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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Entrepreneurs
are our only hope for creating jobs –
interview one who was a CEO at age 6,
millionaire by age 14 and ready to retire at
26
Las Vegas, NV, March 16, 2011 - At the age
of 26, Farrah Gray has achieved more
than most people achieve in a lifetime.
Raised in the impoverished south side of
Chicago, Dr. Gray defied the odds and became
history's youngest self-made millionaire,
beyond the field of entertainment, by age
fourteen. He was also the youngest person to
have an office on Wall Street and the
youngest to receive an honorary doctorate.
Now he is an inspiration to millions and an
international bestselling author. Gray’s
books, Reallionaire, Get Real Get
Rich, and The Truth Shall Make
You Rich, have been translated into Russian,
Korean, Indonesian and Vietnamese, with book
sales in Africa, Australia, Europe, and
Central and South America.
Gray has also been named as one of CNN’s
African-American First History Makers and as
one of the 20 Modern Black History Makers in
the 20th anniversary issue of Upscale
magazine. Chair of the Farrah Gray
Foundation and spokesman for the National
Coalition for Homeless, as well as the
National Bone Marrow Donor Program, he has
been invited to the White House eight times;
first with Presidents Clinton and Bush and
most recently with President Barack Obama.
Gray began his entrepreneurial, personal,
and civic development as a stellar young
citizen at the age of six, selling homemade
body lotion and his own hand-painted rocks
as bookends door-to-door. At seven, he was
carrying business cards reading "21st
Century CEO." At eight, Gray became
co-founder of Urban Neighborhood Enterprise
Economic Club (U.N.E.E.C.) on Chicago's
Southside. U.N.E.E.C. was the forerunner of
New Early Entrepreneur Wonders (NE2W), the
flagship organization he opened on Wall
Street. NE2W enlisted, educated, and engaged
"at-risk" youth by creating and developing
legal ways for them to acquire additional
income.
Between the ages of twelve and sixteen, Gray
founded and operated business ventures that
included KIDZTEL pre-paid phone cards, the
One Stop Mail Boxes & More franchise, and
The Teenscope "Youth AM/FM" interactive teen
talk show. Gray was also Executive Producer
of a comedy show on the Las Vegas Strip and
owner of Farr-Out Foods, "Way-Out Food with
a Twist" - aimed at young people with the
company's first strawberry-vanilla syrup
product. Farr-Out Foods generated orders
exceeding $1.5 million.
As a pre-teen, Gray reached twelve million
listeners and viewers every Saturday night
as co-host of "Backstage Live," a syndicated
television and radio simulcast in Las Vegas.
Gray's inspirational spirit and grounded
personality sparked speaking requests from
organizations around the country. His sense
of social responsibility motivated him to
create the non-profit organization, The
Farrah Gray Foundation. Among other programs
and initiatives, his foundation focuses on
inner city community-based entrepreneurship
education and provides scholarship and grant
assistance for students from at-risk
backgrounds to attend HBCU's (Historically
Black Colleges and Universities). Gray
donates his honorariums from speaking
engagements (which can be upwards of
$15,000) and the proceeds of his book to his
foundation in what he refers to as his
"self-imposed" youth tax. The Farrah Gray
Foundation is also in partnership with the
Kauffman Foundation, launching
entrepreneurship programs in inner-city
schools across the country.
Gray is currently the CEO of Farrah Gray
Publishing (FGP) which is distributed by HCI
Books – publishers of the world famous New
York Times, USA Today, and Guinness Book of
World Records, as well as the best-selling
Chicken Soup for the Soul series. This
series was translated into more than forty
languages and sold more than 112 million
copies, with total retail sales of Chicken
Soup for the Soul branded merchandise
topping $1.3 billion.
Reallionaire and other titles by Dr. Gray
are available online and in bookstores
everywhere. Learn more about this inspiring
figure at: www.FarrahGray.com.
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TIP SHEET:
Bill Clinton, (Former) President of the
United States of America: "I know Farrah
Gray and we have discussed his future. His
motivation determines what he will do. His
attitude determines how well he will succeed
at making a difference.”
O: The Oprah Magazine dubbed Farrah Gray an
"all-star" with "priceless advice.”
Suze Orman, New York Times Bestselling
Author: "You are just the best and the real
thing.”
Good Morning America: “Farrah Gray is the
ultimate American success story.”
ABC 20/20: “America's Reallionaire.”
CNN: "Farrah Gray is the youngest African
American of his generation to make his mark
on Wall Street and to become a millionaire.”
MSN.com placed Farrah Gray on its 2010 Young
Tycoons List along with Mark Zuckerberg.
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