Episode 103

MUTE GIRL EMPOWERS MILLIONS With Sharon Love

LEARN HOW TO SPEAK, INSPIRE AND PROSPER. In Episode 103 of the Shining Brightly Podcast show, titled “MUTE GIRL EMPOWERS MILLIONS” (links in the comments). Please meet my high energy, multi-lingual (4 languages) guest, Sharon Love M.ED who was bullied, excluded and had no voice as a teenager. With incredible resilience, research, education and work she transformed herself into a SEVEN-FIGURE SPEAKER. She now lifts-up others by helping them find their voice to motivate, educate, inspire and prosper. Come join us and listen to this amazing episode and learn how to use your voice to join us and become a force multiplier for inclusion, acceptance and positive change in business and in life.

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About the guest –  

Sharon Love, M.Ed. 

She has triumphed over near-mute shyness in her teen years, inspire thousands of people with dynamic presentations in Spanish, French and English, inspire over two million people on social media, and attract over $6,000,000 with a single presentation. She researched the Psychological Secrets of the World's Greatest for over 20 years. At University of Toronto, she earned a Master of Education degree in Multicultural Psychology.  She helps speakers with the psychological and practical aspects of how to speak, inspire, and prosper. 

About the Host:

Howard Brown is a best-selling author, award-winning international speaker, Silicon Valley entrepreneur, interfaith peacemaker, and a two-time stage IV cancer survivor. He is also a sought-after speaker and consultant for corporate businesses, nonprofits, congregations, and community groups. Howard has co-founded two social networks that were the first to connect religious communities around the world. He is a nationally known patient advocate and “cancer whisperer” to many families. Howard, his wife Lisa, and daughter Emily currently reside in Michigan, and his happy place is on the basketball court.

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Transcript
Howard Brown:

Howard. Hello. It's Howard brown. It's the

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Shining Brightly Show. Oh my goodness, live. We have Sharon

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Love, Sharon, how are you?

Sharon Love:

I'm great. Thanks. Thanks for having me here.

Howard Brown:

I'm just so happy. I just we feed off each other's

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energy. So I know this is going to be an amazing show, so I'm

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just thrilled. So I have to tell you that mute girl empowers

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millions is the title of this show. But I gotta you know,

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we're gonna find out why in a second. But let me tell you a

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little bit about Sharon. She's incredible. So she you know, you

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are your hero. She says she is, got a master's in education and

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in psychology. She wants to free up your superpowers if you'd

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like to become a seven figure speaker coach or course,

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creator. This is an inspiring, true story for you. So she's the

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founder of speakinspire.com and is on a mission to create a

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kinder world by empowering a billion kind people to speak,

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Inspire, Inspire and prosper. She's known as the former mute

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girl who inspired millions. She's basically has secrets to

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the world's greatest leaders over the last 25 years, and she

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discovered the superpowers that she will transfer and translate

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to you. They've helped her overcome her shyness, and she

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gives, given live talks to over 2000 people, in English, French,

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Spanish, all these different languages, to over 2 million

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people. And in just over two weeks, she's raised over $7

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million for presentations for one of her clients. So she

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actually motivates, educates and inspires these powerful secrets

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to you. She has some meditations to help you, and we're going to

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share some freebies for you for your coaching course. And she's

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here to help and lift up others, and that's why we're here. So

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welcome, but before we dig in, okay, Sharon, tell me how you

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shine brightly each day.

Sharon Love:

I help speakers and entrepreneurs to speak, inspire

Sharon Love:

and prosper.

Howard Brown:

You absolutely do. And so I want you to tell us,

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okay, this mute girl. Tell us about the mute girl that was shy

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and and kind of not really the person that I've met and know

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and is outgoing and and so caring and creative.

Sharon Love:

Well, when I was 15 years old, I had been bullied

Sharon Love:

from the time I was really, really tiny, the big

Sharon Love:

neighborhood bully took a very big interest in me and so by the

Sharon Love:

time I was 15, I was dealing with this by going mute, and I

Sharon Love:

basically almost never spoke to anyone. So in English class when

Sharon Love:

I was 15 years old, I got put in the group with the popular girl

Sharon Love:

to give a presentation. And the popular girl goes, Sharon, I'm

Sharon Love:

supposed to give a presentation with Sharon. That kid can't even

Sharon Love:

talk. And the whole class turned and stared at me like they were

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going, Who is this kid? We never even noticed her before. She's

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so quiet. And I could feel my face getting hot, and I

Sharon Love:

stuttered and I stammered, and as usual, I couldn't think of

Sharon Love:

anything to say, because at that point, I still believe the

Sharon Love:

bully, and I still thought that nothing I had to say would ever

Sharon Love:

be good enough for anybody else to hear. But that was my

Sharon Love:

breakthrough moment, because that was the moment that made me

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go, Oh, my God, I love people. I need to break out of my shell.

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How am I going to get break out of my shell? Well, I also needed

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to get away from the bully. And at one point, well, when I was

Sharon Love:

small, I was really good runner. I was the fastest runner in my

Sharon Love:

class, actually, so it was good motivation. But then he shot up,

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and he got very, very tall, and so by the time I was about 13, I

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realized I need, like a plane or a train to get away from this

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bully. I thought, Huh, wait a minute. I started going on

Sharon Love:

exchanges, and I went to Quebec and Lacher fancy Pascal, cc has

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taken a day she can add them. So I learned French as a result of

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going to Quebec to get away from the bully. And then I went to

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Germany. They saying Deutsche land also much. And I learned

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German again, thanks to the big neighborhood bully. And then I

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went to Costa Rica eso in Costa Rica, totally in Canada. And so

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I learned four languages thanks to the big neighborhood bully.

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So after that, my cousin Ted. I didn't realize this, but my

Sharon Love:

cousin Ted had come out to his family. Things did not go well,

Sharon Love:

and he took his own life. So I was absolutely devastated. This

Sharon Love:

was one of the guys who actually helped me. He was probably the

Sharon Love:

most helpful in helping me to. Overcome my near mate shyness

Sharon Love:

and start to speak again. He would listen to me. I remember

Sharon Love:

him going like this one time and really considering what I had to

Sharon Love:

say. And I remember thinking he's listening to me like I'm a

Sharon Love:

human being. And this thought just kind of went through my

Sharon Love:

head. And then I thought, Hello, I am a human being. Why am I so

Sharon Love:

shocked by this? So I learned that he was one of many LGBTQ

Sharon Love:

youth who took his own life after he came out. So it didn't

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go well, and I was absolutely devastated. So I set a goal to

Sharon Love:

inspire and empower over a million people to save lives of

Sharon Love:

bullied LGBTQ youth. I started researching the secrets of the

Sharon Love:

world's greatest speakers and the world's greatest leaders to

Sharon Love:

greatest leaders to overcome my near me, China's and so I could

Sharon Love:

help people like Ted. I didn't even know until after he was

Sharon Love:

gone, that he was part of the LGBT community. Most people in

Sharon Love:

the LGBT community look like everybody else, and most people

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you're never going to know. 56% of the population is LGBTQ, and

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there's five words that you can say that can save lives. Do you

Sharon Love:

know what those five words are?

Howard Brown:

I don't tell me because your hand,

Sharon Love:

I like LGBTQ plus people, just I like LGBTQ plus

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people. Chances are someone you love is LGBTQ, and they need to

Sharon Love:

hear it. I wish someone would have told me this long before

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Ted took his own life. There's a lot of people in the community

Sharon Love:

who are really struggling, and they need to hear those words.

Sharon Love:

And some of those people are people you love. So I set this

Sharon Love:

vision. I'm gonna save lives of bullied, LGBTQ youth. I'm gonna

Sharon Love:

inspire a million people. But I didn't know how well someone

Sharon Love:

invited me to Facebook, and I thought, Oh, this is it. This is

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how I can do it. I'll inspire a million people on Facebook. So I

Sharon Love:

started a group, and I got five people, and I kept at it, and I

Sharon Love:

kept at it, and I kept putting new groups up and posting them

Sharon Love:

and learning things. And I started getting dozens of

Sharon Love:

people, and then I started getting hundreds of people. And

Sharon Love:

then I created a group called declare UN human rights for all

Sharon Love:

sexual orientations. We still do not have UN human rights for all

Sharon Love:

sexual orientations, but that group got 5000 people, and I

Sharon Love:

translated into Spanish, French, English and German. Then one

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day, I did this really deep spiritual process where I was

Sharon Love:

taking everything I needed to all the shame, all the guilt,

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all the anything that that, all the bullying, I was letting go,

Sharon Love:

letting it go, letting go. The next day, I woke up and I went,

Sharon Love:

Oh, that we can find a million people who support same sex

Sharon Love:

marriage. By the end of the day, there were 1000 people, and then

Sharon Love:

there were five and then the next day there were 2000 and

Sharon Love:

then there were 4000 then there were 8000 it was doubling and

Sharon Love:

doubling and doubling. And by this time, I was bilingual

Sharon Love:

corporate learning manager at Craft Canada. I came home from

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work one day there were 500,000 more people than the day before,

Sharon Love:

and it was like this. Click Refresh, there's 10,000 more

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people. Click Refresh, there's 10,000

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more people again. Oh, my God, viral. It went viral. Oh

Sharon Love:

my god. It was incredible. The whole wall was

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scrolling back. And this is the old fashioned Facebook walls.

Sharon Love:

And it's like, Yes, I love I love this. Yes, yes, marriage is

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human, right? Yeah, I want my gay grandsons to get married.

Sharon Love:

Yeah, I love my gay moms. There was love pouring in from around

Sharon Love:

the world. And youth that went there and posted for two years.

Sharon Love:

It was a safe space. Youth that went there from around the world

Sharon Love:

got instant support from around the world. It was beautiful. And

Sharon Love:

then somebody said, I want to sign a petition. I went

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petition. Okay, I threw together a petition. We got 60,000

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petition signatures, more than a multi million dollar charity for

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the same cause. I sent that off to the White House. Within five

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years, we won marriage equality across North America. They

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already had it in Ken at the time, but they won it in the

Sharon Love:

States as well. And this was part of that massive movement,

Sharon Love:

and it helped to galvanize the entire community.

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I want to stop there and just acknowledge

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something so just just because this is absolutely incredible,

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and I know the show moves fast, but I just want to take a second

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mute girl bullied, okay, a very dear close friend of yours took

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his life from suicide, you know, after being able disclosing or

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coming out, and then you put together this group that just

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went viral, okay, to be able To give a safe space for people in

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the LGBT and Q communities, and that's absolutely incredible.

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It's really, I just want to acknowledge how incredible that

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is, that you've given a voice and again, in the shining

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brightly language of my book and how I actually conduct myself, I

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call living in some of that stuff. Darkness and light, you

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beamed massive amounts of light throughout the world and got

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stuff done. Bravo. Really incredible.

Sharon Love:

Thank you. It was really exciting. I'll never

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forget some of the beautiful things that happened in that

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group and and it was just super exciting to see the whole

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community galvanized with love and the love that poured in from

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mostly straight people who supported the movement. So it

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was, it was just beautiful. And then, well, after that, I was

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talking with someone from the Youth Business Center, and she

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said, You know what, we have been trying for years to get

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funding for this business center, not a cent goose egg,

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nothing. You help us to get funding. We'll give you a full

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time job. How about we'll start with something part time? And I

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thought, okay, great. And then one day, she came to me and she

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said, Oh, I'm meeting with the funder. I'd already met with the

Sharon Love:

funder myself. She said, You're the one to run this program.

Sharon Love:

You're so inspiring, you're so fun, you're so excited. Yeah,

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you're the one who runs this program. And I thought, I don't

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have I thought, I don't have a space. So I went and

Sharon Love:

collaborated with the Youth Business Center and and she

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said, yeah, we'll give you this full time job. So later, my boss

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said, I'm going to be meeting with Fran story. That's the that

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was the head of hrsdc human resource Skills Development

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Canada. At the time, I'm gonna meet with her on Thursday

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morning. And I went Thursday morning. I'm not in. It's a tomb

Sharon Love:

in here. On Thursday morning, there's nobody. There's

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nothing's gonna be happening. How are they gonna get funding?

Sharon Love:

Wait a minute, I'm gonna do presentation. I'm gonna bring in

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all of the youth that I've been working with and showcase. We're

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going to create a presentation, a showcase together. So instead

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of walking into a tomb, she's going to walk in and see this

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kaleidoscope of passion and energy. And that's exactly what

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happened. She walked in. It smelled great. There was a

Sharon Love:

caterer that was one of the youth. And there was, there was

Sharon Love:

all kinds of there were sculptures, there was

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multimedia, there was, you name it, it was happening. She walked

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in and she did this. And inside, I was going, Yes, I know we got

Sharon Love:

the money. I know we got the funding. This is awesome. This

Sharon Love:

is going to help these youth so much. Outside, I was very calm

Sharon Love:

and cool and collected, and I just nodded very, very calmly. I

Sharon Love:

know this is going to help you. They got $400,000 of funding

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soon after that, and every year ever since, to my knowledge,

Sharon Love:

still going strong, it's over $7 million it may be over $8

Sharon Love:

million by now, because it's been over 17 years ago that that

Sharon Love:

happened. Yeah,

Howard Brown:

it's absolutely incredible. It's a beautiful

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story.

Sharon Love:

Thank you

Howard Brown:

so just so good. I want to tell you that it's, you

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know, I have to tell you, there's a lot of stuff that I

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ignorance going on in the world, and there's hate going on in the

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world. But I'm not in that camp. I'm in the camp with Sharon,

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with inclusion. The tent is big enough for all of us to love thy

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brother, Love thy sister, okay, show some respect, show some

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values. That makes us human, and so we are together. And I just

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want to tell you that that's, that's shining greatly, that's,

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that's really what we're here to do, and to do that, and you do

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that exquisitely. So thank you for that. So Tell, tell me a

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little bit about some of the programs that you are running

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now, and what are some actions that are the audience can take,

Howard Brown:

kind of stepping into it immediately.

Sharon Love:

Sure, there are three ways that you can speak,

Sharon Love:

inspire and prosper. A lot of people, they instantly think of

Sharon Love:

presentations. But they and they think, Oh, I don't know. I'm not

Sharon Love:

really into presentations. Don't worry. If you don't like

Sharon Love:

presentations, that's fine. You can speak, inspire and prosper

Sharon Love:

by giving presentations, either live or online. If you love it,

Sharon Love:

if you don't love it, don't do it. Instead, you can do create

Sharon Love:

online courses, or you can do coaching and VIP coaching and

Sharon Love:

consulting, especially if you call yourself a consultant, you

Sharon Love:

can just that one word. You can charge 100 times more than you

Sharon Love:

can as a coach. So if you do coaching, consulting, or course,

Sharon Love:

creation or presentations, those are all ways that you can be

Sharon Love:

earning great money by making a difference. And you can do that

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live. You can do that online, and you can even go and do it in

Sharon Love:

retreats in Costa Rica, and that's part of why I'm here in

Sharon Love:

Costa Rica now. So those are three ways. So choose one to

Sharon Love:

start and get focused, and once that one's going really strong,

Sharon Love:

then you can start to expand and add others. I'm going to suggest

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that everyone try something right now, if you're not driving

Sharon Love:

operating machinery. I'm going to suggest trying this. Put your

Sharon Love:

hands on your heart. Take a deep breath. Imagine which of those

Sharon Love:

three things you love the most, and imagine you just had a

Sharon Love:

massive breakthrough. You just attracted. It over $7 million

Sharon Love:

and feel what that feels like in your heart. So you can support

Sharon Love:

whatever causes you love if you want to create a kinder,

Sharon Love:

greener, LGBT, friendlier world for all, that's my mission, and

Sharon Love:

you can support all of those causes if you've got an extra $7

Sharon Love:

million to play with. So breathe into your heart and say, I

Sharon Love:

speak, inspire and prosper.

Howard Brown:

I speak, I inspire and I prosper, yeah, and I mean

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it

Sharon Love:

Inspire and prosper.

Howard Brown:

I speak, inspire and prosper,

Sharon Love:

prosper one more time. I speak, inspire and

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prosper,

Sharon Love:

yeah, and adding move is going to make that even

Sharon Love:

even stronger. We're about to also launch something new called

Sharon Love:

Rich miracles TV. And if anybody wants more information on that,

Sharon Love:

there are free gifts in@speakinspire.com so you can

Sharon Love:

get more secrets of how to speak inspire and prosper for

Sharon Love:

free@speakinspire.com and you can book a call with me if you

Sharon Love:

would like to be on rich miracles TV, then we can talk

Sharon Love:

about that, or speak inspire TV. Then we can talk about that and

Sharon Love:

also offer consulting.

Howard Brown:

You've got some meditation links, and you've got

Howard Brown:

lots of goodies there to go reach out, and lots of reasons

Howard Brown:

to to reach out for you as well. Can share with me you did when

Howard Brown:

we first met, but tell me who are your role models?

Sharon Love:

Oh, wow. I like well, there's so many. Sarah

Sharon Love:

Blakely, Oprah, Winfrey Nelson, Mandela, Ellen, DeGeneres,

Sharon Love:

Portia de Rossi, there's so many, it's really hard to

Sharon Love:

choose. That's okay, yeah,

Howard Brown:

I love it. And I think Sarah Blakely came out

Howard Brown:

with the high heel, like slip in sneaker. I just, she just, she's

Howard Brown:

so innovative. You should check that out. It's like a sneaker on

Howard Brown:

the bottom with a high heel on it. I've never seen it before.

Howard Brown:

It's so it's just so innovative. It's cool. So these are very

Howard Brown:

good role models to have. Well, listen, I want you to put on

Howard Brown:

your sunglasses. Okay, you've got cool shades. Join me here,

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because we are going to, this is called the shining brightly

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spotlight. All right, okay. We're going to do a little eye

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contact too. Look at that. For those that are listening, we're

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giving a little eye wink, and the shades are hanging off our

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nose a little bit. Looks a little Hollywood, but we're

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shining brightly right now. So tell people again the best way

Howard Brown:

to get in touch with you, and then tell me a little

Howard Brown:

inspirational quote or story, and we'll close out the show.

Sharon Love:

Sure, the best way is to go to speakinspire.com

Sharon Love:

speakinspire.com and you can get free gifts there and or book a

Sharon Love:

call with me if you think you would like to become a seven

Sharon Love:

figure speaker. And I want to say you are a hero. You are a

Sharon Love:

rock star and you deserve to speak, inspire and prosper.

Howard Brown:

I love it. It's so amazing. I think we were in a

Howard Brown:

Hollywood set today with the glasses and the glam and all

Howard Brown:

that, but we're talking serious business. We believe in absolute

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inclusion and be able to lift up others as we lift up ourselves.

Howard Brown:

And that's, that's when we met. I knew that we just had, you

Howard Brown:

know, spontaneous combustion of alignment and and values and,

Howard Brown:

and that's I really appreciate about you as well. You've been

Howard Brown:

actually taking a time out of your day or evening to listen to

Howard Brown:

the shining brightly podcast. I am grateful for that. And you

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know, over 182,000 downloads Keep it coming. We appreciate it

Howard Brown:

so much. Let me give thanks. And I'm grateful for front edge

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publishing. My book publisher, read the spirit magazine that

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comes out weekly to over 50,000 people, the podcast crew that

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make me look good and amplify you. And diamond moments

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magazine, they help me look good and stay good as well. And you

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can reach me@shiningbrightly.com and obviously the book is there.

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You want me to help your event shine. Please. Let me contact me

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as well as this podcast, and really more importantly is my

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advocacy, my advocacy in the cancer world, my advocacy with

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young entrepreneurs and the interfaith community, including

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the LGB community, to actually make us all actually appreciate

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each other for who we are, because we are people, and we're

Howard Brown:

just trying to make the world a better place. So you, too can do

Howard Brown:

that. So if we choose Okay, and my great grandmother, in chapter

Howard Brown:

one of my book, said, choose kindness. Every day, it's a

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choice. Choose giving, choose gratitude and choose joy, and

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you can choose not to hate, okay, it's a choice, so make the

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right choice. So if you choose to shine brightly each day for

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yourself and then lift up others, I guarantee you will

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become a force multiplier for good and positive change in this

Howard Brown:

world, and it will be a better place. Thank you. Sharon, hot,

Howard Brown:

high energy. Show. I really appreciate you so much. Thank

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you for coming on today.

Sharon Love:

Thank you, Howard, it's been great. You.