What if Everything You've Been Taught About Love Is Wrong?

Kim Sorrelle is a best-selling author, leadership expert, and the Founder of Rays of Hope International, a nonprofit she started with her father in 2000 to support communities with medical supplies, orphan care, food, infrastructure, and disaster relief. She shares her message through The Kim Sorrelle Show, her book Love Is, and her 14-Week Love Challenge, and teaches that love is not just something people receive, but something they practice, embody, and become. Shaped by breast cancer, widowhood, and years of humanitarian work in Haiti, Kim inspires audiences to lead with kindness, courage, purpose, and love as a way of life. In this episode… Love is often treated as something to find, earn, receive, or protect. But when life strips away certainty, the meaning of love can become less about emotion and more about identity, action, and choice. What if love is not something we fall into, but something we learn to become? Love becomes clearest when it is lived without expectation. Kim Sorrelle, an author, speaker, entrepreneur, and humanitarian, shares how breast cancer, the loss of her husband, and years of nonprofit work in Haiti reshaped her understanding of love. Rather than asking "Why me?" she learned to ask "Why not me?" and began exploring what it means to live by the question, "What would love do?" Kim explains that love is not a transaction, not a feeling that comes and goes, and not something we can control in another person. Her insight is simple but challenging: start with self-love, release expectations, remove labels, and choose kindness without expecting anything in return. In this episode of Defining Moments, Melanie Warner sits down with Kim Sorrelle, best-selling author, leadership expert, and the Founder of Rays of Hope International, to discuss why everything we think we know about love may be wrong. Kim shares how grief changed her, what Haiti taught her about joy, and why love is not a two-way street. She also touches on leadership, self-love, and boundaries.