| You can achieve public speaking excellence, you | | | | have a topic or area of interest that drives you |
| simply have to know how to do it. Do you want | | | | to excellence. |
| to learn how to become a master public speaker? | | | | Racism and discrimination drove my father to |
| No more suspense already, I am going to deliver | | | | excellence on the platform as a speaker because |
| the goods. I want you to think about the best | | | | he was not to be silenced by anything or anyone |
| speaker you have ever listened to speak at a | | | | because he was not afraid to die fighting for |
| convention, on television, or at a seminar. | | | | freedom in the land of the free (America). |
| What did you come up with? The first | | | | My father was not an educated man in the sense |
| professional speaker I ever heard was my father, | | | | of academic degrees, however he knew more |
| Edward Cecil Vann. By the way, my father | | | | about life than all the Presidents of the United |
| stopped attending school in the fourth grade and | | | | States or the Queen of England. How do I know |
| yet he was a master public speaker. | | | | this? |
| How could this be? My father drove a truck for a | | | | I witnessed my father and my mother raise nine |
| tobacco company in our small rural town in North | | | | children on meager salaries that was below the |
| Carolina. He was a factory worker who | | | | poverty level. All nine of my parents children |
| experienced discrimination his entire life, but he | | | | earned their high school diploma and four of their |
| never allowed it to stop him from achieving | | | | children earned bachelor and master degrees. My |
| success as a speaker on the platform. | | | | father speeches resonated with his children and |
| In fact, my father was active in the civil rights | | | | we took the baton and ran to academic |
| movement and believed in our Constitution, he led | | | | excellence. |
| numerous voter registration drives over the | | | | My father speeches still ring out to me to this day |
| years. My father wrote his own speeches and | | | | and it says, "Go on that stage and let the people |
| traveled throughout the United States speaking on | | | | in the audience feel your spirit!" In other words, if |
| behalf of the working men and women, | | | | you are to achieve public speaking excellence you |
| empowering them to fight for better wages and | | | | must give the audience something to laugh about, |
| workers rights. | | | | cry about, and remember. |
| Public speaking excellence comes in the form of | | | | You can become a master public speaker if you |
| an average man or woman who have the | | | | can hear the voice the audience hears. Put your |
| capacity to do extraordinary things. They have | | | | whole person and or being into your speeches and |
| strong will, determination, focus, and a strong | | | | let it ring out loud like the Liberty Bell. |
| vision for life. To master public speaking you must | | | | |