An Odyssey Into Oratory - The Making of a Speaker

04/05/2025

Spring's timeless lessons

The shades of night have lifted; spring now fills the air. It is the season of romance, youth, vitality, rebirth, and renewal.

02/17/2025

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On this President’s Day, I’ve ranked the oratory skills of the last 11 U.S. presidents—where eloquence meets influence. Join me as we explore who truly…

09/08/2024

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The situation was dire. Following the invasion of France, the N***s had successfully cut off and surrounded approximately 400,000 Allied troops in the port city of Dunkirk, France.

05/05/2023

It was taught before the birth of Jesus Christ but still endures today. It is the go-to -strategy for all political speech writers.

The Foundation of the persuasive public speaker was laid 2500 years ago. The technique is still being employed today.By understanding these three components ...

04/17/2023

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How a bad habit and psychologist help launch this podcast

04/12/2023

Learn how all the master speakers close a speech.

The 4 best ways to close a speech. And the secret of master speakers.This channel is for all that are looking to learn or improve the art of public speaking....

03/06/2023

What do Japanese honeysuckles and Kudzu vines have in common with PowerPoint? The same thing that climbing roses and dogwoods have in common with public speakers!

PowerPoint and other presentation software are now ubiquitous in the workplace. But is it wise for speakers to use them? In this episode, Dan answers the question.

01/24/2023

A deep dive into how governments and aligned institutions hoodwink their populations.

Dan follows up on a previous podcast about the ubiquity of hypnosis. In this podcast, using 9/11 as an example, he explains how governments and aligned institutions hoodwink their populations using ma

07/03/2022

Dan reveals a little-known backstory about the motivation behind Thoreau's famous stay at Walden Pond. Plus, five timeless lessons.

05/28/2022

Soaring Rhetoric is not the sole province of the motivational speakers, ministers, or even the ancient Greeks and Romans. It's a power that lays latent in each one of us.

As a child, Dan recalls watching professional football and a popular play as a way of discovering your own soaring rhetoric.

05/14/2022

Listen and learn about Monroe's motivated sequence. A speech technique that has been used for almost 100 years. As a demonstration of the technique, parents are provided a powerful template to convince their teenage and young adult children not to text and drive.

There is a simple, yet profound, speech technique that has been used by the best speakers among us for almost 100 years. Listen and learn how to use this technique. Here is a link to the PowerPoint:

05/02/2022

A legend!

Dan shares a short clip of the legendary personal development speaker, Jim Rohn. He goes on to identify those practices, behaviors, and characteristics of Rohn, which anyone can develop, to become a g