Dear Fellow Toastmaster!

Do you choose the comfortable, peaceful path or the riskier more adventurous one? Ether way, the conscious and unconscious decisions we make every day make us the people we are today.

 🥳🥇 Awards and Celebrations

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

• Alex has signed up for every possible functionary role! Way to go Alex!

• Mike with the Bike got a Best Speaker with his Ice Breaker sharing his story of constantly choosing to get out of his comfort zone

 📣 📆 Save The Date

December 4 is our GGTM Year-End Party!!! 🥳🥂
Details to follow soon.

 📚️🏫 Toastmastering Together

What’s your Toastmaster Game Plan? Your VPEs Sheila and Helen will reach out to evaluate/set your Toastmaster goals to help you get there. We will book a 30-minute session with each one to set/define/measure your Toastmasters goals.

Make sure you have access to all our tools and optimizing GGTM Club Resources. Tick boxes off our bit.ly/GGTM-onboarding checklist to confirm!

👀 📝 Nov 6 Meeting Highlights c/o Alex Wu

But first, help run our next meeting by signing up for roles! 🙋

Did you know that the average person makes 35,000 choices in a day? 🤯 This Wednesday, Sheila provided us all with some food for thought about how we can evaluate our choices. Thank you to everyone brought the energy without dilly-dallying (word of the day!) making it an engaging meeting.

Thank you to our 7 guests who spent their Wednesday evening with us. Thank you to Maverick Awardees all around who ran our meeting: Sheila, Lauren, Katka, Natalie, Nik, Karishma, Alex Wu, Alex L., and Gene. Folks, kindly sign-up for roles earlier please! 🙏

Need more than a summary? Watch a FULL GGTM Meeting below!

This Wednesday, we:

• 👴 Learned that Derick chose to practice public speaking to honor his amazing grandfather

• 🇯🇵 Heard how Gene making life-altering decisions after a trip to Japan starting to reverse the effects of the lockdown

• 😎 Were inspired to explore the New You with Mike sharing his story of reinventing himself by making difficult choices (🏆 Best Prepared Speech 🏆) (🧊 Ice Breaker 🧊)

• 🔆 Received light from Nik sharing his journey to start a new life in San Francisco with a suitcase, a student visa, and choosing to live with empathy (🧊 Ice Breaker 🧊)

• 🏄‍♂️ Heard that Eddie(guest!) would choose to switch life with a surfer who has already done the hard work and keep enjoying his hobby (🏆 Best Table Topic 🏆).

  • Good work to those who were chosen to share their decisive moments - Natalie, Katka, Sheila, Karishma, Alex W, Juan, Ping, David(guest), Aimee (guest). Thank you Alex L. for leading our Table Topics section of the meeting and for the variety of questions to choose from!

• 🧘 Saw Ed highlighting Nik’s calm confidence and encouraging him to project his voice more got him the (🏆 Best Evaluator 🏆) ribbon

  • Thanks to all our evaluators Alex Lexson (evaluating Gene) and Adam Pollack (evaluating Mike). Thank you Gene for leading our Evaluation section of the meeting as General Evaluator!

😎💡Member News

Doing anything fun? Share your adventures that we can highlight!

Today we get to know MikeWithTheBike who recently joined GGTM. We heard him drag himself out of his comfort zone so many times, what’s one more to add?

🫵🗣️ 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!