Ina Garten

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The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Ina Garten Share the Secrets to a Successful Life · 24 Dec 2024 podcast

zimbabwe or costa rica and or when he was in the government he'd go to um washington on monday and then come back on friday so the weekdays i pretty much had on my own and um i would just work all the time and so i went to my this therapist and i mean we did a lot of really good work but the first day she said to me what would be fun And I was like, I don't know. I really don't know.

Maybe a convertible, maybe a masseuse, you know, just I needed something that wasn't work that would be fun. And she said, go do it. And so that week I rented a red Mustang convertible, which was so much fun. And I hired a masseuse who literally has been coming every single Sunday at six o'clock for 40 years. Wow. Isn't that amazing?

And I still have a convertible. Not the same one, but I have a convertible. And it was, you know, when I think back, very often when you can't, you know, when you're not having fun, you can't figure out what's fun. Yes. But I knew those two things would be fun and they still are.

Just trust your vision. I think the thing that works is if you're really true to who you are. If you believe in it so fiercely, somebody out there is going to believe in it. It's true. It's not, I'm going to become this perky, whatever it is, person that people will love. Just do what you... Just who you are. Just put out who you are and do the best job you can possibly do. And I think people...

Trust that. They honor that. They believe in that. And I always see it as like I'm on a train and people are trying to pull me off the train and I just keep it right on the tracks. If I feel like I'm so sure what I'm doing is right... I don't let people pull me off my game.

What I tend to do is I talk to everybody in the beginning and I get everybody's point of view. And I hear and we talk, we kind of build something together. But at the end of the day, it's my job to choose. And once I've got all the information in, and I love surrounding myself with really creative, smart people. Once I've got all the information in, I know exactly what the right thing to do is.

And you build.

Yes, absolutely. But instinctively, you know what's right. Absolutely. And it's right for you. It may not be right for somebody else. That's right.

Yeah, I would. And it's really important to me. I love working with happy people. And you have to invest in that. So, yeah. Yes. You share a few lessons. At the end of the day, I want to come to work and have fun. Yes, and you want the people around you. Yeah. You want to surround yourself with happy people.

I think one of the things I learned from writing the book, and I hadn't really thought about it before, is that I always do what's in front of me today. I do the best job I can possibly do on it. And then at the end of the day, I decide what I'm going to do tomorrow, get everything organized so that I can do it tomorrow. I don't have a long-term vision. I don't have a goal.

I don't think, oh, I want to get over there in a year. I don't have a five-year plan. I never did either. I just do the best job I can do now, and then tomorrow I'm going to do the best job I can do then. And things happen along the way. And I think if you're looking at your goals, first of all, the goals are the wrong goals because things happen along the way that you would never have imagined.

like television coming along. I mean, I would never have imagined being on television. It just wouldn't have occurred to me. And it turned out to be a great thing. So I don't have those long-term goals. And I think it leaves people, it left me at least to do a really good job because I'm not busy looking around. I'm just doing a good job on what I have in front of me.

And it also leaves me open to what things that might come along.

Isn't that interesting? I never really thought about it until I wrote the book. And actually, I was talking to Stephen Colbert, and he has the same philosophy. So it's obviously working for some people.

He really is. Hi, Jeffrey. I mean, it really means something bad happens, and you don't know whether it's bad. It could turn out to be the best thing that ever happened. That's right.

It opens to something else that wouldn't have happened. And it's, I mean, in my show, Be My Guest, it's been really interesting because so many of the people who are guests have had something really horrible happen to them. And... And they didn't let it stop them. They pushed right through it and they figured it out and they kept going.

And it was their success wouldn't have happened if that bad thing hadn't happened. That's right. And it's so interesting to me to see that happen over and over and over again.

I think the force was that I was determined not to recreate that. Yes. And I think a lot of people say, I'm not going to live in that world. I'm going to create a different one. And then they end up marrying somebody who's just like their parents. Am I right about that? Oh, yes. Most people do. Because it's comfortable. I think the thing I learned from... It's comfortable and familiar.

I think I learned from a difficult childhood when I was uncomfortable. I learned to be comfortable with being uncomfortable. And I kind of used that to push myself to places that are not comfortable. like starting a specialty food store when I don't know what I'm doing. I love the challenge.

I love to decide what I'm going to do as opposed to somebody else deciding it and then really challenging myself to see if I can do it. And every time I think there's no way in hell that this is going to work out, but I'm going to try doing it anyway. And it always turns out better than I thought, which is, I don't know, I just keep doing it over and over again. So there must be something there.

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