Sharon Widdup Experience
Every once in a while, a speaker comes along who is uniquely special. Beyond the pump and hyperbole of professional public speaking, you’ll find Sharon Fawns. Just call her Fawnsy, not Fonzy – Fawnsy – like the deer that roam by the thousands ’round the small southern Alberta farming town where she grew up, (population: 1,800 – including cats, dogs, and gophers).
Sharon was the middle child in a sprawling family of eight children – “the bottom of the top half”, or so she says.
Her father was a trucker and heavy equipment operator. Her mother worked as an aid on a hospital ward. Fawnsy grew up poor and was quiet as a child… except at home. With 8 siblings, Sharon learned how to stand out and generate positive attention when & where it was most needed!
This skill regularly came in handy, especially at Sunday dinner where there were usually at least 15 kids at the table (the neighbors knew a good meal when they smelled one)!
Sharon went to high school, then college, and finally to university. For almost two years after finishing university, she worked as a church missionary in the mid-west U.S. “Bible Belt”. After this unique experience, Sharon took a job at a southern Alberta guest ranch.
Over the next 20 years, she did almost every job you can imagine – and some women weren’t supposed to do. She worked as a cook, a nanny, a grocery store manager, a convenience store clerk, even a cowhand.
In the course of her career, Sharon has accumulated an astounding range of life experiences. She wears the hats of a livestock midwife, a small town preacher, part-time accountant, backstroke swimmer, even a roller skating instructor.
She’s got 10 grandchildren, 35 nieces and nephews and she knows a lot about life. Most of all, she knows a lot about laughter – and how to make YOU laugh. She’s studied it, practiced it, preached it and performed it. It’s become her vocation.
Performance Style of Sharon Widdup
Sharon has become an expert at laughing at life – at its victories, its defeats, its little everyday titters and its big league catastrophes. Through her wealth of life experiences, Sharon has created a cast of characters, quips and intriguing insights that are not just funny, but useful – to you, your business and your personal life. From her zany keynote presentations of “Rachel the Hutterite,” and “Carol Yvonne Ruth Anne Alabaster” the 4-year-old, to her practical workshops and seminars on humor, she captures the essence of life from the sprawling prairie to the big city.
Why hire Sharon Widdup?
Sharon is creative, down-to-earth and unpretentious. But most of all, she’s down-right delightful. If you’re fortunate enough to attend one of her chuckle clinics or see her perform you will do more that laugh; you will come away with a keener understanding that life can be a laughing matter, and that laughing matters.
How to book Sharon Widdup
You can request information on our entertainment options through our on-line request form. Or, you can call us Toll Free at 1.800.693.6665
