Oprah Winfrey spoke at the Qualtrics user conference in Salt Lake City.
In 1989, Oprah Winfrey's breakout talk show had only been on the air for a few years, and it was following what was then the daytime TV trend towards shocking content. "Our producers were so excited, but they had convinced a man to come on with his wife and his girlfriend. Why that fool would want to do that, I don't know," Winfrey said during a talk to attendees of a tech conference in Salt Lake City, Utah on Thursday put on by software company Qualtrics.
"Whatever you end up with, is what you started with as an intention," she said."Getting that principal changed the trajectory of my entire life." Winfrey asked the mother why she agreed to come on the show. The mother answered"because your producers asked me." Winfrey didn't let her off the hook with that, she said. She pressed: why did you say yes? What are you hoping would come of it?