Oprah Winfrey

I'm bringing it up because you bring it up in the book, obviously. And I'm also bringing it up because I have been such an admirer of yours across the sea all this time. And I just stood in awe of your leadership today.

Now I know what was going on behind the scenes, but I just stood in awe of your ability to stand in such grace and such power that seemed to be coming from not out here, not from what everybody expected or wanted you to say, but there was an inner strength and an inner knowingness that came from a sense of wisdom I saw in you. So then when I read that all this time you were suffering, I'm like...

Now I know what was going on behind the scenes, but I just stood in awe of your ability to stand in such grace and such power that seemed to be coming from not out here, not from what everybody expected or wanted you to say, but there was an inner strength and an inner knowingness that came from a sense of wisdom I saw in you. So then when I read that all this time you were suffering, I'm like...

Now I know what was going on behind the scenes, but I just stood in awe of your ability to stand in such grace and such power that seemed to be coming from not out here, not from what everybody expected or wanted you to say, but there was an inner strength and an inner knowingness that came from a sense of wisdom I saw in you. So then when I read that all this time you were suffering, I'm like...

How could that be true? So when you became prime minister in 2017, you said that you planned on using kindness as your guiding principle.

How could that be true? So when you became prime minister in 2017, you said that you planned on using kindness as your guiding principle.

How could that be true? So when you became prime minister in 2017, you said that you planned on using kindness as your guiding principle.

You say kindness has a power. What do you think that power is? And a strength that almost nothing else on this planet has.

You say kindness has a power. What do you think that power is? And a strength that almost nothing else on this planet has.

You say kindness has a power. What do you think that power is? And a strength that almost nothing else on this planet has.

I am so glad you're here for this very special episode of the Oprah Podcast with former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Dame Jacinda Ardern. Coming up, I ask her to take us back to the moment she found out she won her historic election at just 37 years old, becoming the youngest female head of state in the world. It was also the same moment she found out she was pregnant.

I am so glad you're here for this very special episode of the Oprah Podcast with former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Dame Jacinda Ardern. Coming up, I ask her to take us back to the moment she found out she won her historic election at just 37 years old, becoming the youngest female head of state in the world. It was also the same moment she found out she was pregnant.

I am so glad you're here for this very special episode of the Oprah Podcast with former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Dame Jacinda Ardern. Coming up, I ask her to take us back to the moment she found out she won her historic election at just 37 years old, becoming the youngest female head of state in the world. It was also the same moment she found out she was pregnant.

We're going to find out what was going on inside her head as she managed to lead a country that with a baby in her arms, a story that made international headlines. All of you moms will appreciate this coming up. Stay with us.

We're going to find out what was going on inside her head as she managed to lead a country that with a baby in her arms, a story that made international headlines. All of you moms will appreciate this coming up. Stay with us.

We're going to find out what was going on inside her head as she managed to lead a country that with a baby in her arms, a story that made international headlines. All of you moms will appreciate this coming up. Stay with us.

Welcome back to the Oprah Podcast. It means the world to me that you take the time out of your day for my first ever conversation with former Prime Minister of New Zealand, the Right Honorable Dame Jacinda Ardern. I've wanted to sit down and talk with her for so many years. I've admired her. We're discussing her new memoir, A Different Kind of Power.

Welcome back to the Oprah Podcast. It means the world to me that you take the time out of your day for my first ever conversation with former Prime Minister of New Zealand, the Right Honorable Dame Jacinda Ardern. I've wanted to sit down and talk with her for so many years. I've admired her. We're discussing her new memoir, A Different Kind of Power.

Welcome back to the Oprah Podcast. It means the world to me that you take the time out of your day for my first ever conversation with former Prime Minister of New Zealand, the Right Honorable Dame Jacinda Ardern. I've wanted to sit down and talk with her for so many years. I've admired her. We're discussing her new memoir, A Different Kind of Power.

I love that title and the new documentary called Prime Minister, which is a deeply personal look inside her life while she was in office at 37 years old. Wow. She became the youngest female head of state in the world and a mother at the exact same time. Double wow. Let's get back to our conversation.