Two Truths and a Lie?

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GGTM Team
March 07, 2025

Dear Fellow Toastmaster!

With Helen as our wonderful Toastmaster this week, our theme for this meeting was about Truth and Lies; and we were given that and more in our prepared speeches and our table topics.

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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! 🏅🥳 🙌 

    • Nik for getting Best Evaluator

    • Nithilia for Best Table Topic

    • Mike for getting Best speech

Let’s give a round of applause to Helen for winning both the Humorous Contest and the International 2025 Contest for both the Club and Area divisions. She will be moving forward to the Division F contest next at the end of March!

Please see below int eh What’s up Section for details if you’d like to join us at the Contest in supporting our fellow Toastmaster.

Helen CRUSHING IT at the Area Contest 😀 

 📣 📆 What’s up

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Please Join us at the Division F Contest for Humorous and International Speech Contest for Toastmaster on March 29th in Supporting Helen!

 📚️🏫 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.

Harris Winning Best Evaluator

During our meeting we:

  • 🗣️ Jay gave us a two-minute special by letting the audience choose between three possibly true stories about his life!

  • 💸 Amanda informed us of the growing issues in Philanthropy and what we can do to solve this and get proper funds to the causes they are meant to support

  • 🐦 Mike shared his story of the Pheonix again, taking the feedback from last time and applying it to his story of perseverance (🏆 Best Prepared Speech🏆)

  • 🎨 We learned from Mia how to unlock our creativity through some of the world’s greatest painters and through some of the most imaginative people we know: kids!

  • 🏛️ Tavisan also came back with a speech had done previously on Architecture, Politics and Culture, taking what he learned and applying it to his informative and thoughtful perspective.

  • For Table Topics, Nithila (🏆Best Table Topic 🏆) humored us with her tales of not wanting to tell strangers her personal life (relatable) and instead tell them untrue statements and it slowly getting out of hand (also relatable).

  • 🗣️ Heard Harris’s evaluation of Amanda’s knowledgeable speech getting him (🏆Best Evaluator🏆)!

    • Thank you to our other evaluators Gene (evaluating Mike), Lilly (evaluating Mia), and Max (evaluating Tavisan).

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

Mike (with the Bike) winning Best Speech!

😎💡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 Lilly (aka Lillian).

Lilly Chen

Why you joined TM:
I joined TM to become a great storyteller and master the foundational skills of communication -- because great communication doesn’t just share information; it inspires action.

Fun Fact:

I took a travel sabbatical for a year and became a scuba dive instructor in Southeast Asia

Upcoming speech topic:
In my upcoming speeches, I’ll take you through everything from the wonders of the underwater world to the lessons I’ve learned in product development and AI-driven tools, the chaos and joy of puppy parenting, and my passion for making communication more effective and engaging!

🫵🗣️ 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)