<P> She graduated from St. Thomas Aquinas College with a degree in education in 1971 . After graduation, she taught school for a year, but soon moved on working various jobs including a side job renting apartments in New York City . She wanted to be her own boss, and in 1973 co-founded a real estate business called The Corcoran Group with her boyfriend, who fronted a $1,000 loan (approximately $5,420, inflation - adjusted, 2016). In the mid-1970s she also began publishing The Corcoran Report on real estate data trends in New York City . </P> <P> In 2001, Corcoran sold her business to NRT Incorporated for $66 million . She is also a "Shark" investor on ABC's Shark Tank, and is invested in more than twenty businesses to date . </P> <P> In September 2017 Corcoran was announced as a contestant for season 25 of Dancing with the Stars, where she was partnered with Keo Motsepe . She is the third Shark Tank "shark"--after Mark Cuban and Robert Herjavec--to take part . Corcoran and Motsepe were the first couple eliminated on September 25, 2017 . </P> <P> Barbara is a columnist for More Magazine, The Daily Review, and Redbook, has written several books, and has been featured in various shows such as Larry King Live . She has been a guest business speaker at various real estate events and is a business consultant via her consulting and television production business, Barbara Corcoran Inc . She is also the real estate contributor to NBC's Today show, hosts The Millionaire Broker with Barbara Corcoran on CNBC, and writes a weekly column in the New York Daily News . </P>

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