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THE ENTREPRENEUR CODE

Chapter 4: Spirituality

Profile: Ellen DeGeneres, American TV host and businesswomen,

actress, philanthropist

Ellen DeGeneres is a Hollywood rags-to-riches story. When the

television host and businesswoman came out as gay on national

television in 1997, Hollywood treated her as a pariah. She lost her

television show due to advertisers pulling their ads and was at a

very low point in her life. She didn’t know where to go from there.

She knew she wasn’t a failure, but as she says, “it certainly gave

me a lot of time to sit still and go, ‘Who am I?’”

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