Dear Fellow Toastmaster!

On Wednesday, we had an amazing meeting run by Monica, with so many guests and members in attendance. There were so many powerful speeches given and some very funny moments!

 🥳🥇 Awards and Celebrations

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

• Amanda M. shared how she is celebrating her 58th year and will be visiting her 92-year-old dad this weekend. She shared a very heartwarming birthday card that was sent by her dad.

• Alex W. is now famous (see Member News for more information!)

• Shoutout Katie for winning the Maverick award for stepping in as Table Topics Master!

 📣 📆 Coming Up

• October 9th - 24th: Pathways Outage!!!

  • Refer to the Toastmastering Together section below and to the individual emails that your VPEs will send about this topic.

• October 7th 6PM: GGTM Talk Tank

  • Come with your questions about the club!

📚️🏫 Toastmastering Together

Our Pathways footprint for the club has been expanding! Thank you everyone for taking the time to register, running your speech projects and logging your speeches. Let’s keep the momentum going! That being said….

Toastmaster International is updating the Pathways system between Oct 9-24 and will NOT be accessible.

WHAT’S CHANGING
Overall, projects in the new LMS will have an updated look and navigational feel and will include minor content updates to stay up to date.
The new LMS will launch with six paths:

• Dynamic Leadership

• Engaging Humor

• Motivational Strategies

• Presentation Mastery

• Persuasive Influence

• Visionary Communication

More information on this announcement is here:
https://toastmasters.org/education/pathways/pathways-updates

WHAT DO I NEED TO DO BEFORE OCTOBER 9:

• Download the project PDFs

• Submit completed Pathways education

• Take screenshots of your Base Camp accomplishments, feedback, uploaded files and certificates

Your VPEs Sheila and Helen will do a club-wide backup of the pathways projects and store it here 2024 Pathways Projects. However, backing up the individual details for your project is your responsibility.

You will also receive an email (with this exact info) as a reminder. Thank you!

🙋‍♀️ Help run the Oct 9th meeting by signing up for roles! 🙋

This Wednesday, we:

• 💬 The word of the day: Transformation was a welcomed word, as used by many of our guests and members.

• 🎤 We had a full house at our Toastmasters meeting this week, with Monica A. leading as our Toastmaster for the evening and sharing her experience and journey of transformation through her Toastmasters career.

• 👏 Thank you to all of our functionaries who helped run this week's meeting: Alex W., Sheila V., Jordan A., Gene Z., Amanda M., Alex L., Katie, and Nick T., a few of whom took on multiple roles.

• 🎙 Katie led Table Topics and won the Maverick award as we continued the theme of transformation, asking questions about change.

• 🏆 Prat won Best Evaluation on Tavisan’s speech, which summarized the storytelling focus and noted how relatable it was.

• 💬 Grace, our Table Topics winner, talked about life, the lesson of being vulnerable, and allowing yourself to connect because we only have one lifetime to live.

• ⭐️ Nicholas T. recounted the evening with his General Evaluation of the night's happenings. It was a great meeting with a warm opening and full of diverse stories. He assured us that we too will become expert clappers, just like Jay.

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

• Ed found a set of airpods during tonight’s meeting! If these are yours let us know so we can get them to you.

• Every GGTM Meeting extends into a Happy Hour in the Irish Bank bar where we get to spend more time.. well, talking! Join us next time and let’s get to know each other more!

• Check out Alex W’s Youtube Channel - ALEX on Science

  • On his speech today, he talked about The Mathematics of Banana Farms (Bloons TD 6) 

  • His newest video is ChatGPT Does Not Think Like You

• Join us on Oct 29th at The Moth! 

  Who: GGTM and SF Toastbusters 

  What: A live story-telling event. This month's theme is "Goosebumps": add your name to the hat for a chance to go onstage! 

  When: Oct 29th, stories begin @ 7:30pm 

  Where: Public Works, 161 Erie St, San Francisco, CA 94103 

  Why: This is a fantastic event to see others hone their craft of storytelling and public speaking. If you're brave and lucky enough, you may also get a chance to go up yourself! 

  Reach out to Sheila Vida ([email protected]) or Gene Zhou ([email protected]) for any additional questions or information!

  https://themoth.org/events/goosebumps-sf-2024

🫵🗣️ 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!