Imagine your life starting out this way....
...You grew up in an emotionally and physically abusive family environment, with chaos and pain all around you. You were born in rural Mississippi to a poor unwed teenage mother, and later raised in an inner city Milwaukee neighborhood. You were raped at the age of nine, and at fourteen, gave birth to a son who died in infancy. Then you were sent to live with a man you call your father, a barber in Tennessee.
Okay, what would you have done if you had that kind of start in life? Many would have quit, lived with anger and bitterness while blaming others for their terrible upbringing. But not Oprah Winfrey.
At the age of 19, she became the youngest person and the first African-American woman to anchor the news at Nashville's WTVF-TV. In 1984, Oprah moved to Chicago to host WLS-TV's morning talk show, AM Chicago, which became the number one local talk show—surpassing ratings for Donahue—just one month after she began. In less than a year, the show expanded to one hour and was renamed The Oprah Winfrey Show. It entered national syndication in 1986, becoming the highest-rated talk show in television history. In 1988, she established Harpo Studios, a production facility in Chicago, making her the third woman in the American entertainment industry (after Mary Pickford and Lucille Ball) to own her own studio.
The Oprah Winfrey Show has remained the number one talk show for 21 consecutive seasons. Produced by her own production company, Harpo Productions, Inc., the show is seen by an estimated 46 million viewers a week in the United States and is broadcast internationally in 134 countries.
Oprah Winfrey is not only a television pioneer and programming creator but a magazine founder and editorial director, producer, actress, online trailblazer, Philanthropist, satellite radio programmer, and Broadway producer.
And like many other successful people, she achieved her dreams by following the steps listed in:
Action! Your Road Map to Success
The Whole Life Success™ principles outlined in this booklet are not just for successful people you see on television. These life principles will work for anyone who decides to wholeheartedly follow each step in its entirety.
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