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. I just want to say you've been on my mind

for months. Thank you for joining me today. Thanks for having me. This is very

exciting. Well this year in every issue of O, I'm interviewing a different person every month and

what we're calling our year big questions.

And our big question for this issue, the April issue that you're in is, what are you willing

to stand for? And I said to my team,

wow, the best person to talk to about that is Jimmy Kimmel because it seems like

you just stepped into a different layer of yourself because I

always believe we're growing into who we're supposed to be and that you're just becoming more of yourself.

But it seems this past year was a watershed year that you stepped into a space for yourself.

I'm going to go through the list.

You started by hosting one of the most controversial

Oscar ceremonies we've seen in a while and doing a fantastic job of that. You made headline

speaking out on gun control. You lost a dear friend and mentor, Don Rickles, you turned 50!

And in that emotional monologue on your show, you shared that Billy had been born fighting for his life after he was diagnosed. your experience I believe with Billy's

fighting for his life after he was diagnosed

with a rare congenital heart defect.

So your experience, I believe, with Billy's surgeries

was somehow a catalyst to bring you front and center into the raging

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