Oct. 30, 2024

MUTE GIRL EMPOWERS MILLIONS With Sharon Love

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



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



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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



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



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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



Howard Brown:

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,



Howard Brown:

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



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



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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



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



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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



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,



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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.



Howard Brown:

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



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



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



Sharon Love:

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



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



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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



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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,



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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



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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



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.