Giving Back!

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GGTM Team
April 05, 2025

Dear Fellow Toastmaster!

With Harris as our wonderful Toastmaster this week, our theme for this meeting was about Giving Back; focusing on what we can do for our communities and show our care.

  • Thank you to Omar, Caitlin, Adam, Alex, Carnell and Katie for stepping up and taking on functionary roles for the meeting.

🙋‍♀️ Sign up for roles on our next meeting on April 9th 🙋‍♀️

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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! 🏅🥳 🙌 

    • Mike for getting Best Evaluator

    • Katie for Best Table Topic

    • Brandon for getting Best Speech

Mike Winning Best Evaluator

 📣 📆 What’s up

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Brandon Winning Best Prepared Speech

 📚️🏫 Toastmastering Together

Let’s get better by learning from each other and sharing resources. Bookmark these for your reference as you go through your GGTM journey!

💸🖥️💖🗣️5th May Club Meeting Highlights 

Last Wednesday, we were enriched with stories of Culture, Creativity and Compassion for one another along with learning to think about the world around us a little differently.

Thank you for those who took on roles to run our meeting: Caitlin, Tanuja, Monika, Karishma, Nik, and Alex.

During our meeting we:

  • 🗣️ Jay gave us a two-minute special by informing us of an exercise to use when you have a bad day: What is something you are proud of in your personal or professional life?

  • 💖 Shelia gave us a helpful guide to offering support and the different kinds of support people might need depending on the situation.

  • 💸 Brandon shared his second part of his speech, “The Secret Numbers of My American Dream,” focusing on his early career, success and what it meant to him rather than to outsiders. (🏆 Best Prepared Speech🏆)

  • 🖥️ We learned from Shubham lessons from her first live demo and how to be better prepared for stressful situations.

  • For Table Topics, Katie (🏆Best Table Topic 🏆) brought humor to the stressful part of life, bringing up her Medical History and how it’s shaped her early life.

  • 🗣️ Heard Mike’s evaluation of Sheila’s speech, giving valuable feedback on her performance (🏆Best Evaluator🏆).

    • Thank you to our other evaluators Karishma (evaluating Brandon), and Jack (evaluating Shubham).

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

Katie winning Best Table Topic

😎💡Member Spotlight

Send your member profile to [email protected] so we can feature you next. Share your adventures that we can highlight as well!

Let’s get to know our new member David!

Why you joined TM:
Improve public speaking tactics and comfort levels, challenge myself, meet other people with fun facts!

Favorite Movie: Arrival

Favorite Podcast: Legacy

Upcoming speech topic:
Icebreaker

🫵🗣️ 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!

Need more info? Check out:

Golden Gate Toastmaster Resources (bit.ly/GGTM-resources)
Toastmaster Meeting Roles One-Pager (bit.ly/GGTM-roles)
Onboarding Checklist (bit.ly/GGTM-onboarding)