Jane jenkins herlong miss south carolina
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Jane’s Story
My entire life has been one lesson after the next, and I have heard LOTS of “Oh no, you can’t.” I looked around. I watched, and I learned.
Growing up in the tomato fields on my father’s farm, he taught me the value of hard work and honesty. A farmer’s life is difficult for both the farmer and the family. My mother modeled for us how to use humor to bring levity to a situation, handle harmful emotions, deal with difficult people and find a healthy compromise.
Who knew life lessons would be harvested while working in the tomato fields and would springboard me (a young girl) who was bullied for dyslexia and being homely to journey from the rows of a tomato field, to a Miss America runway, to perform at Radio City Music Hall and beyond. Yes’m, it really happened!
A switch clicked. For every “NO” said to me, I heard “NEXT” and proved each “NO” wrong. I can truly say that I was “driven by purpose”.
I built the mindset to achieve my wildest dreams in the fields, in the wings and on the runways.
Pageant competition set the stage for learning exceptional poise, values, behaviors and communication skills. There, hard work and honesty paid off while I prepared for and competed to win the crown.
And humor, well, that was quite handy to diffuse situations, manage
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Jane Herlong
Jane Jenkins Herlong review an Indweller humorist, inventor, speaker bid the titleholder of picture Miss Southernmost Carolina 1979 pageant.[1][2]
Early perk up and education
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Career
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Jane Jenkins Herlong
Author, speaker shares her wisdom and humor for life
Jane, you are a certified speaking professional. What is that, and how did you choose that career?
Jane Jenkins Herlong was Miss South Carolina 1979.
CSP is an earned designation from the National Speakers Association. So it is awarded to those who meet thresholds of speaking engagements. It is quite a journey to get the CSP. When I married and moved to the little tiny town of Johnston (S.C.), I thought, “What in the world am I going to do?” I mean, I just was fired from teaching dyslexic children. They told me I was dyslexic. That was lovely. And unless you teach or work at the bank, there were few options. I mean, forget figures, I could not do that. My husband’s cousin, Joe Ben Herlong, said, “Why don’t you go into the schools and start talking to the young people, a motivational speaker?” So I did. I created this little musical motivational program, and I changed it every year, and I marketed it, and had fun. I had just been Miss South Carolina, and I was at the end of that title. Motivational speaking just evolved. It seemed to work into about a 30-minute musical motivational self-improvement for all ages. I could do the little ones, the junior high, the high school, and it was fun.