Suze Orman: The Atlanta ‘O You!’ Interview

“Only spend money with corporations who support you.”
Saturday morning we caught up with Suze Orman of ‘Ask Oprah’s All Stars‘ (Season 2 premiered last night on OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network). Orman was in Atlanta for O: The Oprah Magazine’s O You! Conference at the Georgia World Congress Center.
We asked Suze where the LGBT community should be spending it’s money…
“Listen everybody, we have a lot of work to do. We have a lot of laws to change. We have to be valued as true human beings with equal rights across the board. What allows us to do that? Money to change the laws. We need money so people can hear your message.
So my advice to all of you? Only spend money with those corporations who support you, who aren’t taking the money that we give them then take that money to work against us.
We need to work one and one so we can change everything to make us valid in who we choose and how we want to live our lives so we can get equally married on the federal level – that’s the goal here.”
From O You:
What words do you live by?
People first, then money, then things.
What’s the hardest truth to tell?
As truth that you know someone needs to hear, but one you also know will be very hard for them to hear.
What makes a person fearless?
Protecting someone they love.
What’s left on your ‘To Do’ list?
Lose 30 pounds.
What do you ask yourself most often?
I always ask myself, ‘Am I doing what is right or am I doing what is easy?’
What’s one thing that’s always overrated?
Weddings.
When/how did you last surprise yourself?
On March 26, 2011, I ht a puck through a tiny little hole from mid-rink at the Black Hawks game in front of 22,000 people, and countless more on TV!
What’s the most daring thing you’ve done?
Write my first book.
What do you know for sure?
Remember to have faith, because everything happens for a reason.
As an Emmy Award-winning television host, New York Times best-selling author and one of the most prolific motivational speakers today, Suze Orman is one of America’s favorite personal finance experts. After working at a major brokerage firm for seven years, Orman directed the Suze Orman Financial Group from 1987 to 1997. In May 2008, Time Magazine named her one of The World’s Most Influential People, and in 2007 BusinessWeek designated her the top female motivational speaker. Orman has won seven Grace Allen Awards, the most ever awarded to an individual in the organization’s 33-year history. She has lectured widely throughout the United States, South Africa, Asia, and Canada to audiences of up to 100,000 people, and has been featured as a guest expert on numerous television shows, including The Oprah Winfrey Show. She is currently a co-host on Ask Oprah’s All Stars on OWN.
- To learn more about Suze Orman, visit SuzeOrman.com or follow her on Facebook and Twitter.
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