Iyanla VanZant

Maybe what makes Iyanla such an authentic host is that she understands what it’s like to have a life that needs fixing, having lost her home, marriage and even her daughter (she died after battling cancer). “I was a woman whose dance card was suddenly filled with death and whose heart had shattered into a million pieces,” she wrote in her book Peace from Broken Pieces. It’s that compassion and experience that bleeds through in her show, whether it’s helping a family deal with infidelity or opening a dialogue for healing in Ferguson, MO, after the shooting death of Michael Brown.