Going Over The List: Marie Forleo

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Marie Forleo once bartended and waited tables to keep her coaching business alive — today she's a #1 New York Times bestselling author with a media company reaching millions. Marie Forleo is an American entrepreneur, author, and web television host, best known as the creator of MarieTV and host of The Marie Forleo Podcast, where she's interviewed everyone from Tony Robbins to Elizabeth Gilbert on building a business and life you love.

Forleo coined the term "Multipassionate Entrepreneur" to describe her refusal to be boxed into a single lane — a path that's taken her from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange to MTV choreography before she found her way into coaching. She's the founder of Marie TV and B-School, and the author of the bestsellers Everything Is Figureoutable.

In this post, we're going over Marie Forleo's List using two interviews to see how her life fits into the Home, Work, and Self framework.

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Home

House

Marie lives with her husband Josh Pais in New York. She's spoken about keeping her home life deliberately low-key and private relative to her public career, treating it as a space to recharge rather than perform.

Partner

Marie is married to actor and acting coach Josh Pais, whom she wed in 2006. Josh isn't just her life partner — he's also a business partner and occasional on-camera collaborator, regularly appearing in her videos and interviews. Marie has credited him directly as essential to her success.

Family

Marie has spoken candidly about watching her parents divorce over money as a child, an experience that shaped her early relationship with financial stress. She's said her mother instilled in her the belief that any problem is solvable — the root of the "everything is figureoutable" philosophy that now anchors her entire brand. Marie never wanted kids and was happy Josh had a kid from previous marriage.

Work

Make

Marie built her business from the ground up after leaving a series of unfulfilling corporate jobs, supporting herself through bartending and waitressing while she developed her coaching practice. She now runs B-School, and describes her early growth as a process of listing every task she was doing and deciding what only she could do versus what needed to be delegated.

Show

Marie is best known for MarieTV, the online show she launched in 2011, along with The Marie Forleo Podcast. Both platforms center on long-form interviews with authors, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders, covering everything from business strategy to grief and mortality. She's also a prolific author, with Everything Is Figureoutable landing on the New York Times bestseller list.

Sell

Her revenue comes primarily through B-School, her flagship online business training program, alongside book sales and other educational products under the Marie Forleo International umbrella.

Self

Wellbeing

Marie's morning routine shifts depending on travel, but a few elements stay constant: making a hot drink with her husband, meditating, and moving her body — often followed by journaling when she's deep in a creative project. She's cautioned against trying to adopt too many new habits at once, advising people to build one practice at a time rather than overhauling everything overnight.

Admin

Early in her business, Marie made her first hire — a virtual assistant — while still working side jobs to make ends meet. She's described that transition as difficult at first, admitting she didn't yet know how to delegate, but treats it as the turning point that let her scale beyond what she could do alone.

Social

Marie has built relationships with major figures in the personal development and business world, including recurring conversations with Tony Robbins, Tim Ferriss, and Lewis Howes. Her podcast functions as much as a relationship-building tool as a content platform, giving her an ongoing excuse to sit down with people she admires and learn from them publicly.

Key Takeaways

  • Marie treats her personal philosophy — "everything is figureoutable" — as the throughline connecting her home life, business, and self-care.

  • Delegation didn't come naturally to her; she had to learn it deliberately as her business grew.

  • Her morning routine flexes with her schedule but stays anchored to a few non-negotiables: connection, meditation, and movement.

  • Long-form conversation is central to both her business model and her personal growth.

  • She draws a clear line between her public brand and her private home life.

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