Well, I’ve threatened to do this for quite some time, and now it’s finally happened. As of today I’m starting a podcast on my blog. So for those of you who are too busy to read my blog (which I totally understand, by the way, since I’m too busy to read half the blogs to […]
Tag: Toastmasters
Happiness 101
Every Tuesday morning I get up at what feels like the middle of the night and go to a 7:00 a.m. Toastmasters meeting. I know what you’re thinking. How can anyone be coherent enough at that hour to do anything other than choke down an overpriced cup of coffee christened with a pretentious Italian name? […]
How to Write an Award Winning Speech
The other day I did a radio interview by phone about all the Toastmasters competitions I’ve done in the last year. Everything was going swimmingly until the interviewer said, “I think what our listeners really want to know is how to write an award winning speech.” I sat there dumbfounded and thought, Come on, does […]
The Video of My Toastmasters Speech on the World Stage
Let me see, where was I? Oh yes, I was going to post the video of the world semi-finals speech I gave at the Toastmasters International Speech Contestlast week in Orlando. But I got a sidelined on Tuesday when a food processor blade did a swan dive out of the cupboard, landing on an artery […]
Emergency Room Antics
Sometimes the best made plans turn to a rancid pot of day old, unrefrigerated chowder faster than you can say, “Wait, what just happened here?” I was going to post a blog yesterday showing my Toastmasters World Semi-final performance for the 2012 Toastmasters International Speech Contest, when all of a sudden I found myself wasting […]
My Toastmasters Speech: The Suspense is Over
Last night I competed in the Toastmasters International Speech Contest semi-finals in Orlando, and (drum roll, please) I did not advance to the finals. But that’s okay! Because I think I did really well, and the experience was incredible! The level of competition was strong (which I always welcome, because then I learn more) and […]
Toastmasters International Speech Contest (Here I Come!)
Tomorrow (Wednesday) I’ll be flying to Orlando to finally participate in the semi-finals for the 2012 Toastmasters International Speech Contest. I started this journey back in March when I won the Toastmasters International Speech Contest at the club level in Park City, Utah, then the Area level (Salt Lake), then Division (upper half of Utah), […]
My Mothers Day Win!
Well, I had an early Mother’s Day gift yesterday in that I won the Toastmasters International Speech Contest at the District level, which means I will go on to compete nationally at the Toastmasters Conference in August in Orlando. There I’ll compete in the semi-finals against the 81 other District winners. If I win this […]
Toastmasters Will Save My Memory (Unless I Forget to Go to Meetings)
Well, the Toastmasters International Speech Competition for Area D3 in Utah just happened this past Saturday, March 24, at Olympic Park in Park City, UT, and lo and behold I won. I took first place with my speech “Wynton Marsalis Had My Back,” a poignant, yet humorous account of when my saxophone-playing son got to […]
My Win at Toastmasters (Or Why I Prefer Toastmasters Over Smokey Bars)
I have a bit of good news to share. Recently I won the Toastmasters International Speech Contest at the Park City, UT, Club level, which means I go on to complete at the Area level on March 24. Then if I win there I’ll compete in (and have to win) four more increasingly BIGGER levels […]