Fortune· 2h ago· 1 min read
Workers spend their 20s climbing the corporate ladder under the belief that they’ll have it all by 30—the perfect job, six-figure salary, and dream house. But seasoned professionals are pulling back the curtain on the realistic timeline of career success. And for billionaire media mogul Oprah Winfrey , that begins in your mid-40s.
“Life starts at 44,” Winfrey recently said on the Baby, This is Keke Palmer podcast. “Because you come into yourself in a way that you're no longer trying to please everybody else.”
At that age, Winfrey was in the middle of her stride; she was in her daytime talk-show heyday, having already amassed a collection of Emmy awards for her work hosting The Oprah Winfrey Show; was named one of Time ’s “100 Most Influential People of the 20th Century”; and produced and starred in her movie adaptation of Toni Morrison’s Beloved . Winfrey says she was finally in “full…
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