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The Oprah Podcast is home to all-new conversations featuring Oprah Winfrey and today’s foremost thought leaders, global newsmakers, best-selling authors, visionaries and cultural changemakers. Exploring timely themes, including happiness, resilience, consciousness and connection, the weekly series aims to help listeners on their journey to lead their best life. Oprah talks to people about what matters most to them in this moment. Every month, she will feature interviews with authors called ‘Oprah’s Book Club Presented by Starbucks’ with live audiences in Starbucks across the country.
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Oct 21, 2025 • 50min
Building a Billion Dollar Brand with Anastasia Soare and Oprah
Oprah sits down with the “Eyebrow Queen,” Anastasia Soare, to talk about how she escaped Communist Romania and built a billion-dollar beauty empire in the United States. The Anastasia Beverly Hills founder and CEO tells her only-in-America story in her inspiring new book, Raising Brows. Joining them are business mogul Kim Kardashian, Anastasia’s daughter, Claudia—now ABH president and creative director—and aspiring entrepreneurs looking for inspiration from Anastasia and Oprah. This podcast is a must-listen for anyone dreaming of starting their own business and wondering how to turn that dream into reality. This episode is presented by Walmart. Find Anastasia’s new book Raising Brows and so much more at Walmart.com.
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'Raising Brows' by Anastasia Soare
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00:00:00 - Welcome Anastasia Soare, author of “Raising Brows”
00:03:11 – Meeting Oprah for the first time
00:05:12 – Starting out in America
00:09:13 – Lessons from her mother’s business
00:13:17 – Building a billion-dollar brand
00:18:58 – The key to following your dreams
00:19:35 – Welcome Kim Kardashian
00:21:25 – Kim on Anastasia’s success
00:22:08 – What Anastasia learned from Kim
00:24:07 – Scaling a business
00:26:48 – Owning your story
00:29:40 – Doing brows live on The Oprah Show
00:32:47 – Anastasia’s daughter Claudia
00:37:58 – Growing profitability
00:45:50 – Fearlessness as a business asset
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Oct 14, 2025 • 54min
Megha Majumdar: "A Guardian and a Thief" | Oprah's Book Club
In this lively discussion, Megha Majumdar, author of the acclaimed novel *A Guardian and a Thief*, explores the intertwining themes of moral conflict and climate change. She dives into how Kolkata's realities shape her characters, revealing their complex motivations and the struggle between familial love and societal responsibilities. Megha also addresses the nuances of failure in writing, the ambiguous nature of hope, and how desperation can lead to unexpected actions. The conversation paints a vivid portrait of humanity in crisis.

Oct 9, 2025 • 41min
How to Let Go after Being Let Go with Oprah and authors Laura Brown & Kristina O’Neill
Join Laura Brown, former InStyle editor-in-chief, and Kristina O’Neill, ex-editor of the Wall Street Journal Magazine, as they share their insights on overcoming job loss. They discuss their book, "All the Cool Girls Get Fired," offering practical guidance for navigating career transitions. Oprah shares her own experiences of being let go, highlighting the societal shame often associated with female job loss. The conversation includes empowering stories from other women who reinvented themselves after setbacks, transforming adversity into new beginnings.

Sep 30, 2025 • 44min
Gen Z Tech Addiction Crisis with Oprah and Adam Alter
Oprah welcomes Kaitlyn Regehr, an expert on digital humanities and author of Smartphone Nation, to discuss Gen Z's tech addiction crisis. They explore how attention-economy algorithms manipulate behavior, making harm and misinformation prevalent. Adam Alter highlights the design hooks that keep users hooked on video games and social media. The conversation reveals real-life stories of addiction and emphasizes the need for families to shift focus from blame to strategies for resisting tech. The Quittr app offers a community-driven path to recovery.

Sep 23, 2025 • 56min
Do Dogs Really Love Us? with Oprah and Dr. Carl Safina
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Oprah sits down with renowned ecologist Dr. Carl Safina, author of the New York Times bestseller Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel, to explore our sacred connection with the animal world—especially our tight-knit relationships and bonds with our beloved dogs. Joining them is author and neuroscientist Dr. Gregory Berns, whose groundbreaking MRI research offers scientific proof that our dogs really do love us. Dr. Berns discusses his eye-opening books How Dogs Love Us and Cowpuppy. The episode also features extraordinary true stories of hero dogs who saved their owners’ lives.
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Sep 16, 2025 • 53min
Oprah and Edwina Findley Dickerson on Manifesting Life’s Dream for You
In this episode of The Oprah Podcast, award-winning actress Edwina Findley Dickerson invites Oprah and listeners into the heart of her very first book, The World Is Waiting for You: Embrace Your Calling and Manifest the God Dream Over Your Life. Edwina reveals how each of us carries the potential to uncover a divine vision uniquely designed for our lives. Drawing from her own journey of extraordinary signs, wonders, and answered prayers she shares how moments of manifestation are not reserved for the few but available to anyone willing to nurture faith and step into courage. Edwina speaks with guests across the country who hunger to realize their own potential and awaken to a life larger than the one they are currently living. She shares practical ways to begin this journey whether it be prayer, tips for vision boarding or how to show up in service of others. She believes anything is possible when we align and discover God’s dream for us all.
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Sep 9, 2025 • 1h 3min
Elizabeth Gilbert: "All the Way to the River" | Oprah's Book Club
Oprah’s Book Club: Presented by Starbucks features coffee and conversation with one of the most beloved writers of our time, New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert, in a café in Starbucks’ hometown Seattle. Her vulnerable new memoir, All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation, is Oprah’s 118th book club selection. The book details Elizabeth’s raw and riveting story of falling in love with her partner Rayya, navigating harrowing struggles and finding a path to healing in the years that followed Rayya's passing. Liz shares what was really going on in her life during the time Eat, Pray, Love was released, including her own journey with sex and love addiction, shocking stories about what happened after Rayya was diagnosed with cancer and Liz's personal surrender to recovery. Oprah describes her story as "the bravest thing I've ever seen." For this conversation, Oprah and Elizabeth are joined by an audience of readers as they enjoy the Fall favorite, Pumpkin Spice Latte.
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"All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation” by Elizabeth Gilbert, is published by Riverhead Books and available wherever books are sold:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707805/all-the-way-to-the-river-by-elizabeth-gilbert/
HERE I AM
The footage featured in Oprah’s podcast with Elizabeth Gilbert comes from the feature-length documentary, Here I Am, directed by award-winning filmmaker, Marc J. Francis https://www.marcjfrancis.com and produced by Speakit Productions https://www.speakit.org.
Here I Am is a deeply intimate portrait of Elizabeth and her partner Rayya Elias who opened their world to Marc, inviting him to witness and document their final year together. From the soaring highs of love, laughter and creativity to the devastating lows of illness, addiction, and grief, their story is a powerful meditation on what it means to love, live and let go.
The film will be released internationally in 2026. For updates and behind-the-scenes insights about the film, subscribe at https://www.marcjfrancis.com/here-i-am
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Sep 2, 2025 • 1h 12min
Oprah and Bruce Willis' Wife Emma on Finding Strength, Hope & Yourself in Caregiving
Emma Heming Willis is a former model and now entrepreneur and author who joins The Oprah Podcast to discuss her new book “The Unexpected Journey: Finding Hope and Purpose on the Caregiving Path.” It’s the book Emma says she wishes she had when she and her husband, legendary actor Bruce Willis, faced his frontotemporal dementia diagnosis. Emma shares with Oprah why “The Unexpected Journey” is a guide to navigating the complicated, heartbreaking, and transformative experience that is caregiving. When Bruce Willis was diagnosed in 2022, the couple was given a pamphlet and told to check back in a few months. With no hope or direction, Emma walked out of the doctor’s office frozen with fear, confusion and a sense that her world had just fallen apart. How would she care for her husband while parenting their young daughters and protecting her family’s privacy? Emma interviewed the world’s top dementia and caregiving experts to share their expertise in the book. Oprah and Emma are also joined by two women who have been through the caregiving process – they share their challenges and learnings.
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The Unexpected Journey: Finding Strength, Hope, and Yourself on the Caregiving Path: Heming Willis, Emma: 9780593833940: Amazon.com: Books
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Aug 26, 2025 • 57min
Oprah & Shaka Senghor on How to Escape Life’s Hidden Prisons
Shaka Senghor, a resilience expert, motivational speaker, and bestselling author of Writing My Wrongs, has inspired audiences worldwide with his journey from incarceration to transformation. Shaka joins Oprah to discuss his new book, How to Be Free. Full of hard-earned life lessons and practical tools, How to Be Free is a must read for anyone looking to manifest freedom in their own lives. Oprah and Shaka will also be joined by Shaka’s good friend Ben Horowitz, the cofounder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and author of two books: What You Do Is Who You Are and The Hard Thing About Hard Things. Oprah and Shaka will also be taking Zoom calls from people at a crossroads in their own lives.
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How to Be Free: A Proven Guide to Escaping Life's Hidden Prisons by Shaka Senghor, published by Authors Equity, is available wherever books are sold.
https://www.shakasenghor.com/
What You Do Is Who You Are and The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, published by Harper Business, are available wherever books are sold.
https://a16z.com/books/what-you-do-is-who-you-are/
https://a16z.com/books/the-hard-thing-about-hard-things/
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Aug 19, 2025 • 59min
Oprah & Richard Rohr on Finding Hope in Uncertain Times
In this episode of The Oprah Podcast, Franciscan friar, spiritual teacher and New York Times bestselling author Richard Rohr shares revelations from his latest book, The Tears of Things: Prophetic Wisdom for an Age of Outrage. Drawing on decades of theological study, Oprah and Rohr explore the transformative power of embracing our tears as a path to healing and societal change. He weaves the wisdom of the Old Testament prophets into our current culture, revealing how their cries for justice and renewal offer an example on how to get to our own breakthroughs today. Throughout the episode, Rohr responds to questions from guests across the country who seek to embody his philosophy to show up better in their careers, relationships and everyday life.
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