Oprah: I don't want to just be successful in the world. I don't
want to just make a mark or have a legacy. The answer to that
question for me is, I want to fulfil the highest, truest
expression of myself as a human being.
Linh: Hey guys, it's Linh Podetti here and welcome back to
my channel where I help you to achieve time, freedom so that
you have more time for family self, business and life. Now, as
you can see, I'm a lover of Oprah, she has always been my
idol and my inspiration, because she really shown that no matter
what happens in life, you can redesign your life so that you
can be successful and achieve any dreams you want. And not
only that, by achieving your dreams, you can also help others
to achieve their dreams as well. Now, I mean, what is the purpose
of life, the purpose of life is to find your passion, your
mission, and to you know, achieve all your dreams, but
then to also serve others to help others. And I found that
that's what Oprah's life is all about. And I feel like I'm just
in line with her values in line with her mission. And I also saw
that I struggled as a single mom as someone that was kicked out
of home and all those bad stuff that happened to me. But I was
able to turn my life around and really use my pain to become my
purpose. And so Oprah is my idol. But why am I wanting to be
the next Oprah?
Well, that is because I realised that I've always been that
curious person who loves to hear stories, who love to connect
with people. And over the years, when I started doing podcasts,
interviews and doing a lot more video content, I fell in love
with being in front of the camera, and I realised that I
thought I was a shy girl and I wasn't good with it. But the
more you do it, the more you realise that you actually have a
passion for it. So my new passion is being you know, on
camera. And then it led me to wanting to be an actor, because
I realised that through movies is when you actually can feel
you get transformed. Like it's like I watched a movie called
The Minimalists. And then after I watched it, I was so inspired,
I end up cleaning out my whole house. And I lived ever since
the lifestyle of a minimalist. So that's what a movie even it's
a documentary you can do to shift your mindset. So I
realised that the PAL, or, I guess my vision in life is to
inspire millions and millions of people. And sometimes just to be
to do that you do if you made a movie, you can touch millions
and millions of people's lives. And so I decided to combine my
love for being on camera with storytelling and changing
people's lives through movies, and realise that, aha, maybe I
could be an actor. But if I looked at Oprah's path, I
realised that all I need to do is follow her footpath.
So here's the thing, guys, whatever you want in life, all
you need to do is find someone that has done it, and reverse
engineer how they did it and just follow their footsteps. Not
as I only have to copy them exactly and be the duplicate of
them. It's about using their path as an inspiration, and see
how you can, you know, be inspired to do something for
your own cause.
So for example, I'm an Asian, Vietnamese person, and I would
love to be able to help my country help Vietnam, Vietnam
right now helping the Philippines, but I want to be
able to help more people from developing countries like in
Asia. So I kind of feel like Oprah kind of represented the,
you know, the African American whereas I want to represent the
Asian Australian in helping the developing country so but the
path to getting there is, you know, being that brand, being
that trusted brand and, and being that into the interview of
the host of a talk show. As you can see, on my other channel
Rice and Shine show, I decided to start my own talk show like
Oprah. Because what happened after she became a talk show
host was then she got poached by Quincy Jones to be in the movie
Colour Purple, such an amazing movie and amazing story as well,
because Oprah actually always dreamt of being that movie. And
then voila law of attraction, she basically got to be starred
there. But it wasn't just law of attraction is the fact that she
put herself out there and made herself known as a talk show
host. So this is where I reverse engineer and said, look, I've
always loved Oprah. But I really sold my path even more clear, in
that to be an actor, I can just follow Oprah's path and be a
talk show. Being known for what I'm good at and what I enjoy
doing. And potentially even becoming a host of other shows.
And then hopefully being poached, to be in movies because
sometimes when a director could be watching you and go, "You're
a perfect fit for my movie, I want you to audition." Now
that's a lot easier than trying to find an agent and a movie and
then try to bid an audition for it, right? So this is a reason
why I'm going to follow Oprah's footpath. So my tip for you is
"Who do you follow? Who in your industry Do you love and adore?"
And how can you reverse engineer and follow this tips? Now,
surprisingly, recently, when I was on a search looking for a
burn a woman talk shows, I realised that there's already a
Chinese woman who is known as the Oprah of China, which you
can see here. She is already doing what I envisioned. I was
like, Oh my God! I don't- you know, myself as being this Asian
talk show. And there's always someone doing it. I love that,
because that made me feel like it's achievable. It's doable.
It's not to mean that oh my God, someone's already done too bad
for me. It's no, she does it for China. Who knows I can do it for
Australia. I'll do it for Vietnam, whatever it is, it just
gave me hope to know that someone out there basically, if
you listen to her interview, she said, you know, because of
Oprah, she watched Oprah show, she wanted to use a platform to
start inspiring people. And that's what she did. She now
became the Oprah of China. And so it's good to see that she
like me have a dream. And she went and did it. And now I have
this dream. And I know it's doable, because someone else has
done what Oprah has done.
Okay, so now talking about the woman talk show, which is the,
you know, Oprah's version of my talk show. Together with my
girlfriends, Jennifer and Jacqui, we decided to get
together to just go out on show, you know, why wait for
opportunities? Why wait for someone to say, "Hey, I want to
make a show? Do you want to be in it?" Because that's almost
zero possibility, right? You're going to be very lucky to have
that. But why not? What we realised is that if we actually
just, you know, group our money together and invest in this
show, we can actually have a show together. Now, each of us
doing our own show, it would cost a lot. But if together, we
do a show it will be more cost effective. So whatever you're
trying to do in life, think of a resourceful way for you to
achieve the outcome, because they're still awake. So we
decided to do a talk show. And luckily, I also have a new
studio at my house that we can shoot from as well, which makes
it a lot easier. The funny thing was we were building a room, I
didn't intend it to be for the show. But the law of attraction,
whatever it is, it just manifests itself to becoming the
studio that we needed, when we decided to do the talk show. Now
what is this talk show about it's very different to Oprah.
Oprah kind of interviews a lot of people she was she has a
resource to a big audience. And yeah, it's easy for her to bring
people to her studio to do the shoot. Whereas we have a smaller
studio. So we are not kind of doing the interview style as
much. Although we do welcome guest speakers and will
hopefully be able to interview more people from Sydney. We did
have one episode where we invited my friend Dai, who is a
politician, and interviewed her about politics- Woman in Politics.
But our goal of the show is that we wanted to share our
experience and knowledge and I guess discussion. It's almost
like women, getting together as a woman as friends getting
together and talking over lunch. And instead of gossiping about
people's lives or gossiping about what we watch on the TV,
and kind of, you know, crappy things that don't add value, we
wanted to bring a camera in front of us to almost, you know,
sit in and witness a conversation between three
friends, to talk about things that really matter things that I
can actually move you things that can actually change a lot.
So the eight areas that we want to cover, or we are covering is
fitness, finance, family, friends, faith, freedom,
fulfilment, and fun. So those are the F's that are very
important for a successful life. So there is no point in having a
great financial life and yet your fitness is horrible. And
you don't have time for fun. And you don't have time, you don't
even have the freedom. Or if you you know, have everything else
but you don't have your fitness and you don't have your health
and what's the point? So, in life, we realised that it's not
all about, you know, financial success, and all you do is
money, money, money, it's about how do you get there, but still
have everything else. I always believed in having it all. I
don't know where I learned it from. But from young, I always
felt like, yeah, I can do it, I can have it all. All you need to
do though, is prioritise. If those eight areas are important
to you, then it's about scheduling and prioritising to
make time for those things. Because I'm telling you, life is
not sustainably happy. Or you can't sustain your happiness if
you don't balance your will. If you just us telling yourself
that fitness is important, but you just don't even schedule and
care about it and do what it takes to put your fitness in
front. Then one day you're going to get sick and you die. And
what was the point of doing well, everything else. So every
single day, it's about ensuring you have some aspects of these
F's in it.
Another great way to do it is combining those episodes in our
Rice and Shine Show where we're going to share with you for
example, how do you achieve your financial success but still have
fun at the same time? How do you design a business so it has
freedom in it or even family it's not about just, you know,
eating dinner with your family, you know, once in a while it's
about how do you put fun in it. How do you do different things
with your, your loved ones, your husband, your kids, and make it
fun and make it fulfilling. Fulfilling means, even in my
business, I make sure that there is generosity and giving and
contribution, so that it gives me that fulfilment feeling. It's
not just a business that I run just for the success and the
financial success. It's about making me feel good that every
time I work hard, I can contribute to people in
developing countries like the Philippines. And then yeah,
feeling really warm and fuzzy every day. And so by sunshine is
about that. So I would love to invite you to check out the
videos that Rice and Shine is released every single Tuesday,
that covers the 8F's and here I am as the next Australian,
Asian, Oprah, wish me luck. Oh my God. It's just a crazy dream.
But I know that dreams can come true. It has come true before
when I became when I became a was a single mom.
And I just my whole life changed into almost Cinderella with new
love new family, you know, business, everything just
changed for me. People who meet me now I could never believe
what my life was like before. But because I've done it once, I
do know that is possible. So I'm just saying out there. One other
thing that stops people from going for big dreams is that
they're scared that people will judge or they're scared, they
won't get it. But for me, I think that if you're going to
dream, you might as well dream big. And if you're going to
dream, be brave to dream out loud and say it out loud. If you
believe in it so much. You don't care what people say. Because
what's the point of judging? Because I mean, how are they to
know you're not going to achieve it. So all I do is I say it out
loud, not to be arrogant, but to hold myself accountable to that
I'm serious about things that I can feel it in my heart and my
bones and and just feel it right. And I'm not afraid to say
it because that's how I feel about it. And because I feel so
sure about it. All I do is work hard every day and follow that
path and pivot and just make the next right move so that I can
achieve that dream. And that dream for me. I had to make sure
that was aligned to my value. I'm not doing it for fame and
just to be for fun. I'm doing because I want to inspire
millions of people. And to do that Oprah was able to create a
platform so that her voice can be heard. And then she's able to
be in parts of movies that could change lives. And I wouldn't be
like that. So Oprah if you're watching you are my inspiration.
Thank you so much for watching and if you like some more
motivational videos etc. There are more videos here for you to
watch. Thank you guys!