Iyanla Vanzant Biography
Iyanla Vanzant is an American lawyer, New Thought Teacher, author, life coach, television personality and inspirational speaker. She is recognized for her books, her eponymous talk show, and her appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Currently, she can be seen on television as the host of Iyanla: Fix My Life, on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.
Iyanla Vanzant Age
Vanzant was born (Rhonda Eva Harris) on September 13, 1953, in Brooklyn, New York, U.S. She is 65 years old as of 2018.
Iyanla Vanzant Family
Vanzant is the daughter of Sarah Jefferson, a railroad car maid, and Horace Harris. In 1955, her mother died of breast cancer while at the age of 2 years. Vanzant was raised by paternal parents where she was raped at the age of 9 years.
Iyanla Vanzant Education
Vanzant went to Medgar Evers College and Virginia Union University. Vanzant holds a Juris Doctor qualification from the City University of New York School of Law. She right now dwells in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. She is likewise an appointed New Thought pastor.
Iyanla Vanzant Husband
In 1973, Vanzant married Charles Vanzant, due to his physical abuse, she decided to separate from him and divorced in 1979. In 1997, she married Adeyemi Bandele and later in 2007, the couple divorced.
Iyanla Vanzant Children
Vanzant and his first husband Charles have three children; Damon Vanzant, Gemmia Vanzant and Nisa Vanzant.
Iyanla Vanzant Career
In 2000, she was named one of the “100 most persuasive Black Americans” by Ebony magazine, which said that “Her books, addresses, and TV appearances have made her an interactive media high priestess of solid connections.” In 2012, Vanzant was recorded at #7 on Watkins’ Mind Body Spirit magazine rundown of the 100 most profoundly powerful living individuals.” In 2014, she was co-speaker in Oprah’s “Life You Want Weekend” visit, which ventured out to eight urban areas, additionally including Deepak Chopra, Mark Nepo, Elizabeth Gilbert and Rob Bell. In 2016, Vanzant was named to Oprah Winfrey’s SuperSoul100 rundown of visionaries and compelling pioneers.
Vanzant is a privileged individual from Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. On Christmas Day 2003, Vanzant’s 30-year-old little girl, Gemmia, kicked the bucket from an uncommon type of colon malignancy. Vanzant and her better half, Yemi, separated in 2007
Iyanla Vanzant Books
Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You’re Going Through, 2010.
A Woman Knows Things. Hay House UK, Limited, 2010.
Tapping the Power Within, A Path to Self-Empowerment for Women, 2008.
Up From Here: Reclaiming the Male Spirit: A Guide to Transforming Emotions Into Power and Freedom. HarperCollins, 2003.
Every Day I Pray: Prayers for Awakening to the Grace of Inner Communion. Pocket, 2002.
Tips for Daily Living Cards: A 50-Card Deck. Hay House Inc, 2002.
Until Today. Hay House Inc, 2002.
Iyanla Vanzant. Simon & Schuster, Limited, 2001.
Living through the meantime: learning to break the patterns of the past and begin the healing process. Simon & Schuster, 2001.
Value in the Valley: A Black Woman’s Guide Through Life’s Dilemmas. Simon & Schuster, 2001.
Acts of Faith: Meditations for People of Color. Simon & Schuster, 2001.
In the Meantime: Finding Yourself and the Love You Want. Simon & Schuster, 2000.
One Day My Soul Just Opened Up: 40 Days And 40 Nights Toward Spiritual Strength And Personal Growth. Simon & Schuster, 1999.
Yesterday, I Cried: Celebrating the Lessons of Living and Loving. Simon & Schuster, 1999.
Don’t Give It Away!: A Workbook of Self-Awareness and Self-Affirmations for Young Women. with Almasi Wilcots. Simon & Schuster, 1999.
Faith in the Valley: Lessons for Women on the Journey to Peace. Simon & Schuster, 1998.
Acts of Faith 1998: Thought-for-a-Day. Simon & Schuster, 1997.
The spirit of a man: a vision of transformation for Black men and the women who love them. HarperSanFrancisco, 1997.
The Big Book of Faith. Simon & Schuster, 1997.
Interiors: a black woman’s healing–in progress. Writers and Readers, 1995.
Iyanla Vanzant Television
- Iyanla, Fix My Life, Host, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network (2012–present)
- Oprah’s Lifeclass, Lifeclass Teacher, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network (2011–2014)
- Starting Over, Life Coach (Seasons 2 and 3) (2004–2006)
- Iyanla (TV Series), Host (2001–2002)
Iyanla Vanzant Tv Guest appearances
- Greenleaf (3 October 2018) in Season 3 Episode 6: “She Changes
- Everything”
- Super Soul Sunday (26 April 2016)
- Oprah Prime (29 November 2014)
- The Dr. Oz Show (8 April 2013)
- Joy Behar: Say Anything! (21 November 2012)
- Anderson Live (9 November 2012)
- Katie (27 September 2012)
- Super Soul Sunday (9 and 16 September 2012)
- The Oprah Winfrey Show (16 and 23 February 2011, discussing her departure from Harpo Productions in 1999)
- The Salt-N-Pepa Show (February 2008)
- The Oprah Winfrey Show (20 appearances from early 1998 through 31 August 1999)
- The Chris Rock Show (8 October 1999) playing herself
Moesha (8 May 2000) in episode: “The Robbing Hood” (episode # 5.20) playing herself - Tavis Smiley (29 April 2004) playing herself
- ‘The Parkers episode 15 “Judge Not A Book” season 5
Iyanla Vanzant Quotes
- “If you want to hear God laugh, tell Him your plans.”
“Yesterday, I cried.
I came home, went straight to my room,
sat on the edge of my bed,
kicked off my shoes, unhooked my bra,
and I had myself a good cry.” - “If you are afraid to take a chance, take one anyway. What you don’t do can create the same regrets as the mistakes you make.”
- “When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.”
- “The road of life is strewn with the bodies of promising people. People who show promise, yet lack the confidence to act. People who make promises they are unable to keep. People who promise to do tomorrow what they could do today. Promising young stars, athletes, entrepreneurs who wait for promises to come true.
- Promise without a goal and a plan is like a barren cow. You know what she could do if she could do it, but she can’t. Turn your promise into a plan. Make no promise for tomorrow if you are able to keep it today. And if someone calls you promising, know that you are not doing enough today.”
- “Before you find out who you are, you have to figure out who you aren’t..”
- “When you can look a thing dead in the eye, acknowledge that it exists, call it exactly what it is, and decide what role it will take in your life then, my Beloved, you have taken the first step toward your freedom.”
- “when you have something to do life will not allow you to move forward until you do it.”
- “I’d been taught not to like myself, because the people around me didn’t, for whatever reason like me.”
- “Everyone has a purpose because God is a purposeful God.”
- “The voice I had accepted as Divine Guidance was actually the voice of my ego leading me right into destruction.”
So many of us invest a fortune making ourselves look good to the world, yet inside we are falling apart. It’s time to invest on the inside.” - “Release and detach from every person, every circumstance, every condition, and every situation that no longer serves a divine purpose in your life. All things have a season, and all seasons must come to an end. Choose a new season, filled with purposeful thoughts and activities.”
- “Education does not take place when you learn something you did not know before. Education is your ability to use what you have learned to be better today than you were yesterday.”
- “In the process of planning and having a wedding, I forgot there would actually be a marriage, a union of minds, bodies, souls, and issues that would come together as soon as the ceremony was over.”
- “Act the way you want to be and soon you will be the way you act.”
- “What is it that would make a creature as fierce, majestic and powerful as a lion is, subject itself to the intimidation of a man a whip and a chair? The lion has been taught to forget what it is.”
- “Lives fall apart when they need to be rebuilt.”
- “You don’t get to tell people how to love you; you get to choose if you want to participate in the way they love.”
- “Fear wears so many clever disguises it is virtually impossible to always recognize it. Fear disguises itself as the need to be somewhere else, doing something else, not knowing how to do something or not needing to do something.”
Iyanla Vanzant Fix My Life
Iyanla: Fix My Life is an American unscripted tv arrangement facilitated by Yoruba priestess, life mentor and relationship master Vanzant on the Oprah Winfrey Network. A sneak review scene publicized on June 2, 2012, and the arrangement appeared with a two-section arrangement debut on September 15 and September 16, 2012.
Iyanla Vanzant Net Worth
Vanzant as an American motivational speaker, New Thought Teacher, author, life coach, and television personality has an estimated net worth of $4 million dollars.