Special: Lifestyle Makeovers: How to Set Personal Boundaries

The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast

Oprah

Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

From February 5, 2001: Oprah talks with author and lifestyle makeover expert, Cheryl Richardson about her New York Times Bestselling book, Life Makeovers. Cheryl explains why boundary-setting is the number one way to improve your life. She gives three components to boundary setting, tips for staying calm in confrontation and explains the importance of the phrase, “I need you to hear me.” Cheryl also discusses internal boundaries, how to recognize where boundaries are needed and why it’s important to not ‘over-explain’ yourself.

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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.
0:24.6	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.
0:34.6	I've personally chosen these classic episodes to share with you again.
0:40.2	Every single person you ever will meet shares that common desire.
0:45.0	They want to know, do you see me?
0:47.9	Do you hear me?
0:48.7	Does what I say mean anything to you?
0:52.6	You are listening to the Oprah Winfrey Show, the podcast.
0:57.0	On our last lifestyle makeover program, we showed you how to make inner resolutions by focusing
1:05.0	on the one quality you want to develop. Well, thousands of you told us the quality you most want to develop is setting boundaries. Yep, number one. Number one, I knew that was going to be
1:15.1	it because most women have the disease to please or have had it in one form or another. Some
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