Marie Forleo
Everything Is Figureoutable
Marie Forleo built her empire on a belief that sounds like a bumper sticker but functions like a business strategy: everything is figureoutable. That philosophy, which became the title of her bestselling book, has guided her from bartending and cleaning toilets to support her early coaching practice to building one of the most successful online education brands in the world. Her flagship program B-School has trained tens of thousands of entrepreneurs, and her YouTube show MarieTV has delivered business and personal development advice to millions of viewers since 2011.
What distinguishes Forleo in the business education space is her insistence that business success and personal values are not just compatible but inseparable. While many business educators focus exclusively on tactics and metrics, Forleo teaches that the most sustainable businesses are built by people who understand why they are building them. Her content consistently returns to questions of purpose, meaning, and alignment -- not as soft abstractions but as practical considerations that determine whether a business survives the inevitable challenges of entrepreneurship.
B-School, her online business program, was ahead of its time. Launched in 2010, it was one of the earliest premium online courses and helped establish the model that thousands of course creators have since adopted. The program covers marketing, branding, web presence, and business strategy with a structure and production quality that set it apart from the loose, unstructured content that dominated early online education. Many now-successful entrepreneurs credit B-School as the starting point that gave them the confidence and the framework to launch their businesses.
Forleo's impact on women's entrepreneurship specifically has been profound. She has created a space where ambition and femininity coexist without conflict, where business strategy is discussed alongside personal growth, and where women entrepreneurs can find role models who look like them and share their values. Her interviews on MarieTV with figures from Oprah to Brene Brown to Tony Robbins have brought world-class thinking to an audience that traditional business media often overlooks. In an industry still dominated by male voices, Forleo has proven that purpose-driven business education is not a niche -- it is a movement.