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To celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of Oprah’s Book Club - Oprah is joined by four multiple-award winning, best-selling authors including: Viola Davis, Barbara Kingsolver, Abraham Verghese and Ocean Vuong. In her backyard under the oak trees Oprah and these masterful storytellers have a thoughtful conversation about the craft of writing, their processes and the significance the reader brings to their work. Among their works they discuss these Oprah's Book club picks: Finding Me, Demon Copperhead, The Poisonwood Bible, The Emperor of Gladness and The Covenant of Water.

00:00:00 - Welcome authors Barbara Kingsolver, Abraham Verghese, Viola Davis and Ocean Vuong
00:04:30 - Finding characters
00:06:50 - Becoming a writer
00:09:00 - How Viola became a writer
00:12:48 - Viola reading her memoir
00:17:20 - What writers are noticing about right now
00:22:30 - What does being a bestseller mean
00:28:00 - Greatest compliments about their work
00:39:50 - The magic of writing
00:43:00 - When is a sentence done?
00:47:30 - Finding your title
00:52:00 - Is writing personal therapy?

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'Give Me a Year' by Shonda Scott
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When is the last time you tried something new? Entrepreneur and author Shonda Scott, whose book Give Me a Year: 12 New Things to Embrace Change and Live Your Best Life chronicles how she stepped outside her comfort zone, embraced change and challenged herself to try something new every month for a full year. Shonda shares how those experiences helped her find joy, overcome fear and keep moving forward even when life took some unexpected turns. Then, Oprah meets writer Jason McBride whose viral article “How to Create a Life You Love: No Magical Thinking Required” struck a chord with its message that building a fulfilling life isn’t about having the perfect job, relationship or circumstances it’s about taking responsibility for the life you’re creating. They talk about what it really means to stop living by someone else’s blueprint, learn from things that don't go as planned and create a life we actually love.

Chapters:
00:00:00 - Welcome Shonda Scott, author of ‘Give Me a Year’
00:03:20 - Why she wrote the book
00:08:00 - Write it down and vision birds
00:09:48 - Overcoming fears
00:11:20 - Pull up a seat to the table
00:12:40 - Imposter syndrome
00:16:30 - How to show up for ourselves
00:22:00 - Put yourself at the top of your list
00:24:30 - Shonda’s top 3 things
00:27:44 - Small changes to create big ones
00:29:00 - Welcome Jason McBride
00:32:00 - The three things you can control in your life
00:34:30 - Failure is part of the process

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How to Work With Complicated People by Ryan Leak
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New York Times bestselling author Ryan Leak joins Oprah at her tea house for a practical conversation about navigating difficult workplace relationships. Drawing from his book How to Work with Complicated People Ryan shares why the people we work with, more than the work itself, often determine how fulfilled we feel on the job. He breaks down four strategies for working through challenging dynamics, introduces the idea of an “expectations detox” and offers a powerful reminder: we’re all complicated to someone else. This conversation isn’t about fixing other people, it’s about growing ourselves through greater self-awareness, understanding, and emotional maturity. Oprah and Ryan are also joined by listeners with real workplace dilemmas, tackling questions about bridging generational divides, leading with empathy while still meeting goals and setting healthy boundaries with colleagues who seem beyond complicated. It’s a practical and relatable conversation filled with tools to help anyone build stronger relationships at work and beyond.

00:00:00 - Welcome Ryan Leak, author of “How to Work with Complicated People”
00:04:50 - People problems at work
00:07:00 -We never think we’re the problem
00:07:58 - 4 ways people deal with complicated people
00:11:30 - Importance of partnership
00:12:20 - Expectations detox
00:14:50 - Our unrealistic expectations
00:15:38 - What should we do in the moment
00:18:20 - Be the adult in the room
00:21:00 - Generational differences
00:24:00 - Questions to ask
00:27:50 - How to communicate better
00:29:20 - How to set the tone as a leader
00:33:00 - You choose your reaction
00:34:28 - Why half of Americans quit
00:39:10 - When is it not possible
00:43:00 - How to grow yourself
00:44:40 - One word Ryan lives by

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Inner Excellence by Jim Murphy
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Performance coach and bestselling author Jim Murphy’s book Inner Excellence took the world by storm and rocketed to #1 after NFL wide receiver A.J. Brown was spotted reading it during a playoff game. Seemingly overnight the book became a New York Times bestseller, resonating far beyond the world of sports. Drawing from the powerful lessons in Inner Excellence Jim shares the mental tools you can cultivate to help manage your mind, unlock your potential and expand what's possible in your life. He also discusses his transformative new book, The Best Possible Life, revealing how you can cultivate greater peace, purpose and fulfillment.

00:00:00 - Welcome Jim Murphy, author of Inner Excellence
00:04:40 - Jim’s path to inner excellence
00:07:40 - The pursuit of joy
00:11:40 - How to manage our minds
00:13:20 - 5 questions to clear a mental block
00:15:30 - 2 paths in life
00:18:40 - Post sports identity
00:21:30 - The definition of Zoe
00:24:10 - Jim’s advice to those on the journey
00:27:00 - How to figure out what matters
00:30:30 - How to detach from the outcome of your goals
00:35:50 - Power of intention
00:39:55 - We are all human
00:41:20 - Keeping our ego in check
00:47:55 - The pursuit of success

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In this special bonus episode Oprah celebrates the 30th anniversary of Oprah’s Book Club and reflects on how her lifelong love of reading became a cultural phenomenon. Oprah revisits some of her most treasured conversations with the writers she calls her “rock stars” and celebrates three decades of connecting readers with great books.
We hear her conversations with Toni Morrison, Ocean Vuong, Wally Lamb, Anthony Ray Hinton, Abraham Verghese, Maya Angelou, Elizabeth Strout, Tayari Jones, Barbara Kingsolver, Cormac McCarthy, Colson Whitehead, Elie Wiesel, Nathan Harris, and Oscar winner Sidney Poitier.

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