Workers spend their twenties climbing the corporate ladder under the belief that they’ll have it all by 30—the perfect job, six-figure salary, and dream house. But seasoned professionals are pulling back the curtain on the realistic timeline of career success. And for billionaire media mogul Oprah Winfrey, that begins in your mid-forties.
“Life starts at 44,” Winfrey recently said on the Baby, This is Keke Palmer podcast. “Because you come into yourself in a way that you’re no longer trying to please everybody else.”