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Episode 16 - Building Your Confidence Through Public Speaking with Christina Pooran
Transformational Pathways
10/13/21 • 47 min
HIGHLIGHTS
01:59 Growing up in Guyana and moving to New York
07:22 A fascination with the moon and her emotional arrival in New York
12:17 Working and studying full-time and joining Toastmasters as an extracurricular activity
17:17 Being welcomed into Toastmasters and doing her first Table Topics
23:14 Toastmasters is a platform for sharing and learning
26:41 Losing her confidence and walking out of the room and the audience
33:19 Facing her fear of speaking in front of an audience and overcoming it
39:52 Joining a bilingual Toastmasters club
42:16 Keeping an open and mind listening to each speaker and their stories
44:17 Growing with Toastmasters and working on areas for improvement
QUOTES
10:01 "There's the other side of the world in Guyana where people who have seen you for all this time can't bear to let you go. So here I was sort of stuck in that limbo. Should I be happy that I'm here, or should I be sad that I'm here?"
15:43 "To be honest, I wasn't looking to go do speeches. I just really wanted somewhere to be, somewhere to go, so I can feel that I was a part of college outside of the academics."
23:46 "It's such a good platform. the way you can share and you can learn from people. So people go there and yes, they are improving their public speaking skills, but they're also sharing something that people in the audience would have never known."
31:51 "From that day on, I never went back to speak in front of an audience because there was this always lingering fear that okay, this happened, and this will probably happen again."
34:34 "Are you waiting for some miracle to happen for you to say, oh yeah, let me do this. I mean, I guess I realized that if I don't make that effort to work at it, I'll always be a prisoner to this fear."
Connect with Christina in the link below:
- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/christina-p-bb350294/
Find out more about Toastmasters, visit https://toastmasters46.org/ and follow District 46 on:
- Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/toastmasters46/
- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/toast-masters-district-46
- Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/TMDistrict46/
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Episode 11 - Rediscovery and Valuable Communication with Brenee Robinson
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07/28/21 • 34 min
HIGHLIGHTS
06:43 Rediscovering Toastmasters and becoming active in pursuing roles
11:33 Growing confident through public speaking and developing leadership
19:09 Brenee embraces leadership and wins the presidency of her chapter
27:12 Using the lessons of Toastmasters and applying it to the workplace
30:27 The role of mentorship in creating strong leaders
QUOTES
08:20 "He tells stories about his childhood growing up in Jamaica because he lived with our grandparents when he was young. So he told stories. And when he came down and he sat back next to me, I'm like, how did you do that, Jason? He's like, Toastmasters."
09:33 "He definitely learned the technique of telling personal stories. Again, he just spoke warmly of his childhood and what it meant to him and what she meant to people in the community. And it felt like he was having a conversation with the audience."
16:44 "Management is managing processes and things and leadership is empowering others and reach their potential."
28:33 "I would definitely say if you want to go far in your career, if you want to reach your potential and you want to go fast, I say join Toastmasters. It's going to teach you a lot of skills that transition into the workplace."
31:25 "You'll go further and faster if we have great mentorship if you have a support system if you have a team. And that transitions into the workplace."
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Episode 22- Speaking Is Healing with Natsuyo Lipschutz
Transformational Pathways
12/09/21 • 45 min
HIGHLIGHTS
06:38 How Natsuyo landed in New York
07:31 Natsuyo's unusual family life in Japan
15:33 How Japanese communication is very different from the New York-American way
19:00 Getting started with Toastmasters
24:05 Diving headfirst into competitive speaking
25:45 Always focus on one big message
26:44 Speaking is entertainment: Catching people's attention
29:23 The process of improving your speech helps you grow as a person
30:56 Natsuyo's struggle with breast cancer
34:59 Telling a story can heal both the speaker and the audience
38:35 Intercultural communication: Connecting with audiences of different nationalities
41:52 Connect with Natsuyo
42:54 Natsuyo's favorite leader and speaker
QUOTES
17:58 Natsuyo: "The interesting thing about cross-cultural issues is you need to be flexible. You can't be far right or far left. You need to be able to gauge where the other person is in relative to where you are and how you wanna adjust to yourself so you are not only heard, but your message is acted upon.
26:42 Natsuyo: "I always thought that performing arts and business don't merge. But at that moment, I figured out speaking is an entertainment, and you have to be able to entertain the listeners so that they will really hear you and act on your message."
29:48 Natsuyo: "I really believe the speech writing process is about self-improvement or self-development because when you craft a story, you really have to go deeper into yourself, deep into your past, and really have a deep understanding of why you did what you did and what was your learning."
34:54 Natsuyo: "I shared my story and I felt like I really felt like through stories. I can connect with the audience, heart to heart, and speaking was healing for me. So telling a story healed me and also it healed the audience to whatever they're feeling, whatever pain they had."
36:37 Scott: "You shared something intimate about yourself. And I, as a listener, felt connected to you, not just as a talking head or someone passing on information, but as a human being. And that's where the feelings inside come out and it's a genuine connection. There's real power there.
39:16 Natsuyo: "The message itself is really universal. It doesn't matter what country you're from. Everyone has hearts and everyone has experienced some hardship. So when you, find a universal message, that resonates with everyone in the world. that being said, the way to deliver your story may be slightly different depending on who you're talking to, especially in different cultures."
Connect with Natsuyo in the links below:
- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/natsuyolipschutz/
- Website - https://natsuyolipschutz.us/
- Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/natsuyol
- Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/natsuyo_lipschutz/
Find out more about Toastmasters, visit https://toastmasters46.org/ and follow District 46 on:
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- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/toast-masters-district-46
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- Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/toastmasters46/
- Twitter - https://twitter.com/district46tm
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Episode 28 - Get To Know Your New Host, Anu Senan
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02/03/22 • 17 min
HIGHLIGHTS
- What makes a relatable story?
- Journey with different Toastmasters clubs
- The power of building networks and storytelling
- Anu's vision for the podcast
- What listeners can expect for this version of the podcast and Anu as host
- What makes a great question?
- Questions to look at for the new podcast format
- Listenership will take care of itself
QUOTES
Anu: "Story building is all about building human connections. And when you are networking with people, you're telling them stories. And I think that was also part of the speech that I was preparing with. It was very powerful it helped build connections. A lot of people would come up to me after the speech, emotionally moved, telling them how much it was inspiring them and I could see for myself the power of telling stories."
Anu: "When we say technology and storytelling or presentations, the first name that comes to mind for me at least is Steve Jobs. He did a fantastic job of never bringing up anything technical in his presentations. Kept it super simple, kept it clean and made it look so attractive to people who wouldn't understand that technology."
Anu: "What they can expect out of this is definitely a lot of rich stories, engaging conversations with Toastmasters, and what they can bring to the table. And probably, I'm hoping out of every episode, they can take away one or two new things that they've never heard of before, something of learning value in every episode."
Anu: "The question should really tap into the deeper narrative, the why behind whatever actions the speaker or the guest is sharing about. To understand what is driving them, to understand what are their greatest fears or what are their greatest desires, because one of these factors drive people forward and try to get into the mind of the listener, and their psyche and understand them a little bit more."
Connect with Anu in the links below:
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anusenan/
- Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/heroes-of-new-york/id1511084574
Find out more about Toastmasters, visit https://toastmasters46.org/ and follow District 46 on:
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- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/toast-masters-district-46
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- Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/toastmasters46/
- Twitter - https://twitter.com/district46tm
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Episode 20 - The Toastmasters Evaluative Experience — How to Give and Receive Constructive Feedback with Jasmin Pemberton
Transformational Pathways
11/10/21 • 27 min
HIGHLIGHTS
01:27 Working in HR and finding satisfaction becoming a private tutor
05:16 The evaluative experience of Toastmasters equips HR for difficult conversations
08:54 Toastmasters: A venue to receive feedback made with good intent
15:28 Toastmasters is a family affair for Jasmin
18:35 Becoming more open to things because of Toastmasters
19:51 Podcast Pioneers: A tangible way to connect virtually
22:08 Toastmasters enhances you to do better in your chosen field
24:11 Muriel Shabazz is Jasmin's favorite Toastmaster
QUOTES
05:37 "One of the things that I value most about Toastmasters is their evaluative experience. The strategies that they recommend for evaluation I found to be so useful in so many areas... because there were many situations where I had to have uncomfortable or less than favorable conversations with people."
10:25 "Overall, learning to communicate with kindness and to be a good listener, which Toastmasters helps us do, is helpful across the board in every field because then you feel like you're talking to somebody who wants you to do well, too."
19:10 "Toastmasters has helped me increase my confidence in my competence. And so I'm able to say yes. If someone says here's an opportunity that I think fits you, I'm less likely now to brush it off. I'll say, okay."
22:56 "The most critical thing is the feedback because you get to hear from people who are hearing you in real time tell you how impactful you've been. Did you think that you've communicated this message? Well, they'll let you know... and now you know how to shift and rework it. So it's as effective as you want it."
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Find out more about Toastmasters, visit https://toastmasters46.org/ and follow District 46 on:
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- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/toast-masters-district-46
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- Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/toastmasters46/
- Twitter - https://twitter.com/district46tm
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Episode 24 - Step Out And Find Out: Life Lessons To Live By with Robert Goodman
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12/23/21 • 43 min
HIGHLIGHTS
- From pre-Med to Wall Street
- The critical importance of listening
- Gains and opportunities opened by joining Toastmasters
- Speaking is only one part of communication
- Competition can be supportive and nurturing
- Lessons learned after testing positive for COVID-19
- Time spent with others is our best asset
QUOTES
Robert: "As valuable it is to speak, probably more important to be a good listener."
Robert: "It's not only public speaking that is the value of Toastmasters to me. It's the communication. What Toastmasters has done is to help me to crystallize my thinking, focus my comment, hopefully get rid of a lot of noise that goes on in my head, and deliver a message, whether it's table topics, a formal speech evaluation, something that people will actually remember because the message is clear."
Robert: "Motivate/inspire the people who work with and for you, and that's what Toastmasters do. They inspire and motivate others to help them with their journeys that those people might not have been able to do if they relied strictly on their own capabilities. We are the movers, we are the accelerators. "
Robert: "Because we are challenging one another to get better, we realize there's really no limit to our ability to improve how we speak, how we listen, and how we can better support one another."
Robert: "I came to realize in those 10 days, my situation was not permanent. It felt permanent, while going through it, but I realize it's part of life what we go through, our ups and downs. It's a temporary situation and it will get better. Times will change and we will adapt."
Connect with Robert in the link below:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobgoodman1/
Find out more about Toastmasters, visit https://toastmasters46.org/ and follow District 46 on:
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- Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/toastmasters46/
- Twitter - https://twitter.com/district46tm
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Episode 19 - Standup Comedian, Writer, And Performer To Being a Toastmaster Blending Comedy To Everyday Life with Matthew Fay
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11/03/21 • 61 min
HIGHLIGHTS
02:25 How Matthew started out in the world of comedy
12:58 Books, comedy, and the ability to laugh at one's self
15:37 Highschool humiliation, memes, and being banned from announcements
19:26 How to read the room as a comedian and a Toastmaster
22:51 How and why Matthew ended up with Toastmasters
28:36 Matthew's pathway: A helpful tool as a visual learner
32:58 Icebreaker: "A little alone time isn't so bad"
37:15 Toastmasters and comedy changed Matthew as the world is starting to open up
44:04 The Roosevelt line Toastmasters club vibe that Matthew is in
49:07 How Toastmasters pathway can help someone who wants to learn comedy
54:17 Matthew's favorite comedians and leaders
QUOTES
11:26 "It's important or helpful to come up with something funny to say when that bomb occurs as a way of rescuing the situation."
13:50 "It's all about control in any public speaking situation. The audience is gonna feel more comfortable if they feel like the person talking is in control. And comedy is a way of indicating you're in control by being able to ascertain an emotional response in somebody even when you're screwing up."
21:14 "What's great about Toastmasters is it doesn't just give you skills of how to talk to people, it gives you skills on how to listen to people. So it's a very conversational aspect to it... what people in this room and this group of what they're sensitive about. What might work and what might not."
24:40 "The best stand-ups are the people who don't view it as a performance, they view it basically just like a conversation you would have with anybody."
38:37 "Toastmasters to me has reignited just the love of communication with people. Just talking about anything, just being able to be out with people to talk of the cuff about anything. It not only makes you a stronger speaker as it has for me, but it also just reignited a certain for communication that maybe got lost when we were all inside or maybe never went away but now rediscovering."
47:34 "So just the idea of knowing that, like I can talk to this person and they will feel comfortable talking to me and we can have a free-flowing conversation. Even if either one of us has maybe had a rough day or whatever.”
50:21 "It can be a very uncomfortable, uninviting space for women in general. And also basically any marginalized group, because there are lots of men, shall we say who feel that comedy is still largely about who you can attack and who you can bring down and kind of revel in a certain amount of cruelty in their comedy."
59:20 "Leaders tend to just kind of naturally gravitate to positions of leadership. And part of gravitating to that position is respecting the people around you and making them feel important in a way that if they are asked that question, they will point to you."
Connect with Matthew in the links below:
- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-fay-1a600988/
- Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/blondeone991/
- Twitter - @HisNameisFay
Find out more about Toastmasters, visit https://toastmasters46.org/ and follow District 46 on:
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- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/toast-masters-district-46
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Episode 14 - Love Yourself And Ignite Your Desire To Create with Kira Seale
Transformational Pathways
09/22/21 • 30 min
HIGHLIGHTS
02:12 Living by Oprah's words and helping others grow
04:09 Joining Greenspeakers was the best decision of Kira's life
13:25 Speaking at Toastmasters activates the desire to create
16:24 Good mentorship views both parties as equals
17:28 Work at NBCUniversal Media and being empowered by Toastmaster skills
22:25 WordsbyKira Podcast: Creating content on self-love
25:53 A space to speak provides unforeseen benefits
26:57 Toastmasters teaches you to invest in yourself
28:50 Connect with Kira
QUOTES
02:20 "I just believe that, sometimes in order to get where you're supposed to go, it might take longer than others, but as long as you get there, you do the work, you're actually growing yourself, helping to grow others, that's what really matters."
04:23 "When it came to professional settings, networking, going to job interviews, I had a lot of anxiety. I was very nervous about do I sound intelligent enough? Will I come off confident enough? And Greenspeakers helped me so much with that."
14:43 "I feel like now, for one of the first times in my life, I actually have people coaching me, in a sense, to get to that next place in my career and have that support that I didn't necessarily have."
24:56 "I think for me, the hardest part is just staying consistent and wanting to make sure that my content is helpful and interesting, engaging. And also marketing."
26:07 "Being able to speak in different spaces and feel confident about yourself and know how to articulate your message is incredibly powerful. It can lead to all sorts of opportunities like this podcast."
Connect with Kira in the links below:
- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kiraaseale/
- YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGqA5LczAlnzBoov6hYsuFA
Find out more about Toastmasters, visit https://toastmasters46.org/ and follow District 46 on:
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Episode 18 - From Being a Royal Australian Air Force Intelligence Officer to Being the President of Toastmasters Club In His New Adopted Country
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10/27/21 • 59 min
HIGHLIGHTS
28:05 How Adam ended up with Toastmasters after all of his experience in banking, the Royal Australian Air Force, and being an Intelligence Specialist.
36:03 A Toastmasters club of which he was supposed to be president until the pandemic hit and how it affected the members and himself personally
38:54 Service towards the people in Toastmasters and why it was fundamentally engrained into Adam's life
43:04 Tactics Adam used to rebuild the club from shambles
52:30 Adam's experience to convince young and hungry executives to join Toastmasters and why it's a must
QUOTES
21:35 "I remember going to sleep one night in a pitch-black room and a rocket landed nearby and exploded. And the room went from pitch-black to as bright as the mid-day sun in a flash. As soon as it was over, I rolled over and went back to sleep. That's how you got used to it ... It was normal."
28:36 "I lacked a lot of self-confidence and I really needed to improve my ability to communicate, and my leadership skills. And I remember someone recommending Toastmasters to me. So I joined the Toastmasters club in Wollongong, which sadly no longer exists. Its name was Collieries Toastmasters Club."
37:47 "To give people a break from what was happening with the pandemic, in March, April, and May were particularly dark times here in New York. To give people a reprieve was my objective, to give people that space to grow. To be supported and to discover who they could be, was my plan. It was not easy but it was a lot of fun."
39:00 "If you're in a better position than someone else then help that person to achieve, to succeed, to learn, to grow, and develop. I've always believed in it."
41:45 "I knew the pandemic wasn't gonna last forever, I knew it was gonna finish at some point ... but I wanted to set those people up for success. I wanted to give them that foundation on which they could step forth and become better people before this was all over, or during it."
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Episode 17 - Learn to Speak Your Mind or Others Will Do It for You with Jesse Scinto
Transformational Pathways
10/20/21 • 37 min
HIGHLIGHTS
05:15 Toastmasters instilled confidence and a sense of accomplishment from the get-go
06:05 The Foreign Service Exam made it clear that public speaking is a necessary skill
07:36 Learning through imitation and challenging himself to join Toastmasters
12:30 Nurture the fire that led you to Toastmasters: Nerves are normal!
16:41 Public speaking is a practice in leadership
18:27 Story-telling as an executive skill and exercising leadership for a Fullbright scholarship
27:00 The lasting change of video conferencing and its effectiveness in teaching
30:53 Coaching and corporate training with Jesse
33:20 Barack Obama as an example of great executive presence
34:38 Being nervous means stepping out of your comfort zone and growing
QUOTES
02:33 "What I realized is that when you don't speak, other people make assumptions about what you're thinking. You don't have to dominate a conversation or try to control other people's thoughts, but it's really important to speak your own mind."
10:48 "I'm Toastmaster even now because I realized that the most important thing to public speaking is regular practice. It's like playing an instrument or playing a sport that, to keep up your skills, you have to do it regularly."
16:49 "That willingness to step forward, to put yourself forward, and willingness to put yourself forward. That's what leadership is. And when you practice public speaking, you're literally taking a step forward."
22:33 "I need to be out there putting my ideas in the world, publishing articles, giving guest lectures, basically going beyond what's asked of me. And when you start going beyond what's asked of you, that's when you start to exhibit leadership."
35:09 "The only way you know whether you're really pushing the envelope and challenging yourself is if you feel some nervousness about what you're doing. If you're completely comfortable with everything that you do, you're not stretching in any way whatsoever."
Connect with Jesse in the link below:
- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessescinto/
- Website - https://publicsphere.llc/
Find out more about Toastmasters, visit https://toastmasters46.org/ and follow District 46 on:
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