Iyanla Vanzant is one of the richest TV Show Host from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Iyanla Vanzant's net worth $4 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
She graduated from Virginia Union University, where she was a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.
She was named to Ebony Magazine’s list of 100 Most Influential Black Americans.
Vanzant was born on September 13, 1953, in the back of a taxi in Brooklyn, New York, as Rhonda Eva Harris. She is the daughter of Sarah Jefferson, a railroad carmaid, and Horace Harris, who was largely absent from her life. Her mother died from breast cancer in 1955, when she was two. She was then raised by paternal relatives, one of whom raped her at the age of nine. Her first husband was physically abusive and she left him in 1980, taking her three children. In 1983, she was given the title “Iyanla”, which means “great mother”, after being initiated and ordained as a priestess in the Yoruba tradition (as mentioned in her television interview on the Conn Jackson show). She attended Medgar Evers College and Virginia Union University. Vanzant holds a Juris Doctor degree from the City University of New York School of Law and a Master’s degree from the University of Santa Monica (USM), Center for the Study and Practice of Spiritual Psychology. She currently resides in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. She is also an ordained New Thought minister.
