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Walk Through Fire A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Triumph

Sheila Johnson

The cofounder of BET and first African American woman billionaire shares her deeply personal journey through love and loss, tragedy and triumph—an inspiring story of overcoming toxic influences, discovering her true self, and at last finding happiness in her work and life. From humble beginnings as...

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In her memoir, Sheila Johnson discusses her journey of love, loss, and triumph, detailing her experiences as a woman in business during a time when women were defined by their husbands and her complicated relationship with her ex-husband, Bob Johnson. She describes feeling powerless in her earlier life and how that shaped her own path to success.

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There's so many very wealthy people out there in this world and it's more about what you do with your money and how you live your life.

— Episode: Sheila Johnson Talks BET, Entrepreneursh...

Episode: Sheila Johnson Talks BET, Entrepreneurship and Why...

In her memoir, Sheila Johnson discusses her journey of love, loss, and triumph, detailing her experiences as a woman in business during a time when women were defined by their husbands and her complicated relationship with her ex-husband, Bob Johnson. She describes feeling powerless in her earlier life and how that shaped her own path to success.

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There's so many very wealthy people out there in this world and it's more about what you do with your money and how you live your life.

It's wonderful to have the money, but yet there's a negative and a positive to it.

I see myself in various ways. I can think of myself as an entrepreneur, but I also see myself as a teacher, a mentor, a leader, a person that's really reaching out. I call it the double bottom line into the community to really lift up other people. And that's how I use my money.

all the women who walk through fire and live to tell about it.

I want to make sure that I keep my value system intact with my company. And it's more of, got to find the right word, is the intimacy that is my guests enter any one of my hotels, they can feel the salamander quality.

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