A Busy Day for a Busy Crew!

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GGTM Team
May 04, 2025

Dear Fellow Toastmaster!

With Gene as our amazing impromptu Toastmaster this week, our theme for this meeting was about Traffic! Given the late start we had due to bumper to bumper traffic that day, it seems like a fitting theme.

  • Thank you to Albert, Omar, Nik, Helen, Carnell and Katie for stepping up and taking on functionary roles for the meeting.

Janice and Karishma winning Best Table Topic and Best Evaluator!

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🥳🥇 Awards and Celebrations

Don’t be shy, share your life wins and let’s celebrate together!

  • Our new members ran the show tonight! Great job ladies! 🏅🥳 🙌 

    • Akash for giving his Ice Breaker

    • Karishma for getting Best Evaluator

    • Janice for Best Table Topic

    • Katie for getting Best Speech

 MONTHLY CLUB BUSINESS MEETING

Starting in May, the first meeting of each month will be one hour of speeches and one hour of business and social time. All members are invited to vote in new members, celebrate wins, and discuss proposals.

Changes to the membership acceptance process starting April 24th, 2025.

  • We are resuming the pre-pandemic Toastmasters protocol: All new members will be voted in by a simple majority at the next Business Meeting.

  • Guests interested in joining will be added to the ballot for the following month.

  • If you're not voted in, you're welcome to apply again!

  • If you started the enrollment process before April 24th, you’re automatically in — no vote needed.

  • When: Wednesday, May 7th at 6:00 pm

  • Where: San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, 235 Montgomery St, 7th floor, San Francisco, CA 94104

Akash’s Ice Breaker!

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🗣️💿🏃‍♂️🙋‍♂️30th of April Club Meeting Highlights 

Last Wednesday, we had a variety of different types of speeches, including personal stories and informative practices.

During our meeting we:

  • 🙋‍♂️ Carnell gave us a two-minute special on being courteous and friendly to each other.

  • 🏃‍♂️Akash gave us his Icebreaker speech on how running had helped in during different stages of his life and the importance of it in his life today.

  • 🗣️ Katie informed us on the best practices of Debating; both casually and professionally (🏆 Best Prepared Speech🏆).

  • 💿 Gene gave us a blast from the past with his reprisal of his Ice Breaker speech, 3 CDs.

  • For Table Topics, our lovely guest, Janice (🏆Best Table Topic 🏆) talked about her love of tea!

  • Heard Karishma’s evaluation of Gene’s speech, giving valuable feedback on his speech (🏆Best Evaluator🏆).

    • Thank you to our other evaluators Helen (evaluating Katie), and Janice (evaluating Akash).

    • Thank you, Karishma, for leading the Evaluation section.

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Onboarding Checklist (bit.ly/GGTM-onboarding)