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Oprah Winfrey on Career, Life, and Leadership

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During a student-led interview at Stanford Graduate School of Business, Oprah Winfrey shares seminal moments of her career journey and the importance of listening to your instincts. Winfrey also offers advice to students on how to find their calling: "Align your personality with your purpose, and no one can touch you." Listen to Oprah on "View From The Top: The Podcast." https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights... ...more
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What Sparks the Light in You

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Early Career

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How Did You Navigate Situations in Which You Might Have Felt More Alone

12:27

Sheryl Sandberg

17:40

What Are the Qualities of Your Leadership That Make You Successful at Such Diverse Pursuits

27:44

Why the Show Worked

30:25

Making Logical Decisions

38:04

And I Was GonNa Take Oh a Hundred Families out of the Project some Green and Green and I Was GonNa Give Them a New Life and I Was GonNa Buy Them Homes and Stuff and that Did Not Work It Would Fail Miserably I Had a Big Sister Program That I Started Fail Miserably So I Realized that for Me First of all I Realized You Don't Change as You all Are Recognizing through the Seed Program You First Have To Change the Way a Person Thinks and Sees Themselves so You'Ve Got To Create a Sense of Aspiration a Sense of Hopefulness so a Person Can See Can Begin To Even Have a Vision for a Better Life and if You Can't Connect to that Then

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So for Me Owning a Network or Being a Part of a Network Is about Continuing To Use that Platform to To Raise the Consciousness I Do a Show on Sundays Which You Can Stream Live Called Super Soul Sunday Where I Literally Talked to Thought Leaders from around the World and Asked the Questions Not As Good as You I'M GonNa Consult with You Ask the Questions in Life That Really Matter To Get People Thinking about What Really Matters in Their Lives and the Responses That I Get from People Just Regarding that Show Let Me Know that I'M on the Right Track I'M Moving in the Right Direction and

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Years Before and She Couldn't Get past It and She Just Wanted To Come On on the Oprah Show and Talk about It and Phil Said to Her Why Do You Spend All Your Time Lamenting All these Years of Lamenting the Death Instead of Celebrating the Life You'Ve Let the One Day Define Your Daughter's Entire Life and She Looked Up at Him and She Said You Know I Never Thought about It that Way Before with Tears I Could Feel that that the Shift in Her so the Most Important Moments for Me Have Been When Literally I Can See that Somebody Has Made a Shift in the Way They See Themselves in the World

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However That Occurred for You that Your Being Here Is Such a Miraculous Thing and that Your Real Job Is To Honor that Is To Honor that and the Sooner You Figure that Out Oh Wow Wow I'M One of the Lucky Ones I Got To Be Here So How Do You Continue To Prepare Yourself To Live Out the Highest Fullest Truest Expression of Yourself as a Human Being and I Just Want To End with this Yeah There Are no Mistakes There Really Aren't any because You Have a Supreme Destiny

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So How Do You Continue To Prepare Yourself To Live Out the Highest Fullest Truest Expression of Yourself as a Human Being and I Just Want To End with this Yeah There Are no Mistakes There Really Aren't any because You Have a Supreme Destiny When You'Re in Your Little Mind in Your Little Personality Mind Where You'Re Not Centered You Really Don't Know Who You Are that You Come from Something Greater and Bigger and that We'Re Really all Are the Same You Don't Know that You Get all Flustered You Get Stressed All the Time Wanting Something To Be What It Isn't There's a Supreme Moment of Destiny Calling on Your Life Your Job Is To Feel that To Hear that To Know that and Sometimes When You'Re Not Listening You Get Taken Off Track You Get in the Wrong Marriage

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You Get Stressed All the Time Wanting Something To Be What It Isn't There's a Supreme Moment of Destiny Calling on Your Life Your Job Is To Feel that To Hear that To Know that and Sometimes When You'Re Not Listening You Get Taken Off Track You Get in the Wrong Marriage the Wrong Relationship You Take the Wrong Job Yeah but It's all Leading to the Same Path There Are no Wrong Paths There Are None There's no Such Thing as Failure Really because Failure Is Just that Thing Trying To Move You in another Direction so You Get As Much from Your Losses as You Do from Your Victories because the Losses Are There To Wake You Up the Losses Are To Say Oh that Is Why You Go to School

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It Really Is GonNa Be Okay because Even if You'Re on a Doody Tour Right Now and and that's How You Know When You'Re Not at Ease with Yourself When You'Re Feeling like Oh No to Me that that Is the Cue That You Need To Be Moving in another Direction Don't Let Yourself Get all Thrown Off Continue To Be Thrown Off Course When You'Re Feeling off-Course That's the Key How Do I Turn Around So When Everybody Was Talking about When I Started this Network if I Had Only Known Good Lord How Difficult It Would Be the Way through the Challenge Is To Get Still and Ask Yourself What Is the Next Right Move Not Think about It Oh I Got all of this Stuff What Is the Next Right Move and Then from that Space Make the Next Right Move and the Next Right Move and Not To Be Overwhelmed by It because

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So When Everybody Was Talking about When I Started this Network if I Had Only Known Good Lord How Difficult It Would Be the Way through the Challenge Is To Get Still and Ask Yourself What Is the Next Right Move Not Think about It Oh I Got all of this Stuff What Is the Next Right Move and Then from that Space Make the Next Right Move and the Next Right Move and Not To Be Overwhelmed by It because You Know Your Life Is Bigger than that One Moment You Know You'Re Not Defined by What Somebody Says Is a Failure for You because Failure Is Just There To Point You in a Different Direction

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Oprah Winfrey on Career, Life, and Leadership
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2014Apr 28
During a student-led interview at Stanford Graduate School of Business, Oprah Winfrey shares seminal moments of her career journey and the importance of listening to your instincts. Winfrey also offers advice to students on how to find their calling: "Align your personality with your purpose, and no one can touch you." Listen to Oprah on "View From The Top: The Podcast." https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights...

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