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. So I want to say hello to you Dr. Dennis

McWaggi. Thank you for joining me for our old talks and for our Super Soul Sunday podcast. I have to tell you I have

witnessed your great works on the world stage for quite some time now and I consider this a day of honor and privilege for me to be able to talk to you.

So I just want to tell the world who you are.

Everybody knows that you won the Nobel Peace Prize,

and that you are a world-renowned doctor

and human rights activist who has dedicated your life

to caring for survivors of sexual violence in a way that almost nobody else has in the world.

And now a published author, I have to say,

I am so honored to call this an Oprah book

with Flat Iron.

You know, I believe, hold-heartedly in this title of the power of women and you know I want to do something in this interview that I've never done in the thousands of interviews I've done over the years.

I would like to begin with a moment of silence in honor, in reverence to all of the lives that you saved and those that you lost. Thank you for that.

And I have to say that in reading the power of women, I wanted to be a part of the publishing of this book and getting it out into the world, but in reading it, I thought, you are some kind of special human being.

Obviously, the forces of life that many of us call God had its hand in your life to become

who you have in the world and as I read your memoir, The Power of Women, a Doctor's Journey of Hope and Healing, I couldn't help thinking that your work as a doctor who actually specialized first in maternal health, you were thinking you were going to be working in maternal health, that it was faded.

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