He is also a syndicated columnist with the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) federation of 200 weekly newspapers and more than 15 million readers. As an AOL Money Coach, Gray gives advice to millions of AOL subscribers daily. Gray addresses more than half a million people per year on leadership, personal development, diversity, strategic planning, creativity, business development and financial management. At the age of 22, he has achieved more than many achieve in a lifetime.
Since his first interview at 11 years old on KVBC Channel 3, Gray has become a celebrity, featured in thousands of print, magazine, radio and television media including The NBC reality show Starting Over, 20/20, Good Morning America, ABC World News Tonight, The Montel Williams Show, Tom Joyner Show, The Tavis Smiley Show, CNBC, BET, NBC, FOX, CBS, NPR, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post. Gray's live business and personal finance speeches and seminars are now available through Bloomberg TV's On-Demand Network via Comcast Cable.
Gray began his entrepreneurial, personal and civic development at six years old selling home-made body lotion and his own hand-painted rocks as book-ends door-to-door. At age seven, he was carrying business cards reading "21st Century CEO." At eight, he became co-founder of Urban Neighborhood Enterprise Economic Club (U.N.E.E.C.) on Chicago's Southside. U.N.E.E.C. was the forerunner of New Early Entrepreneur Wonders, the flagship organization he opened on Wall Street. NE2W educated and engaged "at-risk" youth by creating and developing legal ways for them to acquire income. Gray is the youngest person to have an office on Wall Street.
Between the ages of 12 and 16, Gray founded and operated business ventures that included KIDZTEL pre-paid phone cards, the One Stop Mail Boxes & More franchise and The Teenscope "Youth AM/FM" interactive teen talk show. He was also Executive Producer of a comedy show on the Las Vegas Strip and owner of Farr-Out Foods, "Way-Out Food with a Twist," aimed at young people with a Strawberry-Vanilla syrup product. Farr-Out Foods generated orders exceeding $1.5 million.
As a pre-teen, Gray reached 12 million listeners and viewers every Saturday night as co-host of "Backstage Live," a syndicated television and radio simulcast in Las Vegas. His sense of social responsibility motivated him to create the non-profit organization, The Farrah Gray Foundation which focuses on inner city community-based entrepreneurship education and provides scholarship and grant assistance for students from at-risk backgrounds to attend black colleges and universities. He donates honorariums from speaking engagements and the proceeds of his book to his foundation in what he refers to as his "self-imposed" youth tax.
He was the youngest member of the "African-American Leadership Roundtable" to be invited by President Bush and the Director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. He is the spokesman for the National Coalition for the Homeless and the National Marrow Donor Program. First Premiere Bank and Diamond Financial Products unveiled its newest debit card, The Farrah Gray Prepaid MasterCard, the "goFarr" card designed to increase financial freedom and financial literacy.
Gray is the Co-Chair of Relational Brokers Alliance Consultancy and has consulted with JP Morgan Chase and the U.S. Department of Commerce Minority Development Agency. The Farrah Gray Foundation has partnered with the Kauffmann Foundation, launching entrepreneurship programs in inner-city schools across the country.
Gray’s newest project is his second book Get Real, Get Rich: Conquer the 7 Myths Blocking You from Success. Gray is the author of Reallionaire, which was nominated by NBC & Publishers Weekly Quill Awards in the category of "Health/Self-Improvement." His book appeared on the Amazon and Barnes & Noble's best-sellers lists two weeks before its international release. Reallionaire was also named the #1 Best-selling Nonfiction Paperback book in Essence Magazine. Gray is also a contributing author to Chicken Soup for the African-American Soul and the Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Prominent magazine, an entertainment, business, fashion, lifestyle, and culture publication.
Gray's honors include Keys to the Cities of Dallas, Shreveport, and Cincinnati. He has also received Proclamations from the Governors of Illinois and Nevada, the Mayors of Chicago, Las Vegas and New Orleans and Clark County Nevada Commissioners. Gray's awards include The National Urban League Whitney M. Young Jr. Entrepreneurship Award, The Indiana Black Expo Hoosier Lottery Entrepreneur Award, The Alabama A&M Students In Free Enterprise Award, The Davidson College Love of Learning Lifetime Educational Achievement Award, Central State Award of Appreciation for contributions made in the area of entrepreneurship, NV Magazine Vision Award and the American Red Cross Award of Appreciation. His biography is recognized in the Marquis Who's Who in America.