The "Mike with the Bike" Meeting

🚲 We had a room full of Toastmasters and guests on Wednesday!

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GGTM Team
October 19, 2024

Dear Fellow Toastmaster!

Alex L bravely led the group on Wednesday, and discussed how she is making it a goal of hers to sign up for as many roles as possible! Please join her in this journey below!! 👏 

🥳🥇 Awards and Celebrations

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

  • We had 6 guests talk during table topics! Well done!

  • Congrats to Grace for winning the Best Table Topic for her speech on teaching therapists new ways to treat their patients

  • Juan coming in hot with the Best Evaluation award, evaluating Alexandra’s speech

  • Alexandra won the best Best Speech and Maverick award! Her speech was terrific, talking about her experience in leadership.

  • Huge shoutout to Sebastien for doing his Ice Breaker speech, discussing how he has been able to overcome all obstacles that have been thrown his way

 📣 📆 Coming Up

  • October 29th - Join us for StorySLAM at The Moth! We will be grabbing dinner as a group at 6pm at Pink Onion Pizza (https://www.pinkonionpizza.com/), only an 8 minute walk away from the venue. Please RSVP to this Partiful invite if you’re planning on going! https://partiful.com/e/clX9ETEYSinysWP4EN6w

  • October 30th - 🎃👻Join us for a Halloween-Themed Toastmasters Meeting filled with spooky speeches, eerie Table Topics, and a costume contest. Get ready for a night of ghoulish fun and festive fright! Sign up for a spooky role! 🎃👻

 📚️🏫 Toastmastering Together

Apart from (obviously) bragging rights - what do you REALLY get when you become part of Toastmasters? Access to A TON of resources that you can utilize for your self and community development!

  • Our first entry to Toastmasters - Club Meetings! We get to not just practice our public speaking on a regular stage, we also get to be part of running or leading a dynamic, organized meeting

  • Pathways is Toastmasters’ core education program offering specialized learning paths with key resources guiding you every step of the way. The program is constantly evaluated and improved to accommodate the growing learning needs of Toastmasters. In fact, the system is being updated right now until 10/25 so stay tuned for the new and improved Pathways experience

  • Network with driven individuals who are constantly learning and growing the community. You get to meet people who WILL introduce you to the next cool thing you’d want to explore! There are workshops available either on club or district levels, events that allow you to help revive public city spaces, invitation to celebrations of our community builders  or hangout with friends to hear (or tell!) beautiful storytelling.

Let’s scratch beneath the surface and optimize being a Toastmaster!

Let’s get better by learning from each other and sharing resources - also on the footer of every newsletter from now on! If you want to add info or share a Public Speaking Tidbit, let us know!

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🤝 October 16th Club Meeting Highlights

We had an incredible meeting that was led by TM, Alex L, who taught us all about setting goals for ourself and following your own path(way). Thank you to everyone who spoke and brought the energy that made it such an engaging meeting.

Thank you to our 9 guests who spent their Wednesday evening with us! 🙏 

Great job to our functionaries who helped our meeting run smoothly: Divya, Shubham, Warfa, Amanda, Gene, Adam

🙋‍♀️ Help run the Sept 4th meeting by signing up for roles! 🙋

This Wednesday, we:

  • Heard Katka kick us off with her “3 minute special” about how she hates networking events, and how people only care for their own personal gain

  • Sebastien gave his Ice Breaker speech about his difficult uprising, but how he has been able to overcome all obstacles thrown his way. He also reminds us to live more in the moment and put the phones away!

  • Mark gave his speech on leadership styles and how people be lying in the workplace!

  • Alexandra, who won our Maverick and Best Speech Awards, also spoke on the topic of leadership, and how big corporations have to facilitate better.

  • Katie gave great table topic questions on motivation, based upon the theme of the meeting: GOALS

  • Our guest, Mike with the Bike, spoke about how he measures personal success by the happiness and relationships he builds with those around him. He also said it took him 15 minutes to realize how much he loved GGTM and looks to become a member!

  • Grace L, our Table Topics Winner, spoke about her lessons she takes to help therapists better understand their patients

  • Our evaluators were Shubham, Adam, and Juan (Best Evaluator)

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