Background
Brown was born with his twin brother, Wesley, in an abandoned building in a low-income section of Miami, Florida.
Brown was born with his twin brother, Wesley, in an abandoned building in a low-income section of Miami, Florida.
As a motivational speaker, he uses the catch phrase "it"s possible!" and teaches people to follow their dreams as he learned to do. He was the host of The Les Brown Show. He was subsequently given up for adoption and adopted by Mamie Brown, a 38-year-old single woman who worked as a cafeteria attendant and domestic assistant.
He was declared "educable mentally retarded" while in grade school.
Despite the self-esteem issues this created, he learned how to reach his full potential with the encouragement of his mother and assistance by a helpful teacher in high school, a key point in many motivational speeches he gives now. Professional life
According to many of Brown"s speeches, he first decided to get into public radio and kept returning to the same radio station time and time again looking for a break, and it wasn"t until the on-air failures of the afternoon DJ that he took his break in radio into his own hands and was hired full-time as on-air talent.
After leaving the Ohio state legislature, he decided to get into television and eventually ended up on Public Broadcasting Service. He also formed Les Brown Enterprises in order to support his newest career as a motivational speaker and was on KFWB in California on a daily syndicated radio program from 2011 to 2012. In 1993, he began hosting a new talk show, The Les Brown Show, which began airing on September 6, 1993.
After nearly four months, it went on hiatus on December 3, 1993, and on January 17, 1994, King World Productions replaced this with Rolonda, a show hosted by Rolonda Watts.
Les collaborated with John C. Maxwell and The John Maxwell Team for a candid look into the lives of professional speakers called "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly". Personal life.
As a politician, he is a former member of the Ohio House of Representatives.