Super Soul Special: Nate Berkus: Surviving the Storm

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🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Original Air Date: September 26, 2017 Oprah’s conversation continues with award-winning interior designer and best-selling author Nate Berkus. Nate describes how he picked up the pieces of his life after surviving the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which claimed more than 200,000 lives in several countries. Oprah describes Nate’s harrowing story of survival as “emotional, spiritual and metaphysical.”

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0:00.0	I'm Oprah Winfrey. 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.
0:16.0	Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right now.
0:24.5	Last time, Nate Berkus and I began a conversation we'd never had before, really.
0:28.9	We heard about some of the spiritual milestones of his life so far, the roots of his lifelong
0:33.5	passion for design, his journey of coming out to his family. And we got a glimpse of who Nate
0:39.4	calls the love of his life. Today, we continue our heart to heart with the devastating event that
0:44.7	changed everything for Nate, the massive 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. You write,
0:52.0	and the things that matter. good title, may I say.
0:55.0	Thank you.
0:56.0	You write that since December 26, 2004, I've never defined myself by anything other than my ability to survive.
1:04.0	I don't think about whether I'm successful or I'm not successful, famous or not famous, busy or bored.
1:10.0	To me, the ultimate question, the only question is,
1:12.6	can I survive or can't I? That's what matters.
1:16.6	Really?
1:17.6	That's it.
1:18.6	That's it.
1:20.6	Does the tsunami, when you go through a traumatic event experience like that, is it always with you in some
1:30.0	way?
1:31.0	Always.
1:32.0	Even now, I'm back in love personally, really in love.
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