Dear Fellow Toastmaster!

We rejoined again to hear new stories, reminding us of our commitment to professionalism and growth within all aspects of our life. Four amazing speeches all about a wide variety of topics but all with a common thread of overcoming adversary and learning life lessons.

It was a close call but were able to fill all roles for this meeting, including two speeches, within 48 hours of the meeting!

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🥳🥇 Awards and Celebrations

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

• Jay and Sikieng for both having their Ice Breakers 

• Aditya winning Best Speaker

• Peter for getting Best Evaluator

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• 🎼🧑‍🎤🎤🎶 February 21 - Karaoke Night!!!

  We will be having a social event this Friday at The Mint! Please join us for some Karaoke starting at 7:30 pm!

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

• Golden Gate Toastmaster Resources (bit.ly/GGTM-resources)

• Toastmaster Meeting Roles One-Pager (bit.ly/GGTM-roles)

• Onboarding Checklist (bit.ly/GGTM-onboarding)

 🏫💪🎤💖 February 26 Meeting Highlights 

Last Wednesday, we were inspired by dignified stories of Professionalism and overcoming internal and external struggles, a reminder to carry a level of poise with us for the meeting.

Thank you for those who took on roles to run our meeting: Sebastian, Aswani, Caitlin, Mia, and Gene.

During our meeting we:

• 🗣️ During Nik’s Two Minute Special-we learned about what his definition of a Magnus Opus is: ourselves and our untapped potential. What will your great work be?

• 🎤 Jay gave his Ice Breaker and told us a bit more about himself! Including his love of Karaoke and how it taught him key life lessons: Flexibility, open-Mindedness, and Consistency.

• 💖Lillian informed us of her mother and grandmother’s strict parenting and how impactful that was to her upbringing and how she carries herself now.

• 💪 We learned from Aditya about his journey into martial arts and how it taught him skills and life lessons that he takes with him to this day; including Timing Matters and Not Every Rep is Perfect but Every Rep Counts (🏆 Best Prepared Speech🏆).

•  🏫We had another Icebreaker tonight, Sikieng shared her childhood dream of becoming an Aspara Dancer and how that dream changed over time into becoming a dancer on the Keyboard at her job teaching coding to children

• 🦅 Katie shared what brings her piece, videos of her friends and family celebrating after the Eagles won the Superbowl! (🏆Best Table Topic 🏆)

  • Thank you to those who stepped up to the challenge brought up by our Table Topic master Alexandra and gave effective impromptu speeches: Juan, Lajuan, Max, Kaden, Laksha, Shayla, and Janessa!

• 🗣️Heard Peter’s evaluation of Lilian’s speech getting her (🏆Best Evaluator🏆) praising her good humor and effective hand gestures. Unfortunately, he left before we can give him his ribbon, leading to a very awkward photo (see below)

  • Thank you to our other evaluators Mia (evaluating Jay), Helen (evaluating Aditya) and Alex W (evaluating Sikieng).

  • Thank you, Juan, for leading the Evaluation section with call outs on being mindful of time and strategic use of tech for presentations.

🫵🗣️ Your turn

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