Last night I had a conversation with one of my mentors Darren LaCroix. During our conversation, we talked about what separates a good speaker from a great speaker. Guess what, it isn’t platform skills but your intention when you are speaking.
This is a tough lesson for me to wrap my brain around. When I am [...]

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As we progress through the Toastmasters International Speech Competition season, you might be wondering if you have what it takes to be the next World Champion of Public Speaking. After winning my Area this past Saturday, I started to wonder [...]

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Thursday night during the closing session of our Winter Toastmasters Leadership Institute, I was singled out by the 2001 Toastmasters World Champion of Public Speaking Darren LaCroix as someone who wanted to improve. In an instant, everyone in the room knew that I had been working with Darren, Patricia Fripp, and other World Champions to [...]

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This week, I am re-reading “The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance“, by Josh Waitzkin. I am glad I picked it up during Toastmaster’s International Speech Competition season, because it provides a wealth of information for anyone that is involved in competitions that require mental and performance skills.
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New speakers often find themselves hitting a wall in their speaking. They start attending Toastmasters club meetings or attend a speaking workshop and see improvements, but at some point they will hit a wall and stop improving as quickly as they did early on in the learning process. Though a slowing of improvement is to [...]

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