"in 1984 Oprah was riding High she was already Chicago's most popular TV talk show personality and the local ABC affiliate that produced her show was paying her $230,000 a year her agent had negotiated..."

"that has made her rich Oprah owns not only her show but also the studio in which it is produced and she owns a big stake in King World Productions the company that distributes her show Oprah's previou..."

"about why this happens local stations are willing to pay top dollar for the OA show because it assembles an audience that tends to stay tuned to the same channel for the evening news in a market the s..."

"million remembering her close call with becoming just another high-paid celebrity Oprah said on my own I will just create and if it works it works and if it doesn't I'll create something else I don't ..."

"speaking in her own words and so the first interview and I I did this on purpose too the first interview is an interview she gave in 1991 she is 37 years old the second interview happened at Stanford ..."

"I've ever heard that describes this phenomenon comes from Stephen King's autobiography and he was talking about writing but it applies to every other domain he says imitation precedes creation imitati..."

"breaks I was 22 and I was embarrassed by the whole thing because I'd never failed before and this was a failure but this was a failure that led to the talk show because they had no other place to put ..."

"many times where she's in a situation she's like nope I don't belong in this situation I am better than this I will make my life better than this so she's having her speech coach saying no you don't a..."

"most experienced person or the most educated person or the person who actually wants it more you always pick the person who wants it most highly recommend going and listening to that entire episode of..."

"secret and the note I left myself on this is this just a bunch of examples that I found in other biographies of people that have achieved great things doing the same thing Bob noise founder of Intel d..."

"stuff like this I'm not going to go into it now but like uh in my family and never to me but people that I deeply deeply loved and so when Oprah says later on that you know she'd work a 12-hour day an..."

"indoor plumbing you sure as hell don't have a washing machine and so she's talking about one of her earliest uh memories is she's standing on the back por and at the time that clean clothes they would..."

"the Bible but no one knew how to spell it so over time it just it instead of they they essentially reverse the p and the r in her name so instead of being called or Ora Winfrey she's called Oprah Winf..."

"her mom is not she's just not making good decisions uh I think she's got like three or four different kids all by different fathers if I'm not mistaken uh she can't really as Oprah is getting older sh..."

"about her life by the time she was nine she was already raped repeatedly from 9 to 14 when she actually gets pregnant she it happen so much that she just thought oh this is you know this is an ongoing..."

"you're being transferred around like she goes from her grandmother to her mom back to her grandmother to her father to her grand to her mom to her father finally um and so she says like this is I have..."

"daughter and she says her dad saved her life I had a very strict father and I love him for it at the time I thought I cannot imagine a human being so stripped he was a big influence on me he cared abo..."

"sophomore in college and she says my sophomore year in college someone heard me on the radio and said we heard you on the radio would you be interested in working in television think about how crazy t..."

"station I'd work 2: to 10: then I would get home and stay up and study until 1 or 2 in the morning and then just start the routine all over again that is a 14 to 16 hour workday that she's describing ..."

"she says I don't see myself as a celebrity because people are so familiar with me as opposed to you know aess actors you may see them on screen but you have no idea who they are what they actually car..."

"do this and she's like yes yes I do and she didn't know how to do it she's just like uh they asked if I knew how to edit and I said yes when I didn't they asked if I knew how to report on stories and ..."

"part because before my mother passed away uh she told me that they had to do that uh several times where like you mail a check and then they're like oh you didn't sign it and then they send it back to..."

"but Oprah saying one of the biggest lessons I've learned particularly in business is you have a responsibility uh to yourself to learn as much about your business as you can I sign every check it is v..."

"ever read for the podcast is uh Arnold Scher has two autobiographies they're both great and they're both some of my favorite books but the the first book first autobiography I read about him was he wr..."

"would say the news is on at 10:00 and he says yes but it's off at 10:30 so be home at 11: and so she respected her father she responded to his high standards but that doesn't also mean that she always..."

"was the king of talk shows and was on in Chicago and every single person except my best friend Gail said you're going to fail so they're like hey don't compete don't go into this format this guy's win..."

"with uh before she had her own show and so she was working as a news anchor this is in Baltimore and she finds out like she is a co-anchor and like we're literally doing the same job we sit next to ea..."

"to feel it again this isn't it I call it your emotional GPS system that allows you to make the best decisions for yourself and every decision that has profited me has come from listening to that inner..."