Dear Fellow Toastmaster!

WHAT A MEETING! We had an incredible time on Wednesday with many members and guests giving terrific speeches. A ton of humor, passion, wisdom, and joy from all of our speakers.

 🥳🥇 Awards and Celebrations

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

• We had 6 guests talk during table topics! Well done!

• Congrats to our guest Albert for winning the Best Table Topic for his impromptu story of how he poisoned his rich neighbors trees!

• Huge shoutout to Torran for doing his Ice Breaker speech, discussing his home country of Namibia.

 📣 📆 Announcements

• 09/09 (Mon) 8PM: GGTM Talk Tank Session

  • Meeting Link (Google Calendar invite available soon!)

  • Come with any questions about Toastmasters and the club

• 09/18 (Wed) 12PM: Embarcadero Bricks Session II

  • Please join us at the Embarcadero Bricks at 12PM for our second session. Let us know if you’re interested in participating!

• 09/18 (Wed) 6PM: Open House with Sierra TM

  • We are conducting a joint meeting with the Sierra TM. More information to come!

• Dues are due! You should’ve received an email from our Treasurer Scott Brown about this. If you’d like to continue your membership please make payment before 09/30/2024. Early renewals will gain early access to the new GGTM Discord server (more info on this to come in future communications)!

 📚️🏫 Toastmastering Together

We show up for meetings. We deliver speeches (and log them in Pathways! 😀). We vibe with our fellow Toastmasters. We advance our self-development! 🙌 

Fact: Any effective organization looks at the numbers. Golden Gate Toastmasters is Club Number 56 and is part of District 4. We measure our progress and report it to the overall Toastmaster International organization. This is where we stand.

We track our individual progress via Pathways(that’s why we promote it!). Your VPEs Sheila and Helen will reach out to understand your goals and how we can get you there, and in the process achieve our club goals!

Every year, a Hall of Fame event is held to celebrate individual and collective success. Here is the 2023 2024 District 4 Hall of Fame deck!

Thank you for showing up for the club and YOURSELF! Let’s work together to reach OUR goals!

🤝 August 28th Club Meeting Highlights

We had an incredible meeting that was led by our beloved TM, Scott B, who never ceases an opportunity to give us a little history lesson. Thank you to everyone who spoke and brought the energy that made it such an engaging meeting.

Thank you to our 10 guests who spent their Wednesday evening with us! 🙏 

Great job to our members who ran today’s meeting: Scott, Helen, Mark, Amanda, Tavisan, Monika, Alex C, Harris, Alex W, Lisa, Gene, Grace

Shoutout to our President Katka for putting together this 20 second reel of the meeting! https://www.facebook.com/reel/1206131734029487

🙋‍♀️ Help run the Sept 4th meeting by signing up for roles! 🙋

This Wednesday, we:

• Heard Helen talk about her journey hiking Mt. Whitney with a friend. Does she make it to the top? Find out when she gives her next speech!

• Learned from Torran about his home country of Namibia and the amazing wildlife you will see (go visit!).  (🏆 Ice Breaker Speech 🏆)

• Alex W did an amazing job as the TTM (with an awesome hat!) and came with newspaper headlines for us to interpret as table topics.

• Shoutout to Alex C for giving his impactful speech on the story of his grandmother and how medically assisted death should be legal across the United States. (🏆 Best Prepared Speech 🏆)

• Congrats to our guest, Albert, who stepped up and told the story of how he “poisoned his neighbors trees” based on a newspaper article (🏆 Best Table Topic 🏆).

  • Thanks to those who participated in Table Topics tonight - Adam, Katie, Alex L, Katka, Albert (guest), Tanuja (guest), Jack, Elena (guest), Nick, Tim (guest), Scott, Adam (guest), and Iskander (guest). Thank you Alex W for leading Table Topics!

• Heard Amanda’s (🏆 Best Evaluator 🏆) win highlighting Alex C’s use of emotion to move the audience.

  • Thanks to all our evaluators Gene (evaluating Torran) and Grace (evaluating Harris)

😎💡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!

  • https://alexonscience.com/

  • The Mathematics of Banana Farms (Bloons TD 6): https://youtu.be/DsH0NZQsRbU

• On 08/31 from 11AM-5PM Helen will be at The Park Market in Crane Cove selling some of the upcycled clothing/accessories/homewares she has been making! Let us come out and support her! #sustainabletextiles

🫵🗣️ 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!