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Chauntel Brown's inherent public speaking abilities created an open door for her to connect with people. As she's matured, she's recognized that people ultimately want to feel heard and understood.
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Chauntel realized at a young age that she has an innate ability to communicate with people and this fulfills her. She genuinely cares about the wellbeing of people and after each encounter, has greater introspection of others' perspectives.
Storytelling has the ability to paint vivid pictures and allow an audience to realize that they have more similarities than differences. It can evoke powerful feelings and suddenly, a polarized room can become one.
“At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel." A quote by the late, Maya Angelou.
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Chauntel's oratorical gifts emerged at the budding age of
10 months old as she spoke her very first words.
She's been unstoppable ever since.
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In fourth grade, her librarian selected her to be a part of a
story-telling competition where she recited "The Little Gingerbread Man". She won and was featured in the local newspaper as a well as a Texas magazine.
As a child, Chauntel grew up in Dallas, TX where she became familiar with radio stations and how to execute commercials.
Mama B was a successful marketing executive for R&B station, 105.7 KRNB and frequently placed Chauntel's voice on her clients' commercials. Her dad was even a radio DJ for Kiss 98.5 FM so Chauntel's abilities were innate.
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In school, Chauntel, strived for success and in college she achieved President's Honor Roll with straight A's at Oklahoma State University.
During her sophomore year, Chauntel's exemplary character and performance prompted a faculty member to recommend her to run for Miss Black Oklahoma State University.
Unsure about the idea, she brainstormed with Mama B because her biggest dilemma was figuring out what she would perform for the "Talent" portion.
Call it mother's intuition but Mama B knew what would be the right ingredient to win besides confidence; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic, "I Have a Dream" speech.
Mama B studied his speech and pulled out the "meat and potatoes" condensing it from 20 to 5 minutes long.
Chauntel won the scholarship pageant and title as
Miss Black Oklahoma State University.
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Who knew how much her life would change after learning it. She developed such an affinity towards the speech and the powerful vision Dr. King had that she decided she'd always perform it for any crowd; big or small.
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Chauntel believes it's important for everyone, especially, millennials, to hear his speech because it single-handedly has the power to change the way you think, which changes the way you speak, and inevitably changes your actions.
As MBOSU, Chauntel created and implemented her platform, "Eat, Play, Fun Day!" inspired by former first lady, Michelle Obama's "Let's move!" program.
"Eat, Play, Fun Day!" was designed to encourage children to eat healthily and engage in activities to get their hearts pumping.
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The goal was to change the narrative of the negative connotation of veggies and fruits not being tasty.
Chauntel wanted children to see that you can have healthy, delicious snacks and still have fun.
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By partnering with the YMCA, Chauntel and her MBOSU team arranged a school tour as a public speaker where she traveled to different elementary schools and was able to share her platform with as many children as possible.
Upon the conclusion of her reign as queen, Chauntel decided to make herself available to the hopeful contestants who wanted to lead and run for MBOSU.
Impressively, each contestant, over the years, who received one-on-one coaching from Chauntel either won the pageant or placed 1st runner up. This speaks to her keen attention to detail and passion for helping others.
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Chauntel has since performed Dr. King's iconic speech in a variety of settings; namely schools, churches and community events.
Chauntel and Mama B completely believe in the power of this speech. The distinctive capacity in which Chauntel performs it with assertion and power...
The way she is a Black female performing a male recited speech...
And the fact the she is a millennial.
These are there right elements that society needs to see.
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Chauntie B and Mama B aspire to inspire millions, globally.
