Part 1: The speaker’s name is Arthur Cartwright a self-made millionaire and CEO of Global Empowerment: an organization design to advise and assist fellow entrepreneurs to achieve their goals. Arthur said in an interview that he was working as a school teacher while creating a business prior to teaching. Once his business took off, he started to make $300,000 a year while still teaching. After many people ask how he achieved his success he started Global Empowerment. He calls it his way of giving back to the community that helped him get to where he is at. The title of his speech was called Empowerment Hour same as the title the website displays. Arthur’s primary focus is to inspire people to embrace and push their ideas and …show more content…
The intended audience was for everyone and anyone who may have an idea but are discouraged from pursue thinking that it is a lost cause. The speech took place on April 30, 2016 at 11 A.M. and lasted for one hour five minutes and sixteen seconds during which there was a Q&A afterwards that lasted roughly an hour. The speech was held in a church called Evangel Christian Churches. It is a large auditorium with ten rows of benches that wrap like an arch around the center of the stage. The ceiling is angled at about forty-five degrees with a long beam centering the supports and leading to the giant and glowing cross in the far back. There were multiple lights hanging from the ceiling with the Christian cross cut out in each one of them. The stage has three ark-like stairs with a podium being at the top of the stage. The curtains were dark purple and located in the far back of the stage. In the back of the auditorium there was a large wooden stand where the director of the church would sit and monitor everything that is going on. Furthermore, there was an American, Israel, and Christian flag hanging together above the stand. The church of Evangel sponsored the event and his gives speeches quite often at this specific church so it was …show more content…
He first gets a bottle of Aquafina water and said,” The man behind this is a multi-billionaire and this concept is stupid.” “How can you pay for something that is free?” He then begins to talk about how dumb the idea of Hobby Lobby is and yet the person who created it makes billions of dollars by selling picture frames and arts and craft’s parts. He then talks about people who became rich despite growing up in very dire situations. An example would be Cathy Hughes. He talked about how she had a baby as a teenager and her family lost everything but she refused to give up her radio station. He went on to state that she would sleep inside of her radio station and he would say, “That is an example of true dedication!” “Would you sleep in your radio station?!” However, one of his examples caught my eye. He stated a statistic saying on average we have three ideas per year that could make us millionaire but he does not state any sources to that stat. While his ideas were all over the place, he did have a foundation to his speech. He started out with showing and telling us the dumb ideas that made people millions of dollars. Next, talks about the dedication people did in order to keep their business afloat. Then, he talks about his success story and his willingness to mentor other people to help with their ideas. Last, he leaves the best example which is his sister who is