Overcoming adversity/ Failure then success
Oprah Winfrey, TV personality
Today, Oprah is one of the most influential women in the world, with her own media empire and a name recognizable across continents.
Looking at Oprah today, you’d never imagine that she was born to a teenage single mother in impoverished rural Mississippi, or that she gave birth to a son at 14 (who died in infancy). As a child, Oprah often had to wear dresses made of potato sacks – that’s all her family could afford. Oprah faced a hard road to get to where she is today, enduring a rough and often abusive childhood, as well as numerous career setbacks. She was fired from her first television job as an anchor in Baltimore, where she said she faced sexism and harassment, and where she was told that she was “unfit for TV”. Yet, neither extreme poverty, nor sexual abuse in her childhood, nor harassment and unjust treatment in her adulthood have deterred her from remaining determined and achieving her dreams.
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J K Rowling
One of the most famous examples of success achieved against all odds, is J K Rowling, best-selling author and the brains behind the Harry Potter phenomenon.
Before J.K. Rowling had any "Harry Potter" success, the writer was a divorced singled mother, penniless and living on welfare. She was struggling to get by, while also attending school and writing a novel. Despite all this hardship, she never gave in. Instead, she believed in herself and her talent, and wrote a novel that turned into the "Harry Potter" franchise, which has since made her a billionaire.
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