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A NO-HOLDS-BARRED CONVERSATION WITH FORMER OPRAH SHOW EXPERT IYANLA VANZANT

DAVID JOHNSON · Wednesday, February 16th 2011 at 6:31PM · 584 views
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Iyanla Vanzant was a force to be reckoned with—a relationship expert with some of the best no-nonsense, hard-hitting advice Oprah had ever heard. When she first took The Oprah Show by storm in 1998, Iyanla was a popular author, speaker and spiritual coach. Iyanla's humorous style and life-changing advice struck a chord with women everywhere. Her message was simple: To live better, you've got to love yourself.

Oprah says people believed in Iyanla because she was a real-life, triumph-over-tragedy success story. This teen mother and rape survivor lived off welfare until she turned her life around by putting herself through law school and launching a self-help empire. Over the years, Iyanla sold more than 8 million books, including In the Meantime and One Day My Soul Just Opened Up, two New York Times bestsellers.

Oprah Show viewers first met Iyanla during Season 12, and over the next year and a half, she graced the stage 20 times. While hundreds of experts have come and gone over the years, few have captivated Oprah's audience like Iyanla.

But, for unexplained reasons, Iyanla made her last Oprah Show appearance more than 11 years ago. What caused her rumored rift with Oprah? Today, Oprah's setting the record straight.

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DAVID JOHNSON Wednesday, February 16th 2011 at 6:36PM

feed back ....: Lyania and Oprah,two very strong women talking real take,not as enemies,but as friends mending a relationship. A relationship that was broken into pieces is called healing.They really had to air this to the people as a process that would allow them to fall back in love. Lyania needed to feel as if she was still in the good graces of the most powerful women in the world. It felt like she had SINNED. Thanks for the free lesson of LOVE. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

DAVID JOHNSON Wednesday, February 16th 2011 at 6:38PM

feed back Iyanla Vanzant has a great spirit. However, I believe that her ego is standing on her shadow. By this I mean that she has something meaningful to offer to a great number of people, but she is allowing her sense of her greatness to pin her down from admirably, and fully delivering what she has to offer. I do not see a sense of negativity in her, not by any significance. Nevertheless, she has to learn to calm herself down a little. She has a sense that she is meant for greatness; but, her ego might need a little self control. Having a sense of greatness is meaningfully worthy, but being too forceful about asserting that sense is where the disconnect arises. I believe that Iyanla Vanzant's energy is great in many good respects, but it will not couple well with Oprah's great spirit. She is still not ready to be in Oprah's circle (that's what I observed in their conversation).

Cynthia Merrill Artis Wednesday, February 16th 2011 at 9:40PM

Dang!! I missed it... you need to find some clips.... Vanzant wanted Oprah to help her launch her own show..... Instead she helped Dr. Phil launch his show....

Siebra Muhammad Friday, February 18th 2011 at 3:15PM

Here's some clips from the show;
http://blackinamerica.com/cgi-bin/blog.cgi...

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