Dear Fellow Toastmaster!

Welcome to our redesigned Golden Gate Toastmaster Club Newsletter where we start sharing meeting highlights while celebrating, learning, and hearing more from each other. Tell us what you think!

 🥳🥇 Awards and Celebrations

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

• Gene did his first Toastmaster gig on 07/10. Great job Gene!

• Alex W got his first Best Prepared Speech win on 07/10. Well deserved Alex!

• Sheila lived her dream of being on The Moth stage on 06/25, sharing her recent best-prepared-speech-award-winning story of Turning Point(sss) and lived to tell the tale (again!). Let’s all get inspired by this and go to one soon?!

• Mike Z delivered a very well-received speech to the SF City’s Board of Supervisors at the ceremony honoring his work on youth leadership programming with the Chamber of Commerce.

 📣 📆 Coming Up

• 07/15(Mon) 8PM: Office Hours: Onboarding and Roles c/o Sheila

  • SIGN-UP HERE or tell us what works best for future sessions

  • We will cover club overview, onboarding steps, setup access to tools and learn more about the Toastmaster roles

  • Seasoned members, please join to share any tips!

• 07/17(Wed) Club Meeting

  • Pathways Overview speech by Helen. Office Hours: Pathways to be scheduled after for help, tips and set-up!

  • International Contest semi-finalist Angeli Fitch will join to give her District-winning speech to practice for the finals in August

• 07/24: Backwards Meeting: “Back to the Future”. Expect unexpected twists and guests. Please sign up for a role - we’ll give you plenty of guidance on how to prepare!

• This Fall: Sustainability Special (collaboration w/ Chamber of Commerce) if you care about a sustainability-related topic and you would like to contribute with a speech, please indicate your interest here. 

 📚️🏫 Toastmastering Together

Let’s get better by learning from each other and sharing resources - also on the footer of every newsletter from now on! If you want to add info or share a Public Speaking Tidbit, let us know!

Today we will highlight those related to onboarding.

• New Member Onboarding Checklist

• Toastmaster Meeting Roles One-Pager

🤝 ♣️ July 10 Club Meeting Highlights

Our first time Toastmaster for the Evening Gene chose and demonstrated the theme of resilience. From managing to fill up all the roles before the meeting started, to running a smooth meeting despite logistics challenges. Not only that but many guests took to the stage for Table Topics on their first visit with the club - everyone did not show obstinance (word of the day!) in embracing the theme for the night! 

Thank you to our 13 guests who spent their Wednesday evening with us! 🙏 

Great job to our members who ran today’s meeting: Gene, Ping, Adam, Jack, Helen, Tavisan, Sheila, Monica, Scott and Alex

🙋‍♀️ Help run the July 17 meeting by signing up for roles! 🙋

This Wednesday, we:

• 🪄 Heard Helen talk about this magical place called Camp Ronald McDonald for Good times!

• 📚️ Learned from Alex W how to process self-help books so we become Highly Effective People.  (🏆 Best Prepared Speech 🏆)

• 👶 Learned that Alex C and his partner’s decision could impact the future of the world’s population.

• 🍑 Legitimized Muni booty-staring inspired by our Booty Buddha Lisa (🏆 Maverick Award 🏆).

• 🥸 Learned what’s ahead to better Toastmaster together c/o Sheila

• 😰 Heard about Ping’s comfort zone (not on a stage!) and Jack’s habit of getting out of his - for their shared (🏆 Best Table Topic 🏆).

  • Thanks to those who showed resilience by speaking tonight - Tavisan, First Ryan (guest), Jay, Olivia (guest), Second Ryan (guest), Lee(guest), Grace(guest), Maryam(guest) and Torran(guest). Thank you Monika for leading Table Topics!

• 😁 Heard Ievgeniia’s (🏆 Best Evaluator 🏆) win highlighting Alex W’s use of humor and speech structure.

  • Thanks to all our evaluators Mark (evaluating Alex C), Helen (evaluating Lisa) and Adam (evaluating Sheila). Thanks Scott for leading this section as General Evaluator!

😎💡Member News

Doing anything fun? Share your adventures that we can highlight!

• Alex W. and Sheila are thinking of trying out Improv 🫣 ! We’re going to be checking out Leela SF and Endgames Improv (thanks Jay for the recommendations!). If you’re interested in joining, email [email protected]

• Today, we spotlight JJ, currently adding NYC🗽 to her list adventures.

🫵🗣️ Your turn

We would like to hear YOUR stories, information and feedback to make this newsletter, our club and our Toastmastering better. Share it with us!