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.

Born in 1962 in New York City, Danny Shapiro was an only child raised in an Orthodox

Jewish home. Her father was extremely religious and her mother agreed to raise Danny

according to tradition. It wasn't until after her mother

died, Danny learned her mother had been an atheist. Their home was fraught with tension, and for

Danny, religion and spirituality soon became synonymous with trouble, conflict, anxiety. As a teen,

she rebelled and left Judaism behind. By the time she reached her 20s,

Danny says her life had become out of control. She dropped out of college to try modeling. She

had a string of bad relationships. She started abusing drugs and alcohol and says she felt lost,

far away from her true calling.

When she was 24, her parents were in a devastating car crash.

Her father died two weeks later.

Her mother was severely injured, shattered in every way.

Danny became her mother's caretaker and had to get it together quickly.

It was precisely this moment that Danny says

woke her up and saved her. She felt compelled to make her life mean something. She got sober,

finished school, began writing and teaching, got married, and started a family. She became a best-selling

author of five non-fiction books and two memoirs,

slow motion and more recently devotion. Despite all her success, Danny still felt a yearning

for something more, for something to believe in. At night, while being tucked in, her young

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