Trials to Triumph: Sheryl Lee Ralph
Oprah's Super Soul
Oprah
4.6 • 33.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
With over 40 years in the entertainment industry, Sheryl Lee Ralph has a trove of both trials and triumphs to her credit. In this sneak speak episode of OWN’s podcast, Trials to Triumphs, host Ashley Blaine Featherson-Jenkins talks with The Tony Award-nominated multi-hyphenate who takes Ashley back to the beginning of her career and describes who she was before landing her breakthrough role as Deena Jones in the seminal Broadway musical Dreamgirls. Sheryl underscores key lessons she learned from her parents and mentors, including the power to determine which doors to leave closed. The original Dreamgirl also unpacks the most difficult season of her life: navigating her divorce as a single mother, leaving the hit tv show Moesha, and losing herself along the way. Sheryl recalls the encounter that helped her “rise to the occasion of her own life,” and how, just like her character Deena, she owned her inner diva.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of the |
| 0:07.5 | most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time to be more fully present. |
| 0:16.0 | Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right |
| 0:23.0 | now. |
| 0:24.0 | Hey podcast listeners, I want to introduce you to Owns New Original Podcast. It's called |
| 0:29.7 | Trials to Triumphs. Just love that title. It's hosted by Netflix star producer and content |
| 0:35.2 | creator Ashley Blaine, Featherson Jenkins. Here's what's great. Ashley is going to be talking |
| 0:40.4 | to all kinds of people to learn how they use their setbacks to fuel their dreams. She wants |
| 0:45.8 | to look behind the perfect picture that we see on social media and get to the truth about |
| 0:50.1 | the trials and triumphs that shape everybody's lives. So I hope you check out Trials to |
| 0:55.4 | Triumphs available anywhere you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:59.2 | This is Ashley Blaine, Featherson Jenkins and I want to thank you Oprah for that beautiful |
| 1:03.9 | introduction. I also want to thank you for letting me slide into your podcast today. We |
| 1:08.7 | wanted to give you a preview of my new podcast called Trials to Triumphs because I love |
| 1:13.6 | to hear stories about the peaks and valleys of people's lives. There's so much to learn |
| 1:18.1 | from them and I've picked guests that really inspire me. Subscribe to Trials to Triumphs, |
| 1:23.7 | available anywhere you listen to podcasts. |
| 1:39.7 | Hey y'all and welcome to Trials to Triumphs. I'm Ashley Blaine, Featherson Jenkins, but |
| 1:44.3 | you can call me ABFJ. This week, the original dream girl, Tony Award nominated multi-hyphenate |
| 1:51.6 | Cheryl Lee Ralph talks to me about what it takes to be a DIVA, a diva, and how to rest |
| 1:59.0 | in the truth that we will never miss anything that is for us. As a musical theater girl myself, |
| 2:05.2 | I've admired Miss Cheryl basically forever, but since meeting her over a decade ago, she's |
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