Dear {{First name | Fellow Toastmaster}}!
Gene, our TME for the night, led the group for a jam-packed journey!
🥳🥇 Awards and Celebrations
Don’t be shy, share your life wins and let’s celebrate together!
Ice Breakers: Katherine McCann and Alexandra Williams!
Best Evaluator: Helen gave a great evaluation on Nick T’s speech, “Does Money Buy Happiness?”
Best Speech: Katherine McCann who for her impactful speech on preparing for death, offering practical tips for your funeral
Best Table Topics: Juan, who talked about a black picture that holds significant value, and Jack showing off a pink JBL speaker that’s surprisingly worth over $10k 📣 📆 Coming Up
October 9th - 24th: Pathways Outage!!!
Refer to the Toastmastering Together section below and to the individual emails that your VPEs will send about this topic.
October 30th - 🎃👻Join us for a Halloween-Themed Toastmasters Meeting filled with spooky speeches, eerie Table Topics, and a costume contest. Get ready for a night of ghoulish fun and festive fright! Sign up for a spooky role! 🎃👻
📚🏫 Toastmastering Together
This week we are sharing a Hot Tip from Alex W about how he managed to become a GGTM for free :):
“My company has an annual professional budget for each employee, which can be used to reimburse stuff like technical and soft skill books, online courses, and conferences. I had been paying for Toastmasters out of pocket for a year (which is totally worth it already), but people suggested that some employers can reimburse the membership fee so I gave it a try.
I submitted the GGTM receipt to my company reimbursement portal with the business purpose of ‘Career development in Toastmasters.’
It got approved!
Now I get the $90 membership for free.”
Anecdotally we have heard about similar reimbursement successes from other members as well, so don’t hesitate and give it a try!
If your employer offers a similar budget and/or you’d like to take up the reimbursement discussion with your boss, please reach out to Scott ([email protected] ) and ask him to send you the official receipt.
And please report back to us with the outcome. Thank you! :)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!
Some references:
🤝 Oct 9th Club Meeting Highlights
We had a wide variety of speakers talk during our meeting.
Congrats to Katherine M and Alexandra W for completing their Ice Breakers🙏
Great job to our speakers and evaluators for stepping up to the plate: Alex W, Nick T, Alexandra W, Katherine M, Helen F, Grace, Jordan, Karishma
🙋♀ Help run the Oct 16th meeting by signing up for roles! 🙋
This Wednesday, we:
Learned from Alex Wu about how his speech-writing evolved from a rigid memorized structure to a more flexible "Banana Farm Sandwich" approach. (🏆 Two Minute Special 🏆)
Grace Lee excelled as Table Topics Master by creatively using props to guide a fun session.
Shoutout to Katherine McCann for her impactful speech on preparing for death, offering practical tips for your funeral (🏆 Best Speech 🏆).
😎💡Member News
Doing anything fun? Share your adventures that we can highlight!
Check out Alex W’s YouTube channel/website, and his recent massive hit video that has over 250k views! We are so proud of you Alex!
The Mathematics of Banana Farms (Bloons TD 6): https://youtu.be/DsH0NZQsRbU
🫵🗣 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!
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