Iyanla Vanzant, Turning Struggle into Strength - The Chris Cuomo Project

Published 2023-06-20
Iyanla Vanzant (author, spiritual life coach, and podcast host, “The R Spot with Iyanla”) joins Chris Cuomo for an extended look at how people cope with struggle and suffering, touching upon why people avoid speaking about their struggles, how people run away from the “star” of surrendering, trusting, accepting, and relaxing, the reason it took eleven years to repair her relationship with Oprah Winfrey, why being authentic is sexy, and much more.

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0:00 Intro
1:45 Interview with Iyanla Vanzant
54:43 What do you think?

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All Comments (21)
  • @wamutogoria
    " All pain needs a witness" Iyanla is awesome.
  • @mTaR36S
    The Chris Cuomo Project is OUTSTANDING !!!! I sooooooo appreciate you Chris and your guests ! Iyanla is a precious jewel ! Just like you ! Thankyou !
  • This woman’s book saved my sanity and most likely, my marriage 20 years ago!!! 🙏
  • @missbell1634
    I feel like I’ve gotten my own personal therapy session by watching Iyanla Vanzant fix do many lives❤️. I have learned so much by applying her teachings about doing your work!
  • @GGma2020
    Iyanla is a gift & so are you, Chris!🫶
  • This is so inspiring. In two minutes I learned 'suffering is a part of life and we go into resistance and that creates the suffering'
  • "People can use your struggle against you"! I felt that. Very powerful
  • lyanla is an example of wisdom hard earned. As someone once told me, “you can’t short-circuit life.” I believe one has to go through the journey and process of life through struggle, grief and hardship to truly realize life’s rewards and wonders through work - always ongoing - to reach peace, calm, acceptance, compassion, understanding and, most of all, thankfulness, even for the struggle. Still learning and thankful for this conversation.
  • @MSA-ND
    Iyanla is an amazing person! Thanks for bringing her on your show. Your whole situation with CNN and trying to help your brother caused you a lot of struggle and pain. However, every day, you are demonstrating a tremendous amount of inner strength and choosing to heal and find peace within yourself. Your ability to forge ahead on a path of optimism is truly inspiring. Thank you for sharing your journey to focus on the important things in life - family, integrity and being true to yourself and others around you.
  • @beverlywesley9438
    I loved the conversation with Iyanla Vanzant and Chris Cuomo. I watchedit on 7-7-2023. Iyanla is some one who helped me tap into my spirit being more-so when i was faced with a very very hard situation snd didn't know how i was going to make it Here i am 30 years later still waiting for a miracle,but over the course of time i have learned S-T-A-R ( Surrender Trust Accept Relax. I Thank Jesus Christ for me coming across Iyanla Vanzant back in 1993 I Love her. I have around 7 of her books Ms Iyanla I Love You❤️🌹🙋🏾
  • Chris, thank you for using your gifts. Your transparency during Covid gave me hope. You have no idea. My parents and you were sick at the same time. We would do the breathing exercises recommended over whatspp. I can't thank you enough for the support you provided to me and my family. Like you, they survived! ❤
  • @faustinembeh
    Thank you Iyanla for being there for these Cuomo brothers I love you even more . I felt bad for their situations as my own brothers too . 🙏🙏🙏🙏
  • I loved every minute of this interview with Iyanla Vanzant!! Keep it coming, Chris! You're the Man!!
  • Thanks for having Iyanla on your show Chris. Watching you two chat about struggle, a man and a womyn, talking "together" about struggle and suffering, collaborating and sharing openly and honestly was deeply impactful. I noticed Iyanla, also mentioned the challenges that "competition" is causing in connection to self and others. Sadly, it is pushed, rewarded and revered. An old construct, I suspect ;) Looking forward to more of your videos on struggle and learning tools to help live in this world more authentically , from an alpha male perspective and transformative place. Onward.
  • Lyanla Vanzat is a great mentor, teacher, therapist, coach…on & on…She explains so well, such a way that it makes the struggles almost like it’s only one thing of life that we cannot avoid & here the WHYS & the STAR…. We need to reason ourselves & to reset & to learn how to handle life’s situations. Though I have many common points with Lyanla, not being worthy, slow learner & self experience ….etc… I come from a different culture & generation & I only made it by self managing struggles & everything in my life, coming at me. I was 33 when by experiencing ONE independent action I proved to myself that I didn’t need to depend of my father or men to be me. Though, unlike Lyanla, I cannot talk about how to do anything, could’ve never been a teacher because I self taught everything I am, the hard way, and I always felt that nobody could help me & I was right, because my background is so based on life battles & fights that I won or lost, that just hearing friends or neighbors telling me … « tell me if you need anything or if I can do anything for you »…. Just this suggestion was painful to me… because my sufferings were so much above….trying to heal myself….nobody could even be in my mind … I am going to listen to this Lady a second time, because there’s nothing that she said I would disagree with….She only brought back to me, a lot of my passed life stories & history and all the reasons that made me strong & confident when I knew to be hypersensitive in silence. Thank you Chris, i need to hear this interview twice…🤣… because either I am slow or because I need to weigh all the depths & words of your guest. Bravo Chris & thank you. I have a lot of respect for Lyanla, because from hard & un surmontable, by experience, she explains how reversible & positive situations can turn into & the more we practice it, the easier it is to handle. One other thing I caught, by you Chris mentioning your strong sisters …. The mothers were either making very strong daughters or the mothers were a strong role model to their daughters…? Which always was the difference in raising boys or girls….then….which is what has to change in the generations to come. Father’s love should raise up strong males , when mother’s Love should raise up sensitivity & objectivity to women & Family…. Bravo Chris.🇫🇷🇺🇸🐯
  • Thank you for this show Chris! I really needed it today. I had to take a minute to say that I love Iyanla! Thank you for having her and for being so real yourself. She is so correct. It helps me and I also can imagine how many men it will help as well. She is spot on about that. I liked you before, but since you have been so open about yourself I like you much more. i’ve never posted before but felt I had to tell you thank you for what you are doing. You are making a difference in many lives, and in my life. Now, I am ready to go take on this difficult day.
  • @npguru
    This man is still in so much pain. I'm sure that it has a lot to do with the fact that he did not bring this life situation upon himself, but in service to his elder brother, and no matter, how much he loves his brother, his brother's action, reverberated into Chris' life and brought down his fairytale into a nightmare. Chris, you are going to be alright. God will not leave you nor forsake you. There is a sweetness and a calm when you surrender to the chaos that grief (loss of your job) and loss (everything that you associated with the loss of your job.) You will be a better and a stronger man when these storm clouds pass, like everything in life, they are there for just a season, although it may feel like a lifetime.
  • @mimiv8766
    Chris,thank for having!! Great conversation on struggling & suffering. Yes, yes, yes!!! On authenticity! Love Chris & Iylana❤..bring her back again.
  • When Chris was going through his struggle, I had faith that he was going to be alright. He already had a foundation as an Attorney and he had a Family, which was his strength and encouragement. Chris was not ever going to fail...He was only going through a Transition. Only the haters thought he would fail or wanted him to fail. Family and Love is important and he has that.