Oprah Winfrey headlines the nation’s largest women’s conference — inspires others as a billionaire

Global media leader, philanthropist, producer, and actress, recently headlined the Massachusetts Conference for Women in Boston. Speaking at the country's largest women's conference, the media mogul inspired women across the globe to trust themselves and chase their goals and aspirations. 

The conference at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center is marked its 20th anniversary with the theme "power in unity." Highlighting the event,  Winfrey encouraged women to focus on trusting their intuition and the intention behind their actions and goals. 

“I want to leave you with the idea not to do anything that does not come from yourself,” she said, as per Look To The Stars. She further explained that sometimes it is hard to do in business but women can always find what's the next right thing. 

In conversation with the co-host of CBS Mornings and her good friend, Gayle King, Winfrey encouraged women to act in service of things greater than themselves. For decades, Winfrey has led from the front to empower women across the globe. Her career and wealth are a testament to her hard work and intelligent business mind. 

Winfrey hosted the award-winning "The Oprah Winfrey Show" for 25 years, and made it the highest-rated TV show of its kind in history. Expanding her career,  she founded The Oprah Magazine and Harpo Production. She also led the cable network, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network as the chairman and CEO.

She has been ranked as the most influential woman in the world and has been awarded the Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. With her successful career and ventures, she became the richest African American of the 20th century and she is one of the greatest Black philanthropists in American history.

She is also a major philanthropist and has donated over $400 million to higher education, including 400 scholarships at Morehouse College. During the pandemic, she committed $10 million to support those most impacted by COVID-19, as per the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

American media mogul and author Oprah Winfrey is one of the most influential figures in the world. Thanks to her popularity and smart real estate moves, Winfrey has built a multibillion-dollar net worth of $3 billion, as per Forbes.

Apart from real estate, Winfrey also launched the cable channel OWN, in 2011 and 2020 she sold most of her stake in the network to Warner Bros. Discovery in exchange for shares in the company. She also bought a 10 percent stake in Weight Watchers in 2015, though she owns less now, Forbes reported.

Oprah Winfrey has transitioned her hit talk show, which ran for 25 years, into a media and business empire by reinvesting the profits from her show, plus profits from films of over $2 billion, according to Forbes.

Winfrey earns around $315 million per year from her lucrative diversified media empire, as per Celebrity Net Worth. Oprah was brought on the board of Weight Watchers in 2015, for $43.5 million worth of equity. Later in 2019, she signed a multi-year deal with Apple to produce shows for the company.