Special: De-Stressing Your Life

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Oprah

Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

From February 13, 2002: Life coach, speaker and New York Times best-selling author Dr. Martha Beck counsels overstressed and overscheduled women. She coaches women on how to de-stress and de-clutter their lives. Martha explains the importance of teaching your kids instead of doing for them, how to use your life goals to clean your house and why she believes people pleasing is as dangerous as an addiction.

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0:00.0	Through 25 seasons, 4,561 episodes.
0:05.0	I believe the Oprah Winfrey show
0:08.0	was one of the greatest classrooms in the world.
0:10.0	I really never thought of it that way.
0:12.0	The aha moments, the breakthroughs, the connections,
0:16.0	the occasional ugly cry.
0:18.0	I'm missing so terribly, I miss it every single minute.
0:21.6	The LOLs.
0:22.6	The moments that mattered.
0:25.6	The eye-opening life lessons.
0:27.6	Never allow them to take you somewhere else.
0:30.6	I'm bringing them back.
0:32.6	It's time to open the vault.
0:35.6	I've personally chosen these classic episodes to share with you again.
0:40.3	Every single person you ever will meet shares that common desire.
0:45.1	They want to know.
0:46.4	Do you see me?
0:47.9	Do you hear me?
0:48.8	Does what I say mean anything to you?
0:52.7	You are listening to the Oprah Winfrey Show, the podcast.
0:56.0	Women across America, it's time to de-stress your life.
1:02.0	We all need to get a grip and stop all this craziness.
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