Carter Center Toastmasters

Celebrate the Carter Center Toastmasters 25th Anniversary

Carter Center Toastmasters Silver Anniversary Salute This newsletter celebrates 25 years of the Carter Center Toastmasters Club. As you read and listen to the comments and recollections below, you are invited to reflect on your experience with the club

Fear shows up before the mic ever turns on. Before the camera lights up. Before you even say your name.

This week, we’re tackling something every speaker, leader, and professional experiences but rarely talks about out loud.

Controlling Your Fear
A modern conversation about confidence, visibility, and showing up even when nerves are present.

This is not about eliminating fear.
It’s about learning how to manage it, regulate it, and use it as fuel instead of letting it hold you back.

Whether you speak in meetings, on Zoom, on stage, or simply want to communicate with more confidence, this session is for you.

🗓 Next Meeting: February 12
⏰ Thursdays at Noon
📍 Online and In Person

Curious to learn more?

Want to practice controlling your fear in a supportive environment?

👉 Visit us this Thursday at noon and experience Toastmasters for yourself.

Guests are always welcome.

Remembering one of the most powerful and distinguished storytellers of our time: Toni Morrison.

Morrison's works often depict difficult circumstances and the dark side of humanity, but still convey integrity and redemption. The way she reveals the stories of individual lives conveys insight into, understanding of, and empathy for her characters.

She became the first African American woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize when she received the literature prize in 1993.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/2PK3xDo

Hey! Did you know this??

There is an alternative to calling the police in Atlanta! ATL311 and PAD provide a way to connect people to care instead of law enforcement.

ATL311 partners with the Policing Alternatives & Diversion Initiative (PAD) to facilitate outreach to individuals experiencing quality of life concerns related to mental health, substance use, or extreme poverty. PAD responds to the following concerns: disturbances, public indecency, welfare, mental health, substance use, basic needs, and public health.

ATL311 and PAD are now open until Midnight. To make a referral, dial 311 (404-546-0311 outside city limits) and select option 3.

The August Toastmaster is here! 📰
Boost your communication, presentation, and leadership skills with this month’s issue. Don’t miss the cover story—it’s packed with practical tips for understanding and presenting data clearly and confidently. 📊✨
toastmasters.org/Magazine

🎯 Want to level up your next speech? Tap into a Toastmasters tip that makes all the difference. 💬✨

Wise words on leading others. 💬

Our longtime CCTM member Dianne Bryant is known within the club as the kind of storyteller we all aspire to be. Last Tuesday she left the comfort and safety if our club to share a very relatable story about learning to appreciate our siblings at the Carapace monthly event…finding it also to be a very supportive environment too!

If you aspire to tell better stories while developing confidence as a presenter and leader with structured lessons and evaluation feedback, Toastmasters can help and Carter Center Toastmasters invites you to come see what we are about!

We are an almost 25 year old President’s Distinguished (highest status) club serving Carter Center employees and community members, of which President Carter was a charter member. Our meetings are in-person at The Carter Center and on Zoom every 2nd and 4th Thursday from 12-1pm.

DM for additional specifics so that we know to expect you and can help you have an enjoyable and anxiety-free first meeting experience.

June 1 marked our 24th Anniversary as a club. Come be part of or 25th year?

We meet every 2nd and 4th Thursday 12-1pm as a double hybrid: in persona and online + community and Carter Center employee club.

Today we are in the Zaban conference room live (enter through Administrative main door facing westbound Freedom Parkway) and then June 26th we in the Wise dining room (entered through the Museum Cafe) for our end of the programminf year celebration and Open House.

No new member fee for anyone who joins in June! ($20 saving)