The Oprah Podcast
The Oprah Podcast
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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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The podcast delves into various themes including happiness, resilience, consciousness, and personal growth. Episodes feature insightful discussions such as Esther Perel's advice on modern relationships, Dr. Bruce Perry's insights on childhood trauma healing, and Mellody Hobson's guidance on family financial literacy. The show emphasizes practical advice and emotional support, making complex themes relatable and actionable for listeners.
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. She also features conversations with authors chosen for The Oprah Book Club.
Oprah’s Book Club 124th selection is Little Wonder by author Sophie Chen Keller. Oprah and Sophie sit down with an enthusiastic audience of readers to discuss Sophie’s childhood spent both in the USA and China and how that experience impacted her writing. She also shares how becoming a mother for the first time was the inspiration for Little Wonder. The story is about a profound bond of love that connects a mother, Song, to her son, named River. A cataclysmic roller coaster of events is set in motion when Song loses hold of River’s hand in the teeming crowds at a Beijing train station. Throughout this story of love, perseverance and hope mother and son desperately seek to find their way back to each other. Readers share that the climactic end had them in tears. Audience members also share the passages that moved them the most and ask questions of Sophie.
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00:00:00 – Welcome Sophie Chen Keller, author of “Little Wonder”
00:06:05 – Writing ‘Little Wonder’
00:09:40 – How Sophie found her title
00:12:32 – Her writing process
00:14:05 – Characters and plot
00:16:10 – Writing from a boy’s perspective
00:18:00 – Sophie’s love of piano
00:19:00 – The bumpy road to ‘Little Wonder’
00:23:50 – Why the novel was set in 2016
00:25:45 – Rewriting the book 3-4 times
00:29:50 – Motherhood in the novel
00:32:30 – Class in the novel
00:35:00 – Purpose and motherhood
00:37:50 – How Sophie relates to music
00:41:00 – Song’s grief
00:43:20 – Tchaikovsky and the story
00:45:30 – How Sophie knew the ending
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