Patrick O’Mara is from from Hoover, Alabama. He works at State Farm Insurance as a subrogation analyst and has a side business doing public speaking training (Pro Presenting). There is an article by Jon Anderson in the Hoover Sun on January 18, 2024 titled Hoover man certified as Guinness World Record holder for most speeches in 24 hours. Another article by Aliciamarie Rodriguez at Guinness World Records on February 5, 2024 is titled Vocal virtuoso from Alabama delivers 32 ten-minute impromptu speeches in 24 hours.
Patrick gave 33 unique ten-minute impromptu speeches (inspired by fortune cookies), but only 32 counted. Each was to be to a different venue with an audience of at least ten people (and room for fifty). The previous record of 30 speeches was set in 2018 by Piyush Vyas in Gujarat, India.
Club meetings of Toastmasters International have a one-to-two-minute impromptu speaking section known as Table Topics. Most Toastmasters (including me) initially found it difficult to speak impromptu for over a minute. Patrick’s record therefore is quite impressive.
The image of a cartoon man speaking was adapted from this one at Wikimedia Commons.
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