The Secret Behind the Success for Three Famous Women: Oprah, America Ferrera & Melinda Gates

💥 POP QUIZ:

Oprah Winfrey + America Ferrera + Melinda Gates

👉 What is the one thing these women have in common?

Each learned something lifesaving while facing adversity…

🎤 Oprah Winfrey grew up in poverty and faced numerous hardships, including abuse and discrimination. While pursuing her dreams and rising to fame, Oprah has said that friends would whisper behind her back, “who does SHE think she is?”

🎬 America Ferrera, the daughter of Honduran immigrants, faced racial and cultural barriers in her pursuit of an acting career. Her famous Barbie movie monologue, “You are so beautiful, and so smart, and it kills me that you don’t think you’re good enough. Like, we have to always be extraordinary, but somehow, we’re always doing it wrong,” was coincidentally similar to words she had written in her own journal years before.

 💵 Melinda French Gates faced the challenge of navigating the male-dominated tech industry as a young professional, describing the workforce for women like “coming up against 10,000 paper cuts.”

Gates recently admitted to CBS News that she lost her confidence as a woman in the workforce a decade ago because “you’re not enough, you don’t know enough. Somebody speaks over you. Somebody speaks for you.” 😮

All three of these incredible women have felt “less than,” unseen, lacking, not good enough. 💔

This is a feeling most women can relate to…

{Can you?}

👉 But they didn’t give up in despair in response to those feeling…

👉 👉 They didn’t let the world’s everchanging pressures and expectations for women determine the deep truth that they knew about themselves…

👉 👉 👉 Because deep down, they knew the truth.

💗 That they are worthy. 💗

Oprah, Ferrera, & Gates used adversity in their lives as opportunities to claim their worth.

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To believe in it against the odds.

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To honor it by advocating for themselves.

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And to trust in it.

Believing in their worth was the single most important thing that enabled their success:

🎤👑 “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” became the highest-rated TV program of its kind and ran for 25 years. Oprah also founded OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network), and her philanthropic efforts, including the establishment of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa, have made significant impacts globally, especially in the fields of education and women’s empowerment.

🎬🏆 America Ferrera’s highest accomplishments include her breakout role as Betty Suarez in the hit TV series “Ugly Betty,” for which she won a Golden Globe, an Emmy, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, making her the first Latina to win a leading actress Emmy. She has also been a prominent advocate for diversity and inclusion, co-founding the organization Harness to promote social justice and empower marginalized communities.

💵💪 Melinda French Gates co-founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s largest private charitable organization, and she recently committed $1 billion through her investment and incubation company, Pivotal Ventures, to promote gender equality and empower women across the United States.

✨ These women’s accomplishments started from an unshakable belief in their worth, even when life was hard, and they had no support. ✨

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