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

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

Love, Sharon, how are you?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

like to become a seven figure speaker coach or course,

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

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

kinder world by empowering a billion kind people to speak,

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

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

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

discovered the superpowers that she will transfer and translate

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

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

Spanish, all these different languages, to over 2 million

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

million for presentations for one of her clients. So she

actually motivates, educates and inspires these powerful secrets

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

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

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

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

shine brightly each day.

I help speakers and entrepreneurs to speak, inspire

and prosper.

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

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

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

and is outgoing and and so caring and creative.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

breakthrough moment, because that was the moment that made me

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I learned four languages thanks to the big neighborhood bully.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

inspire and empower over a million people to save lives of

bullied LGBTQ youth. I started researching the secrets of the

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

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

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

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

the LGBT community look like everybody else, and most people

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

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

know what those five words are?

I don't tell me because your hand,

I like LGBTQ plus people, just I like LGBTQ plus

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

and learning things. And I started getting dozens of

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

corporate learning manager at Craft Canada. I came home from

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

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

people. Click Refresh, there's 10,000

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

my god. It was incredible. The whole wall was

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

petition signatures, more than a multi million dollar charity for

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

years, we won marriage equality across North America. They

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

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

and it helped to galvanize the entire community.

I want to stop there and just acknowledge

something so just just because this is absolutely incredible,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

beamed massive amounts of light throughout the world and got

stuff done. Bravo. Really incredible.

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

forget some of the beautiful things that happened in that

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

community galvanized with love and the love that poured in from

mostly straight people who supported the movement. So it

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

talking with someone from the Youth Business Center, and she

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

collaborated with the Youth Business Center and and she

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

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

was the head of hrsdc human resource Skills Development

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

all kinds of there were sculptures, there was

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

happened. Yeah,

it's absolutely incredible. It's a beautiful

story.

Thank you

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

little bit about some of the programs that you are running

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

kind of stepping into it immediately.

Sure, there are three ways that you can speak,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

consulting, especially if you call yourself a consultant, you

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

speak, inspire and prosper.

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

it

Inspire and prosper.

I speak, inspire and prosper,

prosper one more time. I speak, inspire and

prosper,

yeah, and adding move is going to make that even

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

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

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

get more secrets of how to speak inspire and prosper for

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

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

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

also offer consulting.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

choose. That's okay, yeah,

I love it. And I think Sarah Blakely came out

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hollywood set today with the glasses and the glam and all

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

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

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

know, spontaneous combustion of alignment and and values and,

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

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

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

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

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

publishing. My book publisher, read the spirit magazine that

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

make me look good and amplify you. And diamond moments

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

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

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

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

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

young entrepreneurs and the interfaith community, including

the LGB community, to actually make us all actually appreciate

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

yourself and then lift up others, I guarantee you will

become a force multiplier for good and positive change in this

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

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

you for coming on today.

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