Super Soul Special: Oprah and Common: Your Life in Focus

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🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Original Air Date: April 8th, 2020 As a part of “Oprah’s 2020 Vision: Your Life in Focus,” Oscar-, Grammy-, Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning rapper, actor, writer, philanthropist and activist Common talks in front of a live audience in Denver. In a spoken essay from his New York Times best-selling memoir, Let Love Have the Last Word, Common shares his journey in discovering love, where he failed in love, and the three components that helped him discover self-love. He punctuates his talk with spurts of rhythmic, poetic flow about healing relationships and about using love as a true action. 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. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe
0:07.1	that one of the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time to be
0:13.7	more fully present. Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the
0:19.7	deeper world around us starts right now.
0:25.7	Welcome to Oprah's 2020 Visionary Talks. From the stage of my own 2020 vision,
0:31.0	your life and focus tour, WWE Weight Watches Reimagined, and I join forces to bring you
0:37.4	candid conversations with some of the world's most famous trailblazers whose story of wellness
0:43.0	will empower you to discover the highest trueest vision for your life.
0:48.0	Here to perform a spoken essay based on his book, let love have the last word. Please
0:56.6	welcome Grammy, Golden Globe, Oscar winner, Kamen.
1:11.9	Peace.
1:13.8	How's everybody feeling, Denver? I want to thank God for being in this moment right now
1:22.2	in Denver, Colorado. It's the honor to be here on Oprah's Journey of Wellness because I've
1:31.6	been thinking about my word lately for 2020, but I have a hard time making up my mind. I'm
1:38.2	a Pisces, I kind of back and forth, back and forth. But one of the words that I chose that's
1:46.6	most powerful in my life is love. And I wanted to share that with you all and my journey and
1:55.8	discovering love. It was 2 a.m. in the morning and my phone was ringing. Now when your phone
2:05.5	rings in the middle of the night, that's the scary feeling. Or I mean it could be a good thing
2:11.4	if it's the person you want to be calling. But I saw that it was it was my daughter Amoye,
2:19.4	so my heart jumped because she never regularly calls me in the middle of the night. So I immediately
2:26.8	wondered what's going on and she all right. I answered the phone and after a brief conversation,
2:35.8	I could hear that she was having a good time. She was in college, she had been drinking,
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