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E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Wednesday, March 4, 2020 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Warm-up that helped find ‘my purpose’ Sally Lou Loveman, who worked as an audience producer for The Oprah Winfrey Show for years, writes about the experience in her new book Speak: Love Your Story. Your Audience is Waiting The stories are there (in the book) to rekindle the idea of your story, and then help you with how to present it and tell it to someone who really needs to hear it ‘ — Sally Lou Loveman, author and host ’ Wednesday, March 4, 2020 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY By Christen A Johnson ally Lou Loveman was just 25 years old and working her dream job at The Oprah Winfrey Show when someone handed her a microphone to “warm up the audience.” She didn’tS know what that meant, she said, but she spoke from the heart. Loveman laughs at having no recollection of what she said, but she does have a clear memory of how that moment made her feel. “I was like, ‘Oh, I found my voice, I’ve found my purpose,” remembers Loveman, now 58. “I found my purpose in that moment and I just wanted to be in the studio connecting with people.” Loveman, who worked as an audience producer for The Oprah Winfrey Show for years, writes about this experience in her new book Speak: Love Your Story. Your Audience is Waiting. She shares tales from her life of how she found her voice, and helps readers to do the same. She believes you don’t have to be in a prominent role, like a CEO or celebrity, to have an audience. “The stories are there (in the book) to rekindle the idea of your story, and then help you with how to present it and tell it to someone who really needs to hear it,” explained Loveman, “and you have no idea who those people are.” Each chapter of the book has a lesson for the reader to explore, and by the end of the book, readers have a start to their own story, explained Loveman, who modeled the book after her “very participatory” Oprah Show warm-up. CLAIM TO FAME: Sally Lou Loveman with Oprah Winfrey. “I used the audience to make for a better warm-up, so I’m using the reader to make she said. said Loveman. “You couldn’t just take “It wasn’t even a choice, I chose me,” for a better book,” she said. “That’s really In 1987, Loveman started at The Oprah anyone to Oprah, you had to take the person Loveman said. “I told Oprah, ‘I can only what this book is about: using your story and Winfrey Show as an audience coordinator who stood by you in life, which we called at work for two people: you or me. Right now, connecting.” and she “loved being in the studio.” Later, the time your ‘Top Oprah Pick.’ This wasn’t I’m going to work for me.” For Loveman, the journey of connecting she became a producer for the show and just come and see the show and leave and Loveman offi cially started her own people began as a teenager when she went to “hated it,” so she left in 1992 and freelanced I’ll never see you again, if you wanted the business, Love Speaks, after her departure. The Mike Douglas Show in Philadelphia, her for 10 years, had three kids, and only worked relationship to happen, it happened — and it She regularly emcees or keynotes events, hometown, with her mother. As she sat in on shows when the show needed her, she happened with each other.” and is committed to staying in her purpose the studio audience, she spotted a girl on set said. By 2014, The Oprah Winfrey Show wasn’t of connecting audiences. with a clipboard, Loveman said. “I didn’t want that seat,” Loveman said in production anymore, and Loveman’s “I had a front row seat to the stories “I didn’t know what she did, but I was about the producing role, “I wanted to stay audience team was being used for only a few that were told on The Oprah Winfrey Show like, it’s 1976, she’s a woman; she’s wearing with the audience.” shows being fi lmed for OWN, the Oprah and they literally were life-changing,” said a headset, so she’s automatically cool; she’s She went back full time in 2003 when Winfrey Network, said Loveman, “and then Loveman.