Super Soul Special: Shonda Rhimes: Change Your Life By Saying “Yes” (And "No" Too)

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🗓️ 24 July 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Original Air Date: November 15, 2017 Prolific TV show creator, writer and executive producer Shonda Rhimes reflects on her memoir “Year of Yes.” The force behind the hit shows "Grey's Anatomy," "Scandal" and "How to Get Away with Murder," Shonda explains how saying “yes” for one year allowed her to live a more awakened life. She also shares the one sentence to use when you want to say “no” without feeling rude. 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.
0:24.7	When was the last time you wholeheartedly said yes to life, faced your fears, ignored that no voice inside your head, and just said,
0:37.0	yes, I'm all in.
0:39.5	Well, that's what Shonda Rhymes did.
0:41.5	Shonda
0:43.4	Rimes did. Shonda described herself as extremely shy and introverted and felt it was time for a radical shift.
0:48.2	So the mega-talented mastermind behind some of TV's hottest shows like Scandal, Gray's Anatomy, and how to get away with
0:55.7	murder gave herself a challenge.
0:58.8	For one full year, she erased the word no from her vocabulary.
1:03.5	Shanda's year of yes was an epiphany
1:06.6	that impacted her life in unexpected ways.
1:10.0	So, welcome to Super Soul Sunday.
1:11.8	Thank you for having. Thank you for saying yes.
1:14.0	Absolutely.
1:15.0	Thank you for saying yes in this year of yes.
1:18.0	And you know, the whole point of this show is to open people's heart space a little bit.
1:22.0	Yes. Get them to have different ways of thinking about things. open people's heart space a little bit. Yeah.
1:22.8	Get them to have different ways of thinking about things.
1:25.4	But I just wanted to share that I knew something was going on with you
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