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00:00Women who change the world.
00:30The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead work toward being significant
00:36and the success will naturally follow.
00:38Oprah Winfrey.
00:40She was born on a distant farm and her parents have never been married.
00:44Oprah grew up in dire poverty and was primarily raised by her grandmother.
00:48Her only friends were the animals on her family farm.
00:52Her family was very poor.
00:53Oprah often wore clothes made from potato sacks.
00:57Oprah was a clever and smart child.
01:00Despite the family s extreme poverty, Winfrey sensed at an early age that she was destined
01:05for greatness.
01:06Oprah was 9 years old when she was first sexually abused.
01:10Her 19 year old cousin raped her.
01:12Within the next few years she would face more abuse from a family friend as well as an uncle.
01:18She kept silent about all of it for years.
01:20At age 17, Oprah Winfrey was offered an on-air job at the radio station serving the African
01:26American community in Nashville.
01:28She also won a full scholarship to Tennessee State University, where she majored in speech
01:34communications and performing arts.
01:36In 1976, Oprah co-hosted her first talk show, People Are Talking.
01:42She worked for 8 years as the co-host of that Baltimore morning show.
01:47In January 1984, she moved to Chicago to host a half-hour morning program.
01:53In less than a year, she turned it into the hottest show in the city.
01:57The format was soon expanded to an hour, and in September 1985, it was renamed The Oprah Winfrey
02:03Show that became the most famous TV show in the world.
02:07When Oprah was just 14, she gave birth to her only child, a son, who died two weeks after
02:13birth.
02:14Oprah Winfrey did not become a mother again, but she became a fiancé.
02:18In 1986, Oprah met a sportswear model, Stedman Graham, who made her a proposal for many times
02:25and even gave his sweetheart a wedding ring.
02:28Oprah did not want to get married.
02:30She did not want to refuse from her freedom.
02:33People get married and have children just because they have to, she said.
02:36From September 8, 1986 to May 25, 2011, 34 million American women and 15 million American
02:44men sat down glued to the TV when Oprah Winfrey's show began.
02:49It was a sacred ritual, which took place in 117 countries of the world.
02:55Her audience was 55% larger than that of her closest competitors.
03:00Since its debut, the Oprah Winfrey Show rating was higher than the combined rating of three other
03:05daytime programs aired at the same time.
03:08The increasingly influential Winfrey started to make a huge contribution to the publishing
03:13world by creating Oprah's Book Club and adding it as a segment in her talk show.
03:19She also co-founded Oxygen Media, a company dedicated to producing cable and internet programming for
03:25women in 1999.
03:28In 2003, Oprah's Book Club becomes the largest book club in the world and she receives the
03:33Association of American Publishers AAP Honors Award.
03:38Now Oprah Winfrey is a media mogul, an actress and a philanthropist with an estimated net worth
03:45of about $2.9 billion.
03:48Although one of the wealthiest women in America and the highest paid entertainer in the world,
03:52Oprah Winfrey has made generous contributions to charitable organizations and institutions,
03:57such as Morehouse College, the Harold Washington Library, the United Negro College Fund and
04:03Tennessee State University.
04:05Oprah Winfrey is an inspirational icon of nowadays and is best known for her multi-award winning
04:11talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest rated program of its kind in history that made
04:17her one of the most influential women in the world.
04:20Oprah Winfrey has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century, the greatest
04:25black philanthropist in American history, and was for a time the world's only black billionaire.
04:31All of the above are amazing achievements from a person who was born into poverty and was
04:36faced with many challenges and difficulties.
04:39Winfrey is named one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people of the 20th century.
04:45She teaches us that no matter how much of a challenging start that we have in life, it has no bearing
04:51on how we finish.
04:56Women who change the world.
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