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.
Mentioned Resources –
- Website: https://www.speakinspire.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonjlove/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharonjlove/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@howtogetspeakingengagements
- Email: outstandinglives@gmail.com
- Join: https://www.speakinspire.com/join-25000.html
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. Hello. It's Howard brown. It's the
Howard Brown:Shining Brightly Show. Oh my goodness, live. We have Sharon
Howard Brown: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
Howard Brown:energy. So I know this is going to be an amazing show, so I'm
Howard Brown:just thrilled. So I have to tell you that mute girl empowers
Howard Brown:millions is the title of this show. But I gotta you know,
Howard Brown:we're gonna find out why in a second. But let me tell you a
Howard Brown:little bit about Sharon. She's incredible. So she you know, you
Howard Brown:are your hero. She says she is, got a master's in education and
Howard Brown:in psychology. She wants to free up your superpowers if you'd
Howard Brown:like to become a seven figure speaker coach or course,
Howard Brown:creator. This is an inspiring, true story for you. So she's the
Howard Brown:founder of speakinspire.com and is on a mission to create a
Howard Brown:kinder world by empowering a billion kind people to speak,
Howard Brown:Inspire, Inspire and prosper. She's known as the former mute
Howard Brown:girl who inspired millions. She's basically has secrets to
Howard Brown:the world's greatest leaders over the last 25 years, and she
Howard Brown:discovered the superpowers that she will transfer and translate
Howard Brown:to you. They've helped her overcome her shyness, and she
Howard Brown:gives, given live talks to over 2000 people, in English, French,
Howard Brown:Spanish, all these different languages, to over 2 million
Howard Brown:people. And in just over two weeks, she's raised over $7
Howard Brown:million for presentations for one of her clients. So she
Howard Brown:actually motivates, educates and inspires these powerful secrets
Howard Brown:to you. She has some meditations to help you, and we're going to
Howard Brown:share some freebies for you for your coaching course. And she's
Howard Brown:here to help and lift up others, and that's why we're here. So
Howard Brown:welcome, but before we dig in, okay, Sharon, tell me how you
Howard Brown: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,
Howard Brown:okay, this mute girl. Tell us about the mute girl that was shy
Howard Brown:and and kind of not really the person that I've met and know
Howard Brown: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
Sharon Love:going, Who is this kid? We never even noticed her before. She's
Sharon Love: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
Sharon Love:go, Oh, my God, I love people. I need to break out of my shell.
Sharon Love:How am I going to get break out of my shell? Well, I also needed
Sharon Love: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,
Sharon Love:and he got very, very tall, and so by the time I was about 13, I
Sharon Love:realized I need, like a plane or a train to get away from this
Sharon Love: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
Sharon Love:taken a day she can add them. So I learned French as a result of
Sharon Love:going to Quebec to get away from the bully. And then I went to
Sharon Love:Germany. They saying Deutsche land also much. And I learned
Sharon Love:German again, thanks to the big neighborhood bully. And then I
Sharon Love:went to Costa Rica eso in Costa Rica, totally in Canada. And so
Sharon Love:I learned four languages thanks to the big neighborhood bully.
Sharon Love: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
Sharon Love: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
Sharon Love:you're never going to know. 56% of the population is LGBTQ, and
Sharon Love: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
Sharon Love: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
Sharon Love: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
Sharon Love: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
Sharon Love:day, I did this really deep spiritual process where I was
Sharon Love:taking everything I needed to all the shame, all the guilt,
Sharon Love: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
Sharon Love: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
Sharon Love:people. Click Refresh, there's 10,000
Unknown:more people again. Oh, my God, viral. It went viral. Oh
Sharon Love:my god. It was incredible. The whole wall was
Sharon Love: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
Sharon Love: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
Sharon Love:petition. Okay, I threw together a petition. We got 60,000
Sharon Love:petition signatures, more than a multi million dollar charity for
Sharon Love:the same cause. I sent that off to the White House. Within five
Sharon Love:years, we won marriage equality across North America. They
Sharon Love: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.
Howard Brown:I want to stop there and just acknowledge
Howard Brown:something so just just because this is absolutely incredible,
Howard Brown:and I know the show moves fast, but I just want to take a second
Howard Brown:mute girl bullied, okay, a very dear close friend of yours took
Howard Brown:his life from suicide, you know, after being able disclosing or
Howard Brown:coming out, and then you put together this group that just
Howard Brown:went viral, okay, to be able To give a safe space for people in
Howard Brown:the LGBT and Q communities, and that's absolutely incredible.
Howard Brown:It's really, I just want to acknowledge how incredible that
Howard Brown:is, that you've given a voice and again, in the shining
Howard Brown:brightly language of my book and how I actually conduct myself, I
Howard Brown:call living in some of that stuff. Darkness and light, you
Howard Brown:beamed massive amounts of light throughout the world and got
Howard Brown:stuff done. Bravo. Really incredible.
Sharon Love:Thank you. It was really exciting. I'll never
Sharon Love:forget some of the beautiful things that happened in that
Sharon Love:group and and it was just super exciting to see the whole
Sharon Love:community galvanized with love and the love that poured in from
Sharon Love:mostly straight people who supported the movement. So it
Sharon Love:was, it was just beautiful. And then, well, after that, I was
Sharon Love:talking with someone from the Youth Business Center, and she
Sharon Love:said, You know what, we have been trying for years to get
Sharon Love:funding for this business center, not a cent goose egg,
Sharon Love:nothing. You help us to get funding. We'll give you a full
Sharon Love:time job. How about we'll start with something part time? And I
Sharon Love:thought, okay, great. And then one day, she came to me and she
Sharon Love: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,
Sharon Love:you're the one who runs this program. And I thought, I don't
Sharon Love:have I thought, I don't have a space. So I went and
Sharon Love:collaborated with the Youth Business Center and and she
Sharon Love:said, yeah, we'll give you this full time job. So later, my boss
Sharon Love:said, I'm going to be meeting with Fran story. That's the that
Sharon Love:was the head of hrsdc human resource Skills Development
Sharon Love:Canada. At the time, I'm gonna meet with her on Thursday
Sharon Love: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
Sharon Love: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
Sharon Love:all of the youth that I've been working with and showcase. We're
Sharon Love:going to create a presentation, a showcase together. So instead
Sharon Love:of walking into a tomb, she's going to walk in and see this
Sharon Love:kaleidoscope of passion and energy. And that's exactly what
Sharon Love: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
Sharon Love:multimedia, there was, you name it, it was happening. She walked
Sharon Love: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
Sharon Love: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
Howard Brown:story.
Sharon Love:Thank you
Howard Brown:so just so good. I want to tell you that it's, you
Howard Brown:know, I have to tell you, there's a lot of stuff that I
Howard Brown:ignorance going on in the world, and there's hate going on in the
Howard Brown:world. But I'm not in that camp. I'm in the camp with Sharon,
Howard Brown:with inclusion. The tent is big enough for all of us to love thy
Howard Brown:brother, Love thy sister, okay, show some respect, show some
Howard Brown:values. That makes us human, and so we are together. And I just
Howard Brown:want to tell you that that's, that's shining greatly, that's,
Howard Brown:that's really what we're here to do, and to do that, and you do
Howard Brown:that exquisitely. So thank you for that. So Tell, tell me a
Howard Brown:little bit about some of the programs that you are running
Howard Brown: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
Sharon Love: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
Sharon Love: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
Howard Brown:it
Sharon Love:Inspire and prosper.
Howard Brown:I speak, inspire and prosper,
Sharon Love:prosper one more time. I speak, inspire and
Howard Brown: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,
Howard Brown:because we are going to, this is called the shining brightly
Howard Brown:spotlight. All right, okay. We're going to do a little eye
Howard Brown:contact too. Look at that. For those that are listening, we're
Howard Brown:giving a little eye wink, and the shades are hanging off our
Howard Brown:nose a little bit. Looks a little Hollywood, but we're
Howard Brown: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
Howard Brown: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
Howard Brown: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
Howard Brown:publishing. My book publisher, read the spirit magazine that
Howard Brown:comes out weekly to over 50,000 people, the podcast crew that
Howard Brown:make me look good and amplify you. And diamond moments
Howard Brown:magazine, they help me look good and stay good as well. And you
Howard Brown:can reach me@shiningbrightly.com and obviously the book is there.
Howard Brown:You want me to help your event shine. Please. Let me contact me
Howard Brown:as well as this podcast, and really more importantly is my
Howard Brown:advocacy, my advocacy in the cancer world, my advocacy with
Howard Brown:young entrepreneurs and the interfaith community, including
Howard Brown:the LGB community, to actually make us all actually appreciate
Howard Brown: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
Howard Brown:choice. Choose giving, choose gratitude and choose joy, and
Howard Brown:you can choose not to hate, okay, it's a choice, so make the
Howard Brown:right choice. So if you choose to shine brightly each day for
Howard Brown:yourself and then lift up others, I guarantee you will
Howard Brown: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
Howard Brown:you for coming on today.
Sharon Love:Thank you, Howard, it's been great. You.