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Oprah talks with world-renowned restaurateur Will Guidara about his New York Times bestselling book, Unreasonable Hospitality that has sold over 1 million copies. Will’s abiding belief is that focusing on providing excellent service to others can transform not only your business, but your entire life. Recorded with a live audience in New York City, this episode also features Will’s longtime friend and mentor, Chef Daniel Boulud of New York’s legendary restaurant Daniel. Presented by Walmart, this podcast is an invitation to use your unique gifts and talent to elevate the lives of those around you. You can find Will’s book, Unreasonable Hospitality, at Walmart.com. Will’s upcoming book Unreasonable Hospitality: The Field Guide is also available for preorder.

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Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect, published by Optimism Press and written by Will Guidara, is available wherever books are sold. Unreasonable Hospitality: The Field Guide is available for preorder.

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00:00:00 - Welcome Will Guidara, author of ‘Unreasonable Hospitality’

00:03:35 - Handling last place at the World’s 50 Best Restaurants

00:07:45 - Setting the goal to become No. 1

00:08:45 - Will’s first fine dining experience

00:13:46 - The impact we have on others

00:16:30 - Living with intention

00:18:09 - The nobility of service

00:20:50 - Meeting Chef Daniel Boulud

00:23:00 - Taking his father to Daniel’s after his mother’s passing

00:25:19 - Chef Daniel Boulud

00:27:45 - What Chef Boulud learned from Will

00:31:30 - Examples of unreasonable hospitality

00:35:20 - Caring for difficult people

00:36:45 - The charitable assumption

00:41:20 - Mindsets and practices

00:43:40 - Oprah and Will have this in common

00:45:00 - The best gift Will ever received

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Oprah is joined by a live audience in New York City for a candid conversation about the soaring rates of divorce for people over the age of 50, what experts are calling "gray divorce.” Even though the overall divorce rate is on the decline, the divorce rate for people over 50 has doubled and more than tripled for those over 65. Oprah is joined by Susan Guthrie, a family law attorney and host of the popular podcast, Divorce and Beyond®. Joining the conversation are Lori Gottlieb, psychotherapist, and author of the New York Times bestselling book, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and Dr. Susan L. Brown, co-author of the studies identifying this national phenomenon, and a Distinguished Professor at Bowling Green State University. We also hear from several women who are in the early stages of gray divorce, have gone through gray divorce and adult children of parents who divorced after age 50.

00:00:00 - Rising divorce rates after 50 (“gray divorce”)

00:02:00 - Expert insights with Dr. Susan Brown

00:03:18 - Why gray divorce is on the rise

00:04:09 - Guest: Family law attorney Susan Guthrie

00:06:20 - Guest: Lori Gottlieb, author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

00:11:00 - Why divorce feels shameful

00:14:30 - Men’s surprise at women’s “invisible work”

00:16:22 - Is divorce always terrible?

00:19:02 - Divorce as grief and loss

00:26:45 - First steps after divorce

00:30:58 - Impact on older children

00:36:58 - Why few expect to remarry

00:41:50 - When parent-child roles reverse

00:47:32 - Knowing when to move on

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Susan Guthrie, The Divorce & Beyond Podcast

https://divorceandbeyondpod.com/

Dr. Susan L. Brown, National Center for Family and Marriage Research at BGSU

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"Maybe You Should to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed” by Lori Gottlieb, is published by Harper Collins and available wherever books are sold.

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Addison Aloian’s Women's Health piece, 'My Parents Got Divorced When I Was An Adult. Why Do I Feel So Weird Now That They've Moved On?

https://www.womenshealthmag.com/relationships/a63799212/adult-child-of-divorce/

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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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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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In this episode of Oprah’s Book Club: Presented by Starbucks, Oprah and Megha Majumdar discuss her magnificent new book, A Guardian and a Thief, a 2025 National Book Awards finalist and Oprah’s 119th Book Club selection. This exquisitely written novel packs an epic story into just 224 pages. From page one to the jaw-dropping conclusion, readers are immersed in a harrowing journey as two families, on a collision course in Kolkata, India, face the consequences and moral implications of their life-and-death choices. Megha’s evocative, beautifully crafted exploration of our changing world sparked a lively and thoughtful conversation among readers at a Starbucks coffeehouse in New York City. Starbucks' delectable drink pairing for this book is an Iced Banana Cream Protein Matcha.

00:00:00 - Welcome Megha Majumdar, author of “A Guardian and a Thief”

00:01:56 - Oprah describes “A Guardian and a Thief”

00:03:28 - Oprah’s daughter-girl Thando shares her take

00:05:15 - The plot

00:09:08 - Writing about famine

00:13:20 - A writer’s relationship to failing

00:16:20 - Each character sees America differently

00:22:30 - Is everyone both a guardian and a thief?

00:25:50 - How would you act under great pressure?

00:32:00 - What motivates us to do the right thing

00:39:30 - Confronting contradictions in her book

00:40:45 - Megha’s story of America

00:42:23 - Did Megha always know the ending?

00:47:28 - When writing became her career

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In this episode of The Oprah Podcast former In Style Editor-in-Chief Laura Brown and former Wall Street Journal Magazine Editor-in-Chief Kristina O’Neill talk about the many challenges—and opportunities—that come with losing a job, no matter where you are in your career. They discuss their new book All the Cool Girls Get Fired which dives into everything you need to know if you’ve recently lost your job including how to figure out who you are without your job title. Oprah shares her own story of being fired when she was let go from being the co-anchor of the Baltimore evening news at age 22 and former CNN news anchor Brooke Baldwin talks about how she dealt with losing her high-profile job. We also hear from another woman who says she learned to bounce back better after losing her corporate role of 34 years.

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Oprah is joined by a live audience in New York City for an in-depth look at the crisis of tech addiction among Gen Z. Millions of young people ages 13 to 28 struggle to separate themselves from the many addictive digital experiences from social media, video games to adult content. Oprah is joined by Adam Alter, a professor of marketing at New York University's Stern School of Business and author of Irresistible The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked. Also joining this important conversation are Dr. Kaitlyn Regehr, author of Smartphone Nation: Building Digital Boundaries When Offline Isn't an Option and Dr. Christina Brezing, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University. Additional guests include Conor McLaren and Alex Slater, co-founders of “Quittr” - an app designed to help people struggling with an addiction to online adult content. We also hear from several young guests who are struggling with addictions to video games and adult content.

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00:00:00 - Tech addiction is a crisis

00:01:33 - Adam Alter, author of Irresistible

00:03:06 - Kaitlyn Regehr, author of Smartphone Nation

00:04:00 - Hate, Harm & Disinformation Is Algorithmically Prioritized

00:06:28 - Christina Brezing on Tech Addiction

00:08:54 - Nisha’s Son & Video Game Addiction

00:13:12 - What Can Parents Do?

00:17:18 - Maddie & Kyle – Adult Content Addiction

00:23:34 - Will AI Make It Worse?

00:24:31 - Conner & Alex – Quittr App

00:28:00 - Impact on Sex Lives

00:36:19 - A Generation Unsocialized

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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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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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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:

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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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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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