Nobody's Perfect!

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GGTM Team
May 27, 2025

Dear Fellow Toastmaster!

What an inspiring and courageous meeting we had on May 21! The theme, “Are You Willing to Suck?”, challenged us to embrace vulnerability, push past perfectionism, and grow by showing up—even when we're not yet great.

  • Thank you to Peter, David, Helen and Shubham for stepping up and taking on functionary roles for the meeting.

Caitlin’s Ice Breaker!

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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 everyone! 🏅🥳 🙌 

    • Juan for getting Best Evaluator

    • Hannah for Best Table Topic

    • Lisa for getting Best Speech

    • Caitlin gave her Ice Breaker

Juan winning Best Evaluator

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Hannah winning Best Table Topics!

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Lisa winning Best Prepared Speech!

🗣️💃💵🎓21st of May Club Meeting Highlights 

Last Wednesday, Gene set the tone perfectly by reminding us that greatness begins with the willingness to start imperfectly..

During our meeting we:

  • 🎓Caitlin delivered her icebreaker speech " 93 'til Infinity", It was amazing to hear about her journey from college to career path and back to pre-college time.

  • 💃 Lisa inspired us with "Tap and Slurp Jell ", which included a live tap dance performance and lots of jelly giveaways! (🏆Best Prepared Speech🏆)

  •  💵Scott spoke on "The New Deal for GGTM.”. This is where we could see a video of him & Alex rolling on cash! Just joking :) In this speech he clarified the new billing structure for the club and reasons why it makes sense.

  • 🗣️ Alex Wu educated us on world war and told a story that was fluid with his speech "When Survival Cannot Be Expected"

  • Helen had very innovative prompts with wardrobe items for members to talk about clothing! Leading to Hannah winning (🏆Best Table Topic🏆).

  • Juan won for his evaluation of Alex (🏆Best Evaluation🏆).

    • Thank you to our other evaluators tonight.

  • Thank you to Sheila ran the evaluation section with precision and thoughtful feedback.

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