Oprah Winfrey
Ok, we have to go here. We all know Winfrey
has had her fair share of glorified media
attention. Nonetheless, she did encounter
many personal setbacks that she managed
to bounce back from. These include teenage
pregnancy, a miscarriage and overcoming the
racial hierarchy within the TV industry. Oprah
was also fired from her job as a reporter due to
claims that she was ‘unfit’ for TV. She stumbled
upon more failure with the cancelling of many
TV shows before the successful Oprah Winfrey
Show - which is one of the longest running
in the world. To date, the show has received
47 Daytime Emmy Awards. In 2011, Oprah
discontinued the show and has since created
OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network) her own
venture providing extensive entertainment to
the masses.
Winf rey, Kunene and Ackerman are but
a few examples highlighting the diversity
and varieties of issues which successful
people stumbled upon before reaching their
awardable state. It gives us the notion that
‘failing is not always failure’.
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