Oprah shared her personal mantra and asked the entire graduating class to repeat it with her. She acknowledged the anxiety graduates feel about the future — about money, about finding purpose — but insisted that 'your anxiety does not contribute one iota to your progress. It does the opposite.' She then led the crowd through a collective deep breath and recitation: 'Everything is always working out for me.' She urged them to make it their own mantra, grounding it in her own experience. When she struggled to build OWN network while still doing her show, when every news story was about her failures, she returned to this phrase. Her favorite question in crisis: 'What is this here to teach or show me?' The mantra wasn't about toxic positivity — it was about trust in the process, even when the process hurts.