1Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey was told she was “unfit for TV.”
Isn’t that funny? Telling Oprah, who is now worth $2.7 billion, that she is unfit for TV, given the fact that she now actually has her own television?
She grew up in Milwaukee, Wis. and was repeatedly molested by her cousin, uncle and a family friend. She eventually ran away from home, and at age 14 gave birth to a baby boy who shortly died after.
You would imagine that’s all the bad a person can get in a lifetime. But the story continues. She managed to get a job at a radio station and then she became a television reporter.
But, at age of 22, the now-TV mogul was fired from her job because she was “unfit for tv.” Winfrey was terminated from her post as co-anchor of the 6 o’clock weekday news on Baltimore’s WJZ-TV after the show received low ratings.
Winfrey has called it the “first and worst failure of her TV career.”
Then, she was demoted to morning TV, where she found her voice and met fellow newbie Gayle King, who would one day become her producer and editor of O, The Oprah Magazine.
And the Oprah name became an empire. All that hard work and perseverance paid off.
I hope I inspired you to start working on realising your dreams and achieving happiness.
There is no better moment than right now to start living the life you want!
