JOHN HOPE BRYANT: On Oprah Winfrey, the Forbes Self-Made 250, and What It Really Means to Come from Nothing

JOHN HOPE BRYANT: On Oprah Winfrey, the Forbes Self-Made 250, and What It Really Means to Come from Nothing

by | Jul 6, 2026 | BG Digital Media LLC, Bryant Group Digital Media LLC, Bryant on Good Capitalism, Bryant on Leaders and Leadership, Bryant on the Move, Bryant Thought Leadership, Bryant Traveling Man, Financial Literacy, Hope Is On The Way, John Hope Bryant Authored, Operation HOPE, Silver Rights, Uncategorized

In Philadelphia, at the birthplace of American democracy, the woman who started with nothing stood as America’s greatest self-made success story. That is not coincidence. That is proof. I have spent my life talking about the distance between poverty and...
Emotional Moment: Forbes 250 Greatest Living Self Made Americans List

Emotional Moment: Forbes 250 Greatest Living Self Made Americans List

by | May 14, 2026 | Article, Awards and Recognition, BG Digital Media LLC, Bryant Group Digital Media LLC, Bryant on Good Capitalism, Bryant on Leaders and Leadership, Bryant on the Move, Capitalism for All, Entrepreneurship, Hope Is On The Way, John Hope Bryant Authored, Operation HOPE, The Silver Rights Movement

I’m going to be honest with you. When I held that Forbes magazine in my hands and saw Dr. Dre, another Black man from Compton, California on the cover, and me listed amongst the 250 — at number 145 on the list — I didn’t feel special. I felt...
TIME: 25 Tech Insiders on the Innovations Defining American Life Today

TIME: 25 Tech Insiders on the Innovations Defining American Life Today

by | May 10, 2026 | Article, Bryant | Media Interview, Bryant Group Digital Media LLC, Bryant on Good Capitalism, Bryant on Leaders and Leadership, Bryant Thought Leadership, Bryant Writing | OpEds, HOPE AI, Hope Is On The Way, Operation HOPE

Editor’s Note When TIME calls and asks you to stand alongside some of the most consequential technologists, inventors, and innovators in the world — and to answer one question about what defines America right now — you don’t hesitate. You answer with the...
Ten Things I Want to Tell the Generation That Wants to Burn It All Down

Ten Things I Want to Tell the Generation That Wants to Burn It All Down

by | Apr 17, 2026 | BG Digital Media LLC, Bryant Group Digital Media LLC, Bryant on Good Capitalism, Bryant on Meaning, Bryant Thought Leadership, Bryant Writing | OpEds, Bryant Writing | OpEds, Capitalism for All, Hope Is On The Way, John Hope Bryant Authored, The Silver Rights Movement

John Hope Bryant at the Breakfast Club, on the release of his new book ‘Capitalism for All’ I hear you. I hear the frustration, the exhaustion, the rage. I hear a generation that was told the rules were fair — and then discovered they weren’t. A...