Women won $188 million in lottery, got sued from prison by her ex
Marisa Iati, The Washington Post
Feb. 17, 2021
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The odds were 1 in 175 million when Marie Holmes hit the jackpot.
Holmes, 26 at the time, was a single mother in coastal North Carolina supporting her children with a string of five retail jobs. Then six numbers lined up the right way on her Powerball ticket, awarding her $188 million and a chance to change her family s future.
She talked about finishing her college degree, buying a house for her mother and setting aside money for her three daughters and her son who has cerebral palsy.
Iyanla Fix My Life, during a new interview.
As a guest on
Real Quick with
Danielle Young, the host and life coach expressed positive thoughts on the ending of her show and made it clear that although the broadcast is over, the work does not stop.
“It is liberating. It is good. It’s good to have been able to do something with excellence and love, and then get the opportunity to say, let me do something else. It doesn’t define me. I’ve been doing this work for 34 years. I’ve been on TV for eight. It’s just part of the evolution,” she remarked. “I’ll be around, I’m just not doing
do to help save black men and boys in our communities. this week, congress got involved, inviting martin s father, tracy, to speak at the first-ever gathering of the first congressional caucus on black men and boys. we highlighted the concerns facing black boys on this show recently, when i spoke to author and spiritual life coach, iyanla vanzant. we spoke about father lessons and the subject of her show, iyanla: fix my life, on the oprah winfrey network. what about our black girls and those who mother them. what about the struggles and public safety questions faced by young black women? the latest edition of iyanla: fix my life will premiere at 9:00 p.m. on own and focus on black mothers and daughters. here with me to discuss it and much, much more is the one and only iyanla van zandt, who beginning in september will be a columnist for o magazine.
let me hear it. i experience my mother as a bully. and that makes me feel what? it makes me feel hurt. it makes me feel hurt. yeah. go right there. it makes me feel hurt. i don t know. i don t know where it starts. i just don t want it to end. okay, so how does she do that? that was a clip from iyanla fix my life on oprah winfrey network. here with us, the host of that show, spiritual life coach iyanla vanzant. that looked like a really powerful i want to know how that an ends now. i can t tell you, you have to watch. in the break, we were talking about different sex scandals going on. we said, how would you fix this person? you said, first, they have to
want it. so that s where it begins? tell us about the show. even though the show is called iyanla fix my life it s actually the guest who does the fixing. i give them tools and information. only the individual can fix their own life by having a clear vision of what they want. what types of problems do you tackle on your show? human problems, you know. everything from breakdowns in families. breakdowns in relationships. people with lack of vision. folks who need to move forward. because we live in a world where people don t know how to be people anymore. they know how to be what they do. but just to deal with the normal everyday challenges. how to have a clear complete conversation. how to create a vision for yourself. how to redirect your life. we don t learn this anywhere. and so we have so many challenges in our families, in our communities.