Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey is the American multiple Emmy Award winning host of "The Oprah Winfrey Show", the highest rated talk show in television history. She has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century, the most philanthropic African American of all time, and the world's only black billionaire for three straight years.

Many of us often envy her success but she is today solely because of her positive response to her past experiences.

Oprah was born in Mississippi, and was raised by her grandmother on a farm. From age of 6 to 13 after being abused and molested she ran away and was sent to a juvenile detention home at  the age of 13, only to be denied admission because all the beds were filled. As a last resort, she was sent to Nashville to live under her father's strict discipline.

In 1991, motivated by her own memories of childhood abuse, she initiated a campaign to establish a national database of convicted child abusers, and testified before a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on behalf of a National Child Protection Act. President Bill Clinton signed the "Oprah Bill" into law in 1993, establishing the national database she had sought, which is now available to law enforcement agencies and concerned parties across the country.

Oprah is a personification of the success principles Event + Response = Outcome. Despite coming from a background of abuse, she controlled her response and was able to change her life by making positive decisions that led her to where she is right now.