I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of

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Arthur and Speaker Wes Moore is born in Baltimore 1978. Wes was only three years old when a rare

virus claimed his father Wesley's life. His mother moved the family to the Bronx and

struggled to send Wes and his sisters to private school, but Wes felt caught between two

worlds. He became a discipline problem. His grades plummeted and he was put on academic

and disciplinary probation. At 13, his mother sent him to military school. After four attempts

at running away, Wes says he eventually learned to respect himself and others. By graduation

six years later, he was company commander of 125 cadets. Wes went on to Johns Hopkins

University where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. In 2000, the same year Wes was awarded a road

scholarship. He discovered there was another young man, also named Wes Moore, who grew

up just blocks away from his own childhood home. The other Wes Moore was awaiting trial

for felony murder and was later sentenced to life in prison without parole. The story

of their two divergent lives became the basis of his bestselling book, The Other Wes Moore.

Today, Wes says in order to come alive, we need to embrace living and working for something

greater than ourselves. He believes that success and service are intertwined. It is the focus

of his book, The Work.

One of the things that you crystallize so beautifully in the work is that the one thing

I think all of us are searching for is a life that matters and a life that has meaning.

And I know that the only way to do that is through some form of service. And you break it

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