Thumbs Up Toastmasters

Faith Louise Cooper's wise words always benefit our club when she evaluates our speeches! Thank you, Faith! Nedra Diane Hines did an amazing job dealing with a difficult audience during her speech today! Great to have Ernestina Pinones visit our club and bless us with a much-needed Table Topics speech. See you all next Sunday on Zoom!

We are very proud of our Club President beautifully performing her important role as Contest Toastmaster for this morning's Area International Speech Contest!! Congrats Sonal Deolasi Dongaonkar, we are blessed to have you representing our club!! We are also very proud of our Thumbs Up Club member Ankur Bora for winning Third Place in today's contest!! Congratulations Ankur, we are blessed to have you in our club!

Tune in this Sunday at 3pm CST to enjoy a Social Speech from one of our most favorite distinguished Toastmasters and the Thumbs Up Vice President of Membership, Ms. Nedra Hines!!! Nedra exemplifies professionalism and leadership. Thanks Nedra for blessing our club with your presence! See you Sunday!

Happy New Year from Thumbs Up Toastmasters!!!
We started off the year with a lot of fun and thought-provoking Table Topics speeches! Join us, virtually, next Sunday at 3 pm for more fun, welcoming vibes, and meeting great people who are here on their journey to improve their public speaking skills!

“It is not failure itself that holds people back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you."
― Brian Tracy

A great meeting with wonderful speeches on this dazzling Sunday afternoon, creative table topics was today's highlight, table topics are always challenging, fun and lot to learn at the same time. 🙂🥳🤩

“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Another wonderful meeting, so much to learn from the speakers and the guests.

It feels great to meet such wonderful bunch of people, who stay positive and show up consistently to every meeting even during our toughest times.
Today's highlight: we had many new visitors who were enthusiastic about public speaking and also a toastmaster who was on a virtual toastmaster tour visiting different clubs(she gave such wonderful feedback).🤩🥳

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
-Dale Carnegie

Toastmasters has transformed millions of lives, feels so good to be a part of it. Every meeting is fresh with new ideas and speeches. Today's meeting was one such meeting 🤩🥳

What a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon, the only place where we can experiment with our fears, where we can fail safely, where we are not judged, where we are encouraged to try, where making mistakes are OK, where feedback is given and received gracefully.

Evaluation session was today's highlight, encouragement, motivation, positive comments and love, takes us above and beyond where logic can't even think of. ❤️

“Build a Life, not a Resume”.
What a great theme of the day, we learnt a lot today, we were fortunate enough to listen to a speech from Level 5, speaker’s entire Toastmasters journey compressed and expressed in a 10 minutes speech was wonderful to listen to. Even during tough times, toastmasters show up consistently for every meeting.
Why do they show up? “something” must be working for them! What is that “something”?

It was a special meeting today, we had the installation ceremony as a part of our regular meeting, was great to see new enthusiastic incoming officers taking the oath and we all thanked the experienced outgoing officers for their wonderful term.

We get this feedback every time from the guests that, the way the toastmasters meeting make them feel, warm, welcoming, friendly, encouraging, fun filled and a place to be, learn, face the fear, do and grow😊 and also a place to receive constructive feedback.

A wonderful meeting, despite the gloomy weather, rain or shine the meeting started and ended on time. Everyone got a chance to speak, improve, help each other and had loads of fun. Here are some beautiful pictures from today’s meeting. And yes we meet every Sunday.