to them allows people to achieve their full potential.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Rohan. |
| 0:02.0 | With some exciting news to share, Meditative Story is now on YouTube, so you can now experience |
| 0:08.9 | full length stories with gorgeous visual backgrounds, short clips from our storytellers and even some |
| 0:15.0 | meditation videos from me, which I love to record out in nature. |
| 0:20.1 | We hope you'll come along for this new venture. |
| 0:22.6 | You can follow the channel at meditativestory.com, forward slash YouTube. |
| 0:27.8 | That's meditativestory.com, forward slash YouTube. |
| 0:34.2 | In the school gym, I see an older lady standing in line for soap. |
| 0:48.4 | She's maybe 70, and everyone in the line is frustrated, because they only give a little |
| 0:55.4 | chip of soap or a squirt of shampoo. |
| 0:59.1 | But she stands out because she looks so nice, like she's headed to church. |
| 1:06.4 | Her hair is done, she's got a purse dangling from her arm. |
| 1:11.0 | Nice slacks. |
| 1:12.8 | She looks just like my mom. |
| 1:25.6 | How we tell other people's stories can matter just as much as how we tell our own. |
| 1:32.7 | Journalist Soledad O'Brien has decades of experience as a storyteller, reporting on the successes |
| 1:38.8 | and hardships of communities all over the world. |
| 1:43.8 | Through this experience and through her time growing up in a multi-racial family on Long |
| 1:48.5 | Island, she learns the value in recognising people's strengths and the potential we unlock |
| 1:56.3 | by reflecting them back. |
| 2:00.4 | In this series we combine immersive first-person stories, breathtaking music and mindfulness |
| 2:07.8 | prompts, so that we may see our lives reflected back to us in other people's stories, and |
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