How Barbara Corcoran Became a Real-Estate Mogul After Her Ex-Boyfriend Dumped Her

Daniel St. Joseph
4 min readMay 22, 2020

What does not kill you will make you stronger. The insult of her ex-boyfriend fueled her ego and the sweetest revenge she exacted on him was her extraordinary success.

By Mitch Tuchman on https://www.rebalance360.

If you watch the investment show “Shark Tank” on ABC, you will definitely know Barbara Corcoran who is a real-estate mogul and a star investor.

“I had twenty-three jobs before I found real estate, and was fired from 3 of them. Thank God I was fired or else I might still be in those jobs” — Barbara Corcoran

The story began decades ago back in the 1970s when Barbara was a waitress at a diner. Before working there, she had worked twenty-three jobs and was fired from three of them. There, she met Ramone Simone who was a father of three daughters. He encouraged her to go into real estate because she had such a good personality. He believed that she would be doing great at real estate.

Her relationship with that ex-boyfriend, Ramone Simone, changed her life completely.

She quitted her job with the thought that “I worked twenty-three jobs before, so why not give it a try”. Corcoran…

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Daniel St. Joseph
Daniel St. Joseph

Written by Daniel St. Joseph

Dan is passionate about writing to motivate people and share his experience, knowledge to enhance personal development.|BSc Biochemistry|.

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