All week, we’re posting Oprah tributes and stories from the Ultimate Viewers who we met on our trip Down Under. You may remember Cecelia Behar-Bush from the second Australia show, where she announced to her husband that she was pregnant! A life-changing moment on a life-changing trip — once again, Oprah had worked her magic!…
As promised, all week we’re going to be posting tributes to Oprah from our fellow Ultimate Viewers. These are the people we went to Australia with, the people who moved us with their stories and who inspire us with their compassion. They are people we are now proud to call our friends. We’ve included websites…
Oprah Winfrey may be one of the biggest celebrities in the world but, as she always admits, the role that is most meaningful to her is that of teacher. For 25 years, The Oprah Show has been her classroom where she’s taught millions of viewers everything from paying attention to that little voice in their…
Talk about inspiration. After her own difficult beginnings — which you can read about on deborahstein.com — Deborah Jiang Stein has become a national speaker and advocate about the capacity for transformation. Multiracial and Jewish (her mother was raised Orthodox), she proves we can become more than the sum of our parts. Deborah is working…
My conversation with Elin Stebbins Waldal about her book, Tornado Warning, struck a chord with many of you, who sent emails thanking me for bringing to light the subject of dating violence and thanking her for sharing her very personal story. Because her voice resonated so strongly, I invited her to write a guest post. I…
