The Bullying Story of Teenage Motivational Speaker, Shelomo Solson (See a video preview of his message) 3rd Grade to Senior year of High School (1999 – 2009) In the 3rd grade, the other kids started to bully Shelomo. He dreaded going to school for ten years because of it. Sometimes he would come home with…
How to be Less Shy and Awkward? (From Experience) [spreaker type=player resource=”episode_id=18681822″ width=”100%” height=”100px” theme=”light” playlist=”false” playlist-continuous=”false” autoplay=”false” live-autoplay=”false” chapters-image=”true” episode-image-position=”right” hide-logo=”true” hide-likes=”true” hide-comments=”true” hide-sharing=”false” hide-download=”true”] I was at a networking event and was hanging out with a group of people. They were all talking about how I was the life of the party and…
“Shelomo, you are so social.” “Shelomo, you’re naturally confident.” “Shelomo, you can go to any room filled with strangers and talk to anyone.” I laugh every time someone says that. Why? Because I had to work extremely hard to develop confidence. For the first eighteen years of my life, I didn’t kiss a single girl….
I used to be self-conscious about speaking. “What??? Really?? You make videos every day, and you look confident.” I wasn’t always a confident speaker. English was not my first language. Marathi, which is an Indian language, was my first language. Because of that, I went to speech and ESL classes for seven years. Teachers, the…
