The Power of Public Speaking

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

The Living Hour

Health & Fitness, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Listen to episode 1053 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Art of Public Speaking | Success Talks. Edited and adapted from the book Self-Investment by Orison Swett Marden, published in 1911.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It does not matter whether you want to be a public speaker or not. A person should have such complete control of themselves, should be so self-reliant and self-poised, that they can get up in front of any audience, no matter how large or formidable, and express their thoughts clearly and distinctly.

Self-expression in some manner is the only means of developing mental power. It may be in music; it may be on canvas; it may be through oratory; it may come through selling goods or writing a book; but it must come through self-expression. Self-expression in any legitimate form tends to call out what is in us, our resourcefulness and inventiveness. But no other form of self-expression develops us so thoroughly and so effectively, and so quickly unfolds all of our powers, as speaking before an audience.

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0:00.0	At the Inspirational Living podcast, we honor the entrepreneurial spirit. But if you've ever started a new
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1:03.8	Shopify.com slash inspirational.
1:24.6	Welcome to the inspirational living podcast.
1:28.6	Today's reading was edited and adapted from Self-Investment by Orison Sweat Martin, published in 1911.
1:40.6	It does not matter whether you want to be a public speaker or not.
1:46.3	A person should have such complete control of themselves,
1:50.9	should be so self-reliant and self-poised,
1:54.8	that they can get up in front of any audience,
1:57.9	no matter how large or formidable,
2:05.6	and express their thoughts clearly and distinctly. Self-expression in some manner is the only means of developing mental power.
2:11.6	It may be in music, it may be on canvas, it may be through oratory. It may come through selling goods or
2:21.8	writing a book, but it must come through self-expression. Self-expression in any legitimate form
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