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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.
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Take The Fear Out Of A Speech Competition – Workshop During the workshop (part of the Regret Nothing™ Series), I asked audience members to describe what their speech competition fears are: I’m afraid I’ll trip and fall on the way to the stage. Everybody is looking at me and judging me. I’m overly concerned about…
War Veteran, Amber Forest, served in the Army in Iraq. She returned a very different, difficult and depressed person. She lost her job and then her house – and ended up homeless for 10 months during the winter in Colorado. Then somebody mentioned that she might have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and recommended that…
Watching world-class opera singer Renée Fleming give a singing Master Class at Juilliard is equally helpful to my Toastmasters public speaking training. Wow, Renée gets into such detail to match the voice with the emotion of the words, as well as the intricate breathing and sonic vibration techniques. Amazing! Hyesang Park (soprano) and Bretton Brown (piano)…
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…
By Nick Morgan “Why is most public speaking so awful? Why do we subject our fellow human beings to this form of torture when there are so many better things we could all be doing, like cutting our toenails, baking snickerdoodles, or watching re-runs of The Prisoner?…” Read the rest, and click the “download” link…
