Tina Knowles: "Matriarch" | Oprah's Book Club

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4.6 • 711 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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BUY THE BOOK! Matriarch: A Memoir by Tina Knowles is for sale here, and the audiobook here. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@Oprah In this episode of Oprah’s Book Club: Presented by Starbucks, Oprah sits down with businesswoman, fashion designer, philanthropist and iconic mother, Tina Knowles, to discuss her empowering new memoir, Matriarch. Tina takes readers inside her enthralling life’s journey spanning multiple generations, revealing intimate moments of tragedy, perseverance, creativity, and the liberation of Black motherhood. In a gratifying and astonishing conversation, Tina details her humble upbringing, her struggles with where she fit in as a Black woman, how she reinvented herself and how she shaped the mega-hit group Destiny’s Child.  Tina also recounts her personal journey of mothering her daughters Beyoncé and Solange, the infidelity that impacted her first marriage and how at the age of 70 she finally feels that she is enough. Tina takes questions from the audience as she reflects on the many moments of strength and wisdom she gathered from the matriarchs before her to pass on not just to her family, but the world. For this conversation, Tina and Oprah are joined by a live audience in a Starbucks café in Chicago, enjoying Starbucks® Sunsera Blend™, their smoothest, brightest coffee with notes of citrus and toasted almond. Follow Oprah Winfrey on Social: Instagram Facebook TikTok Listen to the full podcast: Spotify Apple Podcasts #oprahsbookclub Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Everybody, it's Tina Nogh!
0:06.0	It's Tina Nogh!
0:10.0	The Bihav is buzzing in here.
0:13.0	Y'all doing it.
0:16.0	Hi, everybody. Thank you so much for taking the time to join us on this podcast. Welcome to Oprah's
0:22.5	Book Club presented by Starbucks. We're here in a Starbucks cafe in my old Chicago neighborhood.
0:28.4	I spent so many mornings and nights, 25 years, walking my dogs all around this neighborhood.
0:37.4	It feels so good to be back with you all.
0:39.5	And I have to say, I love this idea of meeting a friend at your neighborhood Starbucks
0:43.9	Cafe to connect over a book and a delicious cup of coffee or tea. I think it's a great way to spend
0:50.1	a morning or afternoon. And the pairing for my April's book club is the Sincera blend.
0:56.5	It's a nice light coffee, a Starbucks blonde roast with citrus and toasted almonds.
1:03.8	Yummy, yummy, yummy, yummy. Toasted almonds in your coffee. Don't you love that? And now I'm just so
1:09.9	happy to be here to tell you what my 113th book club pick is.
1:15.6	It's an intimate and revealing look into an extraordinary American life and family.
1:23.6	It is a memoir, and it is a page Turner, about legacy.
1:28.7	It's about love.
1:30.1	It's about loss.
1:31.6	It's about perseverance.
1:33.4	And the wisdom that has passed down through generations, especially from mother to daughter.
1:39.5	It's called matriarch.
1:44.4	And we have the matriarch, Miss Tina Nose.
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