Super Soul Special: Sarah Ban Breathnach: Surviving the Fall

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🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Original Air Date: May 23, 2018 Author of the international phenomenon “Simple Abundance,” Sarah Ban Breathnach opens up about the spiritual lessons she learned from earning a multimillion-dollar fortune and eventually losing it all. “Simple Abundance” is a collection of comforting, practical and simple essays written for women who want to live their most authentic lives. The 1995 book became a runaway hit: It was translated into 30 languages, sold more than seven million copies and stayed on the New York Times best-seller list for two years. The book’s success made Sarah a multi-millionaire, but the wealth didn't last and a little more than a decade later Sarah found herself alone on her sister's doorstep with nothing but a single suitcase and her beloved cat. In her memoir, “Peace and Plenty,” Sarah shares the story of her rapid rise and fall, the truths she discovered about herself and her journey back to health and happiness. 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 that one of the most valuable
0:08.3	gifts you can give yourself is time, 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.
0:24.0	Sarah Bondronic was a freelance writer living paycheck to paycheck
0:28.0	before writing simple abundance.
0:31.0	That pink book became one of my favorite things, inspiring me and millions of other
0:37.0	women to find gratitude in every moment. More than two years on the New York Times
0:42.2	Best Seller list made Sarah a publishing superstar,
0:45.8	and she was soon trading six figure royalty checks for trips on the Concord,
0:51.6	Marilyn Monroe's fur coats, designer shoes in every color.
0:56.4	Even Sir Isaac Newton's chapel became her private writing studio.
1:01.3	But then her simple life became extremely complicated.
1:06.8	The money began to dwindle, a result, Sarah says, of wild spending, bad investments, and a costly divorce. Three years ago,
1:15.2	Sarah found herself on her sister's doorstep with nothing but a suitcase and
1:19.7	her beloved cat, Mikey. This was not the way anyone had expected Sarah's story to turn out.
1:26.8	I invited her to Chicago to talk about everything,
1:30.6	to find out what she gained by losing it all.
1:34.0	So it feels like a blur to me that whole experience of the Oprah Winfrey show
1:40.0	from certainly in the early 90s until almost the end it feels like whoa and only
1:46.3	when I can look back at tapes that I think and even in the process of putting life
1:51.4	class together I'd look at tapes and say,
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