Iyanla Vanzant is known as an American motivational speaker, author, lawyer, television personality and a spiritual teacher. Her net worth is estimated to be $500,000. Iyanla was born in 1953 in Brooklyn as Rhonda Eva Harris. She attended Virginia Union College and Medgar Evers College. She got her title „Iyanla“, which means „great mother“ after she was ordained as a Yoruba priestess. She was recognized by Ebony Magazine as one of the 100 Most Infulential Black Americans in 2000. Watkins‘ Mind Body Spirit magazine included her in the list of the 100 most spiritually influential living people in 2012. She is best known for her self-help books and appearances in talk shows. Iyanla currently lives in Maryland. She is also an honorary member of sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha and minister of New Thought.
Iyanla Vanzant Net Worth $500,000
Vanzant‘s main income source, and the biggest contributors to her net worth are her books. Her debut as a writer was with the book Interiors: A Black Woman‘s Healing – In Progress that was published in 1995. In 1997 she published 3 titles: The Big Book of Faith, The Spirit of a Man: a Vision of Transformation for Black Men and the Women who Love Them and Acts of Faith 1998. After that she released at least one book, but most of the time more than that, every year from 1998 to 2003. Her next book, Tapping the Power Within: A Path to Self-Empowerment for Women was published in 2008, while her latest two books, A Woman Knows Things and Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You’re Going Through came out in 2010. To this day she has written a total of 12 books which have influenced her net worth more than anything.
As for her TV career, her first appearance as a guest was on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1998, since Oprah Winfrey is a close friend of Iyanla‘s. She has appeared on Oprah 20 times since then until August 1999. In 1999 she was also invited to The Chris Rock Show.In 2000 she appeared in The Robbing Hood episode of Moesha, In 2008 she was in The Salt-N-Pepa Show. In 2011 she appeared on Oprah once again to discuss why she left Harpo Productions. In 2012 Iyanla appeared in a bunch of shows: Katie, Anderson Live, Super Soul Sunday and Joy Behar: Say Anything!. Vanzant‘s latest appearance was on The Dr. Oz Show in 2013.
Besides guest appearances Iyanla has also hosted and played a recuring role in a few shows that also influenced her net worth in a major way. First she hosted a namesake show called Iyanla that ran for a year from 2001 to 2002. After that, she appeared for two seasons on Starting Over as a life coach from 2004 to 2006.
Most recently she‘s a lifeclass teacher on Oprah‘s Lifeclass from 2011 and hosts Iyanla, Fix My Life from 2012: both of these shows are ongoing.
This article should have helped explain how Iyanla Vanzant has managed to reach the net worth of $500,000, by giving inspiring speeches and writing self-help books.
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