Hello Fellow Toastmaster!

Every fresh perspective shared is a paradigm shift in motion.

🚨 Never miss an update!

📣 GGTM Club Announcements

🥳 Welcome to our new members for October!

Welcome to Golden Gate Toastmasters Ankita, Blair and Gautam! We will feature each one of them on our upcoming newsletters to get to know them more. This week we’re featuring Ankita! Looking forward to hearing everyone’s Ice Breaker speeches!

☑️ Improvements on our Feedback Form

We're continuously reviewing our existing processes to ensure they are both effective and user-friendly. Currently, we're exploring ways to improve the speaker evaluation form so that our speakers receive more valuable feedback from the audience. At the same time, it's a great chance for all of us to enhance our feedback-giving skills. Stay tuned for updates from the officer team!

 📆 Upcoming Events

Full list in the GGTM Calendar

🏠 GGTM Storytelling Workshop on October 22(Wed)

Our regular Wednesday meeting on October 22 (updated from October 15) will be ran differently into a Storytelling Workshop led by Kyle and Helen! Join us and learn how to get your stories on stage more creatively!

🎙️Tall Tales of San San Francisco (and Beyond) on October 25 (Sat)

Taking what you’ve learned from the Storytelling workshop, go up on the Hotel Nikko stage once more and celebrate the art of storytelling — where truth is the seed, but exaggeration is the fertilizer!

Tell your (or listen to) real (or imagined) Tall Tales of San Francisco and Beyond. Join us in another magical evening at Hotel Nikko on October 25 (Saturday) from 7:00 to 10:00PM.

Get your tickets here through Eventbrite. Reach out to our VP PR Nikilitha Mdluli ([email protected]) for any questions about this event!

 👻 GGTM Ghostmasters Meeting on October 29 (Wed)

Our regular Wednesday meeting is getting a spooky twist - it's time for our annual Halloween-themed gathering! The ever-creative, party-planning queen Helen will be our Ghostmaster for the Evening. 🎃👻

Come dressed in your most imaginative costumes and bring your spookiest stories to share. You won’t want to miss this frightfully fun night!

🎡 GGTM Play Day and Picnic on November 8 (Sat)

Let’s soak up the sun (fingers crossed for good weather!), enjoy a laid-back picnic, and dive into some enjoyable Improv games together!

Snacks and refreshments are on us - just bring your energy, your laughter, and your best on-the-spot acting skills. Come hang out and play with GGTM!

📈 October 1 Meeting Highlights

Thank you Nithila for capturing and describing the events of the meeting beautifully as Note Taker, all we did was copy-paste it! 😉 

Theme of Wednesday's meeting was New Perspectives. Our VPE Kyle stepped up as Toastmaster with a theme inspired by his travels to Asia and different parts of the US - inspiring us to break out of our Bay Area Bubble!

Thank you to our members who signed-up for roles: Nick, Agasthian, Omar, Nithila, and Michelle.

Jack's speech "Your Voice is Your Power" showed us that "it's not what you say - it's how you say it." He gave advice on how to engage with people as a speaker to avoid "five minutes feeling like five hours."

At 5:10 pm before the Toastmasters meeting, future (🏆 Best Speaker 🏆) Harris had absolutely no speech. A true Toastmaster, he showed up to the meeting with 15 minutes worth of preparation and gave a raw and witty speech that explored the intersection of three key topics: cats, longevity, and meditation. 

Table Topics encouraged us to continue exploring new perspectives! Guest Gautam explained his job from the perspective of a child. Nick shared the perspective of new parents traveling to Hawaii. Blair entertained us all with his chaotic nighttime ritual brushing the teeth of his 3(!) cats - Sherlock, Rutherford, and Reggie. Anika talked about swapping places with her parents and Zoey shares the audiobook which brought her here!

(🏆 Best Table Topics 🏆) storyteller Omar confessed he has a new perspective on swimming after barely surviving snorkeling in Thailand.

(🏆 Best Table Topics 🏆) Scott applauded Harris for his growth in Toastmaster over the last 12-15 months, and that tonight's slap-dash speech is proof he has developed a strong toolkit for public speaking!

Thank you Tavisan for giving your feedback on Jack’s speech. Thank you Amadeo for leading the Evaluation section as General Evaluator!

Speaker-Evaluator partners Harris and Scott got the ribbons tonight!

🤓 Through the Eyes of the TTM (Table Topics Master)

Longtime Toastmaster and recent-ish GGTM member Jess takes on the Table Topics Master role for the first time for the club and had volunteers telling stories from a different angle!

This was my first time as Table Topics Master for a GGTM meeting. Table Topics Master is my favorite role! I enjoy coming up with fun questions related to the meeting theme, and using them as a chance to get to know members and guests. 

The meeting theme was "New Perspectives" and since we had so much fun answering Table Topics from our partner's perspective last meeting, why not continue the fun? Gautam described his job from the perspective of a child, and Nithila described a typical day from the perspective of her co-worker's dog.

The Table Topics Master typically reads a question, then calls on an unsuspecting audience member to keep everyone on their toes. This time I made the last minute decision to read a question, then ask for a volunteer, which led to some truly memorable answers! Blair told us about brushing his 3 cats' teeth, Nick told us about taking his baby on vacation for the first time, and Omar reminded us to always wear a life jacket.

Shoutout to everyone who volunteered - including our 3 new members Gautam, Blair and Ankita!

🏝️ GGTM Beyond the Board Room

Get to know our Golden Gate Toastmasters outside of our weekly Wednesday club meetings at the Chamber of Commerce Board Room.

📸 Member Spotlight

Ankita became an official GGTM Member on October 1! Let’s get to know her! Looking forward to hearing your stories Ankita!

🎉 Be part of the GGTM Newsletter! 🎉

Want to write a future issue or have something that you want featured with the club? Send a message to the #newsletter channel in Discord, email [email protected] or approach Omar or Sheila