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.

So I remember Quincy Jones talking about this preacher who had a new way of teaching. And

then one of my former executive producers who produced the Oprah Winfrey show for 10 years.

Diane Hudson, where are you in here? Diane Hudson? Yeah, she was executive producer 10 years

and produced for over 20. She knew a spiritual leader that I needed to meet and it turns out

they're the same people. So I interviewed Tim's story on Super Soul Sunday and I saw Twitter

was like, oh, Faya was tweet, tweet, and with so much inspiration. Tim's story is here to

tell us about the heart and the soul of a comeback. I was in Louisville, Kentucky speaking

to a group of kids and I said to them, what do you want to be when you grow up? One little

kid said LeBron James. A little girl said, I'm a princess. Another little boy said, the

president, because when you are little, you think utmost. Somebody say utmost. There are

three levels of living, almost most in utmost. Almost means not quite. I almost was

happy. Match.com almost worked. I almost lost the weight. I was raised in an almost family

to start. My mother is Spanish, Vesantita Gonzalez and she had a sixth grade education,

worked at a place called Winchells Donutschup. Anybody ever been there? My father, still worker,

Bethlehem Steel, 10th grade education. When we wanted converse tennis shoes, we almost

got converse. Levi's we got plee vise. You almost start getting stuck in an almost

life. Try that, say stuck in an almost life. Then one day some people gave us tickets

to go to a place called Disneyland, also known, aka as the happiest place on earth. As an

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