B-School By Marie Forleo

Marie Forleo was born on December 7, 1975, in New Jersey, and graduated as valedictorian from Seton Hall University in 1997 with a degree in Business Finance. Her early career was deliberately non-linear: she worked as a trading assistant on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, then left for editorial roles at Mademoiselle and Gourmet magazines, while simultaneously bartending, hip-hop dancing, and working as a Nike fitness instructor to pay rent in New York City. The overlap of these identities — businesswoman, creative, fitness professional, entertainer — gave her the vocabulary for what she'd later brand the "Multipassionate…Show more