Life Coach Reid Walley – Study Together; Stay Together – Hewlett-Packard from Reid Walley on Vimeo.
“Study Together; Stay Together” presented during HP Northside Toastmasters meeting at Hewlett-Packard in Roseville, CA, July 22, 2010. Invited to be a guest speaker by Kevin Levine (VP Education).
Reid Walley’s top 5 strengths:
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:
Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your PassionReid 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.
I totally bombed last night’s Toastmasters speech #9 – at least from my point-of-view. I’m still very new to public speaking and I completely blanked on what my speech even was, and just gazed at the audience for 30 seconds until I could find the words in my head.
IT WAS AWESOME!
Totally blanking out is a great experience. And with every hiccup I get a better feel for what to expect and how to react next time. I’m beginning to have enough experience with public speaking that I now know what I need to work on. With this 30-second pause experience, now I have “real-life” questions for my mentors. Toastmasters is a great place for me to continually practice, so next time I can use the “repeat the last line” technique and see if that helps. It’s all about getting the experience, learning a new technique and applying it to the next speech.
Luckily, I video all of my speeches so I can study them for body language, pauses, delivery, which direction I look more often, etc. The autopsy begins.
No true soldier is without kick-ass scars, and I have to get my experiences – good & bad – so that I am a good mentor when it’s my turn to be a mentor.
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