Super Soul Conversations and The Goop Podcast for an Injection to YOUR Soul
So, when you’re Oprah and Gwenyth Paltrow you can get some pretty pretty serious spiritual heavy-hitters to come on your podcast and speak to your spirit..l and that’s exactly what they have done on their respective podcasts, “Super Soul Conversations” and “The Goop Podcast.” Think Eckhart Tolle, Brené Brown, Elizabeth Gilbert, Cheryl Strayed, Deepak Chopra, and Oprah herself! These are just some of the many guests that will grace your ears and satiate your soul if you tune in to listen.
Oprah’s Super Soul Conversations are a selection of Oprah’s favorite interviews with spiritual leaders and visionaries and are also a collection of Super Soul talks that took place on Super Soul Sunday, a major event it seems Oprah organized. Though I obviously wasn’t there, it seems like it was set up as a full day of soulful talks, sort of like Ted Talks, but for the spirit. Luminaries come prepared with talks, complete with a title and a focused topic, and speak for approximately 25-30 minutes. Each has a soulful speciality, sharing about their journey and learnings, with a specific message they want to send. For example, today I listened to Kris Carr’s session, “How to Live a Crazy Sexy Life.” Kris Carr is the is an author and creator of the documentary Crazy Sexy Cancer. She talked about how she cares for herself and keeps healthy despite having cancer. She was funny, dynamic and inspirational and I walked away from it thinking and feeling deeply. Her talk way message (though it was presented much more eloquently) is that we can either focus on the joy in what we have now and all the crazy and beautiful things we can control and live there or focus on the what ifs, the fear and the negative.
Oprah is also all about Eckhart Tolle right now and has several sessions that examine the concepts he has written about in his book A New Earth: Awakening Your Life’s Purpose. Oprah interviews him and is completely on board with his idea of being in the moment, being still and being present in where you are absolutely right now. Tolle believes that this is our purpose, to tap into that “inner space” and be there and then we are in sync with the universe right where we are meant to be. Oprah’s enthusiasm for the concepts helped get me even more excited about them and she is able to keep things relatable and down to earth. I haven’t read this book yet but am now excited to because it seems like there are some fantastic ways to approach anxiety, mindfulness and self-acceptance, concepts in which I obviously have a vested interest.
Some of the other talks and interviews focus on more individual journeys. Elizabeth GIlbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, talks about how she found her own truth by committing to the love of her life (which, spoiler alert, is not the person she falls in love with at the end of Eat, Pray, Love). India Arie shares about her “Life After Rock Bottom” and the revelations that helped her pick herself back up and blossom. I think that any opportunity we have to listen to someone share their story of vulnerability and connect with them in some way, allows us to learn more about ourselves and become more vulnerable inwardly and, hopefully, outwardly.
“The Goop Podcast” is all interviews (as opposed to talks) with either Gwenyth interviewing or another Goop staffer. The inaugural podcast episode was an interview with Oprah (so you see the connection) so I feel like that set the tone for where it’s going. Gwyneth said, in another episode, that the mission of Goop.com is to have conversations or bring up topics for women to connect and feel less vulnerable. Brené Brown, who was the interviewee on that episode, added the word “normalize” to Gwyneth’s description, and Gwenyth agreed that this is the point of Goop. In that episode Brené talked about shame and perfectionism and Gwenyth made connections to how these apply to her own life as a CEO, mother and a woman.
Some other of The Goop’s episodes focus on: the trauma of loneliness, interventions for depression, talking about postpartum anxiety, why relationships fail, what are sex lives look like and how food affects our mood. So, not all the episodes have an overt soulful/spiritual component like Oprah’s, but there is definitely some of the same feel that’s there and there are enough episodes with those connections. Again, all the episodes strive to put topics out there to connect all of us and allow listeners to feel more empowered.
I have found that both of these podcasts have done just that and I look forward to listening to more. I hope they can do the same for yu!
To listen to Oprah’s Super Soul Conversations Podcast, find it on Apple here,
And find The Goop Podcast on Apple here.
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