The most important part of giving a speech: practicing and then letting it sink in when you’re sleeping – long before you actually give the speech. Rinse and repeat.

Life Coach Reid Walley – Toastmasters Speech 10 – If You Don’t Follow Your Passion, You Suck! from Reid Walley on Vimeo.

Title: “If You Don’t Follow Your Passion, You Suck!”
Date: June 28, 2010
Toastmasters speech number: 10
Toastmasters manual: Competent Communicator
Time limit: 8-10 minutes
Official time: 10:34 (disqualified by 4 seconds)
Evaluator: Danny Pastores
Toastmaster: Danny Pastores
Club: Capital City Toastmasters #142
Location: Sacramento, CA
No notes used

Books mentioned:
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Reid Walley – Toastmasters Speech 9 – Save Sarah Pugh from Reid Walley on Vimeo.

Title: “Save Sarah Pugh”
Date: June 14, 2010
Toastmasters speech number: 9
Toastmasters manual: Competent Communicator
Time limit: 5-7 minutes
Official time: 6:53
Evaluator: René Leclerc
Toastmaster: Danny Pastores
Club: Capital City Toastmasters #142
Location: Sacramento, CA
Note: No notes used.

Life Coach Reid Walley – Toastmasters Speech 8 – How You React IS Your Life from Reid Walley on Vimeo.

Title: “How You React IS Your Life!”
Date: May 24, 2010
Toastmasters speech number: 8
Toastmasters manual: Competent Communicator
Time limit: 5-7 minutes
Official time: 7:53 (this is over the 7:30 maximum allowed)
Evaluator: Kevin Hrim
Toastmaster: Ceci Dunn
Club: Capital City Toastmasters #142
Location: Sacramento, CA

Reid Walley – Toastmasters Speech 7 – “The Power of Music” from Reid Walley on Vimeo.

Title: “The Power of Music”
Date: May 10, 2010
Toastmasters speech number: 7
Time limit: 5-7 minutes
Official time: 7:59
Evaluator: Sarah Picker
Toastmaster: Eva Sepp
Club: Capital City Toastmasters #142
Location: Sacramento, CA

Reid Walley – Study Together Stay Together – Model Speaker for Toastmasters Evaluation Contest from Reid Walley on Vimeo.

Event: Toastmasters Division F International Speech and Evaluation Contests
Role: Model/target speaker
Speech title: “Study Together; Stay Together”
Date: April 23, 2010
Official time: approx 7 mins (within qualifying time limits)
Contest Chairperson: MJ Kelly, Division F Governor, District 39
Toastmaster: Vince Johnson
Evaluators: Kimber Goodman, Herb Long, Amy Morris, Emma Santa, Hydee VanHook
Toastmasters club affiliation: Capital City Toastmasters #142, Sacramento, CA
Location: Placer County Community Development Resource Center, Auburn, CA
Audience attendance: approx 75
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Special thanks to Kevin Hrim (Area 51 Governor, District 39) for recommending me as a model speaker to Alcides Hernandez (Area 61 Governor, Division F, District 39) for this Division speech contest.

Toastmasters Speech 6 – Reid Walley – “Designing Happiness” (Marriage 101) from Reid Walley on Vimeo.

Event: Toastmasters District 39, Area 51 International Speech and Evaluation Contests
Role: Model/target speaker
Speech title: “Designing Happiness” (Marriage 101)
April 1, 2010. Toastmasters speech #6 (5-7 min)
Official qualifying time: 5:45
Toastmaster: Kevin Hrim
Evaluators: Tracy Starkey, Darien De Lu, Daniel Pastores, Arnold Kunst, Edward Hurff
Toastmasters club: Capital City Toastmasters #142, Sacramento, CA
Location: Sutter General Hospital/Buhler Building, Sacramento, CA
Audience attendance: approx 20
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Note: This was a totally cool experience. I spoke to a crowd of 20 strangers, with no podium and without notes. I was evaluated by a panel of 5 Toastmasters. Before my speech, my chin shivered uncontrollably a few times, my handwriting was shaky and my knees felt weak once or twice. It was so cool!!!

Toastmasters Speech 5 – Reid Walley – “Body Language” from Reid Walley on Vimeo.

Title: “Body Language”

Mar 22, 2010. Toastmasters speech #5 (5-7 min). Official qualifying time: 6:07
Capital City Toastmasters #142. Sacramento, CA.

“Outstanding speech! Thanks for sharing.”

Sarah Picker, Toastmasters evaluator
(in response to my 4th Toastmasters speech, Mar 15, 2010)
Toastmasters speech 4 – “Death, And What We Do With It”
Capital City Toastmasters #142
Sacramento, CA

Toastmasters speech #4 – Reid Walley – “Death – And What We Do With It” from Reid Walley on Vimeo.

Title: “Death, And What We Do With It”

Mar 15, 2010. Toastmasters speech #4 (5-7 min). Official qualifying time: 7:26 (which is within the 30 sec wrap-up margin).
Capital City Toastmasters #142. Sacramento, CA.