SUNRISE, FLA. (WSVN) - Actress and media mogul Oprah Winfrey has arrived in South Florida to launch a nine-city arena tour aimed at helping people become the very best versions of themselves.
A 7News crew met the Oscar nominee at the BB&T Center in Sunrise as she prepared for Saturday’s kick-off of “Oprah’s 2020 Vision: Your Life in Focus Live on Tour!” She will be joined on stage by pop star Lady Gaga.
Winfrey said she got the idea to go on tour after a night of hosting guests at her house.
“At the end of the night, I was like, ‘God, that felt really good. Maybe I can bring more people to my house,'” she said. “Then I realized my porch is not that big, but the BB&T Center is.”
All day Saturday, the celebrated talk show host will be sharing success stories and hoping to inspire the crowd of more than 15,000 who bought tickets.
Winfrey will be sharing her life lessons, better known to her fans as aha moments.
“I love it when somebody else gets it for themselves. You know that,” Winfrey said to 7News reporter Kevin Ozebek. “I get that. I love it when that happens, the big aha moment, and so I’m just sharing the ahas.”
She’ll also be bringing Lady Gaga on stage with her so they can have a “Super Soul Sunday”-style chat and allow the singing superstar, and fellow Academy Award nominee, to share her advice on being her authentic self.
When asked what her favorite aha moment, Winfrey said, “When people show you who they are, believe them. That was actually my biggest, biggest aha in life, like, whoa.”
She then turned the tables on 7News reporter Kevin Ozebek and asked what his favorite aha moment is.
“My biggest lesson is, you are responsible for the energy you bring into a room,” he said.
“Oh, that is so big. That is good,” said Winfrey.
As for why she decided to go from appearing on TV to going from arena to arena, Winfrey said she wanted to talk to as many people as possible so everyone can have 2020 be a breakthrough year.
She also had words of advice to those starting the new year in a rut.
“This is the thing, the mistake everybody makes. They look at the thing that’s on the outside, and they think it’s about the thing that’s happening to them,” she said. “I’m telling you, there’s nothing happening to you that isn’t also happening for you, so what you have to do — anybody who watches ‘Super Soul [Sunday]’ know this — is you turn that question around, and not like, ‘Why, why, why me? Why is this happening to me?’ You say, ‘Why is this here to show me that I’m not getting about me?’ And that answer will lead you out of whatever the rut is. It’s, ‘What is this here to show me or teach me?’ When you get the answer to that, that’s when you get to move forward.”
Before she started stage rehearsals at the BB&T Center, Winfrey hit Fort Lauderdale Beach with several local jogging groups, Friday morning.
Cellphone video captured Winfrey power walking alongside dozens of fellow joggers.
“I enjoyed the beach this morning. A little humid, the hair ain’t loving it so much,” she said.
Friday night, Winfrey was doing her final rehearsal at the venue. Tickets for Saturday’s event have since sold out.
For each of the nine cities in Winfrey’s tour, she will be bringing a different superstar on stage. Michelle Obama will join her New York City, in Atlanta, it will be South Florida’s own Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and in Los Angeles, it will be Jennifer Lopez.
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