Super Soul Special: Devon Franklin: Produced by Faith

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🗓️ 17 January 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Original Air Date: January 30, 2019 Award-winning film and TV producer, New York Times best-selling author and spiritual success coach DeVon Franklin explains how he believes you can find your life's purpose. Devon describes how he climbed the corporate ladder, starting out as an intern for Will Smith to later becoming Senior Vice President at Columbia Pictures. Today, Devon is CEO of his own production company, Franklin Entertainment. Devon also discusses his book "Produced by Faith," which uses the filmmaking process as a metaphor for finding direction, meaning and purpose. Devon believes we can all look at life as a movie, with God as our director. Want more podcasts from OWN? Visit https://bit.ly/OWNPods You can also watch Oprah’s Super Soul, The Oprah Winfrey Show and more of your favorite OWN shows on your TV! Visit https://bit.ly/find_OWN

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0:00.0	I'm Oprah Winfrey.
0:02.0	Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast.
0:06.0	I believe that one of the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time,
0:12.0	taking time to be more fully present.
0:15.0	Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us
0:21.0	starts right now. In just 15 years, Devon Franklin has climbed
0:26.8	the ladder from intern at Will Smith's production company to Vice President at
0:31.5	Columbia Pictures.
0:32.8	His resume includes hits like The Karate Kid, The Pursuit of Happiness,
0:36.9	and Jumping the Broom.
0:38.3	That's when he got to know actress Megan Good, a little better.
0:41.8	Now they are engaged and about to jump the broom themselves.
0:45.8	Devon has always put his faith front and center.
0:48.6	He found solace in the church after his father died suddenly
0:52.2	when he was just nine. He discovered that's
0:54.8	where he felt most at home and he started preaching giving his first sermon at 15.
0:59.8	Using the filmmaking process as a metaphor for finding direction, meaning, and purpose in our lives,
1:06.6	Devon calls his new book a roadmap for success.
1:10.4	What a treat it was to sit down with this dynamo and talk about what's it like to be
1:16.2	produced by faith.
1:18.8	So this is exciting.
1:19.8	I think this was such an interesting.
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