Les Brown
Appearances
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
That's what people tell me. When I think about the fact that I started doing a reading in my mother's living room when I resigned from the Ohio Legislature, coming back to Miami.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
And I saw Miami with new eyes, but coming out of there, going to Douglas Elementary School over town and being labeled educable mental retarded and put back from the fifth grade to the fourth grade and failing again in the eighth grade at Booker T. Washington High School and traveling around the world speaking and
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
speaking for major corporations and teaching people methods and techniques on how to begin to transform their lives. When I came back the last time, about three months ago, I saw it with a different set of eyes. And I believe that When I look at my life now at 75, there are things that happen to you and there are things that happen for you.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
And many times when they happen, we're not sure which one is which. But now I see the path that I have traveled. I just said to myself that gave me a sense of urgency after a conversation with a friend that the journey that has brought me this far is longer than the journey that I have left.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
and that I must live with a sense of urgency, and that all of us have greatness in us, and we should do as Dr. Miles Monroe said, rob the cemetery of our greatness, that we want to use all our talents and abilities and skills while we're here, and not shortchange life, and begin to realize that we were born and chosen to do a greater work than many people realize before they leave here.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
It really is not impossible to see it. See, the imagination is the only dimension of us that cannot be restricted. We can have a vision of ourselves living a different kind of life. Einstein said the imagination is a preview of what's to come and what people must do, regardless of their situation, born in poverty, such as mine, being labeled educable, mentally retarded,
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
people who are dealing and struggling with how to advance their career or living a different kind of life or an expanded life, that what's very important is that they live out of their imagination and not their history and their present situation. and to hold that vision because our thoughts have magnetic power. And my favorite book says, I'll give you all your eyes can see.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
But most people don't discipline themselves to hold the vision of a greater life and living from their greatness because of what I call weapons of mass distractions. And we are distracted. We are now living in what is called the attention economy.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
And so now this place where we are, which is a very special place, the golden age, where we have to hold ourselves to a higher standard, to call attention to who we are and what we have and what is it we bring to the planet, and to hold the attention by the level of expertise and mastery that we are able to do that, which we were sent here to do.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
I don't believe that we were born to work for a living. A job is what you get paid for, but your calling is what you are made for. And so when I speak, my goal is to distract, dispute, and inspire, to distract people from their current story through the execution of the presentation as I train speakers to dismantle their current belief system
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
And to ignite in them, as Mother Teresa would say, the spirit of God in them to become a pencil in the hand of God and start writing a new chapter with their lives. That I believe we're all here for a purpose. And I want to congratulate you for deciding, Heather, that I want to be a light. I want to help people to get an expanded vision of themselves.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
That this path where you are and this choice that you made, it's a life. that will outlive you. There are people whose lives that you're going to touch that you'll never meet, lives that you will transform, that you will never run into, but you have made a mark and continue to do that. And it has a rippling effect and we will all feel it.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
Sorry for your loss. Was he a speaker?
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
Yeah, but he's not gone. You know, there's something that I read during the time when my mother made her transition. A poet wrote and said, if you but knew where I stepped, you will wonder why you wept. And so there is something that he left in you and the peoples whose lives he's touched that the casket, the grave could not hold. He left a spirit in you of perseverance, of a
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
A perpetual sense of optimism and a willingness to live your life to the fullest, to make a greater impact, to finish life strong, to live full, and to die empty. He's still with you. When you speak, he's there with you, watching you from the other side. And my mother's preparing a sweet potato pie for one in heaven.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
Mr. Leroy Washington, I went in his class one day and I was looking for a friend of mine. When I was in the fifth grade, I was labeled educable mentally retarded. So when you are in special education, as they call it, and you're not mainstream, they call it the Dodo Award. And I was looking for this friend of mine who was in his class.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
And he said, young man, I want you to go to the front of the room. I want you to work something out for me. And I said, sir, I cannot do that. He said, why not? I said, I'm not going to be a student. So he said, do it anyhow. And I said, I can't, sir. And the other students started laughing, saying, he's Leslie. He's a twin. His brother, Wesley, is smart. He's DT. And he asked, what's DT?
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
He's the dumb twin. And they started laughing. And I said, I am, sir. He came from behind his desk. He said, don't you ever say that again. Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. Do you hear me? And I said, yes, sir. And he startled me that something in that day was a day that turned my life around.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
My mother said, sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can never hurt you. Words can hurt you and very deeply. But when he spoke to me like that, how he looked at me as saying that, you know, even though I was humiliated, But on the other hand, I was liberated. He looked at me with the eyes of Gerda who said, look at a man the way that he is, he only becomes worse.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
But look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be. And so that day, this man spoke to me and he introduced me to a part of myself that I did not know existed. We all have the power, I believe, to communicate, and speak to people in a way and take them to a place within themselves so they can never go by themselves.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
And that's why I do what I do now, why I speak, to create a significant emotional event, to introduce an audience individually and collectively to a part of themselves that they don't know right now. Psychologists call it scotomas, blind spots, that you can't look in your own eyes and sometimes We have to believe in somebody's belief in us until our belief kicks in.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
Yes. Oh, absolutely. Oh, my goodness. I'll never forget when I was going to appear on PBS to raise funds for public television. I had my friends to call him and His wife said, when the show came on, he said, Edith, please come look quick. It's the dumb twin. It's the dumb twin. At the end of the program, he called me in Columbus, Ohio. I had just been reelected to the Ohio legislature.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
And he said, may I speak to Mr. Brown, please? I said, who's calling? He said, you know who this is. I said, yes, Mr. Washington. How are you? He said, you were the one, weren't you? I said, yes, sir. And what he was talking about, I saw him after giving a speech to graduating seniors. I was a junior.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
And I told him one day, sir, I heard you say that if one person here heard your voice, they'll get a larger vision of themselves. If one person here heard your voice, they can make their school proud, their community proud, their family proud. I said, I heard your voice. I'm the one, sir. You said if one person. heard you, they will manifest their greatness. And he said, but you were so crazy.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
I said, I know. but I'm rich now.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
I'm glad you asked that question because we're in a place now that people need to know the answer to that question. I believe in order to live your fullest potential, to manifest your greatness, one, you have to transform your mindset. Earl Nightingale said, as you know, you don't get in life what you want, you get in life what you are. Number two, you have to upgrade your skill set.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
And so...
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
He taught me, transform your mindset, upgrade your skill set, become an effective communicator, and something else is very important. Practice the principle of OQP, only quality people. You earn within $2,000 to $3,000 of your closest friends. If you're the smartest one in your group, you need to get a new group.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
Absolutely. They will pull out parts of yourself that you can't do it by yourself, that people rub off on you. Sidney Poitier wrote a book called The Measure of a Man. He said, when you go for a walk with someone, something happens. Either you adjust to their pace or they adjust to your pace. Whose pace have you adjusted to? And when I read that,
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
I began to evaluate the people in my life and ask the question that Jim Rohn talked about. What are these relationships doing to me? Am I growing mentally and emotionally and spiritually and financially? Am I becoming a better person because of these relationships? And so we have to, in a continuous spirit of optimism, pause and take stock of ourselves and our lives. And we're in this place where
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
where because of the coronavirus, I believe that life is built upon disruptions, transformation, and miracles. Our lives have been disrupted. And when you look at millions of people that are going through foreclosure, evictions, and over 40 million people have lost their jobs, and even 47 more will lose their jobs through artificial intelligence. And so people
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
have to begin to rebuild their lives. And so that means that they have to transform their lives. We're in what I call the cocoon stage, that no matter how fast a caterpillar will try and move, it can never, ever fly. And so there are moments in life that you have to stop. My daughter said, she's a speaker, Dr. Ona Brown, that gaps are from God and that we are in the cocoon.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
We have to stop and examine ourselves. And he said that as you do that, then miracles begin to happen. And I believe that miracles are things that God does for you, through you, as you, and you know, it's not you. And you say, look at God.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
Incredible. Absolutely. We will be stronger. In the middle of a surgery, it looks like a murder. But on the other side is a healing. Absolutely. Inventions are taking place right now. There are new creations of all types of things. People are more driven, and they're examining themselves, and they're looking at how they can break through, break out, and have a greater impact with their lives.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
Absolutely. We will be stronger coming through this. We will be more determined and begin to live life on purpose in a way that we have never done it before because we know that life is fragile. I remember being in Vegas and I was at a table where Frank Sinatra was seated and I heard him say to a young man, live your life as if it's the last day on your life. because one day it will be.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
And so I believe that people are now looking at their lives and asking the question, what's my next move? What is it I need to do? And Helen Keller said, life is either a daring adventure or it's boring. And so most people, I think, are thinking in terms of making their lives a daring adventure because nobody's figured out how to get out of here alive. We've got to die to leave here.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
So we might as well finish strong, live life on our terms.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
One, become crystal clear of what it is that you're supposed to do. I believe that we were not born to work for just a job. A job is what you get paid for. I believe that we have a calling, and that requires some self-examination to ask yourself, what am I supposed to do with my life? What was I born to do? And that calling... is something that you were made for.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
A calling is something that you love so much you do it for nothing, but you do it so well that people will pay you to do it. This is what you're doing now, interviewing me. This is what you're doing now, seeking a path of how you can do whatever is necessary with your life to make the world a better place. That's the calling on your life.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
And even if you did not get paid for it, you're going to do it where you can with conversations that you have with people. Friends will call you and say, Heather, what should I do next? There are all kinds of ways that this life that you're now living has been showing up.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
And what we have to do, I believe, is have the courage, be ye of good courage, to step in that direction, to jump out of line, don't follow the crowd. and to be willing to become a risk taker. Viscard said, if you're not willing to risk, you cannot grow. And if you cannot grow, you cannot become your best. And if you can't become your best, you can't be happy.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
And if you can't be happy, then what else is there? Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
Well, life is hard. But if you do what is easy, you know, I believe that when we look at ourselves, that if you do what is easy, your life will be hard. And that is staying on the path that you know that's not you. that you procrastinate, that you allow yourself to be paralyzed by fear, that you are a prisoner of a negative assumption about what the possibilities are for you.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
If you do what is easy, your life will be hard. But if you do what is hard, always looking for a way to break out, always looking for a way that you can, with the quality of your life, provide some service that has value for people, the greatest among you will be your servant your life will be easy. And so this thing called life is hard, but here's what we know. We can do hard. We can do hard.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
Yes. And that's exciting to me as you look at it, that life is a fight for territory. And once you stop fighting for what you want, what you don't want will automatically take over. You have to fight for peace of mind. You have to fight for your marriage. You have to fight to help. Guide your children in a way in which they can be a liability, rather an asset to society rather than a liability.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
You have to fight for what is it that you can do with your life to make a world better than what it is now and to live a life that will outlive you. It's a fight for territory. And once you stop fighting for what you want, what you don't want will automatically take over. As I talk to you right now, I'm just amazed with the response of people.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
Dr. Taha, the oncologist at Cancer Centers of America, he said, Mr. Brown, we told you that you've been dealing with fourth stage cancer for 29 years. He said, how can you be so positive? I said, listen, man. Life kicks all of our butts. Life, it's a challenge. I said, but you can focus on dying or you can focus on living.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
And my goal is to live, love, and make an impact with my life until I leave here. I don't focus on checking out. We're all going to check out. We all have an expiration date. I focus on the purpose and the meaning of my life. But most people get caught up in the distractions. And my son, John Leslie, has a quote. He's a speaker. And he says that most people focus on
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
on their distractions rather than their destiny. And when I was diagnosed with cancer, I'll never forget, and I was so blessed to have the best oncologist, what I consider the best oncologist on the planet, Dr. Alfred Goldson. He said, Mr. Brown, he said, you have fourth stage cancer. I do? He said, yes. He said, do you have any questions?
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
I said, well, is there anything else that I should be aware of? He said, yes. He said, it's metastasized to seven areas of your body, including your spine. I said, whoa. He said, aren't you alarmed? I said, no. I said, seven is my lucky number. I said, I'm one of seven children. I was born February the 17th. Joshua marched around the walls of Jericho seven times.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
Naaman dipped himself in the River Jordan seven times. I said, man. I said, is there anything else? He said, yes. I said, what is it? He said, and you're ugly too. Oh my God. I said, you didn't call me ugly, did you? He said, yes. Oh my, that's so cruel. He said, but you got this. You got this. I never tell my patients they're terminally ill.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
What I say is that my knowledge, my ability, and my skills have terminated. I determine the diagnosis. You and God determines the prognosis. I'm putting it in your hands. And that got me. I left his office not with a spirit of fear, but God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of sound mind, but a heart full of faith. Faith not tested can't be trusted.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
Most people, as Zig Ziglar used to say, in a fearful situation, they forget everything and run. But there are a number of people, people that's in your audience because of things they've heard and And your example and your message, they face everything and rise. And so that made me stand up inside of myself. That made me know I had a fight on my hands. And it's not over until I win. Wow.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
No. The biggest fight of my life that... it took me years to win, is to believe that I could be this Les Brown that you now see.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
To believe that even though I don't know my birth parents, I was a foster child adopted, I was identified as educable, mentally retarded, put back from fifth grade to the fourth grade, failing again in the eighth grade, used to work for the Miami Sanitation Department as a garbage collector.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
with all the failures and disappointments and setbacks that I experienced, to believe that this Les Brown that you now see existed and that I could live a larger life, that I could make a difference in people's lives, that I could make something of myself, that I was not what people called me, to believe that my life had some purpose and meaning. That was the biggest battle.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
It's a growing process. You evolve. There are things that you experience that you think happened to you, but as you expand your level of consciousness, you realize they happened for you. Had it not been for those things that I would not be here now, I would not be the person that I am now, that we must always judge not according to appearances.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
but have this spirit of optimism, have this spirit, this sense of righteousness in terms of your mindset, right thinking, right words, right vision, right relationships, and a sense of spirituality that there's a presence, there's something in you that's that's greater than you, that will never leave you nor forsake you.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
Dr. Howard Thurman, who was a mentor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., he said, there's something in each and every one of us that waits and listens to the voice of the genuine in yourself. It will be perhaps the only guide you will ever have or hear. And if you cannot hear it, All of your life, your days will be spent on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
And so I believe that there is a presence in us that greater is he that's in you than he that's in the world. This presence has said, I'll never leave you nor forsake you, that we're not by ourselves. Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. And that when we have that sense of knowing, we live from our heart rather than from our head.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
That the mind believes, but the heart knows. Where your heart is, there your treasure is also. There are things that you know in your heart that the mind cannot comprehend because it's been conditioned and trained to be practical and logical and realistic. But the mind... When there's an argument between the mind and the heart, follow your heart because there, that's where your treasure is.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
Follow your heart. You can't explain it. You can't prove it. You have no evidence for it, but you follow your heart and it will lead you. We've all been in situations where we say, wow, I wish I had listened to my first mind. That's the heart. That's that still small voice within.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
I believe that we should live our lives in such a way that our future life, that future Heather will say, wow, girlfriend, I'm glad you did that. I'm glad you made those choices. You are bad somebody up in here, up in here.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
But it's okay. Everything happens as it should. The universe doesn't make any mistakes. It will reveal itself to you in so, so many ways. Forrest Gump was right. That life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get. And that's all I got to say about that.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
I got a whole ton. I mean, you give me a couch. I love to talk to you about this. Absolutely. That's why I teach people what I'm practicing. And that is live a life of no regrets. There's a lady, she wrote this book and she worked in hospice. And she talked about the people that she interviewed. That she was taken care of.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
And among the things that they discovered about themselves was five, but one of the main things that they did not live the life that they wanted to live. They lived the life that had been given to them. They lived the life that was expected of them.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
There are things they wanted to do, but they allowed other people's opinion to derail their own inner conversation and do what those people wanted them to do. And so that's why even now, my goal is to finish strong doing that which I'm supposed to do. And I have to overcome my own inner conversation that's been instilled in us to live a smaller life.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
I believe even at 76, I haven't done my best work yet. And you can't fill a big dream in a small mind. And so because of mental conditioning, we have to constantly work to expand our minds. Robert Shuler said, you either expand or you are expendable. That we should be in a perpetual state of expanding our mind and our visions of ourselves so that we can do that which we were born to do.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
That you have something special. You have greatness in you. You're a masterpiece because you're a piece of the master.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
Yes. What I do, and I believe this is a calling on my life, teach speakers how to create a significant emotional event. how to transform an audience one-on-one, small groups or large groups. If people go online and put in Les Brown speaking in the Georgia Dome, they will see me commanding an audience of over 80,000 people. And now I'm teaching people how to tell the story. Why is that important?
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
Because in the attention economy, when people see you, they're asking three questions. Who are you? What do you have and why should I care? And so you have to speak in a way with your story that you stand out in the minds of people and you're dealing with overcoming the 5,000 advertising hits that come through the computer or a phone or a television or the conversations we hear every day.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
Things fighting for mind space. So you have to stand out in their mind. Who are you? What do you have? You have to be able to hold their attention by how you tell your story with passion, feeling, and conviction. and to ignite them, to direct them, to influence them, distract, dispute, and empower. That's what we have to do with our lives today because it's a noisy world out here.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
And we're in a place where we have never been in before. I like what Henry David Thoreau said. He said, do not go where the path may lead, go where there's no path and leave a trail.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
Thank you. That's very kind. Yeah, they're going to get a lot because the things that I talk about, I'll teach them how to take their story. and be able to create openings and bridges in their stories where the audience embrace it and come in and believe and take it as if it's their story. And it allows them to live a greater life and expanded vision of what's possible for them.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
It was Steve Jobs who said, the storyteller is the most powerful person in the world. And Maya Angelou said that there's nothing as painful as an untold story buried in your soul. So this class that we have created that they're going to see, it will teach them the methods and the techniques and the secrets of how to become a master communicator.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
Well, thank you so much. Continue to do the great work that you're doing and being a blessing to so many people.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
And so there are moments in life that you have to stop. My daughter said, she's a speaker, Dr. Ona Brown, that gaps are from God and that we are in the cocoon. We have to stop and examine ourselves. And he said, that as you do that, then miracles begin to happen. And I believe that miracles are things that God does for you, through you, as you, and you know it's not you. And you say, look at God.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
Thank you so much for having me here. It's a plum-pleasing pleasure as well as a privilege.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
Oh, yes, absolutely. He is a very talented and gifted speaker, one of my mentees. That's my spiritual son.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
And I feel honored to be in your presence for us to spend some moments together.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Living Life on Purpose with Les Brown
Oh, wow. Yes. Born in an abandoned building on a floor in Liberty City of 62nd Street and 17th Avenue. And we moved back and forth from Liberty City to Overtown.