Short, Sweet and to the Point!

GGTM Team
May 11, 2025

Dear Fellow Toastmaster!

With Scott as our wonderful Toastmaster this week, our shortened meeting only had two speeches and then lead into our private member’s only meeting.

For the first week of every month, we’ll be having an abridged meeting like this to discuss member’s business for the foreseeable future.

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

Our new members ran the show tonight! Great job ladies! 🏅🥳 🙌
- Albert for getting Best Evaluator
- Nithilia for Best Table Topic
- Monika for getting Best speech

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Last Wednesday, we had an abridged meeting to make time for our officers meeting afterwards.

Thank you for those who took on roles to run our meeting: Tavisan, Albert, Caitlin, Carnell, and Gene

During our meeting we:

💿Gene reinvented his original Icebreaker, 3 CDs, speaking about different CDs and what they have meant to him over the years.
🗣️ Monika shared stories of trade-offs and decision paralysis (🏆 Best Prepared Speech🏆)
For Table Topics, Nithila won for Best Table Topic. (🏆Best Table Topic 🏆).
Heard Alberts’s evaluation of Monika’s thoughtful speech (🏆Best Evaluator🏆)!
- Thank you to our other evaluators: Julia!
- Thank you, Alex, for leading the Evaluation section.

Mike (with the Bike) winning Best Speech!

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Golden Gate Toastmaster Resources (bit.ly/GGTM-resources)
Toastmaster Meeting Roles One-Pager (bit.ly/GGTM-roles)
Onboarding Checklist (bit.ly/GGTM-onboarding)