The legendary media personality Oprah Winfrey, 70, is opening up about the “one regret” that she has from her decades-long career.
Oprah’s ‘One Regret’
Though Winfrey has enjoyed many years of success, there is one “do-over” in her career that she would like to have if she could. She revealed this regret to Al Roker while appearing on the TODAY show on Tuesday morning.
“I would not have taken on the responsibility of trying to build a network while still ending the show,” Winfrey said. “That is my one regret. That is my, ‘I should’ve handled all of that differently.'”
“We’re both in broadcasting,” Roker replied. “We hate dead air.”
Winfrey ended her eponymous talk show back in 2011 after 25 years on the air. She launched the Oprah Winfrey Network that same year.
“I should’ve completed one thing, taken a year to do nothing, and then decided what was the next thing for me to do,” Winfrey continued. “I made a decision that it was time for the show to end…I don’t regret that. What I do regret is trying to do multiple things at the same time.”
“I would’ve done the thing that I tell everybody else to do,” she added. “When you don’t know what to do, do nothing. Get still with yourself and do nothing. I would’ve given myself that time.”
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Oprah Wishes She’d Listened To Her Own Inner Voice
Looking back, Winfrey regrets listening to the advice of others instead of trusting her gut.
“I thought to give myself a break, and other people were saying, ‘Oh no, you just have got to leverage this moment, and you got to keep moving up,'” she recalled. “Everybody has that natural life force instinct inside yourself that lets you know what’s right or wrong, or that is your emotional GPS system.
“And any time I’ve ever gone against that — any time — is when I’ve made a mistake,” Winfrey stated.
In the end, Winfrey has learned from this experience. These days, she makes sure to take the time to slow down.
“Every time I’ve just gotten still and listened to what my gut said, what that still small voice that resides inside me, and you, and everybody else says, I have never made a mistake,” she concluded.
Check out Winfrey’s full comments on this in the video below.
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Winfrey Launched Her Talk Show In ‘A Different Time’
In this same interview, Winfrey talked about what it would be like to launch her talk show in 2024.
“It was a different time,” she explained. “I often think about this just even in terms of the Oprah show, and the immense range of subjects that we covered on a daily basis. We were just talking about what was going on in people’s lives in a real and meaningful way.
“Raising children, overcoming cancer, stepping away from abuse, just every single imaginable dysfunction in our culture, that Oprah Winfrey Show was able to address in a way that allowed people to see the best of themselves, and the possibility (for what) could be,” she added.
Whether you like Winfrey or not, it can’t be denied that she’s a true living legend in the world of television. We could all learn a lot from her lesson about not getting involved in too many things at once!
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