Episodes We Love: The Power Of No, Part 2: Oprah Winfrey

Dear Sugars

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Boston, Wbur, Sugar, Cheryl Strayed, Society & Culture, Dear, Relationships, Advice, Steve Almond

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

"What do I want?" This is the question Oprah Winfrey finally asked herself, after years of struggling to say "no" to people in her life. In the second of this two-part series, the Sugars continue their conversation with Oprah Winfrey on when, why and how to say "no."

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0:00.0	W.B.U.R. Podcasts, Boston.
0:15.0	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:19.0	The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears.
0:23.0	I'm Steve Olman.
0:24.0	I'm Cheryl Stray.
0:25.0	This is Dear Sugars.
0:28.0	Oh dear song, won't you please?
0:35.0	She has some better sweet days we've been.
0:42.0	I check my blood every day.
0:50.0	Oh and this sugar, you see in my way.
0:57.0	Hi Steve.
0:58.0	Hi Cheryl.
0:59.0	So here we are in the second part of our series on how to say no,
1:04.0	in which we were talking to Oprah Winfrey.
1:06.0	If you're just tuning in now, I highly recommend you go back
1:09.0	and listen to episode one.
1:11.0	We talked about a letter and Oprah had a lot of interesting things to say
1:15.0	about the struggle many of us have with saying no.
1:18.0	And what it means to say yes.
1:21.0	Yeah, in fact, I was thinking about, I don't know, sure,
1:24.0	I don't know if I've ever told you this story, but years ago,
1:27.0	after I wrote this silly book about candy called Candy Freak,
	...

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